New load of timber

[Happycamper]

Received a third load of 36 cu. meters of fir today so when the weather cools we're back at it again.

[Magicman]

Congrats.  I'll be waiting for the weather to cool also.  These high 90's are brutal.   

[hamish]

36 cubic meters.....................is what14-15K board feet...................... times
three loads...........

What mill do you have again?

[Happycamper]

hamish,
  Not 3 loads today it is the third load so far. The other two loads are sawn up. I just have the small mizer that I have modified quite a bit for easy use.
                                        Jim

[Brucer]

In BC, logs are sold by the cubic metre scale. It measures the entire volume of sound wood in the log -- slabs, sawdust, and everything. It's up to us buyers to know what kind of recovery we can get from a given diameter.

I typically get 200 BF of timbers and 100 BF of 1" & 2" lumber from a cubic metre.

Processing three loads in a season with an LT10 is impressive.

[rmack]

Received a third load of 36 cu. meters of fir today so when the weather cools we're back at it again.

is your camera broken?  ;D

[hamish]

In BC, logs are sold by the cubic metre scale. It measures the entire volume of sound wood in the log -- slabs, sawdust, and everything. It's up to us buyers to know what kind of recovery we can get from a given diameter.

I typically get 200 BF of timbers and 100 BF of 1" & 2" lumber from a cubic metre.

Processing three loads in a season with an LT10 is impressive.

Ok that makes a big difference, the math equation for a BC cubic meter vs BF if much different, so with mill over run cutting 1" and 2" would be 3600-4000BF.

Easily achieved production with a manual mill.  Set up well and with a good offbearer and good logs 1000bf+ per 8hr day (stopping for lunch of course).

[WoodenHead]

Using 200BF +100BF per cubic meter from Brucer, I come up with about 10,000-11,000 bdft per 36 cubic meter truck load.  That seems about right depending on the truck.  My usual loads are 7600 to 10,000 bdft.

As Brucer said, processing 3 loads in a season with an LT10 is impressive.