Thread: pine logs

What do you do or how do you sell your pine products Carl? Over here its not worth doing with so many large pine mills in the area sellin it for nicks. The only thoght ive had is to sell treated lapsiding or weatherboards as we call it. Ive just got to spend about 13k on the new woodmizer portable resaw to be able to do it and make it viable, even though i get offered free pine logs all the time from windrows on farms, you just got to be able to fall them and not land em on the fence

dont seam to have any trouble.

i cut it for framing and sutch, will be doing the bigger stuff into weather boards, also will do some other custom stuff. and i am gunna build a few sheds here for storing slabs etc.

y do you have to spend so mutch. im sure you can cut them streight on your mill

what mill do you run mate?

Originally Posted by weisyboy

what mill do you run mate?

Woodmizer LT40 super hydraulic, the thing is with the new portable resaws is you can tilt the head up to 15 degrees and spit weatherboards out like wildfire. I guess on a Lucas you cut one at a time, for a bandsaw bandit you cut 200 by 38s and then split the lot afterwards

make up a resw jig for your mill. would be easy as i have looked at the one mizer sell and it would be easy to copy/improve. and cost one hell of a lot less than 13k

ye with teh Lucas we cut them straight from the log. but tis not teh best way to do them.

regular mills cut 175 x 38s and split them on special resaws.

weatehrboards should be 175mm x 25mm x 6mm

Why im lookin at the portable resaw is coz i can just block cut everything on the woody, and coz its self driven i can send the head and turn around and be resawing the blocks into 17mm floor boards (biggest market) or what have you on the other machine next to me. Just need an offbearer with adhd lol.

17mm floor board stock? never heard of that before.

what would you do cut 34mm thick boards, for 13 grand y wouldnt you just make the extra cut on the mizer?

you could always just use the money to by a swing mill

17mm would be for overlay flooring.
regards inter

that means it would have a finished thickness of 11mm?

12mm, its called stick down flooring here, glued straight to the concrete. To cut them on the mill takes forever, on a resaw where you can continually feed it can take up to 1/3 of the time, dunno how the math works but its true