A day cutting wood

Peter Drouin · April 29, 2013, 12:46:58 PM

It's a lot of work to set up and brake down, but fun, and Im wellcome to set up there anytime, for 0 $ to me outher than my time and logs and gas :D :D :D :D :D :D 8) 8) 8)

Peter Drouin · April 29, 2013, 06:53:01 PM

The new job, well not quite what I thought I was going to see :D I had to put wood under the tires

soft there

some logs in a pile and some not :D

the customer has to move some over

and these I can't get to

:D :D do you see the size of this w pine tree I put the saw down so you can see the size of the thing

there moving the logs with this, a baby one :D :D

and the first log 16' has 475 bf in it

My poor back :D :D :D :D :D

Magicman · April 29, 2013, 07:20:36 PM

I say it looks like a nice whack.

Since it is drying out a bit here, I got another call yesterday and two today. I just counted the list. 25

Thankfully some are small.

Peter Drouin · April 29, 2013, 08:37:58 PM

With 25 jobs thats a whack, and buy the time you get done there be 25 more :D :D Good for you MM and good luck 8) 8) 8) 8) 8) 8)

WDH · April 29, 2013, 08:59:25 PM

Peter,
After seeing that log, my LT15 would have quit and just went back home without me ;D.

Magicman · April 29, 2013, 09:04:16 PM

Some will never be sawed for various reasons. I have watched staged logs rot on the ground because the landowner changed his mind, lost his health, or whatever. My list seldom gets below about a dozen jobs of various sizes.

WDH · April 29, 2013, 09:07:41 PM

I custom sawed some oak logs a week ago for a customer that has bought a lot of lumber from me. I did it more as a favor. After hitting a nail and several screws and ruining three blades, I decided that I will leave the custom sawing of yard trees to you professionals

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Magicman · April 29, 2013, 09:11:40 PM

Yeah, right, thanks. :-\ :D

thecfarm · April 29, 2013, 09:45:50 PM

Peter,I must be an old man too. ;D

Magicman · April 29, 2013, 09:54:22 PM

Hey, no fair bringing age into the gitty-up-go picture. :D

Peter Drouin · April 29, 2013, 10:40:00 PM

Quote from: Magicman on April 29, 2013, 09:54:22 PM
Hey, no fair bringing age into the gitty-up-go picture. :D

at 69 MM you do well, Im 58 and hope I can still gitty, up at 69, thats why I have a chair on the mill when Im 100 , just set me in it and I cut and have a 50 something take the wood a way :D :D :D

Peter Drouin · April 30, 2013, 06:30:46 PM

Well to day started not good I put on a new WM blade and cut in the 475bf log and my cuts look like the ocean in a storm :D :D :D
so I slowed the blade down, well that helped but not good enough
so I put on a new blade 2# turn the log and cut, pulled the slab off and there was the ocean, now this log was not the best but come on I want a flat cut,over the years I have had new blades not work the way I want no big deal, so I am having a little fit, so put on a new blade 3# as I was backing up I hit pat for 1" then went forward but the head was not all the down to the next cut, so now I have the blade in the cant and the head going down, not good, so I backed up and that pulled the blade off
so I get blade 4#, all this in a 1/2 hr so Im putting on the 4# blade and I see the blade guard was loose

what had happing is theres a small allen screw that fell out

and this is where it gos

the pic is after I got one from the hardware store, the thing was dulling the blade and taking out the set the first time around, it would get all cockeyed :D :D :D smiley_dizzy

well after all that the mill cut like a champ
3500 bf more or less
now I have to go sharpen some blades :D :D

WDH · April 30, 2013, 08:37:09 PM

Next time if you leave more than a quarter for the wood nymphs, the set screw will not fall out. Down here, the wood nymphs like grits (and Jim Beam, just not together ;D).

Jim_Rogers · May 02, 2013, 06:33:13 PM

Peter:
I know exactly what you mean.

I didn't start my day off very well.
First or second cut, right into the log rest:

I don't think I've ever bent teeth over this bad before.

And last cut of the day:

Last cut of the day, because I've had enough fun for one day..... :'( :D

Jim Rogers

Peter Drouin · May 02, 2013, 08:48:01 PM

Hi Jim, ya some days don;t go well
But to day I finish a job today 6,400 bf all but 200 bf was w pine

the customer brought in the logs to me

so line up was not bad :D :D
last night when I sharpen some blades I had 2 new ones that are junk when I hit the blade guide :D

back of my truck with my junk :D :D :D
at lunch I pant my mill with ATF

and that too
do any of you guys use the new debarker wheel it's 1/2 wide

Magicman · May 05, 2013, 06:04:42 PM

Not yet, but I have seen the advertisement. How does it do with smaller logs? It seems like only the lower corner would hit, but of course if it is sharp it should still cut a path.

Peter Drouin · May 05, 2013, 07:20:04 PM

Quote from: Magicman on May 05, 2013, 06:04:42 PM
Not yet, but I have seen the advertisement. How does it do with smaller logs? It seems like only the lower corner would hit, but of course if it is sharp it should still cut a path.
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with w pine it works ok but with hard wood ,you have to cut slower because the lower corner will hit, you have to give it time to dig in.
will see how it gos, and MM it will throw more bark in your face then the old one did :D :D :D :D so now I hold my head off to one side when I use the debarker :D :D

drobertson · May 05, 2013, 08:19:57 PM

thinking about the newer de-barkers made me remember back when I was shopping for a mill, and the best thing going then was the ole log wizzard that hooked to chain saws! sure glad we don't have this to worry about! what a chore this must be to clean off logs,

Peter Drouin · May 05, 2013, 09:58:40 PM

Quote from: drobertson on May 05, 2013, 08:19:57 PM
thinking about the newer de-barkers made me remember back when I was shopping for a mill, and the best thing going then was the ole log wizzard that hooked to chain saws! sure glad we don't have this to worry about! what a chore this must be to clean off logs,

I had one and it worked good, back in the day :D :D :D ;D