Let's see some of your milling....from the past!

[SDB777]

Was looking at some of the pieces I had milled(chainsaw) and really had big plans for until I sold them for way too cheap to fund other 'toys'. Here are a few from my past, all milled with my Stihl 064 and Alaskan Mini Mill:


Pignut Hickory



American Sweetgum



inclusion White Oak



backbone Black Walnut


Not one of these pieces paid anymore then $30.00, insanity is my best friend. I just hope they ended up being something great for the fellas that drove away with them!




Let see what you gave away?


Scott (there are no pills for me) B

 

[groundup]

I sold some bad ass cherry burls for 10 bucks a pop and they were nice specimens, some 20" across and 2' long. I didn't want to handle them twice and had firewood to deliver. I moved some spalted boxelder for pennies because I wanted to try my new mill out.
I milled a nice pawlonia for my uncle for nothing but his friendship, which we all know is priceless

 

[betterbuilt]

I traded 2 of these slabs for a days work milling a big ash. The same day I sold 2 more for 200. I left the homeowner some of that just because I was selling wood in front of her house. Seemed like the right thing to do. The rest I ended up trading for a chainsaw. I kept two smaller pieces one I made a desk and the other is still in the shop.
This log I split with the owner. What a bad deal. Bust my butt and give half away. Never again.

This swamp maple was the best I ever milled. Actually first log I ever milled. It made me money every time. 30-40 dollars every single piece. I think most of the slabs I had were in the $100-200 range and then there was this soft maple for $30 so everyone would take a piece of it home.

 

[mdavlee]

Nice stuff.

 

[betterbuilt]

Oh this was my first paying job. Maybe my fifth log. I drove like a hour and a half. I got there an was supposed to be a 36 inch log. ended up being 55inches. Full of dirt and stone pockets. I did the best I could and only got half way through it. The guy paid me for the day and I was pretty happy with what he paid me. I came back for a second day and finished the log and he decided to pay me less then the day before. He said I spent most of the day sharpening my chains. Because of his dirty log. Very irritated. That was the last time I milled hourly.

I hope powder post beetles ate the whole thing. Hard maple burl

 

[IanB22]

Oh this was my first paying job. Maybe my fifth log. I drove like a hour and a half. I got there an was supposed to be a 36 inch log. ended up being 55inches......Because of his dirty log. Very irritated. That was the last time I milled hourly.

I hope powder post beetles ate the whole thing. Hard maple burl

That is some beautiful stuff! And at 55" damnnn...


394xp w/ 33" & 42" Bars - Full Comp Full Chisel - 36" Granberg Alaskan Mill
455 Rancher w/ 20" Bar - Semi Chisel
Husqvarna Forestry Helmet & Full Wrap Chaps

 

[BobL]

Here's a selection from 2007/8

Apricot - also smelled strongly of apricot while I was milling it


Queensland Box Tree


Western Australian Red Gum (the "red" in the name is not for the wood but the deep red Resin pockets)


Western Australian Sheoak


Fiddleback Marri


Flooded Gum


Blue Tipped Jarrah

 

[Boon]

This camphor laurel was cut down from a school yard



I scanned it with a metal detector, there was so much metal in there it was impossible to pinpoint but it was decided to go ahead with the milling


The first cut went well


as it came closer to the center the rot began to show its self

the black stains show some of what the detector was singing about but the wood has a nice pattern through it


At the end of the day the remaining log had big black cavities filled with water and more singing from the metal detector. That rot in the top right was just the beginning, in there some big pieces of metal had been engulfed by the tree and time was dissolving them. I don't think any one wants to mill through anything like that, specially after the money we spend on our milling setups and saws.



Some nice slabs came out. For the trouble the owner went to salvaging the log and the yield was questionable but he seemed happy. Some weight in the slabs