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New Member Introduction
« on: October 26, 2009, 08:02:33 pm »
Hello all,

I've recently joined this forum and am taking some time to introduce myself. Richard Newton (Cedarman) suggested this group would be a great asset to me. I got into forestry/logging/milling from the need for lumber for making furniture. I got my start woodworking about 15 years ago in my Dad's wood shop. After highschool I went to Purdue to study wood products. Prior to then I never had any money to get lumber so I dismantled a few barns. While I was at Purdue I got to not only see but run a wood mizer for the first time. I worked part time in the Wood Research Lab. Unfortunately I wasn't ready for College and especially not being in a small town. I dropped out of school and went to work in a local furniture factory in my home town of Tell City. That's when things really started to happen. After seeing what a woodmizer could do we ordered one for the family farm in April of 2004. It was also that same month that I was up visiting some friends at Purdue when I ran into my old boss, Eva Haviarova. She almost immediately offered me a job. When I asked what it was she said hers. She was being promoted and they needed someone to run the lab day to day. So in September that same year I moved back to Lafayette and am still to this day running the WRL and taking classes on the side to finish my degree. Work in the WRL is interesting and fun at times. I get to travel with Dan Cassens on these lumber log and tree courses just so I can run Purdue's mill. I got involved with the CT scanner project a while back.

I still mill a lot of lumber at home and do custom sawing for the weekend wood butchers/farmers that have a few logs here and there. On my family's farm there is enough timber that blows over or comes off of a ditch row (not to be confused with a fence row which I will not mill) that I can barely keep up. I do some logging in stands where we need some improvement. We don't have a management plan on the farm so I have quite a bit of work ahead of me to get the forests back in order. When I do harvest I usually use a Cat 931 as a skidder/loader and drag the logs out by lifting the but with tongs and the bucket and driving out backwards. I use a Stihl 310 and do the open face felling I learned from Bob Glenn's course he had for Purdue students. The mill is a WM LT 40 hydrualic with the Kubota 33hp Diesel. No kiln drying yet. My wood shop is pretty complete. I'm really only looking for a dual arbor table saw with a sliding table. I like the antique machinery and frequent the OWWM site. All in all I have about 120,000 lbs of woodworking machinery and about half of that is functional.

Here is a video of me with the mill:



I've got video's of me running alot of my other shop equipment too:

http://www.youtube.com/user/inwoodcutter#g/u

I've already learned quite a bit just perusing the forum. I look forward to participating with the group. Seems like you guys cover my spectrum of interests pretty well.

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 08:14:25 pm »
Wow that was a mouth full. :D I guess I will be the first to welcome you. I think you have found a home. I love learning here. Welcome
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 08:28:13 pm »
Welcome Dan,

Enjoyed the video and looking forward to the others...

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 08:28:25 pm »
Welcome to the forum,great youtube vid also.
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2009, 10:28:47 pm »
Welcome Dan, that was a good video. Hope you enjoy your stay here.

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #5 on: October 27, 2009, 01:32:28 am »
Welcome!  Pull up a seat...
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2009, 02:10:08 am »
Welcome to the Forum.  We need some young blood.!  8)
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #7 on: October 27, 2009, 05:03:09 am »
Dan, welcome to the forum.   Thanks for sharing your background.
I look forward to reading your future posts. 

And you just taught me something already.......
I didn't know there was a Southern Forest Heritage Museum in Long Leaf, Louisiana.  I would
like to hear more about it.
Nice videos.
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« Reply #8 on: October 27, 2009, 05:39:47 am »
Dan, welcome to the Forestry Forum.

Lots of good info here and good people too!

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #9 on: October 27, 2009, 06:54:58 am »
Dan, let me add my welcome as well.  I do take objection to Bibby's statement about "young blood," though.  My body may be getting older, but the blood is as good as new!  At least, that's what they tell me at the blood bank...

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #10 on: October 27, 2009, 08:43:46 am »
Dan, anybody that can figure out how to add a video to his first post has definitely got a future here! Welcome. Used to drive through Tell City all of the time going from Louisville to Owensboro, pretty country.

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #11 on: October 27, 2009, 08:58:13 am »
That is a nice slab pile that you have there  ;D.
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #12 on: October 27, 2009, 09:02:37 am »
Dan

Welcome to the Forum. Great job on the video!!!

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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #13 on: October 27, 2009, 01:51:55 pm »
Thanks for the warm welcome and compliment, all. The slab pile, well, there are a lot of lessons in sawing stuck in that pile. that was from a couple years of sawing, and not the straightest logs. We just burned that off last spring as part of a get together/bonfire. Its a running joke between Doc. Cassens and I about me slabbing heavy. I did that a couple of times early on at these grading courses we do and boy you should have seen the looks I got! Anymore I hit that opening face about dead on every time. Embarassment is a powerful teacher.

The SFHM in Louisiana is a neat place I just happened onto. My good friend was working for the huge Roy Martin Lumber Co. at the time. He invited me down for a weekend and his family and I went to a tractor show at the museum. I was blown away by their collection of machinery. They have a huge collection of stuff from American Wood Working Machinery (the Rochester company not the Hackerstown one). I've been slowly getting involved with what they are doing down there. They hope to get all of it running again. They have two huge Filer and Stowell mills with steam driven carriges. Awesome! Just Awesome!
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #14 on: October 27, 2009, 02:24:37 pm »
Welcome to the forum.
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« Reply #15 on: October 27, 2009, 04:03:59 pm »
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« Reply #16 on: October 27, 2009, 04:27:08 pm »
Welcome! Thanks for the video!
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« Reply #17 on: October 27, 2009, 06:40:32 pm »
Welcome from the Finger Lakes region of NYS
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« Reply #18 on: October 27, 2009, 07:46:57 pm »
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Re: New Member Introduction
« Reply #19 on: December 10, 2009, 04:15:23 am »
Gday

Welcome to the forum Dan  ;) ;D ;D ;D ;D 8) 8) 8) 8) nice clips i saw them on youtube awhile back  ;) ;D  im looking forward to your imput Mate ;) ;D 8)

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