CUT THE CRAP: Pine!

[Banjo picker]

Sometimes you get a blade that just does a good job on pine.  I had a blade on day before yesterday that I had run about 3 hours.  It's was still cutting good, but yesterday morning I had a very large very knotty log to saw so I decided to take it off and put on a fresh sharpened & thicker (.050) blade.  I think the other was .045 or so....both super sharps.  The thick blade just wouldn't cut straight.  I gave it 3 passes trying to get a smooth pass....it was very knotty.  I didn't want to go to the house and get another blade, so I just put the one I had used the day before back on. Cut perfect.  I used it the rest of the day cut a little over 1000 bf with it.  Took it off brought it in and checked it under the light and the corners were still crisp and sharp, but there was a little shine on the tooth and the set was down to 15 thousandth....so it will need setting before I sharpen it.  If it never cuts another lick it has been a good one.  Tim

[doc henderson]

a lot of the pine I had trouble with was fresh cut, and with all the little nubby limbs on still.  we do not have big forested areas in Ks. (lots of branches). from a plane you can see all  the creeks and waterways lined with trees.  I have cut some lately, that had been drying as cants, or laying around.  along with all the other tuning I did, they cut much better.