Saying goodbye is almost never easy. But sometimes it is in the best interest for everyone involved.
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Recently, my girl has been constantly complaining about how I'm treating her. She said that I've just been working her too hard. So, I let her run off with another man and she seems to be happy now.
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I had the lovesick blues, and I knew I had to get past it somehow. After dating around, I found a new gal and decided to bring her home. I hope she likes to work.
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Your a little young for a "trophy-wife", ain't ya? :laugh: Congrats on the trade-up. I'm sure you'll have many happy years together.
Nice, 8) 8) 8) 8) smile_banjoman
For different reasons, I'm sure that you and the seller are both happy. That is a Cat engine?
:) Lots of grins in your future!
Congratulations and may you have many happy years together!
Yes sir it is a CAT engine. I'll probably go ahead and do the preventative gasket maintenance on it sometime soon. I set it up after work today and sawed one slab off a pine log right at dark. I've got to learn how to use the Accuset 2 in a hurry because there is sawing to be done.
You'll love it. Nice machine. Accuset 2 rules. 8)
Heads up..... bigger mill = bigger production = more wood = more girlfriends toys. ;D ;D
I've got around fifty-sixty 18"-32" syp logs on the ground that need to be sawn into 4/4 this weekend.
I'm ready to make some sawdust. This thing will chew through a pine log like nothing I've ever seen. This machine is just the first component of the goals/plans I have committed to. Chasing my American Dream, learning and having a blast along the way.
And this thing has a gazillion electrical components on it and all I know is that I can make it saw through a log like there's no tomorrow. I'll figure it out
Congrats on the new to you mill!
Deese accuset is real simple. Bibbyman has a 20min vidja online explaning how to use it. I might make a shorter one kinda like a readers digest version for the impatient people like myself lol
Congratulations!!!!!!!!
I hear you following the dream. I'm pursuing my own similar version. I may still be a wage slave for a while, but I'm building in resilience and income diversification at the same time.
Wow from a Yugo to a Cadillac so to speak.
Congrats.
If you want to call me sometime I can walk you through it. PM me for number if you want. Congrats on new mill. 8)
Since there aren't many SuperHydraulic sawmills for sale, I'm guessing that your new sawmill was for sale, then not for sale, and then obviously for sale again. If so, it has 2650 hours on it??
Congratulations Deese. Check out Marty Pearsons post ,headless cat, it will be helpful.
Super congratulations!
Quote from: Magicman on May 11, 2017, 08:15:17 AM
Since there aren't many SuperHydraulic sawmills for sale, I'm guessing that your new sawmill was for sale, then not for sale, and then obviously for sale again. If so, it has 2650 hours on it??
You are correct, sir.
Quote from: thechknhwk on May 11, 2017, 07:52:30 AM
If you want to call me sometime I can walk you through it. PM me for number if you want. Congrats on new mill. 8)
Thanks buddy, I'll send you my number. About to head home now to play with the mill.
Quote from: Magicman on May 11, 2017, 08:15:17 AM
Since there aren't many SuperHydraulic sawmills for sale, I'm guessing that your new sawmill was for sale, then not for sale, and then obviously for sale again. If so, it has 2650 hours on it??
Its in storage. :D
I'm happy for ya Deese. :)
Congratulations, Deese. I bet you wished you could have kept the blue one, too.
Quote from: Sixacresand on May 12, 2017, 01:17:56 PM
Congratulations, Deese. I bet you wished you could have kept the blue one, too.
Yes sir, it is a great well built machine. I sold it to a man less than 10 miles down the road. He seems to be happy with it, so it worked out for everyone.
I just got off the phone with a local diesel mechanic who used to work for CAT. He is supposed to come by sometime next week and take a look. Although the machine is running great, I'm getting him to go ahead and replace the head gasket and install the crank support kit. Might as well go ahead and get this taken care of so I can get this off my mind.
Getting that engine protected is a wise investment!
Well, she's sawing 18 big boy syp logs tomorrow regardless. Cleaning the log yard up.
Pictures please
Quote from: Deese on May 12, 2017, 09:51:29 PM
Well, she's sawing 18 big boy syp logs tomorrow regardless. Cleaning the log yard up.
Well, I got a late start today and spent a lot of time learning the controls. Definitely did not get all the logs done. I just stopped for the day and made good progress. I'm juuuuuust now getting to the point where I can use the controls with my left hand without looking at them. Also getting a better understanding of the Accuset 2 pattern mode. Still getting the hang of it. The last log really went well. I got eleven 16' 1x12's out of it and it took about 30 minutes from the time the log hit the deck. I'm happy with that at this point. But things can go much faster when I get used to it. I've got thirty 1x6's to do tomorrow for a man down the road. My back is thanking me.
Just make sure that you don't hit the right drum switch in pattern or auto down mode when the head is over the log or cant. As a rule, I never let the head park above the log/cant when the mill is in auto down or pattern mode for fear that someone may bump the right drum switch and send the head down on top of it. On the newer mills they have a lockout mode that will lock the head from going on a downward mission to guide arm destruction if the computer box has a glitch. Or so I'm told. Ask Cutting Edge Richard about adjusting his guide arm lol it's happened to me a few times and boy what fun it is fixing that.
When using the dragback, I find it wise to open your guide arm a bit so that if the board gets cattywampus it is less likely to knock your guide out of whack. I've had a board dragging back get caught and stiff arm my inside guide and brek the weld right off. Luckily I was able to have it welded back and aligned in maybe 90 minutes or so. That wasn't as difficult a fix as it is to readjust that movable guide arm after setting it down on a cant though lol
Congrats on the new model. Just be careful everyone I know that traded for the new upgraded model has aged them really fast and resulted in some more payments LOL Nice sawmill
4x4, I had pattern mode set dropping 1 1/8" and did exactly what you said. Except it hit the top of the log, not a squared cant. I freaked out and instead of hitting UP, I hit DOWN again! The blade was running too. I then hit up a few times and came on back. Changed the blade and guide arm seems to be ok as far as I can tell. This happened the first time I operated it after getting her home.
I've since sawn probably 50 1x's and things are good...
:D :D yea it happens. Sometimes it's okay and you lucked out that it was only 1-1/8" drop. I had it happen once doing a 4" drop. That was fun. If you want the head to stop you can hit the reference mode button real quick and it should stop it, at least on my mill IDK about the older models. I took a sharpie and wrote life on the left and death on the right above the drum switches on the top of the box where I could see them. That way if one of my helpers thought they'd touch the controls they knew which one would end them up on death row. ;D :snowball:
There is one thing that troubles me...to me, this doesn't sound possible, but if I'm sawing 1x6's and set board thickness in pattern mode to say, 1" and stops at 6", the lumber is exactly 1" thick but will be about 5 7/8" wide...it's somewhere between 1/8"-3/16" off...I've done it twice so far with exactly same results. I'm about to saw another one and set it to 1" drop and bottom 6 3/16" and see what I get.
I'm thinking it's gotta be movement in the can't but the width doesn't vary much at all throughout the length of the board... headscratch
Try to recalibrate your head. Measure from the bed to a downset tooth and get it to within 1/32" of 12". Don't measure near where the stainless steel bunk cap is bolted on. Then go into your Accuset and set your head at 12" in the vidjayo I sent you I think I showed how to get to there. See if that does anything for ya. Oh and don't forget to set your kerf too. And save your settings before shutting the mill off.