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

[KilroyJC]

Mill is up and running!

And I performed my first acts of wood-butchery:

 

[bindian]

Yippee!!!
hugs, Brandi

 

[34Willys]

Save that for a Bobcat stretcher board.

 

[KilroyJC]

Save that for a Bobcat stretcher board.

There are bobcats in our area, but very few and far between.

more likely to cull Coyote than ‘cat!

I am going to take one of those boards and make a sign for the mill shed — “The Wood Butcher Shop” or “Wood Butchered Here” or somesuch . . .

 

[KilroyJC]

Today was a good day for making stickers!

 

[Jstpssng]

Today was a good day for making stickers!

Today was a good day to do anything here... even for work, which is what I had to do.
Then again, everything seems better on a Friday!!!

Tonight I put a new blade on my mill, tomorrow I will finish sawing what I need before breaking the mill down so that I can move it to a better spot.

 

[bindian]

Today was a good day for making stickers!

I make stickers from 4 foot logs. I manually turn them as that short a log, the log turning claw would just push one end up. I like sawing them this way as I can just cut 1bys and slide them back 4 feet to stack, then I turn the log.

I find it way easier than trying to cut 12-16 foot stickers down with a chainsaw.

I guess it helps to have 20 foot logs in the pile, bucking down to two 8 footers and one 4 footer for the stickers.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Sawyer Rob]

"Generally" I also make my stickers out of "shorts", there's always some short "top logs" in a tree, and that's what I aim for.

BUT, if I have a longer "low grade" log, at times I'll use one of those for stickers too.

SR

 

[KilroyJC]

I make stickers from 4 foot logs. I manually turn them as that short a log, the log turning claw would just push one end up. I like sawing them this way as I can just cut 1bys and slide them back 4 feet to stack, then I turn the log.

I find it way easier than trying to cut 12-16 foot stickers down with a chainsaw.

I guess it helps to have 20 foot logs in the pile, bucking down to two 8 footers and one 4 footer for the stickers.
hugs, Brandi

I am still waiting for my bed extension (on back order… since August. . .) so 13’ is the absolute max i can mill yet. I am still fine-tuning and learning, so stickers are good practice right now.

and I still have to make a landing zone for boards to dry, I will probably start with a couple pallets nailed into a platform, and cover the stack with roof tin for now.

This coming week, I will need to drop a couple more trees and drag them over to the mill.

 

[KilroyJC]

"Generally" I also make my stickers out of "shorts", there's always some short "top logs" in a tree, and that's what I aim for.

BUT, if I have a longer "low grade" log, at times I'll use one of those for stickers too.

SR

at this moment, the only short logs I have are walnut, and that is no good for stickers (staining). Stickers are good practice for me at the moment, and I am using top growth logs for this.