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[hunt4570]

Sawing pitchy pine, smell good but sticky........

Norwood sawmill on pitchy pine - YouTube

Interesting you cut two opposing sides first. I always cut 90 degrees to the first cut. and keep rolling till I get a square cant. But thats me..

 

[Molalla1]

:thumbsup: . . . .

 

[hunt4570]

Here you go OP.. I cut a couple short beams out of a couple logs. Needed a new staging deck for my logs.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

How you mill a log, really depends on what kind of log it is and what your lumber is going to be used for once sawn out of the log. I saw some for lumber, sometimes for beams and then some other logs are sawn for grade. That makes a big difference on how I mill a log.

Then next problem is, learning to "read the log" to know what side of the log to start on, that makes a BIG difference in what you will end up with too...

SR

 

[John_Mc]

Lots of things work, I use WD40 most times, as I keep some handy for other things...

WD40 works (motor oil works, for that matter). I was happy to learn of the cooking oil bit, since I'm usually back inside before I remember to do anything about it (and my wife and daughter will not use motor oil or WD40 to clean their hands.)

I've not had much luck with alcohol, that Hunt mentioned -- though the right type applied orally and in large enough quantities makes me not care too much about pine sap on my hands.

 

[hunt4570]

WD40 works (motor oil works, for that matter). I was happy to learn of the cooking oil bit, since I'm usually back inside before I remember to do anything about it (and my wife and daughter will not use motor oil or WD40 to clean their hands.)

I've not had much luck with alcohol, that Hunt mentioned -- though the right type applied orally and in large enough quantities makes me not care too much about pine sap on my hands.

Well I don't use it on my hands, just for equipment handles.. well , and that orally thing..

 

[hunt4570]

3 more ready to go.. sitting on those new beams.

 

[Molalla1]

3 more ready to go.. sitting on those new beams.

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Nice hunt . . . that will make a lot of nice structure wood.

 

[hunt4570]

Nice hunt . . . that will make a lot of nice structure wood.

Yes, construction lumber and a bunch of 1xs for interior T&G siding..

 

[Loaderman22]

Sawing pitchy pine, smell good but sticky........

OP, I have a question, and since I do not have a mill, I have absolutely no idea on the answer. It appears in the video, that after you/your son cut off the initial slab, and stop the blade, you drag the blade back through the cut instead of raising it or removing the bark cutoff. Is it just easier or faster? I would think that would gum up the blade a bit in that spot especially in this pine? Or is it just appear that way due to video editing?