No better way to spend a Saturday. First up was a twisty 14" hemlock. I was sawing for an order of 1x9 boards so I was hoping to get a cant that could get me 3 or 4. Once I trimmed off the twist, I had a cant for four boards. But as luck would have it, full of shake and soft spots. Not a complete waste. These two guys come off the twisty parts. I had to cut two logs like this one to make up the order. Then it was onto jack pine to make up some 2x8x10ft for shed floor joists.
Sometimes its frustrating I cut almost all black locust my main customer uses it for outside projects and you pick a good looking log on the mill and when you open it up it has a big hole of rot or just the dry rot right in the middle and you cant get any lumber out of it but on the up side you always get firewood Do you have to seal board ends when you saw pine where you are I find If I dont I get a lot of end checking really seems to help sealing I cut mostly white pine some spruce
