milling 2 or three cants with a csm

[bigjohn1895]

has any one tryed it ive been thinking that i could cut 3 6-8 inch wide cants at a time with my Alaskan mill
and get more wood from the same time i know i wont be 2x as fast but im sure it will be faster
also how would you hold the cants together or will they stay as i cut like they do when i mill one cant
im thinking the aditional time to stack the 3 boards would be a good cool down time for the saw
any thing elce im missing?

 

[bigjohn1895]

i was thinking with square cants i know logs wont work

 

[hamish]

What if you put stickers between the cants to help with chip removal...........

Would definately speed up production cutting two pieces at once versus one.

 

[bigjohn1895]

thats what my thoughts were i was going to give it a go today but the rain never stoped wish it would snow already

 

[hamish]

Alot of clamping is not required, I attached a picture of how I edge on my bsm, two rests against the mini-cant and one in the center supporting all the flitches. Replace the flitches with two more lil cants and space them out with a few stickers. So long as the csm is feeding into them in the direction that will force the center supported one, towrds the last one that has supports at either end you should be fine.

 

[bigjohn1895]

well hears the deal i have a guy that wants 50 3x10x19foot boards and i dont know any other way to get them then with the csm i have been told that i am
the only one that can cut over 15 foot in Northern Michigan so i was thinking that i could do this order and ill almost have the money to buy a band mill
when im done and since he dosnt need the boards till mid January and im not working till February i could handle it but thats alot of cutting with a chainsaw
unless i can do 2 at a time still alot of cutting but not as much

 

[bigjohn1895]

hey its a 2 post that started as a 24 in Alaskan but through necessity it has become a 32 in
im milling with a 84 cc dolkita and im running the same chain i carve with
this setup is fast untill i max out my mill i have milled a garage full of wood with the Alaskan but i know more from working at the
mill in town the thing that really scares me about this job is thats some heavy wood and all i have to move them is my log mover trailer home maid
or i have a guy that will help but he is hard to get to keep working so speed will help being a pro chainsaw carver all i have to do for wood is pick up the phone
and its on the way i dont know what size logs i will get though i was thinking of ordering 20 in + so ill get up to 30 in logs