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Any experience with Hemlock ?

Started by antioch01, July 10, 2017, 08:47:18 PM

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antioch01

That is one beautiful mill site,,,,,,, Are those building support posts in the last pic Hemlock ? If so, any special treatment in the ground ?
2006 Woodmizer LT40HD,
1975 Mack RD686 Log Truck with 110 Prentice Loader,
Morooka MST600 Tracked dump truck used as skidder.
Cat D3C LGP
Bobcat T200
Ford 675D Backhoe
Case 1080 Excavator
Snorkel 42A Manlift

repmma

Hemlock board and batten on my garage, put up green, no issues or splitting.
Thomas 8020, Timberjack 225C, Ford 5030 with Norse 450 winch, stihl saws and 142 acres to manage.

Dave Shepard

Quote from: 4x4American on July 11, 2017, 10:22:19 PM
Quote from: moodnacreek on July 11, 2017, 12:53:26 PM
The devil made hemlock, the lord made pine !  I can't believe people say use it green. On timbers ok but not siding boards. In the eighties I sided my house with hemlock dried on sticks but to close to the ground and it shrunk and split bad.


:D :D   Never heard that one before.  All the hemlock around here is full of shake.  junk.  Over into VT a ways theres good hemlock I hear. 


Dave Shepard tells about an old timer he used to work with, Poine ain't a tree it's a weed lol


I enjoy sawing hemlock, love the smell.. I rarely saw it though.

Say what? I love pine. If I could cut only one species, it would be EWP. :)
Wood-Mizer LT40HDD51-WR Wireless, Kubota L48, Honda Rincon 650, TJ208 G-S, and a 60"LogRite!

Dave Shepard

Oh, and I hate the smell of hemlock. I've used a ton of 2X hemlock dry. Screws or nail gun, no problems.
Wood-Mizer LT40HDD51-WR Wireless, Kubota L48, Honda Rincon 650, TJ208 G-S, and a 60"LogRite!

Bruno of NH

I have built a lot with it dry and had no problems till you have to plane or chisel a knot
Lt 40 wide with 38hp gas and command controls , F350 4x4 dump and lot of contracting tools

Peter Drouin

All gravel here. So I put the logs in a hole, backfill and pound the log down like a nail. Done.  :D :D
I'll plumb them up later. Just a pole barn, lowest tax on a pole barn. I will mix a little old oil and diesel to put a little around where the ground stops and the air starts.
Just a 2" ring ;D
A&P saw Mill LLC.
45' of Wood Mizer, cutting since 1987.
License NH softwood grader.

antioch01

I really like pole barns, 40' X 60' in Murphy. 80' X 100' two story here in Plant City, that is it in the background of my avatar pic, and 35' X 55' in Tallahassee Fl.
Always used pressure treated posts here in Fl. The barn in Murphy is Hemlock posts like yours. Just in the ground though. I am treating the ground next to the posts with used motor oil also. Not enough to be an environmental issue.
2006 Woodmizer LT40HD,
1975 Mack RD686 Log Truck with 110 Prentice Loader,
Morooka MST600 Tracked dump truck used as skidder.
Cat D3C LGP
Bobcat T200
Ford 675D Backhoe
Case 1080 Excavator
Snorkel 42A Manlift

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