Free white pines to mill

[sctstoys72]

a guy practically gave me a stand of pines on his property,haven't seen them yet, he says some are down,but alot standing, he thinks there white pine.Question is what should i watch out for? Laws, ect. there in ohio,i'm in KY about 50 mi away. I have a trailer W/winch and a bandsaw that will saw 26 ft there is a bunch of big nice trees 12" or bigger. Any advice

 

[dallasm1]

I don't know of any laws that would be a problem (maybe exceeding the weight restrictions or your trailer?), however logistically I find the biggest problems in getting the wood to the trailer, onto the trailer, and then off of the trailer again. Sometimes I am fortunate and there is an excavator on site that can place the logs onto my trailer but there are problems with that as well. My trailer (a tandem axle car style) isn't built for logs, so the fenders are very flimsy and they are taking quite a beating. I make sure I put 4 or 5 bunks (4x6, or 6x6) across the width of the trailer to distribute the weight across the frame. As far as getting the logs onto the trailer, there are some good threads on AS if you search "Pulling wood out of the bush" and similar phrases you will see a lot of information. What size are the logs that you will be loading? Oh, I see, 12in. Those are big logs. I just loaded some similar size cedar, 12 to 30 inch, and I had to skid them off the trailer.

 

[irishcountry]

Lucky lucky!! Congradulations!!

 

[Backwoods]

In a case like yours I like to mill the logs on site and leave the tailings, it will take fewer trips to take the mill there and get the lumber home then it will bringing whole logs home. Just put together a full cut list of all the sizes that you think you may need and cut plenty of each size. If you are not sure how you may use the wood then cut beams that are common sizes of wood that you can mill it down to later. A 6x12 can be milled into 1x6-2x6-4x6 or 1x12-2x12 as well as other multiples that you may have a use for later.

 

[Mike Van]

If you're dropping that pine now, get it milled before summer. Once it gets warm, the sawyer beetles will lay grub eggs under the bark on cut pine. Up here anyway.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The biggest problem i've seen with milling FREE logs on site is, when the guy that gave them to you see's the lumber pileing up, he soons gets annoyed that he "gave them away". Folks give logs away because they have no value to them, but when they see the "lumber", all of a sudden they start seeing $$$ and they get upset! They NEVER see what it takes to get the FREE logs to turn into that pile of lumber though...

Rob

 

[olyman]

The biggest problem i've seen with milling FREE logs on site is, when the guy that gave them to you see's the lumber pileing up, he soons gets annoyed that he "gave them away". Folks give logs away because they have no value to them, but when they see the "lumber", all of a sudden they start seeing $$$ and they get upset! They NEVER see what it takes to get the FREE logs to turn into that pile of lumber though...

Rob

got that 1000% right--same with a big cottonwood im going to wack up--good as pine for sheeting on the roof--no one wanted it---38 dbh--and straight up over 40 feet---sawyer--"gave them away"--yup--lets see--csm or bandsaw--trailer,pickup,fuel,chainsaws and support things,time--yup--"free"

 

[Mike Van]

:agree2::agree2: You guys got that right!

 

[sctstoys72]

Yeah,i'm not going to push my luck, going to haul the whole logs,need to figure a way to use the 8000lbs winch on the front of the trailer to get them on there. he says theres 45,50 trees some 100ft tall.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Yeah,i'm not going to push my luck, going to haul the whole logs,need to figure a way to use the 8000lbs winch on the front of the trailer to get them on there. he says theres 45,50 trees some 100ft tall.

One Word... "parbuckle"

Rob

 

[sctstoys72]

how would you rig this,i have a set of tongs and a smooth ramp made from wide channel, thought maybe could pull up the ramp,but would get harder as the trailer gets full?

 

[redprospector]

Get them all cut and ready to skid, then rent a good sized skidsteer (or tractor) with fork's, or a grapple bucket for a few day's.

Andy

 

[Marklambert61]

free logs

You should mill them to cants on-site saves a lot of trailer space and get rid of the bark the bugs love so much.

Milling cants later at your own pace is fast work....Sweet!

Good luck
Mark