Down the loggin' trail with the ole' '91 LT30

[Slingshot]

 I posted in another thread about finding this 1991 LT30G18 not far from home with
only 180 hours on it. The original owner kept it parked in an open sided shed with
the head covered but let the bed weather a little. The mill runs and saws great.
   
  Here is a cedar log I worked on with it:  ( I had just put new drive belts on it so belt covers are off.)




 And a short video of sawing the cant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4NR587nDws

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Charles  

[BCtimber]

Nice score!  Looks great!

[ladylake]

 That mill looks like new, send me some of those logs.    Steve

[Don K]

Nice mill and fine cedar. I like cedar but it is getting rare around the house. Get about 30 or 40 miles north of me in the black belt region and it grows like a weed.

I might mention and you may usually do it but didn't in the video, kill the blade drive at the end of a cut before traveling back. It extends blade life and if you bump the cant or log on back travel the resulting scratching and growling of a blade coming off the rollers is much quieter. I am not speaking from experience. : :D :D

Enjoy sawing with your new mill.

Don

[Magicman]

All that mill needed was a home and someone to love it.

[Chuck White]

Nice looking mill.  Looks almost new, in fact it is new if you discounted the sittin' around time.

Beautiful cedar.  Wish we had some around here.

[Slingshot]

   I usually do idle down at the end of a cut, but left it spinning more on this cedar, (If you
noticed, I reached up to raise the clutch lever).
   And around here in this part of Kentucky, cedar IS a weed. Let a field sit for a while and soon
it will be covered with little cedars



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Charles

[Chuck White]

I guess we should get some seedlings and plant them in this area.  smiley_sidelightbulb

[Magicman]

And then it would become an invasive species and someone would be spending your tax dollars to rid them.   :-\

[Chuck White]

There's some low-land back behind my house that I've been thinking of trying to acquire.  An excellent place for cedar.

There are farm fields on two sides, my yard on one side and a brook on the fourth side, so I don't see the cedar spreading unless seeds are transported by the birds.

[cutterboy]

Charles, nice mill and nice cedar log. I've never sawed cedar but would love to.

Ralph

[Slingshot]

     Used the WM shingle-lapsider jig today that I got with this mill
and made some cedar lapsiding.  Still need to do some tweaking
on the adjustments and make a scale for dropping the saw the right
amount but it works OK........

   



Flip the lever on the right up for one cut and down for the next cut:




And let 'er saw:










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Charles

[LOGDOG]

Looking good there Charles. The mill and the cedar both look great. A client of mine just hauled 4 heaping loads of that cedar into my place for me to mill. Believe it or not, they were getting ready to burn it when he intercepted it. Some of these logs are 20" + in diameter. That would have been a crying shame. So he got it free. Looking at your pics makes me want to get out and mill that stuff on the double. Looks like you're enjoying your new mill. Congratulations!

[Magicman]

That siding jig looks like a cat's meow.   ;)   And, you look like you are having fun.   

[LOGDOG]

You know, I remember my second exposure to a WoodMizer, I was about 12 I'm going to say. It was at an auction up in Northern MN and there was an LT30 being auctioned and he had a lap siding jig that went with it. The owner put a nice fat cedar log on there for us and canted it up and then put the lap siding jig on and started cutting that lapsiding. I caught the fever bigtime when I saw that. My imagination was running wild with all of the possible things I could do if I had a mill. It wasn't in the cards right then at that age, but 5 years later I had my first Woodmizer. Brings back good memories to see this.

[Magicman]

Maybe that was  's mill and jig.   

[Slingshot]

Don't know about that.  The guy I bought it from said when He bought the jig he slid
it under an out-building and never used it. I helped him pull it out. Still looked new except
the pipe clamp screws were a little rusty, but still turned. Works slick as a whistle  8).
This cedar IS fun to saw.


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