Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[tule peak timber]

Got the glass in the end of the office building  just before the weather hit this weekend. Our first snow flurries , rain and wind.....

 

[Brad_bb]

Cutting an 18'10" walnut 10.5x10.5 by skid steer light.  It was light out when I started. I didn't have any extensions because I took them back to my other place already thinking I didn't have any more logs longer than my mill.  I had to get it done and I didn't want to trim it.  So I cut down two within a foot and a half of the end of the log. Then use my circular saw and Japanese saw to cut the slab and side board off.   Rotated it 90° and did the same thing.  Normally I would rotate 180 but since this was so long and heavy and as I was rolling it I was right against the stops and figured I would just do each side sequentially.  Again I cut to within a foot and a half of the end and cut the slab off to free my band. For the third side, I doubled up 2 scrap 2 x 4 pieces on two of the bunks so the round end of the log would clear the cross bars, and then again cut down to within a foot and a half of the end.  After cutting the slab off and freeing the band, I carefully translated the log 2 feet towards the head of the mill.  Then I lowered my band and cut off the last foot and a half of that side. I do the exact same thing with the next rotation. Then I rotate again to get back to my first side so that I can mill off the end foot and a half. Finally I rotate to my second original cut and mill off the last foot and a half of that face.  It worked very well sitting on the doubled up two by fours. The end cuts are very planer.  This will be another beam for my house build (timberframe).  Just before it's time to start the frame, I'll plane this beam with my MP100 to a perfect 10x10 hopefully. Walnut has been pretty stable for me when drying.

[Nebraska]

Brad I am impressed by how much you get done with that manual mill.  You aren't afraid of the work.

[Southside]

Rather little known fact that Meatloaf had a song that flopped - it was named "Sawing by the Skid Steer Light", re-worked the lyrics and re-released it and it became a hit.   :D  Sorry - that just sort of came to me when I read your post.  Been a long day, week, month, year.  

[Mooseherder]

White Birch I'll be using for a cabin addition floor.

 

 

 




 

[boonesyard]

Rather little known fact that Meatloaf had a song that flopped - it was named "Sawing by the Skid Steer Light", re-worked the lyrics and re-released it and it became a hit.   :D  Sorry - that just sort of came to me when I read your post.  Been a long day, week, month, year.  

I must have been singing that song last night by tractor light. Night time 1, Tim 0 - great blade efficiency!  :D
 

[GAB]

Is there going to be a run on WM log stop rollers?
GAB

[boonesyard]

The nice thing about sawing at night, the sparks are purdy.

[cutterboy]

Hey Moose, nice looking birch. White birch is a pretty wood. One of my favorites. That birch didn't come from Florida did it?

[alan gage]

Finished up salvaging floor boards from the curvy rough sawn boards I'd bought. Ran out of oak but had plenty of ash to get me through. Thinking they'll look good mixed.

There were three really nice things about doing it this way:

1: I freed up a bunch of space in my lumber storage trailer

2: The wood was already dry down to 10.5%

3: I no longer have to make a point to tell people "I didn't saw those" when they're looking through my stacks.

Glad to have them gone.





The (now) flooring boards are stacked in the basement (with wood stove) to drop another % or so before the real work begins.





Alan

[Mooseherder]

Hey Moose, nice looking birch. White birch is a pretty wood. One of my favorites. That birch didn't come from Florida did it?

The Wood is in Maine.  Wish I was there with it. :D

[Don P]

Neat, I've never sawn a white birch, looks very much like our black birch.

[Mooseherder]

It was the first time I've sawn some.  I always prized it for firewood.   That's fixin to change. 

I sawed some Tamarack also for boards and trailer decking for the first time.  The boards on the left are balsam fir, tamarack on the right.

 

 

[tule peak timber]

A walnut desk top today

 

[caveman]

The desk top will be stunning, Rob.
Mooseherder, did I miss something?  I thought that you had a circle mill.  I don't think I recall you getting a bandmill.  It's good to see you making nice boards.  One day I'll have to get some mahogany seed from you.

[Mooseherder]

Yeah, the reality of needing a bandmill won over.  I'm working alone so this is much easier for me.  A friend built this and decided to sell.  He built one heck of a mill with Cooks parts.  The Circle Mill Carriage was The Flag Carriage this summer. 

 

[doc henderson]

@tule peak timber did you kerf a curved glue line to hide the joint in the sap wood?   :P

[tule peak timber]

Yes, tricking the human eye. This piece is also a wedge with a tapered plywood bottom to get the top flat and flaw free. Good eye Doc !

[firefighter ontheside]

I put a big, gnarly red elm log on the mill today to be milled tomorrow.  I will need to do some serious trimming with the chainsaw to get it to fit.  This will be my first elm to saw.  This was a yard tree, so I will be scanning it before each cut.  I hope it makes some pretty slabs.

[Magicman]

Luke is in school so his older Brother Ben is my tailgunner for three days this week. 


 
Ben's loader skills came in handy today.



 
There are about 150 SYP and Red Oak logs in that whack.


 
But first we had to saw 4X4's and stickers from knotty junker logs.


 
We will saw all of the 20' SYP logs first, and yes, the operator's seat had to come off to saw 20's.


 
I told Ben that there was a bullet in that log.  He asked how I knew, and I told him because there was.  :


 
Bookmatched bullet.  ;D


 
Ben with the customer's MS880 e/w a 59" bar. 

[firefighter ontheside]

there ya go.  You can get one of those instead of another MS170.

[firefighter ontheside]

I still like walnut the best, but this red elm is beautiful.  


 

[caveman]

Last weekend a repeat customer dropped off a couple of pecan "logs" that he acquired off of Florida Southern College's campus.  He wanted 4x4's, bench slabs and a couple of 4" thick slabs.  I wanted to tell him we have a sawmill, not a magic wand but I refrained.  Anyway, before we could cut the first log (with a brand new 7°, 1.5" Kasco) all the way the blade hit something in his log that produced a lot of smoke and sparks.  It would not saw another inch.  We will try to saw the rest with a smaller blade that is near the end of its usefulness.

We did cut a cypress mantle and a couple of live edged cypress slabs.  

 

 

 

 

[doc henderson]

@firefighter ontheside that is beautiful "exotic domestic hardwood"  not just Elm!  ;)

@Magicman that looks like a 14 inch bar with a big scabbard.   :D :D  I have the same saw and bar combo, but I leave the 36 inch bar on for daily use.  

@caveman that is some pretty wood.

[doc henderson]

 

 



 



 

@Cardiodoc on the left, and Kendal from IT on the right.  Catalpa slab 3 x 22 x 8 feet center.