Author Topic: Ya Just godda show off yer first flitch! (Read 1875 times)

Danny_S · « **on:** April 09, 2004, 04:57:47 pm »

Hey, everyone else shows 'em off so here it is.....

That is what it is called aint it? Flitch?

Here is the mill, less the saw, the tip mount came loose and my new chain ate up a 3/8 bolt for breakfast. Gots lots of filin' ta do!

I was kinda upset to shut down early, but I left the file on the workbench and the wife had to work tonight so it'll be mornin till I get back at it..... still walked away with a big grin..

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #1 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:31:11 pm »

Looks like ya got it going.

Them grins are hard to hide, right after ya tear that first board off something ya built. Been there, done that.

Nice job. At least ya haven't sawed the dogs, yet

Danny_S · « **Reply #2 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:40:24 pm »

I have the anti-dogcutter deterrent device on it... a 1/2 " bolt sits 1/8" below the level and in front of the chain. It will hit the dog before the expensive part does

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #3 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:41:51 pm »

DanG !!!! You some kinda injunear

Danny_S · « **Reply #4 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:50:38 pm »

Well I thought I was Fla. but then the bar tip slipped and ate up the mount...I guess I will drill and pin the tip, just like my buddy said to do..... Of course, I got the big.." I TOLD YA SO!!"

Chet · « **Reply #5 on:** April 09, 2004, 05:58:13 pm »

Quote

I have the anti-dogcutter deterrent device on it... a 1/2 " bolt sits 1/8" below the level and in front of the chain. It will hit the dog before the expensive part does

Yup, got me one of dem anti-dogcutter deterrent devices on my bandmill too.

I still managed ta wack da squaring arms once and da dogs twice so far.

Fla._Deadheader · « **Reply #6 on:** April 09, 2004, 06:20:35 pm »

Not you, Chet

Danny_S · « **Reply #7 on:** April 10, 2004, 12:03:26 pm »

Welp, hangin the saw out the front dont work so well. :-/

The carrige was designed originally for a bandsaw, and then I went to chainsaw. It is mounted all kinda funny out the front and when it gets pullin in a cut she wobbles and goes it like a,... like a... I donno what.. heheh. It was just a trial thing, and if it worked it would be a bounus. but it didnt so I am going to remount the saw in the center of the carrige with threaded rod height adjusters...ect

Ahh well, just another weekend in the shop, drillin and welding, and drinkin coffee, gee that sucks....

oakiemac · « **Reply #8 on:** April 10, 2004, 02:09:28 pm »

Speaking of sawing yer dogs off, I sawed dang near half the lever arm for one of my log dogs off yesterday. Decided it was time to quit after that.

shopteacher · « **Reply #9 on:** April 10, 2004, 06:31:35 pm »

Ole Butch and me can cut steel with the best of um.

Jeff · « **Reply #10 on:** April 10, 2004, 06:41:49 pm »

I never heard term flitch used until this forum.

Danny_S · « **Reply #11 on:** April 10, 2004, 06:54:50 pm »

This forum or this post?.... I dont know where I heard it.... sounds good though...

redpowerd · « **Reply #12 on:** April 10, 2004, 06:58:29 pm »

come to think of it, me either.
(the forum)

smwwoody · « **Reply #13 on:** April 10, 2004, 07:34:13 pm »

Jeff
I saw "flitches" for a veneer buyer about once a month. he will show up with a load of veneer rejects and have me saw them from 2 to 5 inches thick. All he wants done is to flat saw the log into peaces of what ever thickness he wants (2-5) then stack them back together with stickers in between and band the log back up. When I get done he comes back and pays me $1.00 / board foot doyle scale of the original log and pays me for the price of new bands for any bands I used to saw the logs.

I like to see him come

Woody

Jeff · « **Reply #14 on:** April 10, 2004, 08:05:37 pm »

I should re-define my statement. I never heard the term flitch referred to as a sawing term until on the Forestry Forum. I always heard the term when it was applied to slices of veneer.

Jeff · « **Reply #15 on:** April 10, 2004, 08:11:38 pm »

Flitch defined:

From: http://www.stairsandrails.com/glossary.htm
Flitch: A log sliced into thin veneer pieces, usually 1/16" thickness, slices are then bundled back to sell as a unit

From: http://www.phillipsplywood.com/glossary.htm
Flitch: A complete bundle of thin veneer sheets laid together in sequence as they are cut from a given log or section of a log.

From:http://www.hyperdictionary.com/dictionary/flitch

2. One of several planks, smaller timbers, or iron plates,
which are secured together, side by side, to make a large
girder or built beam.

3. The outside piece of a sawed log; a slab. [Eng.]

smwwoody · « **Reply #16 on:** April 10, 2004, 09:26:52 pm »

Flitch =

fish steak usually cut from a halibut
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

salted and cured abdominal wall of a side of pork
www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn

I knew I could make this one about food

Woody

Chet · « **Reply #17 on:** April 10, 2004, 09:58:07 pm »

Danny_S · « **Reply #18 on:** April 11, 2004, 06:54:47 am »

Ok, well, hows about from now on when we are talking about a board with live edges we call it a flitch? What else do yoose guys call it?

Jeff · « **Reply #19 on:** April 11, 2004, 07:11:31 am »

This wont work here, but at our mill we call them "clean up boards"

We get a lot of them from the gang saw because we gang 3 sided cants. We gang mostly 7 1/4 inch cants. The ones with one good edge are stacked in one pile and called "6 inch" clean up because we run them back through and edge them to 5.5 inches. The one with no good edge are stacked in another pile and we call those "4 inch" clean up because we put two blades on the gang and run them back through and make 3.5 inch wide boards.

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