wavy cuts on just one side

Kingcha · September 03, 2013, 09:47:37 PM

Changed out the blade today as I was getting a few lines in the last batch of Maple

Today I was cutting some blue stained pine. I did not notice it as first as it was only doing it on the board side of the cut. The log side did not show anything at all.

Most of the lines where not that apparent. I did have a number of really hard knots that I sawed through.

I will try a new blade tomorrow, but does this sound like just a blade issue or my mill needing an adjustment. I have run less then 3000 bf so far on my mill.

matt

Magicman · September 03, 2013, 09:52:57 PM

Not a sawmill issue. That blade has one tooth with considerably less set.

Kingcha · September 03, 2013, 09:54:53 PM

Thanks magic, Could a hard Knot do that? effect the set that is.

LeeB · September 03, 2013, 09:59:13 PM

The blade could have hit up against something during shipping, while you were uncoiling it, while you were putting it on, any number of ways. It really doesn't look that bad.

Ga Mtn Man · September 03, 2013, 10:43:34 PM

If the blade is cutting easy and straight then keep using it unless you have a particular need for really smooth lumber. If you reject every blade that doesn't cut glass-smooth you're gonna go through a lot of blades. I had one customer disappointing that the lumber I was sawing for him wasn't "rough-sawn". A couple of minutes with a pair of channel-locs fixed that (I used them on the blade, not the customer).

Magicman · September 03, 2013, 10:55:31 PM

I sawed some "non-skid" Cypress treads for the stairs leading from the ground to a customer's fish camp. It is on poles and probably 30' high. ;D

beenthere · September 03, 2013, 11:02:49 PM

Quote(I used them on the blade, not the customer)

:D :D :D

Kingcha · September 03, 2013, 11:09:03 PM

Thanks Paul, since I am getting one side good I guess I will just keep using it. I will look at the teeth and see if I can see the problem. Being so new to this I need all the help I can get. ;D

matt
My former life was in the restaurant business, so using them pliers on the customer sounded like fun :D

Deese · September 03, 2013, 11:11:29 PM

I think my next business venture will be selling sawmill/planer combo value packages. 8)

redbeard · September 04, 2013, 12:34:12 AM

Matt use a crescent wrench with jaws opened just enough to let blade pass through with blade under full tension . Out of set teeth will show up mark them and fix them with the wrench.