Techniques for New Sawyers

[Privacyleech]

Great tips and suggestions. I really enjoyed the link to the LT15 post/sticker technique.
Sawed some 3/4x8x12' boards today. . . not sure what they are for but the misses asked  for them so I produced Ill try to get some pictures tomorrow as i worked till after dark today. . . back to the 40hr work week in the morning to pay for my new addiction!

[Piston]

I had a bucket on my mill for a couple of cuts, but it fills up too fast. Maybe two passes, if you are lucky.

Dave,
For the size logs you mill, you would need an entire dumpster to ride along next to your mill.   :D
(I was just looking for that picture you've posted in the past, the one with an over 40' log on your mill?  That's a great pic)


This is also an excellent idea that Dave Shepard came up with.  It's a sticker jig, and makes it easy to perfectly lineup the stickers when stacking off the mill, then just lift up the whole stack with the tractor forks. 

I haven't built one yet, but it looks like it would work excellent. 

[AnthonyW]

Keep an eye on those log stops too!  They seem to inch up when you least expect. : :

Mine seem to fall down. Especially every time I get a log near the top of the loading ramps.  :D

[Magicman]

   And that only spells grief.   ;D

[Dave Shepard]

Piston, was this the one you were looking for? That's definitely a three bucket log. :D



 

[YellowHammer]

Privacyleech,
I just noticed we are almost neighbors, just one county over.  I even used to live in Lacey's Spring. 
I've got to ask, what's the story behind your Forum name? 
YH

[FarmingSawyer]

I've been using the bucket to catch cedar sawdust to keep it out of the pine and spruce dust I share with some farming neighbors. Too much cedar irritates their critter's eyes.
On the flip side, I have some customers for cedar sawdust now, so I empty the bucket a couple of times in to feed sacks. It takes doing, and remembering to do...so I don't think I will do it too much when I'm sawing on the road. But in my barn, it saves on a ton of clean up.

[Privacyleech]

Privacyleech,
I just noticed we are almost neighbors, just one county over.  I even used to live in Lacey's Spring. 
I've got to ask, what's the story behind your Forum name? 
YH

YH,
I actually think I emailed you a few times before purchasing a mill. I was very close to purchasing a new LT15 (even made a down payment) when I found a deal on the LT28 for nearly the same price...double the mill for the same money. . . had to make a weekend roadtrip to NW Arkensas but it is turning out to be well worth it.

As for the forum name. . . My girlfriend and I got tired of always having to give out our email address for anything from buying groceries to getting a burger at McDonalds and then getting spam mail out the wazoo so we created email addresses to use since we felt likeour privacy was being sucked out of us. Hers is Privacyvampire and mine is Privacyleech... petty but it makes us laugh. . . kinda just stuck

[Piston]

Piston, was this the one you were looking for? That's definitely a three bucket log. :D



 

That's the one Dave 

[Dave Shepard]

I didn't need buckets there. I just blew the sawdust on the ground until there was 15 or 20 yards then used the three yard loader to scoop it up.

[Piston]

I didn't need buckets there. I just blew the sawdust on the ground until there was 15 or 20 yards then used the three yard loader to scoop it up.

:D :D :D

[Gideon_70]

I had a bucket on my mill for a couple of cuts, but it fills up too fast. Maybe two passes, if you are lucky.

http://youtu.be/tySbzAfTzdo

I have a few pieces of coroplast corrugated plastic that I lay down.  It's slick, and when I need to get rid of the dust, I bag it and sell it.

[YellowHammer]

PL, good to have you onboard. 
YH

[blade69001]

Privacyeech I get it.
Stupidshopper@gmail.com  is the one I give out.
I check it so rarely I have to keep the password on a jumpdrive so I can remember it.
Sean P.