Marmaduck
ArboristSite Lurker
We've made real progress on the bathroom remodel so I finally got back to the woods and tackled a standing dead (topped by Katrina) oak tree. We got 2 decent 9' logs and milled 4/5 of the first log before we ran out of day and energy.
My plan was to mill lots of quarter-sawn slabs that I could then re-saw on the bandsaw at home...Bwaa Ha Ha...these freaking things took 4-5 people to wrestle out of the woods. This was the wettest/heaviest wood I've ever seen. The rest of this log and the other get milled 5/4 max. Screw the extra lost wood from the CS mill. If you can't get it out of the woods, it's useless.
There should be some heavy machinery up there in the next couple of months that we'll get to cut some trails and maybe skid-out a few logs.
Ok, now please help with positive ID on this tree. Others there swear it's a black oak (South MS, NOT CA) but the bark looks too smooth and it's too long dead to see if it has the red layer just under the bark. Any help would be appreciated as I have a standing live black oak I'll get to after we salvage as much of the katrina wood as we can. I just want to be as sure as possible of any specied I mill.
New things and lessons learned:
*Tried my ladder-as-guide-rails and the system needs work...but I've already got ideas.
*Used the Granberg mini-mill for the first time to edge one side of this log and was surprised how easy and well it worked. The little MS 290 had no problems either.
*used kerf wedges as sugggested in my Malloff book...I made them too thick so they're heading back to the planer...maybe it's the ugly red paint?
*Only on the 2nd tank of fuel in the 395, so no milling with it yet...GAWD, what a beastie though. I'm too old to swing that 36" bar so I stuck on a 20" for general wood cutting/break-in.
Enjoy the pix.
Thanks.
My plan was to mill lots of quarter-sawn slabs that I could then re-saw on the bandsaw at home...Bwaa Ha Ha...these freaking things took 4-5 people to wrestle out of the woods. This was the wettest/heaviest wood I've ever seen. The rest of this log and the other get milled 5/4 max. Screw the extra lost wood from the CS mill. If you can't get it out of the woods, it's useless.
There should be some heavy machinery up there in the next couple of months that we'll get to cut some trails and maybe skid-out a few logs.
Ok, now please help with positive ID on this tree. Others there swear it's a black oak (South MS, NOT CA) but the bark looks too smooth and it's too long dead to see if it has the red layer just under the bark. Any help would be appreciated as I have a standing live black oak I'll get to after we salvage as much of the katrina wood as we can. I just want to be as sure as possible of any specied I mill.
New things and lessons learned:
*Tried my ladder-as-guide-rails and the system needs work...but I've already got ideas.
*Used the Granberg mini-mill for the first time to edge one side of this log and was surprised how easy and well it worked. The little MS 290 had no problems either.
*used kerf wedges as sugggested in my Malloff book...I made them too thick so they're heading back to the planer...maybe it's the ugly red paint?
*Only on the 2nd tank of fuel in the 395, so no milling with it yet...GAWD, what a beastie though. I'm too old to swing that 36" bar so I stuck on a 20" for general wood cutting/break-in.
Enjoy the pix.
Thanks.