Yep, ain't no way Brad would sit all day gawkin' when there's Stihls to buy, and locust to pursue.....lol
Some recent sawdust activity..... Cutting short cedar cants to sell to a mill that produces the 1/4" tongue and groove closet liner material.
A couple weeks back... milling the siding for our pig/chicken barn... One of the logs had iron deposits, but for once I didn't bother hitting any of it..... And the mostly finished product....
Just read this thread all the way through. Love the operation you have there. Great looking lumber! I'm curious, does the mill make a profit or pay for your hobby or is the wood for personal use? It looks like something I could really get into.
In theory I'm supposed to be sawing lumber for a living...... Before I go any further I gotta admit I'm not a good business man.... I'd rather work the negotiate prices. I can usually net $400-$500 per 6 hour day with this mill (and my 14 year old boy)... when I have work.... but that's the trouble, getting enough folks to want lumber, (for me anyways). We do the best when we do portable jobs, because we just get in and work like mad, and don't spend any time doing anything but sawing logs. When cutting our logs at home then selling the lumber, there is a lot of time and work doing things other than sawing logs, plus logs aren't free....they either have to be bought, scrounged, or cut off our own property, which takes lots of time and or money. A lot of people buy mills thinking it's going to be easy money......but, while sawing lumber is lots of fun, it's also a LOT of back busting work! But for me, a day running the mill makin' sawdust is pretty much a good day, so I guess I'm addicted. We do us the mill for making lumber for our own projects as well, and there can definitely be significant savings in that aspect of the sawmill life. Where abouts in nor cal are you located? my wife grew up in southern and then central cal. In fact my sawmill was bought from a widow lady in coastal nor cal.
A bunch of pine we cut last year... We sawed about 50 thousand bf off of a two acre clear cut job that we logged.
Hey buzz-saw you seeing this? Those are sweet! I had the idea of making 4x4's legs for raised planters. Lots f the cedar i scrounge thats about al you could get out of them. Thanks for posting SM!
I have a bunch of 8'ers i saved for posts/fenceposts etc. stacked at storage. Many did make it to buzz-saw's for milling. We did slice 3/8" thick strips which i later ripped into lattice stock. The skinnies in that stack are for his tenoning jig to make log furniture
Here's something else we've done with the small ones...stall dividers in the bacon barn.... They like it fine.....
We're not big fans of them either, but it's kinda pot luck where and when ill scrounge mill logs. Plus its brute force with me or him and i manually loading logs into my PU or his trailer. Once at his place the tractor takes over. Have you ever milled box elder?
No, but ive seen pics of the blood red veins in it. Never have scrounged it until the score im cutting tomorrow. Logs arent that big, but ill save some for the mill.
Log pics will be in my "pros & cons" thread tomorrow. Dunno when they will get milled but sure will post pics. Really neat slicing open something "new" and seeing the grain/color etc.
Lol.... Actually I've heard of cedar grilling planks, but ain't never tried none of it..... seems to me like it wouldn't taste like food...
I agree. I think its used for Salmon. Ill take bacon over fish anyday! I had thick sliced, hickory smoked,peppered bacon for breakfast.
