Day 474 - Flooding, Stickers + Stickers, Profit
In a flash, it floods. This year has been a bit crazy with the volume of rain we have had. We got another flash flood on a day with a very low chance of rain. Oh well.
On the mill, I batched out another round of stickers and neatly stacked them to dry with a fan on them. Cutting stickers is the necessary boring part of milling. If I can find a faster way to get all of the sticky sawdust off of the wood after cutting it wouldn't be as bad. I've tried scraping it with various tools, blowing the sawdust off with a leaf blower and with compressed air, and brushing it off with a few different brushes and brooms. Compressed air works the best right now. I think if I can get the lubrication drip system to drop less water, I'll have less heavy, wet, and sticky sawdust. This process will improve over time.
In other sticker news, my sticker door has begun. I like sticker collages. I started a sticker cabinet in 2014-2015, right when the sticker-swap trend blew up. I don't have any BPo3 stickers to swap just yet, though.
And finally, I made my first sale with lumber off the mill. Tony Webb from South Mississippi has some connections in the area. He came by and bought 100 bdft of green SYP for $100. He used the lumber to make outdoor crates for kids' toys. I remember my first $0.07 I made online and how excited I was. Now I can remember my first lumber sale as well :)
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