Cookie cutting

[macpower]

I've got movable bunks on my Thomas. I can just slide them together and clamp a piece of firewood up to 24" on end and slice away. Or slide them apart a bit and drop one end of the log down between the rails, clamp, and saw on the diagonal.
It can make for some very marketable cookies. It is hard on blades as a not too sharp one won't like the diagonal or cross cutting and those short pieces always seem to have a lot of grit in the bark.

[thecfarm]

That was another reason why I brought a Thomas. Even though I never have done that.

[drobertson]

Shelbycharger, this was a  rental, last minute deal, not due to anything except a change in plans due to a transfer in post.  The wedding was to be the following May, in our field across the drive.  We worked most of the fall cleaning up from a tornado's damage, then the change in plans, go figure that one.  this is at Cedar stone logde in Eminence, MO, a very nice place, backhome and country.  under three weeks planning, and as you might expect, a perfect wedding!  This being said, of all the cookies cut, the ones that were cut on an angle most of them not shown, handled the drying quite well, the guest book was one of them, but special care was taken with this one. Not shown only because of the names on the list, forgive me for this, just a privacy issue, but rest assured it is still in tact, and solid.  I will say it is whiteoak on about 45 degree angle, and just beautiful.

[thecfarm]

I like all the cookies,drobertson, you mentioned transfer in post and saw the hat. Who's serving our country?

[drobertson]

My son-in-law, stationed in Kenosha, WI, Coast Gaurd, he has bout two years or so to go,  He was in Portsmouth NH, I was kinda hoping they would get Florida, or some place warm ;D  Oh well,

[thecfarm]

Probably he was too. WI,must be a big body of water?

[drobertson]

Lake Michigan, yea, it's pretty big, we have been there three times now, I really like it there, just not use to the cold, It seems like the cold is colder up there.  I know Levi is ready for some ice fishing, folks up there said it is a blast.

[Bandmill Bandit]

I use a piece of 1/2 in ply wood 16 inches wide and 4 foot long on the bed to set the stump on and a 2x6 or 8 against the side supports and then the 2 plane clamp on my LT40. I cut those thing every spring for my wife's use as she chucks all the ones that she used last year before for various things around our back yard garden.



You can see about a dozen or so stepping blocks in the shadow (you have to look close) under the spruce tree by the kitchen deck.