saw to the heart chek

[Tom]

See that crack in the middle of the log?  That is a Heart Check.  Some call it a Heart Shake here.

If you cut boards at a 90⁰ angle to it, then your boards will have a split down the middle.  It's really important when cutting cypress that you don't do that.

One of the things you look for first when you put a log on the mill is the Heart Check.  Try, if you can, to cut the boards horizontal to it and you will get fewer bad boards.

                             

[woodmills1]

our local red oak will act just the same.  sometimes a cutter of logs will crack one with a similiar fault.  like you said if i line the flaw up i lose one board.  if i dont whoops there goes the can o peas today.  

[Papa Dave]

I mostly cut red oak and have found the same thing to be true. Thanks Tom.

[Jeff]

Tom is directly responsible for lower production in our mill. Tom and I had this conversation months ago about heart check, so now I find myself looking for it in every log when I never did before.

[Papa Dave]

Jeff, you should send him a case of off brand peas. I bet he is so tight, he could not stand to throw them away and would be forced to eat them.

[woodmills1]

  ha ha generic peas   plain white lable   just says PEAS  

[CHARLIE]

Oh Lordy, Lordy....don't do that!  Sure as heck he'd save that generic, white labeled can of peas for me the next time I offload for him.  That reminds me......the next time I go down there I've got to remember to take my whittled wooden spoon.