Girl with a mill (part 2, now with hydro power and a new home)

[chelle]

Hey everyone, it's been a long time since I've posted on here but I have been checking in from time to time. I just thought I'd update my gallery with the pics of my new saw shed and the revamped Norwood mill. I've extended the track that I built and I've added hydro power. What a difference and a pleasure to mill with. I did all the design and fab/ welding myself but the log clamp idea came from a picture on google. I really just gussed at the linkage points but it worked with only minimal changes. The shed is 20 x 30 and 16' tall. There is now 7 x 14 cross beams on the ends and I'm welding 16" x 20' wide flange beams together to make a crane rail. HD but it'll work. The vertical posts are 12" x 12" fir that I milled at my neighbors. The steel trusses are from the scrap yard. It'll grow eventually but it's a good start.

Cheers, Michelle



  

 

[fishpharmer]

chelle, fantastic shed you built yourself! The mill track and hydraulics look factory made, well done!   8)

Do you have any closeup pictures of the steel truss attachment to the vertical posts?  The reason I ask is I have some similar trusses that I would like to use to build a similarly designed saw shed.  Thanks for sharing.

[Chuck White]

Good to hear from you again!

[WDH]

Very well done!

[york]

chelle,yes good to see you back-wonder could you post the google link for the turner??? Am impressed with your work.
albert

[MotorSeven]

Wow Michelle...think big or go home eh?

Can you post up more on your log turner? My LT15 operator really needs one :D

[Bill Gaiche]

Very nice  Michelle. I was in Kamloops last Sept. Nice place to live. bg

[chelle]

Hi All. I've been working my butt off for the part month to get this mill to where it is. I've got all the gearing/ 12v gear motor in place to have remote up and down of the carrige. The only things still on my list are remote throttle and debarker. There is also another clamp system right beside the hydro one. I don't have it set up yet but it's more for edging as I don't have an edger yet . . . yet. It works for now with a cordless impact driver and a 3/4" socket.

The link is from the Timbertools site. The mill is a German mill by Serra. If you follow the link it'll take you to the page that I saw the log clamp. Patented so sorry German guys. I copied it, sort of. Scroll down and you'll see four pix of a log clamp. WRONG ONE, I tried it out with pieces of flat bar, didn't work. The pic below that is the right one.

http://www.timbertools.com/serra-sawmills/details.html

Do you have any closeup pictures of the steel truss attachment to the vertical posts?  The reason I ask is I have some similar trusses that I would like to use to build a similarly designed saw shed.  Thanks for sharing.
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I don't think I do but I'll check. The trusses are awesome to work with. I welded tabs so that every roof joist is lag bolted in place. I made 3/8" plate brackets for the top of each post that the trusses sit on. The trusses are then lag bolted through the brackets. Solid.

And yes, Kamloops is an awesome place to live.

Cheers

[Lud]

Nice work.  Impressive.  What direction does the shed  face?  What kind of weather is it going to handle?

[bandmiller2]

Chelle,so  refreashing to see a girl not worried about her nails.My first circular mill building used four of the same 20' trusses you used to  make a 40' building.Used six sections of phone pole for support.Welded a plate with holes to the mounting ends of the trusses lagged to the top of the poles.Bolted 2x4 to the top of the truss to nail the rafters.Couple of years ago we had a large snowload, mall and school roofs were failing,old mill roof still standing.Thats a dandy turner/clamp you built not much different from the Piney woods model.Frank C.

[bandmiller2]

Chelle, how do you run your hydraulic pump.?Its a short step now to a powered milling head,and loader. Frank C.

[dblair]

I took a virtual tour of Kamloops . Nice place, what are winters like ? last year , here in Virginia, is was just like an extended fall never got over 2 inches of frost in the ground . that's a great looking shed you built for your mill .

[chelle]

The shed faces west but I should say that as it stands right now is only the start. Now that the cross beams are in I will be covering both ends from the cross beam up. I'm still welding the 16" steel beams together but that is my next step. There will also be a pony roof sticking out the west side 8'

The hydro pump runs off a sepatate 6 hp gas motor, barely above idle. I load the mill with my bobcat.

Kamloops is a pretty dry place but I am 30 mins north and 2500' higher so where I am there's about 2 to 3' of snow. It's also 10 degrees cooler in the summer, just nice.

[SwampDonkey]

Looks like your progressing quite well with your projects.