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Makin' sawdust

Discussion in 'The Sawyer Room' started by Sawdust Man, Oct 27, 2022.

  1. T.Jeff Veal

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    Those are some beautiful logs and boards. My dad bought a Mobile Dimension mill in 1980. I ran it awhile for him. I know he sawed a huge cedar from the river swamp once that was 36" dia. He found a horseshoe in it. Before he milled it.
     
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  2. Sawdust Man

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    Just a horrible ugly chunk of red oak.
     
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    One of today's logs.....
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  4. Sawdust Man

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    From this.......
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    to this.....
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  5. Sawdust Man

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    Interesting, I've never ran a circular sawmill.
    My dad, brothers, and I went to the mobile dimension manufacturer to look at their mills back in the late 90's.
    They are really simple, and fast mills......they really excel at sawing very large logs, like over 8' in diameter.
     
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  6. buZZsaw BRAD

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    You didnt dust it off? :faint: Nice looking load of farwood there. :thumbs:

    Hope none of that stuff is coming our way.
     
  7. mike bayerl

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    Cool! We were milling oak today, too. Mostly, medium quality logs into trailer decking, but there were a couple nice logs. Here's some pretty qs red oak.
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  8. Sawdust Man

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    That's a dandy piece of oak!
     
  9. Sawdust Man

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    It mostly blew off in the first mile or so.

    This weather is nuts, all you northern yankees ain't got no snow, and us southerners are freezing up!
     
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    It was humid here today and i hated it. Dont like sweating. Im in Southern CT. The weather can change on a moments notice though.

    Ive taken my PU full of snow on the highway and gunned it to get the snow out!:D
     
  11. T.Jeff Veal

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    That's a nice board, beautiful grain
     
  12. T.Jeff Veal

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    Yep. I liked it. It did waste more wood than a band mill, but really good for cutting standard size lumber. 1 pass and have a finished board
     
  13. Sawdust Man

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    Yeah, one of those mills would have been very nice for them monster oaks we just finished up.
     
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    Today we went and salvaged some white oak outta a big nasty dozer pile, on a wet slimy clay hillside.
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    Got two trailer loads of pretty good logs...... they all had barbed wire fence in em, so after sawing into it one time, we cut the rest of em off extra high....

    Bout to drive out from underneath the logs.....
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    Back home....
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    That's some pretty logs, should make nice lumber
     
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    Love the pics!!!! Sure wish I could find some cedar.
     
  18. Sawdust Man

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    It grows on trees around here...:whistle:
    People just doze it into piles and burn cedar here.... it's just a matter of convincing them to let me salvage it before the blaze.
     
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    It is SWEET to slice open cedar. My favorite.
     
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    Salvaged this much cedar from a burn pile today.
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