A day cutting wood

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Personally.......I would kick the bucket.  :D

[Peter Drouin]

Thanks Dave, that's what I thought would happen  :D
Well I did finish to day all but 3 logs they where frozen in and the customer could not move them with a backhoe  :D :D :D


 
I see a mill there and told the customer if he wants to sell it I would buy it. I don't know what I would do with it, maybe set it up and look at it  :D :D


  

  

 
It's in a barn and he has all the parts. I know O about a mill like that.
but my Wood Mizer did so well this week I gave it a bath  :D


 

[Dave Shepard]

The problem with a bigger bucket is when you get down to 1" off the table. The bucket tips as you go down the rail.

What I did was I put the head on the first 4/4 mark, my lowest setting. Then I put the bucket on the ground under the elbow and raised it up just enough so it wouldn't drag and tip. That way the opening of the elbow is above the lip of the bucket. You get more in it before you dump. Make your hook at that height. You hook looks to be too tall.

Now as you are sawing what are you doing?

You have a remote, so you can walk down to where the head is and swap buckets when it is full. You may not get an entire pass in one bucket because of the amount of sawdust coming out. But if you're not doing anything, like stacking boards or carrying off slabs then you have plenty of time to empty the bucket and/or swap a full bucket out and put an empty one in.;

Just be careful when you reach for a bucket that the worse thing that could happen, may happen:



Jim Rogers

I didn't have any problems with the bucket tipping.

When I am sawing, I am only sawing. I have to keep one hand on the remote so it keeps going forward. The forward lever is spring centered. Besides, if you noticed the time of the video, it only took 19 seconds to start the saw, set the feed, saw 13' and shut down again. :D

I have a remote so that I don't have to walk down the mill.

[Bandmill Bandit]

 

 

This is how I did my pail hanger.



 

Can still raise the chute to clear as a requred. can also slide the rubber extension tube on without tools when I need to.

[Magicman]

Since I am portable I just let the customer shovel sawdust.   ;D

[Peter Drouin]

Since I am portable I just let the customer shovel sawdust.   ;D

So you never work alone like I do. I'm the only guy there  :D :D

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Since I am portable I just let the customer shovel sawdust.   ;D

So you never work alone like I do. I'm the only guy there  :D :D

Me 2. 

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Since I am portable I just let the customer shovel sawdust.   ;D

So you never work alone like I do. I'm the only guy there  :D :D

Me 2. 

[mesquite buckeye]

If your mill has wheels you can pull it out of the junk and either load it with a tractor and loader or shovel it up when there is nothing there to hit your head. ;D

[Magicman]

Reply #406 & 407 indicates that there are two (2) of you !!!       poston-smiley   :D

[thecfarm]

oh the horrors of it all having two POST........ I got so scared,I can't even finish it.

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Reply #406 & 407 indicates that there are two (2) of you !!!       poston-smiley   :D

I must be double clicking or something......I've been doing this several times in the past week. Gotta be more careful.  :D

[Magicman]

OK, I was like Ray and scared that you had doubled up on us.   Wow, what a relief !!!     :D

[Peter Drouin]

Can't have 2 poston  smiley_ghost

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

STOP IT! Y'all embarrassing me.  :D

[Bandmill Bandit]

I don't know for sure guys but there are days I feel like I should have at least 2 of me to keep up to what my brain STILL thinks I SHOULD be able to get done in a day. If you have figured out how to get 2 of your self working in the same place at the same time done ever tell any one and just run with it. ;D ;D At our age no one would believe it was real any way AND we can just blame it on the forestry forum since that is the cyber borg that has that power to clone us all.

[Magicman]

Since I am portable I just let the customer shovel sawdust.   ;D 

 
Dodgy Loner shoveling Cherry sawdust.

[Peter Drouin]

Did you bring the shovel? 
Boy it looks warm there. I was cutting frozen hemlock today and it took off the corners on the blade  :

[Magicman]

Yup, my scoop.  Dodgy finally pulled that shirt off and worked in his T shirt.   :D

[WDH]

Knowing him, he probably took the sawdust home, too  :D.

[backwoods sawyer]

Had an early morning site evaluation to look at some over sized Doug fir logs on the way out to where the sawmill is set up now. I was plenty early to meet him at the local store in his town and it was well before breakfast so picked up a box of donuts to share with the customer. 

It turned out to be one tree five foot plus on the butt, two 24' logs and two 32' logs 28" on the small end where the top had broke out. Roughly 8,500 bft. The first 60' was all over sized and ideal for a swing blade mill. He was hoping for clear tight grained CVG and some beams. Unfortunately at best it was a tight grained #3 saw log do to the number of large knots, and white speck that ran the entire length. Nevertheless he will have a pile of firewood when he gets it all cut up.

It was to foggy and the pictures did not turn out well, but the Donuts were good and spent the rest of the day milling Oak without hitting any metal.

When I finish up and pull out I like to leave a nice neat pile of sawdust and a nice neat tailing pile as sometimes it will still be there when you return next time.

[Peter Drouin]

some days are like that 

[losttheplot]

  Unfortunately at best it was a tight grained #3 saw log do to the number of large knots, and white speck that ran the entire length

Could you please describe what the "white speck" is ?

Thanks.
LTP

[backwoods sawyer]

Decomp!!! I believe it is a fungis that lives on the sugars in the cells, someone correct me if I am wrong, it is visable in the end grain of the log, makes the wood to soft for structual use, can still be used for siding. When you find white speck you can usualy find a wound in the tree that allowed it to get a foot hold, this tree had the top blown out some time back.

[Peter Drouin]

Today was fun frozen hemlock with ice and gravel . I can't see the gravel under the ice. I would drop the logs as high as John would reach  :D


 
And some ice would come off. I just put it on the mill and cut


 
The sawdust would freeze instantly on the cant , well it was +4  :D :D :D
Sometimes it would be one blade to one log after I cut some gravel. The hemlock would let you know when the blade was dull  :D


 
A wave  :D :D :D
what had happen I cut some logs that where in the back of the pile and some the logger got mud all over them. And with all ice and snow you can't see it.
Sometimes I have to drop a log on them to get them loose.


 

And Postonlt40 I was thinking how you ripped a wire from your debarker, So when I ordered some blades I got one of the cups for the wires.


 
Fits good  :D :D ;D