dooleysm
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It's a long story on how we got to this point, but me and a buddy spent yesterday cutting up logs with a local guy we met through forestryforum.com. We had quite a few trees down in our woods thanks to the winds we got back in September from hurricane Ike. We salvaged 3 16' pine logs, 4 10-12' maple logs, and 1 12' cherry log (which had been down since well before September) that we took to the mill yesterday.
These were all relatively small logs that I could lift with my 30 hp Kubota w/ FEL. We put all but the cherry on tandem axle trailer. We got 2" of snow dumped on us between the time we loaded them on Sunday and yesterday morning when we went to the mill. I was VERY glad we didn't put any more logs on the trailer. We were just about maxed out on what my Chevy half ton could pull through the slush. It was a long, cold, wet day yesterday, so I'm sorry to say we didn't get any pictures. We did, however, get waaaaayyy more lumber than I thought we would.
We got 24 16' 2x4s from the pine, along with maybe 50 board feet of 1x? pine.
I don't know exactly how much we got out of the maple and cherry, I know it's enough to keep my buddy (who is a hobbyist woodworker) busy for many years. Maybe 300 board feet of 1x?. We also got 3 2 1/2 thick slabs from the maple that another guy wants to use for gun stocks. We started at 10 yesterday and were finally done stacking it all in the second floor of my FIL's shed last night about 7.
I ALWAYS work harder on my days off then when I'm actually at 'work'. It was a good day and we learned quite a bit, which was one of the main reasons we got into this adventure to begin with.
These were all relatively small logs that I could lift with my 30 hp Kubota w/ FEL. We put all but the cherry on tandem axle trailer. We got 2" of snow dumped on us between the time we loaded them on Sunday and yesterday morning when we went to the mill. I was VERY glad we didn't put any more logs on the trailer. We were just about maxed out on what my Chevy half ton could pull through the slush. It was a long, cold, wet day yesterday, so I'm sorry to say we didn't get any pictures. We did, however, get waaaaayyy more lumber than I thought we would.
We got 24 16' 2x4s from the pine, along with maybe 50 board feet of 1x? pine.
I don't know exactly how much we got out of the maple and cherry, I know it's enough to keep my buddy (who is a hobbyist woodworker) busy for many years. Maybe 300 board feet of 1x?. We also got 3 2 1/2 thick slabs from the maple that another guy wants to use for gun stocks. We started at 10 yesterday and were finally done stacking it all in the second floor of my FIL's shed last night about 7.
I ALWAYS work harder on my days off then when I'm actually at 'work'. It was a good day and we learned quite a bit, which was one of the main reasons we got into this adventure to begin with.