The WoodMizer I bought a while back and lots of pics ...

LOGDOG · December 10, 2007, 05:03:28 PM

That wood is all down the road TT. You're right about fire protection. Especially over here in LA since we have to pay tax on inventory. Brilliant politicians. :

LOGDOG

LOGDOG · December 10, 2007, 08:38:48 PM

Slider,

I'm sure you'll love that new shed. Seems a man never has enough roof over him or his stuff. You're right about the wide Cypress too. Getting harder and harder to come by. Then add Sinker to the equation and it's worth a good buck. Glad you guys are enjoying the pics. I've got more to post but got tied up today on the phone and doing paperwork etc in the office. Although I did have the DoubleCut video playing on my laptop. 8) Let me just tell you guys (gals too for those interested) if you haven't seen DoubleCut's video you're missing out bigtime. I was very impressed. Check it out if you get the chance.

LOGDOG

MikeH · December 10, 2007, 09:16:30 PM

Excellent job and pics. Logdog of what a good ol'e mill do. 8)

LOGDOG · December 10, 2007, 09:23:20 PM

Thanks Mike. I have to admit every now and then I find myself dreaming about an LT70 with an operator seat ( I like to be near the cut so I can look over at the face of the cuts). Is that what you have?

LOGDOG

MikeH · December 10, 2007, 09:49:15 PM

Yes, And I love the seat. It can be alot of fun when custom sawing nice logs with people helping.

LOGDOG · December 10, 2007, 11:03:41 PM

Very cool. Better than any ride at the fair isn't it?

LOGDOG

ljmathias · December 24, 2007, 06:07:28 AM

Logdog: your setup made me so jealous I had to start a bigger barn for my own stuff- 30X60 enclosed with 12X60 shed-roof wings both sides. One shed will hold the LT40 I just bought plus some equipment and lawnmowers, the other side my sons ocean-going twin-engine boat plus more equipment. I had planned on drying lumber some on the inside but am having second thoughts- the family wants to have barn dances inside and my wife is now talking of starting a theater group (BFA in theater, she is). Once you start down the path of building for your needs, it never stops...

Of your two forklifts (did I get that right?), which is most generally useful? I am thinking of trying to find an all-terrain for moving small logs and lumber plus for building TF houses and barns and workshops. Saw one in use just south of me for a TF all-cyprus house and it was extremely useful- no telescoping boom but sure made it a lot safer and faster getting the top plates in place and raising the purlins to roof-height. Problem is, I also need an edger and a bucket truck and a bulldozer and a..... the list goes on and on.

Thanks for the great pictures also.

Lj

LOGDOG · December 24, 2007, 07:48:03 AM

Thank LJ. I know what you mean. I think we sawyers are famous for saying, " If only I had this (piece of equipment, building,etc) man then i could really be set up." It just goes with the territory I guess. As to the forklifts. I love that big Pettibone. His downfall is that I can't throw him on a gooseneck and take him anywhere. He weighs about 40,000 lbs. But he'll lift anything you can put in front of him. I'm actually going to have a mast made for him. That clam bucket will drop off with just 4 pins. Then I could slide the mast on and do different things. One thing nice about that clam though is the 360 rotation. I don't have to come into a load straight to get it. Also, when picking a machine or anything else I can spin it to position it just the way I want. It also has levelers on the side. I can rock the whole machine way over to the left or right depending on the terrain. That keeps me from getting butterflys when I'm on a steep slope with him.

You'll love your new building I'm sure. Getting ready to build one myself and put a kiln in. Hopefully we have a relatively dry winter so we can get it done. Think we could talk your son into taking us out for tuna in January or February? Some fresh tuna on the grill would be great. ;)

LOGDOG

slidecreekdan · December 24, 2007, 03:37:02 PM

Great job logdog, Dont you just love those Wood-Mizers?
Great Pictures

LOGDOG · December 24, 2007, 05:09:06 PM

Yep I sure do. Funny you mention that. Last night I was pondering my upcoming purchase of an edger. So I popped the Woodmizer dvd into my laptop and was watching it. It's really hard to beat WoodMizer. Even their paint is above and beyond. Can't say enough good about them as a company. Definitely a very happy customer.

Glad y'all are enjoying the pics. I'll get some more up soon.

LOGDOG

andybuildz · December 25, 2007, 06:41:37 PM

Logdog...Those pic have me droolin'...echhhh...I know..lol.
So would ya mind talkin' about your drying process? Thats a lot of wood to dry.
Any pic of your kiln?...or whatever it is you use.
Great job!!

LOGDOG · December 25, 2007, 07:18:30 PM

Thanks for the compliments Andy. Looks like you do some awesome work yourself. Love those old homes ...especially the wide plank floors you re-finished. That particular wood did not require me drying it for it to go down the road. But sinker lumber is tricky. All kinds of opinions out there. Not sure who's right or wrong. Personally I think you win some/lose some with all methods because of the nature of the wood. I edge out as much shake, seams, rot, etc as I can so the wood is as stable as it can be to start. End coat the ends and let it air dry to get rid of as much moisture as I can before going into the kiln. (A friend over here has a dehumidification unit.) I don't have mine yet. As mentioned earlier, it's in the works. I'd like a couple solar kilns and one dehumidification unit. One real long unit for long timbers. Hope to have that done before spring. The job I'm finishing has about 30,000 feet of Cypress that needs to be dried. So that's instant work for the kilns. Then we'll run it all through the rip, planer, and moulder. Should produce some nice pics for the forum as we go along. The homes/ cabins it's going in will be several million dollars each.

By the way ...welcome to the forum Andy. You'll like it here. Good folks that love wood and have a lot of ideas to share.

LOGDOG

andybuildz · December 25, 2007, 09:01:14 PM

LD...Have you seen Wood Mizer's new Kiln's yet?
http://www.woodmizer.com/us/secondary/kilns/index.aspx

At least I think they're new. I know VERY little about all this stuff but I'm absorbing all that I can until the big day comes when I have this house sold (the Goose hill road project you were looking at in my web site). At that point...if all goes well {{{praying}}} We'll be moving somewhere much more rural that n here on Long Island...good chance it'll be in the Asheville area of NC. At that point I'll hopefully get my first saw mill and learn some Timber Framing all at once. They seem to go hand in hand. Was looking at the LT 28 http://www.woodmizer.com/us/sawmills/manual/lt28/lt28.aspx
but like I said...I know very little right now. Seems like the price isn't way over my head depending on what I get for this house of course...and it's prolly' a good mill to learn on....and it's probably a bit more money than I should spend so that probably makes it about the right mill...haha.
I was also thinking...ut oh...that from reading what most of you guys are saying about how getting the logs TO the mill is half the work than having a mill with the trailor package makes more sense???
And when the time comes I'll check into the used mills cause a HD40 would be nice...seeeeee I'm learning...lolol.
Thing is...for a newbee who wants to worry on the first mill about things breaking down. Its enough just figuring out the whole process to begin with.

Then there's the debarker...right?
And fork lift/bobcat...right?
And the shed I have to build from the logs I'm gonna figure out how to mill...right?
and thats inbetween learning timber framing...ha ha

But oh yeh...gotta sell this flippin' house first,,,grrrr...and when that happens you'll see this 56 year old jumping up and down like an 17 year old that just got their driver liscense.

So that giant stack of lumber you have so neatly stickered...how much you think its all worth at a good price?
Most of the lumber in my house...I bought from northern vermont. Its eastern white pine milled for flooring. the planks run from 6" up to over 20".
I used glue (PL Premium) and rose head cut nails and my helper and I face nailed em' down. Then I had a flooring company sand everything down which was a nightmare!! Apparently flooring companies don't like..or seem to know how to sand soft pine like this. No matter what they do they leave chatter marks. And we're talking seasoned floor sanding guys. I shouldn't have bothered using them.
I ended up with a helper on our hands and knees with ROS's sanding all the chatter marks out. Wanna talk about sucking??!!
They really ended up looking drop dead beautiful though. I mixed up my own stain and in one room after staining I used a linseed oil floor finish (Waterlox) which was way more work than I thought it was worth so I just did that in the first room I tried it and the rest of the house I used 3 coats of oil Satin poly which looked totally natural and not plasticy.
Anyway...too bad I didn't know you guys before I bought this floor. Sure was a lot of it!!
Anyway...nice work on your mill set up. I'm really impressed.

scsmith42 · December 25, 2007, 10:31:05 PM

Andy, the Woodmizer DH kiln is not new. It's basically a Nyle L200 with a special controller. It works well; I've had mine for about 4 years.

Scott

PS - welcome to the forum. My wife is from Long Island; she grew up in Port Jefferson and Nisoquoque (not sure of the spelling - it's next to Smithtown).

andybuildz · December 25, 2007, 11:30:08 PM

Quote from: scsmith42 on December 25, 2007, 10:31:05 PM
Andy, the Woodmizer DH kiln is not new. It's basically a Nyle L200 with a special controller. It works well; I've had mine for about 4 years.

Scott

PS - welcome to the forum. My wife is from Long Island; she grew up in Port Jefferson and Nisoquoque (not sure of the spelling - it's next to Smithtown).

Thanks for the welcome Scott...and I told you I hardly know anything about any of this...just learnin'. At 56 it's still not too old to learn this stuff...right? So far my body feels like it's still ready to crack some logs open so : )
Have any pictures of your kiln in action Scott?

And yeh...Your wife's hometown is about a half hour east of me and "hopefully" by the summer we'll be closer neighbors than we are now...cause we're looking to move near Asheville NC ........................neighbor.

edit: Nuther question...how come after I hit SAVE after I finish a post it goes back to the main board...I forget which thread I was writting in...ugh. Thats kind of a weird to me. Spose' I'll get used to it.

Furby · December 25, 2007, 11:36:15 PM

Andy,
Go to your profile and click on look and layout preferences.
Then put a check in the box next to: Return to topics after posting by default.
It should solve your problem.

andybuildz · December 25, 2007, 11:52:42 PM

Quote from: Furby on December 25, 2007, 11:36:15 PM
Andy,
Go to your profile and click on look and layout preferences.
Then put a check in the box next to: Return to topics after posting by default.
It should solve your problem.

Furby....thanks bro...whewwwww...way better smiley_fiddler

scottj · December 26, 2007, 01:28:15 AM

wow logdog you sure got alot of nice looking lumber. i cant get this sawmill stuff out of my head. i was thinkin on buying a sawmill except when i remember all my offbearing days. it would prolly be alot wiser to just trade you out of some of those stacks of boards. ;) We sure got lots of good building stone in our part of the woods

ljmathias · December 26, 2007, 09:00:53 PM

ScottJ: and what part of the woods would that be? I could sure use some good building stone but shipping would be high for most places since stone weighs the proverbial "ton."

Lj

ljmathias · December 26, 2007, 09:04:32 PM

andybuildz: Naw, 56 ain't too old- that's when I started and I find I'm putting more and more time into it as the years roll by till retirement. Course, the old body creaks and moans more than it used to, and putting in a good days work for me now requires a nap at some point (but hey, I'm the boss so no one can complain much). The biggest danger with sawing is that it's so much fun that's it hard (for me anyway) to think about making money at it although I'm sure that will change when I need to depend on it more.

Happy New Year!

Lj

scottj · December 26, 2007, 11:16:31 PM

i'm real new to the form and really think this is a fine place to hang out and talk about all kinds of lumber and sawmills. after going broke at dairying after 23 years. the rocks we use to cuss turned out to be almost the most profitable thing on the farm. lol ;D

andybuildz · December 27, 2007, 12:19:51 AM

Quote from: ljmathias on December 26, 2007, 09:04:32 PM
andybuildz: Naw, 56 ain't too old- that's when I started and I find I'm putting more and more time into it as the years roll by till retirement. Course, the old body creaks and moans more than it used to, and putting in a good days work for me now requires a nap at some point (but hey, I'm the boss so no one can complain much).
Lj

Thats kinda funny...I went to the docs last year cause I kept feeling real tired if I either wasn't doing much or it was around 5:30pm. I told the doc something must be wrong with me so he did a whole battery of tests and said I was as healthy as a race horse.
I spose thats one of the things that goes with the hearing and eyesight. You need a nappy...lol.
The hearing I understand with all the loud tools over the years and the eye thing we all get to some degree but sleepy?? I spose'.....and it's 12:20 am now...see what happens when you nap for more'n five minutes...ugh