differences between swing blades

[Arthur]

cr

glad to lend you a mill for a while for product and timber evaluation.  need to know what type of wood and sizes you want to mill so you get the right one for the job.  The main spec is for the type of blades supplied.

How portable do you need it???

etc,etc,etc.

easy to ship to your local port but how do we get it to you from there???

Do you have a camp site for all the FF visitors???

arthur

[crtreedude]

We don't need no stinking heating and cooling - we is tough!

(Our temperature only changes a few degrees year round - where we live the high for the day is about 78 degrees F, gets down to about 65 by the morning. I know you feel for us and our weather...)

No hurricanes either!

Sorry for hijacking thread...

The weird thing is I never know what month it is unless I look at a calendar. Honest. We are heading up to the home country (the USA) for a visit to relatives in October - I know I am going to freeze.

Stress testing for temperature extremes will have to be done up at Jeff's.

[Arthur]

cr

you will need to install a deep freeze unit for Lindsay. 

arthur

[crtreedude]

Arthur, no problem at all getting from the port - Limon is only three hours away.

We will definitely be buying a mill eventually - and Harold is bringing down a Peterson.

We have smaller logs - sometimes about 10" and then we have monsters - like 5' in diameter. Most everything is hardwood - and then it gets harder.

Teak is really hard on blades, so a sharpener is critical.  Some of the densities go up to 1.20, but usually they are between 0.5 and 0.7

Portability is important of course but durability to tropical conditions is a must. We do have a place to keep it out of the elements.

And yes, we have a very large campsite for visitors - you all come, and I provide the chicharrones.  Perhaps we need to have a Winter piggy roast in Costa Rica.  Jeff, I promise to fly you and Tammy down so you can MC it.

Someone has to keep Harold out of trouble...

[Fla._Deadheader]

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  Rodney

[crtreedude]

FDH - you should be happy you keep someone employed... 

[Arthur]

cr

no problem with tropical conditions, the EcoSaw is well proven and you only need a cover for the engine although most are never covered.

will orgainize something for you once we get the next few months of panic out of the way.

arthur

[submarinesailor]

I WANT TO GO/Volunteer.

[DonE911]

78 to 65 year round??  I thought there would be a little more swing than that....   maybe I could get my wife down there in CR....  oh wait... she wont go unless there are bears there... she wants bears...

Maybe we could import some.... 

[Fla._Deadheader]

 Just get Fred riled. 

[Jeff]

78 to 65 year round??  I thought there would be a little more swing than that....   maybe I could get my wife down there in CR....  oh wait... she wont go unless there are bears there... she wants bears...

Maybe we could import some.... 

THey got bears, but they aint got no feet, grow scales and have venom.

[doublecut]

cr
We are setting up a plant in Sanjose and a store front for the ecosaw. How far is that from you? My dad has been to costa Rica and loved it .Says it is one place to visit. I should be down there in the next few months to set everything up with my partner Ty wilkinson. Looking forward to come down. Can we commision you to be our tour guide?
It might be cold in the winter where I live but there aint no snakes! The way i like it.
doublecut

[arnold]

Captan.
          I still don't know the results from the shootout this year . I have been away for almost two months and understood from an earlier comment from you that you had done well.  I neither praised or criticised either brands but merely figured that the results would have helped.
No doubt this is not the case and leave the matter at that.

[crtreedude]

doublecut,

San Jose is about 2 hours away, not a bad trip. We have to go to the big city about every couple of months.  If you need some contacts in the city, let me know. Up our way is where most of the trees are on the plantations - here and Guanacaste.  If you need a rep out this way, we could talk. There isn't a whole lot of trees in the Central Valley. ;-) It is not a bad idea to have a store in San Jose though.

As far as being a tour guide, I can do much better than me. I'll spend some time with you in the Northern Zone, but as Harold found out when he was down here, I work nearly all the time.

However, we have a pretty good group of people here - and growing. And, of course everyone of them has brothers, sisters, cousins, etc. We can easily find someone to be a guide for you.

Don,

The meaning of the tropics is that there is almost no swing. The days and the nights are almost exactly the same length. The beaches are a little warm for me (about 90) and down in the lowlands is about 85 as a high. We are in the mountains at 2,000 feet. Perfect for us, a little warm for some people. The Central Valley (San Jose) is about 3,000 feet to 5,000 feet. The high in the Central Valley stays pretty close to the low 70s.

As far as snakes, I have only seen 3 here so far. Unless you go bushwacking on the fincas, you probably will never see one. Most people don't.

Jeff, we have bears here. Oso is bear in spanish.

Oso Hormiguero = Bear of the ant hills (anteater)
Oso Caballo = Horse Bear (Giant Anteater)

How about a Jaguar, Tapir or Panther? Costa Rica is one of the most biologically diverse places in the world.

[crtreedude]

FDH,

I resemble that remark! 

[oakiemac]

Lawyer Sawyer, John and anyone else that is in southern Michigan-

I'm not going to get into the debate because I don't know enough about the different swing blade mills. I do own and operate a Mobile Dimension saw that is a little different then swing blades but has some of the same advantages. My saw has three blades and can cut horizontally and vertically. I am in no way making a pitch for MD, but if anyone wants to take a road trip (I'm about 2 hours west of Ann Arbor) then I would certainly be willing to show you how my mill works.
Once again, I dont know if it is any better or worse then band mills or swing blade mill but it is a different way of doing things and is working for me. Just let me know if  you would like to come out and see it.

[DonE911]

oakie.... so only the michigan guys are invited huh??   

Snakes:   I personally don't care about them as long as they are doing their job and not bothering my wife who is pet-ri-fied of them.  My oldest son will catch any snake he finds.... venom or not. I try to tell him how stupid that is, but I did the same thing when I was a kid.

[crtreedude]

Visiting a person who is experienced with a particular brand of saw is a great idea. One, you get to see the saw used by a person who knows what he is doing and you will also decide if it is really what you want to do.

A band mills is a little complicated for me (I know, I know, I can learn it) so the swing blades appeal - not that I wouldn't give a WoodMizer a good testing... ;-)

One thing that is clear from this thread is that what you are going to use it for is very important. So, perhaps also checking out the list of sawyers in your area might be a good idea and see if anyone of them is sawing the same kind of stuff you are planning on.

I want a swing blade for salvaging trees on the plantations - but I will probably end up with a bandsaw for smaller stuff when we starting doing thinnings. Since we have thousands of trees to process, it makes sense to have the right machine for the job.

Of course, I don't get to use any of this - my business partner has all the fun.  Harold is coming down to start cutting for us with the Peterson and to get himself established. Should be fun once he stops playing around in Florida... 

Whatcha doing FDH - waiting for another hurricane??? 

[DonE911]

FDH is just giv'n ya more time to grow your tree's

[Fla._Deadheader]

 Just drove through San Jose, ALL day today, TWICE. People around Kissimmee and Disney drive just like San Jose people. I pulled a load (WAAYYY to big) of Pecky Cypress Beams back from Ellmoe's place.

  Lets see, 212 linear ft of 6 X 12's = 1272 ft of WET beams. Then, it poured rain most of the way home. Trailer has no brakes    Thought Jeff might take notice of that.