Cutting Larger Diameter Thin Cookies

[DR Buck]

I had a call today from a potential customer that wants cookies cut from log sections that are ~22" diameter.   I explained the tendency of cookies to split while drying and he didn't seem to care.   He wants to make a table 30" high out of 'stacked" cookies.      He would like them cut into 1/2" thick cookies.    I quoted an outrages hourly rate to do this and he said OK.  :   

Anyone done cookies this size before?  Did you have any success at it?

[beenthere]

Seem pretty thin to be able to handle them after sawing. 
But I'd lay that on him, to be there to remove them as you cut them.
His responsibility as soon as the blade goes through.

What species?

[redprospector]

I've done lot's of cookies that size when racing chainsaws, and practicing. They're pretty tough when they come off a green log, but as they dry they will crack and bust all to pieces.
Best advice I can give you is make sure your bar will go all the way through the log, and keep your chain SHARP

Andy

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

I have never sawn cookies this big at 1/2" thick.
Just guessing......I don't think it will work. At 1/2", these cookies will crumble during drying time.

If a table is gonna be made, I'd saw them at least 3/4" and plane them down after drying. But stacking them to 30 inches high? This is a new idea to me. Hope it works out for you.

[drobertson]

will the bark be left on?

[beenthere]

redprospector raised a point, and I was assuming this was on a band mill, not a chainsaw.

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[drobertson]

I'm thinking whatever method is does not matter, cut them, stack them together, and soak them with water,  and be ready for some rejects, cut plenty,  david

[DR Buck]

I have never sawn cookies this big at 1/2" thick.
Just guessing......I don't think it will work. At 1/2", these cookies will crumble during drying time.

If a table is gonna be made, I'd saw them at least 3/4" and plane them down after drying. But stacking them to 30 inches high? This is a new idea to me. Hope it works out for you.

I'm cutting them with my LT40HDG25.   No way would I do it with a chainsaw.

[Planman1954]

My sister wants me to cut oak cookies 1 1/2" thick for a wedding. I have Norwood lumbermate. Anyone have a picture of a clamping technique that is safe? Thanks.

[hackberry jake]

Make sure he coats them with a wood stabilizer like pentacryl and the number of cracked rejects will go way down.

[Dan_Shade]

it's a bad idea to run end grain through a planer.

the results can be very exciting.

[WDH]

 :D :D :D  Some people like excitement. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

it's a bad idea to run end grain through a planer.

the results can be very exciting.

You are right Dan. I was the one above that said planer. But to clarify, I use a POWER hand planer on dry cookies. It does wonders and not to much excitement.  :D

[drobertson]

Sanding is the only way,  displace and replace the sap, by whatever means,  david

[Dan_Shade]

a sander does a very nice job with end grain.

[redbeard]

I have used A wide 2x plank clamped to bed then use deck screws and fasten it going in at a angle. I've done a lot of oval cuts.  1/2" seems pretty thin hope its tight grain. Exiting the cut its going to wanna stay with the blade. Have someone grab them.

[WDH]

a sander does a very nice job with end grain.

Yes, but end grain is tough to sand, so you have to sand, sand, sand, and sand.  Then, sand, sand, and sand.  Then, sand some more  .

[Bogue Chitto]

 

  This was cut with a saw mill about a year ago.  It did split. 

[WDH]

Did you sand, sand, sand, sand, and sand it  ???  ;D.

[Bogue Chitto]

Did you sand, sand, sand, sand, and sand it  ???  ;D.

No, just cut it with Wood Mizer.  Son took it to school for shop class to put on display.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

a sander does a very nice job with end grain.

Yes, but end grain is tough to sand, so you have to sand, sand, sand, and sand.  Then, sand, sand, and sand.  Then, sand some more  .

Take it to the beach and work on it.  ;D

[Dan_Shade]

I tried a section with my newly acquired drum sander :-)

[isawlogs]

My sister wants me to cut oak cookies 1 1/2" thick for a wedding. I have Norwood lumbermate. Anyone have a picture of a clamping technique that is safe? Thanks.

Check this you tube, right up your alley, 

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMhhbqe6YcM

[Planman1954]

Thanks for posting the video....I'm on it!

[terrifictimbersllc]

My sister wants me to cut oak cookies 1 1/2" thick for a wedding. I have Norwood lumbermate. Anyone have a picture of a clamping technique that is safe? Thanks.

I cut a stack of 12" diameter cookies that thickness for a wedding, in June. They used them rough and fairly wet as centerpieces.  No picture but my standard method (LT-40)-put a 3/4" piece of plywood spanning two rails where the clamp is, a bit narrower in width than the piece to be held.  Put a 2x3 with 3" dimension vertical, against the stops and clamp the piece sitting on the plywood, against the 2x3.  The plywood is not clampled but it is very solid.  Then cut off the cookies as far down as I can.

[Planman1954]

That sounds simple. I LIKE simple.

[Peter Drouin]

It;s easy :D sharp blade and go slow :D


 

All hemlock. for a walk way : :D :D :D :D