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Started milling a huge 36 inch white oak. This thing was 42 feet of strait wood till the first branch. It blew down in a windstorm and took another 36 inch white oak plus a huge beech tree with it. What a mess. I cut the first 8 foot log into several cants with the csm. This particular cant was 14 x 22. Quick and dirty math tells me this one was approx 200 bd ft, or about 1000 lbs. of wet oak. This is how I get that half ton up onto horses for much easier milling.
Here is the cant on the ground where I rolled it off of the log after milling it out of the 36 inch log.
First dig a small area under end of cant to get front of jack under, then raise it up enough to get small chunck of wood under end of cant
Slide whole jack under middle of cant and raise
Drop onto first horse
Using couple of custom made jack extensions (made out of solid locust) so jack can lift high enough, raise other end and slip other horse under
Now it's up high enough so that when I run my mill down the cant, I am not down in the dirt pushing that thing down the wood. MUCH easier on the back and knees.
Here is the cant on the ground where I rolled it off of the log after milling it out of the 36 inch log.
First dig a small area under end of cant to get front of jack under, then raise it up enough to get small chunck of wood under end of cant
Slide whole jack under middle of cant and raise
Drop onto first horse
Using couple of custom made jack extensions (made out of solid locust) so jack can lift high enough, raise other end and slip other horse under
Now it's up high enough so that when I run my mill down the cant, I am not down in the dirt pushing that thing down the wood. MUCH easier on the back and knees.
You don't really appreciate how big that cant is until the 4th pic. Btw, nice horses.
