A day cutting wood

[Dave Shepard]

No, you were a suggested link on my FB page.

[4x4American]

Ohhh...that fb I tell ya, it's something else

[Magicman]

We stayed in a cabin in Kalispell, Montana where all of the inside door/window trim was such as that.

[plowboyswr]

Rustic cabin trim. ;D

Bingo!   8)


Either a good guess or you found my facebook page lol


Better get on a plane, that piece of sawdust is FOB sawmill lol

I found your facebook quite a while back. And hold on to that Dust for me.  :D

[4x4American]

We stayed in a cabin in Kalispell, Montana where all of the inside door/window trim was such as that.

Shoulda guessed it, that sawdust piece coulda been yours!  Plus you coulda stopped at my neighbors sugarhouse for a gallon of maple syrup on the way! 

[4x4American]

Rustic cabin trim. ;D

Bingo!   8)


Either a good guess or you found my facebook page :D


Better get on a plane, that piece of sawdust is FOB sawmill :D

I found your facebook quite a while back. And hold on to that Dust for me.  :D

I'll take good care of it lol

[WDH]

Do you ship?  :D

[Andries]

The postage stamp would be bigger than the envelope.
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[Peter Drouin]

That time of the year.


 
2  ½ cord bundles of dry Pine&Hemlock slabs for boiling Maple syrup on the truck.

[4x4American]

Those look like some nice slick logs you got coming in. NICE!

PC

Up here winter is the best time to cut W Pine and Hemlock. So I don't have to spray water on them like the bigger mills do . In fact I had a log buyer stop by to see my setup. His mill cuts 100,000 BF a day. smiley_dizzy That's a lot of wood. We did have a good talk.

Is there a good time of the year for you to get logs?
I know you sell logs too. You must go through a lot of them.

I had a log buyer from the same outfit stop by my mill today.  Wanted to check out my operation and see if I would buy some logs from them. 

[OlJarhead]

I'm still figuring out pricing stuff out, half the time I'm thinking I'm charging too much and then the other half I feel not enough.  I tell some people my hourly rate and they think I'm outta this world expensive.  And then other people don't even care.  To me my hourly rate is profitable and it's easy enough to count hours so that's what I did for this one.

I've come to that point that I no longer care ;)  This is my rate, period, end of discussion.  I figure the local autoshop charges $95 and hour and you either go to him or not so my $85/hr when I come to you is more than reasonable since I have the $30k mill and $30k truck plus tools, maintenance etc etc etc (as we all do) and either it's profitable for me to do this thing I love for others, or I just do it for myself ;)

I suppose since I have another job it's easier on me but I'm finding now that I'm happy with my rate that it doesn't matter to me at all if someone thinks I'm too high, they probably would have thought that for half the price too ;)  I just want the customers that understand what I offer and are willing to pay for it and so far I've been successful with that philosophy which I learned right here on FF thanks to members like MM and Peter and others.

[4x4American]

Well said, Marine.

[Peter Drouin]

Hi 4x4 and OlJarhead, Good you two keep the price up to where you can make a living at this game.  :D :D I get the look when tell the customers I get $100.00 an hr just for the mill.

With the crazy weather this spring, some jobs can be a job if you know what I mean.
One day It can be like this.


  

 
Then,


 

With the Good weather the Timber Frames orders are coming in.
Some are 8"x18"x16' and a bunch of 8"x10"


 
But digging out the logs can be trying at times.
More logs under the ice and snow. :


  

  

 
All in all, things are looking like a good year.
Have one customer having to wait till the road bans come off so he can bring over 2 + loads of logs for his timber frame. [Trees came off his land]
Best of luck to you too.  8) 8) 8) 8) :D ;)

[OlJarhead]

I'm always amazed at how much you mill Peter!  8)

I'm doing some timber framer stuff this weekend and some barn wood (meaning, milling for someone wanting to make a barn).  Should be fun since all the logs are big logs -- the guy bought them from the plywood mill since they can't mill anything over 24" they just sell them to whomever wants them.

[Peter Drouin]

 I get some good and not so good logs in, But, This W Pine 12"x12"x16' with 4 clear faces don't come all the time,


  

  

 

And yes, I did cut them in ½ .

[4x4American]

    Thats not something you see everyday!   8)   Big $ there

[petefrom bearswamp]

Sweet looking stuff Peter

[Bandmill Bandit]

My first spring sawing job is behind me. It was a very good job and a lot of fun with a lot of real good logs. 18 hours sawing time for just over 6200 BF.

I have a 30 second time lapse that spans about 15 minutes of sawing that I would like to up load but I can't get it to upload. Am I doing some thing wrong or are time lapse vids not allowed?



  

  

  

 

[PC-Urban-Sawyer]

Bandit,

Think your time lapse video will have to be uploaded to You Tube like any other video and then link to it here in a Forum post...

Herb

[Peter Drouin]

Nice logs there Bandmill Bandit,  Logs like that are fun to cut. 

[Peter Drouin]

It's starting, Just when I'm all most done sticking a full pallet of lumber someone buys them all.


  

 

Third time I tried to fill the pallet in 2 days.
Loggers are out too. ;D


  

  

 
Some small logs, but, the quality is nice.

I have 2 or 3 loads of pine coming tomorrow. [customers logs from his land]
Have a house, barn, and maybe a carriage house too. Big timber frame from 8' to 30'
I'll get some pics.

Hay 4x4, Think if I put a belt on the feed out roller and over the small roller I have a power belt going away. :D ;D

 
just cut the steel down to get the belt under the drive roller.


  

 
A belt would ride over the rest of them.

[4x4American]

That'd a good idea peter, I'd be curious to see what bearing breaks first lol


If you were to constantly feed it wouldn't the boards push each other out of the way?  With a belt you may need a crown on the rollers to get the belt to track.  Also would need to be able to slide the rollers to add tension.  I think it'd be worth a shot, but prolly gonna need to change the outsidemost roller to something different for aforementioned reasons.  Don't make the belt very tight, just enough to move itself.

[sandsawmill14]

no need for crown or concave rollers we gad one 45' long one time set up and it ran fine but the drive roller and the end roller on opposite end have to be perfectly square or the belt will walk off to one side so one end has to be adjustable  most belts are built with a flat piece of steel and only 2 rollers one on each end  i have a 40' and a 18-20' that are built with the metal instead of rollers

[Peter Drouin]

I see the roller turning and had a thought ;D
When I talked to Cat about a hydro pump, They told me to put a pulley on it to run it. If my Cat 1.1 was bigger, Cat has a gear driven pump that will bolt on the motor.

The timber frame came today.


  

  

 
30'ones think I have 6.


  

  

  

  

  

  

  

 

The trucker said he was coming back tomorrow with the purling.  say_what  news to me. :D :D
Guess 1/2 to 3/4 a truck load.
Small logs, like 6" ID. Have to cut one face on them.

[Bruno of NH]

You need a new seat