A day cutting wood

[Magicman]

Pitch!!  Thankfully my guess was just a guess because I have never dealt with that much pitch.  Uggg.   :-\

[Dave Shepard]

Backwoods, you should get an award for long distance milling. It seems like all of your jobs are a long haul. I can sometimes go months without going more than 25 miles from home for any reason, never mind towing a mill.

[backwoods sawyer]

Pulled in to this whack of logs and got started milling barn siding Got thru half the stack with a good day of milling, all 3/4" other then a few 2x6's.

Will head out to the next milling site, 90 mile drive, over the weekend.

  

  

[Peter Drouin]

Nice set up 8)

[backwoods sawyer]

 

 
This is the lumber that came out of those logs, couple logs had some sweep but for the most part they were nice logs with small knotts. The logs had been handled during the muddy season, and the bark was slipping so we debarkerd the worst ones as they came across the mill.

[Magicman]

Nice whack.   

[WDH]

Backwoods, that is gettin' er done  ;D. 

[Jim_Rogers]

I just looked it up, back in 09 a friend from high school whom I had sold lumber to many times, asked me to cut him some 5/4 wide boards for making up some barn doors for his new place he just moved to in Maine.
He told me he wanted 25 pieces of wide lumber 8' long minimum and as wide as I could make them, up to my limit of 24".
I went down to the log pile and got the biggest diameter log I had on hand. I cut it up making 12 pieces of 24" 22" 20" 18" 16" and a few 14" pieces. But I only got 12 pieces out of that log.
So, I went down to the log pile and got the second biggest log in the pile and brought that up to the mill and sawed it out. Again getting some nice wide stock.
Both of these logs were 12' long.

I figured out the bdft and there was 700 ft in the pile of 25 pieces. I called him up and told him that his order was done. I wanted $1 a bdft so he owed me $700.

Oh my god, you'd have thought I just shot him in the foot. "$700 dollars for wide lumber?" Yes, that's what you ordered that's what I want.
Ok, we'll I'll be down in a few days and pick it up.
I never heard or saw him again. Ever.
After a while I looked up online to see if anyone else around me had 5/4 wide lumber being advertised for sale.
I found one guy in NH and he wanted $5 a bdft for his wide 5/4 lumber.

I have been sitting on this wide lumber since 09.

Every once in a while I'd sell off one or two boards.
Once I had to rip them back to 12" for a customer who wanted some 5/4 boards.

Yesterday, without an appointment, a customer comes into my yard.
He wanted some wide lumber.
I told him I had this nice pile of 5/4.
"Just what I wanted..."

I got the fork lift going and moved all the lumber lifts off the top of the pile and got it out to show him the stock.
He said he'd buy it but he didn't have any cash.
I told him we could work that out.
He said he didn't have anything to tie the lumber down to his small pickup truck with him and he'd have to come back.
I didn't want this guy to leave without this wood.
"what do you need from me in order to take this wood with you?" I asked.
He said he needed each 12' piece to be cut in half to fit into his short bed pickup truck.
I told him "no problem, I've got every kind of saw you can imagine to cut these into shorter pieces".

I got out my skil saw 125' feet of extension cords and proceeded to cut every board in half so he could load up his truck.



 

He took just about all the pile I had left.
And he was happy.
I was happy that this lumber is finally out of my yard.
Only one or two pieces left and if they don't sell, then I'll use them on one of my projects.

Jim Rogers

[WDH]

Your friend from High School is a Shmuck and a Dork. 

[Magicman]

And he was not much of a "friend". 

[backwoods sawyer]

five years ott to be well seasoned. How many times did you shuffle it around over the years?

Took another 90 mile road trip.


 
It was a side hill setup  :


 
If the last one was a whack of lumber this is a whacky whack, or at least a whacky cut list :


 
He snuck in this white walnut :-\

[mikeb1079]

there have been but a few times reading this forum that i literally laughed out loud, and this one of em:

Your friend from High School is a Shmuck and a Dork.

:D :D

the other was when magicman told poston:

not only are you ugly, you can't see good neither.

:D :D

glad to see you  got that lumber moved jim!   8) 8)

[rasman57]

Jim,
Glad it finally worked out for you.  Guys like him one day find themselves in a bad spot with no bridges out because they have burned them all.   

[Jim_Rogers]

Jim,
Glad it finally worked out for you.  Guys like him one day find themselves in a bad spot with no bridges out because they have burned them all.

Thanks for all your comments, and it is true one day it will all come back to him.

Jim Rogers

[Chuck White]

Jim, you can take a couple of deep breaths and relax now!

[Jim_Rogers]

When this new customer said he wanted that wood, I wasn't going to let him leave without it for sure. I have had it at the bottom of a pile for many years, and now it's almost all gone. I think there is only two pieces left. And they are pretty low grade. I might just cut them up for another project and get rid of them.

Jim Rogers

[Peter Drouin]

I'm glad it all worked out for you with the wood Jim.

Today was the last hemlock mat load to go out 12,ooo BF


  

  

 
ByeBye. :D :D 8)


Now the customer wants Hardwood Mats. That's a 16' with a 10" top log that everyone want's.
Now there mat logs and not firewood logs anymore $$$$$$$$$ :D :D :D
You know pallet grade.

[Dave Shepard]

Do you build the mat, or just supply the timbers?

[Chuck White]

Just finished up a sawjob today, 9,669.1 bf of Red Pine.

That was a lot of logs!  :

[Magicman]

Yes, that is a large sawjob.  What dimensions?  Pictures?

[drobertson]

Good show fellows!  looks like the milling is going very well for you folks!  really glad to see it and happy for you, it's lots of work as most know,  keep this lil day of sawing  show going for us want to bee's   

[Jim_Rogers]

Today I traveled some 40 miles or so to view this nice whack of logs....(er firewood?)

And this is what I saw:



And from another view:



These came from one tree that they took down in April or May and have been waiting a while for me to get available to come over there and saw them up.

That brick building in the background is the district court house. I don't know how their going to like hearing me sawing logs while court's in session. I may find out.

I mentioned to the coordinator that they had put me between a shrub and a hard place. And he didn't get it.

I explained with my drawing of a sawmill yard set up that the logs all had to be rotated 90° in order for me to roll them up onto the loader arms while I'm parked on the lawn with the sawmill.

He had no idea how we were going to do that.
I explained that if he had two or three helpers from this "teen center" that we could do it no problem with my log moving tools. Logrite to the rescue.

Being that it's a non profit center getting money out of them is going to be a challenge. I already discounted my fee $200 in order to help them out. But I am insisting on being paid when the job is done, on the day that I do it.

I explained that I'm not a "non profit" outfit, but sometimes it feel like I am, for sure.

Jim Rogers
Signed "between a shrub and a hard place".....
 

[Peter Drouin]

Nice Logs Jim, :D :D

Just finished up a sawjob today, 9,669.1 bf of Red Pine.

That was a lot of logs!  :

That's a lot of logs is right. Did the mill stay in one spot and feed it?

[Magicman]

Oh my Jim.  Sometimes we are placed in a very unenviable position.  You are in one now.   :-\

[Peter Drouin]

Do you build the mat, or just supply the timbers?

Just the timbers