Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

Old Greenhorn · February 18, 2020, 09:27:07 PM

:D :D :D :D :D Holy Cow Larry! There ain't much left of your log there! Doc, I think you left a zero off your epoxy estimate. Is there any call for square water pipe? Nah, this one looks leaky. Well, I hope you got some side wood out of it. That's funny right there, I don't care who you are. :D :D :D

WDH · February 19, 2020, 07:27:03 AM

Well, at least the skinks need a place to hide.

Sixacresand · February 19, 2020, 07:56:41 AM

Quote from: WDH on February 18, 2020, 08:50:25 PM

My answer is, "Call Jake." .

My answer too

tule peak timber · February 19, 2020, 09:14:47 AM

Looks like a premium fire place mantle to me.....

Jim_Rogers · February 19, 2020, 09:27:23 AM

Quote from: SawyerTed on February 18, 2020, 07:22:06 PM
To top it all off he was miffed when I explained I custom cut lumber orders and have almost no inventory.

I sometimes but not always explain to the customer the difference between a "lumber yard" and a "sawmill". In my book a "lumber yard" has lumber on hand and you can drive in and pick it up and drive out. A sawmill is where you order what you want and wait till it is sawn up green and then pick it up.
Jim Rogers
Sawmill operator not a lumber yard owner.

redbeard · February 19, 2020, 09:47:16 PM

Found a tree fort ladder inside a big Douglas fir log.

2nd or 3rd cut I found one 20 penny galv. Nail blade was ok, so I continued on and found 3 sets of nails and then the old dive started.

shut it down and chainsaw the toasted blade out.
It is my first tree fort ladder.
Kind of amazing that the fir tree grew around the wooden rungs.
They were 30" on center. With three 20 penny galv. Nails.

Magicman · February 19, 2020, 10:24:53 PM

Oh wow, that should make an interesting mantel.

Resonator · February 19, 2020, 10:35:51 PM

Naturally "Cross Laminated Timber". ;D

Peter Drouin · February 20, 2020, 05:55:24 AM

Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 19, 2020, 09:27:23 AM
Quote from: SawyerTed on February 18, 2020, 07:22:06 PM
To top it all off he was miffed when I explained I custom cut lumber orders and have almost no inventory.
I sometimes but not always explain to the customer the difference between a "lumber yard" and a "sawmill". In my book a "lumber yard" has lumber on hand and you can drive in and pick it up and drive out. A sawmill is where you order what you want and wait till it is sawn up green and then pick it up.
Jim Rogers
Sawmill operator not a lumber yard owner.

Maybe that's what I did wrong, I do it all, Lumberyard and sawmill. Nice to see you for a min at the fair. Did you sell a lot of tools?

Jim_Rogers · February 20, 2020, 06:24:28 AM

Quote from: Peter Drouin on February 20, 2020, 05:55:24 AM
Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 19, 2020, 09:27:23 AM
Quote from: SawyerTed on February 18, 2020, 07:22:06 PM
To top it all off he was miffed when I explained I custom cut lumber orders and have almost no inventory.
I sometimes but not always explain to the customer the difference between a "lumber yard" and a "sawmill". In my book a "lumber yard" has lumber on hand and you can drive in and pick it up and drive out. A sawmill is where you order what you want and wait till it is sawn up green and then pick it up.
Jim Rogers
Sawmill operator not a lumber yard owner.

Maybe that's what I did wrong, I do it all, Lumberyard and sawmill. Nice to see you for a min at the fair. Did you sell a lot of tools?

What you're going is not wrong. it's just more than I could handle
I did sell some tools
Jim Rogers

tule peak timber · February 20, 2020, 09:52:57 AM

Quote from: Peter Drouin on February 20, 2020, 05:55:24 AM
Quote from: Jim_Rogers on February 19, 2020, 09:27:23 AM
Quote from: SawyerTed on February 18, 2020, 07:22:06 PM
To top it all off he was miffed when I explained I custom cut lumber orders and have almost no inventory.
I sometimes but not always explain to the customer the difference between a "lumber yard" and a "sawmill". In my book a "lumber yard" has lumber on hand and you can drive in and pick it up and drive out. A sawmill is where you order what you want and wait till it is sawn up green and then pick it up.
Jim Rogers
Sawmill operator not a lumber yard owner.

Maybe that's what I did wrong, I do it all, Lumberyard and sawmill. Nice to see you for a min at the fair. Did you sell a lot of tools?

X 2 here Peter. For me inventory is everything and allows me to compete for bigger jobs.

CKWoodCutter · February 20, 2020, 10:06:44 AM

A big 4' diameter oak log slabbed up and a 52" burl I milled for a customer last week.

doc henderson · February 20, 2020, 11:34:27 AM

WOW that is some big beautiful stuff, what kind of mill. Nice to have Kansas continue to be represented on the forum!

CKWoodCutter · February 20, 2020, 12:22:25 PM

Tru-Cut Hydraulic Feed 70" bandmill. Here is a better picture of the mill cutting that log.

tule peak timber · February 20, 2020, 12:40:51 PM

Nice looking mill and log !

Larry · February 20, 2020, 10:49:53 PM

Finished off the cherry.

While I was napping, one of my log fairy's dropped of a load of ERC which he pinned a note on.... 4 X 4's. Most looked to be 20' long and 3" in diameter. No problem getting 4 X 4's.

kelLOGg · February 21, 2020, 06:13:01 AM

Let the fairy saw it, too. Who else could get 4 x 4s from a 3" dia log? say_what

WV Sawmiller · February 21, 2020, 07:13:36 PM

Still piddling on my shed. I sawed/squared 2 sides of one pole and sawed one very crooked 17' ash log into 2X6's. Only got 4 - 2X6s out of it and one end of it was starting to get doty. I need to go ahead and saw all my ash I have on the ground but the shed will pretty much take care of that.

Locust pole for shed upright. Just squared 2 sides

17' Ash log - a lot of sweep not showing so generally poor yield

Only got 4 2X6's for roof rafters and framing. 68 bf total.

Brooks1984 · February 22, 2020, 07:04:46 PM

I picked up 1460 board feet of white pine today. I'm not sure when I'll get time to mill them up.

caveman · February 22, 2020, 07:34:11 PM

JMoore and I sawed a couple of WDH's favorites this morning...Pecan. These were 14' long and maxed out our mill with width on the live edged pieces. Live edged pecan, 2 3/8" thick and 25+" wide is heavy when it is 14' long. The 7°, 1 1/2" Kasco bands cut them well.

We cut several 12" wide boards at 1 1/4" thick to hopefully ensure most would yield 3/4" finished boards.

We were on the clock so there was not a lot of time for pictures but I will tell you that this guy got his money's worth on these slabs. The first log we cut I could hardly move with my tractor. I had to put it into 4wd just to get it to the mill. The color of the heartwood and the figure of the crotch wood was worth the price of admission. I suppose I am a moron but I volunteered to help him sticker stack it all tomorrow. Flat stacking off of the mill onto a flatbed trailer is not bad.

I still need to do the YH mod to the drag back but I am liking the LT-50.

WV Sawmiller · February 22, 2020, 08:07:16 PM

I decided I needed a couple of bigger locust poles for my shed so I looked at a couple of locust trees in my spruce patch and found a likely candidate. I cut and bucked it to 14'. I put it on the mill and squared and split it into 2-4.5"X8" poles. I used to worst looking pole and set it in place today and, weather permitting, I will set it in place tomorrow.

Some sweep but big enough to cut it out and still get 2 good posts.

This is the better looking pole. I already installed the other one.

SawyerTed · February 22, 2020, 08:22:17 PM

The last two weeks weather put me behind. I have half a dozen orders to do. Tried to catch up today but only made a dent in the backlog.

A local high school got a grant to study bluebirds. One part of their project is to compare store bought boxes to homemade nesting boxes. I'm donating materials for the homemade boxes. So I cut 1x6 for the homemade boxes.

Sawed the framing for a 32'x26' pole barn. In sawing 2x12 headers, I made a little boo boo and rolled the cant of the mill. Had to bring JD to lift it back in place.