Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[bwstout]

I saw a little ERC for Cedar chest have to build a couple of them.



 

[bwstout]

Brad I like Box Elder it is a pleasure to turn and watch the flame appear. I have had one log nothing like that one.

[WV Sawmiller]

  Not sawing but did 2 site visits. One 15 miles from home on the banks of the Greenbrier River. He needs to repostion the logs 90 degrees and weed out about half the logs which he just piled there last Fall. I will saw them when we get a dry day or two. I'll bring a helper that he will hire. His house is on pilings 8-9 feet above ground and I will back the mill under it to access this pile when re-staged


 
 We stopped at an overlook on WV Hwy 20 over the New River above Sandstone Falls on the way to my wife's mentee who got 2 nucs of bees today and wanted her to photograph him installing.


 On the tip of the island below in a big sycamore about 300 yards below the dark spot is an eagle nest with at least one young one in it. One adult was on the nest when we got there and left and is on the limb over the river. Hard to see with my little point and shoot. My wife had a full frame Canon camera with various lens up to a 500 mm she borrowed and tried today. I don't have any of her pix but they show a lot more detail.


 I spotted this guy on a limb. He's about 5" long. A little cool for him but pretty neat to see him

After this we went to see the bees then to another job of pines on new power line 32 miles from home. Good site but the customer needs to buck them to length then get some dry weather and I'll saw them. Likely a 2-3 day job.

[Poquo]

Customer dropped off 24 pieces of Walnut to mill ( only 6 pieces would qualify as logs)but he'll want cookies and oddball cuts from what would have been firewood . Got about 2/3 of it cut heard a flopping noise when clutch was disengaged . Found Drive Belt starting to split . Had to remove Brake Strap and slid up down motor over a little to get belt out . Took me about 4 hours to get everything fixed and readjusted .  

 

 Trying out 4 degree bands , they cut really nice .Didn't get many pictures of Walnut , customer was hauling away while I was fixing mill .

[WV Sawmiller]

   Just piddling so went out late morning to saw 3 short RO logs for future benches. Found the idler side roller guide loose and saw the set screw and jam nut had vibrated out so replaced that. The logs have been cut about 2 years and the sapwood is just punk but the heartwood is sound and very pretty.


 Just as finished sawing started raining so I covered everything, put the blade away and stacked the lumber. About 109 bf of 8/4 LE slabs and 10/4 square stock for bench legs. The slabs are mostly about 16" wide. 


 That's about all John call haul. Any more and he'll be reporting me to PETA.

[trapper]

neighbor getting ditch cleaned out.  the excavator ripped out some cottonwood.  One had a decent 8 ft log so I took and put it on the mill.  2  5/4x10 and a 6x10 on the mill yet cuts like butter but sure is heavy.

[Tom the Sawyer]

Trapper, it won't be heavy for long, cottonwood when green can have moisture contents of 150%.

[Banjo picker]

I saw a good bit of pine.  It gets a lot lighter after it sits a month or so on stickers.  When I saw an order of 2 x10s or 12s ... if there is an extra on or two in the log I go  ahead an cut it...if there are 3 or more I usually remove the cant and wait on the next order.  When I get another call for one of those dry boards .... they will be about half the weight of the other green ones I cut at that time.  Banjo

[Bruno of NH]

Cutting wide pine and hemlock for fence boards,ground garden beds and barn floor boards.
Tried my first 1.5 x .050 band on the mill today in 8° cut fast and flat.


 

 

[WV Sawmiller]

  I guess I fed another post to cyber space. I got out and finished the other 2 6' RO logs shown above in between rain showers this afternoon. About 188 bf of 2" LE slabs for benches. About 14-15 inches of heartwood after I wire brush the punky sapwood off. One had some wave and really hard to saw due to a couple of knots. The second sawed much better. I loaded up my truck, washed and hooked up the mill and am going to a mobile job tomorrow about 15 miles away. Tomorrow shows 20% chance of rain then 10% Tuesday and this should be a one or at most 2 day job. The next couple dry days I have another similar job 50 miles away.


 I forgot to take a picture until after I had stacked them.

[Magicman]

I guess I fed another post to cyber space.

Are you using Firefox or ??  Sounds like what MS Edge will do.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I am using Google most of the time but occasionally I will leave it open and use Edge. I don't remember which I was using. I probably just forgot to hit the post button. Never overlook operator error and as a cause. :

[Magicman]

That's what I figured.  Edge is one backspace away from deleting your text and full of misery. 

Firefox or anything else will make you happy. 

[WV Sawmiller]

   After further deliberation I realize while I use Edge I don't use it to access the FF so I am sure this was another operator error.

[dirtmotor]

Finally got the mill all straightened out all 8 adjustments on guides set , stops moved in an inch , put on a new 747 and Wow its cutting better then it ever has ! Only had time to cut a few 2xs out of some erc yesterday to test .

 

[SawyerTed]

This was a quick little portable job this morning. Poplar and maple LE slabs for a guy in a residential area of Kernersville.  Out by 7:30 and home by 10:45.  My customer was referred to me by a previous customer from nearly 2 years ago.

The other good news is I used a couple of blades I set and sharpened with my new equipment.  The blades cut better than new ones and considerably better than any resharpened blades I've used.



 

 

 

 

[caveman]

Looking good.  Y'all keep on and I'm going to end up dropping some cash on a sharpener and having to build a sharpening shack - it is a slippery slope.  What's next?  A slabber, 30" planer or a 20"+ jointer.  This is supposed to be a hobby for us (John and me).

[Bruno of NH]

Caveman
I lost my sharpening friend.
I'm thinking about getting a setup
Shipping is to much
But I also will need a building. 

[RichTired]

Hey Bruno, do you have room for a sharping set-up in your Timber Frame Edger building?

[Bruno of NH]

Richard 
No the edger fills it up 
I would build one like it but more square than rectangle for a sharpening shed.
And add a little wood stove for heat.

[Sixacresand]

Small Leyland cypress yard logs. 

[WV Sawmiller]

   Boy - what a long day. Left the house at 0700 and got home at 2100. Picked up a helper for my customer and drove to the customer site 14.7 miles away. The site is on the banks of the Greenbrier River which was up after recent rain so when we got there we had to ford about 12" of water in a low spot.


 We drove under the house which is on pilings, I finally got the mill into position and set up for milling.


 Here is the log pile with the river and a bunch of honking Canada geese in the background. Maybe you can's see them but we heard them all day.


 Many of the logs were less than veneer quality. : We rolled this one right over the mill into the slab pile. I did cut up a couple of other den trees throughout the day and some punky ash and serious sweep in some logs. All was to be cut 4/4 and at least 6" wide.

   The customer and his wife came by about 1600 and he immediately modified the order to include 50 - 10' 2X4s and 10- 12' 3X4s he uses for handrails. He went and bucked a downed, very hard ash into 3 logs and a crotch and we cut 2 logs for about 36 of the 2X4s and I cut the 5' crotch into 2" LE slabs and ovals for benches and the wife was thrilled at them.


 Here are some of the ash crotch. I also cut 9 - 4' 10/4 square legs for bench legs. Did I mention the wife was very happy with these.

   We have assorted  flat stacked lumber piles around the yard. At the end of the day my estimate is about 1639 bf. I think we cut a little over half the whack and hope to finish tomorrow.


 Here's whats left and the one in front was added today.


 We cut/salvaged a bunch of stickers for the customer to cut to length.


3 dozen 10' 2X4's 

 Small stack off a 7' and an 8' log

 10' 2X4's with defects - will cut to 6-8 ft lengths

12' 4/4 lumber with 10 -1X12's in front 

 4/4 lumber from odd size logs - most are about 11' long 

[Old Greenhorn]

Man, that's a dang good day and a bit of an adventure. Not sure I would pull my mill through a water ford, the creeks up this way are a bit cankerous and the bottoms are sketchy and uneven with pocket holes that 'just show up'. ;D
 Looks to me like you put in more than a fair day's work with some plan changes along the way which are not always pleasant. Good on ya man.

[doc henderson]

been sorting through the old logs as I organize my yard.  here is an old elm that had a surprise inside.



 

even had fungus growing on it, was not even sure it was worth using for firewood.



 

a little punky on the ends.   



 

looks like the tree grew around a limb that had been cut off, a little like the walnut grafts seen here in the past.



 

stacked and stickered.  we will see how it turns out.

[doc henderson]

here is an old log I forgot about.  cut the tree down for my buddy Dallas.  Milled it up, and will make charcuterie boards for Dallas and his family.



 

the bark



 

1 inch boards, I think it is sweet gum.  but I am sure that @Southside  will disagree.