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Felling Trees, Milling Logs, Making Lumber
I have posted about renovating/preserving/restoring some of the older structures on my wife’s farm several times. It takes lumber to accomplish this, and lumber is very expensive right now. Luckily, I have some pretty nice mature pines, and a friend with a portable sawmill.
He and I went out one day in early December and selected and flagged about 16 trees to take down. He brought his mill and his tractor the Tuesday after Christmas, and felled the trees, and limbed and bucked some of them into lengths for milling.
I had him saw some logs into two-inch framing lumber, but most was sawn into one inch boards for siding. The pine species is loblolly, a type that, given room to grow, produces some tall, straight, and relatively knot-free logs. It is a type of Southern Yellow Pine. Most of the trees came from a ten acre tract I had thinned down about 10 years ago to what we call a “plantation stand” down here. They really grew in that time. Each tree yielded three logs, usually a 12 foot, another 10 or 12 foot, and an 8 or 10 foot. The two logs where my granddaughter is sitting are 14 footers, because I need some 14 foot boards to replace siding on a 125-150 year old smokehouse.
Wes, my young friend with the mill, has a very good YouTube channel called Fall Line Ridge. He has been very successful with his channel with around 250,000 subscribers. He has recently posted three videos of his work on my place. By the way, he cut the trees on shares, keeping one-half of the lumber for himself, which means I had no out of pocket expenses, except for hiring some labor to haul my lumber in and stack it for air drying. Wes’s videos are very well done, with a minimum of talk. He has some great shots of felling the trees, including drone shots.
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01-18-2021, 02:29 PM
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Looks like beautiful boards. Fun to watch a saw mill operating, when I was very young I used to watch my next door neighbor for hours as he milled logs on his saw mill.
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I see that Sarah Grace is serving in a supervisory role.
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Red it's funny you posting this just last night I was watching video's on milling lumber . 
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Wow....wish I had access to someone with a portable mill. Lucky man there and looks like you buddy is cuttin it straight. Finished project pictures are welcome!
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01-18-2021, 03:39 PM
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I checked out his channel. Very interesting and you're right, they are very well done.
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She has gone from Cowpoke, to basketball player, to logger. I have found it is wise to keep your career options open. And anyone logging in pink tennis shoes and tights is tough enough to be the boss any day.
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This is the “Christmas present” barn I posted about earlier.
We used some lumber I bought several years ago straight off the mill and stacked and dried. There is nothing square, plumb, or level about it, but it is stabilized, and has a new skin. We had to replace very little framing members, just new roof and siding. Should be good for another 100+ years. Also, a picture of the “Z” doors we made.
A Barn For Christmas
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01-18-2021, 05:48 PM
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A mill is on my bucket list. I would love a set up like that
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I like the width of those planks!
Ps you need more and bigger hinges on those doors ;-)
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How long are you going to dry them. You have some fine looking boards.
I used to use a lot of ash and some maple in woodworking. I would probably be amazed at the prices of any lumber today. I remember that 3/4 inch lumber core ash or maple plywood was about 50 bucks a sheet a long time ago.
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I read this and the first thing that popped into my mind was you being with Eustace and Preston up at Turtle Island milling wood 
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Apparently you guys didn’t hear that Preston has gone to that big sawmill up the in Sky.
RIP Preston Roberts.
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After I built my home I needed a barn & out buildings. We fell some Cedars & pines. Had a guy with a portable mill come in & some i inch Cedar for siding & the pines in to 2x4's & 2x6's for framing. Cost then was 70 bucks a 1000. Just my 2 cents.
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Is the siding overlapped? If it is overlapped did you "feather" one side? Larry
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A few months ago I became sort of obsessed with wanting to buy a portable mill like that one (same model and brand). But having no trees to cut was a deal breaker.
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Looking good, nice way to spend Christmas. I have watched many YouTube videos about milling logs, I find it fascinating.
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I have a Woodmizer LT-15 that we bought to build a cabin. For the interior we used quarter sawn Sycamore, red oak and poplar. We sawed all of the interior boards 7/8 inch thick and then planed it to 3/4 thick. We had the roof on in 4 months but it took us two years to finish the interior.
I have attached a few photos of the cabin and a poplar tree we just cut. The log in this tree was 51 feet long.
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