Hard water white pine removal

[leweee]

This is what they use to look like.
The logs were milled at that same cottage with the LT-15.

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Did she run out of gas in the cut......or was ya just toppen her off.

BTW Nice Kitchen Cupboards

[nas]

There is the flip side of that.  I had a guy bring me a 24" "walnut" that was actually a butternut but I was sure to tell him before I milled it.

  

Brings up the thought of the time I took an elm of 30 inches (but end), 8 feet long to a portable mill and it morphed into oak and a reply "what elm?", when I asked for it. 

 Did you get 100 bft instead of 300 too?

  Judging by the mess in some small mills yards I think sometimes they honestly don't know where your wood is so they give you the first unclaimed pile they can find

[SwampDonkey]

Never got a darn sniff. I think he skipped wood ID class in Ranger School or something. But, as I drove out of the yard with some of my newly sawed lumber, from other hardwood logs that laid in the grass at the mill site for 2 years , I took a quick peek in his shed and saw my elm stickered in a stack. Good riddance and never to return. All I know is he lost a lot of business over the years for being a crook.

[nas]

Honesty is always the best policy.  When you get caught dealing crooked the word spreads fast.  Word of mouth can be your best or worst advertising.

[beenthere]

From the looks of the log on the mill, under Kevin, there are plenty of knots showing on the bark surface.   Don't think many clear boards will come from that section. 

[SwampDonkey]

I didn't want to say anything, but.......... 

Even if the log looks clear there could be old healed knots closer to the pith as you start shaving off those boards.

 

[Kevin]

I suspect the bottom log was clear but can't remember.
I can't remember if the mill ran out of gas either, it looks like it might have.
Those bottom logs are probably around 1500 lbs., I do remember we had to have at least four people in the Argo for weight to pull them.

Is the countertop also pine?

Yes, also pine.

[WDH]

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Kevin,

You are not going to be able to burl that log unless you release those dogs!  Floating it in a little water would help too .

I tried log burling in college........I was a miserable failure.  Up on the log, then SPLASH!  Usually face first .

[OneWithWood]

Very nice work, Kevin. 

[SwampDonkey]

What, WDH? You don't know the log driver's waltz?


  I remember the National Film Board had a video of a log drive and a little song along with it. It starts out with actual log drivers in the beginning, then switches to a cartoon waltzing on a log during the drive.