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[Oldpath05]

A sawmill has been on my list for 20 or 30 years, never had all the other components all at the same time to go with it.. trees, tractor, time, money yada yada.. Finally got them all lined up last year, and now I'm losing the strength to do it! I just cut for myself so there's no real push to get stuff done so its not to bad. Would not want to have to do it for a living at this stage of my life though.

That sounds like my story, had the saw mill now for 8 years, I think the fun was over the first day. It seems nowadays I have more fun playing tug-war with tractor getting wood out...

 

[goeduck]

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Nice 4 post ROPs, did you make that? Very functional looking. :thumbsup:

Nice white oak log too!

 

[4570Man]

Sorry to disrupt the Mill talk, but I just got a nice chunk of white oak (17ft and nearly 2ft diameter) and I'm going to make a staircase out of it that goes to the treehouse I'm building with my kids. Any advice on what to treat it with to keep it from decaying?

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That bark doesn’t look like any white oak I’ve ever seen.

 

[Oldpath05]

Bout all I did this afternoon was get the oak 2x4s that was sawed out yesterday ready fit on my trailer and toe-able slab rack. I plan on loading up sawmill slabs tomorrow, use to have helmlock 2x4s but they wasn't quite strong enough.

 

[Oldpath05]

Sorry to disrupt the Mill talk, but I just got a nice chunk of white oak (17ft and nearly 2ft diameter) and I'm going to make a staircase out of it that goes to the treehouse I'm building with my kids. Any advice on what to treat it with to keep it from decaying?

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Jeez that almost sounds like Mill talk to me, but who has the mill?
Good question, wish there was a good answer, but I'll guess stain of some sort. If white is anything like red oak you wont have to worry about that for 10 years and takes a year to dry out.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

That sounds like my story, had the saw mill now for 8 years, I think the fun was over the first day. It seems nowadays I have more fun playing tug-war with tractor getting wood out...

Dang! I've owned a sawmill for over 20 years and I still enjoy milling logs!

Of course, I only run it when I want to, so most times I look forward to doing so...

SR

 

[gladehound]

That bark doesn稚 look like any white oak I致e ever seen.

I don't know what it is. I was told white oak but I wouldn't argue with you if you told me it was something else. It blew over in a storm at a friends house.

 

[gladehound]

I'm not going to mill it. I'm going to strip it, lean it at 45 degrees and cut stairs into it with a chainsaw. So it will still look like a log but with steps on the top

 

[4570Man]

I don't know what it is. I was told white oak but I wouldn't argue with you if you told me it was something else. It blew over in a storm at a friends house.

If I had a picture of the end and the leafs I could come closer to making an identification. White oak bark is a much finer texture and white.

 

[gladehound]

Thanks! I designed it for my Kioti LB1914. A friend's metal shop built it. My cousin's metal shop later adapted it to fit the DS4510. Here's a thread on it.

https://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/customization/172660-cage-kioti-lb1914-2.html