Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[MerlinMike]

 



We had a really heavy snowfall late January and the fellas that clear hazard trees for the elect co. dropped a 12" white oak in my ditch, abundance of caution I think.  NOT letting that rot away...  milled it up today, looking forward to making live edge projects from it in a few months.  

[doc henderson]

Sawyer, the end grain cookies work the best, and relatively green wood is best.  elm and cotton wood work great.  the tangled grain keeps them from splitting.  a tomahawk will bounce off of harder wood like locust.  the rounds look a little more "Davy Crocket" any way compared to kiln dried box store 2 x 10s.  



 

elm cookie 3 inches thick

[tule peak timber]

Take a look at end grain sycamore...

[SawyerTed]

Doc, I don't doubt that rounds work fine.  I'm no axe target expert but my customer is.  He wants green poplar he gets green poplar. :D He pays regularly and pays my standard board foot rate for it plus an amount for cutting to 4' lengths. $ $. My goal is to keep him happy and keep him as a repeat customer.

He's a competitive axe thrower, if that's the right term.  They use four board targets for the competitions he's involved in.  I do believe he said the preferred wood is cottonwood but I don't have much any of that here. 

[RichTired]

I guess it may depend on the organization he is associated with as to the target and rules.

This is the link to WATL (World Ax Throwing League).


WATL target design

[doc henderson]

it is all good.  just stating what we use and have available here.  the customer is always right.  we have so much cottonwood here, 1 tree about every 100 feet it seems.  yes for a competition you have to follow the rules. end grain works well for us hobby guys.  when you said it was business, I figured he would want a long lasting easy to stick target.  Poplar and cottonwood are in the same family I believe.

[kelLOGg]

My customer has an axe throwing venue.  It's a business.  Apparently the green poplar doesn't split like kiln dried pine.  The customer puts 4 boards side by side to make a 37"x48" target.  He replaces the two center boards more often than the two outside boards. He has tried box store 2x10 and has ordered cottonwood 1 7/8 x 9 1/4 x48".  The cost was over double my price.  

When I was involved with the Scouts, we threw axes at large rounds as well.  

Sweetgum should be a good choice for this sport because it won't split

[Skip]

The 'new' axe throwing league is more like a hatchet throw  : seen it on tv once . Millennial sport . :(

[Jim_Rogers]

Today, another batch of wedges 10" x 12" x 3' long very heavy.

Sometimes you need to build bridges to get it done.



 

Jim Rogers

[Bruno of NH]

The big Bob moving some hemlock to the log deck.
One 10 wheeler load down 2 to go.
2x4,2x6,2x8,2x10 and 8x8
12' to 18' longp

 

[CKWoodCutter]

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[E-Tex]

WM service loop came through East Texas today....... Top-shelf service and very informative for me.




 

[WV Sawmiller]

   Piddlin today so I cut an ash I had split a couple weeks ago and I also cut a couple of 7' ash logs I had in stock. The long ash split I cut into 2X4's for framing to nail sides on my shed. The short end of the shed starts at about 7' so the short logs made perfect siding on that low corner. I already have installed the 4/4 siding and about half the 2X4s.


 The piece on the mill I split with a chainsaw and already sawed the big section. The short pieces made perfect siding for what I was doing.


 7-12' 2X4's out of the long ash split.


 4/4 siding from 4" (Small log at back) to 12" side from the bigger one. Total sawed today was 134 bf for my shed use.

[Magicman]

WM service loop came through East Texas today.......

Looks like Bob is still on the move.  LINK

[EOTE]

WM service loop came through East Texas today....... Top-shelf service and very informative for me.

I might have them look at my mill in a couple of years.  I've been doing all the maintenance according to the book and have done a few repairs but I only have a few hundred hours on the hour meter.

[E-Tex]

MM..... yup, it was Bob.

EOTE..... he drove right past your place on 69 when he left here!!!!

[Brooks1984]

I sawmilled some white pine at home this afternoon.

 

 

 

 

[SawyerTed]

Sawed Walnut and Cherry today.  The stack is about 1/3 of the day's sawing.  

My customer is on the forklift.

The poplar logs in the background belong to the commercial sawmill next door.  

My customer is the son of the owner of the local builders supply company. He builds high end furniture and cabinets when he's not working at the builders supply. 

He uses a flatbed with a Moffitt forklift to transport his stacks to his cabinet shop where he air drys for several months before kiln drying. 

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[Hackeldam Wood Products]

Today, another batch of wedges 10" x 12" x 3' long very heavy.

Sometimes you need to build bridges to get it done.



 

Jim Rogers

What does he use them for?

[kelLOGg]

In my case it's what did I saw. Just finished a 4700 bd ft job of SYP for a friend's home. Mostly B&B siding 12, 8 and 3 " wide and 2x4s. It's under my barn shed to air dry for several months. A challenge with a manual mill but fun that I am glad is over.



 



 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I guess I lost a post somewhere. ??? Anyway I got out and sawed 4 stock ash logs. They have sat too long and getting pretty badly spalted. I cut a 10' log then had to trim the boards when I immediately installed them on my shed to I cut a 16'6" log into a 9' & 7'6" so I would not have to trim to fit the space as much and I also cut a couple of 8' logs. I had about 203 bf which closed in my shed long end.


 Several of the logs I sawed. Another I did not include.


 Sample 4/4 lumber. I had boards from 4" to 10" wide and from 7.5' to 10'


 No stacking and stickering required. Nailed them all up except that small handful by the little buckeye on the rock bar above the shed.

[Jim_Rogers]

Today, another batch of wedges 10" x 12" x 3' long very heavy.

Sometimes you need to build bridges to get it done.



 

Jim Rogers

What does he use them for?

[hacknchop]

Thanks for picture  Jim Rogers very interesting I've made them with a chainsaw we called them ramps they were almost always cut from 8x8 Aspen or Ash . I like the looks of the ones you have in the back of the pickup, you produce quality products. (reply # 483 )

[alanh]

opened up this 24" cherry, waiting for its owner to let me know what he wants from it.

 

[Jim_Rogers]

These last two were delivered this afternoon.
Here is how I clamp the block to cut it from corner to corner to make the wedge:



 

Because the block was 3' 6" long, I trimmed off 6" from one end. Then I used a 1 1/2 by plank for a 10" tall fence. and another 1 1/2 x7 for a false deck under the block so that the clamp plank, a 1 1/2x 7x4' can press against just the object block and the fence plank.
I set one end of the block up onto the waste block so that I can then cut it from end to end. I used my logrite peavy to lift the block up and set it on top of the waste block. The pile of gray blocks were my fulcrum pieces.
When you squeeze it all up it is very solid. I shifted the top piece for the photo so you could see the two pieces.

Jim Rogers
PS feel free to use this method anytime.