What Dummy did today.

[Swede]

Loded a 19" 12´pine log but didn´t lift up the poles first. 

The customer took his tractor out and pulled the log back to the right side of the saw mill.

Swede.

[Tom]

That is a helpless feeling to watch the log roll off of the back of the mill, isn't it?   You know what is going to happen but you also know that there is nothing you can do fast enough to stop it. 

Why is it that we always do these things in front of a customer while we are trying to look experienced?

[Jeff]

I bet that dont happen often with a manual mill.

[Ed_K]

 Just once, and it was a bigun  .

[wiam]

Maybe, once or







twice

Will

[Dan_Shade]

I'm sure I'll eventually do it with my manual mill.  I almost did it the last time I was sawing!

[Cedarman]

Rolling a log over the mill is like hitting a dog with the blade.  You get complacent or in a hurry, but once you do it, it will be a long time before it happens again.

I find that with my sawyers.  It doesn't take them too long to ruin a blade on the dog, but most time they never hit it again.

It leaves an indelible memory mark.

[Kirk_Allen]

Dont feel bad Sweed, I did it yesterday with an Ash log.  Second time in two years. Dogs were up but this log had a nasty figure and a whopper of a branch sticking out. I was going to cut off the branch first but when I loaded it would hang up and not turn.  Once I finally got it where I wanted, it had just enough height and momentum to go right over the back dog and slide sideways off the mill.   Fortunatly, Furby wasnt there with a camera yet and the but of the log was still on the bunks.  Two of us STRUGGLED and lifted that sucker back on the mill. 

[Part_Timer]

The BIG advantage of the small manual mill (LT15)  Just roll it back on. 

     But I have done it in front of a customer as well. YAh just gota smile and go on. 
I just told him we didn't want to cut that one yet and needed to get the others done first and do that one last.  Good thing he had a sence of humor.  We had a good laugh and went on.  Now he is one of my best customers.      

[dail_h]

It happens on manuel mills too. Yesterday I was turning a big SYP (sorry yard pine) when the turning hook came loose----ole log rolled right backwards off the mill, between mill an log deck. Walked around and took a good look at it ,came in the house got a glass of tea,went back and sat down on the end of the mill to give it a chance to right itself. After an approiate amount of time ,and nothing happening,I dismanteled part of the log deck,got "Spud", and a pair of tongs ,put that sucker back on the mill and sawed it anthow

[Brucer]

I haven't rolled one across the mill and off the other side -- yet  .

Last year I was sawing a big, ugly D. Fir on Louis' hydraulic mill. Finished my first face and was reaching for the lever to lower the toeboard when the timber framers next door knocked over a pile of timbers with their new forklift. Heck of a crash, but no one hurt. When I looked back at my log, I discovered I had lowered the side stops instead of the toeboard. They had caught on the log and rolled it onto the track. Half a second more and I'd have had it right off the mill. Now that would have been embarassing to explain 

[Swede]

I´m happy to hear that the world is full of dummies..........

.......or let´s call it experienced sawyers. YES!

Finished that job Saturday evening, hooked Amerika-Sågen behind the Passat and pulled it out of sawdust and fierwood. There was just space for a hair both sides. There is days I wish I had a TK 2400, a Silverado and a driving licence for it but mostly I´m happy with my small stuff.
Told the customer he´s "a very good helper around a sawmill to just be a teacher"  (he also has a wonderfull humor) and left the nice family. Headed the next customer a mile or two away and arrived there at 1/2 past 6. Parked the sawmill at his yard. He told me "sorry, but the trees, felled by the storm, is not cut off yet". Let´s do it, I said. Hey, he said, we can´t do it now, can we?  Why can´t we, i said.

There was two aspen Ø27" laying close together. They were growing from the same root.  A dangerous job! Wen I cut the first off the other wipped up in the air and the root fell down. Cut the second tree down and stoped  the Jonse-red.
He said: Doing that job my self I would have fasten 20 chain saws in them trees.  We turned the logs down and checked the place so playing children can´t be hurt.  Told him to paint the ends SAP and find a log truck (every log truck here has big cranes) a tractor isn´t much help on these big logs. Then call me when the logs been hauled to his yard. Very intresting to see what we´ll find in them logs and how to saw them.
If I hadn´t spent the days after the storm together with some experienced tree huggers I couldn´t take them aspens down without loosing my chain saw (and 19 moore) and perhaps get hurt.
Today I´m at the office. Need to make some papers and rest my body. I´m down at 80 Kg. now. Love this life out doors and meet a lot of nice people every day.


Dummy left the customer Saturday evening at 1/2 past 8 with just one problem. Happy my girl friend hasn´t mooved in yet................


Swede.

[Fla._Deadheader]

  Hey Swede, really enjoyed all them pics.

[UNCLEBUCK]

Hey Swede how much is 80kg ? You sayin you only weigh that much ? 

[Engineer]

Buck,

Some of these guys is LIGHTWEIGHTS - not like us...   

Me, I go 20 and a half stone.   

[Swede]

UNCLEBUCK; 
1 Kg=2,2046 lbs.

10 years ago I was up at 104 Kg. Couldn´t get down to 90 before I begain sawing. Now I´m loosing weigt without starving. 

Harold; What DanG pics are You talking about? Have some bills to pay first, then buy utility to take proper care of my blades. THEN I´ll buy a new camera.

Swede.

[Tom]

I never could get those scales to read what they were supposed to.  So,  I got rid of the scales.

[Cedarman]

Tom, try moving the little thingy at the bottom of the scales.  I can weigh what I want to.

[Tom]

I think I need to move more than that little thingy!   When I step on the fool thing, it grunts and the needle spins around three times.   Then I hear a lot of laughing from somewhere.     I can sure make one of those things work. 

It's a lot better for my self-esteem if I keep pictureing myself as I do in my mind's eye.

[maple flats]

Dumping a log off the back of the mill sounds like something where sawyers are in only two catagories, those who have and those who will, so far (fingers crossed) I am a have not, hopefully conversion to a have is a long way off!!