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Vintage logging – Circle saw mills
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos looks at the early circle saw mills of the early 20th century.
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Baby Name Wood Sign
A friend contacted Jim with regards to having her baby’s name cut from wood. Fun. We’ve done one other baby name in wood. Remember baby Ruby? Here is how this one went down.
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Vintage logging – Children
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos features the children who were present during these pioneering days.
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Vintage logging – Chainsaws
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos features chainsaws and the role they have played in the logging industry.
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Layered Flag of Nova Scotia
We’ve had the idea for this project pinned to our whiteboard for some time. With the skid steer in the shop, everything in the yard has come to a standstill. Literally. So we figured now would be a good time to work on this layered flag of Nova Scotia.
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Protect your investment
To protect your investment of saw mill blades, we now offer these sturdy wooden boxes. They are made from 1/2 inch thick pine boards right here in our workshop.
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Exhaust fan for CBN sharpening machine
The amount of air borne oily mist that is created from the Wood-mizer BMS250S is significant. The design of the machine’s case does less than a desirable job of keeping the mist enclosed. The only way to truly tame it is to create some negative pressure within its environment.
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Vintage logging – Carpenters
Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos features carpenters. After all, without them, we’d all still be living in caves. Right?
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Lumber on board
All aboard! 🙂 This is what 1,453 board feet of spruce and hemlock lumber looks like. A whole bunch of 8ft boards, a pallet of 12ft and some 16ft for good measure.
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Rough spruce lumber
The term rough lumber generally refers to fully dimension lumber. Let’s use 2×4’s as an example. While this size lumber at the big box stores are measured at 1.5×3.5 inches, it’s generally called a “2×4”. Why? Well, there are historical reasons, but for now the simple answer is because when the board comes off the mill, it is 2 x 4 inches in size, after which it is planed on 4 sides and dried, thus reducing its dimensions. The lumber produced from this log is double rough, and I’ll explain why.
