Whatcha Sawin' ???

[TimW]

Today I cut 1 inch Red wood cookies for a co worker to make clocks.

 

 
hugs,  Brandi

[TimW]

Then I cut more Red Oak for shelves. The vertical board is SYP.

 

 
hugs,  Brandi

[PAmizerman]

I've got a ms290, 041av,ms660, just bought a 034 and a little electric Ryobi.

I'm waiting for technology to Cath up so I can have an electric start gas powered saw. It would be nice if a chainsaw was like a 4 wheeler. Electric start and pull start.

Has anyone tried to make an electric start chainsaw? I also thought about trying to make one that starts with a drill

[longtime lurker]

Got a couple more slabs of yesterdays Silkwood Maple to finish him out (ran out of urge on Saturday afternoon) and it was terrible, just terrible.



 

 

I'll end up hacking these to pieces for boxmaking timbers or something - I can see it coming now. They're worth considerably more dead than alive, so to speak. 

Then I slabbed a nice but nothing special and a dud. And tomorrow its back to the serious business of punching lumber by the ton.

[Magicman]

You big time need a market for that stuff Lurker.


 


 
Here are a couple of unusual benches made from slabs with limbs. 

[petefrom bearswamp]

Moosehunter I never approach that volume per hour sawing,even with good help.
I must be terribly slow.
What dimensions were the results?

[YellowHammer]

I love my 661, also, and use it for most everything around the mill.  Once I got used to the slight extra weight over my 440, the cutting speed more than made up for it.  I don't ever hardly use my smaller ones anymore, except, I got a new Stihl 200 battery chainsaw recently, and it's the ticket for some stuff, especially trimming green boards before edging. It's already earned it's place in the stable.

Those benches look really nice.    

[doc henderson]

Today I cut 1 inch Red wood cookies for a co worker to make clocks.

 

 
hugs,  Brandi

That looks great and looks like you are having fun.  May need to slow the drying a bit, although the stickering will help the lower cookies.  Top cookie can be sacrificial, but if the sap wood starts to split, then going too fast.  The bigger the cookie, the harder to dry without splitting.

[stihltoomany]

This would be a very good application for carbide chain I have had very good luck with the Stihl brand and most of it does not cost that much $100 will buy you a chain for a pretty darn big bar I could not stand wire brush trees the way you have magic man

[TimW]

Doc,
I thought the whole chunk was gonna be sacrificial before I made the cookies.  I was gonna split it for firewood and had split off two pieces for firewood.  I used a 16 pound monster maul.  After splitting two pieces off, I decided not to swing the maul anymore and leave that to the youngsters.  Next day my shoulders felt like Bigfoot pulled on them.

But I gave a co worker some small scraps for his woodworking shop and he said he wanted some cookies to make some clocks.  I told him these might split and then I added, "that could give them more character".

I have more fun milling logs, then cookies.  Here is a short Red Oak slab I cut after cutting it short to find wood for a wedding cake cookie for another co worker.

 
hugs,  Brandi

[Magicman]

I could not stand wire brush trees the way you have magic man

Bet you could if you were getting paid to brush.  ;D

[goose63]

 

 

With any luck at all I can start on these by July if the snow is gone



 

Chris putting the 2nd load on nice big red pine

[Magicman]

I marvel at the different ways logs are hauled in different parts of our world. 

[longtime lurker]

I hate carbide chain. Its slow cutting even with big saws compared to normal chain because its always half sharp, which is also half blunt. And you need a diamond wheel to sharpen it so there's no touching it up in the woods.

I tried it and went back to .404. But I know guys who swear by the stuff too.

[Magicman]

I have no experience with carbide chain but that is what I had been told in the past.

[stihltoomany]

I'm not near as tough as you mister

[starmac]

I have seen lots of pulpwood hauled like that way back when, but never sawlogs. As a trucker I would be weary of hauling them long distances like that, back when I worked on railroads they hauled pulp loaded like that and logs lined the sides of the tracks in East Texas.

[Magicman]

Yes, absolutely pulp was hauled like that on truck, trailer, and rail, before we went to "tree length" only.  Back then we also had "stud mills" and stud logs were hauled that way, but even then the trailers were open framed and never flatbeds.  It is just a curiosity how you see different stuff in different parts of our world.  :P

[Brad_bb]

Longtime Lurker, that's a real beauty!  

MM, now I know Y you are the magic man.  Actually, how did you do it?  Not too wide for your mill?

[moosehunter]

Petefrombearswamp, I had two good helpers that kept the loading arms full and finished lumber out of my way. The logs were 8 to 12' long, 2x4, 6 & 8 mostly. 10 and 12" siding boards out of the logs that didn't look like they would produce good 2x stock. Finished today, 9.5 hours, 2600 bdft. I've done faster a couple times, slower much more often! I've worked with these two guys a few times before. You can't beat good help!
mh

[Magicman]

BB, I never said that I sawed those slabs but I am sure that Lurker could. 

I took those pictures at an event:  Sawdust and Splinters in General Board

[doc henderson]

Lots of neat pics today.  Nice wood there @Bindian   I guess is doesn't hurt to look on the inside, and you can always still throw it in the stove if you want!  Looks like you are having fun!!

[TimW]

Thanks Doc.  I'm having a blast.  I have already raided the burn pile wood, I gave to my friend and neighbor, to take to work for co worker's wood shops.  It is amazing to give them the wood and hear their ideas.  So I never thought of.
hugs,   Brandi

[Crossroads]

I've never seen logs hauled like that. 

[boonesyard]

 

With any luck at all I can start on these by July if the snow is gone



 

Chris putting the 2nd load on nice big red pine

goose,
Did you get 2 loads like that? Just heard its the 6th coldest winter on record up here. This Saturday, it'll be 60 days straight without hitting 32 degrees, and a bunch of them have been below zero :(. I just got the mill serviced up and ready to start a big job this Friday, supposed to hit 20, it'll feel like spring ;D.