dead rollers

[Banjo picker]

Here is my set up.  Couldn't make it with out the roller tables.  Slabs go off of the first table on to the rack you see that we made.  There is a rack by each of the other two roller tables.  If I am cutting long stuff I just open the space up between them so I can get the forks in between the two.  When I was cutting ties and pallet stock the pallet material went off the back of the last roller table where the ole Willys is setting now.  Banjo

  

    that's a front and rear view

[Magicman]

Tim, you have the "lifting" situation well handled.  Don't lift anything with anything other than a FEL.   8)

[4x4American]

me likes it, thanks for the pictures!

[Bandmill Bandit]

I picked my roller tables up at Target when they closed operations in Canada. Paid $50 bucks for 24 feet by 24 inch wide with rollers every 3 inches.

I have one 12' section set up about the way like I like it now and will be doing folding legs for it next.

This isn't a perfect pic but will give an idea of how I have it done at the moment.

5 rollers on 11 foot 6 inches of table. The missing 6 inches holds the roller on the stubby table above the hydraulic pump box. 



 

I have enough rollers for about 100 feet of table with the above lay out. I have yet to find a reason to put the rollers any closer than I have them on this table. Makes it light enough to move by my self if I have to move it alone.

[4x4American]

Wow you got a good deal on them rollers!  I would think that with the least amount of rollers possible the lumber should roll better.  Nice setup, so how does your flow work?  Do you push flitches off into a rack, let the lumber roll all the way down to the end and stack itself, and what about the flitches?

[Bandmill Bandit]

 

 

In this picture you can get the general idea of how I like to set up.

To the right of the roll table first stack is 1X6, next stack is wind/second cut slabs.
To the left of the roll table is first cut flitches/edgings/waste. I had just cleaned up this pile before I took this picture.

Straight off the end is 6X6, to the right of these is 4X6 and 4X4 respectivly

This wasnt ideal as it was spring thaw at the time and we set up on high ground to avoid mud so couldn't line up everything nice and straight as I would have liked.

[4x4American]

Looks good, and boy do I hate mud season

[Kbeitz]

I hang a bucket on the mill to collect saw dust...
I then dump the bucket over the mud....

[Bandmill Bandit]

yea Kbeitz thats what I do too but you have to cut a few logs to get the saw dust. A day of cutting often looks after the worst of it and the second day gives a good clean working area and it smells nice if it isn't poplar that your sawing :D

[4x4American]

What do ya do in clay?

[Bandmill Bandit]

that set up was in a sandy but sticky clay that actually held up pretty good once there was a good layer of sawdust down which helps slow the frost thaw and there for did not go knee deep. most of the ground around here has a medium to hig sand content mixed in the clay. When its dry it turns to a very fine powder which is worse than the mud in some ways.

[4x4American]

Much of the land around me here is sand/gravel/boney item 4 type dirt, but you cross over the canal or go south a ways and there is some really nasty clay.  Some places you'd think its mud season year round (unless its been really dry for a while).  Where I'm set up now it's about 10-15ft of sand and then hardpan.  Lots of ledge in places too.  Up north at a few properties I was looking at, I couldn't hardly dig with a shovel without peening over the tip of the shovel it was so hard.

[Bandmill Bandit]

Mostly #1 and #2 soil around here and get into some #4 grey wooded out west.

there are spots around here where the sub soil sand is so clean the the concrete guys actually add a portion of clay powder to the aggregate mix before they can use it for concrete.

I counted my rollers last night. I have enough to do 260 feet of table.

[4x4American]

We have some of that nice stuff at our gravel pit in one spot, we call it beach sand and get a pretty penny for it.  That'd be enough tables I'd think!