Whatcha Sawin' 2020 ??

[terrifictimbersllc]

Bruno are you going mobile? How often?

[Clark]

A friend just brought over a Yellow birch log that was submerged in an adjacent lake for at least 130 years! This was cut for Veneer with axe and crosscut saw and hauled out on the ice by horse. Obviously this log never made the brook and sunk. It is around 11 feet long and 32" at the butt ( 31" top). What treasure will this hold!?

I hope you're not teasing us but will bring us along for the journey!

Clark

[Bruno of NH]

Dennis, 
No , I just mill at my place.
I have been asked to go mobile but haven't. 
Bruno

[A-z farmer]

Bruno 
I have always used white oak for fence boards and have never heard of red oak being used for anything exposed to weather .I would like to know how it turns out .
Zeke

[Bruno of NH]

Zeke,
It was a customer request for the red oak.
I would have sold them black locust but I'm still waiting on 3 more loads the hit the mill.

[terrifictimbersllc]

Common here  to use red oak 1x6 for horizontal pasture fencing spans between posts.  Theres a lot of red oak around here.  White too, but less so. 

[A-z farmer]

Wow I learn something here everyday thank you .We have a lot more red oak than white oak on our farms and we do not cut white oak down unless they are dead or dying .

[Magicman]

Grandson Ben and I sawed a few logs today.


 
Eleven logs which consisted of SYP, Poplar, and Post & Red Oak.


 
First up was this knotty monstrosity.


 
Not a problem because the Turbo7°'s sliced through the huge knots without a single wave.


 
The lumber will be used for the customer's Wife's "She Shed" ceiling.


 
In another topic YellowHammer describes the deep gullet combined with the sawing speed removing all of the sawdust from the board.  This cant has not been brushed or anything done to remove the sawdust.  

Those blade scratches indicate that I was traveling about 1½" per blade revolution.  I did not notice the scratches until I saw the picture or I would have measured the distance.  I also do not see the blade scratches in the first pictures so apparently a hit a small rock, etc. when I opened the first log faces.  Probably embedded into one of those ugly knots because the log had been completely debarked.  I was not running the Debarker.



I didn't notice that the customer grabbed those top boards with wane out of the slab pile and messed my picture up.  :-\  There were no 2X4's on the cut list and I certainly would not scale anything like that.   :

Anyway, 2135bf sawed in 8 hours.  He will be stickering tomorrow.  

[Banjo picker]

 

 
top picture is red oak bottom picture is white oak...same fence.
 Here is the difference:


 

 White oak holds up a lot better when it touches the ground...red not so much.  Tim

[gump]

A friend just brought over a Yellow birch log that was submerged in an adjacent lake for at least 130 years! This was cut for Veneer with axe and crosscut saw and hauled out on the ice by horse. Obviously this log never made the brook and sunk. It is around 11 feet long and 32" at the butt ( 31" top). What treasure will this hold!?

I hope you’re not teasing us but will bring us along for the journey!

Clark

Yes I will Clark.
I'm still just a weekend warrior, but I happen to have my excavator on the woodlot so I am fixing up my roads and trying to increase my sawmill area while available. Hoping to saw it in the next few weeks. we are planning to saw live edge boards 2"-3" thick.

[mudfarmer]

We do not have much elm here, it dies real young. Sawed some 6"ers a few years ago and was real excited to get to work on the biggest MONSTER I have cut even for firewood (12" SED )

Standing dead of course. It had some ring shake(?) in first foot of butt log but made some real nice 4/4 to add to the pile. I would like to keep it but don't have an immediate use, maybe try to sell?



 

 
A touch of spalting too

 

 

[doc henderson]

it is pretty and interesting when finished.  "exotic American hardwood"!

[doc henderson]

i some 5 foot diameter ones sitting in my yard if you are passing through with a trailer, I will load you out!  @mudfarmer 

[mudfarmer]

It will be a few days before I come through your way.. Can you saw, kiln dry and plane them while you wait??

[doc henderson]

The answer is Yes, Yes I can.  the next question is, will I?  Let me know if you ever wind up in the area.

[firefighter ontheside]

I too have some elm sitting waiting to be sawed, but since my tractor is still not fixed, I am sawing nothing.  I keep calling about my hyd cylinders and I get "next week".  Im getting a little irritated.  I asked whats taking so long.  He said that it takes a lot of time to make the new rods.  No doubt it does, but if I'm paying for all his hours for the last 2 weeks, I'm getting a real bargain at $650.

[doc henderson]

Ok ffots,  you need to see, and look for the light at the end of the "cylinder" .  I am sure you feeling "hosed"  "coupled"  with all the "pressure"  you are under.  to "seal" the deal. you are a hot "rod" with a lot of "fluid" projects to get done, so you do not over "extend" yourself.  it would be nice to "pin" them down.  i am just trying to "pump" you up a little, despite their long "cycle time".  sorry!...

[olcowhand]

Ok ffots,  you need to see, and look for the light at the end of the "cylinder" .  I am sure you feeling "hosed"  "coupled"  with all the "pressure"  you are under.  to "seal" the deal. you are a hot "rod" with a lot of "fluid" projects to get done, so you do not over "extend" yourself.  it would be nice to "pin" them down.  i am just trying to "pump" you up a little, despite their long "cycle time".  sorry!...

......Let's see now; Where is that "cringe" emoji......?

[nativewolf]

I too have some elm sitting waiting to be sawed, but since my tractor is still not fixed, I am sawing nothing.  I keep calling about my hyd cylinders and I get "next week".  Im getting a little irritated.  I asked whats taking so long.  He said that it takes a lot of time to make the new rods.  No doubt it does, but if I'm paying for all his hours for the last 2 weeks, I'm getting a real bargain at $650.

Sorry to hear about your wait.  They hydraulic supply place Mike and others might have mentioned is a good choice if it happens again.  Personally I look to find mennonite/amish shops, they do the whole thing for that price.

[firefighter ontheside]

Thanks, that really did "curl" my spirits.

[caveman]

John and I sawed some really nice longleaf pine today.  The ground became saturated Wednesday and the sand turned to mud.  We pulled the mill out of the shed and sawed in the yard today.  I really think WM should put fine adjust outriggers on all of their portable mills.  We had to adjust the supports several times today.  We will eventually make some for this machine.  The lumber we sawed today will be used for the framing of a cabin in Alabama.  Some of the 10" boards were completely clear and some had curly grain.  All of it except a few side boards are on stickers.


We moved the mill out of the shed rather than working in ankle deep water all day.  By the end of the day most of this water had soaked into the ground.

 
The customer wanted a lot of 10' and 12' boards.  We have mostly 16' logs but we needed to move some wood so our piles of short boards are in the background near my $100 project boat.


 

 

[WDH]

Very fine.

[Hilltop366]

Seeing the "feathers" on some of the the boards reminded me of a SMG sawmill demo I had seen a few years ago.

After sawing the squared cant into boards he would turn and re-clamp the boards with the feathers up and set the saw to the board width and made a quick pass to remove the feathers, the whole process didn't seem to take any longer than 30 seconds.

Nice lumber!

[caveman]

That is a good idea on the feathers.  I find myself pulling them off of the cypress and pine to chew on.  Those 70 so short boards will hopefully find their way into some farm tables.

We got the mill put back into the shed this morning but it rained here again last night.  We spent over an hour trying to get the mill positioned and set up due to the squishy, rutted up ground around the shed.  We put 16" pavers underneath each outrigger but even with that much surface area they loosen up relatively quickly.  It'll dry out soon and we'll have firmer ground again.  We did not get nearly the quantity of rain that some of you along the northern Gulf got.

[doc henderson]

caveman, i am sure you can figure this out on your own, but was curious if you have guttering, and could you run some 4 inch plastic sock covered drain tile to stabilize the soil under your great saw shed?