My project partner has 30 acres of Douglas fir form 12 to 36 inches in diamiter. We are planning to start to work with this stand. It is all accessible with...
... inches in ... is ... have ... someone ... is ... cut ... avoid ... winter ... the ... toothpicks....;-) ... What are you going to use to mill the logs ?...
Same question, what are you cutting with, will make a diference ... is ... with lots of mositure still in logs, A dry hard knot can knock the tip off a tooth...
do you have 8*8 douglas fir/oregon in 10 > 15 ft lengths green to sell and fill containers? Harley Scott CEO Ecomill-Ecological Forest Milling 77 Royal...
Sounds like nice timber!!! I'd want a bandmill in there to get the most from it. I'd harvest a few logs, and on higher grade logs i'd coat the ends with...
I mill as soon as I can get to them and hopefully before the bugs do. I like to fell in the fall and winter when the sap is down. And that of course helps to...
Dennis, I don't have a Delta. You probably got mixed up with someone else. I did reply to your posting on the doug fur and ask what king of mill because it...
First of all. Thank you for all of the information on Milling Douglas Fir. This is unbelievably valuable. There are a number of very straight, reaching for...
I wanted to answer the question what kind of mill I have. I have a Delta Band Saw mill with a ten foot blade. 19 inch throat. 8 horse honda motor. And a 20...
always cut the heart out and turn it into a 4*4 with slabs always butterfly two and then machine off the two inner wayne edges and then end for end one of the...
Treat it the same as the Doug Fir, buck out the logs, end coat them and mill ASAP.... I don't care what kind of log it is, letting it set around lowers the...
There's no way to answer your questions, without knowing what will sell in your area.... I'll bet the decideing factor will be, the fact that your going to be...
John, I'm a continent away in a different climate, milling red and sugar maple, but I would be very very reluctant to leave maple logs lie for a year unless I...
http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/fplgtr/fplgtr117.pdf This is a good manual on air drying lumber. Dial-up beware, it is a 4.4mb download. Mark ... From:...
Spalting from what my Pa used to define it as ( he was a wood turner) was when the wood had color added via mold , insects , etc the black coloring added into...
... insects , etc the black coloring ::: black powder puff bugs, looks like tiny ants, usually in my logs, when they lie on groungd wet, and termites come...
I think it's old. It's pretty common in the fine woodworking community. You know the lines running through the wood that you frequently see in "art" turnings?...
I have some red oak logs that have sat around in the weather a LONG time... The other day i loaded one on the mill to open it up and have a look-see.......
Dear Robert, Frank & Bill, My thanks to you gents for helping me to understand "spalting." That's one of the things I like about this group, is that we can...
I've worked with both spalted Maple and blue-stained Pine and they don't have much similarity other than being caused by a fungus and being valuable when...
A little side track. There is a fellow and his wife here, use to be big cattlemen, ranchers, made good living, but always depending on banks for the next go...
I wish I had a few more of those customers that had more cents than sense. My prices aren't bad but sometimes a customer will insist that they be higher. If...
What do you mean by "a LONG time"? I have some red oak tops that I am cutting up for firewood, some have been laying on the forest floor for 17 years. They...
I'd guess those logs lay there 6 or 7 years, and they are too rotted to be any good, except for the spalting i mentioned... One log i opened was too far gone...
SO MANY variables! I'd expect white oak to outlast red oak but you did say red oak. But I've also run into red oak that I know has been down for several years...
Here's a YouTube link to a water powered reciprocating sawmill in Norway. I expect that a few members of this group remember a steam powered one from the movie...
These were live trees dropped during the winter in a logging operation. Weird that you would think the white oak would last longer. On my property the white...
I know that cutting up a log goes easier if it is green/wet/uncured, but this business of trees rotting or not rotting if cut and left unmilled for long...
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