Summer 07' project

[Wismer]

Well guys, here is what we really bought the mill for:

It hasn't paid itself off in real cash value... yet, but when we have to haul our supplies in over 3km of logging roads, you can't put a number value on it.

to get to our camp we have to cross a river... and so does the mill.

so do the building materials

tieing it on

Al chocking the wheels

WIDE LOAD

realizing it's too wide for the posts at the end of the dock (had to bend em out)

took two quads to pull it up the hill. It's near vertical in spots and has lots of fist size round rock poor for traction.

 

[Wismer]

Al's quad took it the rest of the way

Front porch before:

after setting up we started to mill

winching the logs out of the water with the quad

milling

at the end of DAY ONE

 

[Wismer]

dimensional lumber cut on day one

 

[Wismer]

taking the pine (for board and batton) up to the driveshed for drying

stickering

edging the flitches

Sonotubes (end of day 1)

Next morning, smoke through the trees and you can see the stack of wood under the shed

 

[Wismer]

cuttin more logs for day 2

Looking across the swamp before

Building a bridge using the leftovers from milling

Skidmate:

 

[BobL]

STOP!!! - you guys are having waaaay too much fun!

Nice pics - keep em coming.

 

[computeruser]

Great pics!!! You're making me very envious - that looks like some good fun.

Feel free to post more pictures!!

 

[MJR]

I started typing and stopped, started again stopped; all I can think of is cool. I want to play to. You and your family are very lucky. The only thing missing is the walleye and moose stake on the fire. Please send more pictures of this project!

 

[Wismer]

That's about it. That weekend was a four day trip and with travel time and a bit of time spent fishing atving etc we got about 2 days of work done. Taking down the front porch, milling the lumber and getting the foundation+base up we thought we did pretty well. I have more pictures but they are kind of all just continuations of what I already have. (more milling, more stacking etc etc)

I am heading back up today for the weekend and so more, new pics are coming!

 

[amdburner]

All I can say is WOW!!!!

Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

WAY cool!

 

[TNMIKE]

Nice Pics

GREAT work..thanks for sharing.. I really enjoyed that

 

[lmbeachy]

Boy, I would have been a nervous an old mother hen with a batch of new bitties, when I would have looked at that mill on the pontoon boat. Nice. pictures.

 

[Marmaduck]

Fun project! Great Pix!
Please keep 'em coming!

 

[fordtruckf100]

Awesome!!

Awesome! Great Pictures!

 

[woodshop]

Great... I loved that... thanks... yeah, you guys are having WAY too much fun... I'm green with envy.