Whatcha Sawin' 2025 ??

[TimW]

So the Red Oak boards will be siding?

[WV Sawmiller]

  Interesting design if I understand it correctly. Are you saying the floor will be roughly 4' above ground? I don't understand the concept.

    It does look like some pretty logs. How wide are the boards he is having you cut? Wide goes up fast but they cup too bad.

[Magicman]

The 1X12's & 1X4's will be B&B siding.  The 1X6's, 8's & 10's will be used inside for whatever.

Are you saying the floor will be roughly 4' above ground? I don't understand the concept.

Yes, but I do not understand what is not to understand?  The left uphill side is probably 2' above the ground.

[WV Sawmiller]

Thanks. From the picture I thought I was seeing the low side and figured if it was 4' I was wondering if they could walk under the high side.

[jpassardi]

Lynn,
Is he going to get the RO siding nailed up before it dries so he doesn't have to pre-drill? 

[Magicman]

He should not have any problem with splitting by shooting nails through it with a nail gun.  If he does, then he will have to cross that bridge then.  These trees died during the drought in '23.  The sapwood has all rotted so his boards are almost 100% heartwood.  All of the lumber is being stickered and hopefully I can get a picture tomorrow when I finish sawing.


Here are eye popper bookmatched pieces that he will use for a table, sawed 1 1/2".


Here is a 2" spalted piece that will be either a table or a bench.

I will finish tomorrow after sawing the customary ERC logs.  Yup, everyone just happens to have a few out behind the barn.

[Magicman]

Is he going to get the RO siding nailed up before it dries so he doesn't have to pre-drill?

He is going to drill and screw.

I finished sawing this morning, 2 1/2 days yielding 2764bf.  It should have easily been at least 500 more bf, but the sapwood on some of the Oak logs was spalted/rotten and had to be discarded.  I slabbed down to the solid heartwood.  Lotsa loss.


This is part of the lumber plus there was another whack and plus today's sawing was still on the trailer.

I brought the sawmill home, parked it in it's spot until Monday's sawing, and went home for lunch.  A doctor customer called and said that he had just dropped 3 logs off at the sawmill.  ??  Now how did he drop 3 logs off, so I had to take a look-see? 


Yes he exactly did what he said and I will give him points for being able to count....none for the definition of a "log".  The bottom two stems are Walnut, but so far I have no idea about the top one.  It kinda has Elm'y or even Pecan looking bark but it was light in weight.  I'll find out Monday when I bust it open if I can figure out a way to clamp it.  I see a sacrificial 2X6 in my future.

I have twenty 2X12 X 16' to saw Monday and then nothing planned until Saturday the 8th and finishing Monday the 10th if needed.  That job is eleven very nice 10' SYP logs to be sawed into mostly 2X4's for a new home. 
 

[jpassardi]

Did the doctor ask you to mill tongue depressors out of those nub logs? 

[Magicman]

Actually, he wants ~4X4's.  He will use his Powermatic bandsaw to break them down further as he decides on projects.

I have sawed for him many times (6-8) and apparently he thinks Magicman means miracles.  He has a variety of 8-10 logs for me to saw at his normal site, but I reckon he needs these now.  I shoulda asked if he had an appointment??    

[Nebraska]

Those logs are like the occasional random animals that get dropped off at the office from time to time.