Today’s adventure at Fox Hill Sawmill

[Guido Salvage]

Got about 1000 bf of the walnut milled and under roof, stacked and stickered. Still have a bunch to do along with some hackberry and there will be more walnut to get at the beginning of next month.

 

[Guido Salvage]

More walnut… This was a short 30” piece that would not span the bunks on my mill. Ended up putting it on a 6/4 board with another one against the log stops and clamping it.

 

[davidwyby]

That walnut is wow

makes me wanna mill some mesquite

 

[Wolverine]

Walnut =

 

[av8or3]

I want to see that burl. What did you have to pay for that log?

 

[Guido Salvage]

I want to see that burl. What did you have to pay for that log?

I took the tree down, I have never bought a log in my life. I was after another burl tree but fate intervened and I could not get to it.

 

[av8or3]

it.

Bummer

 

[Guido Salvage]

Today was grass cutting day.

 

[blades]

Got 5 hours of that to do this week end.

 

[Guido Salvage]

More free walnut to mill…

 

[Al Smith]

With regards to that cherry afore mentioned that was in log for long while .Most times although it might be dry as a bone and change color it should be okay .I have some milled about 10-12 years ago that is solid as a rock .Kind of like dead ash ,the outside sap wood could be rotten but the heart wood still be just fine .

 

[Guido Salvage]

I worked on the pile of walnut this weekend. Took it slow as the temperatures were in the upper 90’s. Started out with this…



Ended up with this with a half dozen logs to go. About 450 bf that was just going to rot.

 

[Guido Salvage]

A portion of what I have cut, there is more on the other side of the mill and I have filled an old shed and an abandoned house.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Getting caught up here. Several weeks ago a guy came into work late on a Friday afternoon looking for a place to dump debris from a lot clearing job. I let him know I had a spot and picked out a bunch of small sycamores that were in his piles. Got about 225 bf of usable wood.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Today was for grabbing some ash… This might be the last I ever mill, even the standing dead is beginning to get soft.

 

[davidwyby]

Deuce!

 

[Guido Salvage]

Deuce!

You want it? 1962 Studebaker M35A1 with a White multi fuel.

 

[davidwyby]

Woah. My first deuce was/is a Stude ‘62 A1. Trucks that survived in A1 spec and didn’t get converted to A2 are kinda rare. Mine had been turned into a civilian water truck and abused for a long time. No data plates…I figured out what it was by researching on Steel Soldiers based off the serial on the frame.

https://youtube.com/shorts/8iSmwdX8Np8?feature=share

I would be interested, but I’m a long ways away.
Dropside bed is newer but also very handy. I’m very curious about it’s current configuration. I wonder if it still has the LDS-427 engine vs. the A2 465. A1s also had a foot starter, most had a larger or separately mounted tach…larger wiper knob from what I remember. Also would have had hinged mudflaps, but those would have gone with the bed.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Cedar was the order of the day. This one was dead and uprooted on the power line right of way by my mill.

 

[Eduardo K]

I’ve been slowly moving my city girl wife further into the sticks. The next step is a “farm” so I can do this kind of stuff - sawmills, tractors, post frames, and high tensile steel wire fences.
Keep posting, I need to remember what I’m working so hard for…