Making and installing fence

[ticolawnllc]

I was think of getting a harbor fraught mill for my spruce and pine. My plan is to mill 4x4 and 6x6s for landscape timbers and fence post.

I have someone that takes my hard wood for free. Now I'm just left thinking of ways to get rid of what's left.
I guess if I get some good logs of the hard wood I could keep them too.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

How are you pressure treating the posts?

 

[ticolawnllc]

How are you pressure treating the posts?

I'm not. Maybe a sealing the part that goes in the ground. Maybe put a plastic film on the back of the landscape timbers and pin it under a cap board.

Mostly. I'm looking to see how other people do it and is it worth it?

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

All the fence I've put up we did PT, RR ties or steel. Reg wood won't last.

 

[ticolawnllc]

The reason for 4x4s and 6x6s is less milling. I don't believe anyone can make money milling pine or spruce with a small mill. But put together with the savings in dump fees, it might be a better option.

 

[ticolawnllc]

All the fence I've put up we did PT, RR ties or steel. Reg wood won't last.

What do you think about making arbors for gates. Places over a cement base

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

The reason for 4x4s and 6x6s is less milling. I don't believe anyone can make money milling pine or spruce with a small mill. But put together with the savings in dump fees, it might be a better option.

How small, like at Lt40/50 woodmizer?

 

[ticolawnllc]

How small, like at Lt40/50 woodmizer?

I want to start as cheap as possibly. Harborfright mill is about 2k. To start out and see if woks.

Once I understand the business end of it I'll get a bigger one. Anything in the 6k range I would expect to get production out of.

 

[ChoppyChoppy]

I wouldn't expect to get any real production out of those hobby mills. An LT40 is around 40k for comparison and isn't very big or fast.

 

[Jackbnimble]

I want to start as cheap as possibly. Harborfright mill is about 2k. To start out and see if woks.

I'm free-handing timbers. A few of them resemble squared and true posts.