Welcome to the CT Logs To Lumber, LLC web log (blog). Here we post notes and pictures about some of our milling jobs, and other significant events in the life of our sawmill and business. Feel free to poke around and see what we've been up to.
August Activity Report
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
We started August by doing something we’ve never done before. We took the sawmill to Rhode Island for the first time; North Smithfield to be exact. We were there to mill some butternut logs, which was also a first.
Other jobs in August included:
- The gentleman who brought me the 4″x6″ pressure treated timbers to saw in half in July brought me some more in August. Apparently he miscalculated his needs.
- I went to Killingworth to mill one large oak log, and made some very nice looking boards.
- I took the sawmill to East Hampton to mill some cedar logs that had been sitting too long. We did get some lumber, but there was also a lot of rotten wood. Ants will move into cedar logs if you let them sit long enough.
- I spent 4 days in Woodbury milling oak and pine for a small but growing vineyard that has plans to become a winery. They had just poured the foundation for the building that will eventually be their tasting room. They needed a lot of beams and boards, including some beams longer than the 21′ Wood-Mizer says is the longest my mill can produce. We did some creative milling to produce those.
- I spent about half a day on a farm in East Hartford milling old telephone poles into planks to be used as the deck of a new bridge.
- And right after hurricane Irene blew through I spent two days back at the estate in Somers. Once again we milled a lot of logs of a variety of species and there was plenty of support equipment and help on hand. When we broke for lunch on the first day the man in charge told me to get into his estate vehicle (kind of like a golf cart), and he took me to see what had been done with some of the lumber I had milled during my prior visit.
It’s a little covered bridge; about 8′ wide and 12′ long. There’s a real brook under it. I was told that all the lumber used to build it came from my sawmill except for the wood shingles on the roof.
Let’s see how September unfolds…