Little over 1/4 mile down the hill. Neighbor has seen me hauling logs home so he offered up his stash. Was going to mill them for some pipe dream project but decided it’ll never happen. Close to home, decided not to trim them to length. Tounge weight pretty light on this load Maybe trimming is best. About two more loads like that down there.
That’s the plan. Gotta admit there’s so much log wood available at this time a small sawmill wouldn’t be a bad idea. The question then becomes is there a market for rough sawn lumber. Probably not much in my state. Mostly yuppies that buy glass and chrome.
The right people are out there looking for rough sawn that they can surface and utilize. If you were to pursue a milling hobby, you would just have to make your source known to a few key people and it would take off. Of course you’d need to set up some drying areas but that wouldn’t be too difficult.
Western Washington. Yeah buddy, you probably have it worse than me LOL. Ct yuppies have been yuppies long enough they’re beginning to realize they’re yuppies and don’t know everything. You’ve got the more radicalized yuppies in some areas over there that are sure no one is as smart as them.
Nice! ... if you have the tools to slide them puppies back ought to be easy to cut to length at waist height...
Not a bad idea. Too late tho. Trying to take a break from the saw today. Busted my middle finger couple weeks ago. Been tweaking it on and off since then. Yesterday I lost concentration for a couple seconds and yanked the starter rope without protecting that finger. Ouch!! Right back to square one. Gonna be pulling with the left hand for awhile again and I’m one of those people who have a very stupid left hand. Ambidextrous ain’t me.
It's the California influence maybe....... 3 guys were drinking in a saloon. The first, dressed in a fringed buckskin jacket, tossed down his shot of sour mash whiskey. He stood and picked the half full bottle of whiskey from the table and tossed it in the air, pulled his pistol and shattered it! Everyone had dropped to the floor and as they got up he looked at them and said " I'm from Tennessee and we have lots of whiskey in Tennessee!" Things settled down for a bit until a slender fellow wearing tight khakis with a designer belt and a light chiffon shirt with deeply pointed collar and expensive sun glasses perched in his wavy hair stood up. He tossed off his stemmed glass of light Riesling, grabbed the half full bottle of wine from the table and flipped it into the air and smashed it with a quick draw. As everyone settled down he looked around with a smile and said " I'm from California and we have lots of wine in California!" The third person at the table was wearing a plaid cotton shirt, roomy jeans and hiking boots. He scowled for a bit then drained down his mug of micro brew beer and slowly rose. As all watched, he deliberately drew both his pistols, cocked the hammers back and then blew the wine drinker out of his chair and on to the floor with both barrels! He glowered around the stunned saloon patrons then said " I'm from Washington State, and we have lots of Californians in Washington State!" With my apologies to any FHC Member who lives in California
You are sure getting a lot of good out of your log loader mod to the trailer. I imagine that by now you have all the idiosyncrasies figured out. It's nice to get to play with a new toy and scarf up a bunch of good logs at the same time!
You must have very warm blood M’lady I have my mommas house and sisters house to contend with besides my own. Plus I slacked last year. And its available right on the side of the roads where I can pick it up with a button and not my back. I’m grabbin it while the grabbins good!!!
As far as I can tell that’s all red oak. Most everything around here is. If your looking at them funny leaves that’s just some weeds which are growing like wildfire down there. Thickest, plushest weedy ground cover I’ve ever seen. A little unnerving this time of year in rattlesnake territory. I make sure to bump the log pile with the trailer just to announce my arrival
Yes it’s working quite well. Better than it should for someone who built it with no logging experience. The ramp hasn’t been used since I added the arm in back. That’s good, less weight to move around. I’ve been using the tongs since I got them instead of the chain. Working good. I will modify and shorten them to make them even better for my purposes. The spiked “shoe” I made is working great also. Get the nose of the log on the trailer with tongs. Release and put the shoe on the butt of the log and slide em right up. There’s a little side to side action that occurs but with experience it’s no longer a surprise and easy to deal with.
We had a small mill back in the 80's. It was fun then, lol. Unless it is some very figured wood or rare species, or needing custom size wood, I buy my oak lumber already kiln dried and sorted by color and size, no knots and delivered, WAY cheaper that you can get at home improvement stores...those logs will make some fine firewood. Easy splitting and stacking.
