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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Selling my portable 60" ci...
Last post by WV Sawmiller - Today at 04:02:26 PM Sounds like a real nice piece of machinery. Glad you figured out the problem and the fix. Maybe @OlJarhead is not too far from you and can come look at your set up one of these days.
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The Outdoor Board / Re: A Forestry Forum snake hun...
Last post by WV Sawmiller - Today at 03:55:53 PM Did you ask Tom?
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FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! / Re: What's for dinner?
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 03:27:43 PMFry up some cabbage and onion and have with a big fat sausage.
We eat kraut once in awhile here, we don't make it, it's made 200 miles from here near Moncton, NB I believe. Source of vitamin K2 is fermented veg.
We eat kraut once in awhile here, we don't make it, it's made 200 miles from here near Moncton, NB I believe. Source of vitamin K2 is fermented veg.
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FOOD! FOOD! FOOD! / Re: 2024 Garden Seeds and Star...
Last post by SwampDonkey - Today at 03:15:09 PMGood luck with your plants. Don't over water them.
I planted a bunch of tomato seed on the weekend, 50 cells. I'll not plant all them, I pot over the strongest looking ones of each variety. I'll have more space this year, to space them out more. I'm guessing 36 plants will go in. More plum variety for sauce, last year they bore heavy. So don't the big beef variety I use, trouble with beef they take a long time to ripen unless we get lots of heat along with the water.
I planted a bunch of tomato seed on the weekend, 50 cells. I'll not plant all them, I pot over the strongest looking ones of each variety. I'll have more space this year, to space them out more. I'm guessing 36 plants will go in. More plum variety for sauce, last year they bore heavy. So don't the big beef variety I use, trouble with beef they take a long time to ripen unless we get lots of heat along with the water.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: 1989 LT40 hydraulic Valve ...
Last post by Chiselbut - Today at 03:14:37 PMYes. It is a Monarch now i believe owned or bought out by a German company- Bucher
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: Thinking about the future....
Last post by SawyerTed - Today at 03:10:42 PMOf course renting a machine for those infrequent or one-off kind of jobs is an option. That way it's possible to get bigger more powerful and heavier machines to do the job without paying for excess capacity long term.
#7
General Board / Re: Having to Buy Tires.
Last post by SawyerTed - Today at 03:04:33 PMQuote from: doc henderson on Today at 01:35:27 PMI will buy tires for you if you will go to the dentist for me!If all they have to do is what they'd do to my teeth, I'm all for that doc! Have only one filling in 61 years!
That one was 42 years ago. @Southside, towing, lots of towing - a sawmill or a 18' car hauler, or a boat or a camper or a utility trailer. And lots of hauling lately.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: 1989 LT40 hydraulic Valve ...
Last post by fluidpowerpro - Today at 02:49:22 PMLooking back at the pictures of the hydraulic unit, it sure looks like it is one manufactured by Monarch.
#9
The Outdoor Board / Re: A Forestry Forum snake hun...
Last post by Magicman - Today at 02:40:11 PMI asked about Purple Drank at the PrOject, but was ignored. Serves you right. 
#10
Sawmills and Milling / Re: 1989 LT40 hydraulic Valve ...
Last post by Chiselbut - Today at 02:33:41 PMBen:
....those threaded holes are for the 7/16 - 24 screws that hold the valve assembly together from the back. I suspect some fluid was leaking into the threads. The hydraulic function was not impacted, but over several months or more i can see how things became oily inside the hydraulic box with a slow drip...the threaded hole is around the 7 o'clock mark if that matters
... I looked over the lever spring, actually disassembled the entire valve removing the lever and spring. It was good... tight, good spring action when reinstalling - lever works as it should. In regards the hydraulic valve nut... i just turned the entire valve placing a 3/4" wrench on the nut at the manifold- and turned it out less than 1/4 turn. ...
Re. Electric issue and burning wire: ....haven't gotten to the bottom of the issue just yet. All of the contacts (everwhere on the mill) including the hydraulic solenoid were rusted, some loose, all wires are beginning to show discoloration/oxidization from moisture, crimps frayed or near breaking off. There was a 14 AWG from the variable speed box for the back and forward control (PCB?) (im doing this from memory...) that was spliced into a 6 gauge negative batt terminal wire. Didnt seem correct. I followed the wiring diagram and the back of the PCB has two posts, one larger in diameter than the other post (diagram shows white wire spliced into neg batt terminal wire). That 14 gauge wire had excessive melting and i am replacing it with a matching 6 gauge wire. Still need to bury my head into the wiring, old wires etc and replace. One step at a time. New hydraulic solenoid, wires and connectors now. That cant hurt.
....those threaded holes are for the 7/16 - 24 screws that hold the valve assembly together from the back. I suspect some fluid was leaking into the threads. The hydraulic function was not impacted, but over several months or more i can see how things became oily inside the hydraulic box with a slow drip...the threaded hole is around the 7 o'clock mark if that matters
... I looked over the lever spring, actually disassembled the entire valve removing the lever and spring. It was good... tight, good spring action when reinstalling - lever works as it should. In regards the hydraulic valve nut... i just turned the entire valve placing a 3/4" wrench on the nut at the manifold- and turned it out less than 1/4 turn. ...
Re. Electric issue and burning wire: ....haven't gotten to the bottom of the issue just yet. All of the contacts (everwhere on the mill) including the hydraulic solenoid were rusted, some loose, all wires are beginning to show discoloration/oxidization from moisture, crimps frayed or near breaking off. There was a 14 AWG from the variable speed box for the back and forward control (PCB?) (im doing this from memory...) that was spliced into a 6 gauge negative batt terminal wire. Didnt seem correct. I followed the wiring diagram and the back of the PCB has two posts, one larger in diameter than the other post (diagram shows white wire spliced into neg batt terminal wire). That 14 gauge wire had excessive melting and i am replacing it with a matching 6 gauge wire. Still need to bury my head into the wiring, old wires etc and replace. One step at a time. New hydraulic solenoid, wires and connectors now. That cant hurt.
