Cutting Lumber

[HDRider]

Does anyone here cut their own lumber?

What do you use?

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[highgrit]

We do a little sawing still. We have a Hud-Son Oscar farm boss. It's hard on my back and my son is in to much of a hurry still. We plan on cutting a house out for him in the near future. I bought a grapple for my tractor and it has helped to take the load off our backs.

 

[scf84]

we have a little norwood band mill. have cut our house and several barns and cut alot for the public
with this little mill.

 

[Nesikep]

Haven't done any milling.. My friend has an excellent band saw mill that will handle 48"x42'... we don't have that kind of wood around here. Another friend has a little hand push bush mill that's really portable, he's done nothing with it but work his butt off to saw rotten pine.

 

[Bigfoot]

Like most people, I've thought about it. I usually come to the conclusion that I wouldn't have time to make it pay for itself. I used to take logs to the amish, to be sawed on shares. When Id go pick it up, and see how small my pile was compared to how hard I worked getting the logs out of the woods, and to their house, I finally quit that. I've actually just about quit rough sawed lumber. If it's inside, I just go ahead, and get dimension lumber. If it's outside, I just go ahead and get pressure treated.

 

[tater74]

I hire it done. $75/hr. He can saw a lot in an hour. I'm making my cabinets and doors from it.

 

[LRTX1]

I've been working on a homemade bandmill. Hopefully I'll find time to get it going this winter.

 

[skyhightree1]

I have tons of logs and told myself I will buy a sawmill and do my own but I said who am I kidding no I wont so I drop logs off and have them done. Its a lot of work and time consuming.

 

[skyhightree1]

This is how my lumber looks it has a pic in here

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[Craig Miller]

How long do you let it dry after sawing before using it?

 

[LRTX1]

How long do you let it dry after sawing before using it?

It all depends. How thick the lumber is, what species, local climate an intended use. Here in Florida you could never air dry lumber for furniture use but could in Arizona.

But to answer in general terms, a year per inch thickness is a term that gets floated around a lot.

 

[HDRider]

Son. That's nice. Now run out, get a mill and hire yourself a helper to run it. You got an unfair advantage with the trees you get. Take advantage over it.

 

[skyhightree1]

How long do you let it dry after sawing before using it?

If oak I have put it up and juice came out the nail hole and other times I waited and caught he.. trying to drive a nail so I had to use a powerful compressor and nail gun. A year is a good time to let it dry for sure but depends on species.

Son. That's nice. Now run out, get a mill and hire yourself a helper to run it. You got an unfair advantage with the trees you get. Take advantage over it.

LOL will you be my helper?

 

[Bigfoot]

I hear about people sawing lumber for a house, but what little I've seen sawed, and put in a stud wall ended up cupping in the wall, and ruining the sheet rock. It had been under roof for many years waiting to dry.

 

[tnwalkingred]

My cousin bought a new Woodmizer portable sawmill last year and cuts his own lumber. Those saws are supposed to be the best in the business. When he bought it I went with him and picked it up in Indy. They run a first class operation in my opinion.

KW

 

[gimpyrancher]

I have a Wood-Mizer LT40. It cuts wood that isn't so rough. If you have access to (cheap or free) trees, it's worth it's weight in gold. A huge savings in usable wood. If used to build a house or outbuildings, it doesn't take long to pay for the rig and then some.