Initiation complete ?

Happycamper · April 26, 2013, 09:04:45 PM

Log dog with new blade last month and a nail today hopefully completes the initiation. Making the little 10 work hard in another 21" fir log today.
Jim

Magicman · April 26, 2013, 10:44:31 PM

Oh no, you will not get off that easy. There is much more to come. ;D

POSTON WIDEHEAD · April 26, 2013, 10:59:23 PM

Quote from: Magicman on April 26, 2013, 10:44:31 PM
Oh no, you will not get off that easy. There is much more to come. ;D

:D :D :D :D Too funny Magic.

Chuck White · April 27, 2013, 06:57:11 AM

That stuff doesn't go away just because you did it once! ;)

scully · April 27, 2013, 07:08:22 AM

I never hit just a nail ! I hit clusters of them ! If your gonna distroy a blade ,might as well realy do it up good !

Magicman · April 27, 2013, 08:05:36 AM

Did someone say "cluster". :D

Wire fence in a Walnut log.

Just a few nails. ;D

Nomad · April 27, 2013, 08:35:51 AM

Nobody ever puts just one nail into a tree. :(

Happycamper · April 27, 2013, 09:04:42 AM

Wow,
Thanks for the encouragement. I was very lucky as the blade only touched the dog and when it hit the nail only one tooth got punished and it continued to saw well, there actually shouldn't be any metal in these logs as they are all peelers from deep in the forests. I had just cleaned the log with gloves on and a brush but missed the nail.
MM, just a few nails, I'll bet that made your day and the customer ended up with some knife material that he purchased.
Jim

Jim

thecfarm · April 27, 2013, 09:13:09 AM

Initiation complete ? Not yet. You have to try to try to cut one of your log stops in half. :

I marked lines on my stops with the inches on it. So when I'm cutting my logs or flitches and I have the log stop at 6 inches I know not to go below 6 with the head. The marks are really about a ½ lower than what is marked. So if the head is at 6 the dog is really 5½ off the bed.

Happycamper · April 27, 2013, 09:45:57 AM

cfarm,
can't wait for that one. Actually have come very close on 2 occasions but stopped just in time.
Jim

thecfarm · April 27, 2013, 09:52:02 AM

You will have to show me "the stop just in time" trick :D
I "hit" one once. I just BARELY scrapped the paint off the top. That blade was done cutting. :

dboyt · April 27, 2013, 09:52:28 AM

As far as I'm concerned, you became one of us when you pulled the first board off the mill!

As long as stuff happens to the log & the mill and not to you, you're doing fine. You'll likely lose a finger nail or two, and have some minor cuts, bruises & dislocations but try to stay out of the ER! Happy (& safe) sawing.

Nomad · April 27, 2013, 05:02:55 PM

Quote from: thecfarm on April 27, 2013, 09:52:02 AM
I "hit" one once. I just BARELY scrapped the paint off the top. That blade was done cutting. :

Took the set out of the teeth quick, didn't it? :D

drobertson · April 27, 2013, 05:41:20 PM

gotta laugh with the rest ;D the topic "initiation complete?" emphasis on the big "?" mark, Murphey's Law has been in affect for many years, not sure of the corollary on this one, but rest assured like a thief in the night there will be more, your cuts are looking outstanding, and square as well, nice work, happy for you! david

Happycamper · April 27, 2013, 06:56:49 PM

david,
Thought the ? would get a rise. There is hardly a time when I saw that something different takes place to keep me on my toes. Thanks for the complement on sawing. I'm getting the "hang" of it better.
cfarm,
(just in time is easy) when you are pushing the mill by hand through a good sized fir. Sawing that stuff does not go fast for me so it is easy to stop as long as I pay close attention.
nomad,
I was surprised it did not really hurt the blade except for 1 tooth and I continued to saw with it working very well. With the manual mill I know immediately when the blade is dull as it becomes very hard to push it through the log plus the sawdust becomes powdery and dusty instead of granular.
Jim

Nomad · April 27, 2013, 08:40:22 PM

Happycamper, lots of times when you cut a nail clean it doesn't hurt the blade much. Sometimes there will be a curl of metal stuck to one or more teeth. You can just flick 'em off with a pocket knife and keep cutting for awhile.
But if you just scrape across the top of metal like thecfarm was alluding to, whether it's on the mill or in the log, the teeth on that side will instantly lose their set. Then the blade will do strange and wondrous things! :'(

rimshot · April 28, 2013, 07:46:25 AM

Yesterday I wheeled the LT10 down the road a mile to the neighbors. I put up over 300 board feet of Eastern White Cedar for him and pocketed $60.00. I never hit a nail but some of that darn cedar had been laying in water. When I had to take the first few trips with the saw head across the log and close to that bark, the blade looked like so many queue tip swabs of cotton instead of steel. That white fibrous stuff close to the bark would quickly wad up on the saw blade tips and render the mill unusable. The last time that happened I put a new blade on but this time I took a minute or two to shut down and de cottonize those cotton wads from the blade. After that, the blade felt nearly new again and I finsihed up his pile of nice cedar for him. From now on anybody who soaks their cedar in water and expects me to cut it may have to pay cotton removal down time.

rimshot