Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[Dan R]

 
Douglas fir 2 x 8 floor joists for my Daughters barn. 

[KWood255]

Broke in the new LT40 with some birch. Sure would make a nice looking floor in the house! 


 

[Magicman]

Several months ago a neighbor called wanting to know it I wanted a big old ERC log?  I knew the tree so I said yes, knowing that there probably would be metal in it.  Yesterday a previous customer called wanting to know if I had any ERC, so this morning da big old log hit da sawmill.


 
This is the top end and the butt was 34" with some rot.


 
It turned out six of these nice 1½" live edged slabs plus some 1" stuff.

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The FEL load and I did not hit any metal. 


 
Loaded into his trailer.



The customer and his wife digging through the scrap pile.  Two hours work and one $SGU.

[Deese]

 

 

 2x6's. No pic of the lumber. Sometimes I'll get a big log whose length has only been cut a couple inches over the desired lengh. 16'2" for example. And of course the end will always be dirty when this happens. This little chainsaw's sole purpose is to scrape the end clean before sawing. Chain stays dull but it doesn't matter.

[Machinebuilder]

Last night I went and bought a grapple for my bobcat. so I had to try it out this morning



 

This is some walnut a friend had given me.

You can see my helpers aren't even good at staying out of my way. I cant get the picture of Sox to upload It's Gabby in this one.


 

Some very pretty wood




 

 

And maybe a couple charcuterie boards, or cheese boards for us less snooty people :D



 

I cut a couple smaller pieces but nothing great in them, another piece will be firewood or smoking wood.

[Beavertooth]

Sawed all of these except the last one in line to day as I deemed it to knotty for what the customer was wanting. 10 logs sawn and had to slab a few of them heavy to get to the good stuff. 1330 bf. of 1x.  One 8ft and the rest of logs was 10ft.   95 percent of my sawing is portable but customer brought these to my house yesterday.  Had plans to do a portable job today but customer had to cancel because of no help. That makes the last 3 portable jobs a no go because of no help.  Oh well been enjoying my time off 🙂🙂

 

  

[Patrick NC]

Several months ago a neighbor called wanting to know it I wanted a big old ERC log?  I knew the tree so I said yes, knowing that there probably would be metal in it.  Yesterday a previous customer called wanting to know if I had any ERC, so this morning da big old log hit da sawmill.


 
This is the top end and the butt was 34" with some rot.


 
It turned out six of these nice 1½" live edged slabs plus some 1" stuff.

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The FEL load and I did not hit any metal.  


 
Loaded into his trailer.



The customer and his wife digging through the scrap pile.  Two hours work and one $SGU.

 
I got some gnarly slabs like that off the last big cedar I cut.  Brought big$

[Deese]

Got a load of big syp a while back. They were such a joy to saw. I sawed the last log from that load yesterday. Got 39 2x6's out of it.


 

  

 

While in Lowes today, I checked the price of their 2x6's. Over $20 each after tax. For a 2x6x12. Unbelievable.

[Walnut Beast]

Last night I went and bought a grapple for my bobcat. so I had to try it out this morning



 

This is some walnut a friend had given me.

You can see my helpers aren't even good at staying out of my way. I cant get the picture of Sox to upload It's Gabby in this one.


 

Some very pretty wood






 

And maybe a couple charcuterie boards, or cheese boards for us less snooty people :D



 

I cut a couple smaller pieces but nothing great in them, another piece will be firewood or smoking wood.

Nice 👍. My helpers are the same way 😂

[Dave Shepard]

That's what 2x6 are bringing here. I just got my first custom sawing job for framing lumber this week. Building inspector said ok to rough sawn.

[Bruno of NH]

Friday afternoon I sawed up some nice 16' butternut logs for the log broker.
4/4 and 5/4 .
The logs had 20" to 28" butts 
We used to have big butternut trees , they die off now before they get 12" now.

 

 

[doc henderson]

trimmed up a flitch that was too good for firewood, RO.  will make a bench seat for along the wall at the fire pit.



 

3.5 inches thick, 16 wide, and 14 feet long.

then some cottonwood.  was making junk firewood for BSA, or chimineas, or fire pits, but found a very solid log.



 

got half through and set off the first four 2" slabs you see in the background on the right, and the final four still on the mill.  nice and white.

[Wlmedley]

Took on a big order for my little one man operation.200 2"x4"s 100 12' and 100 10' all poplar.Found out logs have to be pretty straight to get very many good boards.Probably bit off more than I can easily chew but I guess greed and poverty got the best of me.Logs on deck might get me 50 12' boards.Still have several trees that tops are dying and need cut.I guess if it was easy everybody would want to do it :laugh:

 

[caveman]

I look forward to sawing poplar one of these days.  Doc, we have a similar pair of live oak slabs as benches along our dining room table.  My wife requested a bigger table this morning.  

John and I did not do a lot of sawing this weekend.  He had travel baseball with his son. I helped a vet bleed gilts and do health certificates on several show hogs on Saturday morning. We met at my house after lunch and drove north of Dade City to load two live oak logs on my small trailer.  We used canthooks, a comealong, and some 3" PVC pipes to load the logs.  The customer paid us to collect his logs and saw a mantle.  I told him that it would be a one hour minimum sawing charge and that we would get as much useable product as possible.  He ended up with a couple of mantles, slabs and some nice 4/4 boards.  Today, the customer came by to get his wood.  The price was well below what he was expecting but left a nice tip.  After sawing the live oak, we sawed a few pine logs into 16' 2x8's.


We did the best we could to box the heart in the mantles but these logs were so off centered and were not large enough to cut them free of heart.

This afternoon, I went and got a trailer load of slash pine logs and met a customer that we will be doing quite a bit of sawing for.

[Poquo]

Red Maple with some staining I've never seen before.

 

 

[TimW]

This afternoon, I was sawing a cant of 2x6s.  I had just finished the cutting and was out of the cut when the sawmill just stopped running.  First thought................did I fill the fuel tank today?  Yep, the tank was empty.  I filled it with diesel and ran the fuel pump before cranking, but the Yanmar just would not start.  I checked the line out of the filter and it had fuel. Not sure if it was enough coming out.   I disconnected the fuel line from the fuel pump and fuel pumped out, but not like it did when it was new.  When I leave the key on for the pump, after a while I hear a buzzing sound from the top of the engine.  I cranked the engine three times total.  I am at a loss if I ruined the injector pump or some electrical gadget needs to be reset, or my fuel pump (replaced last October) went out again, as fuel in the water seperator bowl won't raise above the level it did when the fuel pump was out.

I will call WM in the morning.  But I am wondering if fuel starvation is a death blow to a Yanmar fuel injector pump, like in a 2002 Cummins, or it doesn't harm it like in my 2003 Cummins?
Anybody here know that answer?
hugs,  Brandi

[KenMac]

I'm not very familiar with Yanmars but generally if the lift pump won't push fuel through injector pump you will have to bleed air out of the lines at the injectors until you get a spray of fuel at each one. That may get you going again.

[beenthere]

Running out of fuel isn't a problem with re-starting my Yanmar (3 cyl in John Deere).

Is there a fuel filter that may be plugged some? or a chance some water was drawn into the injector pump?
Bleeding the lines after a new fuel filter may be a fix. Just guesses... good luck.

[doc henderson]

I once got my JD 850 going with a little air pressure to the fuel tank.  I have also had to loosen up the lines at the engine to let out the air.

[TimW]

I'm not very familiar with Yanmars but generally if the lift pump won't push fuel through injector pump you will have to bleed air out of the lines at the injectors until you get a spray of fuel at each one. That may get you going again.

If the injector pump is alright, that is what I will need to do.  I just bleed air out before dark for filling and bleeding the air out of the fuel filter.
hugs,   Brandi

[rusticretreater]

You will also need to bleed at the pump and injectors.  You bleed them just like you would brakes.  My Kubota has a bleed screw on the body of the pump.  Then when bleeding the injectors pick the longest injector line first.

[terrifictimbersllc]

I've run mine out. Put a full tank on and squeeze the bulb a half dozen times or so to recirculate back into tank, then key to on, can hear the pump making its usual noise for a minute or so then start it without much extra cranking. Maybe a bit extra cranking a few times but not more than 5 seconds each attempt. Never had to bleed air like on Kubota D42.

[TimW]

I've run mine out. Put a full tank on and squeeze the bulb a half dozen times or so to recirculate back into tank, then key to on, can hear the pump making its usual noise for a minute or so then start it without much extra cranking. Maybe a bit extra cranking a few times but not more than 5 seconds each attempt. Never had to bleed air like on Kubota D42.

I removed the squeeze bulb when I replaced the fuel pump, per WM.  With the electric pump, you don't need the squeeze bulb.  I don't put a full tank on.  It is mounted in a metal enclosure.
hugs,  Brandi

[TimW]

I talked to a Yanmar repair dealer.  The guy told me some tricks WM told me not to do.  Bottom line is the injector pump can not be killed by lack of fuel, like my old 2002 Cummins in my pickup.  He walked me through at length on the phone exactly where to bleed everything.  Also told me to let the starter cool after 15 seconds cranking.  It sounds like it is doable.  Which is good, because they charge $149 an hour with a 2-3 day turn time.  $2.50 a mile if they come here, which is 48 miles.
But at least I found a shop that can secure the sawmill inside if they had to work on it.  I told him I was afraid of "hangar" rash to the sawmill.  46 years working in and out of hangars..........I have seen plenty of hangar and "ramp" rash happen.
Thanks guys for the help.  I will bled it out after it quits raining 40 degree weather.  I think the sun will be out tomorrow. 
                           hugs,  Brandi

[TimW]

A couple of weeks back, I had cut these 8 foot 1x12s.

   Specifically for the area bee keepers.  I cut the oldest logs I have on hand for them.  You know the ones I am talking about.  No sap dripping off and the sawdust flies in your face alot more.  Had 44 of them and two customers showed up for all of them this morning.  One was strapping his load while the other loading.  Looks like they both will be repeat customers.
hugs,  Brandi