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Much progress being made since I last checked in the trusses are all made up and we started stranding up posts today. I was gifted a 100+ year old pine that I managed to get all the 2x6s for the girts and purlins from. Trusses under the tractor shed for safe keeping. Posts starting to go up...

All the beams done plus an extra 8x8 cant done rest of the weekend is gonna be resting and spending time with family.

First beams coming off the mill this weekend 3"x8"x20'

Big day today concrete went down so I took off to supervise and made a good bit of sawdust as well. First post off the sawmill. Soon to be lumber Finished stack for the day all posts cut and some bonus 2x6s.

Rough idea of my plan drawn up on solid works by my buddy at work, it's gonna have 4 posts instead of 3 and be 18x30.

Formed up a new slab two weekends ago now waiting on concrete hopefully this Thursday. And then the first tree fell today. I'll attempt to keep this updated but I tend to get sidetracked easily so no promises.

I've been talking about rebuilding my hokey shop for a long time now and I built a bandsaw mill with the intentions of sawing limber from trees on my own place to build with. Tore the crappy POS down two weekends ago, what a blast.

Demolition time for the new shop build! Tearing out some very poor concrete.

I am tearing down my current cobbled together scrap heap and I have an idea for the slab I wanted to ask opinions on. I would love to put one or mutiple pieces of t-track in the floor to use to bolt down various pieces of equipment for temporary use like a tube bender or router table. Has anyone...

When I went to get my new mower last week I had to lay a piece of ply down on the deck so the 800lb beast didn't fall through. I fixed that problem today, had some white oak left over from a customer who supplied logs to deck his gooseneck.

Good to hear, I brought it home today no grass to cut but I'm ready for when there is in the next weeks.

I'm in the market for a new zero turn this coming year and I have it narrowed down between a Hustler and Kubota dealers based on how I've been treated so far. I have an excellent relationship with my Kubota dealer and the Hustler guys are small mom and pop place who give me the warm fuzzies...

Here's what I got sawed up the weekend

This is the old growth pine I nabbed today.

Truthfully it took a 3 year hiatus but never the less I started this sawmill 4 years ago and finally decided to finish it in the last few weeks. It cuts amazingly well I'm super happy with it so far. Only have 10 foot of track built right now so I'm limited to 6' boards but as soon as I can get...