I clamped a scissor jack to the sawmill frame to see how well it performs as a toe board. A toe board is essentially a jack that raises one end of a log so that the log can be milled with the center axis of the tree parallel with the travel of the saw …
Read moreI’m beginning to realize just how often the sawmill and my nearly endless supply of pine logs are the answer. I need to make level platforms to hold the lumber pallets when stacking lumber. Easy! Two beams for each station, leveled with whatever …
Read moreLast summer, we had 1.3 acres of our pine stand forestry mulched with a skid steer and mulcher. That job cost us $200 per hour for someone else to do it. Fast forward to the present time, and we have a BaumaLight MP360 mulcher for our tractor. The MP36…
Read moreLife is too short to not play. I can’t say yes to every request when I’m working, but I try to play as much as possible. A great quote, which I can’t remember where it came from, goes something like this: We only grow old when we quit…
Read moreI knocked out three 10′ pallets, and it rained a bit. Just a wee bit of rain.
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