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General Forestry => Sawmills and Milling => Topic started by: HORSELOGGER on March 28, 2004, 04:59:01 PM
A couple of Saturdays ago I had to saw up saw walnut mantles for two diferent customers. Three were 4x8 and one was 4" x 14" x 9'. I thought I would get a couple of pics of the double cut process on my Peterson mill for anyone intersted.I started on this log ( a barkless, dried out old log a farmer brought me along with some other walnut logs he needed to get of a property he had sold.This one sat in a machine shed for over 15 years) by opening and taking several "rows" of 4/4 boards. When I got down to where the face looked like a good place to take a 14" mantle, I took a few 1x 4 boards off the left side , made a seven inch wide horizontal cut, moved over horizontally another seven inches and made a vertical cut. This edged my mantle. I then moved horizontally in one inch increments making vertical cuts 4 inches deep untill I ran out of log. It looked like this:
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/doublecut5.jpg)
I then made a horizontal cut starting at the left side and released all the 1x4s. That left this:
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/doublecut3ff.jpg)
Then I moved back horizontally untill the blade would make a intersecting cut with the first seven inch horizontal cut I had made on the right side of the mantle . Looking from the rear, the begining of the cut looks like this:
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/doublecut2.jpg)
And when all goes well , I get this:
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/doublecut1.jpg)
And here are all the mantles. A nice bunch of walnut!
(https://forestryforum.com/images/03_21_04/mantles.jpgFF.jpg)
That is really incredible - what a clear description of how to double cut. Wanna job re-writing our manuals?
Nah... I bout fell over tryin to write that one :o
HORSELOGGER, how did you get your kerfs to match up? I have been cutting some 7x9 ties with mine and the bottle cap works pretty good to level the blade. Learned that from someone on here.
Nice Pics
Tom
How do you deal with stress in the wood with a Swing saw?
I know with a band saw mill you can turn the log and take boards from each side to reduce the stress and re-level after turning but am curious how you deal with those same issues on a swinger?
I am curious because I may purchase a swinger for the big logs I cant cut on our band mill.
Thanks
Kirk
Hey Kirk, Try this thread then come back with questions...
https://forestryforum.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?board=sawmill;action=display;num=1066568456;start=0