Snow! Very little

This is a good amount of snow to have.  Not much! - LOL

Vacation Starts! Cleaning up the deadfall.

Vacation!

I took pretty much the rest of the month off from office work!  I have a few days scheduled for work-at-home, but otherwise I am clear!

Therefore, there will be a little different posting timescale for the next month.  

I took some of the scrap lumber and made a bunch of sticker sticks for placing in between the stacked boards.  These are the leftover scraps,

I chipped a bunch of the scrap after reducing it size so that it would fit in the chipper.  I used the upright bandsaw to do this.  This process takes some time and forces me to move the scrap wood over in front of the shop.  Not ideal.

This is a pile of chips down near the choke berry patch.  I took a lot of  the small deadfall out of the woods there and the scrap from the tree I took down near there and chipped it in place.

I decided to use the sawmill bandsaw to reduce the scrap to chipping size.  This let me run the chipper near the scrap and saved me having to move it so often.

Chipping in progress!

Still a lot of scrap there

Here is the pile of wood that I decided was not suitable for milling, as well as the sawdust and stuff I removed from the sawmill.  I will just let this mulch in place.  Sawdust doesn't make good mulch unless its decayed.

Found this deadfall tree while sawing down another piece of deadfall! This log is actually in pretty good shape.  I will see if I can get some millable logs from this,

This is what happens when you rush and don't think.  Tried to take the tree down but I put the notch in the wrong side.  

This turned out to be a bugger to bring down, totally because I didn't think this through very well.

Cleaning up some more deadfall.  I considered putting this stuff through the chipper, but didn't feel like it.

Looks in pretty good shape too!  I will see how much lumber I can get out of this!

Lumber and log applications. Lumber mill cleanup

Cleaning up the old lumber logs in front of the barn

I working on milling up the lumber that's blocking my trailer bay on the red barn.  Some of this wood has been lying here for over 4 years!  I suspect some may be past saving. 

Lots of the lumber is milled up in this picture.  The scrap pile is getting impressive!

Here is the lowest part of the bole from that big oak I cut down in the front yard.  

15+ inches across here, but there is a piece missing so I will cut this down another inch or two.

Not a long log - only 7ft, but thick!

 

Here is a shot of it before cutting down

First cut

This one needed some trimming with the chain saw to get the sawmill carriage past the log.

The bottom part of the big oak bole was far easier to mill than the top!  The top had the "split" which caused all kinds of size issues (and rot/decay issues, as it turned out).

I missed taking pictures of the real hard part of this work: getting it to this point in the milling

Great.  After all this work, its mostly crap wood on the inside.

It's going to be difficult to get any good lumber out of this piece.

Long story, significantly shortened:  a single 6x6 inch post! That's all I could get!  But, I got plenty of wood for the chipper.

Scrap pile is FULL!

The good news:  All of the old wood has been milled!