Milling Picture Thread

[Lightning Performance]

I got the two big csmills out yesterday.


These are now ready after sitting for years. About twenty logs this size in a mixed bag of hardwoods.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Twenty seven foot pine still drying. Need to cut more of these this year. Finding clear trees is the tough part or tiny knots.

 

[fleethirte]

Milled this a few days ago
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Really need to make a stand to mill

where did you get the forklift attachment bars for your bucket?

 

[SS396driver]

where did you get the forklift attachment bars for your bucket?

Amazon looks like they are unavailable as of now

 

[U&A]

I got the two big csmills out yesterday.

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These are now ready after sitting for years. About twenty logs this size in a mixed bag of hardwoods.

OMG Dude!!!!

WTF!!!

Have fun them are good ones! You selling the slabs?

 

[U&A]

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Twenty seven foot pine still drying. Need to cut more of these this year. Finding clear trees is the tough part or tiny knots.

Iv never done pine. It must saw easy?


I tell ya what. The cotton wood was THE MOST DIFFICULT thing iv ever milled. Such a gummy spongy wood. Fought it the entire way. Can make some pretty table tops though once finished

 

[fleethirte]

Amazon looks like they are unavailable as of now View attachment 1168985

i see some on amazon, are they decent quality?

 

[SS396driver]

i see some on amazon, are they decent quality?

These are good quality . The only thing I’m changing on it is the sinch bolts on the cross bar they get in the way . I’m welding some nuts on the sides so they are out of the way . Tried flipping it over still in the way getting things off the trailer

 

[TBurt2168]

Some cedar I milled up for a barn style door my wife wants in the house. A nice project that because it was for her she left me alone to do it.

 

[Lightning Performance]

OMG Dude!!!!

WTF!!!

Have fun them are good ones! You selling the slabs?

Once my kiln is up and running. Last year was a bust with unexpected changes and I got the dry run.
This year will be much better once the new track extensions are done and the ground level tracks are set at my home. The band has work on five sites as of now. The pencil pines, red cedar and white cedar is waiting south of me to be cut and milled before winter. Super busy year.

 

[Lightning Performance]

Iv never done pine. It must saw easy?


I tell ya what. The cotton wood was THE MOST DIFFICULT thing iv ever milled. Such a gummy spongy wood. Fought it the entire way. Can make some pretty table tops though once finished

Cottonwood sucks to mill. It makes me itch and few things do. I'm immune to poison oak, sumac and ivy.

Our yellow and especially white pine and cedars mill like butter. A bad chain will get you in trouble quick.

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

I tell ya what. The cotton wood was THE MOST DIFFICULT thing iv ever milled. Such a gummy spongy wood. Fought it the entire way. Can make some pretty table tops though once finished

Cottonwood is a tough one to mill cause of the wetness. Sawdust is a chain clogging nightmare. I've got some 30"+ slabs drying up nicely about 8' long. The mantels off 5' limb pieces are beautiful after a year of drying and planing them level again and restacking. Unlike some softer woods, it doesn't like big chain. My .404 skip was slow even with 121cc powering it. A 64cc saw running 3/8 lo pro chain breezed through it in comparison.

 

[U&A]

56” Chinese bar straight as an arrow even after 1 milling use. Yet Oregon could not ship me a 42” that was straight.

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

56” Chinese bar straight as an arrow even after 1 milling use. Yet Oregon could not ship me a 42” that was straight.

To be fair, I think near everything is made in China short of Cannon, GB big titanium bars, and maybe some Stihl big bars and the far higher prices of those brands reflect that. Oregon's prices remain competitive with the knockoff brands so I'm guessing they're not necessarily being made at better quality in China though I like to think they usually have higher QC as a company with a brand reputation to protect. But not always. All comes down to the quality of a steel a manufacturer asks for in production.

 

[U&A]

To be fair, I think near everything is made in China short of Cannon, GB big titanium bars, and maybe some Stihl big bars and the far higher prices of those brands reflect that. Oregon's prices remain competitive with the knockoff brands so I'm guessing they're not necessarily being made at better quality in China though I like to think they usually have higher QC as a company with a brand reputation to protect. But not always. All comes down to the quality of a steel a manufacturer asks for in production.

100% agree.

This is a holzfforma bar straight from china. Took 2 weeks to get here. The steel is not as good as my TOTAL bar. Not even close. But it is on par with Oregon as for hardness it seems. So its decent. not great.

But QC sucks more on this China bar.

 

[U&A]

you guys ever cut and sell cookies? Iv been selling them at a respectable rate. Few sales a week anyway id say.

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

you guys ever cut and sell cookies? Iv been selling them at a respectable rate. Few sales a week anyway id say.

I don't cut many nor sell yet as I save everything for my own woodworking, but tempted to start doing some to sell. It's an easier sell than slabs a lot of the time, everyone wants to make themselves a little coffee table, outdoor table, what have you, and you can sell them for cheaper than slabs cause they hardly take any time. What size are you doing and what wood?

 

[djg james]

you guys ever cut and sell cookies? Iv been selling them at a respectable rate. Few sales a week anyway id say.

I'd like to know more. Size? Dry or green? Sanded? Finish? What do people use them for? With cracks?

 

[U&A]

I don't cut many nor sell yet as I save everything for my own woodworking, but tempted to start doing some to sell. It's an easier sell than slabs a lot of the time, everyone wants to make themselves a little coffee table, outdoor table, what have you, and you can sell them for cheaper than slabs cause they hardly take any time. What size are you doing and what wood?

I'd like to know more. Size? Dry or green? Sanded? Finish? What do people use them for? With cracks?

All Air dried, mill finish. Cut anywhere from 2”-3” thick

seems 10”-12” sell the most for baby shower people and wedding showers and such. They come and buy 10-30 at a time.

12”-20” dont sell as fast but obviously sell for more.

For some reason the bigger ones dont sell for me. At least right now. Im sayin 30” +. They seem to sit for a long time.

I am learning that most people either want them as close to perfectly round as possible OR the opposite, crazy shaped. Nobody is hardly interested in the egg shaped/oval ones.

Pricing is tough. It seems if I price them cheaper people actually spend more. I make more money on the 12” or less ones than anything. Its alll them “showers”. Using them for center pc’s. Ill sell 10-30 of the 12” or less ones at a time for $3 each and be happy.

I just use limb wood from any trees that fall in my woods. I keep a good 100+ of them posted for sale all the time

 

[Seachaser]

you guys ever cut and sell cookies? Iv been selling them at a respectable rate. Few sales a week anyway id say.

How big, wood type, what do they use them for? Also about how much do you get?
ETA: I see it was already answered.