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Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: Fattyfireplug] #4292444 02/26/25 09:40 PM 02/26/25 09:40 PM
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama	Originally Posted by Fattyfireplug Very nice. Now you just need to find someone in the tree industry that can supply a source of wood to you. Notice that pile of logs in the background of the middle pic?

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: just_an_illusion] #4292445 02/26/25 09:41 PM 02/26/25 09:41 PM
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama	Originally Posted by just_an_illusion What brand mill is that Joe? I have a Frontier that I like pretty well. It is kinda addictive. Norwood 36v2

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: Cactus_buck] #4292449 02/26/25 09:44 PM 02/26/25 09:44 PM
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama	Originally Posted by Cactus_buck And looks like you got a decent area to dry wood. Thats a 40x50 barn me and my son built last summer to dry our wood in. Cant really see it but the back side of it is slam.full of lumber, mostly the interior lumber for our house. After we get the house built, ill have a great barn to dry wood in and park all my crap in. Its all a process.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292451 02/26/25 09:47 PM 02/26/25 09:47 PM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 5,134 Gurley, Alabama S Standbanger 12 point
Standbanger 12 point S Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 5,134 Gurley, Alabama	Nice mill.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292460 02/26/25 10:04 PM 02/26/25 10:04 PM
Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 44,357 North Alabama W Wiley Coyote Freak of Nature
Wiley Coyote Freak of Nature W Joined: Feb 2002 Posts: 44,357 North Alabama	Man, YEAH!!! One of my nephews had a mill. He built a barndo and used the mill to saw his interior wood just as you are. And he was in the tree business at the time. Get the F out of the BATFE. The F is guaranteed by the US Constitution. Those other letters are not. NRA Life Member

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292463 02/26/25 10:12 PM 02/26/25 10:12 PM
Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 8,404 Tenn W woodduck 14 point
woodduck 14 point W Joined: Sep 2011 Posts: 8,404 Tenn	👍

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292469 02/26/25 10:27 PM 02/26/25 10:27 PM
Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert
jwalker77 OP Pumpkin - The Thermal Expert Joined: Dec 2015 Posts: 25,291 blount county alabama	Wiley, iwas not planning on sawing any of the lumber for our house. I didnt want to learn on our house. Ive had sawmills around here saw about all of it. I wasnt planning on buying a sawmill for a couple more years. It just kinda happened, a little sooner than planned. Now, the plan has changed a little. I will saw some of our house lumber, but not much. I just figured with access to some pretty good logs, some pretty exotic and some with some really nice grain. I should incorperate sawing lumber int my business model. It just makes sense. I hope in a few years my son is doing the big share of our treework and i can concentrate on this, farming and a couple other things. Itll all work together to make us a living. My son is thinking abut building a house in the near future. This mill will help him get that done and not have a 30yr housenote. Were moving toward self suffeciency, this is just part of it.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292471 02/26/25 10:32 PM 02/26/25 10:32 PM
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Out back Grumpy Old Man Joined: Oct 2008 Posts: 31,225 Clanton, AL	We had a woodmizer back in the 90s. At that time it was woodmizer's largest portable mill. Dad bought it in 93 and we kept it until 99 or 2000. I'm sure we're a member of the million board ft club although unofficially. I've still got some cedar mantles and cypress 1x in the barn. It was a love hate relationship. We turned a whole lot of trees into useful lumber but it was a whole lot of work too. My opinions and comments are my own. They do not reflect the position or political opinions of Aldeer or any of the Aldeer administration.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292481 02/26/25 11:07 PM 02/26/25 11:07 PM
Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 5,134 Gurley, Alabama S Standbanger 12 point
Standbanger 12 point S Joined: Jul 2013 Posts: 5,134 Gurley, Alabama	My grand dad had a belsaw mill and a frickmill. He would have loved the portable saw mill. He sawed lumber except during hunting season.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292508 02/27/25 05:14 AM 02/27/25 05:14 AM
Joined: Nov 2020 Posts: 1,383 North Alabama H Hammertime7v2 8 point
Hammertime7v2 8 point H Joined: Nov 2020 Posts: 1,383 North Alabama	My neighbor bought a green one after watching me work an Alaskan mill all day for two days one weekend...those things sure make it look easy! Professional Smart Alec

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292523 02/27/25 06:55 AM 02/27/25 06:55 AM
Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,624 Hoover F Fattyfireplug Old Mossy Horns
Fattyfireplug Old Mossy Horns F Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 15,624 Hoover	Originally Posted by jwalker77 Originally Posted by Fattyfireplug Very nice. Now you just need to find someone in the tree industry that can supply a source of wood to you. Notice that pile of logs in the background of the middle pic? I did. Character is not developed in moments of temptation and trial. That is when it is intended to be used.

Re: Sawed my first log today [Re: jwalker77] #4292534 02/27/25 07:36 AM 02/27/25 07:36 AM
Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 9,157 Between the coosa and cahaba ! !shiloh! 14 point
!shiloh! 14 point ! Joined: Jun 2016 Posts: 9,157 Between the coosa and cahaba	Go ahead and cut more stickers than you think you'll need. They need to be good and dry before stacking green lumber.

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