July 2006 Meeting

The meeting was held at Mike Zientek's shop

Mary Robbins starts show and tell

Jim Hilburger explains how he glued up his stopper blanks

Kurt Hertzog is into piercing

The demo was by John Bathrick

John brought his portable saw mill

John's rig is good size and has a hydraulic lift and rotate capacity

It can handle good size logs with little manhandling required

While there is some manual labor one person can run it easily

The log is rotated with hydraulic lifts

John takes cuts off the outside of the log

Some of Mike's cherry previously cut and stacked