Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[WV Sawmiller]

   Okay. I admit it my mind has been fried in the heat and my brain is still a little (?) rattled after my ATV trip down the mountain side so you'd think my friends on the forum would cut you some slack. Wrong! Why would I ever think that. :D :D :D

[Magicman]

so you'd think my "friends" on the forum would cut you some slack.

Maybe your "friends" are the only ones that are keeping both feet on the ground and keeping you propped up.  Anyway you should know better than to get nekkid and even think about pictures.     :D

[JJ]

Use guys hav gotten off subject
doesn't anyone have more picts of big sawlogs? WV Sawlogger excluded.

        JJ

[Magicman]

No pictures but I looked at next week's job this afternoon.  About 40-50 SYP logs that will be sawn into framing lumber.  The best part was that it will be in the shade for the entire day. 

We were supposed to be sawing a 98 mile away road trip but the customer texted last night saying that he will fall more trees so he won't be ready until August 10th.  I'm glad because this will allow me to knock some of these small jobs out.

[WV Sawmiller]

    Again, no pictures but I visited 2 sites today. One is 2-3 day job for a couple from NH who bought a lot and are moving here. Nice folks and I will do the work when they finish a couple of things. It is a remote uncontrolled access and I told them a gate or cable blocking the road was a must unless they had someone close by I could stage the mill at the end of each day. They did not have such an option. While there a guy rode his ATV up and asked "Is the Hatfield McCoy ATV trail?" The trail is several miles away and he may have just been casing the site but the timing was good not just for me but for them too. These folks found me from my website.

   On the way back I stopped at another site and the guy wants me to saw long (16') 6X8's for a cabin build. He started some with 6X10 and realized/decided too heavy to work with. That sawyer never returned to finish the job and this guy had watched me at a USDA demo last year. Another long term investment pays off. He showed me a big aspen log about 30' long. Evidently he has a patch of them on his place and he wanted them cut into wide boards for the floor. I told him I had never sawed aspen and thought there were issues with it. I looked up the specs on line and will advise against it the next time we talk.

[Walnut Beast]

Come on WV you been posting some good pics lately 😂

[WDH]

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

[Magicman]

Yup, water and no pictures leads back to a previous conversation.  :  :D

[WDH]

 :D :D :D

Howard, give up, you can't win. 

[WV Sawmiller]

  air_plane smiley_monkeyfight

[alan gage]

Use guys hav gotten off subject
doesn't anyone have more picts of big sawlogs? WV Sawlogger excluded.

       JJ

Well, they aren't big but they are sawlogs. I know most of you don't fine pine very exciting but it's a rarity around here and when you find a couple small pine logs in the middle of a whack of dry knotty spruce it's very exciting. Stuff cuts like butter.



I've been trying to do a little sawing after work every evening this week for board and baton siding for my house. It's slow going with small spruce logs. Lots of blade changes. Making 150-200bf/night. Will get there eventually.



Alan

[WDH]

You are missing 3 rows of stickers ;D.

[alan gage]

You are missing 3 rows of stickers ;D.

I knew someone would comment on that! 
 I did it that way last summer when I was cutting B&B siding for my shop since I was running out of stickers at the time. Hoped I could get by since it was all going to get nailed to a flat wall anyway. It turned out fine so I decided to try again. But now that I've made the pictures public it will probably all come off the stack crooked and wavy.
Alan

[Ljohnsaw]

You are missing 3 rows of stickers ;D.

Well, technically, they would be columns... ;)  Rows go across.

[WDH]

Unless they are upside down rows.  

[RussMaGuss]

I would be replacing the grip on that Logrite.  

Replacing Logrite Grip

This is why I love this forum. That trick with the compressed air is great! 

[78NHTFY]

Sawing a little spruce the other day into slabs.  Time to change the blade.  Hard to believe this little hornet beehive was hanging in!!    Managed to actually remove the old and install the new blade without disturbing them.  I think one of them had an injured hand that looked a bit like WVSawmiller's  :D :D (sorry, couldn't help it!) but just like him, they kept on working.  All the best, Rob.

 

 

 

[Larry]

My logger buddy has been sending me some pictures of big walnut he logged this week.  When he texted me that he was heading my way I figured I would be getting something nice to saw.

Instead he drops off this junk!  It was an obvious yard tree so I asked "Who's yard you steal that from?"  He just smiled and said it came from the front yard.  Great, I shouldn't find any clothes line eye bolts.  On top of being a yard tree its pin oak.



It did have some interesting grain and flake.





It had the distinctive smell of shake, as I was sawing but I didn't see any evidence.

The good, 318 board foot in less than 20 minutes and I didn't hit nothing.  All 9/4 live edge slabs.

Next time we have a thread about production I can say 950 bf an hour with a semi straight face. :D :D

[Resonator]

Black Cherry. New customer brought me some big for around here (21" at the stump) logs to saw into 1" and 2" slabs. Of course 2nd cut in I hit a nail. :D



Ended up bucking the end off one of the logs to minimize sweep. Customer helped off bear, paid for 1 hour sawing, paid for a new blade, and even left me a tip. ;D

[WV Sawmiller]

   I went over and picked up my trailer load of walnut I cut last week - the one I swapped a load of slabwood kindling for the logs. 


 This is the kindling - I cut my slabwood up into approximately 10-12 inch lengths.


 I started stacking it on a shelf in my shed today. These are 30" 8/4 LE slabs up to a little over 16" inside the bark cut from the stump.


 I stacked 4- 9.5" slabs from about 8-12 inches wide with a crotch on one end that I left off between the stump slabs and this picture. This is still to be stacked tomorrow. I got too hot, too dirty. too tired and too tired of knocking over other stacks of crib blocks, cookies, and lumber. It is hard work stacking heavy lumber by yourself. These are mostly 8/4 slabs and a few 9/4 square bench legs in the mix. There are really some pretty pieces in this load and it will turn out to be a very good trade. I did put a couple of tarps down to catch the sawdust which I dragged to an existing brushpile to be burned and I sawed the slabwood into 12" or shorter pieces for the lady to use for kindling or firewood. She got another couple of wheelbarrow loads out of that so she got more than she requested and as with any good barter, both parties came out ahead.

[longtime lurker]

If a picture is worth a thousand words...





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(or why I still have a Lucas)

[Don P]

Wow! Looks like you got a raise, stepladder and office with a view  :D.

What is it and how much did that yield?

[DWyatt]

Busy Busy weekend, this was my first time cutting this many slabs. Dad had his woods logged and part of these logs came from the tops of the walnut trees. The other half came from a friend who is starting a tree service, they were yard trees but I didn't hit any metal.  8) Oh and a couple cherry logs in the mix from the yard trees. All slabbed to 9/4. Also found a tree that the loggers forgot so Sunday I cut it down and cut it into some beautiful 4/4 lumber and a few slabs. Tried to cut the 4/4 like @YellowHammer talks about with very little/no white wood so it hopefully will behave when drying. Total for the weekend, 45 @ 9/4 walnut slabs, 6 @ 9/4 cherry slabs, and 112 bf 4/4 walnut. It was a hot one in NW Ohio this weekend. Oh and I got to replace my up/down motor Sunday morning because it died on the last cut we made on Saturday :



 



 



 



 

[YellowHammer]

That 4/4 looks sweet, it's so rare to see well trimmed green walnut, and it really makes a difference when drying, to result in very flat wood. 

When you sticker it for air drying, sight down the boards, and alternate the layers bow up and bow down ()()() on the stack, and put lots of weight on it.  I do that by putting other stacks of air drying wood on top of it.  

[WV Sawmiller]

@DWyatt ,

   I like that second picture of the slab with a crotch that looks like a happy Bhuddah with his arms in the air. I bet you can sell that to a Chinese buffet if you try. ;D