Whatcha Sawin' 2025 ??

[SawyerTed]

"Nothing" is hard to do.

[TimW]

I definitely have a hard time doing that.  Even on Sundays.

[barbender]

In contrast to many of you, I am really good at "nothing". I'm pretty lazy at heart😊

[doc henderson]

It takes a while to adjust, then you get busy and have to adjust back the other way!

[GAB]

You folks need to study the inside of your eyelids for pin hole leaks.
Best done in a lean back chair.
That's close to doing nutting.
GAB

[jpassardi]

"Nothing" is hard to do.

I would agree with that.

[Stephen1]

Today is a nothing day except upload some photos for you guys to look at. 
This is my 1st portable job of the year. 
I don't normally travel when there is snow as the calcium they put on the roads make these mills rust like the old Fords used to. 
The second time I have milled for these guys. different guy's logs, but they are buddies and help each. I have to go to the next guys in June. 
I really like how they just know, look at the stickers leaning against the pile waiting to Finnish the layer. These guys are always 1 step ahead of me.
It's great sawing for them ,probable the only people that I would like to saw by the BD. Ft. I'd make a bit more for sure. But they also are getting a good deal and it's a pleasure to saw for them. 

Day 1 above
Day 2 below Snow!

Notice the stickers waiting

[Magicman]

I like it.  Actually the only thing that I don't like about it is that it is all 1" lumber.

Maybe I have been spoiled by sawing framing lumber. 

[doc henderson]

I sawed a little 9-foot walnut, about 20 inches on the butt.  It had a twin division at the other end, and we went for character wood at that end.  This is Dr. Lairmore, retired orthopedic surgeon with a cnc for wood, and a vineyard and winery, and a huge telescope.  he was able to get this log.   flat sawn with 1.5-inch live edge slabs.



  

[Stephen1]

MM since we are threatened here with graded lumber , I get mostly 1" lumber. I did my porch and deck here at my home, I hired a grader, his stamp was gone by the time I used such lumber and the building inspector never asked for my letter or stamp. They just approved my structures of rough sawn lumber. The grader had said my lumber was t0o good, it was more in the range of #1 & 2 clear pine. He only rejected 3 2x6 out my pile. 

[doc henderson]

It is that darn metric system!  

[WV Sawmiller]

    I put in a long hard day of it today. I took this starting picture after I had already cut one of the big tulip poplar log halves shown in the front of the mill.  I sawed it and 9 more logs including the big 16' monster in the back. I was sawing on the little fellow next to it when I had a bearing seize and had to call it. I had already sawed the 2 logs behind it. We did not attempt to saw the one perpendicular to the mill at the end. We finished and tallied in the dark so no final picture. The tally was 1850 bf of mostly 4/4 (1X12's) and a good mix of 2X4s. This is the same customer I sawed 9K+ about 3 weeks ago. He already had a new barn framed up with some of that when I arrived but did not get a picture of it either, Brad.

    Sawing the first log did a good job of shocking a big gobbler up in the woods above the hay field we were in. I suspect he could see us but we did not see him. The customer had his .222 with him and said a groundhog almost made it to the barn last week - almost. Turkey season starts Monday so that big gobbler might want to keep his mouth shut around that area.

   The big monster in the back was a royal pain and killed most of the afternoon. My Magic hook got a good work out on all but the first big split log. I also had to use all the hydraulics including the loading arms to hold and turn the big logs. On the last one my power feed breaker started tripping so I suspected a bad motor or a bad bearing. I finished the monster log and a 12' then on the last 12' log the feed would frieze  but not trip the breaker. I finished the log then threw that little one by the big guy on but just could not get the head to move so unloaded and called it a day. It was already almost 8:00 pm so I did not feel too bad.

   Now I have to check and see if I can find a locked up CFB and replace it from the ones I have in stock. Round txrip was 107 miles and I got home at 10:00 pm.

[Magicman]

Wow Sir, you are earning your beans for sure.  What were the diameters of the logs that you are splitting?  Just curious. 

[Stephen1]

Good for you Howard, I am never fussy about getting home at 10pm. If I can not Finnish by 6 then I am coming back tomorrow and they can pay my reduced travel expense. Years ago I did a few late jobs, headlights on and such, I discovered it wasn't fun anymore. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

   Those log halves were in the 38" range. The 16' whole log was probably 36" or so. They weren't too bad except the last one. On the others I had to play with them to get the round side on the loader side or the claw did not work.

Stephen,

   I did have to put my headlight on to do my tally. I understand but am opposite of you I guess and much prefer to finish and come home at the end of the day on these more distant jobs. This one was 53+ miles and I did not want to return. With yesterdays sawing and the 4 days last month this customer had over 10K bk sawed including some 21' beams. He and his help were great to work with/for. He can only saw on weekends and with today being Easter another trip was not advisable for 1-2 logs if we could help it.

[Magicman]

Absolutely, the customer will generally be very helpful to avoid a $1+ per mile return trip.

[WV Sawmiller]

Lynn,

   Yeah I have never had a customer complain about providing whatever help he could when I had already explained his log was exceeding the design capacity of my mill up front.

   While I am thinking about it the max cut height on my mill is 32" and the throat height is about 8.5" IIRC. I think your LT40 probably has a 36" cut height and about 10.5" throat so I should be able to cut/gunbarrel a log about 40" if it is narrow enough to fit between the roller guides and you should be able to start gunbarreling on one about 46".

   When you add in a limb stub or a little sweep so the claw slides under instead of grabbing you have to get real creative to jockey them around - but that is why we do this, isn't it.
   

[terrifictimbersllc]

Last Wednesday Thursday 65 mi from home, 6600 bf of 1-1/4, 1", 6x6 and 8x8 0ut of 3 yr old pine and oak logs mostly 14 ft. Lots of heavy slabs. Boss had skid steer and the 2 helpers were great.

Yesterday boss and 2 helpers, repeat customer, 14-16 ft oak and YP 4-6 yrs old. Again heavy cuts all 1-1/8 random width to 16" 7:30-3:45 2540 bf. No machine, i helped with clamp chain and hook.

Why people wait 3-6 yrs after first call i can't figure.

Tomorrow 94 mi, 2 days of ash at a scout camp, got my sleeping bag and suitcase packed, 4:45 am departure.

After that will sleep several days and get ready for turkey hunting.

[Magicman]

Yes Howard, you are on track with the dimensions, so we do what we do.  46-47" is about the largest that I have ever had on my sawmill.  The only one that I remember being chainsaw split was a 56" Cypress butt log.

[Nebraska]

Bolts to saw a few shingles from. 

[GAB]

Because of the clamping arrangement on the shingle maker you will not get many pieces from the top row of shingle blanks.  Save the not so pretty ones for leveling the mill legs, I find them to be very useful for that.
GAB

[Nebraska]

Those top ones are waste from the jig, I just covered the cracks in the stack in case it rains. I might set them sideways and make some pretty shims just because I can. 

[SawyerTed]

Today was a 5 hour job.

It was an hourly rate job in the customer's backyard in suburban Winston Salem.  My customer was the only tail gunner and not used to the labor.  He works hard in the refrigeration and HVAC business just not used to lifting 12 and 16' 2x10s. 

Now that I mention it I'm not used to it either. 

He had about 300 bdft of cedar logs up to 14" SED and about 800 or so bdft of pine.  2x4s and 2x10s were all we cut out of the pine.

[Larry]

He works hard in the refrigeration and HVAC business just not used to lifting 12 and 16' 2x10s. 

Now that I mention it I'm not used to it either. 

I love my dragback, I'm allergic to lifting.

[SawyerTed]

Larry, yes the drag back is great and I was using it.  But as you know, the boards have to get picked up and stacked with stickers in place eventually.