First pass Chainsaw Mill (added pics 11-oct and 18-oct)

[Yaxyakalagalis]

First cut ever with an alaskan mill, Stihl 088, 36" Oregon bar/chain, Granberg mill, Doug Fir.
Excited to get cutting some dimension lumber. (I sit at a desk during the week, so this is pretty new for me, just wanting to learn new skills.)

 

[Yaxyakalagalis]

steps 2-6...

cut 2

slab - missed the shot on the log.

2x6 cut...

in the truck!

stacked, ready to dry. (not for to long these and their brothers are meant for a shed)

easy...lol

Went back and grabbed a 2" slab for a table.

Nice grain, a few internal knots for character.

 

[ncpete]

More stickers, lots more stickers. Other than that, looks like nice wood

 

[Yaxyakalagalis]

thanks for the tip. temporary for now, torrential downpour when I was finishing, or I would've cut more. still had 4 hours of daylight! Just needed to get out of the rain.

 

[ncpete]

Some guy near me is selling a new small Alaska mill, with a nearly new PP5020av - Sure, it's not enough saw to run on the mill, but it is only $200 for both. Staring at a monster pine that will eventually need to come down in my mother-in-laws yard, and just imagining the wood that would come out of it. 50" DBH, and 40 feet until the first branch.

 

[Yaxyakalagalis]

That sounds like a lot of good wood.
I have access to logs through my first nation, and my dad had the alaskan in the shed for years along with an army of saws. So I finally put two and two together and requested a few logs.

I used to walk through the forest thinking, "deer would like this spot." Now I think, "deer would like this spot, look at that straight tree with no limbs for 40', that would make great boards!"

 

[SDB777]

Are you using ripping chain from Granberg too?
Someone has already mentioned the stickers....find another log and make the whole thing into stickers. You'll be thinking, "What the heckfire do I need all these for?"...and then a week later say, "Wish I had more!" In other words, you'll never have enough stickers(I run out all the time).

Sheds and out buildings use to be made from 'green'/'freshly cut' timber(mostly due to the amount of time available before the need of said building was to be needed).... Now-a-days, people frown on making outbuildings from green wood. But for barns or hay drying where some shrinkage is a good thing...go for it and then you don't need to worry about warp-age!


Sitting at a desk all week will certainly make you well rested....after handling big timber. Keep taking and sharing photo's(even in the mill timber sub-forum)?!?!?!





Scott (nice chunk) B

 

[Yaxyakalagalis]

Are you using ripping chain from Granberg too?
Someone has already mentioned the stickers....find another log and make the whole thing into stickers. You'll be thinking, "What the heckfire do I need all these for?"...and then a week later say, "Wish I had more!" In other words, you'll never have enough stickers(I run out all the time).

Sheds and out buildings use to be made from 'green'/'freshly cut' timber(mostly due to the amount of time available before the need of said building was to be needed).... Now-a-days, people frown on making outbuildings from green wood. But for barns or hay drying where some shrinkage is a good thing...go for it and then you don't need to worry about warp-age!


Sitting at a desk all week will certainly make you well rested....after handling big timber. Keep taking and sharing photo's(even in the mill timber sub-forum)?!?!?!





Scott (nice chunk) B

It wasn't a ripping chain, just an oregon skip that i filed at about 15 degrees, then 10, and is now flat since getting the simington grinder cleaned up (Here). Time has caught up to me now, it gets dark 45 minutes after work ends, and my weekends are mostly spoken for with my kids, so it's going to get slower than it was a few days ago. (I've got a line on a workshed, but not sure how that's going to play out) I will keep things updated as they go along.

 

[Jim Timber]

That sounds like a lot of good wood.
I have access to logs through my first nation, and my dad had the alaskan in the shed for years along with an army of saws. So I finally put two and two together and requested a few logs.

I used to walk through the forest thinking, "deer would like this spot." Now I think, "deer would like this spot, look at that straight tree with no limbs for 40', that would make great boards!"

I catch myself doing the same thing. "I can release that oak, put a stand on it now and in 10yrs it'll be ready to cut." I also tend to make mental cull lists while in the stand.