A day cutting wood

[donbj]

Cleaned up, tuned up. A few new bearings here and there, alignment, now where's the logs?


 

[thecfarm]

@donbj,looks like you have a good size hill in the background. ;D

[donbj]

Yes! It's rugged mountains here. Beautiful area.

[PAmizerman]

I know I'm always whining about getting small logs so I figured I'd share these


 
Mostly around 16" that's pretty good round here.

[PAmizerman]

Oh yeah.... See that odd brown spot in the background? That's dry ground 8)
Finally!!!

[4x4American]

Cut first log today on Hurdle..lots of work yet to do..I just wanted to cut on it and I got to where I could today so I did.

https://youtu.be/Q7X0SCDkfHo

[PAmizerman]

 smiley_clapping

[YellowHammer]

Looks like a lot of things going on at the same time to pay attention to.  Looks like fun.  

[Peter Drouin]

Looking good 4x4.  8)

[Southside]

Congratulations - that had to feel good!! 

[Bruno of NH]

Nice movie 4x4

[Darrel]

There's something about a circle mill that is way cool. I think it's the fact that through put is so much higher with a circle mill. 

[Grizzly]

There's something about a circle mill that is way cool. I think it's the fact that through put is so much higher with a circle mill.

And only a big saw makes that unique ripping noise. My band makes it in a small way but those big blades howl beautifully.

[Darrel]

Some 40+ years ago I worked for a sawmill company that had to big mills. One was a circle mill with a 72" bottom saw and a 48" top saw used for cutting redwood.  Their other mill was a big vertical band mill with an 8" wide band. Both were very fast but the circle mill was my favorite. 

[OffGrid973]

Very cool machine.

Quick safety question, is there any risk on kickback on the right side facing the mill, or do those hold downs really keep it from firing back if you catch a hang up?

I sent one board as a spear into the wall of garage on table saw once cutting small side between blade and stop...that will never happen again.

[Darrel]

I was around circle mills quite a bit in my teens and twenties and never saw kickback on the head rig. The edger was a different story. On a two saw head rig, both the top saw and bottom saw push down on the cant as it is passing through the saw. So if it did kick back the bottom saw would kickback toward the sawyer and if the log is big enough, the top saw would kickback away from the sawyer. But like I said I never saw or heard of kickback on a head rig. 

[Peter Drouin]

Well, the carbides cut good.  The trouble with them I found is when I open a log with a 4" face I get a wave.


 
With 1" of wood over the blade, it cuts flat.


 

 
so now I find I'm losing my 4" wood. I could slow down but I would lose more money.
I had a blade got dull some and put on a new one, Backed the head back and cot the cant by 1/16", Pop the blade off and bent it all to dog ^%$# There goes $76.00  :
 And they do cut steel very well too.  :


 
Nice clean cut.
I will say the blades cut so well I don't have to pay to much to the quality of the cut. I can just cut wood. Wood Mizer called me yesterday and my diamond wheel will be here next week.
I can cut all day with one blade saving time. With reg blades, I would change 5 or 6 blades a day.
I'll see how they sharpen up. Before I decide if we will use them all the time.
One dead blade.


 
Back to cuting fat W Pine. ;D


 

 

[Bruno of NH]

Did you get any snow yesterday ?
I'm ready for sun 

[Dave Shepard]

I get that problem with the regular Turbos. They want some meat to chew on. 

[YellowHammer]

Good review of the carbides. 
I've got a couple coming.

[Lawg Dawg]

I've had good luck with the Carbide so far, actually I look at my double hards now and think, those things are for amatures :D...put it on and SAW! Don't look back...I'm getting a good 3000 bf per blade cutting dirty SYP logs. I just hit the tips with my little easy board walk sharpener with a diamond wheel. Best thing is no setting. I have a part time guy comes in a few hours every afternoon to help stack/clean boards...and I can just saw and get maximum production when he's here because we're not fiddling around changing blades every 2 logs

[Peter Drouin]

That's the biggest thing not fooling with the blades 4 + times a day. Then have to sharpen all night.

But the old blades have a place too. Like this morning I got to cut some old barn timbers in half,
You know they have IRON in them.  ;D :D

[Bruno of NH]

When I get the new mill I will have to give them a shot.
Dawg what engine do you have on your mill?

[Lawg Dawg]

When I get the new mill I will have to give them a shot.
Dawg what engine do you have on your mill?

I got the 38hp gas...it does really good for the logs I saw.  Never hesitates to gitty up and go!

[jimparamedic]

I have seen a log flip when starting a cut but that was a small long log with to much hanging over the end of the carriage. The biggest worry for me is throwing teeth out of the saw but that does not happen often