Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[tule peak timber]

I bought back my Lucas slabber. I wish I'd never sold it......

[Brad_bb]

@tule peak timber  Whoever you sold it to was willing to sell it back?  That's fortunate.

[tule peak timber]

Brad, He bought my LT-70 wide, sharpening system, handling equipment and a bunch of other stuff. The big Lucas slabber was almost a "gimme" anyway so no skin off his teeth for me to buy it back. I thought I would be long gone out of business by last year but life has a funny way of having it's own way.
  Let me put it another way,,,,large numbers of trout in Montana will be even larger because now I have to travel to chase them. :D

[Dave Shepard]

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[sawmilllawyer]

David Shepard lots of ray fleck in those boards!!! 8)

[WV Sawmiller]

   It was a cloudy, dreary day around here but the sun popped out about 2:00 pm so I decided to go saw up a couple of stock ash logs into siding. I cut about 18" off one end where the little log had a knot and then got smaller. I decided on 5/8" live edge siding for most of the log. Before I finished it got real cloudy and I noticed a fine mist on John's seat so I stopped and cleaned the sawdust off and covered Milldred up before she got wet and mad at me.


 Sawed off a bad end to make 7' knotty log.


 Yield 6- 10" LE siding pieces, 5 - 6" wide pieces and 2 - 1X4's for trim or roofing strips  on my next bus stop project. Total 57 bf.

[Jim_Rogers]

Yesterday, my friend from the next town over came over to help me for the first time using "Bob" to move some logs to the mill.
We moved four and then I taught him how to saw out a 8x8 post.

He took a picture of me and Bob dragging a log.
Note to self get a set of wheels for the back end of the log.....



 

 

Bob did good even with the 16' ones.

Jim Rogers

Today, I sawed out another 8x8x12' post, pictures to follow, tomorrow.

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

hello,bob.

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 

 

 
Cut some nice Pine today. Unseasonably warm here in the Catskill mts. 40 and Sunny. 

[Bruno of NH]

Milled more red oak slabs and some nice ash boards for inventory 

 

 

 

 

[tule peak timber]

On the last two pics , I sure hope you collate your sticks into sets, boules, very nice for someones cabinet /furniture job......$$$ 

[Bruno of NH]

I got (16) 4/4 ×12 ×6' boards out of that log that all look like that.
The top 2 picture's are the side boards that we edged.
I have more log like this one.
I hope they are as nice opened up.

[donbj]

"He took a picture of me and Bob dragging a log."

Jim, I see a set of forks for carrying the log.

[Jim_Rogers]

"He took a picture of me and Bob dragging a log."

Jim, I see a set of forks for carrying the log.

Thanks for your advice.

I'm still discovering new ways to move logs with Bob, but the driveway and mill yard is not wide enough to carry a log like that.
Jim

[WV Sawmiller]

    Still cleaning up. Real windy today which is great to help dry up some of our mud. I continued cleaning up some of my stock ash logs and even cut a small 5' chunk of poplar I saved off a top I was cutting for firewood.


 An 8' ash log on the forks. Cut into 5/8" sheeting (LE & Edged), a 4/4 dog board, a couple of 2X4's. The scrap poplar on the forks gave me 2- 2X6X5 and a 1X6X5.


 14' ash log - I cut 7-2X6 for rafters, 1- 2X8, 1- 2X4 and an 8' 1X8. I started to buck to a shorter length then remembered when I cut I was thinking rafter material and I do plan on building another shed soon.

   I also cut a scrappy 6' chunk into 6X6 for crib blocks. Total for the 4 "logs" 234 bf.

[Darrel]

I'm I saw snow on my sawmill! 

[Poquo]

Cutting White Oak 1X6 decking and 1/2 X 7 1/4 siding this week .

 

 

[Jim_Rogers]

Timbers ready for tomorrow morning's pick up.



 

Jim Rogers

[Dogwood Heart]

My first sale!  My old scoutmaster contacted me asking if I could do a small custom order, 100 bdft, of white oak to make a cannon carriage and I said yes.  There is a few defects and wane, but everything should come out when he works it down to size.  I counted 103 years on the 16 inch stump.


 

 

[doc henderson]

welcome and nice job @Dogwood Heart .  

[cutterboy]

FIRST SALE!  Feels good doesn't it. The lumber looks good, your old scoutmaster will be proud. I'm an old scoutmaster myself and I love to see my scouts doing well. The best of luck to you.

[EOTE]

Last week I dropped a couple of beautiful pine trees that were tall and straight as I needed some 20' 2" x 6"'s for trusses.  One was 26" in diameter and 120' tall and the other was 24" in diameter and 110' tall. 

I cut 2 - 20' logs out of the trees and 13 - 12' logs.  Yesterday I sawed the 2 - 20' logs.  The logs maxed out the capacity of my WM LT40 hydraulics, particularly on the log turner.

However, I successfully cut 58 - 2 x 6's, 5 - 2 x 4's, 4 - 1 x 6's, 2 - 2 x 10's, and some 2 x 2's for a total of 1,350 board feet of lumber.

Here is the smallest of the 2 trees.




 

 


Here is the quality of the 2x6's - absolutely beautiful.




I had to build a 20' pallet to stack them for drying.  
 

 

So now on to the 13 - 12' logs. 

[Magicman]

The logs maxed out the capacity of my WM LT40 hydraulics, particularly on the log turner.

When this happens, use the two plane clamp to raise the log, tighten the turner, and then drop the clamp.  The weight of the log against the turner will turn the log.  

[WV Sawmiller]

   Good looking trees and wood but I have never seen that many wedges used to fell a tree. Did you really need them or was that just overkill? I very rarely even use a second one and one usually does the trick. Of course everything I cut is on the side of a mountain.

[Ljohnsaw]

Did you really need them or was that just overkill?

Don't look too close at the picture to see where the hinge was set...

But really nice looking wood!