Milling in the heat (68 F)

[mtngun]

Went again yesterday to finish the same blowdown.

Saw another local resident along the way. Hard to judge size in this picture, but he was about 5 feet tall when he stood up.

Have been having trouble with all my milling saws so I gave up after only a few boards.

084 spun the flywheel side seal. Waiting on a new seal and some red loctite to make sure it doesn't spin again.

066 runs strong but won't maintain consistent WOT rpm. One minute you tune for 11,500 and the next minute it is 14,000. Plus, hot starts are very difficult due to flooding. Air filter soaked with fuel and even fuel dripping out the muffler. Passes leak test, so I will tear into the carb.

'Kita also has the massive flooding problem. Can't find anything wrong with the carb yet it floods like crazy, soaking air filter, wetting plug, dripping out of muffler. Gotta be something up with the carb, if I can only figure it out.

So today will be spent trying to figure out carbs instead of cutting wood. :msp_mad:

 

[john taliaferro]

Sounds more like a fule problem . My 260 pop on hot start then didn't run right, blew the left seal out . Were getting so much alcohol in premum now it boils when i open tank hot , still your carb should not dump fule huh . Iam at 1200 ' your a lot higher and 100 here today ,what temp does alcohol boil ?

 

[mtngun]

Boiling fuel is definitely part of the problem.

I looked up the boiling points last summer when I was having this problem, forgot the numbers, but what I remember is that in addition to gas and alcohol, modern fuel is blended with other volatile additives like toluene that will definitely boil in hot weather. It does vary from one source of gas to the next, and it varies with the season, as winter gas is blended differently than summer gas, so you have no way of knowing exactly what's in the gas you buy at the pump.

Nonetheless, I got to learn to deal with it, cuz crappy gas is not going away.

 

[forestryworks]

I think I got it--thanks

here is where the table came from

Thanks again

Nice oak for that part of TX.

 

[mtngun]

I went out this morning, and got a tiny bit of cutting done before the saws went on strike. My saws always run great when I test them at home, but once I get to the woods and get all set up, they stop cooperating. :bang:

A pic of the hillside where I was cutting. Lots of rain this spring so the grass, weeds, and brush are waist high. And it's just a little bit steep.

It was the hottest day of the year so far, 72 degrees. The heat and the bugs were miserable.
Pic of thermometer in the shade.

But it sure felt miserable out in the sun, so I set the thermometer out in the sun to see what would happen.

After just a few minutes, it pegged at 120 F. It can't go any higher, but it wanted to.

 

[billstuewe]

Hey Bill. Interesting set-up with the old style Logosol Big Mill. Are those custom made components for changing the rail height? How do you decide between using this set-up vs. the Alaskan mill? Looks like you'll have ground clearance problems with cuts lower on the log.

Talltom--I am sorry about not getting back to you but did not see your post--I was changing computers back then and missed the email notification.
They are homemade contraptions of my own design and work fair. I did not have the AKIII back then and do not use them any more--just the AKIII.

 

[discounthunter]

nice haul. wont be remotely close to 68 till about october here,been pushing hi 90's lo 100's with a horrible heat index added.

 

[billstuewe]

I've been doing a little sweatin myself lately--Picked up a couple of big pecan trees the died from our drought (real bad here--almost no rain last year ether until October--then had 10" in one day and about 3" since then) Anyway the area is losing a lot of trees and some I get to saw---

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[mtngun]

Awesome pecan, Bill. I'd almost be willing to put up with Texas heat for a few days to mill some of that.

 

[820wards]

Bill,

Great looking stuff. Thanks for the pictures.

jerry-

 

[Rusty-880]

Nice load of wood!--Come down here and try that. I milled yesterday and it was 102ºF---saps the juice right out of you in a hurry.

Its 68*F today, I'm working in a jumper (middle of winter). When I was in Queensland most of my milling was in summer at 100-110*F.
All depends what you are used to- Everyone else said it was stinking hot. While it was pretty hot, where I lived before that was that hot or more but a LOT more humid

Nice load of slabs.
I want soft wood to mill- wouldn't get that done in a day with what timbers I have on the property and sure wouldn't get it done with only three chains!
Nice truck too.

 

[mtngun]

Went milling for a few hours yesterday. Another scorcher, 75 F in the shade, but it felt well over 100 in the sun. The bugs were hungry, too.

Saws are still giving me grief, so I only cut this one log and then called it quits. Pic gives some idea of the terrain. Brush has been trampled down around the log but otherwise is waist high.

 

[mtngun]

This is supposed to go in the "What are you building with your milled wood" thread, but the search function wasn't working tonight.

I've begun removing the temporary ghetto siding from the barn, and installing board and batten.

 

[820wards]

This is supposed to go in the "What are you building with your milled wood" thread, but the search function wasn't working tonight.

I've begun removing the temporary ghetto siding from the barn, and installing board and batten.

Looking good Mtngun.

Will that be used as a shop or for livestock?

jerry-

 

[mtngun]

Will that be used as a shop or for livestock?

Immediate need is to store firewood and lumber. Long term perhaps hay in the loft, tractor downstairs, etc..

 

[forestryworks]

This is supposed to go in the "What are you building with your milled wood" thread, but the search function wasn't working tonight.

I've begun removing the temporary ghetto siding from the barn, and installing board and batten.

The search doesn't work at all. Something isn't connecting somewhere on AS.

Nice barn!

 

[jerrycmorrow]

like the barn mg. from what little i can see it looks like you fabbed the framework as well. question, how did you set your posts? on concrete, in holes filled with concrete, etc.? also, curious as to how long you let your slabs cure before using them? different cure times for furniture as opposed to buildings?

 

[mtngun]

Jerrycmorrow, pics of how the posts sit are in that "What are you doing with your milled wood" thread that can't be found. :laughn: :laughn: :laughn: The gist is that I used concrete piers and homemade metal brackets to support a sill beam, and then the vertical posts were mortised & tenoned into the sill beams. Quite a bit more work to do it that way, but it turned out OK.

 

[jerrycmorrow]

link to the "lost" site

http://www.arboristsite.com/milling-saw-mills/47084.htm

i found it by googling "what are you doing with your milled wood" site:arboristsite.com

i've never had success with the AS search feature. consider it as useless as t!ts on a boar hog. always search this way for AS features

 

[forestryworks]

Awesome pecan, Bill. I'd almost be willing to put up with Texas heat for a few days to mill some of that.

Pecan is nice wood for sure.

I've been doing a little sweatin myself lately--Picked up a couple of big pecan trees the died from our drought (real bad here--almost no rain last year ether until October--then had 10" in one day and about 3" since then) Anyway the area is losing a lot of trees and some I get to saw---

And don't think every pecan is dead in this drought. Along with pecan being temperate deciduous, they can also be drought deciduous.