Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[Loaderman22]

Son says the roof is 2-1/2" out of square and he dont know why so he left as is and started the tar paper today, has to get one more roll.

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I see the future... The tree to the right of the new roof getting cut down now that you can't fit long logs between that and the new post for the roof...

 

[Loaderman22]

I hear what you are saying. It's just that I am jealous of the wood you have down there for dimensional lumber compared to what I have up here. Believe me I would rather cut and limb one tree that has 100 or more 2 X 4's in it than have to cut and limb 25 trees to get 100.

gg

I wish I had the trees in the first place... I have maybe 10 pine trees on all 22 acres. 1 is absolutely massive, 2 people couldn't hug it and have their fingers touch. Hopefully this weekend I'll get down there to take a pic.

 

[hunt4570]

Even if I had the big log luxury I still wouldn't cut 6" boards out of 1' timbers and or 2x4s, I grew up under teaching of the right size log for the right size lumber, yeah I'm funny that way...

Well now I've had no teaching! I've been doing this for a little over 2 years now and this saw didn't come with any instructions on how to cut a log, learned some on line and the rest I've made up along the way...

 

[hunt4570]

I hear what you are saying. It's just that I am jealous of the wood you have down there for dimensional lumber compared to what I have up here. Believe me I would rather cut and limb one tree that has 100 or more 2 X 4's in it than have to cut and limb 25 trees to get 100.

gg

I DO have exceptional trees for cutting construction type lumber!! 60-75 foot tall and the first 30-40 feet usually without branches and straight as an arrow. But I have almost all pine, hardwoods are few and far between normally just along the riparian corridors and down in the bottoms so most of those end up as firewood if I cut them.

 

[Oldpath05]

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..

Probably dont mount to a hill a beans which way the log is sawed. but son does say he likes to have the small end facing the saw head, he says its easier to adjust for tapper that way but I say just saw the darn thing and just lift what ever end needs lifting, all I care about is getting the log on the deck without breaking it, that video is on hold til the mods are done......

 

[Oldpath05]

Here you go OP.. I cut a couple short beams out of a couple logs. Needed a new staging deck for my logs.
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I see Marry Poppins took back her umbrella or you gave it back. The log looks like you got it sawed non to soon if up here it would be all full of holes by now, benefit of SYP. Log deck looks good, in last picture I'm always telling my son when done sawing place the log runners out on mill and log stops up on mill in case I come by with log and drop it on deck, so if log rolls wont roll on floor, it's happen couple time and extremely hard to lift back up on mill deck.

 

[Oldpath05]

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

The way I read logs in my book chapter on 1 paragraph 1 is, if full of knots=post/beam, if 4-8"=2x4s, IF IF IF IF 1-2' wide= BOARDS AND OR BEAM, NOT 2x4s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[hunt4570]

Probably dont mount to a hill a beans which way the log is sawed. but son does say he likes to have the small end facing the saw head, he says its easier to adjust for tapper that way but I say just saw the darn thing and just lift what ever end needs lifting, all I care about is getting the log on the deck without breaking it, that video is on hold til the mods are done......

I like having the small end towards the saw head as well, I have a jack mounted on that end to raise the log if needed to deal with taper.

 

[hunt4570]

I see Marry Poppins took back her umbrella or you gave it back. The log looks like you got it sawed non to soon if up here it would be all full of holes by now, benefit of SYP. Log deck looks good, in last picture I'm always telling my son when done sawing place the log runners out on mill and log stops up on mill in case I come by with log and drop it on deck, so if log rolls wont roll on floor, it's happen couple time and extremely hard to lift back up on mill deck.

Oh, the sunbrella is there depending on weather and time of day..

 

[Jstpssng]

The way I read logs in my book chapter on 1 paragraph 1 is, if full of knots=post/beam, if 4-8"=2x4s, IF IF IF IF 1-2' wide= BOARDS AND OR BEAM, NOT 2x4s!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My book says wide boards cup. Also; spruce=studs, pine is too soft so make boards. Hemlock= whatever you need it for, just don't let it dry first or you'll never get a nail in it.
Hardwood goes to HCHaynes wood yard, pulpwood or firewood, depending on quality and species.