Al Weber
ArboristSite Member
A week ago we caught a few days break from the almost daily rains we have had in the NE so I managed to get out and mill a cherry log and then a maple log I had taken down a month or so ago. Because I am building small furniture, I have bucked my logs into the straightest possible lengths so often I have only 4-6 foot lengths although the butt ends usually yield 8 ft lengths. The pictures show some results from the milling operation. Everything is stacked and stickered on the underside of my barn. It is totally covered but open to the elements on one side. I've got a log deck in my field where I take the RipSaw and accessories to on the Gator. I have a couple of furry helpers as you can see. I use an old Ford tractor to move the logs until I can lift the cants onto a set of heavy duty saw horses for final milling. I just started milling about a year ago and am learning something new every time I work at it. The cherry is relatively easy to mill. But I've been working on a couple of rock maple logs and they are slow and difficult to mill. I've gone through a lot of blades on the maple logs.