Blade info where to find it ?

[Loggerbabe]

Well, Fla._Deadheader, Haines is in Eastern Oregon.  I'm actually not a logger by trade but every year we go get firewood and fence materials (posts and poles) on the timber portion (80 acres) of the family cattle ranch.  Someday I'd like to train one of our Belgians to skid wood, but until then we use tractors.  Thanks for the welcome.  ;)

[pasbuild]

Loggerbabe
One of our sponsors on the left, Menominee saw should be able to help you out with your needs. Its been years since I needed bits for a circle blade but when I did they had EVERYTHING.

[Norm]

WV I'd use 10 degree blades for the sassafras, you can use them on hardwoods such as cherry, walnut and others that are similar in density.

Welcome to the FF Loggerbabe, we have another member or two that are trying to talk their begian into skidding. Ours is more content to recycle alfalfa.

[Loggerbabe]

Thanks for the information.  We'll check with Menominee this week.  The blade is from an old sawmill my dad's uncle used when he built a ski area.  When they finished the buildings, he converted it to cut up firewood, and forty or so years of cutting
up hundreds of cords of wood have about used up the teeth that are in it.  
Our timber pasture is mostly larch and Fir, with a little spruce and pine.  As I mentioned, we mostly use it as a source for poles, posts, and firewood, but we also cut some for lumber, and a neighbor with a Wood Miser mills it on the share.

[WV_hillbilly]

  Thanks Norm  

So right now I shoulld only have to  keep one kind of blade  on hand for most of my cutting .

[Brad_S.]

Norwiscutter,

When I upgraded to a new mill a couple years ago, I asked Timber Harvester about 2 inch blades. They decided not to offer it as an option because, in their opinion, the cutting benefits derived from the 1/2" wider blade didn't offset the added costs. A 1 1/2" blade is only slightly more than a 1 1/4", but a 2", as you mention, is about double. Add the horsepower issue, the wider guide wheels and the deeper shroud area, and it didn't merit the switch for them. May have needed wider band wheels as well, I forget. I took them at their word. If I need assurance of a straight cut in difficult wood (spruce) I get a thicker body (.055") as mentioned earlier and live with the shortened life.

[Loggerbabe]

Just a note to let you know we now have teeth!  Before we had a chance to contact Menominee, we had a call from a supplier in the Northwest who had been offered a bunch of old stock (new) from a business whose owner had retired after 50 or so years, and there was a lot of obsolete stuff, including Disston C teeth and shanks.  So thanks for your input.  If anybody else is needing something like that, post here and we'll put you in contact with them.  Who knows what sorts of treasures they might have?

[beenthere]

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.......... we have another member or two that are trying to talk their begian into skidding. Ours is more content to recycle alfalfa.

Patty
Is Becky into the harness yet?  Just curious. She and you popped up on the random photo's page. Just checkin it out.  Is that a UW-EauClaire shirt, or am I just not reading it clearly?
Y'all hafta know this pretty horse likes chicken......really!

[Norm]

I'm not sure Patty will see this beenthere so I'll tell you that the odds of becky doing any work is the same of me being the next man on the moon. :D

Her tee shirt is bcluw it is an acronym for our local school, Beaman, Conrad, Liscomb, Union and Whitten. When our kids were in school I wanted and extra b for Bangor. ;D

[Minnesota_boy]

I'm not sure Patty will see this beenthere so I'll tell you that the odds of becky doing any work is the same of me being the next man on the moon. :D

So tell us, Norm.  How long have you been in astronaut training.  :D :D

[Norm]

Oh about the same amount as becky's been in logger training. :D

[Patty]

The picture is deceiving.... Becky looks so tiny. I am standing in the feed bunk so I can reach high enough to comb her.

She thought about work once, but it gave her a rash....  :D