White Pine

[Mike Cantolina]

I milled some more of this today:

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[Mike Cantolina]

The sawyers were starting to get into them.

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Some cherry slabs on the back of the trailer too.

 

[hamish]

Just beautiful, nothing I like milling more than white pine, brings back memories from my teenage years working in the mill.............but even after 73 beers and a few ounces of scotch will you ever find me up a tree like that, i dont care how big the bear was or how mad the wife gets that is just plain crazy!

 

[Sawyer Rob]

The sawyers were starting to get into them.

Nice pine, but i'm wondering why you have one of your log post on backwards????

Rob

 

[Mike Cantolina]

Lol, it was like that when I bought it and I haven't changed it yet. It's definitely on the "to do" list though.

 

[brookpederson]

Very nice, I live in the southern part of Minnesota so I don't run into a lot of white pine. But when i do its always a treat to cut up. There is a reason so much was logged out of our state back in the 1800s. It's stable, easy to cut, light yet very strong and they get huge. 10 years ago I planted about 200 WP on a piece of property I own, real sandy soil, and am amazed on how fast they have grown. Some have reached 15' to 20', I might even get to cut them up in my lifetime. But I really love going up north an seeing the big ones.

 

[StevenBiars]

White Pine is probably one of the most under-appreciated sources of cutting pleasure.

 

[gemniii]

10 years ago I planted about 200 WP on a piece of property I own, real sandy soil, and am amazed on how fast they have grown. Some have reached 15' to 20', I might even get to cut them up in my lifetime.

That's been one of my true pleasures, finally making a crude workbench out of a red maple I raised from season one. From 1984 to 2009 I grew it, it took about 2 days to cut down, about a week to cut into slabs, about a year to dry, and another week to assemble. Part of it's now my custom sized workbench for my "saw stuff".

People wonder when I tell them it took me about 35 years to build.

Now I'm looking forward to building with about 30 acres of "superpine" I had planted back in 2005 in Mississippi.

I'll probably have to get the saw ready about 2020 for thinning. Better put it on my to-do list.

 

[StevenBiars]

That's been one of my true pleasures, finally making a crude workbench out of a red maple I raised from season one. From 1984 to 2009 I grew it, it took about 2 days to cut down, about a week to cut into slabs, about a year to dry, and another week to assemble. Part of it's now my custom sized workbench for my "saw stuff".

People wonder when I tell them it took me about 35 years to build.

Now I'm looking forward to building with about 30 acres of "superpine" I had planted back in 2005 in Mississippi.

I'll probably have to get the saw ready about 2020 for thinning. Better put it on my to-do list.

There is an oak on my grandmother's property that was hit by lightning this spring. For years I thought "I bet that old oak will make a nice table top for someone a few hundred years from now." It's looking like next year or the year after we're going to have to fell it.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I've planted more than 10,000 tree's on my place, and the first white pine i planted are getting pretty big. I'm sure i'll beable to cut some of them, milling them for future projects. There's no rush, they just keep getting bigger... :msp_smile:

Rob