The dust was flying

Tom Niemi · Nov 23, 2008

My son and I had the pleasure to spend the day with larry and see some cutting of trees to boards, something we had not seen close up and personal before, what a blast, what a great day

Cut up somewhere around 15 trees. Cherry, Oak, Walnut, Ash and more. Took the manditory pics to please the picture police so here goes. 1st is a pic of a few of the trees, 2nd is the monster ash (40" at the base) being cut in half by Larry and Chris the sawyer, 3rd is Larry really getting into the tree, 4th is the ash finally split, 5th is half of the ash gong to the saw mill, 6th is making ready for the first cut 7th is cutting ash 8th is a board of ash 9th is some cherry crotch ant last is Larry Jim and Chris sizing up a piece of cherry

Tom Niemi · Nov 23, 2008

Some More

You never know what will turn up deep inside a Log 1st is a square cut nail maybe 5 inches deep into the log 2nd is I think is Hickory 3rd is what came out of it all 4th is another view 5th is as advertised a lot of dust and last is Miss Piggy, the family pet who watched over things the entire time. The wood -Mizer is one heck of a mill, made fast work out of the logs and Chris the sawyer really knew how to use it.
As I said a great time for all, I received about 112 bf of walnut

( thanks again larry as I did not expect this gift :thumb:

) Larry came out with that trailer load of around 2200bf

Thanks for looking

Tom

Stuart Ablett · Nov 23, 2008

Wow, that does look like some hard work, but also a lot of fun!

Hey, in the first pic, what is all of that white stuff on the logs :huh:

Not bad weather to be working so hard, much better, IMHO than melting during the summer :thumb:

Cheers!

Jim Niemi · Nov 23, 2008

Thanks Larry that was fun. Stacked alot of wood, and had fun doing it. Stu that white stuff is wonderful snow, I bet you miss it. Or do you guys get snow in Japan?

Royall Clark · Nov 23, 2008

Snow???

It looked like a white fungus to me :doh:

I'd be nice to have a stack like that in my backyard! Looked like way too much fun!

Brent Dowell · Nov 23, 2008

Wowzers! I must be warped cause that looks like a lot of fun....

allen levine · Nov 23, 2008

thanx for the pics, you guys can keep the snow.

Stuart Ablett · Nov 23, 2008

Hey Jim, we do get it, not every year, in Tokyo, but it does snow, nothing like I was used to in Canada, I do miss it, sometimes

Jon Lanier · Nov 23, 2008

How in the world are you suppose to get any bowls out of all those thin boards? :huh:

Lee Laird · Nov 24, 2008

Tom,

Thanks for sharing the photos. My brother has been toying with the idea of buying a portable mill. I don't know if he is looking at something like you used or not. Do you know what the learning curve is for operating such a machine??

larry merlau · Nov 24, 2008

thansk for the help guys,, jim and you to tom for the pic takun! we know i ant to good at it

the offer i made you is still good so dont forget it!!!

Tom Niemi · Nov 24, 2008

Lee Laird said:
Tom,

Thanks for sharing the photos. My brother has been toying with the idea of buying a portable mill. I don't know if he is looking at something like you used or not. Do you know what the learning curve is for operating such a machine??

As an onlooker, it looks easy, but I know that is because Chris has been doing this for a long time, I'm sure there are different learning curves depending on the equipment, accessories and personal knowledge of logs. Chris knows what he was doing, he did amazing things with his mill and that is why, to an unexperienced onlooker, it looked easy. Maybe Larry has a better idea of learning curves for these

Tom

allen levine · Nov 24, 2008

easy tom? I looked at the pictures, it looks like work for young men.
Looks anything but easy to me.

Tom Niemi · Nov 24, 2008

Just remember, I was "behind" the camera

larry merlau · Nov 24, 2008

Lee Laird said:
Tom,

Thanks for sharing the photos. My brother has been toying with the idea of buying a portable mill. I don't know if he is looking at something like you used or not. Do you know what the learning curve is for operating such a machine??

i have never ran one, lee but believe i could if i could afford one.. the first thing you need to learn is the wood[/SIZE] then the machine.. the machine can make boards outa anything but you need to know the wood to get the best out of it.. the guy we used to use wasnt nearly as good as chris is, and we did alot more of the work for the other guy had no hydralics and we used peebis and back power as well as the tractor..chris is a pleasure to work with.. and knows his stuff for sure.. and he likes what he is doing which make a world of differnce.. wood mizer corp. had classes to learn how to operate there saws.. i have 2 commercial mills not far from me and they both run woodmizer equipment or did when they started at least they might have changed out to heavy equipment now..

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