Author Topic: Awesome day of cutting! (Read 22631 times)

Kirk Allen · « **on:** April 08, 2009, 09:28:47 PM »

Packed up the mill and went west about 10 miles and cut some of the most beutiful clear white oak I have ever seen. This guy had logs that were "22-30" diameter and not a knot anywhere except for the logs from the very top of the tree. I was getting 6&7 FAS boards from each face

I started at 12:30 and finished at 4:30pm. Cut just over 1300bf. He is going to give the whole stack to his son-in-law in Ohio who is a hobby Cabinet maker. I think his son-in-law is going to flip when he sees 16" wide FAS boards.

I will try to get the pics up in the next day or so. Picked up a doozy of a cold last night and its kicking my but so pictures are on hold.

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2009, 08:29:03 AM »

Sorry about your rear end, but take care of your nose.

I too, had great day sawing, but did not have to travel but a couple hundred yards to do my sawing. From the house to the mill.

Carl Middleton · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2009, 04:25:13 PM »

Not to bad a week here to Went to a place called King George Va.Tue cut 800 bf red oak

Then wed went to Stafford Va. cut 700 bf white oak

Plus I started construction on the new kiln

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #3 on:** April 11, 2009, 08:42:42 PM »

Buzz Sawyer · « **Reply #4 on:** April 16, 2009, 06:05:16 PM »

Nice pile of kindling there...

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #5 on:** April 20, 2009, 07:19:43 PM »

I forgot my camera today and if figures as I cut the most beutiful q-sawn sycamore I have ever seen. We had boards that were 18" wide and slam full of flecking.

Cut just over 1200 bf this afternoon for a past customer. I think he is done for a while as he has not touched the lumber we cut last year for him and now he is out of space to store it.

Ended up cutting Blue Spruce, Red Oak, Ash, and Sycamore. Only got hammered with hail once all day

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #6 on:** April 26, 2009, 03:14:08 PM »

I sold three slabs of scy. a few days ago, for $75.00. They were 4" thick. 5' long and 28" wide. Did I do good, Kirk?

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #7 on:** April 26, 2009, 08:45:50 PM »

Triple that if it was Spalted

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #8 on:** April 27, 2009, 05:50:31 AM »

They were and I didn't.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #9 on:** April 27, 2009, 07:36:38 AM »

Live and Learn!

Spalted seems to bring a real premium so I dont even mess with trying to cut and dry my maple anymore until its good and spalted. I dont think I have any "normal" clear maple on hand.

Carl Middleton · « **Reply #10 on:** April 27, 2009, 08:09:21 PM »

I chuck all my maple up in the wood when I get it. Got some 36" sycamore logs I want to saw killing me to let them spalt

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #11 on:** April 27, 2009, 08:24:44 PM »

I think Sycamore spalts better than any other maple.

Its worth the wait!

Carl Middleton · « **Reply #12 on:** April 27, 2009, 08:36:36 PM »

May have to saw one sycamore got a guitar builder that wants to come out and take a look at these sycamore logs said he would possably buy one hole log

Whats book matched sycamore go for out you way Kirk?

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #13 on:** April 27, 2009, 08:55:52 PM »

The absolute best looking and most stable sycamore is quarter sawn and I sell it for no less than $5 a bf depending on widths. Wider stuff, like 12" or better brings $7-10 a BF. I will add $1-$2 bucks a BF for book matched.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #14 on:** April 27, 2009, 09:00:22 PM »

There is a lot of waste as the key with sycamore is perfectly vertical grain in each board so you have to cut two boards, move, cut, move, etc.

The last logs I cut for a customer was the best I have ever seen. LOTS of ray flecks in it and even some curl towards the but log. That stuff goes for a premium!

kobraken · « **Reply #15 on:** April 30, 2009, 08:55:55 PM »

Okay, dumb question------how do you MAKE a log spalt?

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #16 on:** April 30, 2009, 10:55:49 PM »

Keep it out of the sun, keep it moist, and burie it with organic matter. Well, maybe not burie it but put a bunch of leaves and grass clippings on it and let mother nature do its work.

I try to keep my maples under the drip line of the shed and when I mow I make sure I blow all the stuff at the logs. I get some awesome spalt in 12-18 months.

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #17 on:** June 04, 2009, 10:50:29 PM »

I have simply burried the logs in the sawdust for a couple years or less, depending on the size of the logd.

camastown · « **Reply #18 on:** June 04, 2009, 11:45:21 PM »

hey frank,have you done anything with the glass circles

Frank Pender - AKA "Tail Gunner" · « **Reply #19 on:** June 05, 2009, 09:19:16 AM »

I moved them.

I have yet to decide, for sure, how to level the 4 places on the stump. Everyone seems to like the idea placing the glass/

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #20 on:** June 09, 2009, 06:51:55 PM »

Knocked out a little over 1300 bf of Kentucky Coffee for a local farmer this weekend along with 260bf of Chinese Elm, 250 BF of Cherry, 98bf of Persimon and 250bf of Walnut.

After talking to quite a few folks at the shootout, I think I am going to start selling my slab wood for fire wood! Looks like the market for it has improved greatly and looks like with this administration its only going to get worse, or better if you have fire wood

Little Cherry on the mill

Kentucky Coffee and Walnut

Future heat

Stephen Wiley · « **Reply #21 on:** June 10, 2009, 04:49:46 AM »

I see a lot of 'project wood' yet in that slab pile.

Specialty frames; Demo stands; etc.

Kirk Allen · « **Reply #22 on:** June 10, 2009, 06:54:59 AM »

Been down that path before!

So many projects that nothing hit the burn pile and it backed up in every possible spot on my place.

Carl Middleton · « **Reply #23 on:** June 10, 2009, 03:51:01 PM »

I hear that I used to try and save everthing I could Before I knew it I had a 16 x 20 shed full of turning stock and other stuff It sold pretty good only problem was being there same time as the customer

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Author Topic: Awesome day of cutting! (Read 22631 times)