The Log house Project begins........

[tnmike]

You've been getting it done there. Looks great. What kind of mill were they running at the cedar place? When do you think you will be dried in? Are the logs green, kiln dried or air dried? They sound green given the weight.

I thought the rain was going to get me wednesday. I had aluminum roof coating on a section of the house roof. It just missed me thank goodness. Suppose to be dry until saturday.

 

[MotorSeven]

They are sun dried like a 'mater. Cedar shrinks very little, so kiln dry is not needed. I was so busy helping load I never looked in the mill shed to see what they were running.

I was right, they weigh in at an avg of 85lbs.

 

[hawkeye08]

Looks like it is coming along fine, some good memories being made. Stay safe and enjoy.

 

[955Lincoln]

Nice!

 

[mkane09]

M7, those look like they would make great fenceposts. Mind if I ask what you had to pay for those each?

mkane09

 

[MotorSeven]

Working with the logs today I noticed that they were cut on a circle mill...probably why they are so consistant in size.

Anyway, the last house I built I used an electeic chainsaw to square each log end. I was not happy with the result....maybe my eyeballs were out of calibration. A couple of years ago I found a Makita 16" crosscut circular saw at an auction. I picked up a carbide blade on fleaybay and today I tried it out on my logs. The dang thing is 1/8th too shallow to get through the logs.

So...plan "B" was to make a cradle/jig to attach to a chainsaw to give me a 90 degree cut. I fooled around with a few ideas and settled on this:

 

[MotorSeven]

It makes perfeect 90 degree cuts:

So the prototype is in the paint shop(front yard) and will be ready to work when dry.

This will be a lot handier than dragging around a extension cord and that monster circular saw.

 

[MotorSeven]

I started shuttling up the logs 13-14 at a time. The Kioti would curl a full stack(28 logs) but not lift them much...hey I just had to try& see if it could keep up with the JD which has 25 more hp's

 

[tnmike]

Dang. I would have thought the makita would have cut them. Those saws are high dollar. I've got a milwaukee 10.25 inch saw and really like it.

 

[MotorSeven]

My neighbor is a logger(the guy I bought the hemlock from) and he called saying he could be there today to fly in the floor trusses. I laid the first row of logs on the North side and butted the trusses to the logs. His knuckleboom could not reach to center so I positioned the Kioti where we could set each truss than slide them to he wall...it worked perfect:

By the way ...."crack kills"