Milling Lumber on the Farm

Guy;

You will have some great wood to use soon.

Wish I could find someone with a portable mill in our part of Texas. We lost some trees this year due to our severe drought and they would make something better than fire wood with a mill.

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

Almost looks like enough to keep you busy for a couple of hours and maybe yield a small box : )

Good luck with the rest of the milling/drying. Hopefully you will post more pics as the progress unfolds.

Very cool! In my pipe dream fantasy I would love to mill for a living.

Viking- check this site out
Woodmizer has removed the page with the list of sawyers, but if you call them as I did they will gladly give you a list of owners that have mills for hire. Im in rural Alabama (the sticks) and I was able to find one literally 2 miles down the highway from me.

Thanks Wayne. Will check this out.

-- Rick Gustafson - Lost Creek Ranch - Colorado County, Texas

That’s a huge pile already. and 100 logs to go yet?
So with so much wood, aren’t you going to have to be air drying a lot of it too? By the time the last log gets into the kiln, it would have air dried for a few years already, no?

-- If you can't joint it, bead it!

Uh….....

WOW !!!!

-- -- Neil

Steve, I never thought of it like that, you miight be right.

Neil, thats what I say every morning when I started up the saw.

-- Guy Kroll www.thelandsathillsidefarms.org

You have your work cut out for you, actually your cutting out your own work :)

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Snowdog, I am taking some of it up to Bill Polley today to have him kiln dry it. The cherry is so nice, I don’t want to make any mistakes with it and not be able to use it. I am going to have to stop cutting one of these days and get back in the shop and make things. This is like “Catch 22” , need wood to build but also need time in the shop, so I will have to stop milling soon and start making time for the shop.Good to hear from you.

-- Guy Kroll www.thelandsathillsidefarms.org

That’s beautiful lumber and a nice rig. You have a beautiful place.

helluvawreck
http://woodworkingexpo.wordpress.com

-- If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. Henry David Thoreau

Helluvawreck, thanks.

-- Guy Kroll www.thelandsathillsidefarms.org