Wavy Cuts w/photos

[hamish]

The price is $175 for pack of ten compared to $225 for lennox blades. I'm also looking into the ripper 37 found a dealer in Spokane WA. These are suppose to be top of the line but spendy.

Congrats on your new mill, where are you located? US or Canada and where, Lenox bands can be had  at more value, and the Ripper37 is a very impressive band, which i can get from two diffent sources withing four hours of me and the price at one place is near double the price of the other...............pays to shop around.

[kelLOGg]

Another indicator is what the saw does when exiting the cut.  Does is drop or raise?  It should not do either. 

I get this problem when sawing wide (18") oak boards. Starts out with no drop upon exit and the last cut the band drops maybe 1/8". Is this caused by set changing more on one side than another?
Bob

[HaroldSiefke]

Hey guys thanks for the welcome. I've been milling with a alaskan mk3 for years. This mill should ease my work load a ton.No I'm not planing on using the Cook's sharpening program. I'm going to build all my sharpening and setting tools. So if any one has any good pictures they would be great. I'm located in Montana. What sort of price you getting Ripper 37 for? I have not called the dealer in Spokane yet. Thanks again guys for the welcome. 

[nrp0450]

Did the wavy cuts issue ever get resolved? I'm very interested in this mill.

[duaneb]

Hey everybody,
I've had my mill set up for a few weeks now (woodland mills 126) and just cant quite get everything set just right.  When I cut wide boards/cants, I get pretty wavy cuts.  I've read over many articles on here and have tried about everything mentioned.  Today I put on a new blade (lennox brand not sure about anything else, it's just what they recomended when I bought the mill), and tried cutting a 24" pine log.  I went extra slow being carefull not to bog down the engine at all.  I still ended up with a wavy cant.  I have not been around much rough cut lumber, is some variation in the boards acceptable or should they be very accurate?  Please see attatched photos.

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 I also emailed Neil at woodland mills and am awaiting his reply.  Thanks in advance for all your help.
Steve
Woodland Mills HM126
On your second picture, it looks exactly how my hombuilt mill is doing right now.....this thread is giving me a lot of things to try.  Please post your results and how you get the problem corrected and I will do the same.

duaneb

[FeltzE]

duaneb:  How fast is "slow" just because the engine doesn't bog down dosn't mean your going slow. I can vouch that it's a rare occasion I can get my 35hp wisconson engine to bog at all on an 1 1.2inch blade especially in a wide cut,

I've seen cut rates of 20'/min but knotty wide pine it could drop to 3-6'/min Maximum.

I've recently reset my sharpener to run a 7 degree hook angle which seems to make for better cutting in the knotty logs as the knots are so hard. (harder wood = lower hook angle)

[barbender]

Don't underestimate the need to keep your blade clean in pine, if you get much pitch build up it can make your blade overheat and go all over,  just keep a squirt bottle with diesel handy. Give the blade a few squirts when you start to get pitch build up.