Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[alan gage]

Didn't get a lot of sawing done last summer and most of what I did get sawn was knotty spruce, which isn't entirely rewarding. This spring I started off by sawing some questionable cedar poles, which again isn't real rewarding. This week I loaded a couple big cottonwood logs to turn into framing lumber for a small cabin/fort. Now THAT felt rewarding. A nice big pile of lumber and only took 2 blades for 500 BF of lumber. Now if it just refrains from turning into pretzels while drying.

[Magicman]

That whack looks mighty nice rewarding.    8)

[doc henderson]

@DPatton my yellow tube broke. I did not replace it, just a filter/plug on the tank.  it pulls vapor from the tank and puts it through the combustion is my understanding.  prob. a CA requirement.

[DPatton]

@DPatton my yellow tube broke. I did not replace it, just a filter/plug on the tank.  it pulls vapor from the tank and puts it through the combustion is my understanding.  prob. a CA requirement.

Thanks doc, I figured it was just for venting purposes. I haven't checked to see if the lid on the tank provides venting or not, but I assume it does. If not I was concerned that if I simply plug it off at the top of the tank the tank may swell up like a ballon during the heat of the day. Just like a tightly closed plastic fuel jug does. I take it you've had no such problems with yours?

[doc henderson]

mine is open.  the yellow tube got old and sun baked and cracked.  did not want to do the whole thread in along the energy chain thing.  no issues.  I have not looked at the cap to see if it is vented, but it feels like it is, i.e. multi layered.  also the fuel gage I got with my second tank, allows some venting as well.

[tule peak timber]

This afternoon ,  I had another piece of the same pine tree delivered.   The biggest is yet to arrive. Commissioned two more big tables this week end. 8) 

 

 

[doc henderson]

Is it blue stained?  looks solid.

[tule peak timber]

Doc, yes some blue stain visible, but the logs are solid. I am well aware that some priority time will need to be blocked out for sawing of these logs soon. I need to make some bigger stickers today. Cheers !

[Magicman]

Luke and I were like Jerry Clower this morning; "knock it out John".  


 
We started sawing a bit after 8:00 and finished sawing and stickering all of the customer's logs at ~11:30, sawing 1110bf of mostly 10' 1X8's.



We will go back probably Friday after the customer gets this beetle killed and mostly bark slipped SYP tree felled, bucked, and skidded.  He needs another 100 1X8's plus some more 2¼" slabs to meet his cut list.  After that we will be sawing 1X6's for baseboards.

Speaking of Jerry Clower, before becoming a Comedian he was a fertilizer salesman living in Yazoo City, MS, but that was not his home.  He grew up at East Fork which is East of Liberty, MS, and ~30 miles as the crow flies from where I live.  He often had lunch at a buffet here in Brookhaven, so I was able to sit and listen to him telling tall tales over lunch.  He was quite a character.

[RichTired]

MM, Jerry Clower was is one of my favorite people of all time!  I still listen to his "talks" from time to time thanks to utube. Very funny with very good advise and all very clean comedy.  

[DPatton]

Luke and I were like Jerry Clower this morning; "knock it out John".  

😂😂😂😂😂used to love listening to Jerry Clower. I remember the story "knock it out John" very well as my friend Sean and I used to run coon hounds. We were never very good at it but had a lot of fun! 

[tule peak timber]

The last of the big pine came in just before dark tonight. 27000 pounds net weight. I spent all day making special long stickers for these big logs. One of a kind material that I feel lucky to have on board.....

 

 

 

[doc henderson]

crazy big man!  be careful!

[Old Greenhorn]

I have been a Jerry fan for a lot of years. I would have to check, but I believe the line was "knock him out John!". But my favorite line in that story is the punch: "Well just shoot up in here amongst us, one is bound to get some relief".
 Love that guy. Now I gotta go check the youtube stuff, didn't know about that. Thanks!

[WDH]

Rob, that log is on the top end of the bell curve!

[Sixacresand]

Jerry Clower always said he liked his fans because they were "optimists" .  He would have loved the Forestry Forum.  

BTW, Big log on the dump truck. Looks like it had died or got blown down.  Good to know there are FF members who can handle ones that size and make useful lumber out of it.  

[tule peak timber]

The big logs are from a ponderosa pine that was a local landmark at Lake Shasta in northern California. The tree started to die last year and was taken down to the dismay of the local population. I am committed to making it "live" on as tables and bar tops. Given the size of the logs this should be a challenge. I see this as a unique opportunity purvey one of a kind wood.Rob

[doc henderson]

maybe can market to some of the fans of the tree around the lake.  have a piece of the famous tree.  Best Wishes!

[Nebraska]

I can't imagine a Ponderosa pine that big, how old was it?  Native tree 120 miles west of here but never recall seeing a wild one bigger than 1/3 that size... Such an impressive tree, bless you for making it live on.

[randy d]

Just finished sawing about 500bf of dry ash into 1x8s x8' this was for my neighbor we traded sawing for a 300 bushel load of well rotted cow manure I think he is happy and I am happy. ash makes some dandy lumber not as hard to saw as I had thought. Randy

[WV Sawmiller]

   I love it. In a good barter both parties leave happy.

[Magicman]

I have never sawn cow manure.  What blade did you use?? 

[Banjo picker]

 Cooks duratooth.  It came in on some pine that had been skidded 5hrough a pasture.  Banjo

[doc henderson]

 

 

ERC had been on the ground for years, sap wood gone, heart wood relatively sound.   made some 4 x 6 beams to make a mail box post.  forgot to get a thumbs up and pic of the wood.

[Darrel]

The world's largest ponderosa pine is not too far from me at La Pine state park Oregon. It is over 500 years old, 162' tall and 28.9' in cercumfrence. I've seen it, it's big.