Milling a big elm

[DaltonPaull]

View attachment 220690View attachment 220696View attachment 220697View attachment 220689I haven't posted in a while so I thought I would share some pics of the Elm I was milling today. The log on the truck is a black walnut. I bought the boom truck in the fall and it has proven to be useful for log acquisition.

When I started today the 075 wasn't running that great but after readjusting the carb (I had the saw apart recently) it ran great and was very hard to bog. I just finished rebuilding an 090 that I plan to use on the mill in the future but today it was hard to imagine anything out-cutting the 075.

The only problem I had was the oil didn't really want to flow though the aux oiler. My oiler is the standard Granberg unit that feeds into the bar rail. I don't know if it was just that the regular Stihl oil I was using was too thick at 45F or what? What are you guys using in the colder temps? I'm thinking about making a drip oiler since I think it will be a little less prone to plugging up.

 

[Dan_IN_MN]

Interesting! Those are the two woods that I took a slice out of too! Here are your pics!

 

[Holy Mackerel]

Nice looking logs. Elm certainly can have some amazing figure.

Even nicer truck!

 

[sixteenacrewood]

Great photos, I realy like the boom truck, what year is it?

 

[qbilder]

That walnut has potential to be killer!!!! Nice elm, too.

 

[DaltonPaull]

Great photos, I realy like the boom truck, what year is it?

It's a 79 Ford F600 that was built for Washington Natural Gas. I was happy to see that it could lift the Walnut log. The elm was a little to heavy for the boom. The construction crew that cut it down loaded it with there biggest front end loader telling me me there other tops out at only 8,000lbs. To get it off I had to split the log freehand and pick it up half at a time - hence the ugly cut in the first picture.

 

[mtngun]

The only problem I had was the oil didn't really want to flow though the aux oiler. My oiler is the standard Granberg unit that feeds into the bar rail. I don't know if it was just that the regular Stihl oil I was using was too thick at 45F or what? What are you guys using in the colder temps? I'm thinking about making a drip oiler since I think it will be a little less prone to plugging up.

You may have to thin your bar oil in cold weather.

Also, I let it drip even in between cuts. If you shut off the oiler, it takes a while to get it flowing again.

Yes, drip instead of using the granberg fitting.

 

[DaltonPaull]

Thanks for the input Mtgun. What do you like to thin with? It seams the favorites are motor oil, ATF and kerosene (diesel.)

 

[mtngun]

ATF is very expensive to be using for bar oil.

I thin with diesel.