Setting up a corley 395

jopoff1981 · September 06, 2015, 02:27:51 PM

Hi I am new on here and I just picked up a Corley 395 last weekend. It has a 471 Detroit. I am gonna set it up in the next few weeks and hope to be sawing soon. Any advise is appreciated

jopoff1981 · September 06, 2015, 03:12:28 PM

I'm also wondering how much I should be able to saw a day.

smwwoody · September 06, 2015, 04:38:39 PM

production depends on what type of support equipment and how much labor you have

beenthere · September 06, 2015, 04:40:29 PM

How much you can saw will depend a whole lot on you and your help. As well, your equipment available for getting logs to the mill and lumber, sawdust, and slabs away.

If you haven't already seen it, here is a good circular saw booklet with many facts...

http://www.fpl.fs.fed.us/documnts/misc/circsaw.pdf

jopoff1981 · September 06, 2015, 07:58:21 PM

I plan to hire someone to offbear right now I have a backhoe with forks to move logs and slabs and unload the trucks. Just wondering if a load a week is possible I plan on buying poplar logs I have a friend in some real big nice poplar. And have another friend with a trucking company to haul for me.

Corley5 · September 06, 2015, 08:04:48 PM

Log quality means a lot when it comes to production. With good logs and support equipment two guys on the tail end would be kept busy.

thecfarm · September 06, 2015, 09:33:48 PM

jopoff1981,welcome to the forum.

Ron Wenrich · September 06, 2015, 10:52:16 PM

I had a similar setup when I started out, but my support equipment included 2 mill hands. One ran the edger and offbeared, and the other stacked lumber and ran loader. I did a trailer load of 8' poplar in a day. Typical production was about 5 Mbf/day. I cut grade and pallet blocking. Longer lengths would shorten the time to do a trailer load of logs.

I would be putting in an edger if you don't have one. It will be better efficiency. I'd also look at something other than a backhoe with forks. They're not designed to move lumber, logs and slabs. I don't think you'll be able to reach high enough to unload trucks and get the logs over the bunks.