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.
September Doings
Friday, September 30, 2011
What we did:
- Returned to a property in the Gilead section of Hebron with the sawmill to mill about 10 logs into boards.
- Worked with an artist in Thompson to make the raw material for his creations. We milled red and white oak, pine, spruce, hickory, ash, and a log the customer thought might be cottonwood. He mostly makes small boxes, so he wanted a lot of thinner material, some of it under 1/4″.
- I milled a black walnut log from a tree damaged by hurricane Irene in a driveway in East Hartford. The customer got the log for the trouble of taking it away. He was very happy with the lumber, and had a special project in mind.
- A customer brought 5 small to mid-sized red oak logs to my home in the back of his pickup truck. Getting the logs out of the back of his pickup truck took a bit of head scratching and my Kubota tractor. The logs were milled into random width 1″ boards.
- I took the sawmill to Westport and milled a few large diameter oak logs from a tree that hurricane Irene brought down. The customer wanted boards “as wide as possible”, and ended up with a good sized pile of 24″ wide lumber as well as some less wide.
- Milled one very nice white oak in Roxbury.
- Did a sawmill demonstration again at the Coventry Regional Farmer’s Market.
- Milled some logs from trees taken down for a construction project at a home in Wilton.
- Went to Southbury to mill three logs from a tree that went down during hurricane Irene. The tree landed on a swing set that was not up to the challenge.
- Started exploring the possibility of making rustic slab benches. The sawmill makes parts of this easy, but other tools are required, as well as some practice.
We seem to be getting more and more busy, but next month we’re taking a vacation.