My First Attempt

[Cannon51]

This morning I spent about 2 hours milling 2 small ceder logs. I am getting setup to mill a walnut log at my wife's cousins house and wanted to make a trial run on something smaller and softer. Any suggestions about how to improve my method are welcome. I am standing on the opposite side of the log from the bar and moving left to right. This tree was about 50 yards from the house and I was going to just square it up but I couldn't carry the first 6 1/2x 9 so I ripped it in half. I got a 6 1/2x 6 1/2 out of the second log.
Cannon

 

[StihlGuitar]

Thats pretty wood. I got into saws because of milling. I have dabbled in luthiery and wanted to build a guitar from the tree I harvested. I traded a 372xp for my late grandfathers Belgian Browning, muffler modded it in the absence of knowledge about limiter caps, and blew it up...had to rebuild it so I came here. Now I have about 50 saws, and 10 bushel baskets worth of parts....

 

[mtngun]

Nice wood, I'm way jealous.

 

[redprospector]

Dang, that's pretty.

Andy

 

[Cannon51]

Thanks
We have 2 or 3 of these a year blow down on my wife's families farm. My late FIL would bust them up into fence post. I took some logs to a bandsaw mill about 10 years ago and made my 2 sons each a ceder chest from the wood. It's a lot easier to mill it in place than trying to get the tractor and trailer to it and haul it.
I was afraid I would blow up my Husky 359 so I used my old Craftsman/Roper, it only has a 18 inch bar but it reached through it. I put a new Woodland Pro .325 on it before I started.
Cannon

 

[StihlGuitar]

Thanks
We have 2 or 3 of these a year blow down on my wife's families farm. My late FIL would bust them up into fence post. I took some logs to a bandsaw mill about 10 years ago and made my 2 sons each a ceder chest from the wood. It's a lot easier to mill it in place than trying to get the tractor and trailer to it and haul it.
I was afraid I would blow up my Husky 359 so I used my old Craftsman/Roper, it only has a 18 inch bar but it reached through it. I put a new Woodland Pro .325 on it before I started.
Cannon

If you want a bigger saw, PM me. I have too many. (Solo 603 (103cc) MS660 (91cc) 064 (84cc) and several 70 cc Stihl saws) I'll hook you up.

 

[discounthunter]

nice,i love cedar. bet the neighborhood smelt good for a while.

 

[BobL]

Love those colours. It looks like you're off to a good start.

Cheers

 

[jdrum]

haul those slabs in and edge them and resaw em on the tablesaw, i ran across a couple kids sawing a pile of ceder into cants like you did,
and asked for the slabs, (they were going to burn em) hauled two truck loads (ford ranger) home and built over 2 thousand dollars worth of ceder chest and jewely boxes.

nice ceder!

jim

 

[Andrew96]

Don't you have that setup the wrong way around? Now I don't have one of those but it kind of looks like you're cutting uphill? If you were on the left...and your saw doesn't run backwards.....Is the saw just positioned on this side for the photo?
I agree take everything, resaw it all up.

 

[sbhooper]

That will be some good, durable wood. It is all about the red!

 

[Cannon51]

Don't you have that setup the wrong way around? Now I don't have one of those but it kind of looks like you're cutting uphill? If you were on the left...and your saw doesn't run backwards.....Is the saw just positioned on this side for the photo?
I agree take everything, resaw it all up.

Maybe, I don't really know. As the saw is setting on the log I would be standing on the other side, right hand on the handle, left hand on the top bar and cutting toward the box. A better way would be good. It's hard on the back the way I did it but I needed my right hand on the trigger and oiler.
Cannon

 

[Andrew96]

Well there is tons of stuff around here to read up on that might help you get it all setup so your back gets an easier time of it. It just looks to me like you should have put the board on for the other edge. Stand on this side of the photo if your next stuff has one end higher like this one did. Very good first shot at it though. Nice wood. Fun eh?