Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[doc henderson]

Maybe inspire a bit of natural gas and rev. the engine up a bit!  nice work!

[cutterboy]

That's a pretty sight, that trailer chuck full of fresh sawn 2xs.

[WDH]

Even prettier if it is nicely stickered on a pallet on 16" centers and tucked neatly under one of my air drying sheds ;D. 

[Magicman]

 

 
We met the ugly Pecan log this morning.


 
And we bucked it back to 9½'.  Marty sawing and Luke wedging.


  
Trimming once more before loading.


 
Loaded and ready to saw.


 
One more turn before the final slabbing.


 
Yes, Pecan is some purdy stuff.


 
Bookmatched bullet halves.  ;D


 
Eleven 2½" one and two live edged slabs. 

[firefighter ontheside]

Nice stuff guys.  When not at work I've had a time to cut some stored logs, as long as I'm not teaching math to two boys.   Last week I cut some silver maple.  This week I cut 3 nice ash logs into some very clear 8/4.  Then I cut some ugly walnut logs into mantels.  I like cutting mantels.  It's easy and I seem to sell them easily when I have them.  Luckily for me, I have several more ugly walnut logs.  All the sapwood is rotted or gone.  I cut three sides and then use a drawknife to clean up the live edge.  One more day at the firehouse and then I get four to social distance.  I think Cindy is getting tired of having me around, because she doesn't complain when I go out to saw.  My helper doesn't like to be around when I'm milling, but he really likes helping me clean up.  Strange child.

 

 

 

[Darrel]

Mountain mahogany. It's very hard and dense, won't float. So hard it knocks the set out of the blade. Took two blades to saw the little bit shown here. It is kinda purdy though. 





Cookies



A very big log for mountain mahogany 

[Crossroads]

Sneaked into Spokane this morning and slabbed up some maple. Was pretty much stretching the wide head on this one. Got hung up on the rail side, fortunately I had a half inch to spare on the outside and was able to fudge it over and finish the cut. 

[Resonator]

Those cookies look more like wood steaks. ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

   Back to my neighbor/customer today. Got a band-aid on the lift function on the mill. SimpleSet still wonky. I sawed pretty solid for nearly 12 hours. Well, 7.7 engine hours. Still to do a final tally but likely sawed between 2,000 -2,100 bf. We completely filled the customers 6X10 dump trailer with mostly 12' 8/4. Sawed several 16' including a very contrary hickory and a couple of maples. Since my customer had grossly under-estimated lumber yield he got nearly double the number of 16' 2X4's he needed so he bucked the remaining locust to 8' and I made 2X4 and 4X4's out of them. Near sundown the customer took the trailer home to unload and I sawed several more 8' poplar into 2X4s. We had 55 more of them when it got too dark to continue. Weather permitting I will finish the last 8-9 8' poplar logs tomorrow.


 This is what was left of the big whack of logs yesterday. We sawed all them and nearly half the 8' whack in the background.


 We sawed this plus another 55 8' 2X4's that it was too dark to photograph when I finished for the day.

[caveman]

Howard, you did a lot of sawing - looks good.  I hope your neighbor has a good supply of stickers and a flat place to stack.

[goose63]

Fridays sawdust



 

Got some nice 1x12x8 bords

Saterdays chips

 

That chipper dose a fine job

[trimguy]

" organic pine fire wood " 
Nice marketing.  :D :D :D

[WV Sawmiller]

  I figured the Easter bunny likely hid his eggs in my customer's  whack of remaining logs so I went up to check. Actually we had 9-8' poplar logs left to finish the order, bad weather coming in this afternoon and next several days
so we pressed on to complete the order. Sawed his logs into 2X4s and 4/4 lumber. 1248 955 bf out of the stack. 4034 bf for the last 3 days (2 -half days and one long day) of sawing. Loaded up, tallied, got paid, came home unloaded as it started sprinkling and now ready to rest and start tomorrow following up on my SimpleSet and related issues.


 1248 955 bf of poplar, sawed in 3.8 engine hours - looks like 328 251 bf/hr over double much higher than my average rate.
Below are the remaining logs we sawed today.


 2 sawdust and slab piles. Actually these were the neatest slab piles I have probably ever had. I finished the long stuff yesterday and moved the mill 90 degrees to set up on the 8' stack.


 Today's sawing from above. Mostly 2X4's under there. This is a 6'X10' dump trailer and load over 26" tall and tightly packed 8' boards.

Edit: I realized my customer forgot we left 55 2X4's on the trailer last night in the dark when we finished which drove today's total and average up. I went back and corrected the math. Looking at the previous numbers I was ready to enter the next WM sawmill shootout. :D We had good logs and easy sawing but there is a huge difference between 251 bf/hr vs 328 bf.hr.

[goose63]

" organic pine fire wood "
Nice marketing.  :D :D :D

trimguy the big city folk don't know any better

[Kwill]

Sawed up some cedar and built this

 

 


Raised bed garden. This is going to be my green bean bed. No more stooping to pick beans and weeds😀

[Darrel]

Those cookies look more like wood steaks. ;D

They'd be too hard to drive. :D :D ;D

[doc henderson]

yes but high in fiber, if you cook them on the grill!!! :D :D :D digin_2  @Darrel 
@Kwill that looks great, and i would love green beans with my steak!  

[Nebraska]

Awful purdy  to cover with dirt there Kwill, I thought for just a second it was a deluxe feed bunk.

[Kwill]

Awful purdy  to cover with dirt there Kwill, I thought for just a second it was a deluxe feed bunk.

Guess j could make some feed bunks to😀

[frazman]

Hey goose63, how's that Woodland Mills chipper working out for you. This might be the next piece of equipment I'm interested in getting.

[olcowhand]

Awful purdy  to cover with dirt there Kwill, I thought for just a second it was a deluxe feed bunk.

That was my first thought, too. I was thinking how nice it would look in my pen....

[goose63]

@frazman that chipper is working just great had I knowen I was going to get a biger tractor I would of got the 8 inch chipper but the 6 inch is working just fine 8)

[alanh]

 

 I have an order from a repeat customer for 50 2x6x16 oak for cow pen fence boards, I only have 2 16 ft logs right now but they`re hug, I figured I could fill most of the order with them...until I opened up the first one and found a big ole ants nest/rot hole, I ended up with 4 16 footers...it might be good for some shorter stuff.

[Magicman]

My today's (and tomorrow's) customer's log whack grew from


 
this


 
to this since I had been there.  :



 
Da loader bringing up a log.


 
And yup, I spotted some blue.


 
Whacking out 1X4's for kitchen, etc. cabinets.


 
And some ratty/knotty 2X6's.  Today's tally was 2037 bf. which was not too bad.

Five logs left and two of them are 36" all to be sawn into 1X4's.    

[bags]

Nice centering on that pith board MM--- your quite the marksman.