I'm a lumberjack and I'm O.K.
Fri-Sat and Sunday.
Ostensible reason for going home for the weekend was to turn some of my cousin Wills logs into lumber for panelling and shelving using my Uncles portable sawmill.
First disassemble and move portable saw mill from where Don and Will had it, down to the pile of logs below Dons house and setup for milling. Start with Lawson cypress (lawsoniana) logs which we make into 100mmx 17mm panelling, Turn 2 logs into about 35 planks.
Will pushes mill blade and I clear rubbish and stack milled timber to dry, move the planks/panels, lay fillets and keep the rubbish cuts clear of the mill.
This wood has a really strong scent when cut or milled - hope it keeps
it when the lumber is dried.
Collect some old calf meal bags and fill them with sawdust for shonagh then took jeep up to fill and pickup a woolpack of sawdust she'd quarter filled at original mill site.
We will use that on dirt around rocks lining driveway embarkment to keep grass from growing till get into house and some ground cover and herbs started.
Sat :
Will takes tractor and I take truck down to sheep yards to pickup first set of Lusitanica logs pulled from river last January. Also load up (a big) Deodar log that used to be at end of yards.
We get 4 logs on truck and 2 on trailer (pulled by the tractor).
Big load, didnt get the truck out of second gear all the way back up to mill site (about a mile).
Cut 125x25mm planking for shelves from those and a couple of thicker (50mm) beams.
The beams were mostly due to a spot of daydreaming by Will when he was setting the cut width.
Sun: Not start at mill till after lunch. Take up another truck and trailer load of logs (more deodar + lusitanica). Cut planks from these but will probably need more panelling eventually. Done about 4.00 so have a couple beers to celebrate.
Overall turned 12 logs into about 3 cubic meters of stacked lumber planks and panelling (pile 1m square and about 3 m long) and another cubic meter of offcuts and partial planks and a coupla cubic meters of slash and rubbish (and a big pile of nice smelling sawdust).
Ostensible reason for going home for the weekend was to turn some of my cousin Wills logs into lumber for panelling and shelving using my Uncles portable sawmill.
First disassemble and move portable saw mill from where Don and Will had it, down to the pile of logs below Dons house and setup for milling. Start with Lawson cypress (lawsoniana) logs which we make into 100mmx 17mm panelling, Turn 2 logs into about 35 planks.
Will pushes mill blade and I clear rubbish and stack milled timber to dry, move the planks/panels, lay fillets and keep the rubbish cuts clear of the mill.
This wood has a really strong scent when cut or milled - hope it keeps
it when the lumber is dried.
Collect some old calf meal bags and fill them with sawdust for shonagh then took jeep up to fill and pickup a woolpack of sawdust she'd quarter filled at original mill site.
We will use that on dirt around rocks lining driveway embarkment to keep grass from growing till get into house and some ground cover and herbs started.
Sat :
Will takes tractor and I take truck down to sheep yards to pickup first set of Lusitanica logs pulled from river last January. Also load up (a big) Deodar log that used to be at end of yards.
We get 4 logs on truck and 2 on trailer (pulled by the tractor).
Big load, didnt get the truck out of second gear all the way back up to mill site (about a mile).
Cut 125x25mm planking for shelves from those and a couple of thicker (50mm) beams.
The beams were mostly due to a spot of daydreaming by Will when he was setting the cut width.
Sun: Not start at mill till after lunch. Take up another truck and trailer load of logs (more deodar + lusitanica). Cut planks from these but will probably need more panelling eventually. Done about 4.00 so have a couple beers to celebrate.
Overall turned 12 logs into about 3 cubic meters of stacked lumber planks and panelling (pile 1m square and about 3 m long) and another cubic meter of offcuts and partial planks and a coupla cubic meters of slash and rubbish (and a big pile of nice smelling sawdust).
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