Jeff,
Years ago you had a video of you sawing a log on a high speed circular sawmill, would that video still available?
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Yep, it is, actually give me a little bit to put them on youtube. The old files may not play with the newer players. I'll download them and let youtube convert them, then post them.
There was a couple short ones. One that was kinda watching me, and one that was watching a log. Not the best because of the video capabilities I had back then.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPJ-Ojha-s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3PftuULqdk
I'd be in some sort of unbelievable agony after running those two sticks for even a day. :o
No wonder your shoulder's shot!
25 years, 8 to 10 hours a day usually 6 days a week.
That can't be Jeff, his hair is too dark. ;)
That, my friend, is impressive!! 8)
If you look close, there is a dark brown beard poking out the sides too. That's been almost white for quite some time.
Looks like they need to take the play out of them joysticks. Tighten them up a bit. Too much reaching for me. I'd be shot too.
Thanks for the memories. Only the mill I sawed on 44 years ago didnt have hydraulics. I ran a stick, turned by hand and advanced by hand. could only feed that fast in basswood and popple. we had a 110 hp electric motor with v belts to transfer power to saw. Made a lot of pallet stock for the pallet place next door. Like the others say once sawdust gets in your blood it stays forever.
Marv
Quote from: gator gar on July 18, 2010, 10:10:57 PM
Looks like they need to take the play out of them joysticks. Tighten them up a bit. Too much reaching for me. I'd be shot too.
Those are not joysticks, and there was zero play in them. You had to have length in order to have ease of control. This style was directly to the valve bodies. It was used in hundreds of mills over the years. Now everything is electric joysticks with very little movement required. I sawed in the generation before ergonomics. :)
That's a whole 'nother world. I have a friend that has been after me for years to come and sit in the saw house with him. I guess that I should take him up on it. Seems like I never have/take time.
I really enjoyed seeing those clips.
Jeff, Thanks for digging them out. They look better on my newer computer.
How did you keep everything in control and not shorting up dogs and head blocks?
Neat, glad I'm to short for that job , arms wouldn't be long enough. My arms & neck got sore watching.. My hats off to you Jeff....
Dave
I just never could get over how fast the log can be passed through a circle-saw blade.
Good show Jeff.
WOW just wondering tho, 3 sided cants? or did i miss the 4th side, why was one left round?
Yep, that was a three sided cant, we were probably cutting 1 1/16" by 7 1/4" top boards for International Paper that day. The cant could go down off my end gate to the gang saw and be re-sawed into boards. You can push a lot of wood through the mill on days like that.
Sheesh,
That is awesome fast (says boy with manual band mill....)
I need a 100 total of 10 and 12 foot 2x6 for decking, which will take me days, and that wouldn't get you to your first coffee break.
I had a pretty good day sawing 4X4 cedar for a customer that worked at a large production sawmill. I sawed about 1500 BF that day. The next day he asked his sawyer how long it would take to saw 1500 BF.
He said, mmmmm 'bout 3 minutes. ;D
QuoteHe said, mmmmm 'bout 3 minutes.
Any operation that could possibly saw that much is 3 minutes has no sawyer. I could probably saw it on the mill pictured in about 25-30 minutes (greatly depending on the log size).
Quote from: Jeff on July 19, 2010, 09:09:05 PM
Any operation that could possibly saw that much is 3 minutes has no sawyer.
Exactly right. That's one of those computerized jobs that saws the logs with one pass. I guess that the log end is no more than an image on a computer screen. He also wasn't talking about 8' cedar logs. I'd love to see it in action.
And as you said Jeff, that operator probably wasn't called a sawyer. :-[
Jeff I bet you still wake up in the middle of the night some times and you arms are jerking back and forth. ;D ;D
That pretty neat. Never seen a high speed circular mill in action. Went up to a big mill in the area and watched them saw with a double cut band mill about a month ago. Thanks for showing it.
Nothing like a circle mill 8)