That gave me a good laugh 
I’ve been doing the same while taking a rest from wrestling with the sawlogs. I even cut and split half a dussin trailer loads and traded them for cash. Wood in every form is accumulating. I just don’t seem to be able to do away with it at the same rate.
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I once made the statement that I had enough wood ( motor fuel ) to likely last the rest of my life . Not knowing the huge amounts that I had on hand I received condolences from many 
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really good the past several weeks. i have to stay away from splitting wood or using a sledge hammer. and by the end of each day’s work, my left foot has some nerve pain., but overall it improves as the days pass. slowly.
i haven’t used any narcotics at all for over 4 months. and very little tylenol/ibuprofen for about 2 months. no ibuprofen or anything else since the virus.
Total lack of stress and deadlines has helped a lot too I think.
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Got Wood !!
The pics are showing about 7 thousand board feet .
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Wonderful pics, Wayne.
Remember not to do away with all the stickers in the chunker
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Spent some time at the mill today making custom lumber to build a home for my chickens in the old stable I have from the 1700s.
You can’t just go out to the lumber yard and find stuff 7 inches wide like the old beams I wanted to match. So it is pretty cool that I could cut 4x7 posts and 2x7 for the outside walls and door frame. The boards on the bottom was a log in my way which was too long to use for the posts can’t be wasteful… so I sawed it into boards. I probably have enough dry boards for the wall so I will probably stick them to dry after the snow storm passes tomorrow. Yes I said snow we are going to get 3 inches which is odd but not unheard of this late for us.
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What a place to live. 
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I will take a little snow over tornadoes and 100 plus weather…
We can’t all live in a tropical paradise. I guess…
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wise as serpents…it does look pretty
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strang weather Quite warm for a while, back too chill factoring. I looked at the sky last night just before sun down , the whole sky was pitch black too the west from the ground up too the 3/4 point ware the daylite was still there. Thought maybe was a rain or snow clould though nothing except a little wind, it shore was magnificent Glory THOUGH.
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WWW = Wood, wood, wood.
My office most of my free time this spring. The river valley and our village in the distance.
Almost finished hauling 150+ sawlogs down from the mountain. Sold 80 of them (a full size truck load), but the profit ended up being less than $1 an hour for my effort 
Fortunately not a lot of expences except my sweat and some gasoline for chainsaws and Fergie.
So, I decided to mill the rest of the logs. I’m about half way through by now, but it’s time-consuming with pretty sturdy logs to wrestle. To fit the mill I make them 14 ft long and quite a few are in the 15-20 inch range.
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Jo I am surprised that you have a tape measure in inches (in your metric world)
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I expect he does it to better communicate with us Americans who still live in our own little world.
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When me and JO were visiting US we used a tape measure and a thermomether with both scales for a fast unite translater
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Haha,
We still use inches to some extent. Certainly with tires and TV-screens and if you’re old-fashioned even with plumbing, nails and dimentional lumber.
But if you start talking cups and ounces I’m lost
The old folding rules with inches start to get hard to come by, but handy when milling.
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Canada officially switched to the metric system in the 1970s. So it has left an interesting mosaic of measurement in the culture. People younger than 40 know very little about imperial units of measure (or any other units thanks to the dumbing down of the school system, but that’s another story)… Generally people here refer to their physical height and weight in feet and pounds. Most people refer to automobile speeds in km/hr, probably because road signs are in km and the larger scale on speedometers is in km. Farmers will always refer to land in acres, quarter sections etc. An acre is a useful unit of measure, used to be the land a man would plow with a team of oxen in the morning. (In Saxon times, with a scratch plow)
The metric system does have a real advantage for weight and volume calculations, especially around water. One cubic cm of water weighs one gram, one liter weighs one kilo. Very handy if you need to know how much weight you are hauling in a trailer water tank.
But the axles and tires will be rated in pounds, so then multiply by 2.2… 
For carpentry, machine building and metal fab generally (and sawmillimg, etc), I think imperial measure is far better. The fractions system is far easier to divide and multiply on the job. Double 5/8? 5/4, or 1 1/4. A 1/16 is a perfect tolerance for most welding or carpentry. A 1/1000 of an inch is a perfect unit for machining, and simply derived from dividing the fraction, ie, 5÷8= .625, or 625 / 1000 of an inch. Drill sizes break down beautifully in units of 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64. Practically all you ever need, and easily read from any dimension drawing once you know that 1/16 is 62.5 /1000, 1/8 125.
In terms of temperature, metric has a huge advantage, zero, water freezes, 100, water boils at sea level. Equally temperature changes can be expressed easily in terms of watts.
Sadly, people younger than 40 can’t read a tape measure anymore or multiply past 10, their soft handed teachers never bothered to teach the 12 x table. They also failed to teach common handling of fractions of an inch, leaving a huge disadvantage for the construction and manufacturing industries. Luckily most people don’t do any real work… 
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I was visiting my brother and looked at the sawmill, something was sawing (not today, Sunday) elm, cherry, chestnut, … sawn exactly as if it were a cloud …
below are wooden guides and a wooden drive pole
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Wow, those are tight growth rings! The doug firs here in Oregon should be putting on an inch of radius every 3 to 5 years; any more than that and they need to be thinned. Its a little hard to count the rings in that picture, but It would seem that trunk was somewhere in the neighborhood of 150 years old? I have been doing a little thinning on our property to get the last of next seasons wood brought it, and its always interesting to me to look at the growth ring patterns.
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I never saw reciprocating mills with a horizontal blade before. I would like to see a video of that during operation.
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