Hi all,
I'd love to have more to post about, but I just really don't have much to say right now I guess. I have a Champion manual mill made by the "Scierie Mobile Gilbert" company in Quebec City and a friend and I have been sawing up a bunch of White Pines that he had taken down last year after a branch off one fell on his house and darn near destroyed it! We've had so much snow here that we finally had to ask another friend to come in with a big Cat loader to push back snow and retrieve some logs for us to saw - our Massey 135 just couldn't handle either the snow or the logs.
We've cut 6 nice size logs, each about 24"-30"dia and 8'-12' long as well as two small logs, about 15" x 12'. After cutting out the curves in the logs and getting nice square cants to work with we've accumulated a pretty fair pile of wood, all 1x's and 2x's, so next week we'll trailer it all over to another friends place where we'll have room to stack, sticker and let it all dry. I've been tracking the hours on the Tiny Tach and so far we have about 5-6 hours on his wood actually cutting - probably three time that moving snow and retrieving logs. I guess (and it's only a guess) we've got about 1000 to 1200 bdft to pile, and while that's not much, the snow is really throwing a wrench into the works. According to Environment Canada, the Ottawa area is experiencing the second heaviest snowfall on record this year - what a year to have about 6000bdft of logs to cut....
Anyway, that's about all I have for now...
cheers eh?
John
