Anything for $

[ElectricAl]

Amazing what you can do on a WM.
This job had been turned down by two circular dudes.

12" dia.  4' long - split in half then stood on end and sliced half moon disks.
A local outdoor outfitter wanted to display new boots on the log disks.


Total time 30 minutes - unload, cut, reload, chat, pay $50

We get 5 to 8 goofy jobs like this per year. Actually the pay is a bonus, the real motivation is conquering the task at hand!

Sometimes rigging up a fixture to hold something takes longer then the cutting. You get paid to "THINK"  We charge a dollar per minute, with a fifty dollar minimum.

This was a no brainer project, but we did not own a digital camera for any previous wacky jobs.

But you have to know your limits. There was a portable WM guy who thought he had cut a fat hog when he was charging a logger $60 per hour to cut 25' logs on a standard LT40HDG24. They were using 10,000 lbs cap. Lemco log loader to move the log back and forth for sawing. The first one went fine, but half way through the second log the rookie loader operator dropped a 20" 25.5' White Oak 2.5 to 3 feet onto the bed rails.
WOW, you want to see a saw out of wack..... :D


ElectricAl

[ElectricAl]

By the way, bent sawmill dude was our competition.

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WAS  ;D


ElectricAl   8)

[woodmills1]

lets :D hear :D it  :D for :D goofy  :D jobs............................

[Jeff]

I have a perfect use for a wood-mizer right now. Sure would be handy in cutting the legs all off the same length on my slab benches I am building.

[Bro. Noble]

I make work benches for friends and neighbors by bolting 2x4's (on edge) together every 11/2 foot of so.  Have used all thread or weld a piece of allthread onto rebar for economy.  We usually make them about 20 inches wide and 12' long.  The 2x4's were air dried before assembling.  After assembling the bolts are snugged down as further drying takes place.  The benchtop is placed on the WM and a thin layer taken off to even the 2x4's  then flipped over and the other side leveled.  We then coated the top with motor oil.  

Makes a goodlooking bench and is purt-near indestructable.

A guy could get real fancy and alternate Walnut and a light colored wood.  We just used pine or oak.

Noble

[Tom]

Al, your thread title reminds me of a fellow I knew back in 1972.  He was an interprising entrepreneur and would do most anything for money.  The name of his company was AFAB.  I asked him naively what it stood for and he replied."Anything For A Buck".  He could do pretty much anything too.......or find someone that could.

Here's a job that a customer of mine used his Wood Mizer for.

He watched me saw for his log cabin and bought a Wood Mizer himself.  then he cut the logs into "D" logs.  He then attached a heavy duty router to the head of the mill.  I think he made it.  He then proceded to Route a groove from one end of his logs to the other on both sides.  When He puts the logs together, He will insert a 1x4 in the grooves to hold the logs steady and also to close any air gap that may exist.

He's not been too far in school..........might be an attribute. ;D :D

[Geoff]

Oh man.  I'm booked to do a sawing job for a fellow this Saturday.  Make the logs octogonal, then cut them into wafers exactly like your pic showed....

Geoff

[Bibbyman]

To get to our house you've got to pass through the log yard and past the sawmill shed.  When the occasional visitor arrives not expecting to see a sawmill,  they are for sure confused.  "What is that thing?" they'll ask,  "It's a sawmill." "Why do you have a sawmill?" "Well, to saw lumber." "Why do you saw lumber?"  "Well, people buy lumber from us."  Then the discussion is on.  The wheels start turning and they'll run the gambit of wood products they think we could make on our sawmill.  They'll always ask if we can saw logs to build log home.  "Sure, we can do that."  But then they'll ask - "Well, how do you saw them rounded?"  :D

[Geoff]

Tom,

Now if the rest of us were smarter, we'd be doing that type of thing as well.  I love that router idea.  We had to send out a pile of 6x6 eastern white cedar to have a groove put in them so that the fence boards would slide down between them.  That rig sure would have come in handy.

Geoff