Boondox
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Building with your own trees
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Pete, might as well try the backhoe while you are there. It will save a trip later on./w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif
Peter, you must have a little Tom Sawyer in you. You mix the Gin and Tonic and everyone else does the work. Good plan./w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif
MarkV
Peter, you must have a little Tom Sawyer in you. You mix the Gin and Tonic and everyone else does the work. Good plan./w3tcompact/icons/eyes.gif
MarkV
Peter
With an acre to clear maybe you should invite John Miller and his Brown rotary cutter!
I've been chipping whatever I can with a Troy Tomahawk 8HP IC engined leaf/brush chipper. This thing is great on leaves and OK on small brush. It allegedly chips up to 3" but really bogs down on anything over 1.5". I need to clear about 1/2 acre for the new buildings and the Troy is just too sloooowww. Gotta get something bigger and yardsale the Troy. If things dry out more or freeze hard I may hook up the Woods cutter and try just driving over the piles of small stuff.
Can you paint picket fences white with a 3PH sprayer? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Timd
With an acre to clear maybe you should invite John Miller and his Brown rotary cutter!
I've been chipping whatever I can with a Troy Tomahawk 8HP IC engined leaf/brush chipper. This thing is great on leaves and OK on small brush. It allegedly chips up to 3" but really bogs down on anything over 1.5". I need to clear about 1/2 acre for the new buildings and the Troy is just too sloooowww. Gotta get something bigger and yardsale the Troy. If things dry out more or freeze hard I may hook up the Woods cutter and try just driving over the piles of small stuff.
Can you paint picket fences white with a 3PH sprayer? /w3tcompact/icons/wink.gif
Timd
Woody
Cutting the trees is going to be an ongoing process because there are a couple which are going to be a crane job which pros will do. The 16" and smaller stuff I can drop myself. Do pines need to be debarked for bandmill cutting? I know you don't need to for chainsaw mills.
Did a first cut at a take-off list for the 24x40 garage which is going in first. I need about 900BF of 2x4's and 1000BF of 4/4 boards for siding. Should only need to whack 5-10 trees depending on yield.
What brand of peas do you like? /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
Timd
Cutting the trees is going to be an ongoing process because there are a couple which are going to be a crane job which pros will do. The 16" and smaller stuff I can drop myself. Do pines need to be debarked for bandmill cutting? I know you don't need to for chainsaw mills.
Did a first cut at a take-off list for the 24x40 garage which is going in first. I need about 900BF of 2x4's and 1000BF of 4/4 boards for siding. Should only need to whack 5-10 trees depending on yield.
What brand of peas do you like? /w3tcompact/icons/tongue.gif
Timd
woodmills1
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debarking is not necessary, the pine will not stain untill temperature is over 70 for full day night cycle. when it gets really warm pine can blue stain very quickly, like 1 or 2 days. the peas are the favorite payment method mentioned at the forestry forum for sawmill helpers. haha. on a day of cutting without problems, i can cut over 900 alone. with help my best was 4000 bd ft ina day. usual days cut with help is in the 1500- 2500 range, though there are many variables.
Woody
I'll just paint the garage <font color=blue>blue</font color=blue>. Actually after school's out is good cause I can hire a couple of high school kids to stack. I can have a drying tent set up, dry sticks ready, and the logs set up on sleeper logs ready to roll onto the mill table. How high is the table on your bandmill?
I'm thinking of drying the wood over the summer in a cheap costco plastic tent. From what I have read the 1x will need at least 20 days to dry down to 15% and the 2x will need at least 60 days. This will let me start framing end of August. I know I need to paint the ends of the lumber to reduce splits.
How many cans of peas did you go through on that 4000 BF day?
Timd
I'll just paint the garage <font color=blue>blue</font color=blue>. Actually after school's out is good cause I can hire a couple of high school kids to stack. I can have a drying tent set up, dry sticks ready, and the logs set up on sleeper logs ready to roll onto the mill table. How high is the table on your bandmill?
I'm thinking of drying the wood over the summer in a cheap costco plastic tent. From what I have read the 1x will need at least 20 days to dry down to 15% and the 2x will need at least 60 days. This will let me start framing end of August. I know I need to paint the ends of the lumber to reduce splits.
How many cans of peas did you go through on that 4000 BF day?
Timd
dmccarty
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WoodMills1,
How fast does hardwood stain?
I have a tons and tons of trees down from hurricanes. They range from 15 inches to 36+
inches in diameter. The idea of having to split the stuff for firewood hurts.
I figure I could make diminsional lumber out of it but I'm not sure its worth the cost....
How bad is that staining?
Thanks,
Dan McCarty
How fast does hardwood stain?
I have a tons and tons of trees down from hurricanes. They range from 15 inches to 36+
inches in diameter. The idea of having to split the stuff for firewood hurts.
I figure I could make diminsional lumber out of it but I'm not sure its worth the cost....
How bad is that staining?
Thanks,
Dan McCarty
