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Offline pineywoods

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Todays yard tree haul
« on: January 31, 2009, 11:28:12 am »
Picked up this load of slash pine today. Owner had dropped the tree, topped it, cleaned up the mes, and left the logs beside the road for me. Four 8 ft cuts of prime wood. The 2 smaller logs came from a scotch pine that happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. The kubota grunted a bit with the butt cut. Here we can legally run this kind of rig on public roads, with a few sensible conditions. I Hauled this load about 5 miles...

 

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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2009, 01:21:41 pm »
NICE LOGS  ;D ;D
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #2 on: January 31, 2009, 01:55:21 pm »
  You should have just kept comming north and I would have helped you saw them up.  ;D

  Looks like some nice sticks.  So what do you think, 1x4's?  Most of the time when I get a customers logs like that, they want 2x4's and 1x6's.
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #3 on: January 31, 2009, 02:48:26 pm »
Just about everybody who comes by here wanting 8 ft lumber wants either 2X4 or 1X12. I'll probably make 1X and 2X as wide as the log will make, stash it in the barn and rip it up on demand.
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #4 on: January 31, 2009, 06:47:43 pm »
Quote from: ARKANSAWYER on January 31, 2009, 01:55:21 pm
  So what do you think, 1x4's?  Most of the time when I get a customers logs like that, they want 2x4's and 1x6's.

They usually save the 6" diameter "logs" for last and say "just make 1x4's out of them".  :D

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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #5 on: January 31, 2009, 07:12:54 pm »

  Mine bring in 8" logs and want 2x12's from them.   :o
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #6 on: January 31, 2009, 07:20:29 pm »
What do they want done with the trim boards? :D
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #7 on: January 31, 2009, 09:15:07 pm »
Yeah Arky, I think we all run into one of them every now and then. I had one guy tell me he knew a sawyer who could make 2X12 12 ft out of fence posts. ;D But he wanted me to saw his logs  ::)I don't toss the side boards, When I get done with big nice logs like those, not much left but bark and sawdust. Have been known to even make 1X2 out of narrow slabs. Tomato stick season is a'comin.
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2009, 12:16:29 am »
What beautiful logs!  They will yield superior lumber. 
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2009, 07:26:50 am »
What's the plan for the logs? It's nice to see the logs will be put to good use.
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2009, 09:51:00 am »
I need about two of the trailer loads for my self right now! Thats a good haul Piney 8)
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2009, 03:23:32 pm »
Slash isn't native west of the Mississippi, but those look too pretty to be yard trees. How many did he have?
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2009, 03:57:21 pm »
Quote from: Riles on February 01, 2009, 03:23:32 pm
Slash isn't native west of the Mississippi, but those look too pretty to be yard trees. How many did he have?

I'm not that far west of the Mississippi. The tree was right beside a railroad, now abandoned, that hauled mostly timber,  so the seed could have been hauled in from Lord knows where. It was already quite large when the house was built, definitely not a landscape deal. Two stems growing from a common stump, lightening got one of them, the other is still healthy. As for being outside the normal range, I have seen a few long leaf pines in this area, quite a bit north of their normal range.
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #13 on: March 06, 2009, 11:03:08 pm »
Those are nice logs.
I have found it easier to decide what to saw out of the smaller logs. Less options, less thinking involved.
The nice fat ones make me sit back and think of a reason to make nice wide boards. :)
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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #14 on: March 07, 2009, 08:47:11 am »
Gday

Nice Slash logs piney  ;) ;D 8) Ive only cut about a thousand ton of it up in QLD  ;D Im Abit tooo faarr south for it to grow well Down Here  ;) :D :D ;D ;)

Quote from: ARKANSAWYER on January 31, 2009, 07:12:54 pm

  Mine bring in 8" logs and want 2x12's from them.   :o
Quote from: Tom on January 31, 2009, 07:20:29 pm
What do they want done with the trim boards? :D

I get that one every now and then some ppl dont know how to use a tape measure  ;) :D :D :D ;) Id just tell them that you coud get a 12x2 but it would only be 8" long  ;) :D :D :D :D

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Re: Todays yard tree haul
« Reply #15 on: March 07, 2009, 12:29:44 pm »
Wifey tells me there are a buch of logs down around our place...and me stuck out here...greeeaattt..

She's gonna talk to one family and see if they'll leave a few big pines by for me for when I get home.
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