Tractors and wood! Show your pics

[hunt4570]

That's definitely in a different category than the balsam fir we have here, which grows like weeds, lives about 70 years, and often starts to get hollow when it's still a sapling.



That's all well and good for those of you with sawmills, who can go out and cut a tree the day that it's needed. It doesn't work for those of us who take our logs someplace to be sawn, so that we can have a pile out back to pick through as needed. There's also something to be said for letting it dry first so that you don't have such big cracks in the floors; and even if I did have a mill, I'm still not clever enough to be able to choose just the right tree so that it has the right configuration to give me the exact amount and size of lumber I need.

I do have a mill, about 2 1/2 years now, and I dont think I'll EVER figure all that out...:laughing:

 

[Oldpath05]

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I do have a mill, about 2 1/2 years now, and I dont think I'll EVER figure all that out...:laughing:

It's easy, it's in my first chapter of how to saw lubber, 8" and down goes into 2x4s, 10" and up goes into boards so people in SC dont have to buy plywood..........

 

[hunt4570]

It's easy, it's in my first chapter of how to saw lubber, 10" and down goes into 2x4s, 12" and up goes into boards so people in SC dont have to buy plywood..........

Not enough 2x4s in a 10" log.. you need to revise that book to make it more practical! Maybe 10-2x4s in one is all , not enough to make it worth my while..

And I don't "have" to buy plywood, I choose to!

 

[Loaderman22]

WOW your right just the other day son was telling me he wants those trees gone, tell me am I going to win the lottery this weekend..........

Ooohh sorry, but I do see you all enjoying the new roof this winter & many more to come...

 

[Loaderman22]

Son finished the tarpaper and started cedar shakes this afternoon, said he can have it done in two days....

Down here we wouldn't even think of nailing cedar shakes directly to far paper, always put it up on furring or a drainage layer like cedar breather. But then again, when they fail, we can't just fire up our own mill and make more!!

 

[Loaderman22]

That's definitely in a different category than the balsam fir we have here, which grows like weeds, lives about 70 years, and often starts to get hollow when it's still a sapling.

It's a lot more per bd ft. But it is nice stuff, tends to stay straighter and less sappy. But with the cost of lumber right now, spf is more appealing for the price.

 

[Oldpath05]

Not enough 2x4s in a 10" log.. you need to revise that book to make it more practical! Maybe 10-2x4s in one is all , not enough to make it worth my while..

Its a good thing your not using sawmills with round blades they take a 1/4-5/16 cut, in 4 cuts you'd loose a 2x4!!! All the changes in my book are in the white part and are subject to revisions at anytime without notice.......

 

[Oldpath05]

Down here we wouldn't even think of nailing cedar shakes directly to far paper, always put it up on furring or a drainage layer like cedar breather. But then again, when they fail, we can't just fire up our own mill and make more!!

Whats wrong with tar paper, always use to be used what changed?

 

[hunt4570]

Whats wrong with tar paper, always use to be used what changed?

I was thinking the same about a "drainage" layer in there so the shingles could dry out..

 

[hunt4570]

Its a good thing your not using sawmills with round blades they take a 1/4-5/16 cut, in 4 cuts you'd loose a 2x4!!! All the changes in my book are in the white part and are subject to revisions at anytime without notice.......

Yeah, those round blade jobs scare me to death!! I'm sure I would lose an appendage eventually. Same with that shingle cutter!!