Sawyer Rob
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I took a job to saw out some stair treads. The guy wants them sawn from red oak makeing "half rounds" with a 14" "face", 4 to 8 feet long as the stairs is tapered from end to end... They are going in a timber frame barn my friend is building for a "cottage"... The building is already up and has an 18' tall stone fireplace in the "center" of the barn, going up through the ceiling. I heard that cost him 50K to have built. I already did some of them yesterday but i didn't have the "right" logs to finish the job and quit for the day.
I did manage to get into the woodlot today though. It took some searching to find "just the right red oak" to get the last two logs out of that would be the right diameter to finish the job. Once i had it down and bucked into two logs, i took my skidding tongs and skidded them both out where i could pick them up.
Now that they were out in the open, i picked both logs up and headed for the mill.
At the mill, i loaded the first log and sawed it through the center.
Once i had it sawn, i pulled the tractor up to the mill, and rolled both halves on the pallet forks.
With both halves on the forks, i headed to the pickup to put them in the bed.
The second log was a bigger problem, because it had a bit of flare on the butt.
I had to lower one end inbetween the bunks with the toe board, while raiseing the other end to get the "top" level and make the cut.
Once done, i set the bottom half on the bunks and sawed the taper out of it!
I finished the job today, so i'll be delivering the log steps tomorrow... Hope you liked the picts....
Rob
I did manage to get into the woodlot today though. It took some searching to find "just the right red oak" to get the last two logs out of that would be the right diameter to finish the job. Once i had it down and bucked into two logs, i took my skidding tongs and skidded them both out where i could pick them up.
Now that they were out in the open, i picked both logs up and headed for the mill.
At the mill, i loaded the first log and sawed it through the center.
Once i had it sawn, i pulled the tractor up to the mill, and rolled both halves on the pallet forks.
With both halves on the forks, i headed to the pickup to put them in the bed.
The second log was a bigger problem, because it had a bit of flare on the butt.
I had to lower one end inbetween the bunks with the toe board, while raiseing the other end to get the "top" level and make the cut.
Once done, i set the bottom half on the bunks and sawed the taper out of it!
I finished the job today, so i'll be delivering the log steps tomorrow... Hope you liked the picts....
Rob
Great job:biggrinbounce2:
