Will i ever learn ?

goose63 · May 09, 2015, 06:12:33 PM

You would think by now I would know better

Brad_bb · May 09, 2015, 06:41:12 PM

I did it this week too cutting stickers.

Ocklawahaboy · May 09, 2015, 07:00:57 PM

So far, I have only hit one tooth on mill metal. Just one, knock on wood.

acrosteve · May 09, 2015, 07:01:24 PM

Me too, fresh blade made it hurt even worse. Just the 2nd pass with it.

POSTON WIDEHEAD · May 09, 2015, 07:26:40 PM

....it depends. Are you a metal worker and found a piece of wood or are you a wood worker and found a piece of metal?......asked the Goat.

goose63 · May 09, 2015, 07:35:07 PM

Goat if I could weld wood I would make a DanG good wood worker

I did fing some good looking pine

East ky logging · May 09, 2015, 07:37:56 PM

Yea my woodmizer will cut about anything but the backstops and believe me I've tried several times

Magicman · May 09, 2015, 07:41:14 PM

We can all chuckle when someone else does it....[spoiler]because our time is coming...AGAIN.[/spoiler]

goose63 · May 09, 2015, 08:13:34 PM

So true Magicman

rooster 58 · May 09, 2015, 08:45:26 PM

Yup. This past Thursday I scalped a back support. I looked first and said that'll make it. But no dice

fishfighter · May 09, 2015, 09:05:18 PM

Quote from: rooster 58 on May 09, 2015, 08:45:26 PM
Yup. This past Thursday I scalped a back support. I looked first and said that'll make it. But no dice

Did that twice. Talk about wanting to bang my head on a tree. ;D

Magicman · May 09, 2015, 09:32:37 PM

And if you bang the front side, it will not have any teeth either. :

:D

Ocklawahaboy · May 09, 2015, 09:43:48 PM

Some day they will make a mill where the stops and blade height are coordinated so that doesn't happen.

Magicman · May 09, 2015, 09:55:36 PM

I believe that EZ Boardwalk has a device that will not allow the blade to hit the sawmill. Someone chime in and correct me or verify this.

UN Hooker · May 09, 2015, 11:13:46 PM

I could see this happening to me, so last weekend while waiting for some paint to dry between coats, I added another mod to the LT-15. ;D UN

gimpy · May 10, 2015, 02:14:15 AM

I'm a newbie but haven't tried to saw metal, YET. However, I did find out what happens when you saw a log before you put tension on the blade. I've also found out why you want to open the gas can vent. Same with the water bottle vent. Slowly but surely I'm learning some procedures one needs to learn before they start doing the work.

But I am putting sawdust on the ground and having a blast doing it. Just got another load of logs today.

thecfarm · May 10, 2015, 05:59:05 AM

I have a Thomas and my log stops go straight up and down. I marked mine with inch marks,4 inches is really 3½ and 6 is 5½ and so on. That gives me a ½ inch to clear them works out great now. But I was cutting flitches at 6 inches and saw a bad spot that I did not notice when I set them up and dropped down to 4 inches and started to saw.

Delawhere Jack · May 10, 2015, 07:40:26 PM

Jack: Hello, my name is Jack.
Sawyers: Hello Jack.
Jack: I went 18 months without hitting my mill. Then, two weeks ago, I brushed the top of a stop, and milled straight into the short clamp extension.
Lead Sawyer: And how did that make you feel Jack?
Jack: I didn't like it. I don't want to do it again.
Jack: I haven't hit metal in 14 days.......

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Nomad · May 10, 2015, 08:30:15 PM

Ooooh, no. I've never done anything like that! :

:D

fishfighter · May 10, 2015, 09:00:43 PM

Quote from: thecfarm on May 10, 2015, 05:59:05 AM
I have a Thomas and my log stops go straight up and down. I marked mine with inch marks,4 inches is really 3½ and 6 is 5½ and so on. That gives me a ½ inch to clear them works out great now. But I was cutting flitches at 6 inches and saw a bad spot that I did not notice when I set them up and dropped down to 4 inches and started to saw.

Can't see that far anymore. :D

zopi · May 10, 2015, 09:07:53 PM

Still better than a fence insulator.

Ox · May 10, 2015, 09:55:00 PM

If it's any consolation for anybody I sawed into my backstop the second day I used my new homebuilt mill.
It's now been another two days.
I'm feeling jittery.

Don_Papenburg · May 10, 2015, 10:09:56 PM

Make them backstops outa wood

gww · May 10, 2015, 10:25:00 PM

Mine are actually wood and I sawed through one today. Knew I was going to do it but I was to lazy to bang it down with a hammer while halfway through a cut. The wood is easy to replace.

When I had guides on the guide would hit them and not let me go forward if they where to high. Same thing with knotts. I have to have a clean log at the backstop or I have to make my first cut in the middle of the deck and then turn it to the back stop.

I had metal that I was going to use but never got it cut down to the correct size cause using ripped 2x4s ended up being so easy.

Cheers
gww