Big Slabs

[wampum]

I have a portable swing mill and have been thinking about a slab attachment for it. I came across this video for handling large slabs.This is a home made system made from a dairy pump.One thing I would do different is to put the drying strips down before I pick it up.Check it out:

YouTube - ‪Slabbing and slab handling‬‏

 

[hamish]

Its a neat set up, but the one thing I liked the most about the video is the attedntion to detail while the guy in placing the stickers.

Seeing as i wont leave fork marks is it possible to leave vaccum marks on the slabs?

 

[qweesdraw]

I wouldn't trust my hands sticking with fresh sawdust and vacum.
Mark

 

[DDM]

I think id rather use forks...

 

[SDB777]

Is that the 'typical' chain speed for that milling set-up?

Didn't seem to be all that quick, but then again it wasn't on the screen for but a few short moments.




Scott B

 

[Rftreeman]

hate to think how long it would take to get my hand from under that heavy slab if the suction failed, this would be a time you wished things did "suck" lol...

 

[wampum]

hate to think how long it would take to get my hand from under that heavy slab if the suction failed, this would be a time you wished things did "suck" lol...

I agree,thats why I said I would put the drying sticks down first.I have seen to many reports of folks killed or hurt bad by being under a load when it let loose.

Thursday I cut a large Maple up that got blown over wednesday night,in my neighbors front yard. The trunk was not huge but still was over 30 inches in dia.
The root ball was out of the ground,the root ball had to be a least 7 foot in dia. and the hole was about 3 to 4 feet deep at its deepest.

I have mentioned this before,but I will say it again.Years ago I got a safety alert sent to my chain saw shop,about a tree like this. The owner,was cutting the tree close to the root ball. The 4 year old owners son was playing in the hole. The Dad cut the trunk and the root ball fell back in the hole killing the little boy.
My neighbor has 3 little foster kids.Before I started to cut the trunk from the root ball,I remembered this story. I stopped and asked him to locate the kids and keep them a safe distance away. As expected that root ball fell back in the hole.Just thought I would mention this again with all the storms blowing trees over,please keep this in mind.

 

[Traitmark]

I agree,thats why I said I would put the drying sticks down first.I have seen to many reports of folks killed or hurt bad by being under a load when it let loose.

Thursday I cut a large Maple up that got blown over wednesday night,in my neighbors front yard. The trunk was not huge but still was over 30 inches in dia.
The root ball was out of the ground,the root ball had to be a least 7 foot in dia. and the hole was about 3 to 4 feet deep at its deepest.

I have mentioned this before,but I will say it again.Years ago I got a safety alert sent to my chain saw shop,about a tree like this. The owner,was cutting the tree close to the root ball. The 4 year old owners son was playing in the hole. The Dad cut the trunk and the root ball fell back in the hole killing the little boy.
My neighbor has 3 little foster kids.Before I started to cut the trunk from the root ball,I remembered this story. I stopped and asked him to locate the kids and keep them a safe distance away. As expected that root ball fell back in the hole.Just thought I would mention this again with all the storms blowing trees over,please keep this in mind.

I experienced a similar occurrence (without the death, thank goodness) - I was cutting an oak with about a 30" diam that had blown over in a storm. When I cut the trunk near the base, the whole root/dirt ball slammed back into the 10 foot hole so completely, that you almost couldn't tell the tree was ever uprooted. About that time I thought about "what if my little girl had been playing back there ...there would've been nothing I could have done to save her. Please share this with anyone you happen to see cutting in a situation like this.