Sawyer Rob
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A couple weeks ago, a friend of mine had some pretty severe straight line winds. Because of the wind, she had to take a couple of her white pines down. One didn't have much for logs and ended up being "bon fire" wood, but the other one had two decent logs in it. Anyway, she asked me if i'd take them and see that something was "built out of them", as those pines ment something to her husband who passed away a couple years ago. Her husband was one of the two best friends i've ever had, so it was worth the long tractor ride for that reason alone.
So, a couple days ago i drove my tractor, with running gear behind, the 11 miles to her house to get them,
Today after milling a few logs that were by the mill, i loaded the "better" of the two white pines onto the mill,
I decided to make 2x12's out of the 14' log, as i told her i'd use the lumber "mostly" for a building here on my farm. So, i started sawing, first taking the slab off, and then a couple nice wide flitches, and turned the log.
With the log turned, i took off another slab,
And a couple more 1-5/8" thick "flitches", leaving the log 12" wide to make 2x12's...
So, i turned the log 90* and got started,
Then, with the last slab off, i started taking off 2x12's until,
i hit a pocket of carpenter ants!
So, a couple days ago i drove my tractor, with running gear behind, the 11 miles to her house to get them,
Today after milling a few logs that were by the mill, i loaded the "better" of the two white pines onto the mill,
I decided to make 2x12's out of the 14' log, as i told her i'd use the lumber "mostly" for a building here on my farm. So, i started sawing, first taking the slab off, and then a couple nice wide flitches, and turned the log.
With the log turned, i took off another slab,
And a couple more 1-5/8" thick "flitches", leaving the log 12" wide to make 2x12's...
So, i turned the log 90* and got started,
Then, with the last slab off, i started taking off 2x12's until,
i hit a pocket of carpenter ants!