stickering - kind of boring....

[Mike Van]

I spent part of the winter sawing up some 40 spruce & pine logs I hauled in last summer. The long ones I stacked a few weeks ago, the 8 footers today. These were all dead stacked next to the mill. At least this time of year, you dont have to worry about mold. Loaded on my F350 -

I never thought about tallying it all up - But here it is stacked & stickered.

Now it can just sit there & dry.

There's not much more boring than doing this, but it's part of the system if you want lumber.

 

[BobL]

Nice Haul Mike - thanks for posting.

 

[SilverBox]

Nice what are you planning on doing with all that? I have some pine thats cut into 20' lengths in a pile I'm considering milling into exterior siding, but I have a few downed cedars that I think would be more worthwhile to mill, but the pine needs to milled soon or it will get ate/rot up. So much wood so little time *sighs*

 

[Mike Van]

It's just inventory, once you get it drying, you're ahead of the rot, bugs, etc.

 

[redprospector]

Here's some of what I've been milling & sticker stacking since the middle of January in my "spare time".

When it dries it will go in our house as paneling etc, the never ending re-model.

Andy

 

[Mike Van]

Andy - What kind of pine in New Mexico?

 

[redprospector]

Most of what we have is Ponderosa Pine. But we also have some Black Jack, Pinon, and the stack in the second picture is Sugar Pine.
I live in a "mixed conifer" forest, so we also have Douglas Fir, White Fir, Balsam Fir, and Spruce. But no hardwood's to mention, unless you count Aspen.

Andy

 

[BlueRider]

Some claro walnut

Well today was my turn to stack and sticker. I milled the top log last saterday and 5 slabs from the bottom log the day before. I had rain on Sunday and Monday and just now got time to stack and sticker things properly. with the way the weather has been it takes 2 or 3 days after we get rain before I can drive out into the orchard without getting stuck. I will be milling tomorrow and saterday and we have more rain predicted for Sunday, Monday, Tuesday.

I met with the manager of the property and he is still planing on pushing things into a pile at the end of March, But I may be able to get a few logs pulled to a spot where I can mill them past the end of March.

 

[SilverBox]

Thats some good looking walnut is it 8' long?

 

[BlueRider]

The bottom log had some 8' slabs, the top log is a bit over 7'. the other end is milled througn the stubs of the branches and is irregular so if I cut the other end square and trim the near end I will likely lose a good 6"-8" inches. In reality I will likely cut off the graft portion and the edges and will lose almost 50% to waste by the time it goes out the door of my shop as furniture.