LT 28 work out with pic's

[blaze83]

Friend of the family had a large shagbark hickory blow down last fall, wanted to know if my dad and I wanted it for anything. He wanted to clean it up and the guys that he has come over to cut firewood on his property didn't have a saw large enough to cut it. well, we wanted it but didn't have time to run over to his place with the mill untill last week, so we finally made it. couple of things I learned from the experience.

1) shagbark hickory is HARD and HEAVY
2) the next mill will have HYDROLICS
3) the manual log loader and log turner worked surprisingly well, so thumbs up to the woodmizer people for the design smiley_clapping

the biggest log was 8'6" and 27" in diameter inside the bark, it had some rot in the heart, but when we were done we ended up with around 400 bf of 4/4 and 5/4 boards, the upper section of the tree was pretty rotten so we sawed it into firewood for the barbeque pit.



first 2 pics are the log up on the mill



last pic is of one of the nicer boards, 5/4 X 19" X 8'6"

[thecfarm]

Nice way to spend time with Dad.My Dad never got to see my mill.He would of had a ball with it.Have fun.

[802Vermont Outdoorsman]

Love the LT-28 and the Lt-15 my family just got an LT-40 hydraulic but I am hoping to get to use bothe the 15 and the 28 before I get to old for the manual mills

[Magicman]

Hello 802VermontOutdoorsman and Welcome to the Forestry Forum. 

[scully]

Further prof that ya don't need all the bells etc on a mill to saw some great lumber ! I can't wait to get into a log that big ! Great mill !

[clww]

Great post and pictures, blaze!

[MEMountainMan]

Nice, I look forward to sawing my first hickory. I've got lots of hand tools that need new handles....