First sawdust - and first nail

[LeeB]

Yes sir Mr. Fred, I have noticed how much you have posted over the years. My comment about Tom was directed to Bandmiller2

Bandmiller2, Sawyers can be writters. Stick around and read some of Tom's posts.

[dad2nine]

Not sure where you would get that many but we tend to do pretty well hiring people. They get benefits and everything. Oh, and they start at 6:00 am - not 7:00.

I am NOT a morning person at all, so 7:00 in the morning is early for me, real early...

[crtreedude]

Yes sir Mr. Fred, I have noticed how much you have posted over the years. My comment about Tom was directed to Bandmiller2

Bandmiller2, Sawyers can be writters. Stick around and read some of Tom's posts.

Well, so much for my careful reading of postings. Sorry about that. I did think you knew who I was so I thought it was a bit strange.

[LeeB]

issawright 

[ADAMINMO]

Any new pics or replys to add here.Whats new with the mill? New tricks your saw guys have picked up? Inquiring minds want to know.

[crtreedude]

Currently the sawmill is at the first finca cutting about 10,000 BF of Laurel. It seems to be working very well, and the best of all, I am not doing it.  8)

It took very little time to train people on using it and now they are off to the races. Life is good.

[ADAMINMO]

Sweet!! Just keep us informed on the progress.

[ADAMINMO]

Well CR ...... I can only hope that no news is good news.Whats new down on the farm?

[crtreedude]

Lets see - we cut up about 45 Laurel trees and ended up with about 10,000 BF - and used about 8 blades (needed to be resharpened). Not too bad - everything ran just fine. Now we are dismantling a bridge that was made of huge corteza logs. The bridge decided to give up the ghost and so it makes more sense to salvage the logs than to try to fix the bridge.

Especially since I have people who want the wood. NOW we will have a test for the saw. Corteza is hard - really hard.

Just a little of the wood from the logs on the bridge will pay to build a new bridge.  8)