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Forestry and Logging / Re: is there a best time to ha...
Last post by Andy1981 - Today at 09:42:19 PMDo you have to worry about bugs and grubs when letting hemlock logs sit for extended periods of time
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General Board / Re: Survivor
Last post by Magicman - Today at 09:33:54 PMWell played, another blindside and idol goes home. There should now be two hidden but will they look?
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: How to get a Suffolk sette...
Last post by uler3161 - Today at 09:17:31 PMQuote from: barbender on Today at 02:45:30 PMI don't remember, Lee. I've barely run my setter the last few years, as I got so busy that I was buying new blades and then just sharpening them 3 times. I don't set after every sharpening, but every third. I now have a very large backlog of 3 times sharpened blades😊I haven't really been measuring set before setting. I do after setting a few teeth. I'll try to do some pre-setting measurements.
Iirc, I have the bottom of the gullet about flush with the clamp body, so that the set is pushed into the middle of the tooth.
Uler, if you haven't already, you need to measure the set on your blades before you set them.
I ended up re-grinding the downsetting bits once again. Decided to do the math based on the tooth height (which I believe was 160 thousands according to the Suffolk documentation) as well as desired tooth set. Can't remember the angle, but it was closer to 10 degrees.
To be honest, I'm still not convinced I have it dialed in. Did two blades in a row. Both were razor sharp and cut good. First one I could see a decent amount of space between the blade and the cant when I brought the head back which isn't good. Second one had no gap which was great. Only thing I can think is it's not setting right yet. Seems odd to me since there's very little gap between upsetting and downsetting bits. But I did notice some oddities in tooth height due to the blade wanting to lift off of the height setting screws, so I need to look at that some more.
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General Board / Re: Some random notes, observa...
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Today at 08:52:15 PMQuote from: YellowHammer on Today at 07:58:19 PMI've tried the piranha, but they didn't survive the bream. ....This brings to mind what my Grandmother used to say "ALL fishermen are Liars, except me and you. But sometimes I'm not so sure about you."
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General Board / Re: Some random notes, observa...
Last post by 21incher - Today at 08:50:14 PMWhen I was in college we took a trip to Pratt and Whitney in Connecticut and I got to watch the chicken cannon fire a frozen chicken into a 747 engine cranked up on the test stand next to the concrete bunker we were watching from. It was to simulate a seagull getting sucked into the engine at takeoff. Well that chicken sure made a mess of the engine. The power of that engine mounted to the test stand was unbelievable. I asked about getting the job firing the cannon but was told there was a long line already. That is an expensive way to pluck a chicken.
Back in the 1980s we were on a motorcycle trip with 2 other couples going down I95 and we saw our first chicken truck. We were amazed some of the cages were open and kamikaze chickens were trying to fly out. We saw one hit a car grill that exploded like a feather pillow and a couple more bounce off the road. The driver never stopped and it was scary following behind on motorcycles for a couple miles just to watch. He just was laughing looking in the mirror when we drove by and I bet he opened the cages for entertainment.
Back in the 1980s we were on a motorcycle trip with 2 other couples going down I95 and we saw our first chicken truck. We were amazed some of the cages were open and kamikaze chickens were trying to fly out. We saw one hit a car grill that exploded like a feather pillow and a couple more bounce off the road. The driver never stopped and it was scary following behind on motorcycles for a couple miles just to watch. He just was laughing looking in the mirror when we drove by and I bet he opened the cages for entertainment.
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Sawmills and Milling / Re: 1989 LT40 hydraulic help n...
Last post by Chiselbut - Today at 08:21:19 PMHere is a picture of the switch
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Forestry and Logging / Re: My new client and Quarry u...
Last post by Old Greenhorn - Today at 08:16:48 PMProbably the wrong thread to drop this in, but it will do. 
So it's come up a few times about you shipping some packs of wood stateside, and there are the obvious hurdles, shipping cost being one of them. You may or may not have read a couple years ago where I shipped about 400 mushroom logs from upstate NY down the Hudson river on a sail freight Schooner for delivery in Brooklyn, NY. Since that whole project I have been following the whole sail freight thing.
Last week this article popped up in my reader about a sail freight operation that is trying to get off the ground in Costa Rica. They have a good part of their ship built, but a lot more to go. This vessel will carry some serious cargo. I know you are a planner and a forward thinker, that's pretty dang obvious. Perhaps there is an opportunity down the road for you. I have no idea how far this project is from you, but maybe you could help them out, and they can help you out? I don't know but I do know, you never know until you ask.
Anyway, HERE is the article I read. That article talks about the Appolonia sailing on the Hudson which is the ship I worked with and why I caught this particular article.
At any rate knowledge is power, they plan to sail to NY if I read it right. You never know. Stranger things have happened, but first they gotta get that ship in the water and based on the size, several packs of lumber will barely be ballast in that ship. The Appolonia only carried 10,000 pounds if I recall and I gave them their heaviest load up until that time.
Just a thought Ramone. See you in Augest.
So it's come up a few times about you shipping some packs of wood stateside, and there are the obvious hurdles, shipping cost being one of them. You may or may not have read a couple years ago where I shipped about 400 mushroom logs from upstate NY down the Hudson river on a sail freight Schooner for delivery in Brooklyn, NY. Since that whole project I have been following the whole sail freight thing.
Last week this article popped up in my reader about a sail freight operation that is trying to get off the ground in Costa Rica. They have a good part of their ship built, but a lot more to go. This vessel will carry some serious cargo. I know you are a planner and a forward thinker, that's pretty dang obvious. Perhaps there is an opportunity down the road for you. I have no idea how far this project is from you, but maybe you could help them out, and they can help you out? I don't know but I do know, you never know until you ask.
Anyway, HERE is the article I read. That article talks about the Appolonia sailing on the Hudson which is the ship I worked with and why I caught this particular article.
At any rate knowledge is power, they plan to sail to NY if I read it right. You never know. Stranger things have happened, but first they gotta get that ship in the water and based on the size, several packs of lumber will barely be ballast in that ship. The Appolonia only carried 10,000 pounds if I recall and I gave them their heaviest load up until that time.
Just a thought Ramone. See you in Augest.
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Timber Framing/Log construction / Re: Headers and Trimmers for s...
Last post by Jpd - Today at 08:16:30 PM400 views, nobody has ever had to frame for quarter turn stairs?
I have satisfied the post issue, with the attached image. Discontinuous between floors is not an issue, making an elegant connection isn't easy but this joint with timberlok screws makes the engineer happy:
For the other part of the question, What is an appropriate joint to join the 6x10 header to the 6x10 trimmer? Jim? Don P? I have scoured the internet and all of my books, have not found any help.
anyone feel free to chime in!
I have satisfied the post issue, with the attached image. Discontinuous between floors is not an issue, making an elegant connection isn't easy but this joint with timberlok screws makes the engineer happy:
For the other part of the question, What is an appropriate joint to join the 6x10 header to the 6x10 trimmer? Jim? Don P? I have scoured the internet and all of my books, have not found any help.
anyone feel free to chime in!
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General Board / Re: Some random notes, observa...
Last post by WV Sawmiller - Today at 08:13:36 PMRobert,
Are you sure they weren't the "Judas chickens" used to lead the others into the pens, ride to the packing plant, lead them through the line then catch a ride back home?
I heard they used to have steers that led the herd from Texas to market then they'd put them in a wagon and haul them back home to use again next year. I think some made several drives then at the end of the final drive they'd look around and ask "Where is my wagon?"
Are you sure they weren't the "Judas chickens" used to lead the others into the pens, ride to the packing plant, lead them through the line then catch a ride back home?
I heard they used to have steers that led the herd from Texas to market then they'd put them in a wagon and haul them back home to use again next year. I think some made several drives then at the end of the final drive they'd look around and ask "Where is my wagon?"
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General Board / Re: Some random notes, observa...
Last post by YellowHammer - Today at 07:58:19 PMI've tried the piranha, but they didn't survive the bream. I saw the pacu on one of Jeremy Wade's shows, I wouldn't want my Squatches to have to deal with that.
I remember one of the funniest things I'd ever seen was when I pulled up next to a semi tractor trailer sized chicken truck traveling down the Interstate, loaded with thousands of live chickens in the big box cages, and when I got even with the fifth wheel, I saw a handful of live chickens standing there, feathers ruffling in the wind, right between the cab and the trailer, not in the cage, just standing there with their feathers fluttering but mostly protected from the wind by the cab. They had this look that was hilarious, I could just imagine them thinking, "Uh, now what? Should we make a jump for it?"
I remember one of the funniest things I'd ever seen was when I pulled up next to a semi tractor trailer sized chicken truck traveling down the Interstate, loaded with thousands of live chickens in the big box cages, and when I got even with the fifth wheel, I saw a handful of live chickens standing there, feathers ruffling in the wind, right between the cab and the trailer, not in the cage, just standing there with their feathers fluttering but mostly protected from the wind by the cab. They had this look that was hilarious, I could just imagine them thinking, "Uh, now what? Should we make a jump for it?"
