A day cutting wood

[tmarch]

Sometimes the ratchet straps are worse than changing the grease tube in a grease gun  .

Heck I can remember filling a grease gun out of a bucket of grease, now that could get a bit messy!!!!!!!!!!

[terrifictimbersllc]

Just wondering, is this movers hitch the same as the Bolin hitch knot?  ropes are handy, and ratchet straps are too, applications and requirements often dictate which are used.

Don't think so, here is the "mover's knot", I think of it as a "canoe" knot because that's how I strap down the canoe and anything else I need to ratchet down tightly with a rope.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H59bhXDUMcg

[drobertson]

Oh yea, never had a name for these loops, but I use them all the time when not using the ratchets'

[Peter Drouin]

Ok, A 24' log w pine, The customer wants a 3.5"x22' counter top live edge.


  

 
How much would you charge just for the top, The rest of the log will make 12' 1" boards. The top is 154 BF.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You know what I would charge.  :D

[Dave Shepard]

$2/board foot.

[Bandmill Bandit]

I charge up to $100 bucks a foot for stuff like that depending on the tree and how hard it is to get the log you need to make the piece you need.

How hard would it be for him to find it else where?

Specialty cuts are the cream of the business. DON'T sell your self short!

In this case I would think a $40 ish price per foot would be about right.

JMO 

[Delawhere Jack]

$2/board foot.

Plus a $500 custom milling fee, or $300 in SC.

[WDH]

I would be about $4.00/BF. 

[barbender]

You know what I would charge.  :D

:D Well, I think you would cut it into 3-8' pieces and charge $300 a piece ;D

[Jim_Rogers]

$2/board foot.

x2

[Jim_Rogers]

Last week this customer calls me up and says he has some maple he wants cut up from a tree in his yard that fell down during a storm.

I told him: "sure bring it right over" and "I'll lift the logs out or off your trailer with my backhoe".

He brought me this "whack" of wood:



 



 

He carried most of the pieces off the trailer over to the sawmill, as they were very small.
He held one up that was about 4" in diameter and about 4' long and curved and asked me what did I think of it.
I told him, quite frankly, that it was firewood.
Most of it was for sure, but you know the old saying "the customer is always right".

He was willing to pay me to mill his firewood into lumber, I was will to take his money.

Just another "day in cutting wood".

Jim Rogers

[Magicman]

Those pieces are important to him, and our job is to saw.   8)

[Peter Drouin]

If you pay I will play[ old saying]  ;D

[JustinW_NZ]

If you pay I will play[ old saying]  ;D

yes, I use "If there paying - there Saying..."

Cheers
Justin

[ozarkgem]

Ok, A 24' log w pine, The customer wants a 3.5"x22' counter top live edge.


  

 
How much would you charge just for the top, The rest of the log will make 12' 1" boards. The top is 154 BF.

Must be a big house. My house is not 24 feet wide.

[backwoods sawyer]

100 miles away another yard tree came down :
When we arrived the customer had no idea what length he wants. So to take out the dog leg we went with a 16' couple 12' and a couple 10'. The butt log weighed in at 6,400 lb 38" small end. 



  

 

The mill will be set up on the street. All of the tailings and lumber will be hand packed past the stump into the backyard where it will be stacked :

[WDH]

Wow!

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I have a cut list for 2 barns......bring me 1 log please.  :D

[Peter Drouin]

That's a tree :D

[Peter Drouin]

Loggers moving to the other side of the land track , Called me to pick up some loose ones. :D [Pine and hemlock]


 
Do anyone here use the log tongs to unload . Most times I can hook, pull and unhook without getting out of John. ;D


  

 
They'er a big help here.

[Jim_Rogers]

I do that all the time.


Jim Rogers

[backwoods sawyer]

I got three sizes of tongs as well, just don't have John ;D


  

  

  

 
The butt log was trimmed back to 8' as the fluting went in about 2' Rolling that 1,000 lb fluted chunck up into the back yard gave the 4 man crew of day labors a work out first thing in the morning as they came to relise they were packing the whole tree into the backyard ;D
The butt end was still 48" so I ripped it in half. 2"x 22" slabs was the target, the last log of the day was 12' and took all four of them to pack each one of the slabs to the backyard, they were so heavy with moisture they would flex 3"-4" as they were hefted up

When we finished we drug the sawdust up into the frontyard and dumped there as the stump grinder will be in monday and the excavator will be in tuesday to replace the sewer lines.

Both the crane opperator and the one writing the check told me we don't charge enough and tipped nicely ;D

When we got home I found one of the real disadvantages to sawing portable. The keys had been pulled out of the switch and placed on top of the control panel when the mill was put in travel mode and needless to say they were not there when we got home and I had already put the hitch lock on the mill. We made the 100 mile drive up to see if they could be located but they were not found :(

[Bruno of NH]

Peter
The log tongs look like a slick set up for unloading !!!
Jim Bruno of NH

[Delawhere Jack]

Backwoods, what species was that tree?

About the keys, I keep my truck and mill keys on one ring for just that reason.