The Forestry Forum

I have never liked sawing when temps are below freezing.  Now wind is on the list also.  With all the recent rain I was itchy to get a beam or two sawed.  The wind had dropped down from the powerful gusts last night.  I roughed the mud to get some logs in que and started getting the mill set up. The wind picked up again before I took the cover off.  I turned around and the head was sailing down the rail faster than I saw.  Wind became steady out of the north west with gusts up into the 30's.  This was kinda good because it was blowing the sawdust away from me into the woods but created all kinds of other issues that were not fun.

I've had the head try to sail away from me a few times too.  
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I now just put the hold down clamp in front of one side.

I find the wind more annoying than rain, but I am stationary under a pole barn. Wind from south, west, or northwest will send me elsewhere quicky.

The swing mill has the advantage that you can spin the sawhead around and work from the other end if it's windy enough to be a problem. So, within reason I'd prefer the wind to rain. Not so bad if you have a roof to work under, but if you are mobile, it gets nasty.