This week in urban logging #5: It's been awhile since my last report.

I’m sure you mentioned his before, but how do you move those things?

I’ll bet its great fun turning logs into lumber. Thanks for sharing

Larry

Larry I have a Case skidsteer with pallet forks.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

Wish I had some logs dropped off like this. I live in a logging area and any one with logs wants to sell them, even the tree service folks. Most of the free logs I get are from home owners and I need to mill them on site or pick them up.

-- Ron, Twain Harte, Ca. Portable on site Sawmill Service http://westcoastlands.net/Sawmill.html http://westcoastlands.net/SawBucks2/phpBB3 http://www.portablesawmill.biz/concrete/

Please keep posting like this. I thoroughly enjoy reading about it.

Ron. I did not mean to give the impression these were free. I will pay the guy a little something for his time/gas. He was selling to the pallet company for $.15-$.25 bft until I met him…I will do at least that (for cherry/walnut still a steal delivered with the cost of fuel and labor) I have not scaled/tallied this load yet. My guess is 1500 bft I will have a few hundred invested undoubtedly. I get free one and twos, sometimes a car trailer full from individuals…this particular guy is “in the business”. Not a logger, but a guy doing clearing work for new housing developments and knows they have at least some value.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/

Thanks for the post Daren.

-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.

I like that blue wood too…

Great score!

-- "Bordnerizing" perfectly good lumber for over a decade.

I must confess that envy overwhelms me!

-- "But godliness with contentment is great gain." 1 Timothy 6:6

Very nice Daren… I llike your posts too, keep’em coming.

I’ve got oak and hickory coming out of my ears here, but that’s about it. I’m pretty limited to just those two species. I need to start making some tree service friends…. lol. (oh, and get a skid steer and bandmill, that would help, too, I guess.)

-- As iron sharpens iron, so one man sharpens another. (Proverbs 27:17) †

That Tuip Poplar (I think that’s what I see there) that those logs are resting against make them look small in comparsion, but I know they’re not! Looks like you’ve got some good work ahead of you there!

I can’t believe you have the space to take on so much – that’s really cool…

-- Dorje (pronounced "door-jay"), Seattle, WA

Yea Dorje that is a giant tulip poplar in my yard. It makes perfect shade for storing logs…and about a million leaves to clean up in the fall.

-- Urban logger, http://nelsonwoodworks.biz/