Posting a few, self fed milling

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Done a few posts recently, we have gone from evacuating for fires to down pouring rain, so I got me some time to figure out how to post and upload some things I have been up to since the first time posting here and all those with experience graciously helping me out getting started..........kind thank you to all

Hope the attachment works, BobL has discussed the advantages of having the log at an angle and using rails for every cut, I can see why.

Bout 2 years back I dropped a pine in the back yard with the intention of one day milling it (had no saw the right size or mill then). This is the lower section of the tree which was dragged from the neighbors side into our yard, the incline on the terrace stopped any further travel and stayed on that angle.

The saw is a 660 and have since upgraded after hearing how much complaining it was doing. The vibration I think is from not filing the back of the rakers to a gentle curve after grinding to required height.

Any comments or suggestions would be appreciated.

 

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[Old Blue]

I don't know about the vibration but it will be interesting to hear from someone who does. It looks like you're well set up, I wish I could get my mill to do that.

It looks more like chips coming off than dust. Did you drop your rakers with a digital angle finder? If so, what angle did you grind to? You may want to do some vibration dampening for your oiler, it looks like it's wobbling around a bit up there.

That's a nice clean setup your running, it looks good to me. Got plans for the slabs?

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I don't know about the vibration but it will be interesting to hear from someone who does. It looks like you're well set up, I wish I could get my mill to do that.

It looks more like chips coming off than dust. Did you drop your rakers with a digital angle finder? If so, what angle did you grind to? You may want to do some vibration dampening for your oiler, it looks like it's wobbling around a bit up there.

That's a nice clean setup your running, it looks good to me. Got plans for the slabs?

Thanks, still have not worked out how to set raker angles, but the tool that shows the depth the rakes should be was used only difference was instead of using the top of the gauge as the height I used the bottom of the gauge and set the height to that.

Need a pantry and a table, not sure if I'll ever get the time to get it done though...hoping

 

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Any one have suggestions for this happening?

The height adjustment rubs and gets stuck when milling the underside of the log

 

[BobL]

Any one have suggestions for this happening?
The height adjustment rubs and gets stuck when milling the underside of the log

This very common when cutting the lower half of the log and is essentially a design failure of the standard alaskan where the rub plates on the inboard bar clamps cannot make contact with the side of the log.

This is why all my mills have adjustable position wheels on the inboard sides of the mill.
In this ensign the black wheels hold the lmill away from the log when cutting the top part of the log and the white wheels do the same for the bottom half of the log.



In this design the inboard bar clamp has been replaced with a bolt-on-bar and the wheels can be easily adjusted up and down to suit the log/cut and to flip either to be on top or underneath the bar.

I also have an adjustable design that places the wheels co planar with the bar - this is the best place for them.
The adjustment is not for height but horizontally to locate the wheels so that they prevent the log rubbing on the log.

 

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Thanks Bob, once again much to think about and plan