Author Topic: A good day sawing (Read 2079 times)

rbjones03 · « **on:** March 20, 2006, 09:19:00 am »

Rolled into the job site @ 7:00 AM. Customer had all the logs stacked and ready to go. Nice level area. Nice new sharp blade. Started sawing the first log @ 7:32. Had plenty help off bearing. Packed up left the site @ 5:14.

2525 board ft. What more could you ask for.

Tom · « **Reply #1 on:** March 20, 2006, 12:04:12 pm »

Corn bread, butter beans and hamhocks for dinner?

dewwood · « **Reply #2 on:** March 20, 2006, 01:12:34 pm »

Sounds like a very good day especially with Tom's addition.

rbjones03 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 20, 2006, 01:51:04 pm »

Actually to tired for much dinner, but Cheese grits, eggs, link smoked sausage and biscuits for breakfast>

Tom · « **Reply #4 on:** March 20, 2006, 02:10:57 pm »

Yeah, it's hard to get back to going after a big dinner. A hearty breakfast is a necessity. It'll hold you till you can get a fried pork chop sandwich, a bowl of vegetable soup with plenty of broth and a quart of sweetened ice tea for supper though.

rbjones03 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 20, 2006, 03:35:54 pm »

Tom

You're a man after my own heart... or should I say stomach.

Ever notice how a true southerner will find a way to get back to food, before it's all said and done.

LeeB · « **Reply #6 on:** March 21, 2006, 01:23:53 am »

You guys are killing me. I'm in a moslim country rigfht now, where pork is a really dirty word and the rest of te food don't really suit my taste buds. i wood surely love a meal of any or all of the above mentioned delcacies.

LeeB

highpockets · « **Reply #7 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:16:16 am »

Leeb, you can have a nice sheep head with cous-cous and some mint tea. Don't worry about the flies they don't actually eat that much. Been there done that, don't want no more!

Brad_S. · « **Reply #8 on:** March 21, 2006, 06:45:33 am »

Quote from: rbjones03 on March 20, 2006, 09:19:00 am

2525 board ft. What more could you ask for.

Payment by CASH, not check!

Highpockets,
I see you're in Pleasant Hill, LA. Probably shouldn't tell you this as you'll blacklist me, but my great grandfather was there 142 years ago while on a trip up the Red River. Made it almost as far as Mansfield before he turned around.

He didn't stay in Pleasant Hill long and left in a hurry! One of the last ones out though, I'm proud to say.

LeeB · « **Reply #9 on:** March 21, 2006, 03:50:56 pm »

I think I'll pass on the sheep head. Actually mutton and lamb aren't so bad. I just really miss my pork. No problem. I'll be heading home in a few days. Can get my fill of real food and good loving then. Could also make do with a good platter of fried chicken or other poultry products. Have been staying away from them due to the bird flue thing. The company I work for sent out a letter saying that the poultry was ok. as soon as I read that I imidiately stopped eating it.

There has been one death here in Egypt from bird flue so far that i know of, so I'll just stick with the beef for now. LeeB

itwill also be good to see some real trees and get a sawdust fix.

twoodward15 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:08:26 pm »

Where are you in Egypt??

Snag · « **Reply #11 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:10:34 pm »

rbjones03- sounds like an awesome day. What type of wood were you sawing? Diameter? What dimensions? Got any pics? Can I ask more questions?

Daren · « **Reply #12 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:20:36 pm »

Quote from: Tom on March 20, 2006, 12:04:12 pm

Corn bread, butter beans and hamhocks for dinner?

That is what I had for supper last night, and fried taters. Setting here eating a piece of cornbread right now to hold me till supper.

TexasTimbers · « **Reply #13 on:** March 21, 2006, 05:58:59 pm »

2500+ BF I don't think I've cut that in a week yet!

Yeppers you boys whupped us that day too Brad but Banks said he couldn't get out of there fast enough. Even abandoned his dead and wounded on the battle field. He nearly lost his army that day and couldn't understand how an army in as bad a shape as was the CSA was in by then could still fight so DanGed hard and inflict so much damage.

Did you know that that re-enactment is the only one of it's kind that takes place on the actual site of the original battle?

Brad_S. · « **Reply #14 on:** March 21, 2006, 06:26:51 pm »

Yep, I attended the 125th anniversary battle there back when I was re-enacting. Started in NO, drove to Cox Plantation (Donaldsonville), then to Plains Store (Zachary) where greatgramps was wounded, explored Port Hudson, then went up and stayed with a host in Alexandria. He treated me to a feast of boiled crawdads, and I even had grits.

Had a fine time at the re-enactment too, the southern boys treated this visiting Yankee very kindly. They were glad to have a Yankee who was neither galvanized nor had a drawl.

rb,
Sorry to persiflage your thread.

TexasTimbers · « **Reply #15 on:** March 21, 2006, 06:31:10 pm »

And one that didn't have his finger on the trigger of a Springfield!

LeeB · « **Reply #16 on:** March 21, 2006, 07:44:05 pm »

twoodward 15, Actually I'm about thirty miles offshore in the Med. just north of Port Said on a drilling rig. LeeB

Brad_S. · « **Reply #17 on:** March 21, 2006, 09:21:49 pm »

Ah, but I did kevjay, right up until the time I was surrounded by a dozen Greycoats. The other guys I was with were bullet proof appearantly and skedaddled leaving me and my pard there alone to face threats from your boys about what I grand time we'll have in Andersonville.

rbjones03 · « **Reply #18 on:** March 22, 2006, 09:16:04 am »

Quote from: Snag on March 21, 2006, 05:10:34 pm

rbjones03- sounds like an awesome day. What type of wood were you sawing? Diameter? What dimensions? Got any pics? Can I ask more questions?

We were cutting SYP most were 24"-30" but some were 36" ( that makes for good production ) all logs were 16'

We cut mostly 1x8 and 2x6 but the customer wanted one log cut into 1x16 that slowed us down a little.

My son took some pics I'll have to round them up.

TexasTimbers · « **Reply #19 on:** March 22, 2006, 07:17:40 pm »

I read one of the many books written, just can't remember which one. I do remember how horrid of picture that was indelibly left in my mind after erading it. Containing fiorst hand accounts after the war, and from prisoners' dairies kept while in that hellhole.
It made you wish you could crawl through a portal and lead the prisoners back through - after you strangled a certain 16 year old guard. AND after you strangles some of the prisoners themselves!
I know there were human attrocities commited by both sides but I must say i can't imagine it being any worse than what was Andersonville.

I had kin in the War too, and I'm proud to say none of them were Andersonville guards.

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Author Topic: A good day sawing (Read 2079 times)