Made from cable spool, hardware cloth, broken brace and bit, cedar, walnut, pine.

Hauling trash, overview of dump bed, troubleshooting motor, shifting gears.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We had a stand that was just about gone, so we refurbished it, lifted it and decorated it. The stand is on a remote part of our property so we built a garage to park the four wheeler in when its raining. Inspired by my grandfather's duck hunting adventures.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

We re-purposed metal roof (that's why the different colors), cut our own cedar timbers on a vintage sawmill, used a homemade ditcher, re-used railroad trestle timbers, and built a 12'x16' greenhouse for approximately $6000.

Here are the steps:
00:00:00 1 intro
00:01:19 2 design
00:02:04 3 below
00:09:04 4 foundation
00:19:05 5 logging
00:29:09 6 walls
00:43:49 7 skinning
01:07:17 8 roof
01:26:45 9 re-erecting
01:45:30 10 walkabout
01:53:48 11 reckoning

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Pignut hickory germinated before WW2 died last summer. It was competing with an oak & winning in the center of canopy. Used chainsaws and rope saws and a tractor to fall it aways from the kid's fort. Charted the growth rings. Made some beautiful hickory planks.

Adding 3 More Steps, Install Mini Split

Our garage is a spill out area for our 800 square foot haybarn conversion home.

We show the TWENTY-TWO steps to install a 120 VOLT Senville Leto mini split heat pump.

Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

For entertainment use only. Ignition coil outputs 20-40kV. Sperry contactless meter rated to 600V. The electromagnetic field reaches more than 12" from insulated secondary wire. The input to the coil is 24V but it is intermittent so a digital VOM will not accurately measure.

The motor runs off of wellhead gas.

Lots of ranch activities today! We buzzsaw some firewood and charcoal the chunks. Plant some pole beans, and go back to the sawmill where we find a misalignment problem. This discovery of a sawmill problem shuts down the sawmill.

We are building a greenhouse and will move it to location in 4 lifts. This is the lifting eye connection to walls.

The church pecan trunk was over 30" so Doc & I went in halves on Jesper Moreau's Norwood HD36 bandmill.

Had some free help at the sawmill milling cracked up pecan taken down by an excavator. The ex-pilot runs the mill and a local builder offloads the boards. Sent the flitches to the buzzsaw for smoking operations.

Bandsaw mill on tensioned walnut

Walnut top and bois d'arc both milled on sawmill.

Daylight mating

We dig up our 2022 fall potatoes and make pan fried flat bread.

Picking them from wild plants in the forest

Jase Robertson explains our sawmill sign.

Milled a couple of wild persimmon logs. Camera girl makes persimmon pudding and we eat it. The soothsayer splits some persimmon seeds to glimpse the up coming winter weather. Use buzz saw to make persimmon firewood. Shoot down a wasp nest with a slingshot and sweetgum ball. Take a break from sawmilling and pick and eat some fresh cantaloupe.

Used tractor grapple, chainsaw, Foley Belsaw M-14 circle sawmill. Triple T Ranch & Sawmill on Choctaw Ridge is homesteading with a sawmill & anvil.

Our telephone pole guy wire was close to our driveway and did not have a yellow cover. So we fixed it for $2.50

Was tired of wrestling with the auger when connecting to my tractor. Came up with this fixture to make it easy to hook up.

Everything you need to know :)
Broke off tire valve stem moving brush. This fix helped me get it back to my shop floor.

Carved by culinary expert

Wyatt's first woodworking project. Purchased drawknife off of marketplace for $40.