LOG_MASTER

[Tom]

There was one in Atlanta at the show in 1999.  I'm working on memory but it sure seems familiar.  If it was, there was a problem with feed speed.  i dont know if it was the operator or the RPM's at the bandwheel, but it took a couple of minutes or better to make a cut on the log they had  mounted.  I figured it had to have been a correctable problem but it didn't look good at the show.

[DanG]

I remember seeing another brand that always seems to have trouble at shows.  I won't say who it is here in public, but it's a bandmill and not a forum sponsor and that's all I'll say about dat.  Anyway, I've seen them have all sorts of problems every time I've seen them at shows.  It always seems to be operator error, but the inexperienced observer(potential customer) would probably see it as a fault of the machine.   Why don't they just train their DanG people?

[Kansas]

Nola
In answer to your question, the mill is most closely patterened after the LM 6. This will be a stationary mill, and most of the changes wouldnt be applicable to a portable mill. We are having the capacity increased to a 48" log, hydraulic couplers added to add a live deck, and having a stand alone console for the controls, among a few other minor changes. It will be powerd by a 100 hp electric motor, which I think is overkill, but they insist on it, and I guess it wont hurt.
As far as them cutting slow at shows, I noticed that too. I suspect (I hope) its the operator. He doesnt just cut slow, he brings the carriage back slow too. Its variable speed as far as the carriage travel goes in both directions. I asked what the speed range was, and he was going way under what it should be capable of in both directions.
Just in case, we are having a different spot in the building wired up for the woodmizer, at least until the bugs are worked out, and we are used to the machine. We may keep it permenantly as a backup, and for small jobs, straight edging, customer logs we suspect that have metal in them, etc.

[ex-Engineer Wannabe]

"...it's a bandmill and not a forum sponsor..." 

Howdy, Dan.

I'm a little confoozed...Did the mystery brand that made its way onto this thread -- a thread WITH a brand name -- show up at any of the shows you've attended or not? 

Perhaps you're referring to two different brands?  I guess I'm wondering how you saw [no pun intended] some logs being cut up too slowly if the company never attends a show?  Git my meanin'?

As always, a pleasure to see your words on the board...have a great day in F-L-A...

B in NOLA

[DanG]

Yup, you be confoozed.  That was Tom that saw the LogMaster at a show I didn't attend.

[D._Frederick]

I have rented U-haul trailer with surge brakes and am not much impressed with them. You really have to get on the towing vehicle breaks hard to get the surge brakes to work.  If you have a long mountain to go down they are not very effecdtive.

For the weight of 3 1/2 ton sawmill, I would want no less than full time electric brakes, or better yet have hydrualic brakes installed.

[Dan_Shade]

heh, i don't think any u-haul rental gives a fair assessment of whatever it is you rented 

around here most boat trailers are surge brakes, if they are properly designed, and the brake system is sized for the load, there's no reason they shouldn't work.

that said, I like my electric brakes just dandy

[lamar]

am I missing somyhing here but I thought log master (big ones) were all hyd. including the drive wheel with the big hoses feeding it

[Tom]

I think you are right, Lamar.

[DanG]

I hadn't looked at LogMaster's website for a couple of years, so I took a fresh peek.  They now have some little mills to go along with those monster hydraulic driven ones.  Apparently, you don't get the hydraulic motor on the drive till you get up to the 86hp rig.