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Offline Drilling Man

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Remember That Pine I Logged?
« on: April 08, 2010, 03:06:43 PM »
  Well, it's time to mill some of it... 

  Usually when i saw out a load of logs, i try to load the tops, so i can get to them first.  I saw the tops into "cribbing" so i have something to sit the lumber on, that i'm about to saw out of the bottom logs.  Anyway, here's what i got out of the first tops and also out of the first good log on the mill,
 

 
  I need a bunch of 3x8-16's, so that's what i'm aiming for out of the logs that are long enough...  Here's the lumber out of the third log,
 

 
  Now with those out of the way, i got to a bigger log, that should make some "nice" lumber,
 

 
  And got started taking 5/4 boards off it,
 

 
  And, it did produce some of the nicest wide boards i've seen in a while,
 

 
  So, i put them up on the mill and edged them...  You can also see the sawdust pile behind the mill...  It looks like a LOT of sawdust there,
 

 
  But, it's not really all sawdust!  It's a LOT of snow, with the sawdust insulateing it from the mid 70* weather we have been having,
 
 
 
  Anyway, as i was sawing, all of a sudden a bat came by and was flying all around.  I watched it for a few, and it landed on the side of a near by tree,
 

 
  I guess it didn't care that it was the middle of the day...  lol  I checked later, and it was gone...
 
  So, with the boards edged,
 

 
  I still had a beam lieing there to take care of, so i made made the cuts through it.
 

 
  and here's the lumber i got from that log,
 

 
  And with one more log milled,
 

 
  here's the tally for all of the logs i milled from that load "so far",
 

 
  In a couple days, i'll finish off the load, and get started on "another" load of pine i just traded for...

  DM

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Re: Remember That Pine I Logged?
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2010, 03:26:31 PM »
nice planks,what yu gonna build out of them?

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Re: Remember That Pine I Logged?
« Reply #2 on: April 08, 2010, 04:41:07 PM »
Thanks for posting pics.  I know it is a pain to stop what you are doing to take pictures.
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Re: Remember That Pine I Logged?
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2010, 03:22:54 AM »
nice planks,what yu gonna build out of them?


  I'm sawing out a porch to go around three sides of a friends post and beam "cabin",



  that's, over 100' in total length...   :o

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Re: Remember That Pine I Logged?
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2010, 12:44:28 PM »
If that's a cabin I'd like to see what y'all call a house in those parts  :o