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Frozen log initiation

Started by LogDawg, January 05, 2008, 09:35:18 PM

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LogDawg

 Hello all,

  I don't think I have posted on here since the crash but after spending last night on here reading all the old posts about sawing frozen logs and spending the day doing it I thought you would enjoy my input. I did a page and story on a small website that I have. http://home.maine.rr.com/iceboatmaine/index.html/A%20midwinter%20day%20on%20the%20sawmill.html If I inserted the link correctly this should work. Thank you all for the great information that you make available on this site.

                                                                                              Kevin

           
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Don K

I enjoyed that little read. :)

Don
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dad2nine

DanG it's cold in Alaska - making me shiver just looking at those pics

thecfarm

Nice write up.Nice pictures.Don't be so shy.You can share them with us.We all enjoy stories and pictures.
If I was you I would lay down 2 logs that you don't want to put the logs on.This will keep them off the ground.It's a bother to clean snow out from around them and can be a bother to work around,but better than having dirt freeze to them.Enjoy the warm weather heading our way.
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cantcutter

Nice site Kevin

I am betting that the ice boat season is pretty short once the snow starts piling up.

Looks like you should turn some of that spruce into a building for the woodmizer ;)

I lived in Madawaska for one winter and then decided to move back south, to Vermont. Now we live in Kentucky so I don't worry about frozen logs anymore. Just mud.

My biggest issue here is oak that is too large for the mill and support equipment that can handle them.

LogDawg

Thanks all for the input. I have to many projects and to little time so I end up doing everything half assesed. I actually do have some stickers under the log pile and planned to move the mill over to them but figured it was easier to carry the logs rather than dig out the frozen pads on the mill. A new building is what I have in mind for the lumber I am cutting although I have been cutting mostly red oak for  for boatbuilding up until just recently. It usually only takes one good rainstorm to wet out the snow on the ponds and we are back in business with our iceboats. Sometimes it is not perfect ice but as long as we can get a ride we're happy. I usually build a new iceboat every season and it sure was nice to have a pile of quarter sawn red oak and clear spruce to pick from rather than paying 5 bucks a foot for it at the lumberyard and rumaging through the spruce board pile looking for clear stuff. I have had my mill for just shy of a year now and cut about 8000' of stock with it. It is ball busting work to say the least and I have no idea why I enjoy it so much. I have yet to make a nickel with it and hope to do some part time sawing for others to recoup some of my expense. I have been reluctant to hang out my shingle until I become familiar with the mill and the pitfalls that I will encounter. Getting on here and studying seems to give me a good sense of what to expect good, bad and otherwise. LOL.
Wood Mizer LT40HD
Kubota L4200
John Deer 40
D2 Cat
Home built John Doe tractor
Jonsered, Husky, Stihl

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