[Zachary Lowry]

Yeah, those are big chunks alright. Being able to set a mill up around some bigger logs is definitely a benefit of the mobile setup, haha.

[Kip Wanaselja]

Being able to set the mill up over logs is a big reason I went with the Lucas mill over a towable band saw. I can get it in a really tight space, was even able to fit it in my neighbors front yard when he had a big Doug Fir taken down earlier this summer. Barely room to move but we were able to cut our way through the pile to make some space. The base piece made some beautiful straight grain boards.

• This reply was modified 5 months, 1 week ago by  Kip Wanaselja.

[Kip Wanaselja]

Finally got around to setting the mill up and getting some sawing done! Got the first two logs cut up, a total of 1100 board feet of some high quality redwood. Almost all the boards were select or clear, very few knots.

[Josh Verhaeghe]

My goodness! We have shrubs and sticks here in the middle of nowhere compared to what you are hacking away at there!

[Kip Wanaselja]

It’s pretty wild the scale of the trees around here! We can get as much rain as Seattle in the winter and as much sun as Los Angeles in the summer. It can make it difficult to do things small scale since we are always at the limits of the equipment, even when we buck the logs down a bit. I always end up wanting something bigger but we make it work. This photo is just the top half of a tree we salvaged last week from the same property.

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 3 days ago by  Kip Wanaselja.

[Jacob]

@redwoodmtnmill I hear that. Somehow, every time you get a bigger machines, the jobs just seem to magically get bigger.

Which skidder grapple are you running and how has it run for you?

• This reply was modified 2 weeks, 1 day ago by  Jacob Chidester.