Today’s adventure at Fox Hill Sawmill

[Guido Salvage]

I picked up some paulownia last night, I had never milled any. Fairly light weight and the grain would be best described as coarse. Like most larger trees of this species, it has center rot.

 

[Eduardo K]

That’s crazy looking grain. From what I understand, this stuff grows very quickly. That last pic looks like it was cut right around the pith. The growth rings near the center are huge.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Milled up some of the paulownia today. I also managed to destroy a perfectly good broom handle by carrying it in the wrong place on my loader.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Finished milling up the Paulownia and got it stashed in an abandoned house by my mill. Not sure what I may do with it but I have it if needed.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Sticker time! Had some poplar branches come down, decided to turn them into stickers.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Milled up some more poplar for stickers, some of it had nice color. These all came out of storm damaged trees, I got about 225 stickers out of what I scavenged. Stacked them upstairs in the abandoned house I use for storage.

 

[davidwyby]

Still curious about the configs on that M35A1.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Still curious about the configs on that M35A1.

1962 Studebaker M35A1 with a Hercules multi fuel engine.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Today was clean up day. Cut all the grass and weed whacked all around the mill and all my equipment and trailers. Cleaned up old scraps and slabs and hauled them to the burn pile.

I then concentrated on small piles of logs I had scattered about. Milled the rest of the Bradford pear I had, cut up my last three Ailanthus logs I had and then tackled some pine logs that have been laying around for a while.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Things are looking more organized…

 

[Guido Salvage]

Pine…


I have a coworker who is clearing some land in order to build a barn. I was able to snag a couple of loads of logs to mill.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Getting pine cut for my new drying shed.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Got about half the lumber cut for my new shed.

 

[davidwyby]

I’ll see if I can find a buyer if you’d like. Are you on Steelsoldiers by any chance?

1962 Studebaker M35A1 with a Hercules multi fuel engine.

 

[Guido Salvage]

I’ll see if I can find a buyer if you’d like. Are you on Steelsoldiers by any chance?

I am not. I am a member of a Facebook M35A-2 group but I rarely look at FB.

 

[Guido Salvage]

My next door neighbor dropped this 12’ red oak on my mill last weekend. To say it is heavy is an understatement, it took 3 of us to turn the log. I milled some 4/4 and 8/4 slabs and finally had enough and pulled the last 4” slab off. I am getting buried by sawdust but I have a coworker who says he will take it.

 

[davidwyby]

I need to build a big mill.

 

[Eduardo K]

I can second the "heavy red oak" statement. That stuff is heavy when green and takes twice as long as any other wood I've milled to dry.
I need a big mill and a tractor...

 

[Wolverine]

One of these would turn that dust into something useful.

 

[Guido Salvage]

Today was sawdust cleanup day. I had been putting this off for a couple of months and the sawdust was up to the rails of my mill and packed around the wheels and axles. I loaded a trailer full for a coworker and will give him another load shortly.