Lud's Millshed (New Pics)

[bandmiller2]

Lud,nice looking mill house.How are you planning to handle the engine exhaust.?? Frank C.

[Amax]

Nice.  I'm a newbie here and have been trolling through the archives to find information and articles on mill sheds etc.  Enjoyed your originall post plus all the followups.

Al

[Lud]

To reply to Bandmiller2's question of handling exhaust in the new millshed,  I think having 2 sixteen foot doors and a sixteen foot window  with high ceiling  should be able to handle a 13 hp Honda's  exhaust.  I'm looking to have lots of airflow that I can control so exhaust shouldn't be a risk.

No rain, no snow, plenty of shade,  plenty of breeze.......it's gonna be nice.

[SPIKER]

I'm looking at a simplicity mill this week, can you point out any issues you have had?   was told it has 13HP w 160+/- hrs on it.  I want to know any thoughts on them.   or what i should be looking for as far as damage or design issues.


Thanks

Mark M

[Lud]

Sounds like mine,....13 hp and all.   Those that are a bit older may be stouter as the economy may have caused some corners to be cut.  The torsion spring lifter was a great improvement on the oldest units.  My exhaust shield on the muffler broke off but hasn't been a problem. 

I've always just spritzed but am thinking I want to a luber.  It's a good hobby mill and all but not that easy to transport.  If it's to stay in one place , it's a good mill to start with.  Good luck!

[Lud]

With the weather so mild this winter, I'd stopped down at the lumberyard and asked if they'd order the cannonball track for my future sliding doors on the north side of my millshed.  It was delivered less than 2 hours later and I started hanging it.
   Got the mail and the Shoff  Garage door auction was coming to the Fairgrounds that weekend...SuperBowl Sunday no less...but I had to go.  And Denny , my mate (notice Australian usage) drove up with his trailer on short notice and we hauled the 16'  overhead doors back to the farm.  Put those up the following week and I plumbed the mysteries of the torsion spring door system and finally achieved a beautiful equilibrium.
   Then his trailer went into the millshed and became the perfect construction platform for the 11' x8' sliding door frames I made out of some maple I'd cut two years before.  I planed and stained the maple  ,putting the good side "in" as it will be seen forever.  Here's the pics

The overhead from inside.  Needed more weight and winds
 

 

The trailer as building platform
 

 

Sliding door frame ready for staining, Maple stiffeners/bumpers attached to overhead in background
 

 

Sliding door frames hung, took three of us
 

 

Doors on
 

 
Doors open
 

 
Doors closed Inside
 

 
Doors open Inside, view to the north

 

Sure is nice to not have the tarps flappin'; didn't think I'd get this done til' summer,  but hey.........

[eastberkshirecustoms]

Nice work Lud, looking really good! It sure is a bear to wind them torsion springs. I still have one tarp door to replace on my extension. Getting tired of hearing that thing slap in the wind.

[WDH]

Now that sawmill is sitting cozy!  Your sawmill is housed better than some people that I know.