Gonna make some wood planks

Well, if I may Bobby, I suggest moving back to Idaho in a heavy wooded area and then buying the Woodmizer and Yvonne will be happy about it. You will also have to get a tractor with a front end loader, to get the logs on it and maybe 3 or 4 more chainsaws.

When Yvonne gets her new log cabin built with 2 sawn sides Lodgepole walls and Tamarack flooring, she will be out keeping your Woodmizer maintained because she will want the barn made with board and bat. It will accommodate one horse but will have storage for a few tons of hay and a vermin tight grain and tack room. I am thinking about 40' X 30' would suffice.

By then, I am guessing you will just order a prefab greenhouse and have contractors build your shop. :sneaky:
 
Faye Fox said:
Well, if I may Bobby, I suggest moving back to Idaho in a heavy wooded area and then buying the Woodmizer and Yvonne will be happy about it. You will also have to get a tractor with a front end loader, to get the logs on it and maybe 3 or 4 more chainsaws.

When Yvonne gets her new log cabin built with 2 sawn sides Lodgepole walls and Tamarack flooring, she will be out keeping your Woodmizer maintained because she will want the barn made with board and bat. It will accommodate one horse but will have storage for a few tons of hay and a vermin tight grain and tack room. I am thinking about 40' X 30' would suffice.

By then, I am guessing you will just order a prefab greenhouse and have contractors build your shop. :sneaky:
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B-b-b-but, I either imagined or outright heard a voice telling me…”Ye shalt buildeth a boat with the pine trees that have been felled and sliceth them with your new chainsaw mill. And when it is finished, ye shalt loadeth it up with the wife I gave unto you, the 2 dogs, 4 cats and the rest of your household and shop then saileth it to yon shores of Tahiti where ye and yours shalt bask in the sun and surf for the rest of the ya’ll’s (God can speak southern too) days on earth”.

At least my imagination doesn’t include 6-10 feet of snow 4-6 months out of the year. :)

Note: New day for my start is now Friday. Too many irons in the fire it seems and too hot in the afternoon.
 
Bobby Cole said:
B-b-b-but, I either imagined or outright heard a voice telling me…”Ye shalt buildeth a boat with the pine trees that have been felled and sliceth them with your new chainsaw mill. And when it is finished, ye shalt loadeth it up with the wife I gave unto you, the 2 dogs, 4 cats and the rest of your household and shop then saileth it to yon shores of Tahiti where ye and yours shalt bask in the sun and surf for the rest of the ya’ll’s (God can speak southern too) days on earth”.

At least my imagination doesn’t include 6-10 feet of snow 4-6 months out of the year. :)

Note: New day for my start is now Friday. Too many irons in the fire it seems and too hot in the afternoon.
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You make a compelling case for not sawing lumber in Idaho. Also, if I remember scripture right, God was partial to Shittim wood and a broadaxe, so I apologize for my poorly thought out suggestion of a sawmill and pine wood in the harsh north. :ROFLMAO: The :devilish: made me do it. 😇
 
Bobby Cole said:
Somebody missed out on a possible business opportunity.
When I was coming up, we had the milkman, walking postman, iceman and even a guy who chopped wood and knocked on doors to sell it but no highly trained lightbulb changerman !
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Well, LEDs would have destroyed that business. :ROFLMAO:
 
Good morning to all-

I enjoy reading about the milling and woodworking of you all. Interesting stuff.

To be honest, chainsaw mills scare the water out of me. I use chainsaws pretty often and I am competent with them, but since I have been chewed on a bit by chainsaws, I approach them with care.

When we lived up in the Ozarks, I worked with my wife's family on a portable mill which ran a large circular saw off a tractor's power take off. We cut and worked up some of the loveliest white oak and red oak for building and white oak for whisky barrel staves that you can imagine. Wonderful old-growth wood it was.

This mill worked well- until the day that we cut up a huge white oak log that had some spikes in it. When that saw hit the spikes, it sounded like a big gun going off, and the saw teeth flying around were like bullets whizzing by. Happily, those flying teeth did fly by...

That pretty much took care of the milling work.

I enjoy reading about the milling work you all do- please keep us up to date with it.

you all be safe and keep well- Ed
 
Ed Delabama said:
Good morning to all-

I enjoy reading about the milling and woodworking of you all. Interesting stuff.

To be honest, chainsaw mills scare the water out of me. I use chainsaws pretty often and I am competent with them, but since I have been chewed on a bit by chainsaws, I approach them with care.

When we lived up in the Ozarks, I worked with my wife's family on a portable mill which ran a large circular saw off a tractor's power take off. We cut and worked up some of the loveliest white oak and red oak for building and white oak for whisky barrel staves that you can imagine. Wonderful old-growth wood it was.

This mill worked well- until the day that we cut up a huge white oak log that had some spikes in it. When that saw hit the spikes, it sounded like a big gun going off, and the saw teeth flying around were like bullets whizzing by. Happily, those flying teeth did fly by...

That pretty much took care of the milling work.

I enjoy reading about the milling work you all do- please keep us up to date with it.

you all be safe and keep well- Ed
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Yup. I read some time ago that some eco people have intentionally hammered spikes and such into trees to deter the felling of them. A ruined chainsaw is only a part of the problem since, as you explained @Ed Delabama, the most dangerous part is all the flak flying around maiming, wounding or killing not only the person doing the job but those who might be near.

One other thing I do fear. Spent bullets. People who use trees for target practice will understandably leave the round but later on, should a chainsaw hit it there’s no telling which way it will fly.
 
One sale of large trees I bought, I used a metal detector, ran it over the logs before milling, and did find a few small spikes. I hit one once and it destroyed my chain, bar, and sprocket, before breaking the chain. I wore chaps and never regretted it.
 
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I meant to reply a couple of days ago just to write how awesome that video is !
I have used planers in one form or another since I was about 6 years old but in my wildest of dreams I would have never come up with an idea like that.
In the past, I have made split shakes and cedar shakes albeit not commercially but just to cover a shed I built but after watching that, well, I am highly impressed with that type of ingenuity !!
 
Okay folks. In the past years on SoC, I have written about the fine art of procrastination on more than a few occasions and it may seem that getting some planks going could be an open illustration at how well practiced I am at it.
As the comedian said, “nay-nay”, I really do have some valid reasons why I haven’t produced even one plank thus far.

As of yesterday, Monday morning (today) was going to be the start of my journey and was genuinely anxious to take some pics of at least one tree’s worth of milled planks but nope, thunderstorms and rain all day and maybe all week, or so my lovely wife tells me.
Maybe God is trying to tell me something?

As it stands, even on a good day, I can’t get busy making a bunch of noise until 0800 due to the fact that I’m in a residential neighborhood, but, I can still start setting up at 0730 and be ready to jump on it at the legal time.

I guess I’ll have to wait yet another day. It’s almost has a deja vu feeling to it.
The day I and my fellow soldiers seeking airborne status were to make our first blast, we were loaded up and in the C-119’s, took off and then a few minutes later we turned around and landed. Wind gusts over 30 knots at the drop zone. No go. Had to wait until the next day. Dern it !!
 
Beth Gallagher said:
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That is the same way I use to make guitar side bindings, but I did by hand and on a smaller scale. Just a 10 mm thick board on edge, in a wood vise, and a sharp plane set to cut 1 mm thick strips. It took some practice to make a 30" continuous swipe and hold the plane level and firm. That would be an awesome way to cut guitar sides, but would require community effort. :sneaky:

I split Tamarack shakes with a froe, but that certainly makes mass production possible. I put shakes on one barn before I decided that metal roofing was quicker and easier and well worth the cost, especially in forest fire country where amber can travel for hundreds of yards.
 
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