I took the sawmill to Andover, Connecticut today, a trip of only 7 miles. A new winner in the closest customer contest. George’s story is starting to sound familiar. The lot was cleared for the new house about 20 years ago. At the time there was plenty of sunlight, but trees keep growing, and they tend to lean into the clearing, and therefore toward the house, so arborists are called in to open things up again.
George and his teenaged son Corey had apparently caught the wood turning bug, and wanted the logs cut in a way that would supply them with raw material for their new hobby. George wanted beams with the irregularities removed, but some amount of bark left was acceptable. This was an unusual cutting pattern, but made for some fast milling. It also left us with some pretty heavy beams to carry off the mill.
Most of the reasonably sized logs were behind the house, and needed to be brought around to the front. The LogRite Fetching Arch fit the bill perfectly. George and Corey used it with the two man handle to move some of the smaller logs, and with the tow tongue and winch together with their Jeep SUV to move the larger logs. While they moved logs, I ran the mill.