Milling for Friday
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looks great Zap. I may have to get one of those chainsaw mills, I think it would work good on the 051AV........
Hi Zap,
They look nice. We've also been doing some milling over the past week or so. A fairly big lime tree (I think you guys call it Bass?) dropped a stem near the house and we wanted a few boards for the sides of our new wood shed.
What chainsaw mill do you have? We have been using a logosol timberjig which has worked pretty well. Need a bigger saw though as the MS341 just isn't powerful enough.
We got approx 25 1" by 6" by 9ft boards from 4 sections of trunk.
Mike
They look nice. We've also been doing some milling over the past week or so. A fairly big lime tree (I think you guys call it Bass?) dropped a stem near the house and we wanted a few boards for the sides of our new wood shed.
What chainsaw mill do you have? We have been using a logosol timberjig which has worked pretty well. Need a bigger saw though as the MS341 just isn't powerful enough.
We got approx 25 1" by 6" by 9ft boards from 4 sections of trunk.
Mike
I'm milling with the 660 Stihl. I had help from Smokin when I was picking out what saw to use, so far we have milled up White Pine & Hemlock.
We have a chit load of Basswood, how did it mill?
zap
We have a chit load of Basswood, how did it mill?
zap
The day started out chitty, forgot the hi-lift jack, grabbed the wrong chain so I could drop the topped off Pine but I did mill up six boards from some White Pine I started last year.
The boards are milled one inch thick.
The saw ran good but I do need to turn the idle up a tad, all the equipment is cleaned so if Mother Nature holds of on the rain I'll be milling again tomorrow. Attached are a few pics from today.
zap
The boards are milled one inch thick.
The saw ran good but I do need to turn the idle up a tad, all the equipment is cleaned so if Mother Nature holds of on the rain I'll be milling again tomorrow. Attached are a few pics from today.
zap
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Yes, it worked out pretty good, had to go back for the hi-lift jack but it was worth it. Near the end of last year I bought some Woodland Pro Ripping chain, it's different from Carlton's ripping chain, that was the chain I grabbed for the 28 inch bar so I could drop the topped off pine.
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Smokin, I had a guy answer my question about the cutters on the chain, the smaller (A in the picture) is a scoring cutter and the other is a clearing cutter.
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looks good zap, i have been milling some Oak, it has been coming out real nice and the Bobcat sure comes in handy for lifting it up on top of cement blocks to help the back. The biggest issue I have had with milled boards is splitting, the cherry I milled split pretty badly, even if I waxed the ends. I am sure there is still a lot of useable wood but I hate to see it split. Are you seeing much splitting on last year's boards?
Not yet on the splitting but I need to move all those boards to a better location. How thick was the stuff that split? I'm having a brain cramp, I see your name has changed, what was the old one?
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