Some other cutting Al's been doin...

**Sigidi** · 29th July 2011, 08:56 PM

So in the vein of catching up on showing you guys some of the stuff I've been doin recently, here's some pics you've missed out on up 'til now...

So this was a contract cutting gig I did working 40hrs a week around the time of our Qld floods. They had two other 8-30's running full time also, those mills had sheds and a full time tailer - little old me had the open air spot and had to deal with the most demanding tailer a sawyer could ever have to deal with - me

In this instance I was asked to cut a whack of 10x10's out of good old Ironbark, here's one of the logs in the mill all lined up and quaking in it's bark...

The 10x10 all but sawn out of the log...

I like to get to this stage on a big board like a 10x10, then raise the rails back up to the top of the gauges so I can run back over the log and shave off any humping the log has done through the middle - if I don't do this the board ends up being much thicker in the middle than the two ends. You can see here how much was taken off the middle of the post, almost 12mm in this instance and nothing off each end.

I reckon it just gives a much better product once I'm finished...

Then if the sawyer has done their job properly

the post should be nice and straight as well as nice and regular in dimension along its entire length

**Scott** · 29th July 2011, 11:02 PM

Thanks for posting this, very interesting! I'm going to have to get me one of those Lucas's one of these days.

**Sigidi** · 30th July 2011, 09:33 AM

Go on, go on... just ask me....... I dare ya

**Scott** · 30th July 2011, 09:38 AM

What? You're going to send me yours down to Melbourne? Free of charge including shipping? Why thank you!

**Sigidi** · 30th July 2011, 03:51 PM

Was saying ask me how much I love Lucas - I'll tell ya

**Scott** · 30th July 2011, 05:02 PM

Okay, if you insist. How much do you love your Lucas?

**Christos** · 30th July 2011, 05:16 PM

Interesting.

**Stopper** · 30th July 2011, 07:27 PM

Nice work Al,
I spent today machining iron bark decking. The moulder gets louder and louder as the cutters get dull. It was kiln dried so really hard. How do you find the saws on the lucas when cutting it. Do you have to sharpen more often? I reckon that will be a "yes".

cheers
Steve

**itsposs** · 30th July 2011, 08:41 PM

Yeah now thats scary we ve got 400 acres to go through over the next few weeks and its iron bark thats been burned Boss was saying tonight 2 chain s on the 660 to a tree. And we ve no carbide chain avalible locally atm.

**charlsie** · 30th July 2011, 09:07 PM

absolute crackin' logs

wish we could get them down this way. keep up the good work allan

**eli szoko** · 30th July 2011, 09:22 PM

[QUOTE=Sigidi They had two other 8-30's running full time also, those mills had sheds and a full time tailer - little old me had the open air spot and had to deal with the most demanding tailer a sawyer could ever have to deal with - me

You say two 8 30 s dose this meen your runing one.If so you cant cut 10' deep can you?

**Sigidi** · 30th July 2011, 10:27 PM

Originally Posted by itsposs

Yeah now thats scary we ve got 400 acres to go through over the next few weeks and its iron bark thats been burned Boss was saying tonight 2 chain s on the 660 to a tree. And we ve no carbide chain avalible locally atm.

Well the forest industry hardly uses TCT chain, its more for fire and rescue boys, so thats not really a problem - find it hard to think it'd need two chains to get a billet from a tree with charred bark

Originally Posted by charlsie

absolute crackin' logs

wish we could get them down this way. keep up the good work allan

Thanks mate

Originally Posted by eli szoko

You say two 8 30 s dose this meen your runing one.If so you cant cut 10' deep can you?

oh crud... yeah you're right - must have forgotten what machine I have

**Sigidi** · 30th July 2011, 10:37 PM

Originally Posted by Stopper

Nice work Al,
I spent today machining iron bark decking. The moulder gets louder and louder as the cutters get dull. It was kiln dried so really hard. How do you find the saws on the lucas when cutting it. Do you have to sharpen more often? I reckon that will be a "yes".

cheers
Steve

Steve it's not as bad as you'd think, I find the crud caught in the bark of ironbark to be more of a challenge to the blade than the timber cutting. The bark gives a bit of grief - tends to 'fur up' above the blade in the horizontal and cause it to drive toward the end of the log. My solution is to do something akin to a scoring cut the full length of the log, only about 2' in, then put the blade to the position you want to for the horizontal cut and no problems.
The 10" seems to cut better with harder timber, the finish it leaves in such dense timber is magic

**itsposs** · 30th July 2011, 11:18 PM

Well you know the bloke who told me and well its no time like now to start I ll try most things to lift production it might be worth a shot

**Sigidi** · 31st July 2011, 10:36 AM

So tell us who told ya?

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