SAWYR

We took the day off of work today and had the guy come to saw the logs. It was a bit of a gamble having him come today because the forecasted weather called for rain, but although it drizzled a few times we were able to cut up a majority of the logs we had. I will call him SAWYR because that was on his license plate.

We had him cut a majority of cherry because we will use that for our kitchen cabinets. He also cut some walnut and maple. We hoped to use the maple for a butcher block top, but it turned out to be spalted so that did not work out, instead we will use cherry which I think I prefer anyway.

We had a regular and a visitor stop by and give us a hand. Tom's mom (the regular) came for the day and helped sweep off and stack the lumber as it was cut. The visitor, Lamar, was a really big help all day, he carried the lumber to the stack, helped Tommy get logs ready to be offloaded at the sawmill, but his defining moment of help was in the middle of the afternoon when Tommy accidentally flicked a log with the forks on the tractor and sent the log tumbling down the hill toward the sawmill, a dirty look from the SAWYR and a yell to Lamar and he ran over and stopped the log just in the nick of time. PHEW!!! This is especially funny because the SAWYR was OVERLY protective and VERY VERY anal about his sawmill so if that log hit his machine it would have been the end of the world.















We took some video, but every time we did the SAWYR screwed up, but you can check it out. The pictures of the log pile are from the middle of the day so imagine about double that amount of lumber.