Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

you guys are making me fell lazy. 

Have him check the amp draw on your pump went it starts. I was lucky a few years ago and got away with a switch but a lot of the time it is a indication the motor is going bad or there is a short in the wire.

[Jack S]

 WV, On the water pump pressure switches I have worked with it is a low water pressure cut off so that if you run out of water for instance it just shuts the pump off to save ruining a pump.   You pump man should already know  by looking if it is that style  good luck with it   Jack

[WV Sawmiller]

Jack,

   You sound like you may be talking about a low level shut off that protects the pump when the water level is too low. We used them a lot overseas where we had in-ground and above ground water storage tanks. We also had high level switches to shut off the flow when we were hooked to an external water source instead of just trucking it in.

    The switch I am talking is about a 2" X 4" box with 2 settings to maintain the pressure range, typically to something like 30 to 50 lbs. When it hits the low pressure side the pump kicks in and fills/pressurizes a tank to the high limit then shuts off. This keeps the pump from having to cycle every time you get a cup of water or rinse out a coffee cup.

[Hilltop366]

The switch I am talking is about a 2" X 4" box with 2 settings to maintain the pressure range, typically to something like 30 to 50 lbs

Some styles of these switches also have the low pressure kick off built in, they have a lever you have to move until the pressure build up to restart them when they are activated.

[Patrick NC]

More cedar

 
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650 feet  of eastern red cedar.  Cut it down today,  will saw it tomorrow.  Already sold. Randon width 4/4 and 2x6. A couple of the smaller 8' logs will make 6x6 for another small order. 

[Magicman]

Good score, those have very solid piths.  8)

[Patrick NC]

I bought about 4000 feet of standing cedar.  This is the first load   I'm very pleased with the quality. 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I love that cedar. Maybe I can trade you a few thousand bf of 6"-10" diameter buckeye for an equal amount of cedar. :D :D

[redbeard]

 

 

 

 customer brought over a short 30" wide maple with some nice figure and burl in it.
Sliced it at heavy 2" slabs, took a good hour mostly fiddling with it getting it set and clamped up to get best results. 
Asked what he owed for the task and I said I will trade my time for one of those slabs and he happily agreed  which made us both happy.

[Walnut Beast]

 

 

 customer brought over a short 30" wide maple with some nice figure and burl in it.
Sliced it at heavy 2" slabs, took a good hour mostly fiddling with it getting it set and clamped up to get best results.
Asked what he owed for the task and I said I will trade my time for one of those slabs and he happily agreed  which made us both happy.

Looks Very nice! Great trade 👍👍

[Patrick NC]

  I love that cedar. Maybe I can trade you a few thousand bf of 6"-10" diameter buckeye for an equal amount of cedar. :D :D

That's hilarious.🤣 But I do have some sweet gum............ 😉

[terrifictimbersllc]

Stood here for most of 11 hr yesterday.  3662 board feet mostly red oak, either live edge or edged cant sawn.  Did QS one 20" x 12' log.  Except for the edged boards, all using drag back with my newly added Yellowhammer fingers.  Customer loved it.  He said the last time he sawed it was the same amount but they did it in 3 days not one.

Used 6 blades.  7/39 055 1-1/2" 195".  No waves anywhere, but it was red oak.  Even though tree service logs, only one blade hit metal. One broke from fatigue. So really only 4 blades used as these events happened right after putting on the blade (go figure).  I just changed blades about every 2.5 hr.  Also first time I didnt use the debarker on a whole job.  The arm broke a couple weeks ago and I am still waiting for a replacement.

Customer, brother, father very pleasant.  My feet were sore.  Need a chair.  Good to be out, things have been slow.  

[WDH]

That tire seat does not look comfortable.

[WV Sawmiller]

  I love that cedar. Maybe I can trade you a few thousand bf of 6"-10" diameter buckeye for an equal amount of cedar. :D :D

That's hilarious.🤣 But I do have some sweet gum............ 😉

I grew up in N. Fla and we had plenty of sweetgum. Never sawed it on my mill but I have cut it for firewood and remember trying to split it. I think I will keep my buckeye. :D At least I can cut it for woodburning. It does clean my blades when I saw it.

[terrifictimbersllc]

That tire seat does not look comfortable.

It wasn't, but at least I didn't trip over it. 

[Magicman]

 

 
My this week's sawing will be these trees, not all of them but many.


 
There are some beetle killed as well as fresh felled.  The JD in the background will be our workhorse.


 
We will have to salvage what we can from some of these.  The cut list will be 8"X8" posts as well as 4/4 for flooring, stair treads, and ceilings.  No framing lumber.

We will work through the salvage stuff first before he drops enough live trees to finish his cut list.  Looks like Luke and I will be busy this week.

EDIT:  The customer sent me the cut list which looks to be ~7Mbf, that is until his wife has her say so.  ;D

[Crossroads]

Turned in a full day of milling mostly large western red cedar With rot in the middle. Sometimes it was a struggle to make any 1x6', but we pushed on and found a few logs that were sound. One 16 footer was good for 1x12's, but mostly cut 8-12 foot logs. All in all it was a good day. Next weekend I'll be back to cut Red for beams

[goose63]

 


Now get up on the mill





Its on the mill




 

It will need some triming 26 wide x19 ft long

Then the boss told me put the bucket back on we are doing some spring yard cleaning :

[DWyatt]

Spent the weekend sawing some dead ash, sugar maple, and white oak. Made the ash into 3 pallets for the maple and oak. cut the maple into 6/4 square edge boards and 8/4 slabs and 8/4 slabs from the white oak. Turned over 90 hours on the mill since I bought it. I've officially sawed almost as much time as I have worked on this thing : The previous owners left it in poor shape, but it's cutting good now!


Couple of beautiful sugar maple slabs



 


 

Maxed the mill out on these 24"-25" white oak slabs!






 

And the final stack for the weekend. As you can see by the sugar maple paper weight on top, I had to grade saw the butt log because it was very hollow, but it made some perfectly clean & white 6/4 boards from the outside and slabs with nice spalting through the heart wood. Ended the weekend with approximately 1200 bf plus what I cut for the ash pallets and a very sore and sun burnt body.



 

[terrifictimbersllc]

All of a sudden 3 days booked this week. Volume jobs. One is a couple dozen big untreated cedar power poles for barn siding. Electric company has replaced a lot of these in the last couple years around here. Various people are hoarding or sawing them. Be my first time cutting them.

[RyGuy]

It We Hey guys. Longtime lurker, new poster. Thanks for all the inspiration and wisdom. 
My neighbor had prepared a 100yr old cypress that fell down in a storm 9years ago to be picked up by a buyer. The buyer came and passed due to the center being rot. He offered it up to me so last week I decided to have some fun and see what we could get out of it. The one request, some 2x4 and 4x6 for the owner and a round table for his Mrs. We had fun maxing out the capacity of my slabber attachment on my Peterson. Ended up with 8 3" 4.5x12' slabs and over 20 4" 5.5' rounds. There's rot. But there's also lots of beautiful wood! I do need to fumigate in my container as there were some termites (any suggestions on what to blast the container with to get rid of the bugs would be helpful). Fingers crossed the rounds stay solid. 

[stihlsawer]

Some more ash milled.

 

 

 

[Magicman]

Wow Guys, today has been quite a busy day!!  8)

Grandson Luke and I started our SYP job this morning.  Nothing spectacular nor exciting about sawing 9X9's and 4/4 lumber.


 
SS screw about 3" deep woke us up and completely destroyed the blade.


 
Probably .38 bullets.  We hit 6 and there were indications in the wood that there were more.
Of course they cause no blade damage.


 
We got a slow start getting everything set up but still managed ~1Mbf.  Tomorrow will be more of the same.

[Lko67]

Been a while since I posted anything had some health issues. Been playing with cherry and ash sawed my first red oak last week. Gotta build a new shelter for mill lumber took over this one

 

[terrifictimbersllc]

Sawed cedar power poles yesterday.  7:40-5:00 onsite but didnt get sawing till about 8:30.  3561 board feet.  Mostly 1x10's with some other widths 7-12".  And 2" battens.   "Logs" were 15-24" diameter and 13-18 feet long mostly 14's .  The customer and his son pulled the boards off the back of the mill. I was without my debarker, getting a replacement arm today.

The poles had dirt on them and in cracks, from being stored in the barnyard.  The customer started cleaning vigorously using a blower and a wire brush.

First 3 Doublehard blades 7/39 1-1/2 055 did about 500 bf each, each getting dull after about 3 poles.  I was starting to use strategies to only cut into a clean face. There was no metal.  But it felt slow and I was envisioning a dozen or more dull blades for the day which would threaten the rest of my week.

I felt this was the time to try the Razor-tip carbide blade Woodmizer sent me last fall. 

The carbide blade cut for the rest of the day over 2000 board feet, till I stopped at 4:30. Initially the wood looked like it had been planed.  But gradually the surface developed a more fuzzy appearance. Still very flat.    Customer was very happy with it, the cedar is for barn siding.

I have to figure out the economics of using the carbide blades.  Sure wish I had a hundred of them and that they were free.