Sawlog delivery

[Squaredy]

I realised we have a thread all about what we are currently milling, but not one about logs we have managed to get.

 

So I have started one with my delivery today of coastal redwood from the Forest of Dean.  Fair play they are great logs - just twelve of them to make up a full lorry load - over 24 tons.

 

No plans yet about milling, but some will be kept at their full 4.8m length and some will be cut in half to a more manageable 2.4m.  Most will fit on my woodmizer, but a couple will have to go on the chainsaw mill as they are so wide.

 

I am a big fan of sequoia.  Beautiful, durable and strong.  I see it as a great alternative to oak for people who fancy a wooden structure but want an easy life when it comes to movement, shrinkage, drying etc.

 

I am trying to find out the planting date.  It looks like it was either 1945 or 1957, but yet to be confirmed.  And by the way, these are second and third lengths.  The first lengths went to carvers apparently.  So I guess this whole load was just four trees.  That is some serious growth.

[Mike Hill]

I wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water?

 

Beautiful looking logs!

[MattyF]

7 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

I wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water?

 

Beautiful looking logs!

Near half?  only felled a couple of live ones but they where bloody heavy in comparison to the big dead ones… feather lite when milled and dryed though. 

[Squaredy]

11 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

I wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water?

 

Beautiful looking logs!

 

11 minutes ago, Mike Hill said:

wonder how much of that 24 ton load is water?

I would say about half.  Just as well I sell the final timber by volume, not weight!

[slack ma girdle]

Thats one hell of a log, if a crane of that size is struggling to move it.

[Mark Bolam]

Is that video backwards?

 

I thought you were meant to pick them up roadside and get them ON the wagon!

[Squaredy]

2 minutes ago, Mark Bolam said:

Is that video backwards?

 

I thought you were meant to pick them up roadside and get them ON the wagon!

Ah no, that is my site!