Milling A Big Cherry Log

[coveredinsap]

Here's your answer,

Decent Ford tractor? $3,000.00 WITH a loader that will easily lift 2,000 pounds. Trailor? $2,000.00, flat bed with 3 axles with NEW tires ready to go. Anyone doing this stuff pretty much already has a pick up or something to pull a trailor.

I don't know where you guys are from, but around here $3k won't even get you a John Deere lawn jockey tractor, let alone a real one. This isn't the midwest where all maner of tractor are just laying around for the taking....at a dime a dozen.

I don't know what you mean by 'tractor', but here's what I'm referring to:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=7581086651&category=95493

and a general category:

http://business.listings.ebay.com/H...QfromZR11QQsacatZ95493QQsocmdZListingItemList

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Then come get it!! Load the tractor on the trailor, take it home and get RICH reselling it!!!!!

With the money you make, you will beable to get a bandmill, and then the next thing you know, you will have some milling EXPERENCE too...

Rob

 

[Gologit]

Then come get it!! Load the tractor on the trailor, take it home and get RICH reselling it!!!!!

With the money you make, you will beable to get a bandmill, and then the next thing you know, you will have some milling EXPERENCE too...

Rob

LOL....Sap needs to realize that theres more to the world than the Napa valley. If he gets real brave he can trundle across the hill to the Sacramento Valley and he can find good little 8ns and 2240s all day long for well under five grand. He'd be well advised to park his attitude at home,though. Otherwise some of our more rustic rural types might not be terribly impressed with his wit and wisdom and might even wind up taking advantage of the boy.If he'd quit letting his mouth lead him around so far in advance of his brains and experience I"m sure he'd do a lot better.

 

[coveredinsap]

Ford 8NS? Is that an antique? Look, I'm talking a tractor, not a POS that needs all kinds of work. You guys advocate buying only 'pro' chainsaws ....but POS antique tractors? Jesus, that's priceless.

You guys hardly have a leg to stand on talking about 'attitude'.

 

[Freakingstang]

Ford 8NS? Is that an antique? Look, I'm talking a tractor, not a POS that needs all kinds of work. You guys advocate buying only 'pro' chainsaws ....but POS antique tractors? Jesus, that's priceless.

You guys hardly have a leg to stand on talking about 'attitude'.

Maybe you should have bought the "pro" clue. It is an upgrade from the homeowner version, and is well worth the extra money.

 

[Gologit]

Ford 8NS? Is that an antique? Look, I'm talking a tractor, not a POS that needs all kinds of work. You guys advocate buying only 'pro' chainsaws ....but POS antique tractors? Jesus, that's priceless.

You guys hardly have a leg to stand on talking about 'attitude'.

I guess the 8N is probably old enough to qualify as an antique but does that automatically make it a POS? A lot of people still use them daily and they still earn their keep. I had one for years and it took care of everything I ever asked of it on our place. Sure it was old, the paint was faded and it had a few dings here and there but it had a reliability factor of 99%...much better than a lot of the newer fancier tractors available. The only reason I sold it was because I"ve doubled the amount of ground I"m working and I needed more muscle. Age has nothing to do with "pro" and doesn't even begin to define POS.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I guess the 8N is probably old enough to qualify as an antique but does that automatically make it a POS?

First he proves that he (sap) knows very little about milling, and now he proves that he doesn't know jack about tractors either....

Geeeee, what could be next from this "expert"??

Rob

 

[coveredinsap]

First he proves that he (sap) knows very little about milling, and now he proves that he doesn't know jack about tractors either....

Geeeee, what could be next from this "expert"??

Riiiiiiiiiight. I'm guessing you park that '99% reliablility factor' antique tractor right next to your '99% reliability factor' 70's Ford Pinto daily commute vehicle too.

Jeez Louise already. Who's the sap?

 

[rb_in_va]

Jeez Louise already. Who's the sap?

That would be you.

 

[Finnbear]

LOL! Yup, everyone's an expert...particularly around here.

What the heck are you meaning by 'grade' lumber? Lumber is lumber is lumber. It's all self-regulated, and outside of structural lumber, is just a bunch of wannabe marketing bs. You can get different cuts from a log, depending on how you slice it up....quarter sawn, vertical grain...whatever. The primary thing is how clear the lumber is, for cripes sake. Everything else is just variations on a theme.

For instance, I can take a piece of cherry cut with a chainsaw mill and it will be no different 'grade' then if it comes from a expensive portable mill or a commercial mill. In fact, I have some slabs of cherry in my garage right now that came from a commercial mill that look like they were cut with a chainsaw mill. LOL! I didn't notice the place I bought them from offering to discount the cherry because if was 'rough sawn' or 'poor grade'. LOL! Man, you dudes take the cake!

Maybe if I call myself 'Sawyer Sap' then my opinion means more? Yeah right.

Anyone can saw a log into boards. A good sawyer can saw for "grade" and produce the maximum amount of good lumber from a log. There are many methods of sawing a log which will produce different results. A log can be sawn "through and through" or "quartersawn" or "rift sawn" or "plain sawn". All these require a different plan of attack when the log is on the carriage. A good sawyer once told me "you can ruin a lot of good lumber learning how to saw it."
Finnbear
BTW - Who makes that half-mill you posted pics of a couple days ago?

 

[coveredinsap]

BTW - Who makes that half-mill you posted pics of a couple days ago?

LOL! You're the 'expert'. You tell me.

 

[Newfie]

Finnbear, Granberg makes that mill. It's the "small log" version.

 

[Finnbear]

Finnbear, Granberg makes that mill. It's the "small log" version.

Thanks Mike. I thought it looked similar in construction to a Granberg but the only one I've ever run was the longer one that attaches to the saw on both ends.
Finnbear

 

[ROLLACOSTA]

Thank's for the pics Sawyer Rob,I really enjoyed them great work..

Just touhing on the subject of tractors my father had untill a few years back an 'antique' 1950's Fordson Major tractor ,old she was,reliable she was , she wasn't pretty but then she wasn't ugly,POS no way!!!!...

 

[Gumneck]

Thank's for the pics Sawyer Rob,I really enjoyed them great work..

Just touhing on the subject of tractors my father had untill a few years back an 'antique' 1950's Fordson Major tractor ,old she was,reliable she was , she wasn't pretty but then she wasn't ugly,POS no way!!!!...

Rolla

Ford 8n's are old,lightweight,and I love mine to death. I've got a better pic around here somewhere but heres a little piece of mine with my dad on it.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

Thanks to "everyone" for viewing my milling pictures, glad your enjoying them. They have had over 4,000 hits from this thread alone.

8N's aren't to bad of a tractor. No they aren't perfect, but if they aren't abused they hold up quite well even today. You still can get any part for an 8N quite cheaply too, compare that to a 25 year old yuppie Kubota... I see guys with 25 year old Kubota's needing front end parts, just to fine out they are no longer made! How about those $1,200.00 Kubota ring and pinion gears???

It looks like i've got my Ford sold, but here's a pict. of it anyway. It's been a pretty good tractor. The loader is strong and will easily pick up more than the ones they put on a 25hp compact tractor today.

Rob

 

[MotorSeven]

A curved arm loader on an 8N...now THAT is cool. Homemade? Whoever built it was an artist!

RD

 

[Finnbear]

I don't think homemade. Old but not homemade. I've seen similar more than once here in NE Ohio.
Finnbear

A curved arm loader on an 8N...now THAT is cool. Homemade? Whoever built it was an artist!

RD

 

[Sawyer Rob]

It really is a good strong loader, and here's the tag on it,

Some of the older farm equipment is built stronger than the newer stuff of the same size!

Rob

 

[MotorSeven]

That is still a cool loader...hope you don't regret selling it, a restoration would be a lot of fun...er a...work!

RD