Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Walnut Beast]

Looking good Brad 👍

[WDH]

Nice whack of osage. 

[GAB]

Contest: Can ya'll guess what I'm milling now?

Yellow crayons?

Close (we have some real comedians here!).
Walnut Beast got it.  
Cut the first 4, only about 50 more to go.  Making live edge brace stock with the curved ones, and fence posts with the straight ones.  These are logs I cut a year ago.  Never intended to wait this long to mill them.  They are making some very fine flour sawdust which necessitates a respirator.  Obviously I'm going to need to wear my goggles too.  Not milling as bad as I thought given the dry time, but you still need to keep a sharp band on.  4° double hard.  One band every two logs or so.  Taking and keeping side wood from them too.   There are two 5x5x 8.5' fence posts you can see in the top of the pic,the first ones I've cut.  I'm going to make a fixture put the posts at 45 degrees so I can make them into octagons.


 

Brad all you need for fixturing are 2 V blocks.
GAB

[Larry]

Frozen white oak is no match for a sharp band.



23" wide live edge slabs will make somebody happy.




Finished off my day by grade sawing another 400 board foot of white oak.  I really think the logs were only about half froze.  For the past few years hasn't got cold here and the ground hardly ever freezes.

[firefighter ontheside]

I was milling beautiful red elm today before my mill engine konked out.  Theres a slight chance I'll get it fixed, but more likely that I'll be putting a new engine on.  I'm not totally bummed since I'll get a HP upgrade, but didn't need to spend the $ on it right now.  Oh well, its a tax deduction.

[Brad_bb]

Why do you think you need to replace it?  Is it high hours?  Smokes?  Blew out the crankcase?   One of the most common problems I've had is the fuel hose cracking where it comes out the gas tank and turns down.  It sucks air and won't start in that case. Nevermind, just read your other post about your engine.

[firefighter ontheside]

When I talk to the guy from the shop where I would get a new engine, I will tell him what's going on with the old engine and see what he thinks is the problem.  From there I will decide whether to have them look at it.  Maybe they will diagnose it without charging me anything as long as I tell him I will either pay him to fix it or pay him for a new motor.

[SawyerTed]

 
It might not be apparent in this photo but the red oak log is 37" on the large end and 34" on the small end.  

It required "right much whittling" to start sawing it.  I wouldn't do this often but my customer is a friend and this tree was in the yard of her childhood home.  Her son, pictured, has a Husqvarna 395 so he did most of the trimming where a chainsaw was required.

We quarter sawed it and made some beautiful lumber for table tops. Apparently, my customer's sons will be building family members items from their granddaddy's oak tree.

Who says the LT 35 can only cut 32" logs?  

I calculated the weight right at the capacity of the mill to lift and turn it.   It was.



 


 



The rest of the tree was cut into live edge 9/4.  

I didn't get a photo of the cherry logs we milled later in the day. Did I say we had to move that big log with my truck?  We put a chain on it and I dragged it to the sawing location the moved the mill into place beside it.

[Patrick NC]

Cut 1320 bf of 1x yellow pine today. Customer stacked and stickered.  Started at 8:30 am, finished at 3:30 pm. 

 

[SawyerTed]

Patrick, that's some hustling!  Quite a tally of lumber in 7 hours!

[Patrick NC]

Patrick, that's some hustling!  Quite a tally of lumber in 7 hours!

Yeah, I'm pretty tired right now. I'll sure be glad when I finally get the power feed/ power head. Pushing the head isn't that bad, but the hand crank to raise the head is what gets me. I'll be glad when I can do it with the remote control. Customer had his act together. 1 guy on a forklift feeding the mill and 2 guys offbearing. Going back tomorrow afternoon to try and saw another 700 feet. 

[RangeSawing]

Here are a few from the last month or so, large birch slabs from one of those "junk" trees that a customer was going to burn. Some live edge 1 x shelves and some other misc projects.... oh and the pup!

[Skip]

Fine looking hound . ;D

[RangeSawing]

Thanks! That's Colt he is a Pudelpointer, my partner in crime when it's safe for him to be around. Those trees can be hard on a young pup and I don't want him to have to learn.

[WV Sawmiller]

Patrick,

   I hope the customer is going to re-stack that lumber. I can't imagine him getting much air flow in a stack that wide. Well done on the sawing.

[Patrick NC]

Patrick,

  I hope the customer is going to re-stack that lumber. I can't imagine him getting much air flow in a stack that wide. Well done on the sawing.

From what I understand, he is going to use it in the next couple of weeks. Board and batten siding on his new barn. We sawed another 600 feet this afternoon and I'm going back next week for a couple of days to saw about 2200 feet. That should be enough to finish his barn. 
I normally saw at home and haven't done much mobile sawing, but I've picked up a few more mobile jobs recently. I kinda like packing up at the end of the job and leaving the mess for someone else to deal with. 

[Banjo picker]

My commercial customer order 4 8x14x14 timbers the other morning just as Deb and zi were leaving to take her to the dr.  Wanted to pick them up the next morning.   Didn't get back home till nearly dark.  The medication she took made her sick, do I had to stay with her till she felt better.   I got them cut a little after 10:00 pm.  They send a man in a pick up truck to get them the next morning.   I put em in there.   He had a load.  Thought he was going to pick up 2x8s.  Surprise.   Tim

[SawyerTed]

I've been cutting Poplar 2x10x4' for axe throwing targets. This is a standing order.   Who knew that axe throwing was such a big thing?   It's relatively easy money.



 

[alan gage]

I've been cutting Poplar 2x10x4' for axe throwing targets. This is a standing order.   Who knew that axe throwing was such a big thing?   It's relatively easy money.

I was contacted this summer from a facility about 20 minutes away. Nice guy and he knew what he wanted. Would have been a nice contract but had to tell him I wouldn't be able to supply the volume he was looking due to lack of reliable log supply and not many suitable species locally (softwoods). He was dissatisfied with his current supplier because of the large number of knots. I told him unfortunately that would be par for the course around here since softwoods only grow in the open. Told him his best bet would probably be cottonwood but finding a reliable source for logs is next to impossible here.
Alan

[firefighter ontheside]

Since I can't saw without an engine, I decided to make new track scrapers.  The old ones were pretty worn and weren't doing much.  I had some 1" thick HDPE plastic that I cut in half at the bandsaw to make the pieces.  It was trickier than I expected trying to get just right, but I think they will work well.

 

[doc henderson]

we throw axes into end grain on cookies.  we like elm, but if it dries out, they do not stick as well.  we soak them and back in business!  some guys use 2 x pine, but it does not last long.  but they do not have a saw mill and big chain saws.   8)

[busenitzcww]

Just caught up on 15 pages of this thread... been too busy lol The log yard is getting fuller by the day, and I can't keep up! Been dropping a lot of white oak lately that's being cleared and turned into farm ground. Also throwing the occasional box elder, hackberry or whatever else looks interesting on to the mill. Fun seeing what everybody else has been slicing up! 


 

 

 

 

[firefighter ontheside]

I've got more walnut than I know what to do with, but I can't get ahold of any boxelder, and it grows right down the road from me by the river.  I guess nobody has boxelder growing in their yard that they want to get rid of.

[dgdrls]

Here are a few from the last month or so, large birch slabs from one of those "junk" trees that a customer was going to burn. Some live edge 1 x shelves and some other misc projects.... oh and the pup!

Handsome Lad or is she a Lass??   ???
The logs...  eh, not so much :D
best
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[SawyerTed]

I've got more walnut than I know what to do with, but I can't get ahold of any boxelder, and it grows right down the road from me by the river.  I guess nobody has boxelder growing in their yard that they want to get rid of.

I can see a Marketplace or Craigslist ad titled, "Will trade walnut lumber for box elder logs"