Wood supply

As always, it depends. Fresh wood would be 100-120 cuts but the dry logs are quite hard on the chain so perhaps somewhere around half that.
I usually make the logs a little over 5m, about 17feet long.

I’ll make you a few pics Jan as soon as I had my morning coffee and sent the kids off to school :blush:

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Here you go Jan, I added one of the log lifter/ leveller too just in case.
I thought your sawmill is essentially the same as this before you rebuilt it and converted it to a bandsaw mill, different year model perhaps so these solutions could be different.

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Thanks Johan.
The log lifter is similar to mine but attaching the log is completely different, not good at all.
But I should be able to make one like you have from a clamp, thanks for the tip.

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Jan, I take it you mean how tight I place the boards on the stickers?
No, boards are not dry. I’ve found it makes no difference for drying. They will shrink a little and leave a gap between them anyway.

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Ok, I’ll try that, it saves a lot of space.

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It is basically the same as a long clamp (limknekt), pretty easy to make

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My Swedish friends are very involved in sawing wood, well, my son and I sawed and split firewood here too, …

the quantity on the pallet is just under 2 cubic meters

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tone, really nice wood industry you have created there!..nice tractor tires in the background on the 2, foto…

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Sawdust anyone? @Pelletpower you’re into sawdust, aren’t you? Come get some for free.
8:30 Friday night shoveling sawdust. All allone in the woods.The sun is still shining, no wind and still no mosquitos. Complete silence, except for a few birds singing. I’ve had worse Friday nights.

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Nice looking lumber there JO.

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Let me guess, Goran came over with his saws? :slight_smile:

It requires nitrogen (grass clippings, manure) to break down (I swear I read something that said that wasn’t true.) and it turns acidic so add lime and of course it needs water and microbes.

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Thanks, I will come and get it. Dont waste any :grinning:. Passed out yesterday evening. Kids were everywheren and we were in bed. Asleep :grinning:

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Finally, I think I’m done with the firewood, but it depends on whether my boys can make firewood themselves.

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Nice pic :+1:
The woodgas truck looks beautiful :star_struck:

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What Göran said.
But how did you take the pic? Do you have a drone or did you stand on the chimney?

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Thanks JO, i had the same question.

And 28 m3, almost the same as we need. Mmm, better insulation Jan?

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The ladder to the chimney had to serve, well I think it’s 34 bags and most of them contain almost 1.5 m3, I’ll have it for the cottage in Sjöändan and for the cottage in Hörken, but the insulation in the garage is poor.

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Refilling the milling station every now and then with fresh logs from all the fallen spruces.

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Does the cart work well?
Curious about how the drive works, do you have 2 motors and how is the hydraulics connected, series or parallel?

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