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Offline bandmiller2

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Milling oak
« on: April 22, 2016, 06:34:05 AM »
Oak, red and white is my favorite wood to cut, if it just wasn't so fornicating heavy. Pine is light and easy to cut but the soft wood to hard knots will make anything but the keenest band want to do the wave. I can take a band that has started to dodge in W. pine and roll on an oak log and it cuts true as a die. Cut a bunch of 2x12x16' white oak for truck side boards, tough on the old codger, could only handle one side at a time. Suppose I could cobble up some rube Goldberg handling devices but I rarely cut that long and heavy. My hat is off to those who make a living milling, its a tough row to hoe, I just augment my retirement income. Frank C.
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Offline furu

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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2016, 10:23:04 AM »
Wish we had more oak out this way to get to cut some more often
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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2016, 07:09:09 PM »
Furu, where are you located mate.??Frank C.
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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2016, 07:23:06 PM »
He's in the PNW if I remember correct like
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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #4 on: April 23, 2016, 03:58:57 AM »
Quote from: bandmiller2 on April 22, 2016, 07:09:09 PM
Furu, where are you located mate.??Frank C.
4X4 is correct.  Out in the PNW. West of the Cascades in WA.
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Offline mountainlake

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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #5 on: April 23, 2016, 04:29:52 AM »
 
 I mill white oak for trailer decking and blocking a lot, anything heavy gets handled with the skid loader. Yesterday I was milling for another mill, white oak blocking as big as the log would make with the biggest 12 x 12  x 8'.  I had a off bearer but their skid loader was busy loading trucks so on the heavy ones we just rolled them onto a 2 x6 down to a pallet on the ground, it was surprisingly easy.  Mill was cutting great,  2 blades in 5 1/2 hours.  Steve 
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Offline Stevem

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Re: Milling oak
« Reply #6 on: April 24, 2016, 10:42:21 PM »
And I too will be milling white oak tomorrow.  4 x 12's tomorrow but have a lot of 12 x 12's to cut for an order that's around 10,000 bdf total.  All on my new band mill.  Ta-dha.
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