Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[teakwood]

, thanks. Yeah, maybe i'm little too much of a perfectionist in these things but i like to have order. it also impresses the buyers. 

[jb616]

Just a one log day, but by the time I got things stowed and cleaned up for the day, I'm bushed!



 



That big ole log turned like magic. I mean, it was like magic I could turn it at all. That was a bruiser for a fully manual mill.

 

Nice!  I agree with that being a bruiser for a manual mill....I won't cut anything bigger than 28" anymore on my 1984 LT 30. Too hard my 58yr old body...Next year I might drop down to 26" :D

[pshupe]

100 year old black walnut log.  The city cut it down and it was too big to chip, so I slabbed it before they could come back with a bigger truck! ;-)


 

 

 

 

Should be some nice slabs once they are dried and planed.

Cheers Peter.

[tule peak timber]

Opening day and we fried the drive belts in the first 4 feet of cut.Monday - it never fails..... !

 

[Magicman]

After two weeks of not sawing because of rain, Luke and fell back into sawing again this morning.  Three big SYP logs scattered sorta haphazard at the sawmill.


 
Haphazard plus that butt log that Luke is standing beside is 34".


 
So it was "Magic Hook" to the rescue.


 
Not only did it turn the logs, it also rolled them to the sawmill loader.


 
And quite nicely I might add.

And then something happened that in over 18 years of sawing, had never happened before.  Lumber stacked and tallied, called the customer's wife (prearranged) to inform her that we had finished so that she could bring the check, and sawmill folded and hooked to the truck.

Nothing left to do but get paid and leave when Luke said "here comes another log".  Another log?? 


 
Yup, the customer's FIL inbound with another log.  The good thing was that I had met the customer's cut list so this log went to the burn pile.  :

We sawed 885bf in 5 hours and finished this job.  Total for the job was 6965bf.

Tomorrow's customer has seven 20' logs and he said that the largest was 40" butt.  Now I can saw a 20' log and I can saw a 40" log, but I ain't sawing a 20' X 40" log.  That would be ~7500 lbs. 

[WV Sawmiller]

   Well I forgot to take my camera so no pictures so maybe it didn't happen and I just imagined it. :D Actually I had not planned on sawing a log but I promised a guy at the flea market yesterday to make him 2 small (24" long) Red Oak benches. Actually he wants to use them as side tables by his chair and I agreed to make them 20" tall instead of 17" as normal. He also wants Lichtenburg engraving so I will have to get another guy to do that for me. I did not take a deposit but if he doesn't buy them I will cut them back to 17" and double the price as I probably underbid the job anyway.

   I bucked an 18' RO log to 8 & 10 ft and took the 8' log to the mill. The logs have been cut 2 years so the sap wood is pure punk but the heart is beautiful and solid. I cut them into 9/4 blanks and will get 4 legs out of each. Basically it is just like cutting oversized stickers. I cut 24 "stickers" in about 18 minutes (.3 hours) on the mill and that should yield about 96 bench legs or 24 benches.  I may try some 3 legged stools with 8/4 cookies. 

[busenitzcww]

Dug this bur oak out the creek today. It washed out and just slid from the top of the bank into the creek. It was a tug of war the whole way out! Main trunk was over 48" almost the whole 15' length to where it splits. Not sure what it weighed but it was picking up the back end of my loader when I was digging it out. 661 w 36" bar for size. There's some dry rot on the butt. Not sure how deep it goes. Hoping to make some nice slabs out of it.





 

 

[Larry]

A 20 incher but I thought the crotch interesting on this one.




I might keep one of the slabs and turn a platter out of the crotch.  I got the fans going on it to try and keep the sapwood as white as possible.

Next up was this nasty.  I'm slabbing it and was given specific instructions to only trim enough to get the saw through the mess.  Artists...........

[donbj]

Next up was this nasty.  I'm slabbing it and was given specific instructions to only trim enough to get the saw through the mess.  Artists...........

Don't forget to center the pith!:D

[WDH]

Larry, that last log will give me nightmares. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Next up was this nasty.  I'm slabbing it and was given specific instructions to only trim enough to get the saw through the mess.  Artists...........

Don't forget to center the pith!:D

Yeah and saw parallel to the heart check and account for the sweep. : : :D :D :D

[Rob in NC]

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.....

 

 

i cant believe the size of that pine tree. You said those are Ponderosa? i dont think SYP or longleaf we have here get anywhere near that.. 

[doc henderson]

@Magicman @Tam-i-am will the magic log hook be available from log-rite any time soon?!   :D :D 8) 8)

[Magicman]

They are already available doc:  Replacement Hooks

I declined to saw the seven log job that was intended for today.


 
Simply put, his logs were not quality enough to make his cut list.  He had two logs that would saw 2X8's and 2X12's but not the quantity that he wanted.  The simple/wise thing for me to do was to decline before I spent time sawing poor quality framing lumber.

So Luke and I moved on to the next job.


 
~15 logs here and the customer will haul more this afternoon and tomorrow.


 
That plus we are set up in a shady location.  The customer will skidsteer the logs to the sawmill. 

[Tam-i-am]

@Magicman @Tam-i-am will the magic log hook be available from log-rite any time soon?!   :D :D 8) 8)

Are you looking for just the hook?  If so Magicman is correct we sell our hooks without handles which many people use for this purpose.  Are you looking for us to attach the hook to a length of chain?
If so I would need more specifics.  I have a great chain supplier so that would not be a problem.

[GAB]

Larry:
If you can I am curious as to what this customer of yours has in mind.
Yes I would like to see pictures of what he does with it.
TIA,
GAB

[Bruno of NH]

I have been flat out pine,hemlock,cherry,butternut and black locust. 
I'm starting to get the black locust I bought coming in.
Have orders already for porch and deck boards. 

 

 

 

 

[doc henderson]

thanks Tami.  i am curious what size he uses.  I will look at your website.  thanks!

[Magicman]

doc, mine are made from the remains of broken logging tongs and bigger is better.


 
The small one is 11" long and the large is 15".

[firefighter ontheside]

I responded to an ad last night for free walnut wood.  There was a picture with most of it cut into firewood, but there were still trunks standing.  That's what I was interested in.  I went over last night with a small trailer to pick up some of the firewood for my parents and look at the trunks.  When I started loading firewood I noticed there was a some small walnut, but the larger stuff was red elm.  Went this morning to cut down the trunks and load them.  I hadn't looked closely at the trunks last night, but had a feeling they were elm.  Well, they were elm.  Still will make some pretty lumber, but not what I was dreaming of.  I told the guy they were not walnut.  He said his brother in law that helped him cut the trees down told him they were male walnut trees and that's why they didn't produce walnuts.  He had worked for a tree service at one time.  I guess someone else that had worked for the tree service gave him a bad lesson in walnut trees.

 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I built my MagicHook using a cheap flea market cant hook, took the hook off, connected it to a 1/4" X 3' long chain with a shackle and put chain hook on the other end with a cold shut. I take a couple of extra 6' X 1/4 chains with hooks on each end and connect and adjust as necessary. No doubt the LogRite hook would do a better job as it is stronger and sharper than the one I use.

[doc henderson]

FF  Elm is actually beautiful,  not Walnut, but very exotic.
MM do you find the Left sided ones or the right sided ones work better?   :D

 


 

 
all the above is Elm.



 

[Tam-i-am]

thanks Tami.  i am curious what size he uses.  I will look at your website.  thanks!

Doc
Magicman posted some good pics in reply# 15 here https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=110640.0
Andries has some good pics in his gallery in the section labeled Equipment.  "Logrite Megahook only on chain" and "Megahook & Chain"  He uses the biggest hook what we just call #3.  Norwood uses our #1 hook to make a log turner on their smaller mills.  Kevin thinks #2 hook would be the way to go.
Hope this helps.

[firefighter ontheside]

Doc, the elm looks great.  I've never used it, but a friend has and he made some really nice projects with it.  He used a certain color of stain that I don't remember, but it really made the elm pop.

[doc henderson]

my friends project I do not know, but I rarely use stain on anything.  just the darkening and amber tint of the poly or oil.