A day cutting wood

[newoodguy78]

Roofing screws and 5 gallon buckets are in the same category to me...the possible uses are endless. Throw in a pair of vise grips and you can really make some things happen  :D :D

[Kbeitz]

I'm thinking that I would buy a new motor. The heat probably has the
insulation value of the windings down to about nothing.

[Peter Drouin]

I'm thinking that I would buy a new motor. The heat probably has the
insulation value of the windings down to about nothing.

On Monday I'm going to the starter/altenator shop to test the thing. Then I'm calling Ross in Maine and order two new motors.

[coxy]

see if you had a manual mill you could save that money and still be sawing  ;) :D 8) always got to have a smart ash in the group  ;D :laugh:

[Bandmill Bandit]

Roofing screws and 5 gallon buckets are in the same category to me...the possible uses are endless. Throw in a pair of vise grips and you can really make some things happen  :D :D

My Grampa had "tool box" that went where he went.
It was Texaco 5 gallon bucket! It contained a couple of pliers, a couple of vise grips, various screw drivers, several clumps of used baling wire, a hack saw, a couple of files and a black smith hammer.

Duct tape didn't exist back then.

Forgot the Crescent wrenches!

[Peter Drouin]

see if you had a manual mill you could save that money and still be sawing  ;) :D 8) always got to have a smart ash in the group  ;D :laugh:

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Duct tape didn't exist back then. 

[newoodguy78]

Roofing screws and 5 gallon buckets are in the same category to me...the possible uses are endless. Throw in a pair of vise grips and you can really make some things happen  :D :D

My Grampa had "tool box" that went where he went.
It was Texaco 5 gallon bucket! It contained a couple of pliers, a couple of vise grips, various screw drivers, several clumps of used baling wire, a hack saw, a couple of files and a black smith hammer.

Duct tape didn't exist back then.

Forgot the Crescent wrenches!

Ahhhh....crescent wrenches. Aka-knuckle busters  ;)

[coxy]

watched a farmer friend use baling twine to hold the gas tank in his truck after the straps rotted away   went a few months like that till the twine rotted and just added more 

[Peter Drouin]

I'm thinking that I would buy a new motor. The heat probably has the
insulation value of the windings down to about nothing.

Yup, Junk, That's what the El.Motor guy said.


 

New motors and seals will be here Tuesday.  8) 8)

[Bandmill Bandit]

I got in the habit of tearing down starter motors to clean them when I worked for a rebuilder  for 2 summers. All that conductive powder in them is a sure fire product to destroy the innards of them. It dont take much to clean them. Getting to them can be a pain sometimes but it is well worth the work. 

[Bandmill Bandit]

watched a farmer friend use baling twine to hold the gas tank in his truck after the straps rotted away   went a few months like that till the twine rotted and just added more 

i have seen twine used for lots of stuff but the old wire tie balers actually used steel wire. That stuff was very useful.

[Peter Drouin]

Getting to them can be a pain sometimes but it is well worth the work. 

It's so now I can have the two motors on the table in less than a½ hour. ;)

[4x4American]

Is you guys talking about the same thing here?  ???

[Peter Drouin]

I fix it 4x4 from pump to motors. ;D

[Peter Drouin]

 

 
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[Magicman]

You are on a roll now.   

[Kbeitz]

 
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Hey that looks good...
Lots of people don't know that most PM 12volt motors are made
mostly buy one company. So you can go to the junkyard and pull
a 12 volt starter off a garden tractor and use most of the parts to
fix other motors. This also works with 24 volt stuff but it's much
harder to find.

[Bandmill Bandit]

 
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I like you work bench! I have one like that too.
IF it aint broke I can probably still fix it!

[Peter Drouin]

You know Kbeitz, I can relate at the stuff from the junk yard. I'm  a picker too ;D
But, When it comes to the mill and that's where the $$$$ comes from I go new If I can on parts.
I don't spend Hrs looking for things. Over here time is $$$. Like I only need one motor, but  two new ones are going in.
The old one that's good is going on a shelf. The two old ones have over 4000hrs on them and have been rebuilt one time already.

I have a bunch of orders to get out, The first one is $875,00 of green R Oak. 5/4 x 4 x 1200'. I think I will cut all 16'. That will speed it up some.  ;D
Now I'm here waiting for the sun to come up chomping at the bit. ;D smiley_horserider

[Peter Drouin]

The rack, This time of the year I put up ½ cord bundles.
Customers use them for making Maple syrup.


  

  

 

The one on the right Is the dry stuff, That will go this spring.

[Andries]

I like the slab rack Peter.
Lumber, firewood slabs and chips, it all gets used. Nice system.

How do you decide what to chip and what to bundle for the syrup boilers?
. . . or is it a supply and demand type thing?
As in, you're a good guy, and they're demanding firewood?  ;)  :D

[WDH]

Do you have a "Slab Heavy" strategy?

[Peter Drouin]

I like the slab rack Peter.
Lumber, firewood slabs and chips, it all gets used. Nice system.

How do you decide what to chip and what to bundle for the syrup boilers?
. . . or is it a supply and demand type thing?
As in, you're a good guy, and they're demanding firewood?  ;)  :D

All summer I chip them, Come cold weather I bundle. Frozen slabs are hard on the Morbark.

Do you have a "Slab Heavy" strategy?

The pic you're looking at are 8' and the big end. The other end is even smaller. When I buy logs I cut all I can out of them. If that's what you meant. ;D ;)

[Peter Drouin]

Winter is the best time for me here in NH to buy wood, W Pine will last almost to Aug with no Blue or bugs. Frozen Hemlock can be hard to read Shake or rot in the log.



 



 
Snow is coming tomorrow  got to have it all scaled and put away, Can't grade a log covered with snow.

Frozen junk.  :D :D :D


 
Buy wood till the road bands come up. ;D

[YellowHammer]

All that snow makes me cold.  Brrrr...