Whatcha Sawin' 2025 ??

[SawyerTed]

Nice whack of logs!

Sawing 31 in a day is a bunch as well!   

Sorry about the truck trouble.   Hope it turns out to be an easy fix.  

[WV Sawmiller]

yes. And the towing truck driver tried to jump w/no results.

[Resonator]

Hopefully Howard you can get the no-go problem figured out.
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Spruce.

Sawed up the spruce logs I cut from standing dead trees for natural edge paneling. Minimal areas of grain were borderline soft/rot, some had nice blue staining.

Red Oak.

Took a break from sawing spruce, and sawed up the red oak log pieces I got from member Otis1 back in February (reply #152 and #156).

Sawed it all 4/4 (1") random width, and gave me a chance to practice YellowHammer's RRQS technique. These are some of the boards that "hit" good ray pattern. I can definitely tell bigger diameter logs give a better growth ring target to aim for, and more wide boards after they are edged. Thinking of ways to index the logs a few degrees at a time as I saw them, and still hold them secure. Will think on it more.

One of the lumber stacks. Think I got a couple hundred board feet, still stacking and counting. Plenty of good clear straight grain boards, a couple are already spoken for to be made into cribbage boards. Thanks again Otis1 for the logs!

[terrifictimbersllc]

Out the door at 4:45 am tomorrow, 90 miles, 3000+bf of possibly rotten fir and spruce, plus other stuff. Nice customer, probably overnight, guest cottage, wife coming too, dinner out, it will be an adventure.  

[Magicman]

Take care and enjoy. 

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

A tow truck company that wants it towed to the road first. I heard it all now! I owned my own tow trucks for 20 years. Good luck , Howard.

You are all sawing some nice logs. I have been to busy since I retired to fire up the mill. 

Maybe today!

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

Howard, I would have come and got you!
Sometime in the 1980's my first wrecker was a 49 Chevy with 29,000 original miles one owner. 

That's me in the 1990's with a 84 International flatbed. Great truck.

[Magicman]

Nice trucks/wreckers.  It's crazy how sharp IH trucks can turn. 

[Resonator]

Those old twin boom Holmes wreckers are neat. They were designed so one boom could be swung out and the line secured to an anchor point, and the other boom swung out to "fish" a car out of a ditch. Big trees along the highway were referred to as "Holmes trees", as they were the ones the tow trucks would hook onto.

One of the local milk tanker truck drivers had the same vintage IH as your wrecker, (believe it had the DT466). From what I was told it had couple million miles on it when he retired. It was sold, and lived on as a maple sap hauler.

[Magicman]

 I will start unloading and cleaning my work/sawmilling truck today.  I took off two weeks before this last job and I am hopefully planning three weeks or a month this time.  I am smelling some salty air.

I am either refusing or passing off distant jobs.  This is all part of my slowing-down/semi-retiring objective.

[WV Sawmiller]

   I left home at 0630 and returned to the same site 53 miles away. Here were the logs remaining.





   We sawed hard all day and finished about 20 very big logs. I think we have 28 logs left plus 8 20' to saw into 7X7 beams. I sawed some 4X12X16 and 4X8X16 beams today.

    At about 7:00 pm we quit and here is what the yard looks like.





    We have not tallied the lumber yet but here are the stack I saw on the way out.





    Looks like another long day tomorrow and may a short day Sunday to finish. My customer had to leave and stopped at a local store and saw a neighbor and they talked about our sawing now it sounds like he has logs nearby he may want sawed.

[Magicman]

Looking good Howard. 

[doc henderson]

fantastic.  

[jpassardi]

Looking good   I'm sure your back hasn't yet let you forget about your 12 hour day.  

[Magicman]

I am either refusing or passing off distant jobs.  This is all part of my slowing-down/semi-retiring objective.

I am keeping on keeping on.  My next tentative beginning sawing dates are April 24 and/or May 26 depending upon the weather and whatever else. 

[WV Sawmiller]

Back up early to make the donuts saw the lumber. We sawed 8-10 logs then moved the mill up to the logs at the far end of yesterdays picture. They were 21' logs that I cut into 7.5" square beams (or square as logs that long would allow) and there were 8 of them. I got the beams and side lumber out of most of them. Some barely made the beams. I had to remove the 2" rubber bumpers from each end to get the extra working room to saw them but that is just a clip to removed and re-install.

  The customer said he has everything on his cut list so is going to cull a lot of the remaining logs. We will finish tomorrow or as they say in Sand land "Mumpkin bookara, Insha'Allah".

These are the remaining 19-20 logs. The worst will be scrapped for firewood. The big ones on the end are way oversized and we are not sure if the mill and skid steer together can lift and tun then. They will surely need to be gun barreled if we can load them.

I missed a call from the shop today that my truck problem is the starter. Not a big or expensive fix but I replaced the one on it a year I should have it back Monday or Tuesday.

[barbender]

A starter on a truck usually isn't too bad. I just had to swap an alternator on my Duramax, I stole one off of a dead truck I have out back. Took about 45 minutes. A few days later,the alternator on my daughter's Hyundai died. I went and looked at it, tucked in underneath on that transverse V6. I decided that would be better done by a professional. Well, by the time we got it out of the shop it was over $1500 with the alternator and an oil change. That kinda hurt😬

[TimW]

Howard, between a skid steer AND you loader arms you should be able to load the log.  I have done it before with the tractor's loader and the mill.  Lift with the tractor until it's front tires get almost flat, then lift a little with the mill, then the tractor, then the mill.  It works.

[WV Sawmiller]

Tim,

   I have had to get help from loaders and tractors too. Even had one today and several were slow to load. I think the one was not well centered which contributed to the need for help.

   The biggest one he said he could not lift with his skid steer. I don't know what their limit is.

[Resonator]

Save your receipt, the last starter I did on my truck was covered under warranty when it failed. The auto parts store covered the price of the new one.

[Magicman]

Even had one today and several were slow to load.

Remember, the Magic Hook and chain tied to the log clamp will roll the log over the loader pivot point making loading big logs a breeze.

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

Back to sawing after 8 weeks of heavy duty winter weather.  

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

That is a lot of lumber, Howard. 
In a no crank situation many times if you hold in the start position and have someone give the starter a good shot with a bar or hammer it will get you going. Don't shut it off probably only work once or twice.

[Magicman]

8 weeks of sleep is plenty.  It's good to see her back in action. 

[Nebraska]

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I decided I had sawn enough Red Cedar blanks and I had better see if my home made shingle jig worked. It did....with a little learning... Not too bad and I actually surprised myself. Now only 800 or so more to go. 
  I was afraid I would need to post this in that "other thread".......