Whatcha Sawin' ???

[Darrel]

In my case, I think it was a carrot  8)

[Magicman]

Due to the storm coming, we moved Thursday's scheduled sawing to tomorrow. 

[fishfighter]

Cutting the skin off of a cucumber last night and found myself calculating the area to get the best cant.   ;D  Come on, I'm not the only one...   

:D And I though I was the only one to do this. ;D

[Magicman]

There is always more if you do "live edge".   8)

[Jim_Rogers]

I did the math on the log with the rotten center. I figure it should have yielded 321 bdft and what I actually got was 196 bdft so I lost 125 bdft to the rot.

Jim Rogers

[Darrel]

I did the math on the log with the rotten center. I figure it should have yielded 321 bdft and what I actually got was 196 bdft so I lost 125 bdft to the rot.

Jim Rogers

On the bright side, you don't have to worry about splitting the pith

[Peter Drouin]

When I see rot at the end of a log, Say 3" round. I figure the BF of a 4x4 all the way out of the middle of the log.
That's a standard in NH scaling.

[JRWoodchuck]

MM is that just clover ground cover in the picture?



 

[Magicman]

Yup, mostly clover.  I was back at the same location today.  Grandson, Ben, was with me so I had exceptionally good help.


 
A dozen logs.


 
Lined up like soldiers.  We were sawing by 8:00a and finished before 2:00p.  No lumber pictures, but our today's yield was 1871 bf and was a general mix of 1", 5/4, & framing lumber.

[Grizzly]

I'm confused. Was that Magicman sitting and being still?????   :D

[WDH]

No, that was a stunt double.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

No, that was a stunt double.

:D                                        :D

[bags]

That's his supervise'in postion fellas.lol. 8)

[Magicman]

There was no sittin' and grinnin' on this job today.  Rain was a comin' so I told um to grab their biscuit and eat it on the run because we weren't stopping.  First time that I have ever eaten a sammich between loading, turning, toe boarding, clamping, and sawing.  Got my fiber with the sawdust.   ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You are now regular with all that Fiber.  :D

[Peter Drouin]

 Nice setup Magicman, Jobs like that make cutting a dream.




I had a an order for some 4x6x24' Hemlock free of heart.

  

  

 
Also got 4- 2x8x24, 1=4x12x24, and boards from that log.

[Darrel]

That's pretty awesome Peter,  I've always liked cuttin' big timbers from big logs. The bf add up quickly.

[WV Sawmiller]

You are now regular with all that Fiber.  :D

TMI ;D

[longtime lurker]

Cutting the skin off of a cucumber last night and found myself calculating the area to get the best cant.   ;D  Come on, I'm not the only one...   

:D And I though I was the only one to do this. ;D

Ive been saying for years everything you need to learn about log tension can be gathered trying to cut carrots into square straight strips for a stir fry. I backsaw the springy little suckers... And you get to eat your mistakes as well.

[Darrel]

Ive been saying for years everything you need to learn about log tension can be gathered trying to cut carrots into square straight strips for a stir fry. I backsaw the springy little suckers... And you get to eat your mistakes as well.

I have yet to sticker a load of carrots so that I could have dried stir fry to take backing, I'd think there would be way too much degrade though.  :D :D :D

[JRWoodchuck]

I first start with a reverse roll quarter saw really love VG carrots. And all of my stir fry is FOH. Don't need any extra checking!

[Magicman]

Actually I have given the carrot reference to customers wanting to get four 6X6's out of a 14"  Poplar log.  One guy insisted that it be done anyway saying that he would take his chances.  He lost and it was not pretty.   :-\

[WV Sawmiller]

  Just a little clean up on my place. sawed 4-5 really small ash logs from 8-12 inches diameter. Cut 11-1/2 dozen 5' tomato stakes and one 6X6X8 I will cut into 4 2' long crib blocks. Will cut the rest of my small stuff and make some more stakes and a few more crib blocks just to have on hand and see  it they will move. If nobody else around has any I might sell a few. Never can tell. If they don;t sell this year the tomato stakes will sell next year. I get a 3' sticker off the other end after cutting my stake.

[Magicman]

My yesterday's sawing just before this tropical storm Cindy, will be my last until the end of our vacation.  Until then, I will take names and put them on the list.   

[fishfighter]

So far I been lucky with little rain here. ;D Kind of looks like that will change today. :(

What about those Tigers? 8) LSU LSU all the way. ;D