Grinding Pine

those are some beautiful pics of your hard work. I love seeing these posts. Thanks for taking the time. What are thsoe timbers going to be used for (or were they then cut into boards later)?

Some great looking wood.

Thanks for the post.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

Oh DROOL Oh DROOL…

-- Never board, always knotty, lots of growth rings

Yeah HokieMojo, I saw the cants into lumber. When I get logs, I saw them into cants and store them untill I have all the logs square. Then I start making lumber. This is some of the clearest SYP I’ve ever seen, real pretty lumber.

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I’ll bet you’ll get more for them if they are as clear as you say they are….............Been a long time since I saw any clear SYP.

-- Jerry--A man can never have enough tools or clamps

hey CM, there is alot of it that is 100% clear, not a knot to be seen.

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What is SYP? Certainly not SYPress :~))

-- "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence Wake Up America!! Please read; http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/01/26-0

SYP= Southern Yellow Pine

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Good looking Cants!!!! I love your band saw and good job on your stickering! How are sales going?

Hi 60Grit, Sales seem to be up a little lately. I think the hard times are bringing customers my way. I am cheaper and the product is better than what you buy at the box stores. Thanks for the kind words. I would love to be able to run my mill full time and if it keeps on like it is I’ll have too.

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I would like to get started milling, part time as a hobby and sell enough to pay the cost of the equipment but I am not sure where to find buyers for the raw lumber. I live in the Houston, Tx area. Any ideas where I should start looking.

-- Jimmie, Houston Tx, cajun28201@yahoo.com

Hey JimmieCajun, I bought my mill as a hobby. It didn’t take too long untill people found me. I made it EZ’r for them and put up a sign about a year after building the millbuilding. I still have a fulltime job but I think if I really worked it, I could make a living with it. I would advise that you save your money untill you have enough for a Hydraulic rig if you plan on making a living with it. A manual mill will kill you to work hard enough to make a living at it. I don’t sell alot of lumber. I mainly mill other peoples logs. If I get a nice hardwood log I’ll mill it and put it on craigslist. My mill has payed for it self and all my other equipment. Then I bought me a toy LOL.

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Nice toy.

-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Southern Delaware karson_morrison@bigfoot.com †

wow serious tools and great wood

-- W James Brokenbourgh Custom furniture maker http://artisticwoodstudio.com/

wow, you have very great tools,
i wish i have ones likes that,
must be cost a fortune,

Rosewood,

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