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New here, been exploring the site a bit. I really like the forestry topics. I love working in the woods and sawing lumber. We have a Norwood band mill that we acquired used and half destroyed. We built a new bed section for it (better than the original).
We have put thousands of bf of lumber through the mill. We do a lot of white pine for hire and personal projects. Some of the nicer stuff was a red oak that I took down for someone. It was hit by lightning and was dead. We got two 8' logs that were 36" in diameter from the butt. After sawing out the rot on the outside and the splits in the middle from the lightning, we wound up with 375 bf of clear 4/4 without a single knot.
Between my father and I we use a lot of wood, red oak being most common, so any time we get our hands on nice hardwood it goes on the mill!
We have put thousands of bf of lumber through the mill. We do a lot of white pine for hire and personal projects. Some of the nicer stuff was a red oak that I took down for someone. It was hit by lightning and was dead. We got two 8' logs that were 36" in diameter from the butt. After sawing out the rot on the outside and the splits in the middle from the lightning, we wound up with 375 bf of clear 4/4 without a single knot.
Between my father and I we use a lot of wood, red oak being most common, so any time we get our hands on nice hardwood it goes on the mill!