Whatcha Sawin' 2022 ??

[Brad_bb]

The ladies would buy them like hot cakes!  Sexy fireman, sexy soldier, sexy sawyer.....

[WV Sawmiller]

   No offence but I will stick to my SPAM calendar. :D :D :D

[Magicman]

When the 2023 calendar comes out, i hope he is at least wearing the apron and the boots.   ;)

 
Got Aprons??  ;D



 
Got Boots??  ;D

[Wlmedley]

Got up enough nerve today to cut a big poplar behind the barn.Log deck full start sawing tomorrow.Small orders keep coming.Looks like this hobby is going to pay for itself  :laugh: 

 

  

[Walnut Beast]

Looks great 👍

[Brad_bb]

@Wlmedley , good for you!! It's great when it has paid for itself.  I've never sold any wood, but mine has paid for itself at least twice for the money I've saved.

[Bruno of NH]

Wide white pine boards today
Loaded up this fatty 
40" on the butt 
It's going to my new wholesale account

 

 

 

[Jim_Rogers]

Glad to see your snow is gone.

Good luck with that big one.

Jim Rogers

[firefighter ontheside]

I sawed 4 cedar logs this morning.  The big cedars are always so disappointing.  The first log I sawed was 16" on the small end.  I did not get any what I would call nice  boards out of it.  I salvaged about 8 1x6's that are OK.  I did better from the logs in the 10" range.  Almost every board out of those logs were nice.  I sawed an odd shaped log that I had to cut 1x4 from.


 

 

[TroyC]

 

 

 

Got lucky awhile back and got three nice cedar logs plus a bunch of stumps for free. Was able to sell 8 slabs and my friend and I got 13 cookies. He's been busy making cedar cookie tables.



 

[firefighter ontheside]

Yeah, that looks like a nice solid log.  I have some more big ones.  I still hope to get some good ones.

[Magicman]

Finished.....Finally.  The last log was a very nice ERC that I should have taken a picture of, but I was busy thinking about leaving.  Heck I didn't even scale it.  Total scaled lumber sawed on this job was 21148 bf. and it was about 50-50 framing lumber and 1" for siding, paneling, lath, etc.  This puts my yearly total at 45Mbf+. 

I will move to a whole house framing lumber job tomorrow.  I plan for it to be my last sawing until we get back home from the "Project".

[fluidpowerpro]

Just curious, how many hours into a job like that?

[Walnut Beast]

Nice looking stuff guys 👍

[Magicman]

Just curious, how many hours into a job like that?

I was on this job 10 days, generally sawing by 7:30 and quitting by 4:00.  I averaged 2114.8 bf per day, not a record but not bad.  I had very good help but we took breaks and did not push hard.  I sawed 10 logs into stickers that I did not scale nor invoice.  Logs with sawyer holes were slabbed deep so wasted sawing there.    

[KenMac]

Just curious as to why you don't charge for sawing stickers?

[TimW]

Every once in awhile and nothing consistently, one of my 16 foot 2bys comes out a little thin on the end, about 12-15 inches from the end.  It is just enough to stick out like a sore thumb to a trained eye.

What is causing it?  Is it I am going too slow or too fast?
           hugs, Brandi

[Magicman]

Just curious as to why you don't charge for sawing stickers?

I do not sell lumber but rather I sell a sawing service which includes stickers.  That is the service that I provide, my decision and my sawing profile. 

The majority of the time stickers are accumulated during edging but in this instance I saw where I could better use the 4 tailgunners while I was sawing rather than chasing stickers.  An hour with one tailgunner knocking out the stickers was time well spent.   

[Magicman]

Every once in awhile and nothing consistently, one of my 16 foot 2bys comes out a little thin on the end, about 12-15 inches from the end. It is just enough to stick out like a sore thumb to a trained eye.

Stress within your cant is causing the end to lift up slightly off of the bed rail as you are sawing.  What is missing from that end has been gradually added to the boards above it.  Each of them are a bit thicker than you are sawing.  Only 1/16th per board adds up as you remove boards.

Another instance of stress being relieved.  You may have to flip the cant after each board is removed/sawn.

[Dave Shepard]

White pine is more forgiving, white oak is bad, especially at 16'. I flip every board when cutting 16' oak decking. When cutting oak timbers, I leave a 1/4" for cleanup on each face after cutting tree side lumber.

[Dave Shepard]

I cut construction lumber for the first time today. I've cut a 2x here and there, but this is an entire building. Logs were cut to clear the building site, and will get put back as a workshop. 



 

[TimW]

Every once in awhile and nothing consistently, one of my 16 foot 2bys comes out a little thin on the end, about 12-15 inches from the end. It is just enough to stick out like a sore thumb to a trained eye.

Stress within your cant is causing the end to lift up slightly off of the bed rail as you are sawing.  What is missing from that end has been gradually added to the boards above it.  Each of them are a bit thicker than you are sawing.  Only 1/16th per board adds up as you remove boards.

Another instance of stress being relieved.  You may have to flip the cant after each board is removed/sawn.

Lynn,
How do you know when to flip the cant when you can't see it move? 
hugs,  Brandi

[Magicman]

If it doesn't move don't flip, but I can assure you that when you have a narrow end board at the end, it has moved.  There are times when you may have to flip and make a sacrificial cut to get back to your 'cut line'.

Some logs have stress and thankfully some/most don't.  I just finished sawing will over 150 SYP logs and probably only a half dozen or so were troublesome.   One twisted and lifted badly and yielded very little of usable lumber.

[KenMac]

Just curious as to why you don't charge for sawing stickers?

I do not sell lumber but rather I sell a sawing service which includes stickers.  That is the service that I provide, my decision and my sawing profile.  

The majority of the time stickers are accumulated during edging but in this instance I saw where I could better use the 4 tailgunners while I was sawing rather than chasing stickers.  An hour with one tailgunner knocking out the stickers was time well spent.  

Thanks, MM. I also don't charge for stickers, but I get them from jacket boards or edgings. The width may not be exactly the same on mine.

[TimW]

If it doesn't move don't flip, but I can assure you that when you have a narrow end board at the end, it has moved.  There are times when you may have to flip and make a sacrificial cut to get back to your 'cut line'.

Some logs have stress and thankfully some/most don't.  I just finished sawing will over 150 SYP logs and probably only a half dozen or so were troublesome.   One twisted and lifted badly and yielded very little of usable lumber.

It is only one board out of a cant, not every board in that cant gets a thin end.
 hugs,  Brandi