Cottonwood/Poplar 2x6's

[Jeff]

Actually, much of the knowledge base article is irrelevant since it is for the old photo systm and not our new gallery. Parts of it, on photo compression are still valid, but uploading and attaching is different now. Good instuctions can be now found in this thread:
http://www.forestryforum.com/board/index.php?topic=10536.0

[OneWithWood]

Jeff,
Are you sure someone didn't sneak in and update it on you?  Those were the instructions I followed when I posted my last pics.  It even intructed me to create an album.  Maybe you had better check to see if I set up the album correctly

[dave1]

Here in the land of the Nodaks, The dominate tree is the cottonwood. and when a new housing developement goes in there are always cotonwood trees that come out. most come out with an excavator. by the roots .  But at this very minute there is at least 4 city blocks of full sized cottonwood trees in piles, waiting for some one to do something with. I think they will be burned in time ,could they be used for pulp , or maybe presto-logs.   We have hugh stands of cottonwood by the river, then the army core of engeniers changed the river level and killed thousands of these trees.   I just think that because of my waistnot wantnot way of thinking there should be a beter way ....Thanks guys dave1

[twostroke_blood]

Maybe I can e-mail the pics to someone else and they can post them 









oooooops how did this happen  Turning the son-of-a-gun was the trickiest part . I probably should have started with something smaller for my very first attemp with my new sawmill. I've never used one before.

[RacinRex]

So Twostroke,
Do you enjoy the Hud-son mill or what? Let us know what your thoughts are on it so far.

and remember nothing smells quite as nice as Klotz on a moist spring morning where the fog just envelopes you with the sweet stench of pre-mix. ;-)

[twostroke_blood]

O.K RacinRex I'll give ya my thoughts thus far. It tows really well  Hud-Son is about three hundred miles from me, and the thing pulled nice the whole way home (70-75 mph). I addressed the fact that they dont support the forum with them, and they gave me a pretty arrogant response, "we doubled our sales last year without the forum" verbatim. I can tell you the thing is ruggedly made. The log in the pictures rolled off onto my fender when i tried to roll it  . I learned that you cant back up in a cut without pulling the band/blade off  . In fact I learned that after only three attemps. I really like the 23H.P Briggs motor, it runs very smoothly. I must say im very impressed with the accuracy of the cut. The thing of it is, I dont have anything to compare it too. Also I'm sure I wont cut anything much over 24" dia. again.  What kind of mills do you guys have? What do you like /disslike about your mills ?