Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[WDH]

The big cedars here are normally rotten/doty in the middle. 

[KenMac]

The big cedars here are normally rotten/doty in the middle.

Around here as well.

[firefighter ontheside]

And here too.  I get more lumber out of 10" logs than I do from 18" logs.

[Walnut Beast]

This stump won't go to waste. Plenty of good pieces that can be used

 

 

   

[WDH]

That piece in the first pic, with some black iron hooks, would make a killer coat wall rack....

[mudfarmer]

That piece in the first pic, with some black iron hooks, would make a killer coat wall rack....

Yeah! Nice hand forged ornamental hooks would really top that off well

[samandothers]

That piece in the first pic, with some black iron hooks, would make a killer coat wall rack....

Yeah! Nice hand forged ornamental hooks would really top that off well

I bet Walnut Beast would give you guys a deal on it!

Judging by second picture in post 197, I see how he gets that dark pretty character in his cuts, he saws at night.

[Nebraska]

Notice that nifty designer pallet he has it setting on...

[Walnut Beast]

That piece in the first pic, with some black iron hooks, would make a killer coat wall rack....

I'm still kicking myself that I should have cut it like that all the way down. Ill know next time

[Magicman]

 


I started my day with this 16' X 34" butt SYP log this morning.


 
That yielded a nice whack of 2X4's & 1X8's.


 
Then a few Red Oak logs that made some purdy stuff.


 
I finished the day with this 20' X 33" butt White Oak log.  The weight calculator shows 6184 lbs. and it certainly was one of the heaviest logs that I have ever sawn.  It made 1X8's & 2X10's.  My total sawing for the day was 1904 bf.

The customer and I have scheduling conflicts so I will not return until Monday to finally finish this job, for now anyway. 

[Resonator]

That first walnut slab pic almost looks like an old alligator.

Nice Oak Mr. magic man!  
Seems funny seeing ground not covered with snow.  :D :snowman:

[wkf94025]

My favorite tree company guys set me up with ~3,000bf of red oak, being taken out due to mistletoe strangulation.  The crane operator was an artist, swinging multi-ton logs among a maze of live power lines, and laying each stick perfectly in my dump trailer, and on a rented transport trailer.  The team let me call the big cuts, once the branches were out of the way by noon, and I am thrilled with the amount of large log above and below two great crotches.  My '97 F350 dually PSD 7.3L was a hero again, hauling both trailers an hour over to my milling op site over on the coast.  Love that beast.  Can't wait to dig in to this red oak.  My first of that species.  Logs were free, though I gave each of the five guys on the tree crew a Benjamin for their help/kindness/patience. Between that, 2nd trailer rental, diesel, and $0/hr for my time, my true cost is about 40 cents per bf.  I'm pretty happy with that, depending on what we find once we start slabbing/milling.




 

Artist at work.  Long reach into the side yard of the property.   Live wires everywhere.





Estimated weight of the base log is 3,500#.  The tree man cut this close to the ground as the crane op applied upward pressure and stability near the end of the cut.  Once he lifted this section out, the bow in the crane arm was impressive.  Big fish on!





Threading the needle between live power lines everywhere, with this multi-ton stick.



 

Base log.  The yellow rental trailer with some of the smaller sections is in the distance.  I recognize some of that may become firewood.



 

Those two are ~7,000# combined.  I rolled across the scales at a local outdoor supply store.  Need to bring them a six pack from time to time for the favor.





Unloading the base log at my mill site, while the guys mill redwood in the background.  A lot of hardwood logs in the queue to the left, and a lot of redwood and Doug Fir logs still to go on the right.

[Walnut Beast]

Sawing anything and everything walnut 

 

 

[firefighter ontheside]

You guys are cutting some great stuff.  I decided to do a little sawing of white oak today, since I found out I can sell it green pretty quickly.  I had a log in mind and it had a small walnut sitting on top of it.  That thing was frozen to the white oak like they were bolted together.  Once I finally broke them apart, I went ahead and milled the walnut.  Just a few 6/4 slabs and a 4" mantel out of the middle.  You can see my favorite log peeling tool...a meat cleaver that I believe came from the Queen Mary or possibly another well known liner.  My great uncle was in the merchant marine for many years and he brought home stuff like this.  It works great for peeling logs since it is very heavy and has a nice long handle.

The white oak came off my buddy's farm and usually his logs are clear of metal, but not today.  The Kasco 7 deg blade kept cutting well, but I went ahead and changed it out.  I dug out the nail I cut and then scanned.  Found a second nail just under the surface and dug it out.  The next cut revealed the telltale black streaks, but the metal was gone.  I'm not done cutting the log, since its lunch time.  Hopefully no more metal.  Gonna make a bunch of very nice 1x6.


 

 

 

[Walnut Beast]

Timberking turning out the black gold

 

 

[Larry]

I've been sawing for one guy on a regular basis.  He brings me a trailer load of logs and goes home with a load of lumber.  Said on the next load he had two big red oaks in the 36" range.  He showed up with one log probably about 6,000 pounds and said the other log was far to heavy for his skid steer to load.......made me quite happy but I faked disappointment.




This one had bumps out to about 42" and I needed to get something around 37" to be able to saw it.  I chainsawed off what I thought would interfere and threw it on the mill.  Ran the carriage down the bed without a blade to see if it would clear.  Came back with this rub mark on the carriage.  Had about a 1/16" clearance on the other side.



Chainsawed off a little bark and along with a place or two for the guides to clear so looks like its a go.



If the weather cooperates tomorrow its going to be a match up between this old man and the 6,000 pound log. :D

[trimguy]

@firefighter ontheside i seen awhile back you asked about cutting Cocobolo, did you ever cut it ? How did it work out ? I had a guy ask me to split 2 boards roughly 1 1/2 x 8 x 48 . Trying to research before I tell him yes or no. Anyone else have any experience ? @YellowHammer  any help will be appreciated, do's, don'ts, blades ?? I have an Lt40 with a 26 hp gas engine.

[Walnut Beast]

Looking forward to you tackling that Larry and seeing some more pictures 👍

[Walnut Beast]

I've been sawing for one guy on a regular basis.  He brings me a trailer load of logs and goes home with a load of lumber.  Said on the next load he had two big red oaks in the 36" range.  He showed up with one log probably about 6,000 pounds and said the other log was far to heavy for his skid steer to load.......made me quite happy but I faked disappointment.




This one had bumps out to about 42" and I needed to get something around 37" to be able to saw it.  I chainsawed off what I thought would interfere and threw it on the mill.  Ran the carriage down the bed without a blade to see if it would clear.  Came back with this rub mark on the carriage.  Had about a 1/16" clearance on the other side.



Chainsawed off a little bark and along with a place or two for the guides to clear so looks like its a go.



If the weather cooperates tomorrow its going to be a match up between this old man and the 6,000 pound log. :D

Are you just going to let it sit there until you get it widdled down since the clamp only goes out to about 20 something or is there enough to clamp ?

[Larry]

I have the two plane clamp out all the way and was able to get it up a couple of inches.  I also raised the log turner which is out a little further.  I put a slight amount of upward pressure on the log with both, which forces the log against the backstops.  No way will the log move or shift.

[firefighter ontheside]

 @trimguy I never did.  A customer was talking about buying a carbide blade for me if I would mill a log he was gonna get.  He never went through with it.

[firefighter ontheside]

I went to look at some black cherry I'm gonna get from a friend.  He said it was a big log, but I didn't imagine how big it is.  I went to look this morning after work so I would know what I would be loading tomorrow.  There is a main trunk log that is 36" diameter and 9' long.  I'm not sure I can load it.  I will load a few smaller logs on the trailer first to make sure I have some tongue weight and then try to get that big log on.  I'm not pulling it any further up the trailer than I need to.  If I can't get it, a buddy with a big skid steer will come over the next day to get it for me.  I'm just not sure how the ground is gonna handle me or the skid steer driving on it.  He might have to come pull me out of the yard tomorrow.  Lol.

[trimguy]

Thanks.

[doc henderson]

I have the two plane clamp out all the way and was able to get it up a couple of inches.  I also raised the log turner which is out a little further.  I put a slight amount of upward pressure on the log with both, which forces the log against the backstops.  No way will the log move or shift.

Larry, I plan to make a clip-on adapter to my two-plane clamp so I can occ. reach out to the side of the mill further.

[Walnut Beast]

Doc I was thinking of drilling a couple holes through the clamp to mount something that could be extended out. Even know I'm a little wider through the cut throat when you do the crotch stuff it doesn't take much for things to get maxed out