Today's milling

[Haywire Haywood]

I rarely do any milling but I had the saw and the mill, so I helped a buddy of mine who wanted a mantle. We opened up a poplar that his friend had offered up for firewood. We got a 4.5" slab from the center of one log for the mantle, and a couple 3" slabs for a shelf or two. The saw is my WWS395xp and the mill is two Alaskan small log mills that I have connected with aluminum extrusion that I got off ebay. Worked out pretty well, but turned out a little rough in sections I think because my chain is just standard angle chisel. Probably would be better with the 5deg ripping chain.

 

[MontanaTed]

Awesome. I love poplar of all types. It can be very plain to flat cool grain and coloring. Nice work, post up the mantle pics when done!

 

[Haywire Haywood]

He's got them stickered and the ends painted in his garage. Don't know how long he'll let it dry before making the mantle. I'm guessing it won't be anytime soon.

 

[MontanaTed]

Ahhh, yeah I always get excited and forget about drying time. I cut mostly standing dead pine so it like a match stick from the get go and forget most trees aren't like that.

 

[Jimbo209]

I rarely do any milling but I had the saw and the mill, so I helped a buddy of mine who wanted a mantle. We opened up a poplar that his friend had offered up for firewood. We got a 4.5" slab from the center of one log for the mantle, and a couple 3" slabs for a shelf or two. The saw is my WWS395xp and the mill is two Alaskan small log mills that I have connected with aluminum extrusion that I got off ebay. Worked out pretty well, but turned out a little rough in sections I think because my chain is just standard angle chisel. Probably would be better with the 5deg ripping chain.

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That looks great.


In my short experience that's just from see sawing to start with. The back end looks smoother then the front on the tail gate
Can't see wash boarding so that's good.

5deg...????? I set my A3EP Eventually at 10 from the factory 30 but it did still doo well @ 30 in Tuart.

I do eyeball the rakers at 7-9deg or extra 2-3 strokes / closer to 1mm/040, more as it wears

 

[Haywire Haywood]

I thought the store bought ripping chain was 5 deg. Never seen any in person.