Author Topic: Saturday sawing (Read 55859 times)

ElectricAl · « **Reply #20 on:** April 12, 2003, 07:29:43 pm »

Short logs cause a pain in my back

biziedizie · « **Reply #21 on:** April 12, 2003, 07:52:00 pm »

I notice you have a sawdust collector but I see sawdust on the floor. Was it plugged that day?

Steve

Tom · « **Reply #22 on:** April 12, 2003, 08:00:27 pm »

It's rolling a ton and a half off of the back that will really make you chagrined.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #23 on:** April 12, 2003, 08:39:37 pm »

Steve,

Our dust collector gets about 95% of the dust, but some still ends up on the floor.

The dust on the floor you saw is after about 6 hours of sawing. There is more than a pickup load of dust blown into a big wagon.

Tom,

We lost a big one off the back a couple years ago. It cracked our 6" concrete and banged the wall so hard it shook wrenches off the hooks on the opposite wall.

We tried to reach over the saw with the forklift and chain it up. Our 5000lb Toyota could not lift it that far out.

We ended up moving all the logs and lumber outside, cleaning the floor, then lifting the sawmill onto 4 caster designed to move heavy furniture and rolling the saw out of the way.

A 3000lb sawmill rolls pretty easy on smooth concrete. Once the saw was moved it was easy pickins.

Kinda funny now, but I was freaked out when I saw the crack. Cracks in concrete with radiant floor heat is not to good.

We drop 1 or 2 each year. Mostly because the manual log stop folds down. We just let them fall once they start going. It's not worth getting hurt trying to stop it.

Tom · « **Reply #24 on:** April 12, 2003, 08:46:06 pm »

yep, been there.

What's a pain is when you do that at a customers site and there is no tractor.

Takes a lot of spiffy cant hook work to get it back to the front of the mill.

I have a tire and axle back there to worry about too.

Your right. Trying to catch one will get you hurt.

ohsoloco · « **Reply #25 on:** April 12, 2003, 11:06:32 pm »

It' takes a lot of spiffy cant hook work just to get my logs from the trailer to on the mill

Norm, that's some pretty firewood you got there....no wait, that wasn't even good for firewood, was it

Minnesota_boy · « **Reply #26 on:** April 13, 2003, 05:29:54 am »

I've dropped a couple of logs off the backside, between the frame of the mill and the tire. I really wrassled with the first one, but I got smarter with the second. I took a come-along, wrapped the cable over the log and around it and back to the mill, hooked the pulling end to the mill and just winched/rolled it back up. That would be pretty hard to do with a really big log, but I'd bet that I could do it with a couple of come-alongs or winches. It might take me an hour, but it might take far more to get a loader that could handle the log in there and I'd worry about the damage the loader might do if someone else were driving it.

Tom · « **Reply #27 on:** April 13, 2003, 11:28:04 am »

If you have a real big cant or log that won't go all the way against the dogs, you can use short pieces of wood between the loader arms and the cant, raise the loader and it will help push the cant onto the mill.

isawlogs · « **Reply #28 on:** April 13, 2003, 09:51:19 pm »

Been there myself a few times ....

I was alone once ... twice one time had my skider (540 JD) so that was simple anough Got the winch out and lifted it out of the way and back into the pile...the other time I was alone

had a jack all in the truck and a few saws cut up some blocks and jaked her out and rolled her back onto the mill...

Keep on sawing ...

Norm · « **Reply #29 on:** April 14, 2003, 04:43:37 am »

We didn't get anything done on the sawmill Saturday, we got in 50 little peepers Friday so have been busy keeping them corraled. The little guys can find any crack in the brooder room and get out if were not careful. In the morning we finished up wrapping our porker in little white packages and then got the garden tiled up. Feels good to get out and plant something after this long winter. Sunday we put in our asparagus and strawberry plants. Potatoes are next.

Tell the truth Al, you just had Linda throw up that log you lost on the other side, heck I make Patty do all the hard work around here too.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #30 on:** April 14, 2003, 06:19:20 am »

Norm,

My goal is to work smarter, not harder

So, I have Linda do the hard work

ElectricAl

Bibbyman · « **Reply #31 on:** April 14, 2003, 06:26:01 am »

Mary has got real comfortable running the mill. She gives me a dirty look

if I'm not fast enough pulling a board or slab. :-/

One thing she really likes to do is put make a race out of loading the next log before I can get the last two boards pulled. See, as we have an edger, we seldom use the loading arms to collect flitches. I'll pull the flitches and put them through the edger. When I get a chance, I'll kick the next log onto the loading arms. So when she makes the last cut on a log, she's ready to load the next one.

Tom · « **Reply #32 on:** April 14, 2003, 06:33:10 am »

I found out by the use of pretty professional malingering off-bearers that an off-bearer can control the speed of the mill.

It didn't take these "hire a help" guys 30 minutes to find out on which end of the mill the work was and they would always be just a few steps away. Like to have worked my tail off till I figured out what they were doing.

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #33 on:** April 14, 2003, 11:14:21 am »

Ever figger maybe that's why they don't have "real" jobs ??

Patty · « **Reply #34 on:** April 19, 2003, 05:57:11 pm »

A wet Saturday but we managed to get some of our black locust logs cut into beams for the post and beam cabin. It may be a while before we get tuit so we saw some whenever we get a chance and then stash them in our Morton building. We coated the beams in anchorseal to keep them from drying out to fast. They turn a pinkish color when the anchor seal is applied. Some before and after shots.
The the rain got serious so we went indoors this afternoon to "rearrange" the morton full of drying wood.

Holy cow, every muscle hurts...guess when I grow up I'll get muscles like Linda!

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #35 on:** April 19, 2003, 06:02:43 pm »

Hi Patty. Nice lookin beams. Did you anchorseal the faces also?? Looks like it in the pics.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #36 on:** April 19, 2003, 06:47:38 pm »

Well, today we lost money.

Was trying to resaw a basswood 4x4 into a 2x3 for a buddys army issue tent.

I was going full tilt down the 10' 4x4 and hit a nail that was in at an angle. A bunch of teeth bent in one way

At least Patty and Norm made good progress today.

ElectricAl

Tom · « **Reply #37 on:** April 19, 2003, 06:51:18 pm »

There you go designing blades, Al. Take it from me, it gets expensive and I've not made a blade better yet like that.

ElectricAl · « **Reply #38 on:** April 19, 2003, 07:46:27 pm »

Tom,

You know how I like to be on the cutting edge of technology

dail_h · « **Reply #39 on:** April 20, 2003, 07:26:21 am »

A cabin made out of locust,it'al be there forever.Shooooeeeee!!! Purtty too

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