Yep, Thanks.
I want to see the mills of 2010, post them up...
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Yep, Thanks.
I jsut built this but haven't had a chance to try it out yet. My 372XP will go on it.
I like your rails, nice and light to pack around. Let us know how your mill works, it looks good.
jerry-
jimdad07
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Very nice setup on the rails. Nice work.
little possum
Crash and Burn
Might have to come check it out sometime. haha.
Or get you at a GTG to square up some on sight cants for the racing.
Or get you at a GTG to square up some on sight cants for the racing.
smokinj
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Is that a set of mill wheels in the background ?
Yes, If I ever get that far....lol
little possum
Crash and Burn
Plenty of wood around here. Anything in particular you are looking for?
What's happening is I want to harvest a particular Sugar Maple on the farm back home for future instrument wood. A limb blew out of this tree earlier this year and it has curly figure in it. Ideally, this tree would yield good quartersawn wedges that are appx 5' long by x 14" wide and have a pie shaped cross-section tapering from 2.5" to 4". These are big enough to make carved backs for Stand-up Basses. The main reason for this size though is it is the least amount of sawing initially. Seal the ends and let them dry. I can resaw it later to whatever I want. That's my thoughts at this point anyway. I'll play some games with the bigger limbs to.
The tree is about 36" in diameter for about 6' before transitioning to big limbs. I need to make me a small mill that follows a track so I can halve the log and quarter it. From their I hope to be able to use this rail mill to reduce it down to the wedge shapes for drying. Yesterday, I have made some brackets for use with plywood to attach the rails to the log with.
The tree is about 36" in diameter for about 6' before transitioning to big limbs. I need to make me a small mill that follows a track so I can halve the log and quarter it. From their I hope to be able to use this rail mill to reduce it down to the wedge shapes for drying. Yesterday, I have made some brackets for use with plywood to attach the rails to the log with.
Sawyer Rob
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IF that maple is of the quality you think it is, what a huge waste to mill it with a chainsaw! You will be throwing every 5th board away! It would be WELL worth paying to have it milled by a BSM!
Snap a line on it, and split it with a chainsaw, then finish it off with a BSM.
Rob
little possum
Crash and Burn
Well let me know if ya need some help, got bars up to 72" and a saw to run them. haha
Sawyer Rob, I hear you on the kerf waste.
I really won't know just how good this maple tree's quality really is until I get into it but what I want to do is as little CSM as I can get away with to minimize the waste. I am thinking that once quartered, that each quarter would be reduced into three 'twelves' if you will and leave it at that for drying. Later, it would be resawed with a bandsaw. Ideally, these 'billets' would be split in order to follow the grain and minimizing 'runout' but at this size I don't know just how well that would work. I did split out the 24" billets from the limb and I have these drying. They look to be ideal for mandolin necks. I understand that curly figure is in only 1-2% of the trees.
Little Possum,
appreciate the offers..Sound like you have me beat on chainsaw experience. I'll pm you.
I really won't know just how good this maple tree's quality really is until I get into it but what I want to do is as little CSM as I can get away with to minimize the waste. I am thinking that once quartered, that each quarter would be reduced into three 'twelves' if you will and leave it at that for drying. Later, it would be resawed with a bandsaw. Ideally, these 'billets' would be split in order to follow the grain and minimizing 'runout' but at this size I don't know just how well that would work. I did split out the 24" billets from the limb and I have these drying. They look to be ideal for mandolin necks. I understand that curly figure is in only 1-2% of the trees.
Little Possum,
appreciate the offers..Sound like you have me beat on chainsaw experience. I'll pm you.
sachsmo,
I like the extrusion version of the mill. First one I think I have seen using that stuff. Could be one of the simplest and likely fastest building one I have seen.
I see the cant has a 'wedge' cut off of it so to speak making it something between a quarter and a half log. That suggests what I want to do with that Sugar Maple. Are you getting boards true on the quarter?
I like the extrusion version of the mill. First one I think I have seen using that stuff. Could be one of the simplest and likely fastest building one I have seen.
I see the cant has a 'wedge' cut off of it so to speak making it something between a quarter and a half log. That suggests what I want to do with that Sugar Maple. Are you getting boards true on the quarter?
sachsmo
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That was a big old Hackberry, my mill at that time could only handle 28".
Hence the angled cuts, someday we will get a 50" bar to handle the bigger stuff.
Milled a 38" Red Oak for a fella at work, we had to freehand quite a bit off the sides.
Here's another view of that Hack;
And a better shot of the simple design;
Hence the angled cuts, someday we will get a 50" bar to handle the bigger stuff.
Milled a 38" Red Oak for a fella at work, we had to freehand quite a bit off the sides.
Here's another view of that Hack;
And a better shot of the simple design;
TraditionalTool
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Bought this mill back in April, 2010.
It will be milling up a bunch of timber for my log home, have cut up a bit so far, but the best part of it is to come after I get the wall logs out of the way.
It's a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 with a 23HP Briggs & custom 30' bed.
It will be milling up a bunch of timber for my log home, have cut up a bit so far, but the best part of it is to come after I get the wall logs out of the way.
It's a Norwood Lumbermate 2000 with a 23HP Briggs & custom 30' bed.
sachsmo
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Nice mill set-up.
My '11 mill will be an electric one, that I can put in my 76' long pole building.
We stripped a couple festoons at work and I now have my rail system.
Case hardened 1.5" shafts and the nicest rail bearings you have ever seen. (they even have pneumatic brakes built into them)
There are also many DC motors and drives, but will need to get a phase converter, (or make one)
Any good ideas for band wheels?
My '11 mill will be an electric one, that I can put in my 76' long pole building.
We stripped a couple festoons at work and I now have my rail system.
Case hardened 1.5" shafts and the nicest rail bearings you have ever seen. (they even have pneumatic brakes built into them)
There are also many DC motors and drives, but will need to get a phase converter, (or make one)
Any good ideas for band wheels?
Sawyer Rob
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I have a couple band wheels on stout axles with pillow block bearings that i would be willing to part with... They are off an idustrial bandsaw i bought and never used.
PM me if your interested,
Rob
PM me if your interested,
Rob
jimdad07
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I have been impressed with Sachsmo's mill he made since I saw it when I first joined the site. I really like how the Bosch aluminum goes together. Hoping to get ahold of some myself at some point.
They don't give it away and then there is the special joint pieces. I will admit it's trick and makes for a strong system.
jerry-
Can8ianTimber
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Here are a couple of mine
The log splitter mill with 60" bar
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Alaskan mill cutting 21' x 48" cedar
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Bandmill, This is my fav
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I am dreaming of a Lucas DWS
The log splitter mill with 60" bar
View attachment 167170
Alaskan mill cutting 21' x 48" cedar
View attachment 167171
Bandmill, This is my fav
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I am dreaming of a Lucas DWS
