Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Sixacresand]

Glad you got some help and the equipment, Bruno.  A lot of wood.

[Bruno of NH]

I'm getting in some nice logs butternut, ash,oak and I can't wait for the black locust logs. 
Gots lots of sawing to do.

[Banjo picker]

Mixed load... pine and hardwood 

   Those in the middle are more of the cut to length....14 feet and 1/4 of an inch.  I get $3.00 for cut to length 2 x8s.....May not seem like much, but I remember working for a dollar a day when I was a kid.....so 3 bucks for about two minutes work seems ok to me.  After I installed a radial arm saw in my roller tables it's no big deal.    6 x 10s on top....got them out of two logs.

[rick42wood]

Cool, pre-quarter sawn logs.

[Bruno of NH]

Just got word from my helper tonight.
That after tomorrow he's getting done for a week.
He's to tired.
I'm making him work to hard.
Couldn't happen at a worst time.

[Wintergreen Mountain]

Sawing some white pine for the guy next door.



       







 

Two 15 min videos below if they post.

milling pine 1 - YouTube







milling pine #2 - YouTube



Leon

[Wintergreen Mountain]

    You will notice the saw starting to make a noise and bog down at the end of the last video.
A guide bearing went out.

Leon

[tule peak timber]

Sunday cedars. These logs are for my post and beam  office build. Beautiful material from Northern California.

 

 

[caveman]

Rob, with the logs you have gotten in recently, you and your guys are going to be busy.  I look forward to pictures of the big pine and walnut.

[Walnut Beast]

Rob I don't think you accept anything unless it's BIG 😂. I like the pictures and look forward to seeing some of it when you get it cut up. I would love to have some big cedar like that.

[Bruno of NH]

Rob,
Very nice cedar

[DWyatt]

It was a very full day of sawing red maple. 675 bd ft with myself as the one man crew. I have been having issues with my mill related to the drive belt slipping even when tensioned to spec. So the first 2 hours I messed with that and other misc maintenance and got it cutting fantastic. All it took was a half a turn on the turnbuckle and it was running perfect and didn't slip a bit. Only used 1 of the woodmizer 1.25" 0.45 747 blades for all that footage which I was very impressed for the first test with them.

Forgot to get a picture of the final stack, but here's a few pictures of some of the beautiful material these logs gave up. I'll be back sawing up a couple ash logs tomorrow for stickers and pallet material. I'm whooped today, my body isn't used to 85° and sunny yet.



 



 



 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I have been making bluebird nest boxes and ran out of 1X12s for the tops so I checked my log pile and found on old 12' ash log. It had broken 2' from the end so I trimmed to 10' and put it on the mill. I got 8-1X12's and a couple of 1X8s of of it. It was badly spalted and borderline punky in spots. It would not work for lots of applications but it will work fine for birdbox covers and the spalt adds character to the project. I will finish the 2 topless boxes I have and make some more this week. I put up 3 a week or so and one about 30 yards from my porch has already been taken over and I saw one about 6' from another perched on my tomato stake nearby. I forgot to take my camera so no pix this time.

[97redjeep]

 

 


 
 

 Well, I think I can finally post here, nothing special but got a bunch of 1x12s and some other random sizes for the raised boxes in the new greenhouse, that is not done ;D way too windy today. I didn't get any pics of the boards just the final product. 

[WDH]

Nice set up with your mill foundation and log deck.  That is the way to do it. 

[Florida boy]

Yes that is a great lookin foundation i just recently built a more solid foundation for my mill after having it for 4 years so props on that 8)

[97redjeep]

Thanks guys, they're 8x10x21 my cousin milled up for me on railway ties, after all the reading it seemed a good foundation was key for these mills and I'm glad I did, had a 22" pine on it this am and it's solid. And one of the first things I did was build the log deck, sure saves time over grabbing one at a time with my not so nimble 310 :D 

[Resonator]

I smiled when I saw that 2nd pic, I had a Woodland Mills HM 126, and a 1980 310A. (I sold the backhoe to fund my Wood-Mizer purchase.) I miss the backhoe for digging, but I don't miss it's insatiable appetite for starters, ether, and hydraulic fluid.  ;D

[97redjeep]

I smiled when I saw that 2nd pic, I had a Woodland Mills HM 126, and a 1980 310A. (I sold the backhoe to fund my Wood-Mizer purchase.) I miss the backhoe for digging, but I don't miss it's insatiable appetite for starters, ether, and hydraulic fluid.  ;D

Yup, likes fresh hydro fluid  :D needs a reverser, if anyone asks me about it, I'll say it's really good, but not "really"good at anything  ;D but I'll tell ya, better than nothing!

[DWyatt]

Final tally for the weekend, 675 bf red maple that I posted about yesterday. And probably 250 bf of ash that got made into stickers. I didn't get a picture of the unbelievable massive amount of sticks that the ash made, but it was a lot. Got the maple stacked on the pallets and then spent 3 hours scooping sawdust, blowing off my parent's driveway, and cutting a truckload of slabs. Got near 90° today in full sun and on blacktop. I am fried even with 5 applications of sunscreen and completely exhausted. Sawing alone is overrated, I need to get Dad to spend more nice weekends not at the lake house :D



 

[tule peak timber]

Nice looking lift. And yes sawing is a LOT of work all totaled up, but very satisfying. A great way to spend your time and invest in your future. cheers !

[goose63]

I got a call last week asking will cut short stuff sure can bring it over

Russian Olive



 



 



 

That stuff sure is perdy the guy told me no one would even talk to him when thy heard short logs I told him happy people come back to me.

Well he left DanG HAPPY HE GAVE ME $ 100 asked is that enough that more than enough.

All in all it was a good week end sold 3 loads of organick camp fire wood made $ 450 the lake people have to much money 

[DWyatt]

Nice looking lift. And yes sawing is a LOT of work all totaled up, but very satisfying. A great way to spend your time and invest in your future. cheers !

I wouldn't trade it for the world. So satisfying being the person who is allowed to open up those logs to reveal the beauty inside.

[Jim_Rogers]

Last Thursday, I brought the mill back from the dealership in Maine.
The told me that the valve cover had a crack in it and it would leak oil.
So don't run it full time. They replaced the cracked cover. It arrive here on Tuesday, and I put it on right away.

Today, I had my first job scheduled to resaw some wide pine planks from a barn into whatever I could get out of them. But basically in half.



 

some of them were wide like this and some were narrower.
50 minutes into the job, with two pieces left to cut, the drive belt (brand new one) fell off the drive pulley.
I had to take the cover off and put it back on.
I am assuming that the "new" brake strap they installed has slipped and allowed the tenon on the belt to be less that prefect. I say that because when I clutched down the blade would spin a while; not stop quickly like it should.

Customer was happy and gave me a tip.

Jim Rogers

[Magicman]

Grandson, Luke and I will finally be back to sawing Monday morning.  Our last sawing was: Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ?? in Sawmills and Milling  when we finished up all of the customers "skidded" logs.  We then began waiting for the customer to fall and skid the beetle killed SYP seen in that reply but it has rained every day since then.  Finally the customer called this afternoon and reported that he had the logs staged and ready for sawing.

Our first order of business will be to complete his cut list of 1X8's, and then some 2¼X wide slabs for counter tops.  After that it will be 1X6's for baseboards.  ;D