SDB777 Posted October 2, 2015 Report Posted October 2, 2015 From a recent post....I was inspired! Wood haul from the Cabot connection..... This is a photo of my now gone mill, I sold it on the 23rd of August, and ordered my BIGGER mill the next morning. Seven weeks of waiting is killing my stockpile of boards.... The photo shows a ten foot long piece of Pignut Hickory{Carya glabra} that was sliced into bookmatching sets and long since sold off for gas money and blade sharpening. And you can see the remaining logs in the background waiting in line for their turn. Close-up of the log that was milled? Sure! Do you like Eastern Red Cedar{Juniperus virginiana}? I do! The material is so under-rated for turning, building boxes, and yes....scrolling! How about Southern Red Oak{Quercus falcata}, mineral stained that is! I'll share more as time goes on! Promise.... Scott (love me some fresh cut.....anything) B Quote
Scrolling Steve Posted October 2, 2015 Report Posted October 2, 2015 Scott , That is quite a rig !!!!........Wow some amazing cuts of Cedar........Thanks for showing! Quote
Phantom Scroller Posted October 2, 2015 Report Posted October 2, 2015 Now that's what I call a saw your just showing off now. What some beautiful wood.Roly Quote
amazingkevin Posted October 2, 2015 Report Posted October 2, 2015 From a recent post....I was inspired! Wood haul from the Cabot connection..... This is a photo of my now gone mill, I sold it on the 23rd of August, and ordered my BIGGER mill the next morning. Seven weeks of waiting is killing my stockpile of boards.... The photo shows a ten foot long piece of Pignut Hickory{Carya glabra} that was sliced into bookmatching sets and long since sold off for gas money and blade sharpening. And you can see the remaining logs in the background waiting in line for their turn. Close-up of the log that was milled? Sure! Do you like Eastern Red Cedar{Juniperus virginiana}? I do! The material is so under-rated for turning, building boxes, and yes....scrolling! How about Southern Red Oak{Quercus falcata}, mineral stained that is! I'll share more as time goes on! Promise.... Scott (love me some fresh cut.....anything) B Scott is the house on either side of you for sale,GOOD NEIGHBOR.It won't be can i borrow a cup of sugar either ! I'm impressed totally! :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: :thumbs: Chachi111769 1 Quote
Falcon Posted October 2, 2015 Report Posted October 2, 2015 Love the wood. Glad you are able to have a great machine like that. I agree with Kevin I would not want to borrow sugar either. Get a guard dog there may be other scrollers around!LOL Quote
terrylee Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 Boy, sure like to have that wood in my shop! Stuff I can make from that Quote
SDB777 Posted October 3, 2015 Author Report Posted October 3, 2015 Yeah............the neighbor, not so nice and I wish the place was for sale. It would be nice not to have a bunch of kids throwing beer bottles on my lawn and not having to smell pot being smoked all weekend. I have added a 6ft 'dog ear' fence between the property, but still have to toss the occasional beer bottle back to them....at least I haven't found anymore broken bottles.Showing off.....nah, wait until I take delivery on the new one coming! The old saw could cut 19-1/2" wide by 10ft long, the new saw will cut 23" wide and 21ft long!!!!(insert Tim Allen grunt) And it'll be portable, which increases income making ability, and that means it pays for itself fast. The old saw took far too long to pay for itself, I mainly cut 3/4" thick stock and then reduce that into pen blanks for turners....a lot of work but it pays well per board for if the timber is worthy.Most of my local woodworkers now know to arrive with the truck beds empty and be ready to strap the load down before leaving. I give away as much as I sell just so it gets used! It's not all about making tons of cash(although cash does keep the mill bands sharp and the gas in the tank).And since photo's are fun, at least I think so....More Pignut Hickory{Carya glabra} bookmatched setsAnd a timber that is often overlooked....American Sweetgum{Liquidambar styraciflua}. Scott (more? sure.....I have more) B Quote
Phantom Scroller Posted October 3, 2015 Report Posted October 3, 2015 I think you have just become my best friend as of now. do you deliver for free as well hee hee.Roly Quote
daddy_tindell Posted October 4, 2015 Report Posted October 4, 2015 I live just up the road in bentonville rogers area...if you ever need to unload some of your inventory lol...great looking wood Quote
SDB777 Posted October 4, 2015 Author Report Posted October 4, 2015 (edited) Yeah, the delivery thing..........nah, don't much do that.Inventory, ummm.....I'm between sawmills now. Sold my little one and am waiting to hear that the new one is sitting in Missouri. Supposed to be there on the 14th..... So the inventory thing, it's almost gone. And with the LOML burning through patterns...More photo's? Okay.....Here is some Green Ash{Fraxinus pennsylvanica}Eye-candy is fun, sort of reminds me of seeing bacon......Eastern Red Cedar{Juniperus virginiana}It's weird looking at this photo.....seems I took the wire fence down during the spring. Not long ago, I buried my best friend of 13 years, not far from the smallest piece of the right. I miss that pup......Okay, this one isn't some pretty pile of nice flat boards/flitches.... I cut the timber myself, load it on the trailer by hand(no machines in my inventory), parbuckling is the way I get the logs onto the trailer.... With my new sawmill coming in, I will not longer need to do the 'hand work' of loading a trailer. Instead, I'll be able to parbuckle the log onto the mill directly and then take off the boards/flitches, and load those nice, light weight pieces onto the trailer! By the way, I'm having addiction withdrawals....not enough sawdust going up my nostrils! I just have to keep telling myself that there is only twelve days between me and dusty goodness......Scott (like waiting for school to let out for summer vacation) B Edited October 10, 2015 by SDB777 Quote
SDB777 Posted October 17, 2015 Author Report Posted October 17, 2015 That's right...it is in my yard now. I will be dropping a pine tomorrow that should yield roughly 875bft. So I'll be a little busy....gonna be a bunch on wide boards(in excess of 20" across). Figuring I need to make these thin Scott (hope to be finished with it by 9am) B Quote
SDB777 Posted October 18, 2015 Author Report Posted October 18, 2015 Where was I? Ahhh, the fun stuff.Still milling....The total yield from this one piece was 635 boardfeet of lumber! The weight was 3785lbs....I'm going to try to stay under that weight now. Took 4 hours to mill and put the stuff on the trailer. Brought the mill home, grabbed the trailer and the wife, loaded the lumber and then stopped for a quick bite at CoCo's resturant. I'll probably take the three 5" x 7" x 8' beams off the trailer in the morning and start making a timber frame archway for my fence in the backyard tomorrow morning. Chisels and hammering next to the crackheads house equals FUN!Then the rest of the material I cut was from a 'cut sheet' for the deer cabin....a porch and board-n-batten siding. Might not be enough b-n-b, but the porch will be topnotch!The trailer....Still some more to clean-up....There is always next weekend! BTW, the 'scraps' from the board-n-batten has been claimed by the BOSS. So, the scraps will be about 30" long and the photo(two pics up)---those boards are 19 to 22 inches wide by 1/2 inch thick(will plane them to 3/8")! Serious scraps!!! Scott (today was a fun day) B Quote
Lucky2 Posted October 25, 2015 Report Posted October 25, 2015 Scott, are you not getting a lot of waste by cutting the flitches at 1/2", especially since the wood is so green? I would think that the cupping and cracking, or splitting of the boards would make cutting them a waste. Len Quote
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