Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[Resonator]

Bruno, I can hear those sawhorses groaning.  

If they break a leg, do the sawhorses get sent to the glue factory? ???

[doc henderson]

of course, how else would you fix a wooden sawhorse leg...with glue!  

[SawyerTed]

Ba dum dum! :D :D

[Bruno of NH]

Bruno what is your cover on the lumber whack? Tyvek?

I use synthetic roofing paper , it works great

[Old Greenhorn]

Bruno what is your cover on the lumber whack? Tyvek?

I use synthetic roofing paper , it works great

That's another great idea I just learned from you Bruno. Thanks. I have no idea why I never thought of that before. DUH!
 Howard, I choose not to dignify your comment with a reply, but if I was so inclined I would point out that our crushed stone and broken shale hereabouts is the finest that can be found for holding things in place, slicing fingers, wearing out boots in record time, and any number of other valuable assets.

[Deese]

Just shy of 100-- 1.5x5.5x16's from just TWO syp logs. That's not including all of the edger boards I've yet to run through the edger.  I lowered the side supports to make more room, and accidentally rolled the log on top of the rear side support,  breaking it at the weld and bending the arm that the rod is connected to. A quick 3 mile trip to the machine shop and back up and running. 

 

 

[Magicman]

I finished the first 4 days of this job this afternoon.


 


 
That is 9440bf of mostly framing lumber which is averaging 2360 bf per day.  The 2X4's are dimensional and the 6's, 8's, & 10's are full size width and 1 5/8" thick.   I sawed five 12' logs into stickers that I neither scaled nor invoiced.

I'll be continuing to saw ¾X6's for lap siding and then 1X4's for lath Monday.


 
This is what a REAL sawmill dollar looks like.   :

[Old Greenhorn]

OK, it's been over an hour now, so I guess I'll bite: What's the deal on the 'sawmill dollar'?

[Magicman]

 :D  It is what it is, but that is the very first one that I have ever actually seen.  

Mel Tillis - Sawmill - YouTube

[WV Sawmiller]

  Wait till Tom hears about a "Sawmill Wife." :D Maybe these southern terms we all took for granted. ;)

[Old Greenhorn]

Apparently there is a big void in my education. I have no idea what you guys are talking about. But I have always enjoyed Mel Tillis's work.

[Magicman]

Jokes aside, I would have loved to have had Jeff there with his new camera making a video of me knocking out some of those logs into framing lumber about every 10-12 minutes.  My three tailgunners were earning their sawmill dollars.  We did not set any records but it was some smooth steady sawing.

[firefighter ontheside]

I was sawing mantels today.  Not making mantels, but un-making them.   A guy came and bought 5 walnut mantels that I had for sale and asked me to saw them all in half.  He owns the local farmer's market and had recently remodeled the inside part of the store with what he called barnwood.  He said he had been looking for something to use as shelves and found my ad for the mantels.  I resawed them all to about 10/4 for him.  He saw some walnut that I sawed a couple years ago as possible rifle stocks.  He may buy all of those from me too.

[Walnut Beast]

Let's see some pictures 

[olcowhand]

This is what a REAL sawmill dollar looks like.

And remember, Gene Watson spent 7 of those "Sawmill Dollars" on a bracelet in "Fourteen Carat Mind"....

[Peter Drouin]

 

 
We get them here too. ;D

[Magicman]

Yup, tired, weary, worn, and well earned.

I recently bumped my sawing rate up 5¢ per bf, so there were a few additional sawmill $$. 

[Patrick NC]

Started on some SYP 1x12s and 10s yesterday.  

 
Sawed a little over 600' working by myself.  Customer picked up around 5:30 yesterday and ordered another 1000' . I guess I better get busy. 

[firefighter ontheside]

@Walnut Beast this is the only picture I took.  


 

[Walnut Beast]

Looking good 👍 

[doc henderson]

Sawmill dollar:  A sawmill dollar was worth just a dollar. The term comes from the people who worked in the sawmills of a century or more ago. The work was hard and the days long and the dollar they were paid was hard earned. The term sawmill dollar reflected how hard it was to earn money in those times.

[Old Greenhorn]

I'll see your google search and raise you one more: I found an actual sawmill dollar on Ebay, but we can't post those links here. Just go on ebay and search for "RARE R-10 MOBILE RIVER SAWMILL CO. MT VERNON,ALA. ONE DOLLAR TOKEN"
Apparently these were dollar tokens paid to employees in lieu of cash wages that could only be redeemed at a company store for merchandise. An early way of controlling employees and where the spent the money they earned. Today companies do it in other ways to keep their employees as close to indentured as possible. ;D

[doc henderson]

well, I hope they did not want more than a dollar for it.   :D :D

[fluidpowerpro]

I checked it out. $200.00. I wonder how long someone would have had to work for that much when it was in use?

[WV Sawmiller]

   Around here the coal companies used to issue scrip to their employees to use at the commissary instead of paying casg. As I understand most people never got out of debt to the company when working for coal companies or sawmills and such. My maternal grandfather got fired from a local veneer mill one time because he did not shop at the commissary.

   The  military exchanges in Iraq and Afghanistan printed tokens or fobs as we called them in 5, 10 & 25 cent denominations and gave them to you in change when you bought something there. I think they just rounded up or down for the pennies and ignored them. If you got enough you could exchange them for folding money. Lots of the troops and us contractors got them and used for poker chips or such. I am sure enough were lost in the wash or trashed to more than pay for the printing costs. 

   When I was working recruits at Parris Island we followed suit with San Diego in issuing chits for the recruits to use to pay for their Exchange needs such as hair cuts, etc. It made it easier on us as I no longer had to do cash pay calls at the end of the first phase (end of 3 weeks) and the end of training and it cut out barracks larceny. The Base exchange officer said every recruit seemed to want to keep one for a souvenir which more than covered printing costs - kind of like an uncashed check.