A day cutting wood

[Magicman]

I don't sharpen but I would clean them the way I described, blade turning and the Lubemizer on continuous.  I never remove a blade like Peter pictured because it's too easy to clean it before removing.  Actually too easy to never let it get that way. 

[Jim_Rogers]

I don't sharpen but I would clean them the way I described, blade turning and the Lubemizer on continuous.  I never remove a blade like Peter pictured because it's too easy to clean it before removing.  Actually too easy to never let it get that way.

x2 run the blade with full lube until it is clean before you tension down and remove. Get it as clean as you can before you take it off. I run full lube and then when it is clean run it a minute or so to dry it off. I only use water per manufacturer's specifications. Except with very pitchy woods then I add pine-sol soap to the water jug 20 oz per 5 gallons.
Jim Rogers

[YellowHammer]

Yep, don't take it off dirty, it adds a lot of extra work.  

[petefrom bearswamp]

couple of squirts of diesel at speed cleans them here before removal

[Lawg Dawg]

couple of squirts of diesel at speed cleans them here before removal

Absolutely!  And QUICK!

[Bandmill Bandit]

I have tried a few different mixes for blade lube and find that the methonal (windshield anti freeze concentrate) with the super bug eraser I use works the best in ALL the different wood I saw. When in the stickier timber I up the methanol and the soap.
The strongest so far has been 1 gallon of the methanol with 4 gallons of water and 2 quarts of the bug eraser. it does put a film on every thing but washes of very well as it is all water soluble. Sap and pitch don't like to stick to it.

If i order the methanol in advance i can even get it with out dye.  
   

[Bruno of NH]

I thought everyone was using cotton picker chaise lube?
Diesel makes my bands float of my wheels

[Lawg Dawg]

Diesel makes my bands float of my wheels

A Dab will do Ya!

[Southside]

Dawg - you ever run any silicone on your bands?  :D

[thecfarm]

Must be the wide Thomas works differant than the regular with Thomas. I've been using diesel for years. BUT only a drop every few seconds.

[Peter Drouin]

I did cut most of the load dry, Only had a few that had pitched so bad to use the southern lube thing.  :D :D :D
That blade had hit a nail then two cuts without lube just to see what would happen. ;D
Also, the sawdust on that pine would get hard on the mill. Like it had a resin in it.
had one 24' 14"x14". When I cut it the inside was green, wet, But that can't be the thing was in the old mill for 150+ years.
The knots were hard as a rock. 
I think they have more to cut too.

I like my W Pine up here better. ;D :D :D

[Southside]

I see a little white pine, yard trees, down here and yeah - it cuts easier and weighs a whole lot less when dry than yellow pine. Of course that stuff will have some giant knots in it too. 

[Peter Drouin]

I see a little white pine, yard trees, down here and yeah - it cuts easier and weighs a whole lot less when dry than yellow pine. Of course that stuff will have some giant knots in it too.

It was heavy. Like our red pine, hard pine,  Is yellow pine rot resistant?

[Magicman]

The solid (fat) heartwood is Peter.  I have a fence post that I helped put down when I was ~12 years old that is still as solid today as it was then.

Fat Pine is what we use for kindling because it will burn like kerosene.

[Lawg Dawg]

The fat lighter pine is very rot resistant, but also can be brittle.  For the most part, not for ground contact use.  But I have heard old timers talk about building a box at a spring head for water, and they would use fat lighter pine boards for that

[Southside]

I have two heart pine logs, around 30", 20' long each, all heart wood.  The sap wood is long gone.  Found them down by a creek that had not been logged in a very, very, long time just due to a number of circumstances.  Over 150 countable rings in the heart wood.  They were on the ground when I found them but the stump that they pulled over had a pile of bark around it that was 4" thick.  Nobody at VT or VSU, State Forester etc can positively tell me if it was short or long leaf.  I have had them for several years and gone back and forth on what to do with them but I think I am going to RRRQS them into flooring, the question is do I sell it or put it into our house?  

The pitch balls that appear when it's hot smell just like turpentine.  

[Peter Drouin]

The smell was off from W Pine. But, I thought it was because of the age of the timber.

[WDH]

Southside, shortleaf pine bark has pitch pockets.  Longleaf pine bark does not.

https://www.google.com/search?q=What+is+a+pitch+pocket+in+shortleaf+pine?&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=v1u3boeurmwg9M%253A%252C4rFPN21OsEdxjM%252C_&usg=AFrqEzecIbD3i0iP0xRjM-F_tyK9jLzMbg&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiU0Oj3qqvdAhWBuFMKHScGBnAQ9QEwA3oECAMQBA#imgrc=v1u3boeurmwg9M:

[Southside]

Thanks WDH - I will take closer look.  I did keep some of the bark given it's impressive nature.  

[Peter Drouin]

Having fun now.


 
I put in a new H bridge a few weeks ago, The thing was fast but when you put the forward motor in neutral the brake would come on [ motor stopping the head], Instead of coasting to a stop. 
At first, the thing would stop and throw me forward in the seat. Or back.
Then after a while, it would brake or coast. 
Then last Wednesday it stops working. I called Wood Mizer and we went through all the test. Will send you a new one he said. 
[ It was under warranty] 8)
The thing is just under $800.


 
Wood Mizer was great to work with. The gentleman I work with was patient with me being an old crusty New Englander in the glacier north.  ;D
Got it all going well now. They want the old one back, it's on its way. 



I got me a conveyor for the board return for the edger.


 
Going to weld some wings to the sides to catch the wood sliding off the edger.

[SawyerTed]

Peter, the great lighthouses (Currituck Light, Bodie Island Light, Cape Hatteras and Cape Lookout) here in NC were built on a mat of cross hatch pine timbers 10"x10" or 12"x12", I don't recall the dimensions.  The builder intended to put down a concrete foundation.  When they dug down in the sand they decided that the sand was compact enough to to bear the weight.  So the contractor laid down the yellow pine timbers, placed the granite blocks on top and then built the brick light houses.

The pine timbers were below the water table.  They stayed underwater.

When the crew moved the Hatteras Light, the pine timbers were still there and were still very much solid.  They were probably the heart of long leaf pines.  

So in the right conditions yellow pine, especially heart pine (smells like turpentine) will last a log time in the right conditions.

[Peter Drouin]

It is nice wood, Very dense and strong, heavy too.

[PAmizerman]

I was a wonderin how you're board return was coming. Can't wait to see when you get it set up.

[PAmizerman]

I did a little sawn yesterday.

 


 You should bring that fancy edger on a road trip so I don't have to throw all those flitches back on the mill and edge them :D

[Peter Drouin]

Hemlock, 




 
Mix hard wood in this load.

I went to see a guy about some wood and at the end of his driveway, he had a sign.



:D :D