A day cutting wood

[4x4American]

Sawed this out of an american elm log with a crotch in it, was previously going to go for firewood until I rescued it.  Not sure what to do about that split

[Kbeitz]

If it was me I would use a needle and inject it with some real good wood glue and clamp it up real good...
That crack would go away...

[WDH]

Use a dutchman or butterfly on it.



 

[Jim_Rogers]

This past winter was rough on the sawmill, and I finally broke down and bought a new battery.

That made starting each morning easier that I didn't have do drag out the battery charger any more.

In testing the system I found that not only was the battery old and not holding a charge very well but the alternator was not putting out enough.

So, out with the old and in with the rebuilt:



  

After swapping the pulleys:



 

She starts nice and puts out lots of juice now.

All in the day of cutting wood.

Jim Rogers

[Peter Drouin]

Good job Jim, And yes the winter was bad. Is your yard drying up?

[Jim_Rogers]

Yes fairly dry now.

Jim Rogers

[petefrom bearswamp]

Second day sawing this spring.
Powder dry at my mill and dust everywhere.
Got 6mbf Hemlock in so far expecting 6mbf tomorrow and 13mbf in the next week.
All scale is Doyle.
Should keep me busy for quite a while as my help while great when here is working another job so I only saw 8' and 10' while alone..

[4x4American]

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[flatrock58]

I read all these post about cutting thousands of feet of lumber per day.  Today I cut down 7 pines that were dead or dying from beetles. I bucked them and hauled them to the mill.  And late this afternoon I only managed to cut 6 or 7 logs.  Then I wanted to get it all stacked before dark.  Working by myself seems to take a lot more time than I thought it would.  What is a realistic BF/hour for someone cutting with a LT40 hydraulic.

[4x4American]

theres never enough time

[Peter Drouin]

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You know that kid?

[Chuck White]

I read all these post about cutting thousands of feet of lumber per day.  Today I cut down 7 pines that were dead or dying from beetles. I bucked them and hauled them to the mill.  And late this afternoon I only managed to cut 6 or 7 logs.  Then I wanted to get it all stacked before dark.  Working by myself seems to take a lot more time than I thought it would.  What is a realistic BF/hour for someone cutting with a LT40 hydraulic?

Not an enormous amount of lumber in a day, but last Sat & Sun I sawed 3,300+ bf of W/Pine with 10.6 hours showing on the hour meter.

That comes out to 330 bf/hour.

I had two good helpers on the other side of the mill.

[thecfarm]

flatrock58,I think the numbers you are seeing are logs at the sawmill,NOT still in the woods waiting to be cut down AND then hauled out to the sawmill. I do that,go out in the woods to get my logs. It is some slow but very satisfying. It's a good thing I don't do it for money.

[4x4American]

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You know that kid?

No do you?

[flatrock58]

thecfarm.  I read back over my post and it was clear as mud, sorry about that.  I tend to ramble and not make my point well.  I am an engineer and my wife says I should stick with numbers. 
I realize the large bf/hour numbers are people who are cutting logs at the sawmill with helpers.  I wanted to know what the guys cutting logs by themselves with a hydraulic mill cut per hour.

[Magicman]

With help, I have had many 150-175bf per hour days, but the 250-350bf per hour days are certainly much better. $$$

The only time that I saw without help is for myself, and that does not pay very well anyway.


 
Sawing alone, this lumber got whack stacked.


 
And then after I got a Grandson to help, it got stickered.

I understood your question, and I have never scaled a day's (or hour's) sawing when sawing alone.  After thinking a bit, the actual sawing would be about the same with or without help because it does not take an appreciable amount of time to kick a slab off.  The slowdown comes in when handling flitches and lumber as shown above.  I speeded up the sawing time by whack stacking, so again, how is sawing time and yield affected when sawing alone?  It depends upon what the sawing job is.  The hours saved by help is simply added to your sawing time.

Since I am not an engineer, I tend to think simply and I am content to accept what it is as what it is. 

[flatrock58]

Thanks Magicman.  Having a grandson to help is a definite plus. I guess I need to just whack stack and not handle the lumber so much.  At then end of the day I look at what I have gotten done and it is always less than I had planned or expected.  After cutting dead pine beetle trees I am finally getting to cut some that are full of beetles but not yet dead. 

[WDH]

The Sticker Police will be paying you a visit  :D. 

[Magicman]

It won't do any good because that lumber is now a Cabin Addition.   

[drobertson]

sawing time is never the issue, it always boils down to material handling, lot of time can be burnt in the process.  I saw solo most everyday, time in the log is short in comparison to moving the boards, cants and flitches. then there is there is the dust pile.  So if the quality is there in the lumber just keep on keeping on, and if you need to pick up the material handling pace, well there really is no other way than to recruit some extra hands. 

[terrifictimbersllc]

It won't do any good because that lumber is now a Cabin Addition.   

Here, photos constitute evidence.  :

[4x4American]

Did some sunday shopping at the wal mart today  :D   Picked up some discount logs!  That's a 6 log load, had another smaller load after it.  About 1,825 bdft for $250 from a tree service from a "lot clearing" job.  No nails....we'll see!  Coffee breaks over time to go saw em up.

[Chuck White]

Looks like a nice load of W/Pine.      

[WDH]

  No nails....we'll see! 

Oh no, Sir, there are no nails in that tree.........Famous last words (Old Saying). 

If you tell me that there are absolutely no nails in that tree, I will not trust you with my daughter  :D.

[Peter Drouin]

  No nails....we'll see! 

Oh no, Sir, there are no nails in that tree.........Famous last words (Old Saying). 

If you tell me that there are absolutely no nails in that tree, I will not trust you with my daughter  :D.

:D :D :D



Nice wood 4x4