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   DHAM | May 27, 2008 10:43pm | #1

   Nice! I can see that you and I are kindred spirits! One of my favorite parts of woodworking is to saw the lumber from the logs, dry the lumber, and joint/plane the lumber ready for a project. I have about 15,000 feet of lumber that I have sawn, dried, and flat stacked, plus I have sawn a bunch more for other people, mostly fellow woodowrkers. It is fun to go pick through the stacks to find the boards to use on a project.

   I have a Woodmizer LT15. It was the best woodworking money that I ever spent. I have 1,000 feet of cherry in log form waiting to be milled into lumber.

   I know a bunch of sawyers, and they are very hard working people.

   Here is a pic of my mill.

   
   

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   Edited 5/27/2008 3:45 pm ET by DHAM

   
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   troys | May 28, 2008 12:29am | #2

   Great fun and I am green with envy, there is some really nice walnut coming out of Oregon.Troy

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   boilerbay | May 28, 2008 03:42am | #5

   How are you moving the cants around at your place? How will you stick it? Open air? I'll loan you the use of some old shoulders to move it in exchange for some of that Oregon Gold. Maybe that much wood is too much for you and you need to let go of some at a great price to local knotters :->. I know Gary up in Portland would also like to help you out as would Dusty and Paul down South. It's not too far for Forestgirl either.
   I'm about 90 miles from Hamricks corner - south of Lincoln City.. Where are you located at?Nice post. ThanksJohn

   Edited 5/27/2008 8:45 pm by boilerbay

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   PeterDurand | May 28, 2008 04:13am | #6

   To say nothing of a certain chap in Vancouver ;-) 

   Better life through Zoodles and poutine...

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   boilerbay | May 28, 2008 04:42pm | #11

   Peter!My apologies. Of Course, Peter up North!Straight down I-5, out of the Ponderosa and Doug and into the Walnut!
   You could even overnight in Vancouver, Wa and party on the river! We'll all put our corkers on and roll logs on the Columbia!
   (in a dignified age appropriate manner of course)Do you need to have a passport if your just hauling Walnut and not any WMDs? I know a few back roads up through Sumas, Oroville and Kettle Falls, Heh. Heh.If this works out, I won't have to order my Oregon Black Walnut from Pennsylvania any more.John

   Edited 5/28/2008 9:44 am by boilerbay

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   KD7NKN | May 28, 2008 10:06pm | #12

   Thanks for all the response and interest!  I'm sorting through the email requests for some of this black walnut now and I'll get back to you all as soon as I can. 

   Thanks Again!

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   KiddervilleAcres | May 29, 2008 07:23pm | #15

   Hey I know a fella just down the road a piece or seven from you.  Guy named Maloof who I'm told knows a lot about that there walnut ya got!  Might wanna give him a yell as I hear his stash has dwindled down to 50,000 bf!

   :-)

   Nice stuff!

   Sure is great when ya geet that first whiff of fresh wood and ye see what's lurkin inside those logs aint it.  Start gettin goosebumps and all, mind starts whirling about all the stuff you can make with it.

   Ahhh, the joys of it all.

   By the way, what happened to all the slabwood?  Hope you were able to save some.  Could make for some really nice live edge pieces.

   Sittin here droolin wighing I had a waterproof keyboard,

   RegardsBob @ Kidderville Acres

   A Woodworkers mind should be the sharpest tool in the shop!

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   bones | May 28, 2008 02:58am | #3

   Cool pics!  I helped my supplier cut up some logs with band mill and he taught me a lot.  It was hard work but great. I would like to cut my own some day.  Great stuff.

   Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases:
   If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it.
   And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
   
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   PeterDurand | May 28, 2008 03:28am | #4

   I tip my hat to you sir! Well done and thanks for sharing.

   Cheers,

   Peter

    

   Better life through Zoodles and poutine...

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   BruceS | May 28, 2008 04:35am | #7

   Gee !!  I could smell that wonderfull walnut right through the monitor. 

   Work Safe,  Count to 10 when your done for the day !!

   Bruce S. 

    

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   andyfew322 | May 28, 2008 05:18am | #8

   do you ever get kickback on those big azz sawmill blades

    

   there's no need to reinvent the wrench

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   KD7NKN | May 28, 2008 06:02am | #9

   Thanks for the feedback. 

   To answer a few questions, I move the cants around in my mill yard with forks attached to my tractor.  The largest cant was 24' long, 22" wide and 16" deep.  don't know exactly how much it weighed, but my 40 HP tractor with a 2000lb rated bucket could not lift it.  They are HEAVY!

   Yes, those huge blades do kick back.  It's terrifying!  There's a lot of tension in the butt-cut of Doug Fir logs for example, and when they bind up, you can't imagine the energy that's unleashed.  It will shoot a 20' log and the carriage 30' out the back of the mill.  If you were in the way, they'd need a spatula and a bucket to pick you up.  *shiver*

   To those who are interested in purchasing some of this Oregon Gold, I live in the Aurora Oregon area and I'd be more than happy to share (for a reasonable BF fee ;) .  If you'd like, you're more than welcome to come by and pick out some wood.  I'll cut it to your specs.  Also, I've got a LOT of limb wood (some of it has over 12" of heartwood) that would be great for pen blanks, turning blanks etc.  If you're interested, just email me.

   Cliff

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   SARGEgrinder47 | May 28, 2008 08:37am | #10

   Enjoyed the pictures emmensly. Would buy lunch for Earl and would love to hang out about a week at his mill. That's my kind of place. :>)

   Well done and have fun with the harvest...

   Regards...

   Sarge..

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   AndyE | May 29, 2008 03:24am | #13

   Oh, man, I love the smell of wood right off the mill. And the purple in that walnut, there is nothing like it.

   I am guessing you had him split all the cants in half so they would be "manageable".

   I have a stack of the stuff in my own back yard, just waiting for the right project.

   How did you get the logs, and then the cants, to and from the mill?

   Andy

   Not normally the jealous type...

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   KD7NKN | May 29, 2008 07:15pm | #14

   I move the cants from the stack to the mill with my front-end loader.  I built a set of forks for the front.  They are sooo heavy!  Once on the mill, they are almost impossible to move. 

   Thanks for asking!

   Cliff

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   frenchy | May 29, 2008 07:56pm | #16

   KD7NKN

     Don't you just love old sawmills?    Your sawmill looks a bit like the one I use..  the owner is nearly as old and survived a 2x4 being shoved thru his body!  I sure agree with you about the excitement of seeing that wood sliced up..

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   AZMO | Jun 16, 2008 05:47am | #17

   Thanks for sharing, that is one fiece looking machine. I can just imagine the whine it produces. Do they have a bandsaw mill also for their own cants?  Morgan

                     

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   KD7NKN | Jun 16, 2008 07:56am | #18

   No bandsaw...just those two wicked blades!  When they start up, the sound is a low rumble you can feel in your  chest.  As they reach full speed, the sound is best described as a scary.