Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Patrick NC]

 

 
Cutting some cedar slabs today.  This one is 17 inches with 1 edge live.  A customer ordered 3 like this and 14 twelve inch wide 4/4 boards.  

[WV Sawmiller]

   Not really sawing but my crotchety old neighbors came over this morning and got another load of slabs. We got rained out after about half a load yesterday. They cut it up into 6-12 inch lengths to burn in his little coal burning stove. The man in the overalls is the one I offered a mess of catfish to last year and when I said I'd go get an ice cream bucket to put them in he reached in his back pocket and said "I just happen to have a ziplock bag right here" and pulled out a gallon bag so he definitely came prepared. He has gotten all my slab wood the last year. I sell it to him for $10 a pick up load. I go out and help them. They are a riot to listen to them bicker at each other. I made and keep a saw horse or two out there just to help them saw. Its easier, and a lot more fun, than when I used to have to move all the slabs myself and burn them.

[Jim_Rogers]

I cut four spaultered maple cookies this morning for my first happy customer of today.
Here is the first one.
He just wanted them flat didn't care about actual thicknesses.



 

Jim Rogers

[Bruno of NH]

My brother in law came over today to do some welding for me.
He brought 5 hornbeam logs for me to saw.
He's building sideboards for his one ton truck. 
Sawed it with a frost notch band. Came out smooth and flat.
I would like to get some logs of it.
Nice looking wood.

 

[tule peak timber]

Jeff, I suppose that you will build the new sawmill shed before you move the Cooks.  ???  I know that sawing the posts is one step closer and exciting.


 
Jeff's "Sawmill Village" when we visited last July.  The Cooks will be located on the slab (which will be extended) directly behind the camper.  You can see the Cooks in the background on the left of the camper.


 
Here he is showing off the Cooks.


 
And he also does a good job with his Oscar 60".


 
I watched him saw this slab!!  


 
He also does a good job with Dungeness Crabs.  ;D

That's one hefty Cancer Magister.

[SawyerTed]

I've had some order cancellations the last few days.  But I've been fortunate to have other orders to come in.  The cancellations were from businesses that have been shut down due to COVID-19.

Today I cut around 1,200 board feet of cherry and ash.  It was mixture of 4/4 and 5/4. The customer likes to mix the layers of 5/4 between layers of 4/4.

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This is the stack of cherry and ash.

 

 
These customer is a former student and his 20 something year old son.  They build farmhouse tables and other furniture.  This is a load of 1x and 4x4s.

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This customer came by yesterday wanting siding for a deer stand.  I cut 5/8 x  8"  siding boards.  He is also a former student and my neighbor. The deer stand will be on my farm so I get to hunt from the stand when I want. 



 

These 6x6x16 will be posts for a giant swing.

I just saws 'em and loads 'em!  My apologies to Magicman for twisting his saying. 

[Clark]

Bruno - When you say hornbeam do you mean American hop hornbeam (Ostrya virginiana, AKA ironwood, mini-shagbark, probably others) or hornbeam (Carpinus caroliniana, AKA blue beech, ironwood, musclewood, probably others)?

Either way that appears to be a decent size one. The biggest Ostrya gets around here is ~10" and they always have serious defect. Carpinus is quite native in this part of the state but just south of us it grows but is always a large bush.

Clark

[Magicman]

I just saws 'em and loads 'em! My apologies to Magicman for twisting his saying.

A man gots to do what a man gots to do.  

[WV Sawmiller]

   I dragged down 3 ash uppers yesterday and sawed them into 4/4 (1X8 & 1X6's) today to use on the back side of my shed. The tree was dead and there is some spalting but these were pretty solid boards. They are on the shed now.


 1 - 9' and 1-8' with another 8' not shown. Very muddy logs. 


 96 bf of 1X6 and 1X8's.

[doc henderson]

the nice thing, is the style of siding on your shed, can be replace as individual boards if needed. If a few turn out more punky, make some new ones.  does anyone apply a preservative or water repellant like linseed oil ect?

[WV Sawmiller]

   I have never painted or put any preservative on mine but I have a 5 gallon can of stain in a barn that has been frozen and such and I would not trust it on my house but would be willing to try it on the shed. We will see if I get that bored.

[doc henderson]

I was curious and only mentioned it since you said some of the boards were spalted.  It has character and fit s the property and intended purpose well.  poss. mimics the owner/builder some as well!    .  looks great.  I wish I had room for a big shed like that.

[WDH]

Be sure and use three or four very different stains ;D. 

[Bruno of NH]

Clark,
The bark looked like shagbark .
My brother in law is a logger and works for a land owner that has a vast forest in the lower white mountain area of NH.
He's says he has cut some on this property 16 " on the but.
At one time he had a buyer of 4ft bolts for $600 a thousand.
They made ax handles and peavy handles.

[DennisK]

Lynn, did you and Jeff pull those Dungeness from between Camano and Whidbey Island? One of my old fishing spots.

Miss that!

Dennis

[Magicman]

Jeff already had the crabs when we got there so I know not where they came from.  I only know where they went.    digin1 digin_2

[SawyerTed]

@WV Sawmiller , it looks like you have almost as much mud as I do!  I had to call the Doc to come help me pull Hank, the ton truck, out of the back yard with the tractor this afternoon.  

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 

Cherry Mantel with a bullet.

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 

Al Capone used to vacation around here so I am guessing he was shooting at some one and missed. 
Now you can have that historic slug on your fireplace. !

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 
Some live edge 5/4 Cherry for myself. Going to build a book shelf for my gun room. Pretty wood, the sun took the detail out of the pic.

[WV Sawmiller]

@WV Sawmiller , it looks like you have almost as much mud as I do!  I had to call the Doc to come help me pull Hank, the ton truck, out of the back yard with the tractor this afternoon.  

Ted,

  We sure have plenty to share. the old men in my earlier post were here at the start of the week and got a load of wood and he tried to drive around a locust tree above my hay barn and he got on the side slope and nearly slid into an extension I built on to store my fireplace mantels and slabs. I had to hook the tractor to the front end to pull him away and he still came within about 6" of sliding into it. A couple years ago I slid the tractor into it and had to use my truck to pull the tractor away from it. It is sure a mess right now. My grass needs mowing but its too wet to mow it.

[thecfarm]

Some of the rocks on The C Farm will stiffen up any mud hole. Or bog too.  :D

[WV Sawmiller]

 

 I bucked off a piece of firewood on one end then bucked this as log into a 9' and a 5' length. I cut the 9' log into 4/4 for my new shed back and sawed the  5' log into stickers.


 56" of wall coverage from the 9' log (Just enough to complete the back side of my new shed) and 56 1"X 1"X5' stickers. I cut the stickers into 2' and 1' stickers. I use the 24" stickers because the forks on my FEL are about 20" long so I make and use 2' wide stacking pallets. I save the 1' pieces for odd boards and slabs and such.

[caveman]

We got these air dried 2 x 10's loaded up yesterday.  Now we have drying rack space to put more lumber.  We will go get more longleaf today or tomorrow.  We cut six GN trailer loads of longleaf last Thursday morning.

 
We stashed a couple of loads like this one close to where we were getting them rather than hauling them across town.  If you look at the sap rings developing, it will give a good indication of the heart size in these logs- not fast grown plantation pine.
There is an empty lumber rack in the background of picture of the trailer.  

[WDH]

Those are some sweet longleaf logs.