Hello and intro From Alaska!!

Schanf · May 14, 2019, 01:59:49 AM

Hello All - I've found alot of useful information and great projects on this board over the years so i figured I'd join.

Intro:
I'm up in Alaska and looking forward to spring. Had the saw-milling and timber-framing bug for a while. I bought a LT15 woodmizer around 2001 and used it to cut as many downed trees as i could find and move by myself. Bought an old trailer and hunted around for trees that were downed from wind storms, road projects or neighbors that just wanted them gone. I have some kind of a condition that when i see a downed tree i start to imagine how nice a timber is inside. I also cringe when i see the local tree service bucking them-up for wood or the chipper! I don't make my living with my sawing skills but i do enjoy cutting a nice,straight timber and making sawdust when i have some time. Not quite sure yet how to add photos to my posts but stuck one in my album of a big one a local tree cutter dropped in my driveway a few years back - it was to big for my mill and took me quite a while to move it by hand.

I'm in the process of putting on a timber-frame workshop in Alaska early June so if anyone is interested drop me a note.

-Dan

olcowhand · May 14, 2019, 04:46:45 AM

Welcome, Schanf!

thecfarm · May 14, 2019, 05:38:28 AM

Schanf,welcome to the forum.
Pictures,the hard part is done. When making a post,open up your gallery,click onto the picture,should be a line that says,click here to put picture in post. Than preview to make sure it looks good. I like to hit the enter key a couple times to drop the picture down away from the words in a post. The enter key really helps if posting two pictures at a time.The enter key leaves some white space between the pictures. The gallery is only used for picture that are used in post.

ellmoe · May 14, 2019, 06:06:15 AM

Welcome to the forum!

petefrom bearswamp · May 14, 2019, 07:23:21 AM

Welcome to you sir!

Magicman · May 14, 2019, 07:59:55 AM

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Dan.

Alaska is a big state, so how about finish filling your profile and add your location as well as your sawmill. It helps us to know/remember.

hedgerow · May 14, 2019, 08:36:05 AM

Welcome to the forum.
I sure would like to spend the summers up there but getting my wife to move from the farm is a no go.

Bruno of NH · May 14, 2019, 08:44:11 AM

Welcome

WV Sawmiller · May 14, 2019, 08:57:24 AM

Welcome. As Magic said please update your profile. I have a BIL in Anchorage and his daughter over in Wasilla. My photographer wife and our daughter love to go up and take pictures.

Chuck White · May 14, 2019, 02:56:02 PM

Welcome to the Forestry Forum, Schanf (Dan)!

Warbird · May 15, 2019, 10:12:21 PM

Greetings! I'm in Fairbanks - where are you located? We may have to talk.

I have a couple very large spruce I may be taking down this summer so that I can build a pole barn in that spot. 1 of them in particular is a nice tree and I guarantee will produce some great lumber.

Schanf · May 18, 2019, 03:55:50 AM

Thanks for the warm welcome all!

I'm in Anchorage but spend alot of time out at the Forks Roadhouse West of Trapper Creek. I plan on resetting my mill up out there - more space and look to build a cabin at some point.

I haven't had a ton of time lately so i asked a sawyer out of Seward to mill me some nice timbers - excited to see how they come out.

doc henderson · May 18, 2019, 05:41:07 AM

Welcome and look forward to hearing about all you are working on!! there are tutorials on the adding of photos, but it takes a minute!

AK Newbie · May 31, 2019, 02:23:28 AM

Welcome Schnaf I'm in Eagle River. Been sawing with a Logosol chainsaw mill for the last decade but recently acquired a Woodmizer LT28. We should have coffee sometime!
Regards,
Kevin

Koryd78 · June 11, 2019, 03:09:44 PM

Hi all and welcome! I'm in Wasilla out by Knik. I work in Anchorage and spend all my free time cutting down the beetle killed spruce on my property! Lol!