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12/22/10, 09:37 PM
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Santa Came Early... my portable sawmill arrived.
We use to have a fella with a bandsaw mill, about ten miles away. Had a good reputation, got tens of thousands of board feet cut from his mill. Never had a reason to buy my own, as he'd cut on halves. Well, he up and retired, at 78 last fall. And I need some more lumber.
Looked into other folks with mills, and the closest one was 45 miles away, and their rate was 35c/bdft. Ouch!
So, I knew I was going to need around 5000' in the next year, so I started looking at buying my own mill. Have been 'studying' on it for months, and finally figured I'd start out with a smaller mill, and if my body can 'take it', I could move up to a larger hydraulic mill later on.... at least if I wanted to cut for others on a commercial scale. Last month, woodmizer had a special where they'd knock 1/2 off of diesel engine upgrades. Knew I wanted a diesel as I can store it on site (already do), my truck and tractor both use diesel. So, I ordered one, and it 'finally' arrived yesterday. Had to go pick it up at a local trucking depot.
It's been sitting up on the hill for 24 hours now, and just like waiting for the "ok kids, come on out and see what Santa's brought ya" syndrome, I haven't had a chance to assemble it or play with it at all. Stupid work (ok, I'm very very thankful I 'do have' work, that pays well, and paid for the mill) kept me busy most of the day.
Since taking the plunge, I'm seeing harvestable trees everywhere, on my own place and the neighbors...
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12/22/10, 09:41 PM
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Your pic isnt showing.
Let me be the first to congratulate you though!
I can hardly wait to hear what all you do with this new toy, I mean tool. 
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12/22/10, 09:50 PM
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<---looking under his tree for a similar gift
hmm...think santa may have taken mine to your place...sorry for the mix up...I'll be right over 
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12/22/10, 10:04 PM
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Congrats TEX, nice looking mill. I also have one and haven't bought a stick of lumber since I got it about 5 years ago.
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12/22/10, 10:09 PM
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What a beauty! The mill, I mean...
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12/22/10, 10:10 PM
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Wow, your pic even has Santa in it! 
So much shiny orange paint hurts my eyes. 
You better get busy roughing that thing up and breaking it in.
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12/22/10, 11:06 PM
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Originally Posted by gone-a-milkin
Your pic isnt showing.
Let me be the first to congratulate you though!
I can hardly wait to hear what all you do with this new toy, I mean tool. |
My finger got mis-confused while posting and I hit submit instead of preview, and I hadn't got the url of the pic correct... sorry. Had to go back and edit...
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12/23/10, 12:34 AM
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You know...I live vicariously through you, TNAndy, Forerunner, and Agmantoo. Congrats!!! Happy Sawing.
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12/23/10, 12:37 AM
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Ooooooh!!! Want one!!!!
It sure is shiny! I hope you'll take pictures of how it works and the lumber you make with it. It wasn't a week ago that I was telling dh how I was surprised that he never bought a mill in all the years we've been married. Can't count the times we've needed a stack of lumber, nor how many pines we've lost over the years, and had to pay someone to come top them down and haul them off, as we had no way to make lumber out of them.
Hope you enjoy your new mill!
PS-- surely there is a way to feed zombies through it... just in case, y'know?
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12/23/10, 03:20 AM
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One of the tools I have bought over the years that I can truly say didn't cost me a dime  .
You'll love it, get to sawing man !
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12/23/10, 04:54 AM
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.35 bdf is cheap around here. can get pine at .35 from one guy
hardwood is over a buck..
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12/23/10, 05:56 AM
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texican,
You got my dream, if you have not seen it there is a great site The Forestry Forum the first site I go to each time I turn on my computer. Enjoy
Glenn
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12/23/10, 06:11 AM
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Life is Good for ya Texican ! Congrats !
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12/23/10, 06:23 AM
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Congratulations on the sawmill. It looks great. What do you need all that lumber for? Are you building a barn?
Are you planning to offer your services to others? Don't get yourself too busy to post your comments on HT. We need your sage advice!
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12/23/10, 06:36 AM
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Quote:
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.35 bdf is cheap around here. can get pine at .35 from one guy
hardwood is over a buck..
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I think that is the price for the sawing, not the wood.
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Very nice!! I'd like to see more pictures, this time with sawdust flying!
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Texican's hard work pays off big time. If you didn't have enough to keep you busy - - - you do now. Enjoy!
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12/23/10, 07:51 AM
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Congratulations on the sawmill. It looks great. What do you need all that lumber for?
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You'd be AMAZED how much lumber you can use around a homestead without hardly trying...every time I think I have a pretty good stock built up, I turn around and find myself having to log and saw again. The list of projects I can come up with is almost endless.
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12/23/10, 08:01 AM
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Just wait - now you'll be driving down the road looking at all the down trees wishing you could just saw them up -
It's fun stuff once you start sawing, you'll find you don't wanna stop.
Some advice - Make a shed for it first (if you don't already have a place to keep it out of the weather). That way you can saw on rainy days when you can't do anything else
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12/23/10, 08:04 AM
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Very nice. Merry Christmas. Hope Santa has something awesome for me too. Happy milling.
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