Whatcha Sawin' 2025 ??

[barbender]

I don't think I've ever seen where someone was pushing a dull, 9 time resharpened blade and hit a back stop🤷 

[TimW]

Me neither, but I've had them break.
I definitely was hauling down the cant....new blade, six inches of wood, sun in my eyes.  You know the story................ 

[jpassardi]

Yeah - the only good thing about a 9 time re sharpened dull blade is it's not gonna find metal. Metal strikes are reserved for ones with the manufacturing oil film still on them... 

[TimW]

In log find............a rock.  Lucky my eye saw it while bucking to length.

[GAB]

Me neither, but I've had them break.
I definitely was hauling down the cant....new blade, six inches of wood, sun in my eyes.  You know the story................  

Yup 3/4's asleep and the other half day dreaming.
Not a good combination.
GAB

[TimW]

Sawed 1 big 17 foot log into 2x6s for my trusses, today.  But you can't saw'em if you are haulin'em.

[doc henderson]

Wow, those are great logs.  all of our softwood/pine tend to be yard trees.

[Magicman]

Wheee, I have another full week of my self imposed sawing siesta ahead and this one is not quite over yet.  

It's nice but I would not want to siesta full-time.  That would be too much like retiring!!  

Yikes!! 

[doc henderson]

Use it or loose it.  whatever your it is.  

[Magicman]

That is a very good synopsis doc and I am still looking for my 'it'.

I have now been in various stages of 'retirement' for 30+ years which is almost as long as I worked for 'the man'.  I think that I am going to really like this continuing sawing but at a very reduced scale.

[TimW]

Doc, they are not all nice.  I got the leftovers this morning.  One went directly on the burn pile.

[TimW]

But I got 3 good huge logs out of the 7 count load this morning.  Suppose to get another load next week.

[TimW]

The log on top went to the burn pile.  The lower log will be bucked a little over 8 feet, so the little curve in it shouldn't matter.

[jpassardi]

Nothing wrong with that Tim - ya gotta crack a few eggs to make an omelette. 

[TimW]

If that burn log would have been longer it would have gone on the ground, along with another log, to stack a whack of logs on.

[Magicman]

My last customer sent me this picture of his son carrying the Cherry 9' 8X8 that I sawed for him.  The FF Toolbox says 182 pounds. 

[doc henderson]

you know, I did not know you could look up people's sons in the toolbox.  he looks bigger than that.              

[Rhodemont]

I think it all comes down to what my Dr. tells me every year:  "if it makes you hurt stop doing it".  So, the only way to go is to adapt each year to what you can do (it may still hurt but do not tell your Dr.).

[Dave Shepard]

I used to be able to pick up timbers like that, which is why I can't pick them up now. 16' 8"x8" EWP was no problem. 

[TimW]

17 foot 2x6s to build the trusses for my sawmill shed.  I labeled them 16 in the photo, but they are all over 17 feet, for Y'all that are picky.

[Magicman]

he looks bigger than that.

Yup, about 6'4" and whatever goes with it.  He picked it up off of the loader and carried it to the other timbers that we had used the tractor to move before he got there.  I commented that I wished that I had gotten a picture which is why my customer sent me that picture.

This was the bowl turning customer.

I had better enjoy this week off because no sawing for me until the 17th next week. 

[cutterboy]

Tim, that's a nice looking stack of lumber!

[WV Sawmiller]

Why are they all over 17' long? Are they a special order or do you guys not have tape measures in Texas?

[SawyerTed]

Everything is bigger in Texas at least that's what they say in Texas...

[WV Sawmiller]

   Yeah, I heard a new dad in Texas was handed his just born son and was amazed till the doctor explained that was just the umbilical cord."