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[BrokenTrack]

Are you sawing them from cedar? A friend went down to one of the pine mills with a tandem trailer and bought enough pine clapboard "seconds" to do her house for not much money. I'm sure that they won't last like cedar would but are good enough for her needs.

I used Eastern Hemlock, just because they are big, I have plenty of the junk wood, and they do not pay much for it commercially.

If a person wanted to go for longevity they would be better off to go with White Pine. That lasts forever on the side of a house. It sounds counterintuitive, but as long as the wood can dry back out, it lasts longer than cedar. On the ground, no way.

But hemlock is the same way. The biggest issue is whether or not the hemlock has shake or not. But sawmills are like computers: junk in, junk out!

 

[gladehound]

So you are going to make a staircase out of that log.. are you just going to cut the stairs into it as a whole log?? THAT would look cool! Nice tractor!

I use this stuff I got from Home Depot for ground contact wood, Kind of like pressure treatment, but it will turn your wood that telltail green

https://www.homedepot.com/p/Wolman-...elow-Ground-Wood-Preservative-1902A/204746309

Exactly, just cutting the stairs into it with a chain saw. Will strip off the bark and treat it with something. Don't really want to go green though.

 

[Oldpath05]

So are those mostly hardwood flitches?? I mostly get pine flitches so if they aren't real thick they just go on the burn pile.

No the hardwood slabs that I get go into a separate pile, and I dont call these those filches, I call them slabs, great heat for the garage. They are mostly pine and hemlock but some are spruce, fir, popple, poplar, aspen and coconut trees.

I call these filches, flethes or edgings, one thing I no longer do is mix both together.............

 

[Jstpssng]

No the hardwood slabs that I get go into a separate pile, and I dont call these those filches, I call them slabs, great heat for the garage. They are mostly pine and hemlock but some are spruce, fir, popple, poplar, aspen and coconut trees.

I call these filches, flethes or edgings, one thing I no longer do is mix both together.............
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Coconut trees? You live a lot farther south than I realized.

 

[Oldpath05]

You need a log loader! That takes a lot of the work out of sawing.

It is used not only in getting the log onto the mill, but the slabs off the mill, and if you plan your cuts right, the sawn lumber off the sawmill. I am getting too old to wrestle the big logs around, so I use the log loader for turning on the sawmill too. It takes more time, but my painless-back is well worth the extra time spent. I will even double-cut my slabs sometimes to make them weigh less.

But I am a one man show on this farm, so everything I do is on me, and me alone!

Yes everyone wants a log loader but I dont see one in this life. It takes a lot of work out of getting logs out, that's for sure, but if I did have a log loader they dont stack lumber and that's what I dont like I'd rather stack firewood. A FEL works good at loading logs on the deck, better if I had a thumb, log loader cant reach my mil deck so that wont help there.

 

[Oldpath05]

Coconut trees? You live a lot farther south than I realized.

:thumbsup: Imported from SC

 

[Oldpath05]

A couple repeats free of charge.......
Loading logs on log deck, pt1 - YouTube

Cutting sawmill slabs, Pt.1 - YouTube

 

[goeduck]

A couple repeats free of charge.......
Loading logs on log deck, pt1 - YouTube

Cutting sawmill slabs, Pt.1 - YouTube

Impressive!

 

[Molalla1]

A couple repeats free of charge.......
Loading logs on log deck, pt1 - YouTube

Cutting sawmill slabs, Pt.1 - YouTube

I find myself grabbing your loader controls while watching this . . . :laughing: nice Oldpath.

 

[hunt4570]

:thumbsup: Imported from SC

I've never seen a coconut tree here!!