Just a bad productive week.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Just one of those weeks.

Started off...the HD starter that turns the pump started slowing down. Then it got to where it would quit. To finish a job I would have to tap on it LIGHTLY with a small hammer to get the HD's to work.
During this time of tapping and sawing....BAM.....a weak HD hose blew. I went ahead and took 2 hoses off since they both had a little skin damage.

Got the HD hoses off and made sure I pulled twine through the main beam to be able to pull the new lines back through.

So now, I take the HD motor out.


  

 

Call Woodmizer....over night shipment for new brushes for the starter motor and a new filter.
The next morning, BAM.....brushes and filter arrive.

Now off to drop off the brushes and motor / pump at my friends generator shop.
While he installs the new brushes, I go get 2 new HD hoses.....$165.00....

Come back to pickup my motor / pump....takes 20 minutes to fix and test.


  

 

If anyone is wondering, 1600 hours on my mill, got new brushes in. WOW.....I had forgotten how fast the HD system worked on the LT40.

During my down time this week, I cleaned and put together a station for sawing stickers. Its a big help....the chainsaw was getting old.


 

Got the mill put back together.....its hard to believe how much sawdust can accumulate inside the main beam on a Woodmizer. But you'll find out when you have to pull out hoses and replace them.  :D

Sooo, today I sawed 925 bf of the most prettiest Poplar I've seen in a while. I sawed, brought it to Kirk and he brushed, stack and stickered it all. This lumber is going to cabinet makers.


  

  

 

Toward the end of the job the drive belt started to talk to me a little every now and again. 
Took the panels off and.... BAM....the belt is started to split. I looked at the clock....10 after 5. Hummm, gotta find me a "time zone" that can help me. Georgia and Carolina closed.....called Indy....Indy says UPS has already run for the day and couldn't get a belt to me in the morning. So they call Oregon Woodmizer FOR ME....BAM.....they hooked me up. My drive belt is on the way and will be at the mill around 10 am. I'm loving Woodmizer's love for Goats. So in the morning...I'll install my new belt and start again. 
All in all...got a lot done while down if that makes since.  ;D

[dustyhat]

That lumber sure looks neat , but that work bench on the other hand. ;D

[redbeard]

It's nice to get organized once in awhile. Stacks look really nice n neat.  One question though, what's the sticker on the end of the 2x4 on your chopsaw table tell me its not a box store 2x 4..

[Bruno of NH]

Great looking stack of wood !
Some days just hurt the coin drawer .
Good luck with the belt in the morning .
Jim/Bruno

[YellowHammer]

Sounds like it could have been worse!  My question, other than an observation that the the poplar is stacked too pretty to sell, is a how do you get UPS to deliver in the morning??  ???
I always get my stuff at 4:35PM, when I'm too tired to do anything.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Sounds like it could have been worse!  My question, other than an observation that the the poplar is stacked too pretty to sell, is a how do you get UPS to deliver in the morning??  ???
I always get my stuff at 4:35PM, when I'm too tired to do anything.

Our ups come in the morning.....our FED-EX comes at 4:35 pm...so I requested UPS. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

That lumber sure looks neat , but that work bench on the other hand. ;D

Hey...thats the best a goat can do.  :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

One question though, what's the sticker on the end of the 2x4 on your chopsaw table tell me its not a box store 2x 4..

Yep....they came from SLOWE'S.  I didn't have 1-1/2 inch to fit my saw horse hardware at the mill. I keep true 2x's. Plus the mill was down so I bit the bullet and bought stow-bought lumber.  ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Let me give a little credit here.....during my down time, I called Magicman and CustomSawyer (Jake from State Farm) and told them the problems I was having. Believe it or not, they were a lot of help.
Its good to have friends on the FF you can call during bad times to get the spirits lifted back up.
A BIG THANKS!

[Magicman]

I am glad that you caught the brushes before you burned the motor armature. It's good to see that you are up and running again.

[Magicman]

 

I called Magicman and CustomSawyer....Its good to have friends on the FF you can call during bad times to get the spirits lifted back up.

Are you saying that you have friends in low places??

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

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[taylorsmissbeehaven]

Some goats just have it made! That's my kinda shop in the picture. I know where everything is and nobody else does. Im cutting a whack of poplar right now myself. If you have a minute PM me, Id like to know how many logs made that lumber. Its good to have friends in any place, Brian

[Oliver05262]

Tha goat sez:
"Come back to pickup my motor / pump....takes 20 minutes to fix and test."

By the looks of that bench, it "might" take 20 minutes to FIND your motor. Don't set any pieces down !!!!

[SawyerBrown]

You might feel more at home in Ala-BAM-a.  ;D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

You might feel more at home in Ala-BAM-a.  ;D

....BAM......you told me.  :D :D :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

By the looks of that bench, it "might" take 20 minutes to FIND your motor. Don't set any pieces down !!!!

The place looks like a goat snake pit. There's motors, generators, alternators and junk every where.  :D

[scleigh]

Sometimes it seems everything breaks at once.
A month ago, the hydraulic cylinder on my Case lift tractor started to pour oil. After talking to a few people about coming to take a look at it, I decided to do it myself.
After getting the cylinder off and taking it to be fixed, driving an hour back, before my day job, and putting it all back together, I was pleased that I got it all done in a few weeks.
Well, that lasted about 2 days. The second time I used the lift, I noticed oil on the cylinder, at least it's not pouring oil like before :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

It happens.  :D

[customsawyer]

I think at the next sycamore project you need to give a class on stickering lumber.  :D

[Magicman]

Sooo, today I sawed 925 bf of the most prettiest Poplar I've seen in a while. I sawed, brought it to Kirk and he brushed, stack and stickered it all.

I think at the next sycamore project you need to give a class on stickering lumber.

Sooo, is Kirk going to give the class??   ???    :D

[drobertson]

Break downs occur, seemingly at the worst times, I figure Murphey's Law,  and your repair shop has close similarities to ours here in town, I reckon it is the nature of the beast, but they do good work,  that stack looks as good as any I have seen, it helps to have straight flat lumber to work with.

[4x4American]

Sounds like it could have been worse!  My question, other than an observation that the the poplar is stacked too pretty to sell, is a how do you get UPS to deliver in the morning??  ???
I always get my stuff at 4:35PM, when I'm too tired to do anything.

If you know where the UPS distribution center is, and you're expecting an important package, you can call them and have them leave it there and go pick it up yourself, when you can.  For me, the UPS dist center is only a 20 min drive or so.  I get deliveries at about 6pm from the UPS driver.  So if it's important, I go pick it up in the morning.

[red]

1600 hours?  . . You must have left the key On when you went on Vacation

[samandothers]

I am struck by how straight and true the poplar is.  I have been getting schooled in stress by some I am cutting for a barn.

Glad you got your stuff up and going!