Sawmill

Redlands Okie · Mar 15, 2018

Neat, thanks

forgeblast · Mar 15, 2018

Great video. I do a lot of "green" woodworking. A few books by mike abbot, about chair building use this process. Its also how Peter Follensbee makes his red oak boxes.
Having trees split nice and straight like that is a joy. I had a nice black cherry that I was making bowls and spoons from do that, but I have had others that are really wavy.
It was interesting seeing how sharp he keeps his froe, mine is sharp but not that sharp I may hit it with a diamond stone I have.
The wooden wedges are great, I use them in splitting crooks for spoons, and we had to have them when I took a bowl hewing/carving class with Beth Moen.

sandman2234 · Mar 22, 2018

That tractor needs a FEL, or maybe some sort of elevator for the 3 point hitch carrier? Nice sawmill!!
David from jax

czechsonofagun · Mar 27, 2018

sandman2234 said:
That tractor needs a FEL, or maybe some sort of elevator for the 3 point hitch carrier? Nice sawmill!!
David from jax

Thanks! The long term plan is to place the mill permanently add a log deck and unload logs from the trailer directly on the deck. That way I dont have to lift it twice.

czechsonofagun · Dec 14, 2020

The sawmill is under the roof now and has log dogs.

Egon · Dec 14, 2020

Looking good. Did you mill the lumber stacked in the background?

czechsonofagun · Dec 15, 2020

Egon said:
Looking good. Did you mill the lumber stacked in the background?

Yessir

I used half of it recently for my porch ceiling. It is only local white pine but the wood density, smell and quality compared to Home Depot lumber is just amazing.

TnAndy · Dec 15, 2020

I love white pine for framing lumber. Late 90's, Southern Pine Beetle decimated the pine in our area, and I had to cut pines off our place that ran up to 30" in diameter....never would have cut them, but since they were all dying, might as well make lemons into lemonade. I had stacks and stacks of pine cut around the mill, ended up building 3 rental homes out of it all.

Rent houses 1,2,3

Gordon Gould · Dec 16, 2020

Very nice looking rentals. I especially like the first one. Couldn't do much better using dying trees than that !!

gg

The Fred · Dec 16, 2020

I have a bunch of 70 year old White Pine and just bought a used sawmill, never used one before in my life but I never liked pine because the bugs get into it and make a sure mess at least here in Vermont. This guy says White Pine is the best for framing. How does one keep the grubs from chewing up my new timber frame woodshed?

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