Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

tule peak timber · August 16, 2020, 11:04:15 AM

What gorgeous color, I love the hint of sapwood along the edges.What will this wood be used for ?

Patrick NC · August 16, 2020, 01:39:19 PM

Quote from: tule peak timber on August 16, 2020, 11:04:15 AM
What gorgeous color, I love the hint of sapwood along the edges.What will this wood be used for ?

The customer that is getting this load builds raised bed gardens and gazebos out of cedar. He usually buys about 1500bf a month from me.

WDH · August 16, 2020, 08:14:34 PM

You get the best cedar.

Bruno of NH · August 16, 2020, 08:33:15 PM

That cedar is very nice

Crossroads · August 17, 2020, 02:30:56 PM

Ended up doing the lake job this weekend. Hauled the excavator in on Thursday morning to stage and buck the logs to length. Then pulled in Saturday morning with the mill and got started. Milled 98 12'x2x6 red cedar, then 14 12'x6x6 red fir then started on the 500 lineal feet of 4x4.

Ended up staying the night in one of the 3 cabins. This was the view from my deck.

Sunday morning before we got started back up, I got to drink a cup of coffee on the dock.

All in all it was a good weekend, made some new friends and was told I was welcome to use the cabin for a weekend getaway.

Don P · August 17, 2020, 09:09:57 PM

Wow!, Not a bad place to work

Crossroads · August 17, 2020, 10:12:14 PM

That cedar sure does have a lot brighter color than the western red I'm used to milling.

firefighter ontheside · August 18, 2020, 08:24:06 AM

"Welcome to use a cabin for the weekend"....that's worth the price of admission right there. I'd be like see you next weekend. Any fish in that lake?

I picked up some walnut yesterday and will likely mill one or two of those today. Then tomorrow I will go get more walnut logs. The ones yesterday I paid for and the ones tomorrow are free. The price is going to help cut up the downed tree from a storm.

Crossroads · August 18, 2020, 08:39:16 AM

I don't have a complete rundown on the fish in that lake, but I did see some 14" Kokanee on Facebook that we're caught there this weekend. I'm going to shoot for a weekend at the tail end of September. Also, we'll come in by boat since its a 10 mile goat trail coming in by car.

Ed_K · August 18, 2020, 10:16:06 AM

Last Log (as barnwood builders would say) had 19 of them all hard maple took from end of Apr. till last Sunday morning.

This one I cut down a year and a half ago. They where all 10'6".

12"x12" cant i cut all 19 into cants and put them on concrete road guard posts with 2" stickers. they have to sit that way till I finish tearing the mill out floor up and put in concrete piers for the mill to bolt too. The mill wont stay level on the floor even tho there's 4x4s on 2' centers with 2"x6"s for the floor.

They all have some spalting but some have it all the way across.

I get the cants off the mill by putting pipe roller under it an push it to the skate rolls and out the doors,slabs go the same way. wind was blowing so the doors stay almost shut, but most days their open to get the gas fumes out the door on the opposite side of my shed.

Here's the staging area cants and 1xs 2xs straight out, slabs swing around. All are set so I can grab with the forks, or the grapple trailer. That was the setup who knows what it'll look like when I get done setting the mill back on concrete piers and a new floor. I want to make the mill waist high from the new floor so I don't have to bend over. I like to build some powered rolls that lift the logs/cants up and roll out the doors. And also move the mill closer to the bunks.

High_Water · August 18, 2020, 10:34:18 AM

So I'm new to the site and this looks like the megathread for recent mill work. Here's some recent and some old I'm pretty proud of since its my first post.

Recent Red Oak

Black Walnut from not too long ago.

One of my favorite, driftwood. I think its pine but I'm not sure.

btulloh · August 18, 2020, 10:37:38 AM

Welcome aboard.

I don't think I've ever seen driftwood sawed. Very interesting. Are you going to make something with that or sell it?

High_Water · August 18, 2020, 11:28:05 AM

Quote from: btulloh on August 18, 2020, 10:37:38 AM
Welcome aboard.

I don't think I've ever seen driftwood sawed. Very interesting. Are you going to make something with that or sell it?

Thanks. Right now the plan is to make something out of it, I'd hate to sell it without getting my hands on more first. I'm a 30-40 minute drive to the Gulf of Mexico but driftwood can be hit or miss on quality, plus it wreaks havoc on blades.

Nebraska · August 18, 2020, 02:53:18 PM

That driftwood is striking, any idea the species of tree?

SpaceBus · August 18, 2020, 07:13:14 PM

I've seen a few "drift logs" laying around here in coastal Maine that I've always wanted to snag. Even have a few beat chains and a bar I'd use for them, but no way to retrieve them. One I see every time I leave the house is laying down in a mud flat, probably not good to saw with so much clay in it.

Magicman · August 18, 2020, 09:35:34 PM

Luke and I are busy sawing this road trip job but I reckon I had better come up for air and check in. We are steadily making progress but I have not made a count on how many logs are left.

ERC, SYP, and mostly Red Oak. I am hoping that the weather will hold off and we can put this one in the history book.

firefighter ontheside · August 19, 2020, 02:58:26 PM

Magicman, you're a machine. My dad is 77 and in great shape, but I don't think he could do what you do. He helped me cut up a fallen walnut tree and get the logs on trailers. Good thing it was not super hot, but we still sweated more than our fair share. First pic is the logs I picked up on Monday. Second is todays logs. My timber made log A frame is still doing great getting logs on the trailer.

WDH · August 20, 2020, 07:24:53 AM

There are a couple of old codgers on here that will know that this is.......

High_Water · August 20, 2020, 09:01:46 AM

Quote from: Nebraska on August 18, 2020, 02:53:18 PM
That driftwood is striking, any idea the species of tree?

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I've seen a few "drift logs" laying around here in coastal Maine that I've always wanted to snag. Even have a few beat chains and a bar I'd use for them, but no way to retrieve them. One I see every time I leave the house is laying down in a mud flat, probably not good to saw with so much clay in it.

I think it's pine but I'm not sure, I tried to get some end grain pictures a while back but all I had was a cell phone camera so they're not great, maybe I'll try the tree ID forum.
Here in Texas we can drive on the beach so picking them up is no big deal, I used a blade that was dull and ready to change because each one of those worm holes was full of sand.

Bruno of NH · August 20, 2020, 11:18:04 AM

WDH
Hornbeam ?

LeeB · August 20, 2020, 01:27:25 PM

I'm thinking sweetgum.

WDH · August 20, 2020, 04:02:08 PM

Yes Sir, Mr. Lee, sweetgum. I guess this makes you an old codger :D.

LeeB · August 20, 2020, 06:27:05 PM

I hadn't thought so but with a clue like that I figured you had to be talking about one of our old codger's favorite wood. :D

Magicman · August 20, 2020, 09:40:11 PM

Luke and I finished the majority of the "scattered" log yard and moved the sawmill and set up on 24 fairly large Oak and SYP logs. The last few day's sawing is seen in the background in the picture below.

We were able to saw the first 4 logs before......

the rain came and shut us down. Hopefully we can manage a full day tomorrow. There are 46 more logs to saw on this job.

WV Sawmiller · August 20, 2020, 09:45:38 PM

Dang Lynn! I have seen well stacked lumberyards with less inventory than what you and Luke have sawed up there. Luke's arms must be looking like Popeye by now. Thanks for posting. Stay safe and keep whittling away at that pile. Your customer isn't sneaking in at night and adding more to the stack every night is he? :D