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Making it through another year, '23-'24

Started by Old Greenhorn, May 17, 2023, 09:23:04 AM

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Old Greenhorn

Well we are all back together again and I could not be more happy. That was a tough week for everybody especially Jeff and crew, that did a SUPER job!

 So I'll try to do some catching up here. About a week or two ago I ordered some cheaper labels to put on my low cost stuff. I don't want to waste those nice coins and it takes time to put them on things that I bang out in bunches. These seemed to fit the bill, I can stick them on anything.

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OK, got my first photo in and I think I have figured out the process. I did get the drum sander pretty much back together, Re-installed the idle rollers after cleanup and bearing greasing, polished the main drums and added felt to the rear drum per Doc's suggestion.

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 We (carefully tested everything and I am pleased it runs with the power I can supply. Prior to the rebuild it would blow the breaker every time I tried to start it. Now with new belts, grease, and adjustment it works just fine and is a beast. I heard it load up a time or two on heavy cuts but never came close to stalling or popping the breaker. It's kind of a hard machine to explain, so today I made a short video (not as short as I had hoped, but oh well, I talk too much). Now let's see if I can get a video in here too.


 It sure does make things flat, and it can really take material. We did a 3" short pine slab on Sunday and I wound up taking almost 1/4" off to get it near flat. MAN the dust!

 I have also been working on a few more boxes but am getting weary of doing the same thing over and over, so I am doing them in groups of 3 or so in between other stuff. I started a new top for one of the sewing machine leg sets. (As seen in video.)

 The shop heat has been holding up fairly well, but some days I didn't work out there much because I just didn't want to use the wood to cook it up to a comfortable temp. I did finishing out there, then brought it in the house for drying, which worked well. The blankets seem to be doing their little part also. Now I know it's worth my time to do something a little better for next winter.

 Tomorrow is another day.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

doc henderson

nice video.  good to see you and hear your New York accent!  great refurb, and now what width you can sand and even essentially plane.  The sander is how I get my 18 x 24-inch maple to 1/8thinch for coasters and those medallions. 
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

Nebraska


Resonator

Like the sander! If I brought you one of my sugar maple slabs shaped like an airplane propeller, would it flatten it? ;D

Looking at that platen material reminds me of the thousands of commercial doors I used to haul. They were made from a very heavy, thick, particle board that was fire rated. (Finding a used commercial grade door would be a source if you ever have to replace the platen.)
Word of caution, I remember working in a factory running an industrial abrasive surfacer doing thin wood strips, feeding them in multiple pieces at a time. I may or may not have had 2 pieces overlap in the machine, and jam up, and almost set the machine on fire. :-X
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doc henderson

If you do ever really overload it, it will cost you a magnetic switch.  about 60 bucks at grizzly.  go slow.  I tried but could never get the smoke to go back in.  One of those learning experiences when I was doing someone a favor who thought I did not know what I was talking about. 

Res, it will but then you would have a propellor with points on ech end and no pitch.  :)
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

21incher

My Kuster would smoke a set of belts if overloaded. Are you using 4 or 6 inch wide rolls?
Hudson HFE-21 on a custom trailer, Deere 4100, Kubota BX 2360, Echo CS590 & CS310, home built wood splitter, home built log arch, a logrite cant hook and a bread machine. And a Kubota Sidekick with a Defective Subaru motor.

firefighter ontheside

Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Old Greenhorn

You passed Bill!
21 What size machine and what size motor did you have? 2 drums? I am assuming it had a pair of belts? I get the feeling this thing will blow the breaker before it toasts the belts. It grunts down, but doesn't slow down.

 Yeah Res, no warranties express or implied on your board. ;D
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

Old Greenhorn

I did find a photo of that machine when we got it in the gallery. I'll try and see if I can connect it here.


OK, well that seemed to work.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

21incher

3 hp1725 rpm 24 inch dual belts mostly 40 grit. Single drum. Once I got that first smell they would narrow down quickly.  I have several big rolls of 4 inch I have been cutting down  to 2.75 for my new sander. 
Hudson HFE-21 on a custom trailer, Deere 4100, Kubota BX 2360, Echo CS590 & CS310, home built wood splitter, home built log arch, a logrite cant hook and a bread machine. And a Kubota Sidekick with a Defective Subaru motor.

21incher

Having a hard time replying now. Works when I use edit after the first couple words I just found out.
Hudson HFE-21 on a custom trailer, Deere 4100, Kubota BX 2360, Echo CS590 & CS310, home built wood splitter, home built log arch, a logrite cant hook and a bread machine. And a Kubota Sidekick with a Defective Subaru motor.

Old Greenhorn

I've had no issues with posting, I don't know why but I am not complaining. I forgot to answer your other question, I am using 4" wide media on this as per the manual recommendation.

Testing degree symbol (ALT+ 248) 30° here now.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

Larry

Where did you end up getting the feed belts at?

Larry, making useful and beautiful things out of the most environmental friendly material on the planet.

We need to insure our customers understand the importance of our craft.

Old Greenhorn

I researched a LOT on that conveyor. Prices for a rubber/cloth conveyor were up around $600-900 and I would have to order custom and never really got that far. I also learned that many are switching over to abrasive belts and found several companies. One wanted about $120 for a single belt (custom) and that was OK, but then I found SuprGrit Abrasives and they wanted about $41.00/belt, but they had a 3 piece minimum order, so about the same as the other guys, but I got 3 belts. I had a funny feeling talking with them on the phone and it took several days to get a price quote (this belt is 36" wide x 73" long), but I went with them and they sent me 4 belts (billed for 3) in less than a week. SO I also bought the 4" sanding media from them for testing. Now I have to reorder because I only got 10 yard rolls to get started and try out the grits I selected. A couple of days ago they emailed me a clearance catalog with some pretty nice deals in it (like 5" H&L sanding disks, 250 discs for about $50.00).
 Very happy with their service and quality.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

firefighter ontheside

I'm so happy I passed that test, but I think my posts only work about 1% of the time.
Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Nebraska

Yep having similar problem posting from my phone.�

firefighter ontheside

trying again
that one worked and so did the edit
Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Old Greenhorn

I'm glad you guys are working through it, it's a learning curve. I don't use my phone to post anything but short replies, I guess I will start trying in a couple of days. SO far, it's been pretty good for me, but I did reply to a PM from the midget Doctor with a paragraph and it got lost/dumped/errored out.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

hedgerow

Quote from: firefighter ontheside on January 31, 2024, 04:31:14 PMtrying again
that one worked and so did the edit
I am using a regular home computer. If I don't preview my reply first before I post it. The post is completely gone and shows a error. I never had to preview before.�

firefighter ontheside

Now that it's working, I don't have anything to say.
Woodmizer LT15
Kubota Grand L4200
Stihl 025, MS261 and MS362
2017 F350 Diesel 4WD
Kawasaki Mule 4010
1998 Dodge 3500 Flatbed

Nebraska

:yellow: dancing-jack  Whole bunch of smiley's reappeared just now. Just happened to be in this thread.  Hope you're warm and dry. 

Old Greenhorn

Yes, warm and dry now, still recovering from the weekend and I was way too weary and sleepy to post last night. So I'll catch this up a little.
 I was tickled to see that just as I left for The Hoot on Friday, the forum issues were largely resolved. AT least, for me, I could check in and read a little here and there over the weekend.

 This is my 11th year doing the Hoot and its pretty routine with some small changes every year to streamline or improve. Set up and breakdown get faster all the time. When I arrived and checked in, the only question I had was where I was sleeping. Normally I grab a bunk in the Long House, which is not private, but is quite comfortable. I only get about 4 hours sleep each night so it doesn't really matter to me. But last year they had a cancellation that they put me in, a nice private room with my own bathroom. This year, I was back to the bunk house until the last second when the boss realized she had a cancellation in one of the brand new mini-cabins they were just building and she offered me that, but insisted I check it out first. The cabin is not finished. It has electric, lights and a temp electric space heater, no insulation yet.

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 So I checked and it was warmer inside than outside and thought I would be fine, although I only had a summer sleeping bag. I moved in and it was just perfect.

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Then I got to work and forgot about it. It was a typical Friday night with good music, meeting up with lots of old friends and folks known from prior years, some square dancing, good food, etc. After the scheduled shows were done we had about 60 folks settle in the dining hall for a jam that went very late into the night (actually early into the next morning).

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In the above photo, Jay Unger (wearing the hat) is near the center and just to the right of him is his wife Molly Mason on base. She just got a new hip last week and is doing great. There were about another 25 musicians i that circle, I couldn't fit them all in a photo.

 So all was good until I went to bed at 2am with the jam still quietly continuing. I walked in the cabin and it was the same temp inside as outside, about 20°. This was a little colder than I was equipped to deal with. It seemed that the heater fan had quit although the heater was still working, it wasn't moving the hot air off the heater. Suffice to say it was a very long night and I only managed, perhaps 90 minutes sleep all night. I got up at daybreak and found a couch in a dark corner upstairs in the performance hall and took a 30 minute nap. With all the winter camping I have done at low temps, even below zero, I don't ever recall feeling that cold for an entire night.

 Later in the day I had to run home to do firewood, stoves, etc. and I grabbed another nap, for an hour. I also grabbed some better winter sleeping gear and other odds and ends that might help. When I returned and was unloading the stuff into the cabin, a couple of the maintenance guys came walking up the road with a new heater. We put that in and it seemed to work. I checked it a couple of hours later and it was working, not real warm in there, but warmer than outside. When I racked out at 2am the outside temp was again 20° but inside felt like, perhaps, 40-45° and with my new sleeping clothes I went to bed and didn't move a muscle or wake up until 7am. Nice solid sleep. I was still behind the sleep curve, but I was feeling a lot better.

 All in all a nice weekend with no disasters. I got home around 1pm and still very tired. I did what I HAD to do but not everything I needed to do. I was just too tired to even post here. Now with a full night's sleep I am ready to get back to work and finish unpacking, etc.

 I did read all the posts I missed over the weekend and it's good to hear how everyone is getting on. I think I have figured out that these popup ads I am getting have nothing to do with the forum and I am certain Jeff does not get anything from them. I see the ads that show up in the pages between replies and those are just fine. But when I am posting, every time  a new popup comes up, it takes the cursor focus away from the reply pane and I am typing nothing. Then I look up and see that I have to PUT the cursor back in the reply pane and retype the last sentence. It VERY annoying and I had to do it maybe 20 times writing this post. Again, I am pretty sure this is NOT a forum thing so I will have to figure out how to fix it locally. I have already tried a popup blocker which doesn't seem to work very well, and they are coming from (I think) two different sources.  They flop down right in the middle of what I am reading sometimes. I'll figure it out eventually. I am just glad we are all back together.

 Today is another day.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

doc henderson

there are some little boxes in the L upper corner that say left pane, right pane ect.  It seems to change the layout and i think it may allow you to pick where they show up.  I have found little Xs on the ads and can close them and go back to posting.  
Timber king 2000, 277c track loader, PJ 32 foot gooseneck, 1976 F700 state dump truck, JD 850 tractor.  2007 Chevy 3500HD dually, home built log splitter 18 horse 28 gpm with 5 inch cylinder and 32 inch split range with conveyor powered by a 12 volt tarp motor

Old Greenhorn

Yeah, I have seen and 'adjusted' some, but I get two or three at a time sometimes and they lay wherever they want. Even though I can close them, it still means I lost a full sentence that I have to type over. The ones Jeff are adding to the site are perfect. They get their own space and do not interfere with whatever you are doing. I don't mind those at all. But these just seemed to have latched onto my forum connection somehow. They are parasites.
Tom Lindtveit, Woodsman Forest Products
Oscar 328 Band Mill, Husky 350, 450, 562, & 372 (Clone), Mule 3010, and too many hand tools. :) Retired and trying to make a living to stay that way. NYLT Certified.
OK, maybe I'm the woodcutter now.
I work with wood, There is a rumor I might be a woodworker.

aigheadish

Looks like a nice time other than the cold night's sleep Tom!

On the note of the new forum I'm still looking for the place that used to be where I could click to see replies to threads I've commented in. Is that still a thing I just haven't found yet? I see my posts but that's not really what I'm looking for. 
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