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.
Report for October 2011
Monday, October 31, 2011
As I hinted at at the end of the September report, Kim and I took a vacation in October. Specifically, we spent two weeks on the road. We started on October 1st, heading down the coast to Chincoteague Island, VA. From there we traveled to Charleston, SC, and then turned inland to Asheville, NC. Then we headed back north along the Blue Ridge Parkway. It was all very pleasant, and a welcome break.
But, back to work:
- We went to Old Lyme for the first time to mill a nice big oak log.
- We milled for two customers on the same day down in Fairfield county; one in Wilton, and one not too far away in Weston. The customers are friends, and the original plan was for them to bring their logs to one location. But that didn’t work out, so we moved the mill instead of the logs.
- We went to a customer in East Hartford just off Silver Lane on two different days milling pine and oak.
- We milled a couple of oak logs into beams to be used in the restoration of an old farmhouse in Cheshire. Of course, first we had to pull the logs out of the gulch they were lying in. Space was tight, but we managed to get it done. Wet snow started to fall about half way through this job, so we were glad when time came to pack up and head home. The trip home through the snow was uneventful, but by morning wet snow falling on trees that hadn’t yet lost their leaves had resulted in limbs falling everywhere. We were without power and internet for a week, as was much of the rest of Connecticut.
