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[Sawyer Rob]

Some folks around here mill power poles, I don't care to do so and turn that work down...

I see some of the poles are turned into shingles...

SR

 

[Massey convert]

Some folks around here mill power poles, I don't care to do so and turn that work down

Sawyer, Have you considered using a metal detector, if you are concerned with hardware?
I was given some pine that the owner said had hosted a tree house, we were able to locate the nails with a hand held metal detector, no harm to the saw.

 

[two_bit_score]

Some folks around here mill power poles, I don't care to do so and turn that work down...

I see some of the poles are turned into shingles...

SR

I don't think I have ever seen a cedar utility pole. All I have ever seen were cresote treated pine. I have two that the Co-Op replaced on my farm laying in a barn. We cut a length off of one and it's not cedar.

 

[dodge man]

These were cedar, you could smell it although they had lost some of the cedar smell from age. These poles were a little out of the way so were less unlikely to have signs nailed to them. I’m a retired land surveyor and this same Amish shop made lath and stakes that we used. 2/3 of there shop was dedicated to making these. Quite a setup, all sorts of jigs and equipment setup for that, all home made and run off of small engines and belts.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Sawyer, Have you considered using a metal detector, if you are concerned with hardware?
I was given some pine that the owner said had hosted a tree house, we were able to locate the nails with a hand held metal detector, no harm to the saw.

What's in them that I'm concerned with, won't be detected by a metal detector!!

SR

 

[dodge man]

That was a concern about the lumber we got, how much treatment is in it? What is the treatment? I think his plan is to use the lumber outside for deer stands. Outdoor use I wouldn’t be to worried about. I noticed he used his dust collection system when he started cutting.

 

[Skeans1]

Looks like western red cedar if I had to guess.

 

[Gordon Gould]

That's a lot of nice cedar lumber DodgeMan. Looking at it you would never know it was sawn from a 50 year old power pole !
All our poles are Red Pine.

gg

 

[dodge man]

I’m not sure cedar is normal for our area now. One of the guys on the crew putting up the new poles and taking down the old ones said he thought they were put in in the 1950’s. Where numbers were nailed to them it protected the surface under them and was raised higher. I assume this was from weathering and wind born dust eroding them. I’d guess the diameter is an inch or more smaller from the erosion over the years.

 

[Molalla1]

That's a lot of nice cedar lumber DodgeMan. Looking at it you would never know it was sawn from a 50 year old power pole !
All our poles are Red Pine.

gg

Speaking of "old lumber" Gordon, I had a friend who worked for a med sized city's road maintenance crew . . . back after I got home from the military (1970) I started building on our land . . . he was pretty high up by then he gave me a present of old city sign posts true 4x4, 8x8 and 12x12 all the way up to 20' . . . redwood and cedar old growth heartwood from back in the late 1800, early 1900. They had many acres of these stored up sitting (steel has been the norm for many, many. . . anyway a bunch showed up on my land one day . . .

 

[hunt4570]

Welcome back...

Thanks man!! This place no longer sends me notifications on posts and forum activities, dont know why! Now I have to remember to come look.

And then catch up and make half a dozen posts in a row!

 

[hunt4570]

One trick that can help with back leaners like that is to put your back cut in first and tighten up a wedge then put your face in. It’s basically the same way we put jacks in.

Interesting, I would have never thought to do the back cut first. I've done a couple plunge cuts that worked, but not very often.

 

[Skeans1]

Interesting, I would have never thought to do the back cut first. I've done a couple plunge cuts that worked, but not very often.

It can take a while to learn to do right but works very well. Another good thing you can do is add a wedge to the very end of the back cut as a gauge.

 

[Skeans1]

Some Western Red Cedar that was hanging back over towards a RMA zone.

 

[Massey convert]

Nice pictures, thanks! Without your equipment in the shot, the trees, don't look that big. I'd sure enjoy watching you work for a day, that stuff is huge.

 

[Skeans1]

I wouldn’t call that huge it’s in the 3ft range what’s even more amazing about that is cedar doesn’t hold hinge it pops. Western Red Cedar out here is the equivalent of a warm stick of butter which makes it interesting to cut it can be harder to feel your way around the face and back cuts with the tip of the bar.

 

[Massey convert]

Your "notch looks bigger than the backcut, and the hinge looks wider than normal, how much was it leaning?

 

[Skeans1]

Cedar has flutes so face size can look bigger then it really is. It cleared my chain bob at about 5” hanging out the back cut and about 1” hanging down the hill. The hinge was thicker then I would normally do even with a normal cedar but we had wind going in our favor that was coming and going that I could see it setting back on the gauge.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I did a little horse trading, I sawed out some slices of walnut for a customer friend, in trade for this Walker Turner drill press,

Walker Turner made some REALLY GOOD tools, so even though I really didn't need it, I took it.

I also got a small punch press and some steel grating (cat walk) along with the deal, and some other steel that I can use.

He's happy and I'm happy, so a win win for both of us.

SR

 

[Williy]

Y'all that cut fire wood do you have a chimney with flues or just stove
pipe? Back in the 70's our house had the chimney in the middle of the
house with flues and no matter what kind of wood I burned cured or green I never had to clean out the chimney. Some of the guys had to
climb up on the roof and use a wire brush or chain to clean out their
chimney. I had a southern air or something like I kept in the basement.
Nothing here in West Texas like in upper Wisconsin and we are lucky
to get snow once a year.
Wood heat is the best! Forced air is warm then cool then warm etc.

willy