Sawing Stickers

[DM]

Stickers are 1"x1"x4' sticks of wood, that are used to go between layers of lumber off the sawmill, as it's stacked for air drying. I was running low on them, so i milled a few of them up to get me by for a while...

I had a short oak log laying around that i cut out of the top of a tree, LONG time ago... This log has been laying around here "at least" a couple of years, but it will still make decent "stickers"... I already had a nice maple on the mill bunks, but i have enough track so i can easily set the short oak on the mill too...

First i sawed a slab off the log, then turned the log 180* and took the second slab off...

http://www.fototime.com/D622063AC250C6E/standard.jpg

Next i took a couple 1" flitches off (i saw my stickers 1"x1")

http://www.fototime.com/DA1B14424D61988/standard.jpg

Setting the flitches aside, i turned the log 90*, and took the third slab off, and with one last turn the last slab also came off...

http://www.fototime.com/8EFEA24B27EBA59/standard.jpg

[DM]

Now i loaded some of the flitches/boards back on the mill and started making 1" cuts, getting several 1"x1" stickers with each pass...

http://www.fototime.com/0990ADC2E3BDCA0/standard.jpg

Untill i had a pile of stickers all sawn out,

http://www.fototime.com/C5530B55913D8DB/standard.jpg

Now, all that was left to do, was to put some straps on the stickers so they will dry reasonably straight to be ready for use at a later date!

http://www.fototime.com/9F0006704A1092D/standard.jpg

That's how i turn an old short log into something useful...

DM

[NCLee]

Nice setup you have there.

And, a good idea for stickers. I'd never thought about making them using the mill, itself. Sure beats cutting them with a tablesaw, that's for sure.

Lee