Thread: Thats not a Slab, This is a Slab!!!

its a good set you have for slabbing big acco with hiab an front end loader

There's a bit of weight in those, particularly the one four up from the bottom.

Regards
Paul

Missed an Acco like that last month with cash flow hard to find good ones

Thank you for posting. Always interesting to watch something.

Itsposs,
Sadly none of the Machinery pictured is mine. The Volvo Truck and Lucas mill belong to a local Cabinet maker. I am just a weekend Warrior with a busted @ss Husky Chainsaw,Homemade Rail mill,Homemade Bandsaw Mill, 1950's Fergie tractor and a passion to make sawdust. I do have some mates with all the right gear so it's not that bad.

Still would have been a great day out please keep them coming

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

There's a bit of weight in those, particularly the one four up from the bottom.

Regards
Paul

Proffesionally slabbed so that boards can be claimed around the heart slab, nice work

Originally Posted by nifty

Proffesionally slabbed so that boards can be claimed around the heart slab, nice work

For resawing at a later date? Quartersawn posible too presumeably . Never done or thought of doing that.

Regards
Paul

Originally Posted by Bushmiller

For resawing at a later date? Quartersawn posible too presumeably . Never done or thought of doing that.

Regards
Paul

Now you see why I am planning on building a slabber bushy!!! I have the stuff to break down the slabs but need something for breaking the log into slabs.

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

Now you see why I am planning on building a slabber bushy!!! I have the stuff to break down the slabs but need something for breaking the log into slabs.

Gotcha.

Regards
Paul

Its always a good idea to take a big heart slab and resaw it, never been able to sell heartwood

Originally Posted by nifty

Its always a good idea to take a big heart slab and resaw it, never been able to sell heartwood

I could never sell hearts either!

Only problem I see with this process is one of handling. Even if you have access to a hiab or similar, you need the machinery to feed it through bench saw, breast bench saw or whatever you have. A slab 150mm deep 4m long and up to 1m wide will weigh around 600kg in a dense hardwood.

Fine if you are a fixed sawmilling enterprise, but most are portable millers.

Having said all that, I am sure there are ways around it. I am not sure I would be wanting to do it on a regular basis.

Regards
Paul

It's easy with a Lucas, bushy. What I do is to use the slabber at one end and the swinger at the other. Slab to about 100 above the heart then use the swinger, then back to the slabber.

No worries about extra handling and you can choose to quarter or back off the boards.

The Lucas slabber and swinger are designed to throw the dust in opposite directions, so using them at opposite ends of the mill means it all goes to the same side - bewdy!

Same with a woodmizer, just load the slab on vertically and take boards if i wish to backsaw or blocks to put on again to get boards on the quarter