Sawyer Rob
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I don't get a lot of hickory logs to saw, so when i had a chance to get a few, i took it. There's two kinds of hickory in my area, "bitternut" and Shagbark"... This one is a shagbark which is the more desirable of the two.
Here it is sitting on the mill ready to saw. On the right you can see the cable winch log turner too. It works very well, and makes short work out of turning even big logs.
I started out by sawing a slab off, takeing a 5/4 board off and turning the log.
Hickory saws fairly hard, but my band mill is more than up to the task with a Vanguard 23hp motor powering it. It's surpriseing how little fuel it uses too for haveing that much power.
Anyway, after takeing more slabs off and more 5/4 boards off, i worked my way around the log. I then put the first boards back on to be edged as i sawed the last slab off. Edgeing this way works very well!!
This isn't a top grade log, but i did get some decent boards from it. Too bad the pict. quality is so low or you'd beable to see how dead flat the boards are!
It didn't take too long to saw this log up, and here's the tally...
Now that i have the log sawed, it's time to get that lumber on stickers!
I'll leave it on stickers for at least six months to air dry. Then when i figure out what use it will be for, i'll move it onto stickers in my shop to finish drying it down to the desirable 6 to 8% moisture...
Well, time to roll the next one on the mill and start all over, and here it is!
Hope you enjoyed the picts..
Rob
Here it is sitting on the mill ready to saw. On the right you can see the cable winch log turner too. It works very well, and makes short work out of turning even big logs.
I started out by sawing a slab off, takeing a 5/4 board off and turning the log.
Hickory saws fairly hard, but my band mill is more than up to the task with a Vanguard 23hp motor powering it. It's surpriseing how little fuel it uses too for haveing that much power.
Anyway, after takeing more slabs off and more 5/4 boards off, i worked my way around the log. I then put the first boards back on to be edged as i sawed the last slab off. Edgeing this way works very well!!
This isn't a top grade log, but i did get some decent boards from it. Too bad the pict. quality is so low or you'd beable to see how dead flat the boards are!
It didn't take too long to saw this log up, and here's the tally...
Now that i have the log sawed, it's time to get that lumber on stickers!
I'll leave it on stickers for at least six months to air dry. Then when i figure out what use it will be for, i'll move it onto stickers in my shop to finish drying it down to the desirable 6 to 8% moisture...
Well, time to roll the next one on the mill and start all over, and here it is!
Hope you enjoyed the picts..
Rob