Pallet Pete.....sleep.....sleep.....sleep.... you want to buy the bandmilllllll.....you waaaaant to buuuuyyyyy the band milllll.....sleeeeep.....dreammmmmm.....fresh sawn boards......fire starters for sale from all the saaaaaaaw duuuuuuust.....
No, most of them you can mount a chair on it so you can ride rather than walk back and forth. Makes perfect sense to me.
I bet you're right about that, Spencer. Something about those big, fresh cut sawboards that is mesmerising. I saw some live edge sycamore slabs last week and man, were they cool lookin'.
If we were closer……… in a heartbeat! Been trying to get the same thing together with a few guy's here. 4-5 guy's you know that will be "all in" (maintenance, repairs, operation methods, etc) with $5k each or so, you could have a nice hyd. saw that would be out of reach for a "weekend warrior" on his own. I'd even offer the space for a building for use & storage out of the weather and room for a log yard.
Funny you mention sycamore, i have quartersawn a few hundred bd ft of the stuff the last few years. I really like the way it looks, but you never see it anywhere.
I don't have a single one on my property, but there pockets of them in the area where they are quite common. They are quite an unusual looking tree. From what I have heard, they can live for hundreds of years.
Yep, problem with the older tress is that they are hollow in the bottom. No good for lumber. Terrible to split so no good for firewood. In the winter they are easy to spot as the bark is white about half way up the tree. They love creek bottoms, and the front part of my property is all creek bottom.We have a bunch in the 20-30" dia range, before they start getting hollow.
That is some purty wood. I only know of one sycamore in my woodlot. It is about 30 inches dbh and as noted is growing within 5 feet of a seasonal creek. Now, having seen how nice it can be, I might be tempted to go get it for milling. It is in an open area so my Husky 555 should have no trouble making it lay on the forest floor. The hard part would be retrieving it. Maybe I could do it with an alaskan mill.
