simple and helpful!

[Tullivor]

This simple little setup has me so excited!!


Now I just need to pile some logs!!
Anybody else want to share their setup?!?!

[WDH]

Nice job. 

[deadfall]

That drawbridge needs a moat with alligators. 

[5quarter]

That's an excellent set up. I have a similar dead deck That uses 3 18' power poles set on 5 pilings each. for the bridge I used 8' W/O 5x7s until on of them snapped. I now use 2 8' lengths of smaller gauge railroad track. Heavy, but solid. A couple times I have double stacked my deck and figured each time I was somewhat north of 30,000#. I usually load the deck in the evening after work if I know I'll be sawing the next day. it's nice to go out to the mill In the morning and just start making lumber.  8) 

[bandmiller2]

Good job Tully, that's the basic principal behind all dead decks. If you have machinery to lift logs I would have made the mill and deck higher at a handy working hight. For circular mills two hinged triangular turners could be hinged on the two supports in the ground. A little overkill on the ramps but it won't hurt. Frank C.

[Magicman]

Your excitement is justified.   8)

[Sixacresand]

It seems from the photo that the beams are fairly close to each other.  I'm thinking the parts of the log on the beams would be about the same diameter and the log would roll straighter and land parallel to the mill bed.  Good job.

[Tullivor]

Thanks everybody for the kind words! 

bandmiller2, your absolutely right I already think I need to build things up a bit.  I am trying to figure out an idea for metal beams type of things that are heavy enough to support the weight but still portable if need be.  But also a similar bridge idea.
What I would really enjoy is a fully hydraulic mill!!!!! :D
Where you mentioned the two hinged triangular turners for a circular mill would that for be lifting logs off the ground??

[Ox]

That looks great.

[Kingcha]

My set up



  

  

 

If I had room I would have made it longer to hold more logs

Matt

[fishfighter]

I have a few joints of 3" drill stem that when I get time, I am going to build a landing deck. Using beams like y'all have, would logs roll better if you would mount some steel angle on top? To me, less surface contact area = better movement of logs.

[beenthere]

Won't be much difference between the wood beams and the steel angle. Logs will roll easy either way.

Especially with a LogRite mill special. 

[Babylon519]

I built my dead deck this spring. It makes everything so much easier. So far, the most I've had on it was 4 medium red pine and one 22" maple - all 10 footers. It didn't collapse, that's a good sign!



The legs are adjustable for different terrain.



Jason

 

[bandmiller2]

Tully, no the triangular turners are just for turning logs and cants. They are basically used on circular mills but I guess you could use them on a band mill. On circular mills after you have made your first cut you flip up the hinged turners then roll the log to you it, hits the turners then slides right back on the carriage cut side down. Belsaw was a big champion of this type of turner as it saved their light duty carriage much of the pounding of log turning. Frank C.

[dboyt]

Nice, simple setup.  The deck will save time running the loader, and a give a place to put slabs to go back on the mill for edging.  A lot of people don't get around to building one until they see what a good investment it is.

[bandmiller2]

My bandmill is set up in a building with a nice flat cement floor. I made two very heavy duty saw horses for a dead deck their about eight feet long top 4x6 oak. I have two removable pieces to roll the logs on the mill. Its very handy to stack boards that need edging. The saw horse set up would be handy for a mobile sawyer that doesn't have a log lift. Frank C.