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Finally got another job for the mill. We hooked up with another landscaper in town. He ordered 500 hardwood stakes for the fall tree planting season. The stakes are 1 1/2 x 1 1/2 by 7' long and sharpened on one end. We sell them for 99 cents apiece. Nice money for the weekend but it takes a serious amount of wood. We are probably looking at about 1000 stakes in the spring, so the push is on for finding some more logs for the job. We have plenty of acerage for the time being, but Im not real fond of sawing prime logs into tree stakes, makes me sick . Here is one of the logs we sawed into stakes.


I thought the sun beams made a more majestic pic. This was an old log we had sitting around for 4 years. It was from a 135 year old tree, had alot of good wood in it, hated to cut it up for stakes but it had alot of knots and was impossible to get clean boards, so the stakes was really the only thing it was good for. It was about 26" at the small end.