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[Weekend_Sawyer]

I just used the FF Bord Foot calculator for the first time and found that my brother Chris and I milled 1026 Bf of yellow popular yesterday

I'm thinkin that's not bad for a manual mill. We probably could have done more but it was so humid and The Lovely Miss Celest kept making us take popcicle brakes ;)

2 strange things from our milling experience yesterday.

I opened a new box of blades and found all of them had no kerf set to them. The teeth were flat. I'll call my supplyer and see if he can't fix them.

second was a hornet flew into the blade during a cut and  lost all his leggs and wings on one side.
lots of bees around the mill this time of year.

nothing spactacular but things that make you go hmmmm.
WS

[Tom]

Lots of things will make you go Hmmm with that mill.  Wait until begin to find wildlife living in the log.  It's not just snakes, lizards and bumblebees.

I figure that you've had a good day anytime you go over 1000 boardfeet.

[Kirk_Allen]

You got that right tom!  Last walnut I cut had about 20 of the biggst grubs I have ever seen.  Chickens loved them 8)

Second cut revieled a partialy skinned mouse. He was trying to get away but he was pretty cut up on one side. Fed him and the 8 babies to the chickens.  They went nuts over them.

Hit a coon last year on a custom job.  That will scare the bajebees out of you! 

[Ron Wenrich]

Bees really like that poplar sawdust.  Houseflies love a debarked poplar log.  I get a big cloud of flies when I dump the log onto the carriage. 

[Slabs]

I've found that some critters get off on the high-frequency sounds generated by some saws.  i.e. Yellow Flies seem to take to a table saw blade.  Got a wild hair to pit a Tweeter in a bug-buster and hook it up to a sine -wave generator and see if I could lure them in.  I still remember the old bug-buster commercial  with Vincent Price fascinated by the electro-carnage in the device.

Havent done the tweeter thing yet but did order a couple of tweeters to try it.  This year's yellow fly population would  well warrant that project and the banana spiders  seem tp be slow coming on  to snarf up on the flies.

[Part_Timer]

I had a mouse run out of the battery box and run down my arm this afternoon.

[Frank_Pender]

Yep, it is wonderful to be putting the face in a 30" Oregon Oak and suddenly the sawdust turn red. :

[Weekend_Sawyer]

Sooo there is more than one way to skin a coon...

[sigidi]

Seen as we talkin critters....

Take a look see at this one, found this come squirming out the guts of a turpentine I cut just the other day



THe head is a bit fuzzy as I tried gettin reall close - without it biting me with those big nippers!!!



gives me the creeps!!!

Also cut through my first snake while I was triming this log up for milling too. A bit of a shock like Frank said, cutting the timber then making it red!!!