You Know You're a Miller...

[Woodsurfer]

When most of your firewood chunks have one nice, flat face...

When you picture every big tree you see as a neat pile of wide stickered boards...

When you look at a nice tuned 460 with a 24" bar and think, well, frankly it's just too small to do the job...

When you think 2$ per board foot of nice air-dryed hardwood is an outrageous rip-off...


:biggrinbounce2:

 

[deeker]

Your wife says "sawying pine again today"? Because you smell like pine.

You hit the saw dogs with the bandsaw blade.....and dance. :censored:

Your pockets all have sawdust in them.

You identify what a friend is cutting by the smell/sawdust.

Your clothes have sap, their own sap now.

Nails are no longer useful or your friend.

A metal detector is used for finding those :censored: nails.

The saw blade finds another :censored: nail.

Kevin Davis
Ruff Cutts

 

[Homelite]

You know you're a miller when...

If the only part of the tree you see is from the ground to the first set of branches.

If you hear terms like sticker, slab, and ripping in passing and don't even think about adhesive tape, foundations, or tears in clothing.

If tears come to your eye when you see a pile of 24 inch diameter logs sitting in a firewood pile waiting to get split and realize it isn't even due to the smell of chainsaw exhaust coming from your clothing.

 

[Zodiac45]

When you look twice at softwood again!
You find yourself checking old paint cans at the dump

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

When you have enough ripping chain to circle your house twice.

You rear-end someone from rubber-necking at a tree.

You plant a tree in your yard then calculate how much BF it will contain in X years.

 

[Burlhunter13]

You try saving every last board ft of a log even though you might know that it is a waste of time and of it's not worth the cost of the wear on the blade

If you feel like asking someone if you could have their dead tree standing in their from yard and that you'll take it down for free.

If you try searching a friends firewood pile and end up slapping him because he split a perfectly good maple log!

A tear is brought to your eye when you see a firewood bundle at the local gas station and the wood has figure.

You prune back the trees in your yard so that someday it will "make some great lumber"

Your happy that you get a half rotten log because spalted wood sells great on ebay

You pull over when you see someone cutting down a tree and you ask them if you could possibly buy it off of him.


too many to list!!!!!

 

[glennschumann]

A 36" bar is "nice"

An 066 is "a good place to start"

An 024 is "Cute"

You once estimated the number of rings a "Large" person had in them when they walked past your mill

The bed of your truck is 6'-8" and you wonder if the next bar you get is going to cause your mill to stick out of your truck

The DL count in most of your loops is well over 100... and you know what this sentence means

You don't leave home with out at least 2 1/2 gallons of mix

You seriously contemplate buying a cheap 72" bar, and figure you can cut off the sprocket to weld on another mount to create your own double ended bar

You currently run 3/8" pitch, and you are dying to know what brand and model of .325 chain a guy named "Aggie" runs so you can thin up your kerf a bit

Hand filing a 42" chain is "normal"

You plan to build a two car garage, so your one car garage can be dedicated to being a drying shed

Straight grain is nice, but crotches are the desired finds

After you are done cutting a piece of a tree to the size you want it, you cannot possibly pick it up by yourself

A friend buys a house that has the largest known willow in the state in the yard, and your first question is 'Is it leaning away from the house?"

 

[big daddio]

if you got an LT40 and a couple thousand feet of lumber just a few steps from your house.

 

[Backwoods]

When you pull, the steaks off the BBQ just so you can run take a look at a tree that blew down.

When you bring home a truckload of logs from your vacation.

When each room in you house is a showcase for a different species of wood.

When you place unique slabs of wood in the flowerbeds for planters.

When “your” lumber stacks are larger then the “for sale” stack of lumber.