Oh happy day, the long hours of using that damned alaskan mill are over. Picked up an old turner pony 56" circle mill for a grand. Thing is crazy heavy and still in pieces out back. Just waiting for it to dry so I can pour the footers and lay the track. Excited to get that monster up and running.
Bought a mill.
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Will do. Heres a blowout diagram in the book that came with it. Has a 3rd headblock added, came with a box of teeth, tool to remove them, and a sweat.
For the time being Ill be using my old wd45 on a belt. In the long term I have an old ls1 vette motor Id like to rejet the carb and build an imbert downdraft wood gasifier to run it. Then I could power the mill, and prob a 50kw genhead on mill ends and tops... wood power to cut more wood
FYI in your planning add in a chipper. Wood gas engines need uniform dried wood chunks to put out steady flow. Its a detail that most you tube videos leave out. Green chips don't work very well as there is lot of water vapor carry over into engine. Sawdust also doesnt work well. The gas from green wood also tends to be acidic and hard on the engine.
Can't wait to see pics of this. Any specific projects in mind for it? You planning on building an outbuilding from lumber you create yourself?
Ive done some experimentation on with a small one on an ohv briggs. Instead of a chipper I was thinking something more akin to a slicer? Think of a small cement mixer cut at a spiral and sharpened up against a bar, then I can sorta cube it in 1" blocks.
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