Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Patrick NC]

Had a customer this morning that came to buy some live edge cedar slabs. He had an old piece of walnut in the back of his truck that measured 3.5"x 8"x 8 feet long. Asked me if I could saw it into 2 boards. 

 

I offered to skim the back of both halves to even them out, but he said he wanted the backs the way they were. I didn't charge him but he gave me a $50 tip. He also bought $500 worth of slabs. 

[WDH]

Ohio, that is as good as it gets.

[firefighter ontheside]

Thats a good customer Patrick.  

[Southside]

Rob -

Can't say I know anyone else who leased an airliner, so you have room to brag for sure, even if it did need a special jump start and spare kiddie pools every time.  :D  Heck - you could have tried flying rubber dog poop out of Hong Kong when the Hag fish didn't pan out any longer.   :D  

Sawed up this today.  Never sawn any before, never thought I would get to saw any.  Know what it is?



 



 



 

[Don P]

Dogwood?

[Southside]

Dang!!! That was fast!!  

[Don P]

 :D I've done the same thing too.
I try to keep some around drying for chisel and tool handles. Pretty wood and tough.

[Larry]

I thought it was cherry!  I can blame it on my pc monitor.

Actually I have sawed quite a bit of dogwood, but lots of it was sawn on the shop bandsaw.  That tells ya what size I get.

[doc henderson]

@Southside it looks a little...ruff.  I bet it had a real pretty... bark!  you seem very excited, I bet you are panting and wagging your tail!  go mark those board before they go missing.     .  

[TimW]

My logger/land clearing friend had 12 huge logs at his clay pit.  It is about 7 miles from me.  I made 3 trips Saturday and his huge CAT grapple loader gently loaded them on my trailer.
2 of the12 were iffy and huge.  

    But the other 10 were nice.  

 My gloves are on the largest log, 4th from the right. I will be cutting 20 foot 2x8 or 2x10s for my sawmill shed.  But there was only one over 20 feet.  Most were 19 feet, to fit in his roll off dumpster.  The 20 footer had to be drug to the mill.  My grapple can curl it up, but I couldn't get it off the ground.  I just rolled if off the trailer to unload it.  Two 19 foots were bucked down to 12.5 feet.  All the others I could move and lift up and stack on skid logs.
hugs,  Brandi

[firefighter ontheside]

Those are some nice pine logs.  Probably some worms working on them already, but that shouldn't be too big of a problem.

[Don P]

2x10's in #2 syp @24" on center can go 18'11" with a 20lb live load (wind, no snow). I'd use the jacket boards for siding or non structural  to get down to good sound wood. That's a nice whack of logs.

The pink in the dogwood is I think an enzyme stain. Dogwood is white until you get to older funky wood or dried too slow but I like the pink. Mine are small too, I think they have all been milled on the shop bandsaw or tablesaw. Burns good too. It does have about the same ray fleck as cherry.

[tule peak timber]

Good morning, mixed fire kill from Northern California.

 

[Ljohnsaw]

Tule,
Those aren't your usual logs.  What are you going to do with those toothpicks? ;) :D

[tule peak timber]

Special order for The Tijuana River Regional Park. This project is like a big playground made from timber . The plans are about 10 pages long !

Good eye on the peckerwoods !

[TimW]

2x10's in #2 syp @24" on center can go 18'11" with a 20lb live load (wind, no snow). I'd use the jacket boards for siding or non structural  to get down to good sound wood. That's a nice whack of logs.

The pink in the dogwood is I think an enzyme stain. Dogwood is white until you get to older funky wood or dried too slow but I like the pink. Mine are small too, I think they have all been milled on the shop bandsaw or tablesaw. Burns good too. It does have about the same ray fleck as cherry.

Thanks Don.  I have been meaning to ask here.  My trusses (40 foot wide prebuilt) will be on 5 foot centers.  I am wanting the 2x10s for the top sill the trusses will set on.  My existing 20 foot wide truss barn has two 2x6s bolted (one over the other) on each side of the post for the trusses to sit on.  So I was gonna go this route.

Just don't know if I need two 2x8s or two 2x10s on each side.  Or will one one each side work?  I could even cut them thicker.  I will post a photo of my barn later today.  These will be also the top sills over 16 or 18 side door opening to move cut lumber in and out. I'm an hour north of Houston, so no snow loads, just strong winds every now and then.

Don't ask me how I know not to burn Dogwood.
hugs,  Brandi

[Don P]

Whoa! hold the phone, we better start with a thread and some drawings, this is well outside of what I was thinking there.
One engineering thing, stacking 2 members over each other is the same structurally as putting them side by side, so a pair of 2x6's stacked is no different than a 4x6, not really strong enough for safe span of any appreciable size where a 2x12 is considerably stronger. When you make something twice as thick the strength doubles, when you make it twice as deep the strength squares, that adds up much faster.

[Banjo picker]

Good morning, mixed fire kill from Northern California.

Looks like you done went and cut your hair.  Tim

[tule peak timber]

Nope :D Gone rogue in 2020, next step is a rock band. The milling is for nothing and all the wood is free.....

[Banjo picker]

Good for you.  You do know I have had 3 eye surgery's on my right eye and I haven't taken my eye drops today.   ;)  Tim

[Hilltop366]

Gone rogue in 2020, next step is a rock band.

I'm in, I suggest we call the band "Girth, Wind and Fibre.

[TimW]

Whoa! hold the phone, we better start with a thread and some drawings, this is well outside of what I was thinking there.
One engineering thing, stacking 2 members over each other is the same structurally as putting them side by side, so a pair of 2x6's stacked is no different than a 4x6, not really strong enough for safe span of any appreciable size where a 2x12 is considerably stronger. When you make something twice as thick the strength doubles, when you make it twice as deep the strength squares, that adds up much faster.

Thanks Don.  You can see the new thread here..........https://forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=112921.new#new
hugs, Brandi

[olcowhand]

Gone rogue in 2020, next step is a rock band.

I'm in, I suggest we call the band "Girth, Wind and Fibre.

I'll be your drummer (and I can supply a great deal of Hormonic "Wind"....).

[firefighter ontheside]

I'm going to mill some hackberry that I've had sitting for about a year and a half.  Wish me luck that its spalted.  Then I'm gonna mill the log that's under it.  I'm not sure what that is.  That will be a little bit of a surprise so that will be fun.

[doc henderson]

I used Hackberry to make my pallets.  it is holding up well