Need production ideas

[4x4American]

I hear out west the timber fallers work what's called a fallers day which is 6hrs.  I usually put in 10-12 hrs at the sawmill, and then come back and maybe sharpen a couple blades if I'm still able to walk lol

[redprospector]

I hear out west the timber fallers work what's called a fallers day which is 6hrs.  I usually put in 10-12 hrs at the sawmill, and then come back and maybe sharpen a couple blades if I'm still able to walk lol

Yep, when a man works up 15000 bd ft of timber on a cow's face in 6 hours...it's time to call it a day. Different story at the mill, but there is a point of diminishing returns.

[4x4American]

yea fir sure Imm not knocking them, I have nothing but respect for the west coast timber fallers.  They are real men.

[redprospector]

yea fir sure Imm not knocking them, I have nothing but respect for the west coast timber fallers.  They are real men.

I didn't figure you were knocking anyone.
I guess this is as good a place as any...I rember a few years ago, on another site, you were asking about becoming a logger. My advice to you was to stick with your day job. For 99% of the young men I tell that, it's good advice. But looking at what you have done I'll have to say that you are evidently the 1%.
I can admit when I'm wrong, and I was sure wrong with the advice I gave you back then. It seems you're building a fine business, a little different from logging, but we all take a deture from time to time in life. Keep on keepin' on buddy! I'm proud to at least know you through this site.

[4x4American]

Thanks pard! you're ever out this way stop by and visit, maybe I'll be the pallet king by then lol lol

[paul case]

My new to me resaw and cut off saw.

  

 
Cut off saw is homemade and resaw is a Smith brand. It really whistles through 4'' cants.

Did I remember reading that you are getting a new Baker lazy suzan runnaround? Like this?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lRc3_CHjdAA#

PC

[Kbeitz]

Where can one buy neg° blades for a cut off saw?

[4x4American]

Where can one buy neg° blades for a cut off saw?

Menominee saw maybe?


Paul, that be the one

[paul case]

WOW.......... I wana come watch one guy feed that thing. and stack boards and make the bucks and not have to move and, and,and.......

WOW that is all I can say.

PC

[4x4American]

WOW.......... I wana come watch one guy feed that thing. and stack boards and make the bucks and not have to move and, and,and.......

WOW that is all I can say.

PC

It was love at first sight.  The moment I laid my two eyes on that thing I knew I had to have one. 

[moodnacreek]

Payne  made a 30" peg tooth saw for my slab wood saw that is a swing saw. This style is also called style M. You could put it on either way. They will make most any circle saw.               '

[4x4American]

Baker told me the resaw was loaded on a truck this afternoon.  They even made a demo vidjayo of it in action.  It's nice to have a company that doesn't screw around and actually tests each piece of equipment before it leaves the factory.   ;D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI57UWWsNs4 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I would go nuts watching that thing.

[Magicman]

That would be a short trip!!   ;D   :D

[4x4American]

I'm gonna have a guy running it while I'm running the sawmill breaking down logs into cants to feed it.  If I could sell slabs of wood for $300/piece I sure as heck wouldn't be making pallet parts but in my area there are sawmills in every valley and it's a steady check.  You can't give away slabs of wood.  There was a wood show here this past weekend and I seen a feller from Indiana and a feller from Tennessee and they were trying to sell high dollar "rustic" wood pieces (furniture, pool table, coffee tables, etc).  They had some really nice looking stuff but at the last day of the show they still had a whole lot of what they showed up with, and one of them was really grumpy :D :D I got the feeling they came up here for a gold rush but didn't find no pay dirt :D

[Peter Drouin]

Spend some money, why don't you.  :D :D :D :D :D Don't let Paul C see that. :D :D

[paul case]

I done already saw that!!! ;D

4x4 is gona be walkin in tall cotton when he gets that thing home.

BTW baker's website shows they have a used one for sale for $12,500 I think.

PC

[barbender]

That 4x4 isn't afraid to spend some dough and go all in, that's for sure! That looks like a really nice machine 8)

[YellowHammer]

That's going to be too easy, it'll take all the "fun" out of resawing. 

[Peter Drouin]

That 4x4 isn't afraid to spend some dough and go all in, that's for sure! That looks like a really nice machine 8)

Sometimes you have to spend some to make a lot. Way to go 4x4, Getting setup to do a job fast. Just think of the time you save and all the wood going out the door.
If I was in the pallet biz I would have two.  :D :D ;D

[4x4American]

lol lol The way I see it I'm losing money by not having it, that things gonna pay its way in a hurry. 




And Paul go figure now they have a used one for sale lol.  I needed this thing months ago I looked for a used one with the turnarounds couldn't find one.  Plus I don't have 3-phase so I'd have to figure out a phase inverter or a genset. 

[WDH]

That is some high cotton. 

[Percy]

Baker told me the resaw was loaded on a truck this afternoon.  They even made a demo vidjayo of it in action.  It's nice to have a company that doesn't screw around and actually tests each piece of equipment before it leaves the factory.   ;D


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uI57UWWsNs4

WOW!! That thing is quick and brilliant! Can it do 12 footers?? Regardless, looks like a wise purchase for you...

[Andries]

Nice!
Looks like you made a major jump in your ask for 'production idears'

. . . and your 62 year old off-bearer from Down South might get dizzy running that re-saw.
Gonna buy him some out-rigger training wheels so that he doesn't fall over?   :D

[longtime lurker]

 I like it: relatively quick, looks like it could be operated by a monkey with little supervision, so long as pallet prices hold up for a bit it should make you some money. And then after that it should make you some profit. Which of course you'll direct to some other piece of sawmill stuff because sawmilling is a disease and none of us ever really get a payout beyond day to day expenses until we get that old that we sell our lifetimes accumulation of junk.

I'm pleased for you mighty pallet king of the Adirondacks. ;)