Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[Brad_bb]

Caveman, I was reading your story expecting you were going to tell us you came across a snake in the tree.  Was it sycamore?

[tule peak timber]

Tule, did the little snake say "Peek-a-boo!"?  Is it a harmless species?  I've never seen a scorpion in person always having lived too far north. Creepy!

The young snake is a gopher snake , harmless. Like Lynn's snake we do get rattlers all the time that just seem to "show up"so we always watch where we put our hands. They show up at the log deck,the front porch,the garden, the carport-you never know.....
  We have a couple types of scorpions and poisonous giant millipedes with very painful bites that I can testify to. These animals hide in voids in the logs and pop out during milling. The white scorpion came out of a mesquite log originating from near the Colorado river and was 5-6 inches long in his curled fighting stance. He is no longer with us.

[caveman]

Brad, yes, it was a sycamore.  I was moving some pecky cedar slabs the other night and found a red rat snake inside of one.

We got the pine siding sawed this morning.  Mostly clear, tight grained 10" wide longleaf.

Rob, I would hate to get stung by a scorpion the size of the one you described.  The little ones around here hurt bad enough when they deal their misery.

John is going on a week's vacation so I may make a few new areas to stack lumber (we have a lot of longleaf logs that need to be sawn) and take some blades to get sharpened.

[tule peak timber]

Yesterday I got first coat of finish on a pine table top and fabricated the stretcher for the base.

 

 The guys were on the mill making alder furniture parts for a customer and  fascia boards from cedar for the office building.

 

 

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 
Cut a real nice oak today. No Snakes.

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

 

 
Left some live edge one side. All 5/4 one 2" for legs, etc.

[WV Sawmiller]

   Met my customer at 7:00 am to start on this stack of Hemlock with one 19.5' white oak in there. All the hemlock I cut as 2X6's and the Oak log we cut to a 10 & 9 and I cut it into true 4/4 for future flooring.


 The first and third logs were tulip poplar that had sat too long so we bucked them into firewood. The second log became stickers. We did encounter some ring shake in a few of the logs. One was so bad I just sliced it into pieces small enough to handle and tossed on the scrap pile. The log pile has been there several years. It is 7 miles away and I have passed it many times and stopped and did a cold call and left a card years ago. The guy finally decided to cut it although he did come buy some walnut from me a while back. The stack has been there long enough, while not scared of them, we did look carefully for any MagicMan residents. We found none.


 

 Total sawed on 4.4 engine hours 732 bf or just over 166 bf/hr and I did not count the punky poplar and a 4' hemlock end I made into stickers so no speed records broken but steady work. It was in heavy shade which made it a very desirable site to go work. We did have, as they say up north "occasional periods of threatening weather" or as we always said down south, where people conversed more plainly and to the point, "it come up a bad cloud a couple of times but missed us." I packed up and brought the mill home and all the tools and equipment are back where they belong. I did break a spring on the throttle (Idler arm spring) which was the second since I have owned the mill so be warned - those things may only last about 360 hours or nearly 3 years each. :D Fortunately I had a spare and less than 2 minutes with a Leatherman pliers and repairs are done. ;)

[Magicman]

Luke, Marty and I tackled a few ERC logs today.


 
This log truck load of tree length ERC logs was dropped off at my place while we were at the Pig Roast in 2011, and I never heard from the customer again.  Well it's time to begin getting rid of them.  Some are rotted beyond any value but a few are salvageable. 


 
We should not have bothered to stage a few of them that had heart rot. 


 
I normally do not sell any lumber but a customer called wanting an 8X8, 4X8, 2X4's and some lattice.  I told him $2.00 per bf and he said to bring it on. 

[Banjo picker]

Having him or her around the sawmill is a blessing.  Wish I had one.  Tim

[Magicman]

It's fairly well known that I do not sell lumber but I do occasionally get calls asking for mostly Cypress and Cedar lumber.  Since Marty & Sons will become more active in the sawing, Marty is setting up a mini-log yard to stock some logs that can be custom sawn if/when a customer request lumber.


 
Marty cleaning up some debris.


 
And positioning some cross ties for stacking some logs.


 
Sinker Cypress logs.


 
Sinker Cypress shorts.


 
Some old ERC logs.

[Cjross73]

About 465bd ft SYP, mostly 2x4 with some random width boards. 5 hours in the eastern NC heat was enough, my help wasn't interested 

 

 

[goose63]

You can't blame the help  8)

[Walnut Beast]

Awesome 

[Bruno of NH]

The help can get bossy in the heat  :D

 

[redbeard]

 

 

 I knew there was some center rot, but didn't think I could fit inside the maple stump.
Guess instead of cookies it will make big donuts.
Since it was a 7' dia I decided too leave the remainder as a mother nature planter feature for the home owners.

[E-Tex]

A couple recent jobs.


Big cedar job.  Milled one day and he built his raised garden beds the next.



 





 




 




5/4 Post Oak, a few slabs, and a stack of 5/4 Red Oak.



 



 



 



 

[Cjross73]

She did supervise stack/snickering today 

 

[WV Sawmiller]

   A guy brought me 3 small WO logs last week I sawed for trailer decking for a used boat trailer he was renovating then he sent his son down yesterday with a dump truck load of tulip poplar logs. He got here right at sunset after a "Wrong Turn" up a seldom used mountain road which is something you don't want to do in WV especially in a big dump truck. He gave me a cut list with no lumber over 12' long which tallies just under 1200 bf.


 

 11 logs - 3 are 12' and 8 are 16' long. A conservative Int'l 1/4 scale indicates about 1740 bf. I will end up doing all the sawing and flat stacking of these myself. 12" boards, 3" battens. Framing 4" & 6" at 6/4 last note he gave me but he is going to reconsider. My big saw is in the shop so either he is going to have to come back and buck them to length or wait till I get it back, which may be next week then decide what to do with the cut-offs. Actually I can use the 4' and 6' pieces if he doesn't want them sawed. Would make great stickers and short lumber which I can use for project lumber and possibly even sell.

[Magicman]

She did supervise stack/snickering today

She probably snickered because you left your stickers so long.   :D

[Cjross73]

Right MM, its what I had left and too hot to care.

I also skipped typing and spelling class in school 

[WV Sawmiller]

   I saw part of an old Audie Murphy movie today (6 Black Horses) and he had a dog that looked like @Cjross73 sidekick that rode on  Audie's horse and pack horse with him which I thought was pretty cool. I missed the part where he got the dog from because he did not have him at the start of the movie. I wonder if Sampson will ride on Trigger (our big old half Belgian Palomino) or Blackjack (our little 600 lb mule)? I probably should start him on Blackjack and he would not be nearly as high off the ground. :D

[Magicman]

I love it Cjross73 and yours was too good to pass up.  :D  Tomorrow someone will catch me and it will be "turn about fair play".   :              

[GAB]

Right MM, its what I had left and too hot to care.

I also skipped typing and spelling class in school

Concerning your last sentence: Thanks for informing me that I wasn't the only one who did that.
GAB

[cutterboy]

   then decide what to do with the cut-offs. Actually I can use the 4' and 6' pieces if he doesn't want them sawed. Would make great stickers and short lumber which I can use for project lumber and possibly even sell.

I sell a fair amount of hardwood lumber in 4,5 and 6 foot lengths. Many furniture projects call for lumber of less than 4' long. Even pine sells in short lengths. I had about 20 pieces of pine 18" long that were cutoffs from a barn siding project. I just sold 10 of them for a dollar apiece.

The guy just came back and bought the rest of those pine cut-offs. :laugh: I'm glad I didn't throw them onto the burn pile.

[Bruno of NH]

Sawing another order of black locust fence post.
This stuff is dusty and needs to be flipped every cut.
Running the WM 7/39 .045 
They cut good in small logs for me. Not in wide cuts.