A day cutting wood

[Peter Drouin]

Nice work and photo documentation Peter. I enjoy seeing what you've been up to!

Thanks,

I went around Monday and pick up some logs that I had since March.
The bugs are starting to get in them. I don't like to lose wood so I cut them into boards.


  

 
You can see the things, about ½ the size of rice.

That log has a split in it, you can see I put it on the side. That way it will be in one or two boards.


  

 
But I did get some nice ones 16" wide 16' long. And no blue stain.

[Magicman]

Nice lumber.  I see that slipped bark condition very often when sawing customer's logs.

[Peter Drouin]

Nice lumber.  I see that slipped bark condition very often when sawing customer's logs.

Yes, the bark is coming off now is the time to cut them up. In 2 to 3 weeks I will lose ½ the BF of the logs, Can't make money that way :D :D :D


A job showed up today, With a little truck. Loader on the back, nice setup :D :D


 
Hard to see It was getting late, But the truck will bring 15 8' logs at a time. 4 to 5 loads all w pine.

[Magicman]

How come you guys have all of the cute trucks with the loaders?  Ain't fair!!   8)

He would also have to blow that horn for me.   ;)

[Peter Drouin]

There's an outfit 3 towns over sells the loaders. I have been thinking about putting one on a trailer.
But I have too much going on .  :D :D :D

[Peter Drouin]

A small job came in today, Will get the cut list sat.


 
The black end ones are to be 4x4 :D :D  :D



Today I had a log that was split 2 ways, No way to get around it. Had to recut it.


 
See it, sometimes having the extra 24' is nice, Can go 2 thing at the same time. :D :D :D :D


 

[tule peak timber]

nice !!!

[thechknhwk]

We was sawing today too.  Took the Kubota over as well to help out, the fella had his logs in neat rows, but not stacked so they were long rows, and I didn't want to move the saw.  We were knocking on 1500bf at about 430pm, then as I was counting up boards the phone rings, and I got called in to work tonight, unbelievable....  It was white pine and red oak, some pretty nice stuff.

[WDH]

Wow, those are extra long forks on that tractor.

[thechknhwk]

Wow, those are extra long forks on that tractor.

They are 48" ;D

[drobertson]

Nice whack there chkhawk,  just wondering, are the skeeters bad around that pond?  and that lemonade looked pretty good too!  thought I would check again, I guess I have lemonade on the brain,  oh well nice work,

[Dave Shepard]

Wow, those are extra long forks on that tractor.

I think it's just an extra small tractor for the size of the forks.

[thechknhwk]

I think it's just an extra small tractor for the size of the forks.

Why ya gotta be like that? :D

I didn't see any lemonade today.  Drobertson, you must have it on the brain ;)

[Peter Drouin]

Good job.

[Peter Drouin]

New guy,


  

 
Had a mix of hard and soft wood.
New guy will bring in a little wood and see how I do with price and scale. :D :D And if I pass, then there will be more wood coming in 8) 8).


Had I customer send over some wood for me to cut.


  

 
Next week job, Sometimes I don't know what the customer is thinking  :D :D :D What do you do with THIS :D


  

 
W oak and w pine

[WDH]

You throw it into the woods for the bugs.

[thecfarm]

Looks like something I would put in my OWB.

[tule peak timber]

That butt looks like some of the stuff I received this week. Between nails and rot I'm going to lose my own butt.....I'm paying 5$ per mile to truck logs in and the log broker sends me junk like your photo. The rest of your load does look pretty good though ! Rob

[Magicman]

Looks like that tree was removed, had to be hauled off, and your place became the dumping ground.   :-\

[drobertson]

Must be nice, not sure but it seems that there are not many mills in your area, keep it going!

[thechknhwk]

I went to pick up my mill this morning after getting called in to work at my real job sunday and monday night and found the customer had stickered all the lumber which gave me an opportunity to get a few pics of the whack of boards.  You will see some of the accidental QS from cutting larger logs into two 6" cants or a 6" & 8" cant and sawing them together.  Also noted is that the customer hemmed my mill in with his stack about 2-3' in front of the trailer tongue.  Needless to say I left without the mill.  He has about 1700bf more to saw according to what I scaled this morning, so I guess he didn't want me to leave.  It would help if he would answer his phone however, so I can make arrangements to finish it up thur &/or fri.







Oak on the left and white pine on the right.

[backwoods sawyer]

Nice small batch of D-Fir and Inc Cedar


 
And this ugle black oak, Nice figure but low recovery


 
Only one saw for the 2,000 bft day in mixed spiecies of dirty cat moved logs ;) I'm liking these saws 8)

A around 3:00 a little buck stood up by the rootwad just past the oak with the saw on it, I guess seven hours of watching the mill got boring :

[Peter Drouin]

The black oak is ugly :D :D



drobertson, There are 5 other mills in town, they just don't like to work :D :D


thechknhwk, I hope you get your mill out :D Some customers don't think :D :D

[Magicman]

In the "travel position" my sawmill tongue only weighs about 75 pounds.  I can turn the sawmill around by hand if it is on relatively level ground.

[WDH]

He should remove that tarp, too.