Getting the flock out of here - a diary of a crazy chicken man

[piglett]

The chainsaw guy's kit consists of:

• a chainsaw
• a chalk line,
• a tape measure
• a steady hand
• a good eye

It is very impressive.

Neem is the same tree that NEEM oil comes from. Its a great termite resistant hardwood in the Mahogany family.

It requires a DENR permit to fell and transport as part of the government's attempts to inhibit deforestation.

The lumber will go under the house of Dominic to air dry for atleast six months. I will then pull out the jointer and 12" planer to dress it into lumber for furniture.

OZ you forgot about the flipflops

those are a must have item of you are to run a saw with a 48" bar running 10,000 RPM in the Philippines

 

[ozexpat]

OZ you forgot about the flipflops

those are a must have item of you are to run a saw with a 48" bar running 10,000 RPM in the Philippines

lol

flip flops are the heavy industry, farm and construction workers' shoe of choice

 

[piglett]

lol

flip flops are the heavy industry, farm and construction workers' shoe of choice

no need to ask if the chainsaw operator has been doing that type of work for very long

just count toes

if he has all his still, he must be a greenhorn

if he is missing at least 1 he understands the dangers of the job

 

[ozexpat]

here is an older pic of the chainsaw guy milling coco lumber. i will ask mrs oz to get a closer pic if she is on site when he comes this week

 

[Tomtommom]

That is some REALLY nicely cut lumber.. sadly better looking than half the stuff you get at Lowes/Homedepot and that stuff is cut by a machine!

 

[ozexpat]

That is some REALLY nicely cut lumber.. sadly better looking than half the stuff you get at Lowes/Homedepot and that stuff is cut by a machine!

Ironically, I dream of using lowes lumber for construction. Its straight and uniform. The last hardwood lumber we pulled from under the workers house was so hard it was bending concrete nails.

This Neem lumber is worth drying and planing and will make some nice boards. I will use it for doors and windows.

We have a tree that needs to be felled close to the road that will be in the way of the road expansion. They call it a pine but its more of a swamp oak. When dry it cannot be nailed and drills scorch their way through it. If used with old school furniture techniques though, its magnificent.

The tree in question has a good 400 board feet of usable lumber.

 

[ozexpat]

This week's to do list for Mrs Oz:

Have coop three cleaned out and re-littered for the 3 week old "kano" chicks coming out of the brooder.
Add 10lb hanging feeders to all coops.
Clean out pipe feeders and fill them all with crushed oyster shells.
On 8"x8" squares of plywood, paint the number for each coop to aid communication.
Build the grow out nipa hut and pen
Have the chainsaw guy mill the new logs as well as have him try and get as many 1x4 boards out of the left overs of the big log.

Set quail, chukar, guinea on Wednesday morning.
Set chicken eggs on Saturday 6pm.

If going to Kabankalan, take Ibo to fill sacks with Mok the duck man's composted sawdust.

Plant Ipil-Ipil seedlings every 10 feet along newly completed fence.

Sew 100 Ipil-Ipil seeds in 6" pots nursery.

Sew thirty-six tomato seeds, 18 pepper 18 egg plant seeds in flats

Go to sawmill for another trailer load of fresh sawdust. Layer 6 inches of sawdust and 1" of chicken manure or three inches of pig or carabao manure along with spent rice husk litter from brooders in new compost bay

 

[Phage]

Love how everything gets used up and where possible reused!!!

 

[ozexpat]

Love how everything gets used up and where possible reused!!!

Its a very different world to our disposable society

 

[Tomtommom]

Ironically, I dream of using lowes lumber for construction. Its straight and uniform. The last hardwood lumber we pulled from under the workers house was so hard it was bending concrete nails.

This Neem lumber is worth drying and planing and will make some nice boards. I will use it for doors and windows.

We have a tree that needs to be felled close to the road that will be in the way of the road expansion. They call it a pine but its more of a swamp oak. When dry it cannot be nailed and drills scorch their way through it. If used with old school furniture techniques though, its magnificent.

The tree in question has a good 400 board feet of usable lumber.

Lumber quality has been getting rough in the past few years... It's pitiful what you can pull off a brand new pallet of 2x4s. Quality is one of those things that gets tossed out the window to keep low prices. The Wal-Mart effect.

If you can't drill and can't nail, isn't it too hard to cut for dovetail construction? Or you cut it when still wet?