There is one huge clue to knowing your sawmill is cutting flat lumber…and that is easily found when trying to slide your boards apart after you’ve made the cuts.
It’s true! When you try to separate the boards that you’ve just cut and they are like stuck together, well that’s the first clue that these are flat boards, which is exactly why they are stuck together!
Don’t believe me? Then take a long level or long piece of flat iron and lay across the cuts you just made, and guess what? Yep, they are flat as pancakes!
Below is a video of a TimberKing 2020 that I set up today and we milled with it for about 5 hours. The first log was a large oak and we milled it into 2-5” live edge slabs, and they were so hard to separate, because they were so flat. You can see them on the left side of the mill stacked on the floor and one still on the mill.
The last large walnut multi clump tree trunk was full of all kinds of metal and many other things after found in yard trees, like this one. We found cement balls, steak knives, pop cans, bullets, lighters and more.
Terrible one to mill, but it made some very good looking chunks of walnut, with really nice figures and curl in it.
Always do your best,
-Mike Pilcher
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