The new road through “The Black Forest” with an H at the end hauling a load of logs to the mill.
A side note…the lil red ribbon in the tree on the right, was waist high when I tied it on, snow shoeing last winter.
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Wow, that is a tree on steroids or there was a lot of snow
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Your legs may be as long as I am tall 
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Kinda reminds me of the maple syruping days. A few times the snow was 2 feet deep when I tapped trees. Later in the season I had to reach up real high to get the pails off the spiles.
Pete Stanaitis
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Ha, that pic could have been taken here today. Where are you at Bruce?
I don’t think we ever had more than 3-4 feet of snow though. Most years a lot less.
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Remember the snow up there being like that. Lost all my pictures of those days in my garage fire. Went snow shoeing on that ridge that runs along Lake Superior. The snow under me, let go and I fell about 20 ft. Broke one snow shoe. Could see shrubs around, so I took off the one shoe and started to hike out to the road. Took one step and I was up to my waist in snow. The ‘‘shrubs’’ I was seeing, were the tops of small trees. Two friends hiked to the car and one brought the other’s shoes to me. Very rememberable day. TomC.
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47.2777621, -88.4611852
Keweenaw Peninsula, Upper Peninsula, Michigan. 1265ft. The Lake is 700~ ft.
The Schwarz Wald usually traps snow to a depth of 8ft. The last winter had some settling due to a few thaws, was only 5ft deep when I was flagging the trails.
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We are finally starting to get organized. I still have to figure out how I want to arrange all the vehicles. It looks like I want to bring the log truck in on the opposite side of the operator walkway. Looks like I should put the dump truck on the walkway side to throw the slabs in.
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Nice setting! And very nice to cut your own timber! I wish I had trees like that. Good organisation saves you a lot of time.
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Short run, but he did ok. A bit disappointed about the noise! Hell, I missed my ear protection! No Zen here. just throwing as fast as you can to get the job done. And it was, in less then an hour we did a good cleanup. Let’s see tomorrow if there is some firewood with it.
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I like this machine. I like how you don’t handle everything endlessly. Loud is tough tho. I love engines but the sound drives me.nuts now.
I built a special quieting muffler for this generator…
only to find out the darn engine has some really rattling noises. Still, it’s a 4 pole, so only 1800rpm.I like your wood bins too. Are they the frames for plastic tanks?
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I am going to put this question out there, then go look at the internet.
Which species do you folks like best to mill?
What doesn’t warp so much?
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Yes, IBC, tank is removed. Bought a truckload, sold some and need some more (I hope I find the time to fill them)
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I only have three options. A lot of Ash, an occasional windfall sugar maple and very rarely now a red elm. The ash and maple are straight grain and have to dry evenly or they will warp. The elm are a gnarly grain and more stable but are really only good for things like scaffold planks. For that they can’t be beat. There is an art to air drying wood for it to dry evenly and therefore with less chance of warp or twist. I see some people don’t bother but I think after it’s spaced and cribbed it needs to me strapped down.
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Well there are variables, species,when tree is cut down, lumber stored in shade,or sun, where you live,high,or low humidity. I like the poplar we have here( there are 20> species) if cut in winter when sap is down.
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A while back I built a dryer to dry chunked wood. Don’t have any chunked wood but I am going to line the bottom with metal window screen and dry my charcoal that’s been sitting out in plastic bags for a while now.
What I’ve been thinking about is making a lumber kiln along these lines. Cut the bottoms out of two barrels and gang three of them together. That would make a 9 foot cylinder. Lay that horizontally and build another rocket heater with an elbow feeding hot air to one end and a fan on the other to draw the air through. Should be able to dry a fair number of board feet at a time. Only problem I can see is that the end closest to the heater would dry much faster than the far end and that could cause some problems keeping the lumber straight. Dumb Idea or what?
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Most ideas are not dumb - just not fully developed yet. Maybe introduce the heat halfway with a fan at both ends.
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I am building that…not to dry wood but to coat posts with creosote.
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Came across this facebook page a while ago , gotta love the Aussie way of getting things done
https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=3962503500446084&set=gm.1789966697821288
for those who cant open up the link …
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I wonder if the home owners insurance company canceled him after that posting?
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