Fruits of logging with my JD790

[sewells]

As an avid furniture maker, one of things I hoped to do with my tractor was harvest some of the lumber from a bottom area on my place. Nice maple, walnut and cherry was gathered. Here are some pics of the results of my labors with the chainsaw and tractor.

This one is a pile of walnut lumber. It's mostly 5/4 but there is some 9/4 material as well. The 9/4 slab on top is going to be my mantel piece after it dries (maybe 3 years for air drying).

Steve Wells

 

[sewells]

Had a fellow named Alan Smith from Morganon, NC (near me) come out with his portable bandsaw mill to mill up the lumber after I got it skidded out of the bottom. His rig did a super job and Alan was nothing but perfect as a sawyer who cares that his customers get what they want from their logs.

This photo is of about 460 bf of nice cherry that we milled.

Steve Wells

 

[sewells]

Here's a picture of my tractor.

Steve Wells

 

[sewells]

This is a detail on some of the 18" wide planks that came out of the walnut log. It was hit by lightning this year or I wouldn't have cut it. It was 38" diameter at waist height. We wore out 2 band saw blades cutting it. It took us 5 hours to mill it. We won't talk about how long it took me to get the trunk up out of the bottom.

 

[sewells]

This is a detail of some of the cherry that came out of the logs I harvested. Note the yellowness of the sapwood. Believe it or not that bleaches out to almost pure white over time as it dries.

Steve Wells

 

[sewells]

Here's about 1200 board feet of spalted maple from some trees I harvested that had been down about 2 years in the bottom.

Steve Wells

 

[MossRoad]

Beautiful! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[sewells]

I cut a little oak too. Maybe 150 board feet out of a particularly nice trunk. We got 28" wide slabs out of it. Most was cut to 5/4 thickness but some I milled out to 9/4 for making table legs, etc. Wish I hadn't already stacked it and covered it. The medullary rays in these slabs are phenomenal. It's going to make some of the nicest table tops I've ever made I think.

Steve Wells

 

[Junkman]

The raw material list is impressive..... how about posting some finished project pictures to go with them.....

 

[Bird]

Looks like an awful lot of really nice wood, and like Junkman, I'd like to see some of what you do with it.