More Chainsaw Milling

Another productive, and fun day milling lumber with my Dad  We ended up with 14 2X6s 12 Feet long, and 8 4X6 Posts 12 Feet long.

A set of Tree plates i made from 3/16 Mild Steel, cut with my acetylene torch and Burn Bar


The Tree plates worked AWESOME


Dad running my Edging Mill with his saw




And some of the Finished product, These are REALLY Nice 2X6 Boards, better than anything i can buy  The same goes for the 8 4X6 Posts we cut today, i forgot to get a picture of them

Done a fare amount of this- live slab black walnut with my 088 Stihl.

Africa58X wrote:Done a fare amount of this- live slab black walnut with my 088 Stihl.

I sure am enjoying it I run a Stihl 660, 32” inch Bar. This stuff comes natural to me as i have Cut Timber as a Profession, and worked in the Woods all of my Life

For 22 Years I was a Tree climber/sales
Now I just operate as a salesman for a residential tree service. My brother has a nice Woodmizer saw mill.

Ps Just got me a Gm SS for my Cougar- read a lot of your stuff. I need to find that Lube recipe that uses stihl oil- I cast also. Not sure I want to get into paper patchin.

Idaholewis wrote:

Africa58X wrote:Done a fare amount of this- live slab black walnut with my 088 Stihl.

I sure am enjoying it I run a Stihl 660, 32” inch Bar. This stuff comes natural to me as i have Cut Timber as a Profession, and worked in the Woods all of my Life

HA...Lewis seems we have more in common than I thought.  I took up forestry in college and after graduation I worked a chain saw and log skidder for a logging company in north central PA then worked for a surveying company, My crew ran surveys for power lines through the woods and fields of PA.  I'll never forget the time we ran  center line through about a 1/4 acre rattlesnake den.  I never saw so many timber rattlers in my life.  Its a wonder none of us ever got bit.
BTW, those slabs would make beautiful benches!

Did my share of clearing and timber work- climbing the Large Oak/Cherry to blow out the tops… so not to split the Log when dropped. So much fun to drop a large tree tho!
My Brother mills a lot - and the Alaskan Mill he has works well!