I can't go milling at all! :-(

[chuckwood]

I've got a bunch of huge oak trunks laying around, ready to mill. Also some pine and poplar. It's just not gonna happen, for weeks now it's been in the middle 90's with heat indexes over a hundred. The way I look at it, milling would not only be bad for me, it would be worse for my saws. Milling saws are very heat sensitive as it is, and I figure that milling in 95 degrees greatly increases the risks of seizing one up. The only time I'd try milling would be at night, but that would make me very unpopular in my neighborhood. A muffer modded big milling saw would sure make me the bad boy around here.

 

[mtngun]

I don't blame you. If I didn't need the wood bad, I'd wait for frosty fall weather to mill.

 

[BobL]

I don't like doing it , but I have milled in 100F+ heat. The saws (076/880/441) handled it just fine in really tough wood.

On those days I prefer to start at around 6 am and work till 10 am or midday. Also give the saw a longer cool down time between finishing each slab. A good quality saw will survive 120F heat no problems if it is treated well.

 

[chuckwood]

hot as hell with no relief in sight!

I don't like doing it , but I have milled in 100F+ heat. The saws (076/880/441) handled it just fine in really tough wood.

On those days I prefer to start at around 6 am and work till 10 am or midday. Also give the saw a longer cool down time between finishing each slab. A good quality saw will survive 120F heat no problems if it is treated well.

Well, if your saws can handle it, then I guess mine can too. One thing for sure is that I can't. Tomorrow, Wednesday, it'll be 98, the day after it will be 97. I looked at the extended forecast and it's continuing for days on end with temps in the mid to upper 90's. The problem here in the southeast USA is that it's a wet heat, you feel like you're wrapped in a hot, wet blanket, clothes constantly soaked. I'm working outside part of the time doing some non strenuous construction work and I'm miserable. I see loaded logging trucks going down the road from time to time, I can't understand how these guys do it, I'm just barely hanging on. Apparently their saws are doing just fine.....

 

[BobL]

Well, if your saws can handle it, then I guess mine can too. One thing for sure is that I can't. Tomorrow, Wednesday, it'll be 98, the day after it will be 97. I looked at the extended forecast and it's continuing for days on end with temps in the mid to upper 90's. The problem here in the southeast USA is that it's a wet heat, you feel like you're wrapped in a hot, wet blanket, clothes constantly soaked. I'm working outside part of the time doing some non strenuous construction work and I'm miserable. I see loaded logging trucks going down the road from time to time, I can't understand how these guys do it, I'm just barely hanging on. Apparently their saws are doing just fine.....

Yeah I hate that wet heat too. We get it for only about one 4 weeks of the year usually late Feb and early march. The rest of the time it's dry heat so it's not so bad. We run our home air conditioner more or less on a full time basis from mid Jan thru the end of March. It costs us about $600 in electricity for this period (but we pay nothing for heating in winter) and it make the house and sleeping tolerable over this time.

In the days of CRT PC monitors we used to lose more monitors at work in March than the rest of year. Seems like they would attract dust over the previous 11 months and then come March they would arc up and die.