Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Sawyer Rob
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A customer friend needed some 2x12 ledger boards, so here's the tree that will give them,
Once limbed, I carried it out,
and loaded it up along with a couple others,
and took them to the mill site and started making lumber,
once milled "mostly" into 2x12's, I then loaded the lumber and delivered it,
SR
Once limbed, I carried it out,
and loaded it up along with a couple others,
and took them to the mill site and started making lumber,
once milled "mostly" into 2x12's, I then loaded the lumber and delivered it,
SR
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A customer friend needed some 2x12 ledger boards, so here's the tree that will give them,
Once limbed, I carried it out,
and loaded it up along with a couple others,
and took them to the mill site and started making lumber,
once milled "mostly" into 2x12's, I then loaded the lumber and delivered it,
SR
What tree species is that? And is your mill portable? I don't see the cover over it..
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That looks like a Norwood Sawmill...
I had an older one. Best day of my life was watching that thing get hauled down the road with someone else as the owner. Did I ever hate that saw mill. Being a church going man, it is okay for me to swear by something, but all I ever di was swear at that saw mill. But maybe they have improved them now??? I know there is no way they could ever have made them worse...
I had an older one. Best day of my life was watching that thing get hauled down the road with someone else as the owner. Did I ever hate that saw mill. Being a church going man, it is okay for me to swear by something, but all I ever di was swear at that saw mill. But maybe they have improved them now??? I know there is no way they could ever have made them worse...
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Old Norwood...
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Another stab at heating costs:
I read the comments here about pellet stoves and my numbers do not show them as being very economical.
I did a spreadsheet. Used 125 million BTU as my heat needs.
A ton of pellets costs $180 and gives 13 million BTU's. With an 83% efficient stove, I need 11.6 tons at a cost of $2085 (cost of delivery not included)
Loggers cords of wood cost $80 delivered...add $10 for fuel to cut and split. Each cord will give 22 million BTU's. With 60% efficiency I need 9.5 cords at a cost of $855
So buying my wood and processing it will save me $1230/year. I figure it will take 60 hours to process 9.5 cords...so I "earn"/save over $20/hr.
Am I figuring this correctly or made bad assumptions?
With my cost of propane at $1.39/gal, it is cheaper to run propane than pellets.
What am I missing about pellets?
I read the comments here about pellet stoves and my numbers do not show them as being very economical.
I did a spreadsheet. Used 125 million BTU as my heat needs.
A ton of pellets costs $180 and gives 13 million BTU's. With an 83% efficient stove, I need 11.6 tons at a cost of $2085 (cost of delivery not included)
Loggers cords of wood cost $80 delivered...add $10 for fuel to cut and split. Each cord will give 22 million BTU's. With 60% efficiency I need 9.5 cords at a cost of $855
So buying my wood and processing it will save me $1230/year. I figure it will take 60 hours to process 9.5 cords...so I "earn"/save over $20/hr.
Am I figuring this correctly or made bad assumptions?
With my cost of propane at $1.39/gal, it is cheaper to run propane than pellets.
What am I missing about pellets?
The Fred
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Here.....wood, holding up the tractor, or what's left of it.
Sawyer Rob
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Yes my mill is portable, but I rarely use it portable, the tree in the pict. is a White Pine.
As for my mill, yes it is a Norwood, and it's been totally reliable since I bought it in about 2003, and although I've sawn out a LOT of lumber, it just keeps going and going... I love the thing!!
Norwood redesigned it later, making it bigger ect. ect They let out a mill that did have some problems, although every problem was fixable, and they did just that quite quickly, and put out an updated version that has been very reliable. But that didn't help the guys that bought the one with some things that could have been designed better.
I've worked with lots and lots of small sawmills, and every once in a while every brand turns one out with problems. I know a guy that bought a Woodmizer LT15 and has had LOTS of problems with it, I know another guy that bought a Hudson with problems and so it goes...
My buddy bought a NEW Ford 2019 F150 a few months ago, he was driving out in the country with it, with just over 300 miles on it and it took a dump and left him stranded! chit happens! He's NOT happy at all with how Ford treated him!
SR
As for my mill, yes it is a Norwood, and it's been totally reliable since I bought it in about 2003, and although I've sawn out a LOT of lumber, it just keeps going and going... I love the thing!!
Norwood redesigned it later, making it bigger ect. ect They let out a mill that did have some problems, although every problem was fixable, and they did just that quite quickly, and put out an updated version that has been very reliable. But that didn't help the guys that bought the one with some things that could have been designed better.
I've worked with lots and lots of small sawmills, and every once in a while every brand turns one out with problems. I know a guy that bought a Woodmizer LT15 and has had LOTS of problems with it, I know another guy that bought a Hudson with problems and so it goes...
My buddy bought a NEW Ford 2019 F150 a few months ago, he was driving out in the country with it, with just over 300 miles on it and it took a dump and left him stranded! chit happens! He's NOT happy at all with how Ford treated him!
SR
Definitely lots of ways to do things, what works for some doesn't for others. Sledge hammer and wedges would NOT work for me!
I like splitting a little bit by hand... not to the degree that I am here though.
Those nice 6-8" beech which I prefer to burn open up quite nicely with a light maul.