starting to get the hang of this

[fallen house]

First off, I want to thank you all for being so helpful and informative here. It's been a great help in getting our CSM going.
I started milling with a home-made mill that my dad made, then we found a 36" granberg with a bar and two ripping chains on CL. I've gone through one log with each mill, the ripping chain is much faster.
the home-made mill with a 28" bar on a 281 XP

I had trouble getting the aux oiler to work on the granberg.

I'm cutting these 1" thick, I got 9 boards out of this log.

A link to the album:https://picasaweb.google.com/LethalFlatulence/Milling?authuser=0&feat=directlink
I need to make more stickers before I mill anything else.

 

[mikeb1079]

looks great man, good job!

red oak?

 

[john taliaferro]

raise that sucker up bout 3 ' and make ya some blocks for under it . when iam miling and got every thing out i keep going make stickers later doesn't hurt to restack ,well that red oak does its HEAVY. What kind of trouble did ya have with the oiler, pluged , pour it out in a bucket and run the oil through a paint filter worked for me. welcome home .

 

[fallen house]

I think it's a Shumard Oak

The oiler was made for the home-made mill, which was set up like this:

When I tried putting it on the Granberg the chain caught the tip of the hose and pulled out the needle valve with it. Now I open it up just enough to get some oil, but if I go too far it will vibrate all the way open and dump out the whole tank.

I finished the log with the last of my mixed gas, as it was starting to get dark. I used my last good stickers on this stack. I scrounged around and found a few short, possibly different-sized stickers, and used those under the first and last boards (the narrowest, both at the top of the stack).

And here's some more pictures: