Author Topic: Bandmill Log Dogs (Read 3664 times)

rbarshaw · « **on:** January 05, 2004, 08:16:26 pm »

;DI've built a bandmill based on all info I could find on the internet. :-/The only thing I could not find is any good descriptions of log dogs. :PAny help there?

'Spose I should have said " log dogs and clamps"?

Haytrader · « **Reply #1 on:** January 06, 2004, 03:19:18 am »

rbarshaw,

Send me your E mail adress in a PM and I will send you some pics of the dogs on my mill. They work very well.

Furby · « **Reply #2 on:** January 06, 2004, 03:04:01 pm »

Jeff · « **Reply #3 on:** January 06, 2004, 03:18:04 pm »

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rbarshaw,

Send me your E mail adress in a PM and I will send you some pics of the dogs on my mill. They work very well.

Are they patented or top secret or sumpthun? I wanna see em too.

Furby · « **Reply #4 on:** January 06, 2004, 03:21:38 pm »

Jeff, don't you remember the "Log DOGS"

cluckerplucker · « **Reply #5 on:** January 07, 2004, 05:36:31 pm »

Haytrader I am in the orpcess of building dogs and I have been podering over several way. I hav thought of getting 3/4 in pipe slide clamps.Welding 3/8 flat stock to them and mounting 3/4 in pipe at several locations on the mill frame .You would slide it up to the log and turn the flat stock piece ub and wedge lock it .After you have a cant cut you turn the flat stock down and just a 1/2 in lip of the pipe clamp would hold the cant. What do you think ? cecil

Haytrader · « **Reply #6 on:** January 07, 2004, 06:29:09 pm »

But Jeff,

I have yet to take the time to figure out the picture thing and I can zip stuff on regular E mail all day long.
No secrets here..........well.......I ain't tellin ya the combination to the safe.....

D._Frederick · « **Reply #7 on:** January 07, 2004, 07:26:22 pm »

cluncker,
The 3/4 pipe is not ridged enough and bends too easily.

rbarshaw · « **Reply #8 on:** January 07, 2004, 07:56:12 pm »

Haytrader I am in the orpcess of building dogs and I have been podering over several way. I hav thought of getting 3/4 in pipe slide clamps.Welding 3/8 flat stock to them and mounting 3/4 in pipe at several locations on the mill frame .You would slide it up to the log and turn the flat stock piece ub and wedge lock it .After you have a cant cut you turn the flat stock down and just a 1/2 in lip of the pipe clamp would hold the cant. What do you think ? cecil

This is what I have right now, works good, but haven't tried any large logs yet, i'm worried the pipe will bend.

ARKANSAWYER · « **Reply #9 on:** January 07, 2004, 08:08:48 pm »

These are my log dawgs.
This one is LBJ.

This is Runt.

They do a fine job and I have not lost a log yet. They even eat the white grubs in the logs when I am sawing. My customers love them and they have even "marked" the tires on the FF truck.

ADfields · « **Reply #10 on:** January 07, 2004, 09:24:44 pm »

;DAll right Jeff, hear is Haytrader's dogs!

And they look like a good way to go.

Haytrader · « **Reply #11 on:** January 08, 2004, 02:35:24 am »

Thanks Andy,

I swear I will figure the picture posting out this winter, when the weather gets ugly and I have to stay in, if it ever does.
My dogs have yet to mark anyones tires.......

Norm · « **Reply #12 on:** January 08, 2004, 03:58:05 am »

Just cause I told the story about you and the Mrs. sitting on the bench you won't send any pictures to me huh, hey did you get the Europeon version of the Dodge Durango commercial to open. What a hoot, Patty and I about rolled on the floor laughing.

D._Frederick · « **Reply #13 on:** January 08, 2004, 07:51:25 am »

Hay..-
Nice looking dogs, should not bend, but I have one question. If you have a larger log, does the dog lever get in the way of the carriage, since it sticks straight out?

Larry · « **Reply #14 on:** January 08, 2004, 04:11:39 pm »

Haytrader,
I like your dogs. Look well built and sturdy to me. “D” does have a point on the clamps. I have similar ones but the arm comes off. What kind of mill do you have?

Finally got a pic of my log dog guarding the mill and probably waiting for a bone.

cluckerplucker · « **Reply #15 on:** January 08, 2004, 04:18:17 pm »

Hay trader ! I just figured out how to post a flick .The program that came with the Olympus camera.Go to resize.and reduce the size down to 60x40 pixils,give it a new name and send to your picture file . cecil

cluckerplucker · « **Reply #16 on:** January 08, 2004, 04:23:02 pm »

I screw up I had to get it small to post . But why did it stay small? When I tried to keep it 20% larger it told me I was 22450 and I could not be larger then 15000. So tell me what I did wrong. How wbout it Tom. cecil

ADfields · « **Reply #17 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:40:07 pm »

You got to get that image optimizer from www.xat.com and compress the file size with it.

Tom made a thing spelling it all out but you have 90% of it right so it may be info overload for you.
Look at. http://www.forestryforum.com/upload.htm
Or you can get there from the "Forum Tools" bar at the top of the pages hear.

The part you missed is the compressing the file size, tom's step number five on that link. You use the image optimizer to make the file small enough to fit and still have a pic that is large enough to see. What you see is what you get, the Forum don't blow it back up. It's not near as hard as it sounds once you get the stuff to work with. Once you get the program if you have trouble with it give a holler, glad to walk past the first one.

More pix is more better!

Andy

pappy · « **Reply #18 on:** January 08, 2004, 06:59:01 pm »

My Log Dog is a sullkin kuz it be to DanG cold out side sumpin like -60F (w/ wind chill) ans we's can't be cuttin no logs and just ta hangin round da mill I be bummin real bad

dad can we just go fer a ride anyways? can we can we please please??

Haytrader · « **Reply #19 on:** January 09, 2004, 03:58:26 am »

Norm, I didn't think you would like to see pics of a green manual mill since you have a hydraulic orange squeezer.

D, No, they do not get in the way at all. The half moon has been sharpened a bit so it actually cuts into the log with a little pressure. You can tighten it and have the handle parellel with the log.

Larry, The mill is an Oliver, made in Arkansas. It has the sliding peice on four bunks so the dogs can be moved. They will raise about a foot or go as low so I can leave a one inch board.

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Author Topic: Bandmill Log Dogs (Read 3664 times)