Whats The Longest you have sawed on your mill ?

[terrifictimbersllc]

This one about 22' I think.  The next one after that was 25 feet.  LT-40.

What was sawn out of that 22' log? 

With the large knots and multiple sweep, I'm curious what wood product it produced.

It was a heart timber plus 1x side boards, can't remember for sure but think  it was an 8x10. 

[terrifictimbersllc]

ok i will bite.maybe youall said before but i just gotta know how are you doing this on mills that dont cut that long? pc

On the first and second faces you cut as long as you can then cut off the slab at the end of this cut.  On the third cut the first cut is on the bed rails and after the saw gets to the end, you back up the head, then raise the rollers just a hair above the bed and scoot the log forward, then finish the cut. same for the 4th side. Can scoot it on the LT40 because the last bed rail is movable so there is a fair length where the uncut bump can hang off the end below the other bed rails.   Then you go back to faces 1 and 2 and finish making these cuts by scooting it forward in the same way again.  Best if you're doing this on hourly basis.   

[bandmiller2]

Boath my mills will only cut to 18',by design,I tell people 16' max and prefer nothing over14'.Its not my eyes bugging out I'am worried about.Frank C.

[ljmathias]

Shoot, I can't add up how many miles of logs I've cut--- oh, you mean in one log!  Some of us do things in small chunks, others all in one fell swoop.  Was a thread on here a while back on cutting really long boards- like, hundreds of feet maybe (course the old memory ain't what it used to be but it's what I've got).  Might want to look up that thread- there was a lot of enthusiasm for setting a new world record for longest board from a single tree, but seems like misplaced effort to me- I'd settle for a whole whack of short ones!   :D

Lj

[terrifictimbersllc]

Longest I ever cut was about 11 hours think I charged for about 8 because was taking a while to pick up one foot then the other.  : : :

[mcfcfan]

Hi all, we milled the mast for a yacht restioration project.The final mast was 14 meters in length (about 43 feet) But we actually milled a longer piece so they had some to play with.
There are several pictures in the attachemnt, the yacht is called The Ted Ashby

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Cheers
Lee

[mcfcfan]

Hi all, we milled the mast for a yacht restioration project.The final mast was 14 meters in length (about 43 feet) But we actually milled a longer piece so they had some to play with.
There are several pictures in the attachemnt, the yacht is called The Ted Ashby

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General Marketing\Pictures\Promo pics\Random\Mast Pics

Cheers
Lee

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[mcfcfan]

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[Bibbyman]

Anyone can make good beams out of a perfect and straight log.  It takes a good sawyer to get something out of the middle of a log like that.  I wonder if the beam staid straight after it was up and dried a couple of years.



Here is Mary sawing 2x10s 28' long.  She sawed quite a few by herself.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Anyone can make good beams out of a perfect and straight log.  It takes a good sawyer to get something out of the middle of a log like that.  I wonder if the beam staid straight after it was up and dried a couple of years.



Here is Mary sawing 2x10s 28' long.  She sawed quite a few by herself.

Thanks.  I think Customer called me "Magic Man" !!!  (that was before my FF days, before I knew I couldn't accept such a compliment.) : My compliments to Mary.  Looks very nice.   I don't know what happened to the beam, sorry. 

[backwoods sawyer]

I cut a 34" small end by 36' just last week, coarse that was on the Mighty Might and it can handle 40'.  I have cut some 60 footers into 20 footers so that they would fit on the woodmizer, if that counts. :-\

[Brucer]

Longest timber on a 21' Wood-Mizer -- 24' long 8x14.

Last year I had an order that included 20 - 24' long timbers so I bought a 6' extension.
Longest timber on a 27' extended Wood-Mizer -- 32' long 8x12 ???.

This year I've got an order that includes 39 - 30' long 4x12 so I bought a second 12' extension.
Longest timber ordered this year (using my 33' extended Wood-Mizer) -- 35' long 8x12.

I'm not winning here, folks.

tyb525 -- it doesn't matter how long your mill is, you'll always get someone asking for a bit more, and you'll always be tempted to try it :D.

[paul case]

i have a way of handleing those folks that want more than i can cut. if they cant cut it in 2 lengthways  find someone else like brucer or fred or.....          .  i gave my buddy fred's number to a fella that called wanting some just longer than i can saw. it turned into a few hundred hundred dollar job. fred offered to pay for the ad. i wouldnt let him and fred has been buying stuff from me ever since . i even get to help him with some bigger orders than what he can fill and we get it done. that was the start of a good relationship. pc