Milling Ponderosa Pine Logs Woodmizer LT15 Start Sawmill 

I’m glad somebody picked up on that one. 😁

Yep that’s some good advice. Sometimes it pays to listen to our mothers. Thanks Jamie.

Thanks Joey.

@@WilsonForestLands you're welcome.

So it seems, thanks for the comment Stephen.

Thanks, I could tell it was going to be a good evening to do a time lapse. I wasn’t expecting the deer to be taking such a starring role.

Thanks, I could tell that was going to be a good evening to leave the time lapse camera on.

Thank you Joseph. That’s kind of you to say.

Packing my Dirty Harry peavy instead of a .44. That could work. Ah yes that’s another one of the great Yogi isms. I will have to remember the one about the gentleman and the fool. Good stuff.

Or maybe a good view for a cabin and a sawmill. I sometimes think about doing a video series about using the sawmill to build a cabin there. Thanks for the comment Walt.

@@WilsonForestLands that would be awesome

Yeah maybe now people won’t have any questions why I usually have some kind of hat on when I do videos.

There’s something satisfying about milling one too. And to know people are finding it satisfying to watch. OK that was even less gangsta.

Hind end to, I have never heard that one.

I was wondering about the bug's too. I have 26 yellow pine logs in SE Texas and have tried sprinkling 2 boxes of mule team borax on the logs before a rain. Just to see if it helps. I'll guess I'll see in 4 to 6 months......

As far as the deep opening cut, that question inspired my next video that I recorded today. The answer to that will probably come out Tuesday. I just use Dawn dish detergent in my blade lube. I didn’t use lube a lot of the time on that tree. I only used it on a few parts where I was getting a little build up, and on some of the widest cuts. That tree was cut early last fall and it’s been laying around since then. Some pine just doesn’t build up, especially some of the ones I have done that were small and mostly sapwood. But then there are some, especially bigger ones where I have to pour a lot of water on, especially in the heartwood. That could be another good subject for another video. As far as ips. The only pines I have been taking are ones that are already dead or dying from bugs attacking them. The foresters here say don’t cut pine from January through July. If I do have live ones to cut, I usually wait until right after fire season ends and cut them as early in the fall as I can. Maybe another subject for another video. I may be close to your neck of the woods this coming weekend.

I don’t know if it’s the same in Texas as it is here on the west coast. Here they say don’t cut pine between January and July. And if you do, make sure you dispose of the parts that could breed bugs.

Thanks Dave. Did I somehow miss your 1K celebration video? Or has that not been made yet?

@@WilsonForestLands Not made. Maybe some day.

Yeah definitely not my best hair day.