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[Loaderman22]

Last few weeks I have been digging around trees and pulling them over. Cutting them up and moving the logs to a splitting area. I got one left to do and my house pad will be clear.

Nice car in the background!! I'm assuming the hood trunk & door are open to vent off all that awesomeness!!!

 

[JPRambo]

'65 Chevy Malibu I left the windows down an inch and it rained.

 

[Jstpssng]

'65 Chevy Malibu I left the windows down an inch and it rained.

Any time that you feel like posting more pictures, we'll be glad to look at them.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It was another nice day out today, I made lumber!

Here's one of the logs, headed to the BSM,

With it loaded on the mills deck, I made the first cut,

and then went around, taking slabs off to make a cant,

With a cant made, I started taking 2x12's off,

With a few more logs milled, I started to get a nice pile of lumber built up!

All of the slabs, get cut up for firewood,

SR

 

[Gordon Gould]

It was another nice day out today, I made lumber!

Here's one of the logs, headed to the BSM,

With it loaded on the mills deck, I made the first cut,

and then went around, taking slabs off to make a cant,

With a cant made, I started taking 2x12's off,

With a few more logs milled, I started to get a nice pile of lumber built up!

All of the slabs, get cut up for firewood,

SR

You make it look easy. Do you cut dimensional lumber to fill specific orders or personal needs or do you just mill out the biggest or best you can from a log and put it in inventory thinking you may find a use it later ?

gg

 

[hunt4570]

Last few weeks I have been digging around trees and pulling them over. Cutting them up and moving the logs to a splitting area. I got one left to do and my house pad will be clear.

Yeowza thats a big stump.. I'm trying to understand your process, so you dig around them , pull them down... and then cut them up??

And speaking of digging, I'm digging that car in the background!! '66/ '67 Chevelle?

 

[hunt4570]

It was another nice day out today, I made lumber!

Here's one of the logs, headed to the BSM,

With it loaded on the mills deck, I made the first cut,

and then went around, taking slabs off to make a cant,

With a cant made, I started taking 2x12's off,

With a few more logs milled, I started to get a nice pile of lumber built up!

All of the slabs, get cut up for firewood,

SR

Looking good, to hot here right now to run my mill.. it'll have to wait till the fall

 

[JPRambo]

Yeowza thats a big stump.. I'm trying to understand your process, so you dig around them , pull them down... and then cut them up??

Yes. Since I only have my new BX23s and these trees are 85 feet tall and 20" dbh I dig around them to break the roots pull the whole tree over with a cable puller ( aka come-a-long) using the height and weight of the tree to pull the root ball and the remaining roots loose from the red clay here in N. Georgia. Then I cut the limbs off. Burn the smaller and put the larger ones on the firewood pile to be split later. The trunks I have been cutting into 8, 10, 12 or 14 foot lenghts.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

You make it look easy. Do you cut dimensional lumber to fill specific orders or personal needs or do you just mill out the biggest or best you can from a log and put it in inventory thinking you may find a use it later ?

gg

The answer to that is, all of the above... In this case, a couple of those logs were so nice, they just begged to be made into 2x12's. lol I'm "kinda" targeting 2x6's though.

Hey Hunt, I have family that lives in NC, they are complaining about the heat in NC. I have a friend who comes here in the summer and lives in NC in the winter, he too complains it's too hot to be there in the summer.

I'm guessing SC is too hot in the summer too...

SR

 

[hunt4570]

The answer to that is, all of the above... In this case, a couple of those logs were so nice, they just begged to be made into 2x12's. lol I'm "kinda" targeting 2x6's though.

Hey Hunt, I have family that lives in NC, they are complaining about the heat in NC. I have a friend who comes here in the summer and lives in NC in the winter, he too complains it's too hot to be there in the summer.

I'm guessing SC is too hot in the summer too...

SR

Its a bit warmer here than NC and it does get pretty warm AND humid here in the summer so I tend to do some easier/cooler stuff like whatever I can find indoors, and mowing which isnt all that bad, and maybe working on the shady side of a building or something. Its not real bad here this year, its flirting with the 100s on occasion but normally low/mid 90s, I've seen it a lot worse!! The trade off is I no longer have to plow or shovel snow, and thats a trade off I'll take! If it gets too bad I can always go inside or jump in the pool.
Scott