You raised the point that I was going to mention. Sapwood from faster growing trees is much lighter... also not as strong structurally as wood sawn from the slower growing trees.
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Molalla1
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You are right Skeans, the older the harder it is and when they reach as you stated 60 or so they really start hardening up . . .
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Yes if you look at a structural wood span chart, Doug Fir is a lot stronger than your typical SPF. Around here we request Kiln Dried Doug Fir, it shrinks a lot less after you close in the house and get the heat on. Less shrinkage is better!! 
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I'm sure if any of you have been to the home center and looked at the racks you will see the difference in price too. A guy down the road works at a mill, occasionally he will bring home a pickup bed full of off cuts. Most is Doug Fir, so I buy a load, it usually very dry since they are milling it, and he cuts them to a decent length. It does burn great.
.I'm sure if any of you have been to the home center and looked at the racks you will see the difference in price too. A guy down the road works at a mill, occasionally he will bring home a pickup bed full of off cuts. Most is Doug Fir, so I buy a load, it usually very dry since they are milling it, and he cuts them to a decent length. It does burn great.
A friend told me about this youtube video on the Uniforest winch, which Hud-Son posted a couple of days ago. It doesn't cover everything, but gives hints on some of the maintenance items required.
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I just got an email from Hud-Son about that. I've owned a Uniforest 35E winch for about 12 years now. (It's the predecessor to their current model 35M.) Some of it I had already picked up over the years, but I still found it helpful.
I just had to have mine repaired. A few of the "sealed" bearings in it had frozen up - probably from too many years sitting outside uncovered. (And possibly related to a bit of abuse since I ran over the control rope a few times, pulling it so tight I snapped the rope.) Not a cheap repair, but a whole lot cheaper than a new winch.
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The place I got the Douglas Fir beams was a specialty mill shop for post and beam construction. German folks with highly specialized CNC cutter/notchers. A unique deck sideways forklift that could load/unload trucks and carry beams long ways. Some huge beams longer than semi truck flat bed. Pacific Northwest tarps on trucks. They ship half of their work by truck, rail, barge internationally. Japan a big buyer. I was buying a donnage rate of $3/bdft of useable 18’ from 20-26’ beams extra or miscuts(?). Left some interesting drops for shop blocks.
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Thanks for posting that Jstpssng - a good morning to watch it. Had to pause a couple times to refill the stove. I never saw a UniForest and that was a pretty thorough run thru of it's features and how it operated. The part on measuring and cutting the pto shaft would pertain to anything. Some might be interested in just that part. It looks like a very nice winch. I like the stay they put on the lower pulley to keep the cable from falling out if it goes slack. I'm going to add something like that to my Farmi. The only thing I didn't care for was the automatic brake so that the cable did not go slack when you stopped pulling. There are a lot of times when I want to be able to release tension immediately. Like when pulling a near vertical tree leaning against it neighbor off the stump and the top starts to come over. Having to handle two ropes at a time like that makes it to easy to get things mixed up. Can you lock the auto brake out ? I am pretty sure I could get used to that if I owned one. They are very nice.
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There’s a mill out here that specializes in beams they do both straight as well as engineered beams.
Besides doing that they do a lot of the historic gutters for back east, I’ve cut a lot of gutter stock timber last year.
