More Oak in Glastonbury

I had a job in Stamford scheduled for this weekend, but the customer canceled and asked to be rescheduled in October. As a result, I was able to return to Bob's orchard in Glastonbury to finish the job started last weekend. And this time I remembered my camera.

Either I was mistaken when I thought we were near the end of the log pile last weekend, or Bob found some more logs somewhere. We milled for almost 5 hours, producing over 700 board feet of mostly 1" lumber. Most of it was oak, but there was some birch, and some other species we couldn't identify. Productivity could have been better, but many of the logs were on the short side, under 8 feet, which slows things down.

Oak in Glastonbury

Today’s job was in Glastonbury. It’s nice to get some jobs closer to home. Bob apparently has many interests. He’s got a property in a residential neighborhood with a fair sized orchard on it, and a big red barn. It’s all very picturesque, but I forgot my camera.

He had some oak logs that he wanted milled into 1” and 2” boards.

After 2 1/2 hours, we were getting close to the end of the log pile when I lost the ability to move the head forward or backward. It didn't take long to trace the cause to the electric motor that drives the head movement. It had seized up, so we were done for the day.

A call to Wood-Mizer on Monday sent a replacement motor heading my way that same day with no questions asked. It arrived on Thursday, which gave me plenty of time to install it before the next weekend's milling.

Maple in Hebron

I milled a couple of maple logs for Joe in Hebron today. A tree at the edge of his property came down on his lawn leaving him with two good sized logs, after he’d cleaned up the rest of the mess. We used the LogRite Fetching Arch with it’s winch and tow tongue option, and the CT Logs to Lumber pickup truck to move the logs up to his driveway where the mill was set up.

Joe’s father and uncle were on hand to help. Joe wanted the logs quartersawn, which is slower than flat sawing, so no one was overworked.