Additions To My Mill

[820wards]

I though I should start a new thread on my mill additions rather that add them into an existing thread.

I've spent the past two days adding additional handles to my mill. I'm sure all of you find some little thing that you would like to tweak on your saw or milling frame to make the next milling outing go smoother.

So, on my mill I found that having additional handles to lift the mill on and off the logs would make my milling much easier. Here a few pictures of the bracket I needed to make for adding the extra handles.

Start of Bracket

View of machined tube and bracket for holding handle.

Tubing welded to bracket.

Finished bracket with SS thin wall tubing handle.

Bracket mounted to mill, hard to see.

I will show you how I remedy my nose oiler bottle problem in a second post.

jerry-

 

[820wards]

Remedy To Nose Oiler Problem

I also got creative on mounting/insulating my nose oiler bottle. I used a water bottle bracket for bicycle that seemed to be the ticket. After running the mill for the first couple of cuts I noticed that the bottle had twisted the plastic hose and had really worn into the metal tank. So my solution that I'm hoping will work was to use a high density foam beer insulator holder. It fits very tight around the aluminum tank and tight in the water bottle holder.


I think I need to find a real Beer holder. This one was from a local auto parts store.

jerry-

 

[mtngun]

Beautiful workmanship, as always.

 

[BobL]

YEP Agree 100% - lovely workmanship.

RE: Foam and chainsaws.
I think you'll find that most two strokes will eat most foam over time. I tried several increasingly dense foam rubber tubing to make contact with the trigger for my aux throttle. In the end I used piece of hydraulic hose. With something like your bottle I'd look at 3 strips of medium density rubber similar to the side walls of car tyres or rubber mats.

 

[820wards]

YEP Agree 100% - lovely workmanship.

RE: Foam and chainsaws.
I think you'll find that most two strokes will eat most foam over time. I tried several increasingly dense foam rubber tubing to make contact with the trigger for my aux throttle. In the end I used piece of hydraulic hose. With something like your bottle I'd look at 3 strips of medium density rubber similar to the side walls of car tyres or rubber mats.

I'll look around my shop for some heaver rubber. I do have some rubber blankets from a printing press that have a cord liner, very durable. I could wrap the bottle with that and then put the foam on last.

Good idea.

jerry-