Today's small pile of whittling....LT-15 GO working.

[zopi]

Was given a nice blowdown poplar, 26" dbh, and in fact the farmer pretty much said if it blows down out here it is yours...whack of pine and maple yet to be sawn.
These pics are sorta rare...usually I work alone, but today, SWMBO went with...and carried a few board!

[mad murdock]

Looking good zopi   8)

[Magicman]

Looks like you got a nice whack.  I love free logs.   

[zopi]

The fruit of the afternoon's labor...about a thousand bdft.



And yeah, I am hurting a bit tonight.....nothing some hydraulics won't fix...

[Magicman]

I was surprised to see the 4X4's etc.  Whatcha gonna build  ???

[WDH]

That was a full days work!  1000 feet on a LT15 in a day is getting the job done.

[zopi]

Most of this is going into a three rail board fence...some 4x6 and 4x4 posts amd the balance in 1x6...poplar won't last but a few years, but I have a sawmill. No problem.
One of the 4x6 I am going to carve into a six or eight foot iguana or komodo dragon, and fit his feet to sit on top of the fence rail...

Speaking of carving...I need a new mailbox post...thinking of doing a six or eight foot tall viking
Head holding a 4x4 in his teeth like a toothpick....where the 4x4 sticks across the ditch amd holds up the mail box...

[zopi]

Oh...all that lumber out of one poplar, and there is still a ten foot long sixteen inch diameter log left...

[Magicman]

Anytime that I have needed to use a post that I knew would not resist rot, I have drilled the bottom and inserted a pipe.  The pipe was then buried or concreted and the post was left above ground.

I also have a sawmill, but I do not have the time to re-do stuff.

[zopi]

Well, to be fair, this is a hundred or so feet of fence along the front of my property..designed mostly to keep the county @#$&@#$%&*  busybodies in their place, at the far end of the driveway.
No big deal to replace a post every so often, and this is a low budget project.

The twit that runs county codes here is literally a nosy old bat, and has recently offended pretty mich every farmer and rural resident in the county....so as pretty much eberyone is gearong up to tell her to get bent, I am simply maling sure that my property is legally gated and posted.

Have had the (deleted) show up and wander around my little corner of the world unasked, unwanted, unescorted a time or two, and it just burns me up. Our entire board of supervisors just got tossed out on their ears for behaving like this.....time to start pushing for some more scrutiny, and transparency in the new government.

[Norm]

That's a bunch of lumber Zopi!

I have a county assessor that's the same way. He likes to come around snooping to see if he can find something to raise the taxes on. I caught him snooping around the house with his camera one time and called the local supervisor and told him I was going to report him. Oh what for was the ? For taking pictures of my wife just out of the shower with his camera....last I saw of him.  :D

[Magicman]

I'm with you zopi on the need for a quick but nice looking fence.

Our tax inspector loves his camera and tape measure also.  Since my property is "non-resident", he knows full well that he can snoop whenever he chooses.

[MotorSeven]

Zopi ain't ya got any cedar up there in VA? Waaay better choice for a fence post....I'm with Majic, no time to "re-do" stuff.

[Tree Feller]

That's a fine stack of lumber and a sure-enough honest day's work. However, I'm like the others about using the Poplar for fence posts. There's an adage that says, "If you don't have time to do it right, where will you find the time to do it over?"
Remember, you have a mill...a nice one. You can cut some longer lasting posts very easily.

[zopi]

Of course we have cedar, I just do not have enough handy....ain't gonna worry at it...gonna treat em amd sink em...

Since insomnia had me this morning, I wrote a nice long letter to the editor drawing parallels to the behavior of this dept. And the rest of the government which led to the recent firing, en masse of every oncumbent on the board of supers, except the one who was not related to himself...
And intimating about the liability the county incurs with county folks roaming private property without the owner's knowledge...such as, for instance my ten thousand dollar mower, or my sawmill comes up missing, and the only person documented to have entered my property was a county employee...that, and sort of mentioned (citing supporting articles in the newspaper) the fact that not everybody out here was firing on all cylinders....heck, I bet I hear at least three hundred rounds fired out here in a given day...
Once the fence is up, and the (antique) wrought Iron gate is up, and the property os legally posted, the next thing will be a call to the new super.
Was funny though, I was talking the other day to my neighbor about it, this is the guy I voted for for super....his comment? "Sure is funny how people seem to mind your business for you."
All of the new supers are active farmers....lol

[Magicman]

We also cleaned house with our county supervisors.  That is my idea of "term limits".   ;D

Now if we could find out how to extend it to DC. 

[paul case]

What would be really disgusting is if they tax you on your new fence.PC

[zopi]

Umm...and the *DanG assessor might wake up naked. In miami.

[WDH]

They will tax it.

[zopi]

Heh...maybe I ought to make it portable. lol

[LeeB]

That really may not be such a bad idea.

[zopi]

Going to put together a few sections portable for doing sawmill demos...already been asked to do the fair next year.

[zopi]

Go fogure...my letter was in this morning's paper...county guy shows up, says hey, don't worry about all this stuff, and oh by the way, you do not need a permit for your sawmill. Which I was going to fight anyway...
But still.  lol

[buildthisfixthat]

on a side note .just adding a few facts ...inspectors ,ceos  tax assesers  are only allowed to enter private property with the owners permission ,however unless you tell them do not enter my property they will ,,,,also if any  inspector enters youre  property  for any reason even because of a  complaint ..you do have the right to say sorry sir no commet leave my property now .......they by law can NOT return to the property UNLESS you invite them or they have a wa rr ent  period ....i will add its nice to be nice and some are good guys thats it.

[Magicman]

Which I was going to fight anyway...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16u0wwCfoJ4

[zopi]

Lol...yeah, pretty much. 

The guy is not a bad guy, but really...bugger off. He did comment about how nice my fence looked. lol

Anyway. Next project.

Eight foot tall two foot wide viking head for a mailbox post...

[beenthere]

Are you becoming a Viking fan?

I've heard they may move outta MN.

[zopi]

Nahh...hate football...especially pro football.

now...ladies beach volleyball? That is a sport I can get behind.

[LeeB]

Nahh...hate football...especially pro football.

now...ladies beach volleyball? That is a sport I can get behind.

And that's a pretty good place to watch it from too. 

[zopi]

Ah..caught that did ya?

[Magicman]

I was obvious.   ;D

[zopi]

I meant it to be.
Rather the obvious departure from football. lol

[barbender]

Any of you that would like to have our Vikings can take them. Of cours, they would like for you to build them a taxpayer funded stadium first.

[zopi]

Yes, this is part of my problem with the whole equation....how about the team builds it's own *DanG stadium amdt we will spend our money on real infrastructure....
Bleh.
Not sure what dislike more, sports, (well, except Timber Sports) or polyticks.