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25th February 2017, 12:53 PM #31
Rob the piece above.
It has colour and would cut nice for turning or anything really I guess. Some of us strange we like voids admittedly thats void is oversized LOL.
A life time of wood I'd say still drooling. I got my first taste of Elm from Hughie have one more piece yet to turn but need to decide what to do.
The spanner get a bloody strong magnet or vacuum or a metal detector or just run chainsaw through the dust it'll find it for sure.
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25th February 2017, 08:11 PM #32Senior Member
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you could saw the rotten section up into bowl blanks or blocks for wood turners/pen turners
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27th February 2017, 01:06 AM #33
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27th February 2017, 09:30 AM #34SENIOR MEMBER
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I have an Alaskan mill similar to yours. Have had one of the clamp come loose on a couple of occasions when in use. Have a nice piece of blackwood where the cut slab tapers off from 100 to 75 mm on one side over the last 2 m of length. Am mindful of this issue now and will often check the height part way through a cut. Use a 150 mm length of tube that will fit over the sliding t-bar to tighten and undo the nut. Make sure the clamp is sitting nice and square as it's being tightened.
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27th February 2017, 07:43 PM #35
Thanks Tony .
I don't know if I'd get around to it but I can see some ways of improving the mill I have .
Building a new one that suited my 42" bar would be nice as well Although it would be all steel as I don't weld aluminium, yet .
One thing about the mill is its been made to adjust to different size bars so has all these extra adjustable points. I think Id be happy with just the 42" for any cutting . Its unlikely Id cut anything under 12 " . And Id still do that with the 42" The height cutting adjustment with the two nuts per U bolt would be nice with a knob that twisted one thread that tightened the U bolt at each end .
Rob
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Tips for improving a standard Alaskan mill
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27th February 2017, 08:18 PM #37
We were back for the last load and clean up today . I got stuck into the rotted base with roots and dirt and got a few pieces . It was a bit more figured but nothing special about it .
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The good thing was when I split the thing My spanner fell out !! Very happy with that ! I thought that was the last place I saw it , resting on top a few days back . And I tried looking and feeling into the deep splits but nothing ? Searched the car
twice and raked up the sawdust searching as well .
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The left picture below was 11 days back and the right is today .
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One more load of half logs home today with some small freehand slabs as well.
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And this is the slabs resting on sleepers with sticks and ends painted. The whole lot got covered with second hand roof sheeting . I got Two other stacks of half logs and freehand slabs as well , stacked under another tree and covered up . With a rough guess Id say between 4 or 5 cubic meters of wood with the bark and sapwood taken off. And two of us worked roughly 5 days at it .
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Had a good time doing it as well , even if I did feel like Id been lifting logs all day .
Rob
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27th February 2017, 09:20 PM #38SENIOR MEMBER
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Using the chainsaw mill does give a sense of satisfaction. However, I don't cut a lot of timber with my mill so I will put up with it's little annoyances. My preference is to have my timber milled by a professional at a proper mill. As you said, it's hard work and slow. But for the times its not practical to transport timber to a mill then I will have a go at it. To get the best out of a log requires a fair bit of turning of the log. Ill generally back cut blackwood and quarter saw most other hardwood. I don't have a loader and turning the flitches with chocks and crowbar is slow. Have even had to use a jack on a couple of big logs. When quarter sawing I use a basic cradle to hold the flitches once the log has been quartered.
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27th February 2017, 09:23 PM #39GOLD MEMBER
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Good bit of work there, well done! You may be better off stacking the long lengths on top of each other and strapping them down (rather than 2 stacks) The more weight there is the less movement you will get.
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