Re sawing

[woodman]

  I have a Wood Mizer and would like to resaw. Can i make a platform and just push the cant throu like a table saw?

[Bibbyman]

Wood-Mizer makes a re-saw adapter deal.  The sawhead is clamped down someway and the boards and the adapter then power feeds the boards through.  I think it can also be tilted so to make lap siding.

We thought we were going to have a project where a resaw attachment would have been very useful.  Rather than buy one for maybe a one-time use,  we found one we could borrow.  Turned out,  the project fell thought and we didn't need it after all.  But that may be an option.  There may be some used unites out there too.



Here is the verbage of their web site www.woodmizer.com

Wood-Mizer Resaw Attachment
Make two boards from one in a single pass!

Sometimes you've got thick boards that you'd like to split into two thinner boards, and that's where our resaw attachment comes in. It's designed to feed cants up to 4" thick and 12" wide into the blade of the sawmill without the sawmill cutting head moving at all. The resaw attachment has its own power feed motor that's wired into the mill speed control on your Wood-Mizer, and this variable speed control gives rates up to 100' per minute. This resaw attachment also cuts lap siding just by tipping the board being fed through the unit. Boards such as 1 x 6's and 1 x 8's can be turned into two pieces of siding in one cut. (Not for commercial usage) (N/A for LT25 or LT15)

[woodman]

    Thankyou Bibbyman,

[Frank_Pender]

A bit of an exerpt from a New England poet, "... I am going all the while...".   I have a Mobile Dimension Mill and once I make a pass, I have a board and do not need to resaw.

[Jeff]

Heres my resaw.

[dewwood]

Woodman,
Cook's Accu-Trac makes a nice looking resaw attachment to fit any variety of mills.  Check them out.
http:/www.cookssaw.com

dewwood

[Paul_H]

 8)Jeff,I just emailed you asking if you had anymore pics of your operation,I came back,there they are.

Worth a thousand words

[Jeff]

Yup, shes pretty dusty right now, but we aint got time to be pretty and saw wood too. We have a guy that comes in Saturdays and blows everything off, and sweeps. I shoulda waited for then to take pictures, but then whats a mill without a lot of sawdust.

[Tom]

I certainly don't find that anything to be ashamed of, Jeff.  I bought my mill to wear it out, not to polish.  There was a fellow locally (since deceased) who always talked to my customers about what a "garbage" mill I had and what a beautiful piece of equipment he had.  He was trying to persuade my customers to use his mill but it must not have worked because, when he sold it, it was about 4 years old, had a tent that he had made to cover it, had pvc pipe on the rails to keep it from rusting, had been waxed until he became disillusioned, had log dogs, clamp and loader tips painted with high-visibility yellow (so he wouldn't hit them again)  and it was still rusty, didn't have any paint wear and the battery was dead..... and the tires were flat.  He cut a total of maybe 50m feet as best as I can figure, and used up 100 hours on the machine.

He was a great salesman and most everybody here abouts knew him but he was always selling in my wake. I even tried to help him but soon found that there wasn't anything I could tell him that he didn't already know. He had a customer "rule book" that was about 5 typewritten pages long so his customers wouldn't do anything wrong. (scared'm off, he did)

Yep, my mill gets blown off with high pressure wind as I go from one site to the next and a pressure washing sometimes when I get home.

It looks like you must run a working mill.

[woodman]

    On that resawing a feller came by and will buy all the 2x4 stock i have but has to be all the same with. We checked and after drying there not all the same,so i just want to go over them. just a quick pass under the blade. Is there a safe way of doing this?

[Tom]

It's not  a matter of safety.

Put about 10 of them at a time, on edge on the mill and clamp them securely. Not too tight or they will bunch up in the middle.  Run the head of the mill over them trimming one side.  Then turn them over and do the same thing again.  You will not be able to size them as good as a planer will do.

When you put the 2 X's back on the mill bed you will notice that they will not lay flat.  This is just the way it goes.  Nothing you can do about it.  You may be able to stack them with the crooks all in the same direction but don't expect wonders.  It's not that you cut them different sizes in the beginning, it's that they dry with the stresses pulling the wood in different directions.  Don't ever volunteer to "finish size" lumber.  Always leave yourself an out because the wood won't allow it regardless of how good you or your saw is.

If you want to see how uncontrollable wood can be, split a 2X8 into (2) 2X4's  and notice the crown develop in each.

[woodmills1]

woodman it is planer time