A day cutting wood

[Peter Drouin]

You may get a little fair-good lumber from those. ;D 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

Logs that big are not fun to mill, but soooo much wood when you get done. ;D
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I know, But I don't like to work that hard ;D But it is just one that's 40"  :D :D
Maybe I can put a wedge on the excavator to split logs like that. 22 tons might work. ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Peter,I heard there wll be one in Chesterville,Maine at an orange open house in April.  ;D

I'm going to the open house on the 12th of April. I think it starts at 8 am. I'll call to see if one will be there.
Like to see a LT70 wide head with a 200 horse cat engine, GIDDY UP  :D :D :D :D :D

[thecfarm]

Peter will be hooked up at 8:01 and be headed for the border by 8:15.  :D   I might go again this year too. Find out if Ross will be serving those Maine grits again.  ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Peter will be hooked up at 8:01 and be headed for the border by 8:15.  :D   I might go again this year too. Find out if Ross will be serving those Maine grits again.  ;D

No, Not this year I have to much going on all ready. And we all know money doesn't grow on trees  ;D


 
 
Maine grits  :D :D


Wide head


  

 

[drobertson]

Money may not grow on trees, but trees sure produce money!  and the lt-70 will get it from them in a timely fashion. if the set up is right.    david

[Dave Shepard]

Too bad that one will only cut short logs. :-\

[backwoods sawyer]

The wind and rain let up early this morning and we had blue skies for the drive across the county. Rivers are running high and the creeks are running brown, we have a mud road to climb the hill to the milling site and I have to back up the hill from the shop on up to the landing where the Black Oak logs are decked. Climbing the hill the tires were slipping a bit here and there, pulled up and backed the mill in thru the shop to get enough room to get turned around, backing uphill and around the corner took three attempts to get onto the landing, but still had to hook the tractor up to the mill as the red clay was tooooo goooooey
I had done the site eval about a month ago on a Friday he was expecting to be ready by Monday, 48" tree, three pieces needed quartered, 75' downhill from landing, little tractor and a lot of chainsaw work to be done, I was not a bit surprised it took a month to get ready. There is another big Black oak above the landing that he had used so he could do all his pulling down hill.
Logs ranged in length from 2' to 9' most were 5'-6' so I spent the day operating the manual dogs, and Pee-Vee assisting to turn, one of those short blue mill special cant hooks that MM has been using would have been handy today. But it took both heavy Pee Vee's to roll some of the larger Quarters in the mud. As the saw dust was generated it was spread around to the soft spots and the ground firmed up a bit as it was a nice sunny warm day, even saw the first buzzards of the year, along with Daffodils and plum trees in full bloom.
It is all being milled into random width flooring and a few stair treads. We had planned for a short day to fit both of our schedules but still had three quarters of the tree milled up and it looks like an easy 2,000 bft out of one tree. Sunny and close to 70* for tomorrow.  ;D


 
Anyone know what length of saw the wide head 70 uses?

[Dave Shepard]

It has a 6" wider cut, so it should be 12" longer. I haven't seen the length listed in WM blade chart, yet. What does the LT70 use?

[Peter Drouin]

Got it cut today, Went around with a saw with a 2' bar then pick it up with John and dumped it. Perfect. ;D



 

Had trucks and customers coming and going all day.


  

  

 

I tired ;D

[backwoods sawyer]

Finished milling up the big Black Oak tree, we milled up every log, stick, and chunk that he had not already cut up for firewood, end tally was 2,400 bft.
Since it will be air dried before going to the local kiln-planer mill he rented a full bundle of stickers from them and will start moving it to the open ended barn and stickering it. He plans to cover the stack with plywood and stack a cord or so of firewood on top for added weight. The recovery was real good as the tree was sound thru out with minimal defects that will need to be trimmed out later.
The local planer mill can handle up to 24” and prefers wider boards for making flooring, as they have a five movable saw edger with a scanner for auto positioning that allows them to increase recovery. Our sizes were 6-18 in two inch increments most were 12-14.


  

 
This one gave us a bit of a chalenge to get on the mill.


 
The 70 takes 184"

[WDH]

Peter,

After seeing this, I, too, am tired  ;D.

Backwoods,

Some fine oak lumber for sure!

[Peter Drouin]

Backwoods what happing to your clamp. Is it worn that much or bent?

[Magicman]

Yup, Harvey needs to tighten the bolts on his clamp.   ;D

[backwoods sawyer]

What, Is that not the angle it should be at?
The heavy piece of metal it mounts to is bent. Need to pull it apart and get it straightened up. The whole clamp is worn and has quite a bit of slop in it and is on the list for a rebuild. I will gain an inch of lift on the clamp when I do.

Got the mill set up on grass bottom land where the water table is high but we got rained out. The ground here is so soft now that I just about did not get the farm truck out of the field on the first trip out to feed the cows and calves this morning.



  

 

[Magicman]

Looks like Little Jo will have it greased up and ready to go.   ;D

[POC]

I showed my wife part of the pics in this thread and told her, "THIS is what I want to do."  She said maybe someday.  I told her I'm not getting any younger.  :-\

[Hackeldam Wood Products]

Peter, thanks for an informative thread. Nice pics. I am interested how the woodlot turned out, I always wanted to do that.

[Peter Drouin]

Well, I got to the W pine today, The one I cut in half.


 
I get it on the mill and start, Use John to help hold it till I clamped it.


  

 
All went well until it was time to turn it, Then all sawing stoped.


NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO I yelled, And that did not work.


 
I look at the thing and said I hates big ##### logs.   :D :D :D :D :D :D
That thing rolled like a ball over the stops just as sweet as can be.
So I got John to help me start over  :


 
I did get it cut.
Then I went and got the red oak made 2 cuts got stuck [log too big] tried to back up, but, The sawdust is all frozen and bent the blade all up. Get the saw and cut the ### thing out and called it a day.

[mesquite buckeye]

What's all that white stuff I see everywhere?

;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Oh thanks Peter......now I'm gonna have nightmares!  ;D

[Magicman]

Peter, as bad as it was, thankfully it did not wedge between the sawmill and tire.   

I too always yell NOOOOOOOOoooo.  It never does any good but I always yell.  It ain't a funny nice feeling.   :-\

[Peter Drouin]

Peter, as bad as it was, thankfully it did not wedge between the sawmill and tire.   

I too always yell NOOOOOOOOoooo.  It never does any good but I always yell.  It ain't a funny nice feeling.   :-\

It was top heavy. I think It's the #3 time it has happed to me. And it was always a over size log : :D

[Coon]

If you can pitch a nice size log like that I would hate to see the damge you'd do pitching a small diameter 8 or 10 foot long log... :D  I would think it would be a cross between dominoes, baseball and bowling all at once.....  I can hear it now. STRIKE 3 !!!!    :D  :D  :D

[Chuck White]

Peter, as bad as it was, thankfully it did not wedge between the sawmill and tire.   

I too always yell NOOOOOOOOoooo.  It never does any good but I always yell.  It ain't a funny nice feeling.   :-\

Definately not a good feeling Lynn!

I have only done that between the mill and tire thing three times!

Worse thing I've thought about when that happened was DO NOT BREAK THE FEED CHAIN!

Been lucky!

[WDH]

I too always yell NOOOOOOOOoooo. 

I yell too, at times like those, except that I yell something else instead of NOOOooo  .