Monday, January 25, 2010
Subdividing a chicken house
A couple of years ago I built an 8' x 8' chicken house for 4 chicken and one rooster using rough sawn lumber from my portable sawmill. They live happily there at night and in the enclosed yard by day. It has been decided that the spare rooster that we also have has to move out of the duck house, so today I subdivided the chicken house. The main goal of our two roosters it to kill each other, so that have to be separated at all times. To divide the chicken house, I made a wall down the middle and made a door for accessing the back half of the enclosure. To feed the lone rooster, the door will be left in it's normally closed position and when it is time to care for the other fowl, the door swings 90 degrees the other way and closes the first half off. In this manner we endeavor to keep our roosters separated and alive.
Friday, January 8, 2010
Sawing frozen pine logs
I had a very interesting time on Thursday sawing pine logs that were frozen solid all the way through. Once I left a slab on top and stopped to talk to someone and when I came back, it had frozen solid back to the cant and I had to take my cant hook and bang on it to bust it loose.
The frozen sawdust was another item of wonderment. Normally the sawdust can be easily brushed off the freshly sawn lumber. The sawdust would almost instantly freeze to the surface of the 1x6 boards that I was sawing and when I rubbed my GLOVED hand across the surface, it stayed stuck in place. When sawdust comes out the discharge pipe from the sawmill, it is usually a little warm. On Thursday, it felt like catching a snowball without gloves.
The logs that I sawed later in the day had thawed to about 1.5 to 2 inches in on the side that the sun was shining on. At first it looked a bit weird on the boards where the saw blade had gone from frozen to not frozen wood. However I soon figured out what was going on. The Wood-Mizer double hard blades with a 10 degree tooth hook worked really well on the frozen pine. Now I'm off to more of the same sawing, only on larger logs.
The frozen sawdust was another item of wonderment. Normally the sawdust can be easily brushed off the freshly sawn lumber. The sawdust would almost instantly freeze to the surface of the 1x6 boards that I was sawing and when I rubbed my GLOVED hand across the surface, it stayed stuck in place. When sawdust comes out the discharge pipe from the sawmill, it is usually a little warm. On Thursday, it felt like catching a snowball without gloves.
The logs that I sawed later in the day had thawed to about 1.5 to 2 inches in on the side that the sun was shining on. At first it looked a bit weird on the boards where the saw blade had gone from frozen to not frozen wood. However I soon figured out what was going on. The Wood-Mizer double hard blades with a 10 degree tooth hook worked really well on the frozen pine. Now I'm off to more of the same sawing, only on larger logs.
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