Whatcha Sawin' 2019 ???

[E-Tex]

Busen....  That's impressive!  👍

[petefrom bearswamp]

I am sawing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

[Magicman]

Betcha Linda says that you are sawing in your sleep. 

[E-Tex]

SYP, live-edge milling in Louisiana (4/4 and some 8/4).  Customer will use for live-edge siding on different buildings on the property.

What I thought was going to be a 1.5 day job, we were able to knock out in one long day.  


Thank you @YellowHammer , @Magicman , @WDH  for giving me question/answer assistance for this job.




 




 




 

[goose63]

I am sawing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

Well then pete get a can full of worms and go fishing 

[YellowHammer]

E-Tex,
Excellent job,
Wonderful view.

[richhiway]

 

 
Started on those two trailer loads of pine. And fixed the mill after I broke it. Check my other thread.

[Jeff]

I can almost remember a time  I would have  been eager to tackle that one!  I can certainly remember the reasons I  would not now!  Thumbs up!

[DPatton]

Good job in a very nice setting Lee.  Looks like you have also continued to trim.  

Wonder why that sawmill looks familiar??     Since I long ago removed my board dragback, that table looks strange.  :

Lynn,
I might as well have left the table off. We never used the drag back. The guys were pulling the boards off the other end as I jigged back for the next cut. The mill site is two neighbors up the road from from me, may 1/4 mile. Philip is the owner and the guys tailing were Rickie and two of his sons, but mostly Rickie. The only time they ever stopped was when they were waiting on me. Hard working guys I have know since we moved up here, and good friends to boot. This job was a freebie. The boards will be used to reside a 100' x 30' sheep barn.

Nothing will make or break a day of sawing more than the tailers. Good tail gunners will keep you at the controls and the saw head making dust. Bad ones make for some expensive lumber.

[Magicman]

Since I am/was sorta "under the weather" today with the tooth situation I decided to make a couple of pre-surveys on a couple of upcoming sawing jobs.  Something that I don't normally do, but these two sounded "not normal".

The first was a visit to a Very Valuable Walnut log that the customer had felled yesterday but has not actually seen himself.


 
Well at least it has character. 


 
Plus metal.  :


 
And the trunk will make a 4' and a 7' "log".  I sent him these pictures but have not heard back from him yet.

Next on the journey was a huge Red Oak log.


 

 
Yup, it's a full grown boy.


 
With a 43" butt!!

After much head scratching, measuring, and marking, we decided to lop 2' off of the butt end and make four 8½' logs.  That way we will dodge the butt flairs as well as the knotty stuff on the top end.  It will all be 1X6 for flooring.

It was a day well spent plus PatD and I had a very enjoyable time together.

[RAYAR]

I am sawing ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!!

Well then pete get a can full of worms and go fishing  

So Goose, you're telling Pete to go drown worms? Is this kind of talk even allowed on this forum? :D

[WV Sawmiller]

 

 Journeyed 20 miles over to our local/regional airport to do a sawing demo for our regional USDA folks. Turnout was not great but real nice folks and they fed us lunch and I got to visit with new friends. They had an 8' & a 10' poplar log (8' one next to mill hiding behind the center log) and a 10' RO log that was about 16" SED.


 I set up in an organized fashion. Good level ground, partly cloudy with 5-10 mph breeze and about 75 degrees F so nice day for it.


 I brought along a primitive bench, a couple tomato stakes, a thin 2" lath/project board, a small crate and my samples of 1 bf (a 1"X12"X12", 2"X4"X16", 2"X6"X12", 1"X4"X36", 1"X6"X24"), etc.


 I even set up a tarp for the sawdust collection to make cleanup easier and more complete


 Sawed some stickers then 4/4 lumber. The RO was mostly 1X10. One of the USDA employees was going to use some or all to wall in a porch or some such project his wife wanted done. Total yield about 216 bf.


 My next door neighbor was making chains saw art and sawed a bear cub on a stump and a pumpkin while we watched. I see him at flea market demos fairly regularly and he is real good at it.

 I returned home and I think I will just leave the mill hooked up and take it to a local flea market tomorrow as an advertising gimic. I'll take out the tools I don't need and add a couple more benches and some odds and ends and hope the mill is an eye catcher and conversation starter. We will see if that works out. Kind of like old Popcorn Sutton (I think that was his name) on the Moonshiners show who told his proteges "You can't sell it if they don't know you've got it".

[SawyerTed]

Cut most of this order for 150 white oak 4/4x6x8 and 75 5/4x6x8 on Friday.  I finished the last of it this morning and quit before it got too hot.

The customer will send a check and a truck truck in the morning.  

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[WV Sawmiller]

Ted,

   5/4 X 68? Seems unusually short to cut for an order. Was he making a fence or something? I gather it was random/assorted width since you did not specify. Do you charge extra for cutting short lengths like that? 

[SawyerTed]

Typo  :laugh:
5/4 x 6 x 8'. While I don't ask many times, this customer is building fence.  I fixed the typo. :D 

[Barney67]

Working on some oak this weekend that I've down had for almost a year now, sawed through a half dozen water oaks and then what I thought was a small red oak.



 



 



 

Now I've never sawn red oak before, but I wasn't expecting this. 

This should be the butt log from the same tree. What am I sawin?



 



 

[Southside]

Money wood, you are sawing money wood.   ;D

[richhiway]

 

 
Ran the mill after dinner tonight and got a stack of 1X10X10 a 3X6 I need for a project and a few trim boards for the sawmill shed. Not bad for a swayback pine log.

[WDH]

Barney, you are right.  Your log is a red oak and a fantastic one at that. 

[Barney67]

Thanks Danny!

What causes this pattern?

[nativewolf]

Typo  :laugh:
5/4 x 6 x 8'. While I don't ask many times, this customer is building fence.  I fixed the typo. :D

Fence?  Then it should not be stickered.  You want the oak as green as you can get it.  Just my personal exp and from selling a few thousand fence boards.  Green, wet, good.  Dry..bad.

[SawyerTed]

The customer is a contractor and very good repeat customer.  He gets it how he wants it.  He wants it stickered and banded.  I don't argue, he pays very well. Besides fence boards he orders various other lumber nearly every month.

[Jim_Rogers]

Red oak for trailer decking:



 

Jim Rogers

[WDH]

Barney, I am not sure what causes that pattern.  I have not come across that one yet. 

[Peter Drouin]

Nice wood Jim.