Milling action on Sunday! Cross cutting next Sunday?
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Jags said:
Yes it is and Hard as a rock! One chain per board and a half. Has a lot of purple in it as well. Sapwood not even noticeable. Compared to most.
Jags said:
Yea it was a 2 board day for sure...lol 42oz of fuel 32oz of oil Per board. Let that 880 run out and there another 20-25 pulls trying to fire that thing up again. Hard stuff, but ready to be work.
Thistle
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Stunning. Great stuff there Jay.I still have a few more 3ft long Walnut logs left to slice up.Had them since September,dont have any big cracks in them so far.Am itching to start work on some of that Cedar I picked up Saturday morning.
Thistle said:
Longer you wait the harder it gets. This tree was drop last April. Aux-oil-er was flowing as well.
Thistle
Minister of Fire
smokinjay said:
LOL Dont I know it.I last milled some of it 3 weeks ago,had the wood since mid September (CL find less than 1/2 mile from home).Tree came down in a strong storm between 2 close houses & had been cut/stacked since June.I've worked Walnut both air-dried & kiln-dried since I was 15yrs old & never seen any that hard! :gulp: I mean,you expect Hickory,Locusts or Hedge to give you fits,but wow lol
Thistle said:
Razor Sharp chains and still worked that 880 like a mule. Now wonder how it will stand up to 40 grit? lol
Lumber-Jack
Minister of Fire
Thanks for posting that first picture, I always wondered how you get that first cut straight.smokinjay said:
I'm surprised you dull the chain so fast, especially on a bar that long. :bug:
Carbon_Liberator said:
IT Just got that hard really don't expect that out of walnut. That 2x8 was not long enough we had to repoistion it half way through the cut. (When there that hard to mill you know you have a very nice piece)
mecreature
Minister of Fire
mecreature
Minister of Fire
If you need more... LOL... Good one..
I'lll stay in touch. I have been cutting fence row and getting some good rows but sure like those big splits.
I'lll stay in touch. I have been cutting fence row and getting some good rows but sure like those big splits.
mecreature said:
Got 3 yard birds coming down couple in the 40+ range Sunday. Location Daleville on hiway 32.
nrford
Minister of Fire
nrford said:
You can see the sapwood clearly just not much of it! I will take an inch all day long.
Backwoods Savage
Minister of Fire
Jay, that looks really nice and I can just imagine that saw struggling through that. But seeing the boards makes me yearn for my old sawmill days. Cripes, I don't even remember how to saw anymore, but now most is done with computers anyway.
Wish I could come down to help out but you are a long, long ways away and this body is not ready for that yet.
Wish I could come down to help out but you are a long, long ways away and this body is not ready for that yet.
Backwoods Savage said:
When you are let me know. Not real exciting stuff other than flipping the next board over to see what you got. This tree turn out much better than remembered it when it was standing. Love the purple effect on this one.
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