and just to be nice they sent me a shiny orange sawmill...
just waiting to get off work this afternoon was killing me...so I said to hell
with it and left. (what're they gonna do? Fire me?..nahh I know too much..)
showed up at Rowland Equipment, those fine folks were kind enough to fetch the mill off the truck
for me and load it on my trailer...so I got it home, pulled all the boxes out, played with the cant hook..
Me likey da logrite...
Then...I started scratching my head...how, is all 140 lbs of me s'posed to get an 800 lb mill head off of
the bloody pallet and onto the bed....uhhhhhh ohhhhhhh....nobody mentioned that I'd need a forklift or such..
and i'm fresh out. jeeeeezzz...
So how did our intrepid hero solve his perplexing quandary?
I cheated.
and i'm not telling...it'd make some of you guys queasy..
Let's just say it involved a very old tractor, some heavy timber, alot of chain, a hardhat (Stihl
)
and a chainhoist...not pretty, but very effective.
The mill went together pretty easy..mostly...I put two bed sections together on the trailer once I got the
head installed on one..probably not what the folks at WM had in mind..but it worked..rigged the mill up to walk off the trailer,
and promptly had one of hte back mill feet plow through my trailer decking (short pause for colorful language here)
guess I will have to mill myself a new tailer deck. she who must be obeyed thought that was pretty funny...
So, I finally yatched the foot of the mill through the bloody decking..got her stood back on her own 8 feet and rigged her off
trailer..
installing a blade for the first time should not be attempted in the half dark...it seems to be a neat trick at best.
So that's as far as i got...didn't even start the engine yet, tomorrow I will once again attempt to Git R Done...last bed section
and all the little doo dads installed...way scrapers and such.
the construction of this beast impresses me..I know good engineering when I see it, and WM has a good thing going,
I work with some massively over engineered equipment at work...and this mill is right up there.
the rope feed often asked about works well, and is simple...any good sailor loves simple things that work well. (I
had to crank it up and down the ways a few times of course..just to make sure it works ok..
)
For those of you who are on the fence about the Lt15...at this stage of the game, I do not believe you will go wrong with one,
of course I have not sawed with it yet, but i'm sure you will hear about that in nauseating detail in a few days.
I took some pictures..but I am too bloody tired to resize them and post..
And its
ORANGE! 
