Sawing for the woodshop

[jdunmyer]

Well, my buddy Bob and I fired up the OLD (emphasis on 'old') sawmill for the first time in probably 6 months. My wife had bought a bunch of walnut logs to make lumber for her woodworking projects and we picked up a few more walnut logs and some sycamore. Everything ran great, and we made a pile of lumber for her. Sure felt good to make some sawdust!

Pics of the sawmill are on my website, and I recently added pics of her woodshop. Bob and I worked all Winter on that project! The shop is complete, we have to work on the 24 X 7 planer and the old Oliver 16" jointer. That's been sitting in the barn for 10 or 12 years, waiting to be resurrected.

Enjoy the pics!!

http://www.oldengine.org/members/jdunmyer

                             <<Jim>>

[Bibbyman]

Thanks for the look-see!  

Lots of work puttin' all that togeather.  Even the web page work took some amount of time.

[Jeff]

jdunmyer, I gotta get down there for a visit.  Hey! Tell me I didnt miss the west Branch engine show! Somebody today said I did. I was sure it was later then this. They will be having that 9 foot head rig running.

[jdunmyer]

Bibbyman,
 Thanks for the comments!

A web page like I put up doesn't require a lot of time, I spent less than 3 hours on the woodshop. Most of that was looking at the pics and making a list of what they were so I could write the description.

Jeff,
 You're surely welcome to visit anytime, we're just 2 1/2 miles south of the KOA at Exit 9 on US 23. Or, 15 minutes from Cabela's.  :D

Interesting observation: the bits in my saw are pretty mangled from hardware, but it still saws well. It won't take a lot of feed, but I don't have the power to feed real fast anyway.

Another interesting observation: These walnut logs came from trees next to the road, so I expected a LOT of hardware. We hit one small nail and a bit of wire. That was IT! Shocked me, lemme tell ya.

[smwwoody]

Is that a Case 401 that you are running your mill with?  how does it handle the saw?  I am running my band mill with a 401.  If Bill ever makes it there to pick up that other mill you have I was thinking of running it with the 401.

Woody

[jdunmyer]

Woody,
 The engine on my mill is a Case 509 Power Unit, it's the same as a Case 500 Diesel tractor. It has a 15:1 compression ratio, quite low for a Diesel, and a Bosch PSB pump. The guy who sold it to me claimed 85 HP, but it's supposedly only 62 HP. I know a fella who has a Case power unit similar to mine on his mill, but his is over 90 HP. It has a different fuel system, but I don't know what the internal differences are. It looks quite similar to mine externally, and appears to have the same LaNova combustion chamber.

You can see the pump and the 3 individual cylinder heads in this pic:

http://www.oldengine.org/members/jdunmyer/sawmill/mar27_40.jpg

[smwwoody]

Heads and motor look the same as mine.  Mine has an in line German Bosch pump on it and is supposed to be 93hp

Woody

[jdunmyer]

Woody,
 Your engine sounds like that other Case I mentioned, that one has an inline pump also. The PSB pump on mine is a rotary distributor type. You should have plenty of power for most any mill.