gettin' whood

[4x4American]

So tomorrow morning I'm off with a chainsaw and trailer to a friends place to drop an old elm he has on his property, and gonna take what logs I can get out of it, and he also has 5 8-foot hard maple logs.  Trying out a new loop of semi skip square ground chisel chain on my Stihl 461, excited to put it up against my buddies 460.


I am sawing the elm into 6" wide flooring for him.
The maple is mine to do what I want with  8)
It's been down for awhile bucked into 8' logs, ends not sealed. 


Should I saw right away, without having a buyer lined up, or coat the ends if they're not too bad and try to find a buyer/see what they want?


Next question, how should I go about sawing it, without knowing what a potential buyer would want?  I was thinking I might just slab em and sticker em.


I am not by any stretch of the imagination a grade sawyer!  Mainly I just saw SPF into dimensional lumber is all that I've been asked to saw.  I want to get more into hardwoods, and 5 free hard maple logs, for me, is a good place to start.

[YellowHammer]

I'd probably not saw it into boards unless I had a way to sell it.  On the other hand, if you are going to cut thick slabs, dry and then sell them, don't worry about having a customer now because in the year or two it takes to dry the slabs, you'll have time to find one. ;D
YH

[4x4American]

Got the elm down loaded and back here.  The maple logs have this dark stain all the way up through the tree.  Can't wait to open them up.  I am either going to saw them into cants or slabs, not decided yet.  If I slab em how thick would be good?


The elm is going to be sawed into 1-1/8" x 6" and the slabs will make good firewood.  The elm is very stringy and the chainsaw had no problem getting through it.


Ill put some pics up later just stopped in for lunch

[landscraper]

So how did the 461 do against the 460 - could you tell any difference between them at all?

[4x4American]

We didn't end up getting his 460 out.  He ran the tractor and I ran the saw.  Prolly used 3/4 tank of gas in the 461.  She was running strong though!  I muff modded her awhile back, and didn't really notice much difference.  Well it's a bit louder lol but stock the 461 is a good unit.  It's my favorite saw of my 10 or so that I have