The 300 log number is the "equivalent" number of logs in my pattern. Now the market here for eastern white pine is more developed and goes to a log kit company that saws them to replicate hewed style wall logs, borate dipped, dovetail corners. I made the white pine into T&G 2圆 ceilings, 2x12,etc floor joists and 4圆 rafters plus ~ 4-5k' of interior trim material-walls, window trim, etc. Part of the deal I made with the logger was to but a bunch of nice eastern white pine that he had no market to sell as a favor of sorts for getting the prime pine house logs. SYP, is seen in my area but not common in quantity like deep south. He also had a sideline of hammering circle saws which came to him from miles around, to include out of state. The man who sawed mine to 6" thick, bark in & out was the dean of sawyers in our area. I specified minimum of 8.5" small end and ~ 12" big end. My house is "stack log" style, thus I could use various lengths but most are 16', a few 20' and 10 through14's too. They are SYP, planted in a plantation by one of the area CCC, Civilian Conservation Corps camps. He retired last year and was the last one I or the contractors knew of in this area that would fool with house logs to suit them, I have had a few calls asking who they can buy logs from now, as they usually line up their logs before they bid a house. I do know these guys are super picky and the one logger has been supplying house logs for the last 20 or more years. I guess if they need anything shorter they cut them from the longer ones they have ordered. A typical load for a house will have 37's, 41's 45's 50's 55's and usually a 60, sometimes a 65. I think the shortest house log I have ever ordered is 37 foot. If he has orders for them, I will usually deliver them with the bark on, as soon as weight restrictions go off in the spring, any that are not sold he has peeled. Towards the end of the logging season, right before breakup I will haul them to a yard in town. He generally shovel logs, but house logs will get skidded instead cut to popular lengths, with the lengths marked on the ends and stacked separately. Any he thinks will make a house log is hand falled and limbed instead of dropped with a feller buncher and run through a delimber. I can't imagine peeling 300 logs, the contractors here order the length logs they need and are very particular, the logger knows most standard and over the course of the logging season keeps his eye out for house logs. I was talking to one contractor I delivered logs to with the bark still on, he uses several people and pays by the foot for this, he said some people struggle to make 10 bucks an hour while others will easily make 25 bucks or more. The builders (contractors) that buy them still have to do the finish peeling. The gut that uses the junk draw knofe and clam shovel, is just doing the initial peeling, in other words getting the bark off, so the bugs will not attack it. Keep us posted on how you like your new peeler, what kind of finish it leaves and how easy it is to use. It is no problem keeping the logs 3 years before selling them if peeled. Like I said this is our white spruce, and probably easy compared to other species, and the peeling has to be done in a short time window, maybe 2 weeks or a little longer, but has to be done or the bark sets and in another few weeks will get worms, that ruins them for house logs. The bark off of the whole log comes off in one piece and looks like a leather carpet under the log. There is a window there that the bark slips right off of the spruce we have, he has one guy come out and he will peel all the logs, which is up 10 semi loads, with an old just an old wore out busted draw knife (one handle is broken off) to start it, then uses of all things a clam shovel. The logger I haul for that deals in house logs, cuts in winter and sells them with the bark on, except for for the logs that don't sell by spring. I deliver house logs to other contractors, and they also peel by hand. he has 3 log wizards, but does not use them for peeling, that is done by hand. I have never peeled a log, that said I have a very good friend that has built natural log houses for a living for many years.
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