Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Jim_Rogers]

I was trying to saw a red oak log to make a couple of mantles. The mantles are to be 5" thick, but the clamp is 5 1/2" tall. So I guess I'm sawing the sawmill clamp.
Haven't done that for a long while.



 

Since I posted it here, I won't post it on "Did something dumb today" but I did something dumb today.

Jim Rogers

[firefighter ontheside]

You almost got all the way thru.  Maybe you should finish the job.

[Old Greenhorn]

Sorry Jim, it did take a nice cut though. 4° blades? ;D (Sorry, too soon?)
I am begining to think some enterprising member should make up diecut stickers of a backstop or something and we all buy 'a few' then each time we hit the metal our our own mills, we put a sticker on the front of the head. Kind of like the fighter pilots do.
Let he (or she) who is without sin cast the first stone.

[Magicman]

Luke and I started with 108 logs Tuesday morning.  Now we can add 26 more to the whack.  What started out being a 3 day job with 30-40 logs will now eat up next week.  Rain stopped us this afternoon so no picture, but maybe tomorrow will be a better day.

[WV Sawmiller]

MM,

  Similar to my other post "On The Band Wagon", how often do you actually saw the logs you started on without the customer adding more before you finish? Seems to me like the customer always remembers another log or two he meant to bring down and runs and grabs it before you finish playing hob with your schedule. Sounds like your customer remembered a whole woodlot.

[goose63]

Greenhorn i don't think i have enough room for that many stickers

[GAB]

Greenhorn i don't think i have enough room for that many stickers

You and me both.
Gerald

[Larry]

Neighbor sawmill asked me to help him get caught up.  Said it would only take a couple of days.  From the looks of the log pile in the background its more like a couple of weeks. :D

I had to make my own shade.  I should charge extra for that!



When I get too hot I can cool off in his air conditioned shop and drool over his new toy.



For some reason I think there may be lots of slabs sawn before this job is complete.

[donbj]

I was trying to saw a red oak log to make a couple of mantles. The mantles are to be 5" thick, but the clamp is 5 1/2" tall. So I guess I'm sawing the sawmill clamp.
Haven't done that for a long while.



 

Since I posted it here, I won't post it on "Did something dumb today" but I did something dumb today.

Jim Rogers

Nice one! Each piece of metal makes its own unique noise too. I bet you won't get 5 1/2" out of your mind for a while.

[Walnut Beast]

Jake is a nice guy. I've talked to him. He's made some really nice tables

[Crossroads]

Just found out that tomorrow's 3500 bf job isn't pine, but  "Christmas tree spruce".   :-[ :-[ :-[

Fortunately I have 3 boxes of Kasco 7/40 blades and a Richard Cutting Edge 4/40 wheel in my garage which I obtained for just this occasion.  Now to go out reshape (lightly)  5 of these 7/40 to 4/40.   055 1-1/2 195". My mill is 55HP.

I usually use WM turbo 7/39 055 1-1/2. Those do ok in spruce, but with a lot of fussing around re-trimming etc, to get a "just passing" result.  Cant fly with them like in pine.

Hoping the Kasco 4/40 will saw the spruce flat and faster.  :P

I tried the WM 4° blades on Sitka spruce and was very disappointed. Switched to the regular 7° blades and made nice lumber. Well as nice as it could be with 6" knots 🤷‍♂️. I haven't cut any spruce with the turbo 7 yet. 

[Magicman]

We are 98 miles from home and the customer is paying for the lodging.


 
Our setup, but no shade. 


 
Luke said that he found some shade.  :


 
Using the chock on the far end and the Magic Hook to adjust a large SYP log.


 
Some of the 26 logs that mysteriously appeared in another location.  What? Shade?


 
Another view, but what about that lower log on the far right?


 
We won't be sawing that Post Oak.  :-\

We are rained out for the rest of the week, so we will resume sawing Monday.

[Remle]

" We won't be sawing that Post Oak." Aw, come on, you must have lost your scene of adventure. I see the problem, but the naive among us don't know why you made such a judgment call !!

[Magicman]

Just call me....


 

[TimW]

Does that huge of a black mark mean it has a huge piece of metal in it?
         hugs,  Brandi

[Magicman]

Probably not huge metal but most likely it was a fence row tree and has had a fence stapled to it for many years.  The odd thing was that this is the butt 8' and I have no idea where the second log is. ??  Maybe it branched just above the butt cut and there was no second log.  That would also verify the fence row theory.

[DYank]

MM  that looks like black walnut to me. :D
 

[Don P]

We got into one over the weekend. Thought we had pulled all the tree stand nails. It must have been a 2 generation tree stand. The next log up ended up on my forks and I must have somehow taken a wrong turn, When I hit a bump it went over the field fence, so sad  :D.

[WV Sawmiller]

  My Saturday's customer called me with an urgent call to come saw 2- 10' cherry logs today. They were in the owners way and he had to get rid of them and they were closer to me than him. Sounded like a quick and easy job so I agreed even though my debarker is sick. I loaded up last night then when I called for the address and to set up a meeting time he said today was out. The owner of the logs first gave them to him then decided to sell them since they are "veneer" grade logs and he wanted $350 for them. My customer still wants at least one if not both of them but sounds like he will have to pick it/them up and bring to me. 

   I'd bet some busybody "friend" stepped in and told the owner how much "highly valuable cherry" logs were and convinced him he should be compensated for them. I hate it when that happens. I see rotting logs all the time where somebody was going to give them away to be used then a buddy talked him into selling instead and they sit right there and rot. Anybody want to take a bet they'd really command veneer prices at any commercial mill?

   Oh well, now I need to go unload the truck which fortunately is not a very big job as I have that down pat and likely 10-15 minutes tops to put everything back in place.

[tule peak timber]

Once we cut the English logs they are run through the kiln, T&G machined, and by hand I end match the little boards into longer lengths. Grain , color , sapwood is lined up as best as possible to achieve a pattern that is laid out and certified before finish. An ongoing mill, dry, fabricate, certify, pack nonstop. A little over three lineal miles to go on this job.

 

 

 

 

 

[doc henderson]

  8) 8) 8)  WOW!

[Banjo picker]

Poplar & pine

 

Got a trailer load of big pine this morning & then this load of mainly poplar this afternoon.

This load in addition to several smaller loads he already brought

That's his on the left side.  He's having some timber cut and these logs supposedly won't make grade where they are taking them.  Top all that off this afternoon I had a glitch in the electrical on my mill, but I put in a call to Cooks...left message and a Robert called me back an with his direction got it going.  Loose wire, but he told me where to look.  I had planned on an easy summer...not gonna happen.  Tim

[JRWoodchuck]

Jeepers Tule I really enjoy when you post it's always quite ridiculous! 

[tule peak timber]

Cutting more English walnut. The balance of the trim out is another 2000 square feet for this job.

 

 

[Patrick NC]

 

 

 
I saved this cedar yesterday afternoon. 280bf. Took me about 3 hours. I'm going to try to get another 500 feet or so today so I can deliver it tomorrow morning.