Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[tule peak timber]

They are far from dry and I'm individually banding them to go into the drying shed.I hope to sell sets in a few years to winery's and restaurants and any large commercial venue.This was a standing dead (beetle kill) pine from the town square at Shaver Lake Ca. Time for lunch.

 

[WV Sawmiller]

Tule,

   How thick do you cut those big cookies like that. I'm drooling, BTW.

[tule peak timber]

Mostly 4 inches thick, and I base that on a two man lift later as we process them.I tend to approach everything I build as a two man lift/handling deal as bigger is real time consuming/expensive. We did cut some 8 inch cookies for the oddball customer in addition.

[firefighter ontheside]

I milled ash today.  A guy brought me logs to mill for him.  He had told me he wanted quartersawn, but when he showed up they were only about 14" diameter.  I told him the boards would be narrow to q saw those small logs.  He changed his mind and I sawed it all 4/4 with random widths.

[alan gage]

Had just enough time this evening to saw some much needed stickers out of a nice, but short, ash log. Only hit 7 nails in the process.  

[Magicman]

It finally dried out enough that we could get back to my Red Oak job sawing mostly 4/4X6 for flooring.

 
Marty was there with his excavator doing some dirt work for the customer so he took some time to stage some logs for us.


 
There were some really good Cherrybark Oaks which sawed out some fine lumber.


 
Only 8 logs to saw tomorrow.  I did not scale yet but some of the stickered lumber is seen in the background. 

[Magicman]

I finished the above road trip job with 2938 bf of Red Oak sawn.  No picture because a trailer load had already left for the kiln.


 
This is one of three whacks of logs that tomorrow's customer has to be sawn.  These SYP logs will all be sawn into 2X6 framing lumber for the customer's new home.  Busy....busy. 

 

[GAB]

They are far from dry and I'm individually banding them to go into the drying shed.I hope to sell sets in a few years to winery's and restaurants and any large commercial venue.This was a standing dead (beetle kill) pine from the town square at Shaver Lake Ca. Time for lunch.

tule peak timber:
As the cookies dry do you adjust or tweak the bands?
GAB

[Larry]

Switching from my normal diet of walnut, I sawed a banana tree this morning.




Than I found somebody snuck in this stinky oak log!




Had the guides open to 32" and they were hitting bark on each end of the log.  The log was perfect and made 289 board foot in all of ten minutes.

Next it was back to walnut and made over 800 board foot in a leisurely 3 hours.  I was sure glad the boss dog, Hank was helping.

[Southside]

Sawed some iron wood today.  Been a while since I have sawn any.  :-\



 

[firefighter ontheside]

That's impressive depth of cut.  

[Magicman]

That will buff out.  :D

[SawyerTed]

No photos today because every time I got a minute to slow down to take a photo a trailer load of 3" bridge decking went to be installed.  

The customers were putting it down as fast as I could cut a trailer load.  It was all 3" random width and 12' long.  I'm beat! 

[Magicman]

 

 
This is a picture of today's logs that I posted in Reply #1931 above but...


 
As you can see the whack has grown since I took that picture.


 
Closer up and.....


 
The other side.  That Red Oak log on the right is plenty big and the 34" butt SYP log next to it is even bigger.  I stopped counting SYP logs at 60, so I will be there a while. 

So far the cut list is 2X6 framing lumber.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I still say I am jealous of those straight SYP logs especially for sawing into framing. I guess you just have to keep thinking "How do you eat the elephant" when you see a whack of logs like that.

[SawyerTed]

WV Sawmiller remember an LT 40 chews elephants a bit faster than an LT 35!  

[Magicman]

I just talked with the customer and the actual elephant eating will have to wait until Monday.  He only has one tailgunner and I convinced him that he needs two for handling those slabs and lumber.  He will understand when I start spitting out 2X6's to be stickered.

This will give me a few days to get work done at the Cabin.  8)

[WDH]

Those are some "good uns"..

[WV Sawmiller]

@terrifictimbersllc ,

  Thanks for the suggestion about the chains. I put these 2 on and they worked fine. I did not need to use the parallel 2X6's like I thought. When the "log" was raised to the max height the worst that happened would be the log would roll up against the rails and we were able to roll them on to the rails with my LogRite cant hook.


 I got my new alternator belt and drive belt yesterday from WM Indy but had an old USMC buddy stop by for most of the day so I did not get them on till today. They both went on easily and the mill fired right up and sawed great so I finished the 2.3 "logs" the customer had left. (A couple had split thus the fractions). I sawed 3 - 4X4 posts out of them, a couple of 8/4 LE slabs for benches, some 9/4X9/4 strips for bench legs and a bunch of 3/4" stickers.


 

 I moved everything out to the barn and stacked and stickered the lumber and covered it till the customer is back in the area - he lives about 130 miles away and has a lot where he plans to build a home near here.

   I have a young college kid from Wyoming coming over for a visit Saturday and I may put him to work making benches out of these 2 slabs. He spotted my sawmill sign on the door of my truck in a local parking lot, we talked, he had to go home for the pandemic but returned and called to come visit. His family has a woodworking business in Wyoming. He seems like a good kid and hopes to be a missionary so we can talk sawmills and Africa and feed him a good catfish feed.

[tule peak timber]

More wall paneling around the shop today.

 

 

 

[beav]

You have some gnarly waves on the rough sawn

[Magicman]

Since my SYP framing lumber customer didn't have tailgunners for today I made an 88 mile road trip to saw 6 ERC logs.  This was the third repeat for this"home builder" customer.


 
But the logs were down in a low spot with no way to get the sawmill to them.


 
So I backed the skidder down to the logs and...


 
Skidded them up to the sawmill.


 
Four 8X8's, one 6X6, and side lumber.  This was sawed flat rate for one SGU plus $132 travel & setup.  Total time was 3 hours including setup and take down.  Not a bad day.

I'll go to the SYP framing lumber job Monday.

[tule peak timber]

You have some gnarly waves on the rough sawn

Oh yes we do, and I get to see every bit of it run through my hands every day. Exhausting.

[SawyerTed]

 

 

Spent the afternoon cutting board and batten siding for an historic house remodel. This house was built over 100 years ago.  At some point asbestos siding was installed.  The owner had the siding removed and the house wrapped.

While the siding is not installed how I would have done it, the siding does give the house an updated but authentic rustic look.  

[tule peak timber]

A beautiful home to say the least. The portion to the right looks like Corten steel.