Sawmills, sawmill buildings, drying sheds, and kilns... show your pictures!

Aquamoose · Apr 23, 2022

Sucks that there’s none available as I was ready to buy one! Hopefully next year.

Gordon Gould · Apr 23, 2022

Rustyiron said:
Saw a little, nail a little. View attachment 742724
This back side will have a 16' leanto off that 3x8 ledger that the siding stops at. Then I will finish the gable siding from the roof.
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Eric, what are the steel channels on the bottom side of your rafters/trusses for? Deck stiffeners or something else ??

gg

Rustyiron · Apr 23, 2022

Gordon I think your looking at the bottom of the "bar joists". It's what you'll see if you look up at the (inside-bottom) roof at a flat roof commercial building, think Walmart or Lowe's. I found a guy that had a pile of 11 of them in his side yard - 38' long and talked him out of them for $400.
These are the reasons for the very odd construction with all the posts. Typically they'd span between heavy I beams and they had a 2 1/2" pitch built into them. Not wanting a single pitch type roof combined with running into a guy that wanted get rid of 40 sawn, dried and stickered 8x8x26' spruce posts that were taking up space in his building.... for free, it all came together for me.

Here's the pile of posts and the bar joists.

Gordon Gould · Apr 23, 2022

Rustyiron said:
Gordon I think your looking at the bottom of the "bar joists". It's what you'll see if you look up at the (inside-bottom) roof at a flat roof commercial building, think Walmart or Lowe's. I found a guy that had a pile of 11 of them in his side yard - 38' long and talked him out of them for $400.
These are the reasons for the very odd construction with all the posts. Typically they'd span between heavy I beams and they had a 2 1/2" pitch built into them. Not wanting a single pitch type roof combined with running into a guy that wanted get rid of 40 sawn, dried and stickered 8x8x26' spruce posts that were taking up space in his building.... for free, it all came together for me.
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Here's the pile of posts and the bar joists.

Thanks - It makes sense now. I was totally confused. Now I don't have to ask why all the posts on the gable ends and how you managed those huge openings on the eaves sides of the building. lol. Very clever use of what you can find for materials.

gg

Jstpssng · Apr 27, 2022

I sawed out a small cedar today. I needed (two) 4x4 posts and also got some 2x4s. More practice is needed, as I am getting too many waves in the boards. I believe that's speed related, I need to work on a more steady movement through the log.
I also am considering a chainsaw mounted debarker, the wood seems clean and was cut with snow on the ground yet my blade is already getting dull.

Right now I have a pine log on the deck which I cut last summer. I wanted to saw more tonight but it was end of the day after work, and that's when I start making stupid mistakes.

Rustyiron · May 1, 2022

Pecking away at the exterior and door tracks.

I'm easily distracted and was bored with nailing up 12' boards. I decided to play in the gable today. It's a little slower as I'm going for "one trip" across. That means the little bit of backup for the door track, the track, track cover I'm bending up out of coil stock, siding, a little gable trim and finally the battens.

My battery is wearing down and as you can see from the sky, it's a perfectly perfect day and I'm ready to quit for the day.

Bill Guenthner · May 1, 2022

cmyoung2 said:
Got my Woodland Mill 26"saw around Thanksgiving, got it put together in Feb, finally got to saw some. I have about 100 22"+ BHD white pine trees that need to be harvested, decided I could do it one tree at a time. Our land is a little steep, the trees border a highway, so I have to drop them up hill, then move them without getting on the road. Don't have much equipment, a Kubota BX2230 withFEL, and a BCS 850 walk behind. The thought of a 2000 lb log behind the BX didn't sound good, so right now I am using the BCS. Here are some pic. The Mill is not set up yet in the pictures. So far, the mill has been great. good engineering, easy to assemble, seems to work good even for a newbee. The hill is much steeper than it looks, have to make sure the log is dragging for a brake. The wood stack is the first log, not stacked and stickered very well, but it will be used this month. The logging arch I built for the BCS, will also work with the tractor.

How are you planning to get the logs lifted onto the mill? That would be the sticking point for me. I have some big white oaks that are dying and I don’t know if I want to let them become woodpecker habitat or try to turn them into a rough sawn board fence. A 20 inch diameter white oak log is going to be heavy.

Jstpssng · May 1, 2022

Rustyiron said:
Pecking away at the exterior and door tracks.
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I'm easily distracted and was bored with nailing up 12' boards. I decided to play in the gable today. It's a little slower as I'm going for "one trip" across. That means the little bit of backup for the door track, the track, track cover I'm bending up out of coil stock, siding, a little gable trim and finally the battens.
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My battery is wearing down and as you can see from the sky, it's a perfectly perfect day and I'm ready to quit for the day.

That looks really good! I've finally started sawing a bit and worked up a couple of hundred feet of logs...and my "Battery ran down a while ago also. That's when I make stupid mistakes. I'm going to get a chainsaw debarker, as hard as I tried to keep the logs clean I still am finding dirt the hard way.

I think that cedar might collect grit in the bark anyways.

Rustyiron · May 2, 2022

Jstpssng said:
That looks really good! I've finally started sawing a bit and worked up a couple of hundred feet of logs...and my "Battery ran down a while ago also. That's when I make stupid mistakes. I'm going to get a chainsaw debarker, as hard as I tried to keep the logs clean I still am finding dirt the hard way.

I think that cedar might collect grit in the bark anyways.

It doesn't take much mud to take the edge off your blade. Just today I took a little angle grinder with a wire brush to a hemlock log that was moved around on a muddy landing a few times by the look of it. My friend was cutting it and it was directly across the road from my place. They were pretty nice 16'6" and he gave them to me so no complaints from me.