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Material is mostly staying on site. Small wood is getting split. Anything larger and decent I’ll put on the mill and bring back to my brother. There is a ton of junk wood though. I’m interested to see what it’s like on Monday when I start cutting into the main trunk. I’m hoping for at least one...

Another pic for scale. That’s my brother

Worked on it a bit today. Can’t believe I didn’t get a saw stuck making those tension cuts

I don’t know if there is anything that could’ve been done to help it short of a steel structure to stabilize and prop up, which would probably look pretty unsightly. It’s sad, but there’s not but to do now but cut it up. I’m hoping there is at least some piece of it I could take a slice from to...

Sad day. Last night my brother’s 400+ year old white oak snapped and blew over in a storm. It has been in decline for awhile. We have treated and fed it but clearly it’s been rotting on the inside for quite some time

I’m surprised how well it held up. I had a roaring fire in it last night. I put the thermostat on it and within about a second and a half the needle went flying past 700 degrees. Stuck a digging bar in the side vent and in about 15 minutes it was glowing red and soft.

I asked my buddy if he had an extra burn barrel. He makes me this thing. Burn barre/grill/smoker/sap cooker/forge

I couldn’t find my old post about this so here’s another. I had showed pics of a gantry I was hoping to pick up. Finally got around to it today. It’s in a temporary position until I get to wiring it up and then it will turn 90 degrees and centered over the mill. That way I can use it to turn...

I think I’m gonna wax it. I had it covered the other day for a few hours and it already started to mold. If it cracks it cracks. I sort of expected it. If anyone try’s to carve with a stump grinder I would suggest using a very heavy log and burying it partially. Otherwise you’ll suck that log...

Not sure what to do about preserving it. It’s a pretty fresh log and as such was hard to sand the end grain on the seat part. I got everything as smooth as I could for now but it may need more sanding next year. I may wax it.

Giving it to my wife. Gonna put it by the fire pit.

I made a chair the other day out of an oak log. I think when the crane put it in my truck it was about 2000 lbs or so. I probably shaved off 1000 lbs. I can barely lift it with the dingo. I did most of the carving with a stump grinder. A bit with a chainsaw and then some finish work with an...

Platform lifts were the same way when they first came out. Mechanics would come over from somewhere in Europe. Now there are several company’s that service them.

I use the 109’ platform pretty regularly. I’d like something taller but we get a lot done with it. I never liked the nifty but I only have experience with the 50’ 4x4.

Yup. Local sawmill. He gives slightly less for it but still takes it.

Nice load of logs as well. This was less then half of it

I had a big crane job the other day. 2 day job with bad weather coming. The second day was looking like we were gonna be in the freezing rain all day. To my surprise a friend of mine from a local tree company showed up at my job in the morning with 3 of his trucks and some equipment and all of...

Most of it is sassafras so it smells good too

Made my Christmas tree today

Things are slow here. We only did 3 days a week this year (on purpose) so I didn’t take on the work load I normally do. Last couple years I was booked 4-5 months ahead. This year I was only a week to a month ahead. I’m hoping I can get back on the mill soon over the winter.