Sawmills and accessorys

[BarG]

Husky makes some damn good saws too. Always has. If you go up in the mountains where the big boys are working timber sales all you will see are Huskies and Stihls.

My Dad taught me how to fall trees. He could put a stick or rock where he was going to land a tree and drop it right on top of it almost every time. Didn't take long before I was almost as good as he was. Back in the 80's times were tough and jobs were scarce so we cut firewood and sold it. We had an old International truck with a hoist that could haul 4 cords. We would head off to the hills early in the morning and get home after dark with it fully loaded with wood that was split and ready to deliver the next day. We did 3 loads a week in summers for a couple of years. Most days went well enough but there were others that you were just glad to have lived to make it home. Sometimes we would hit a tree that was rotten in the center and it would barber chair or twist the wrong way and send you running for your life. Or a cable or hook would snap pulling some huge log out of the woods. Didn't take long to learn to stand way back when pulling big logs. A snapped cable can cut you in half like a weed wacker string cuts grass. It was some of the hardest work I ever did in my life. I would be dead tired at the end of the day and I couldn't wait to get out of those logging boots and chaps. Didn't seem like it at the time, but looking back now those were some of the best days of my life cutting wood with my Pa.

Years later we had to go haul some stuff back into town for a relative who lived up north a few miles from one of our favorite wood cutting spots. So we took his truck and mine so we could get a load of wood too. We found a really nice Tamarack that filled my truck to the top of the racks. Pa was pushing 70 then and that ended up being the last tree we ever cut together. A few years ago I went back to that spot and found the stump from that tree. It was half rotten by then but still there. I sat there for a long time just looking over the mountains where we spent so much of our time working our asses off together. Very bitter sweet day.

I WISH I could do that, I don't want to have to cut any more than I need these days . I got 2 that are problematic too close for how they are leaning . May ask a friend to help. 2 heads are better than 1 if you're unsure sometimes.

 

[BarG]

I'm on my second sthill, just bought a new one last year, I love em. My neighbor has the footer, comes in handy. I have the measley 22 in. Heh .

 

[BarG]

I'm on my second sthill, just bought a new one last year, I love em. My neighbor has the footer, comes in handy. I have the measley 22 in. Heh .

3 footer, lol

 

[BarG]

On a new subject matter relating to the above. I aquired an early 60's powermatic model 60 8 in. Joiner, cleaning, adding wheels, and prepping, (minor fixes), face lift (sand paint, farm implement green, almost matches,) for operation test. Blades seem sharp but I need to repair a chain link to the spring for the guard before I'll test. All the keys holding blades are tight. For free and was operational till wasn't used anymore.

 

[skychaser]

I'm on my second sthill, just bought a new one last year, I love em. My neighbor has the footer, comes in handy. I have the measley 22 in. Heh .

I have 3. An MS250, an 032 and an 048. I almost bought an 056 a few weeks ago. Why? I dunno. My 048 will cut anything I ever come up against. But a man can never have too many Stihl's. It had a 4' bar on it. And bigger is better! I should have bought it. lol

 

[skychaser]

On a new subject matter relating to the above. I aquired an early 60's powermatic model 60 8 in. Joiner, cleaning, adding wheels, and prepping, (minor fixes), face lift (sand paint, farm implement green, almost matches,) for operation test. Blades seem sharp but I need to repair a chain link to the spring for the guard before I'll test. All the keys holding blades are tight. For free and was operational till wasn't used anymore.

I have a 6" joiner and a 12" planer. You can hear that planer a mile away when I run hardwood like Oak through it. My Dad used the joiner to shorten up his middle finger years ago. He said he didn't like the way that finger stuck out longer than the others. After that the middle 3 on that hand were all the same length. Ouch. Always use a push stick!

 

[BarG]

Oh man, luckily I still got all my fingers but I know a guy who lost all 8 on a 12" joiner, I broke down a few years ago and bought the grizzly polar 15" planer 3 hp. With spiral cutter head.they have almost doubled in price last I checked. It's way quieter than my 12" Makita was, that thing was deafening. I finally got a serious call on my cedar, keeping my fingers crossed.

 

[BarG]

 

[BarG]

I finally sold all my kiln dried oak and have some serious inquiries on buying my kiln dried Eastern Red cedar. It was just in time for Christmas. I even sold the oak I have saved for the last 11 years.
I now have a customer who is bringing me trailer loads of logs to cut for him. Instead of charging by the log I am cutting for half the yield of lumber.

 

[BarG]

These are very tapered, it's only the first load, he has 6 acres he's clearing for commercial property sale. It has a large variety of sizes.

 

[Homegrowngoodnes]

Sounds like a good trade!

 

[BarG]

My new old invention for a manual self propelled sawmill.

 

[BarG]

My latest on my mill post, manual push mill is now a winch pull mill. It cut through 20" white oak great. You have to use control wisely and start stop for wide cuts as it can get aggressive

 

[BarG]

I'm sympathizing, I never breathed no sawdust or wore my self out cutting this log. My experiment . Need to take apart and clean and paint for permanent addition. They are work , but some work is fun.

 

[BarG]

My videos won't upload unless a link maybe?

 

[BarG]

I'm on my second sthill, just bought a new one last year, I love em. My neighbor has the footer, comes in handy. I have the measley 22 in. Heh .

His is the 3 footer. He just dropped a tree on it, a few cracked parts, all easily fixed or replaced. I like stihls.

 

[BarG]

I also hit my first metal . A nail, it totally sucks. Nowww,!!! I have to start looking for an appropriate metal detector in my price range.

 

[BarG]

It's time, I messed up a sidewall on a tire, I go to get 2 replaced, my tires were 10 years old, a good look and there all ready. I did all 4. Another 10 years, lol.

 

[BarG]

I have 3. An MS250, an 032 and an 048. I almost bought an 056 a few weeks ago. Why? I dunno. My 048 will cut anything I ever come up against. But a man can never have too many Stihl's. It had a 4' bar on it. And bigger is better! I should have bought it. lol

Damn, that'd scare the shit outta me . We put a handle on a 3' for some pecan, we had a 9 ton lift truck that barely lifted a 10 ' log after trimmed to fit the mill. I d do it with out the handle though. I'm getting pretty good at straight chain saw cuts to split a log.

 

[GusAvocado]

We lost a bunch of cedars in Kosse. May try a chainsaw mill to see if I can get some planks to repair the horse stalls on the place. If I like it I might get more serious…