A day cutting wood

WDH · May 14, 2013, 09:24:15 PM

As a matter of fact, I have been thinking about millshed #2

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Peter Drouin · May 15, 2013, 06:43:05 PM

Nice day to day , then the thing :D :D

what do you do with that :D :D
cut it :D

I cut the hump and look :D :D :D :D :D

From there I cut 1x12x10' some were 8' and I saved the short ones too :D I did ask the customer not to put it in the pile :D

the hump he'll get it all :D :D all by the BF

When I make my piles I leave the first board out and put the length on it. and if the sawdust gets to high I can dig and know where to start counting the pile for the BF

16 left done by noon maybe 1 :D :D

rain at 4pm going home then to town meeting to night
to keep my tax DOWN :D :D :D :D :D

Peter Drouin · May 16, 2013, 09:41:19 PM

well got done to day 4700 bf, but I broke my mill :D

the new debarker was biting hard and climbing up on the log ,and when it hit a limb stub it would jump out and bang back in to the log

. way to much bite :D :D :D in this case biger is not better ;D :

well all fix now

Iorn man wire feed works good
I have a customer in the morning with 7 or 800 bf of hard wood to do so I took the corners off to see how that works :D :D :D and yes WM will here all about it in the morning :D :D :D

and if that don't work Ill put it on the cnc and make it like the old one :D :D I think it was 1/4 or 3/8 wide not the new 1/2"

bowman316 · May 17, 2013, 02:22:59 AM

ya know, it just seems like there is no easy way to cut large amounts of lumber. I mean even if you have to top of the line professional saw mill, you still are gonna burn thru 20 blades a day. If your one of those mills that produces all of the 2 x 4s in home depot.

I mean these high volume saw mills must be changing blades every 20 mins. Seems like there should be a better way to keep a blade sharp longer.

Chuck White · May 17, 2013, 07:07:52 AM

I wasn't aware that WM has come out with a 1/2" debarker blade.

Must take some "additional" power to run that especially if you have it really loaded!

I like the 1/4" myself I have only adjusted mine up/dn maybe twice since I've had the mill. I suppose if your debarker really takes a rap once in a while it may need realignment more often!

Nice saw-job Peter!

Dave Shepard · May 17, 2013, 10:01:30 AM

I have the same mill as Peter, and in white pine I would only use 2-3 bands a day, unless I hit something. WM says 2 hours or 800 board feet for the .055" bands, so that's about right cutting boards. Because I work alone, I don't really pay attention to the hour part.

Peter Drouin · May 17, 2013, 02:26:32 PM

Quote from: Dave Shepard on May 17, 2013, 10:01:30 AM
I have the same mill as Peter, and in white pine I would only use 2-3 bands a day, unless I hit something. WM says 2 hours or 800 board feet for the .055" bands, so that's about right cutting boards. Because I work alone, I don't really pay attention to the hour part.

you cut 400' in an hr alone ?

Dave Shepard · May 17, 2013, 02:32:43 PM

More like 300. That's 2400 feet a day/3 bands. If I'm sawing 3.5 inch planking or 30' 10"x12"s, then I might saw a lot more in a day. This is stationary with a Lull or other forklift.

Peter Drouin · May 17, 2013, 06:21:55 PM

What do you use 3.5 planking for, how much do you do of 1" boards in a day, say w pine

Dave Shepard · May 17, 2013, 06:44:44 PM

The 3.5" planks were for Dutch barn threshing floors. I'm not sure what I would do an hour just sawing 1" boards as I'm usually cutting timbers, so the 1" or 5/4 is incidental to the main project.

Peter Drouin · May 17, 2013, 07:01:12 PM

I do cut a lot of 2" and 1" ,some timbers too, the last job was all 1" x as wide as I could get some where 16",
It just seems like it takes for ever to cut 1" :D :D :D but some jobs are like that
working alone I could only cut 225 BF an hr,all 1", I think im getting old :D :D

GDinMaine · May 17, 2013, 07:30:26 PM

Peter you just made me feel a bit better. I was cutting all 4/4 yesterday and the best I could do was 180 bf/hr. Granted I only had a handful of logs larger then 12" diameter and the max board width was specified as 12". So I cut some 16" down to 8" and so on. Also I'm quite a greenhorn at this. :P

Dave Shepard · May 17, 2013, 07:32:23 PM

With the forklift I load one log at a time, and push the slabs onto the loading arms. Boards go on one pile, and flitches go on another. I keep the piles close to the hitch end of the mill. At the end of the day I scoop up the flitches and take them to the edger. I don't have to handle slabs by hand, and I don't have to roll logs. I cut a bunch of tulip last year, all 1", I think that was just over 300/hr.

Peter Drouin · May 17, 2013, 11:00:10 PM

Quote from: Dave Shepard on May 17, 2013, 07:32:23 PM
With the forklift I load one log at a time, and push the slabs onto the loading arms. Boards go on one pile, and flitches go on another. I keep the piles close to the hitch end of the mill. At the end of the day I scoop up the flitches and take them to the edger. I don't have to handle slabs by hand, and I don't have to roll logs. I cut a bunch of tulip last year, all 1", I think that was just over 300/hr.

When Im home I have John deer help me ,and use the WM edger but I was working in a loggers landing, the pine was cut this past winter. when I go on a road job I just bring the mill. If I bring the john deer and the edger and the chipper I have to bring 3 or 4 men with me . then my 4700 bf job would be done in a day. I would stay on the mill all day .and let the help move the wood :D :D :D

So for an old man working alone with just the mill 67.50 an hr to cut 1" lumber I though was not bad . I can shine at 2" and biger lumber :D :D :D

I am trying to get off the road and have logs come here to me . It would be easer on me ;D

Peter Drouin · May 21, 2013, 08:24:39 PM

Had a customer want some cookies out of hemlock, I told him they will split but he said that will be ok, all 5" tall

70 of them :D

do any of you know what this is for

the bar is about 10lb and the tip is 2" or so wide and was made with the bend in it, and a T on the outher end

JohnM · May 21, 2013, 09:42:01 PM

Quote from: Peter Drouin on May 21, 2013, 08:24:39 PM
the bar is about 10lb and the tip is 2" or so wide and was made with the bend in it, and a T on the outher end

Was going to guess bark spud but now I'm thinking a lever/wedge/treefeller thingy? ???

WDH · May 21, 2013, 09:43:38 PM

It is an Offbearer Behavioral Control Device.

drobertson · May 21, 2013, 09:55:22 PM

:D :D :D "OBCD"! now thats' a good one ;D I might be afraid the offbearer might get a hold of it before me! ;D Everyday is a day of cutting something, if nothing more than through too much fat on a slab of bacon ;D david

mesquite buckeye · May 22, 2013, 12:03:08 AM

Looks like a slate bar. 8)

Peter Drouin · May 22, 2013, 09:57:55 PM

the guy that gave it to me said it was use on a railroad to move cars, but I don't think so a rr car is to much weight.
I have use it to peel a log and it worked good but at 10lb you have to be in shape :D :D
But it could be a slate bar I don't know ;D

thecfarm · May 22, 2013, 10:01:23 PM

Was it on here someone was talking about putting a derailed train car back on the tracks with some sort of pry bar? This was only off the tracks a little,not 20 feet off the tracks. They claimed it did not take much effort to do it. Maybe I am thinking it happened that way????????

bowman316 · May 23, 2013, 02:45:17 AM

Think about when your hooking up a wood chipper to a truck, or a large trailer like that.
It prob could move a RR car a few inches, to make it hitch up. Like when your chipper is an inch off track from falling down on the ball. just pry it over.

Bandmill Bandit · May 26, 2013, 10:08:48 AM

My grandpa had one like that was a part of his tool kit when he was lineman on the CPR. If I remember right he said they used it to lift/pry the rails up to change out worn ties and then put the the steel plates on the new ties that the rails set on.

I think My dad still has that "crow bar".