The hemlock that we used for our siding was cut locally.
Floyd
Lowe has a timber operation and mill set up in Little Caney Gorge a few
miles from our house.
The first picture shows the impressive size of some of the
logs.
Mill power is a truck engine adapted to the task of driving the
circular
saw.
Safety gear is minimal as you might expect of a sawmill as old as this
one.
When I was watching it I couldn't help thinking of the old movie
serials
with the hero or his sweetheart tied to a log and moving toward the
immense
blade.
We had logs from the
trees the power
company cut when we had the power
line installed.
The timber was smaller
but was all
hardwood. We will be using it for
trim in the house as well as some future construction projects..
We hired Sid Lyons who
brought his
bandsaw and crew in and reduced
it to boards in one day.
Nancy and I moved the
lumber to the
garage where it is air drying.
We are counting on the summer heat to give us the equivalent of kiln
drying.
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