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#11
Sawmills and Milling / Re: Horizontal slab shaver.
Last post by Dave Shepard - Today at 03:11:32 PM
This was not a shaving mill in the traditional sense. The slabs fed into it like a planer. It was not a complicated machine, and was low horsepower. It looked like it would be perfect at the end of a set of rollers. Anything that wasn't a board or flitch, just let it keep going to the shaver. This would make slab disposal happen without adding any additional time to sawing, and at 10hp, would not add much cost to the operation. Product would presumably be suitable for cattle bedding. My options right now for disposal are hauling then away at around $8-900 per tri-axle load, or hiring a large chipper a couple times per year, assuming I can talk someone into doing it. Owning a chipper plus spending the time to chip would be many years of just trycking it away. Burning is not an option. 

The Salsco machines look awesome, but they are actually too productive, too expensive for my purpose, and would add probably more fuel expense than running the mill itself. I think they would make sense for a higher volume mill than what I'm running. Disposal costs are only going to go up around here.
#12
The Outdoor Board / Re: DAM BEAR!
Last post by WV Sawmiller - Today at 03:11:29 PM
  Several years ago we went to visit my BIL in Alaska. We were waiting for a nice restaurant to open and my BIL said "Look, there's a bear."

    A mid-sized black bear walked out of the woods behind the cafe and circled the dumpster staged at the back of the parking lot. My wife jumped out and started taking pictures. The bear circled the dumpster but could not get in then he climbed on top. At one point he began to bounce the cover up and down with his front paws. When that did not open the securely locked dumpster he took a crap on top of the container, climbed down and walked disgustedly back into the woods.
#13
Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: swap tenon and mortise pos...
Last post by rusticretreater - Today at 03:09:17 PM
When the horizontal beam is loaded and starts to sag a big, it will tend to pull a tenon out of an open mortise like you described even if it has diagonal bracing. 
#14
The Outdoor Board / Re: DAM BEAR!
Last post by Jeff - Today at 03:02:56 PM
Well, I now think we know what the glimpse of the unknown critter was that was crossing the dike.

#15
Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: swap tenon and mortise pos...
Last post by Don P - Today at 02:57:46 PM
Check out pic #10 here;
Timber Frame Education, Design & Joinery | Peter Henrikson
#16
General Board / Re: The weather 2024
Last post by Magicman - Today at 02:05:15 PM
The generator is still running and now they are saying tomorrow for the service restore.

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Thankfully I bought a Tri-Fuel that is running on Natural Gas instead of me toting gas cans or propane bottles.

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It is connected through this GenerLink transfer switch.
#17
General Board / Re: Safety switches on my zero...
Last post by Magicman - Today at 01:55:25 PM
But that brake switch is so stinking hard to get to.  :lipsrsealed2:
#18
General Board / Re: Safety switches on my zero...
Last post by mike dee - Today at 01:45:20 PM
Quote from: Larry on Yesterday at 09:27:21 PMMy Kubota zero turn has been having intermittent trouble with the engine dying when I get off to open a gate or something. Wiggle the brake lever and the safety switch makes contact. Acts good for a while. Last week it wouldn't start but I was able to get going by shorting the posts on the start relay.

Rainy day today, so I decided to tear into it. It has five safety switches, two additional relays, a start switch, the solenoid, fuses, and a couple of diodes in the starting circuit. All located in places impossible for human hands to reach. I'm fairly good at reading electrical schematics but Kubota makes this a challenge also. None of the wires have the color on the schematic. At the end of the day I'm no closer to a fix than at the beginning.

My thoughts have turned really dark and I have a great way to put the Kubota out of its misery. :rifle: :rifle: :rifle:

Boats have a simple kill switch which is normally reliable but easy to diagnose/fix, why not on a mower?

Ok, anybody have recommendations for a new, simple and reliable zero turn?


Your machine is definitely defective. You should give it to me and buy a Cub Cadet steering wheel ZTR if you really want troubles...

My ZD326 had an intermittent issue with the brake pedal safety switch. I replaced the microswitch and the parking brake stalling/no start interlock problem went away.

FYI there aren't a lot of safety switches to go wrong - seat, brake, steering bars and PTO. Not that hard to diagnose and fix.
#19
General Board / Re: Safety switches on my zero...
Last post by rusticretreater - Today at 01:25:40 PM
I don't know why you think its hokey.  Its an electrical pattern used many times in automotive and machinery wiring.
#20
The Outdoor Board / Re: DAM BEAR!
Last post by NE Woodburner - Today at 01:08:50 PM
We see bear from time to time at our home and we have a camp in the NY Adirondack mts. Lots of bear up there. I (almost) always make sure the trash at camp is put in a container in a locked shed. I was cleaning up the kitchen one night and put the trash on the porch to take care of later. I forgot and went to bed. A bear broke through the screens on the porch and had a field day. I spent quite a while the next morning cleaning up trash all over the yard. The thought of the bear that close to my family with only an old door between him and the inside of the camp made me a lot more careful about trash after that.

We love to see bear at our home and up to the camp from a distance and often do, but I don't need to see them close up in my living space.
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