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    Nice slabs mate
    Been sawmilling for very long?
    You have some lovely woods in the US
    Cheers Mr Fiddleback

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    Quote Originally Posted by Mr Fiddleback View Post
    Nice slabs mate
    Been sawmilling for very long?
    You have some lovely woods in the US
    Cheers Mr Fiddleback
    G'day mate and thanks. Sawing on/off for 15 years now. My wife got me the GB lumbermill for my 2nd CHRISTmas together! I got a mini mill for vertical cuts a few years ago. I am blessed to be surrounded by the smorgasbord of wood we have in East Tennessee. I will post some Poplar, SYP and White Pine pictures I milled a few years ago when I get a chance.
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    Well Mr Stihlsawer
    You get my vote for the best dressed, most dapper sawyer I have seen on this forum yet. Who mills timber wearing a tie? Bravo Zulu that man.

    Usually, it is gentlemen such as Bobl in his red overalls, covered with jarrah dust, beer in hand, in need of a haircut. (Bob, insert the usual piccy......here).

    We need more pictures of milling, this forum has gone quiet.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Willy Nelson View Post
    Well Mr Stihlsawer
    You get my vote for the best dressed, most dapper sawyer I have seen on this forum yet. Who mills timber wearing a tie? Bravo Zulu that man.

    Usually, it is gentlemen such as Bobl in his red overalls, covered with jarrah dust, beer in hand, in need of a haircut. (Bob, insert the usual piccy......here).
    OK if you insist.
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    Overalls are blue - chaps are red, and SWMBO will dispute any notion of gentlemanship.
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    I assume that having an automatic mill like that you are only wearing chaps for warmth. Or are you practicing social distancing?

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    Quote Originally Posted by rustynail View Post
    I assume that having an automatic mill like that you are only wearing chaps for warmth. Or are you practicing social distancing?
    There's still starting the saw while its out of the cut and the odd bit of cross cutting going on with another saw - I usually just put them on when I'm using a saw.
    I agree they can get very hot and have worn them with shorts.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Willy Nelson View Post
    Well Mr Stihlsawer
    You get my vote for the best dressed, most dapper sawyer I have seen on this forum yet. Who mills timber wearing a tie? Bravo Zulu that man.

    Usually, it is gentlemen such as Bobl in his red overalls, covered with jarrah dust, beer in hand, in need of a haircut. (Bob, insert the usual piccy......here).

    Yeah. Not my milling clothes

    We need more pictures of milling, this forum has gone quiet.
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    Yeah, not my milling clothes. I usually look like Bob when sawing, milling, etc. except I'm not smart enough to sit down.
    It did make for interesting picture though... Cheers.

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    Stihlsawer, have to admit, you must be disarmingly fit to not break a sweat doing what must be the hardest of back breaking work there is.

    Shirt, pants and tie! Man, just missing the monocle

    Those are lovely big slabs.

    Very nice indeed.

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    Quote Originally Posted by woodPixel View Post
    Stihlsawer, have to admit, you must be disarmingly fit to not break a sweat doing what must be the hardest of back breaking work there is.

    Shirt, pants and tie! Man, just missing the monocle

    Those are lovely big slabs.

    Very nice indeed.
    Dang it!! I knew I was missing something!

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    BTW I should add that picture of me sitting down with the beer was deliberately staged.
    My engineer brother asked me for any OHS related pics that he could show to his team during the weekly mining site safety talks he was leading for his team - he also deliberately wants pics outside the usual stuff miners would see, stuff to get them talking . There were the usuals of "no ear muffs or hard hat", "Bend ze knees' , "over reaching", "up ladder without harness" etc and I threw that one in for a laugh. Its about the only time I've ever sat down while actually milling even though I often bring a chair with me so's I can sit while sharpening.

    Even though that mill can cut by itself provided the log is on a slope usually I am standing up to the milll to;
    - guide it around any lumps and bumps on the sides of logs.
    - adjust aux oil flow
    - insert wedges in kerf behind cut
    etc.

    The hardest part for me i not the actual milling but
    - lifting the log rails off the van roof racks and on/off the log,
    - lifting mill on and off the log
    - moving the big slabs.

    However, when I milled that log I had access to this (that's property owner Hud driving it on the left).
    He has almost every attachment for that thing - what a lill' beauty it is for medium slabs but it also has an amazing reach S SHOW BY THE RIGHTMOST PIC.
    Dingo2.jpg DIngoBob.jpg dingoloadingrails.jpg

    PLUS Hud also has this for moving logs and slab packs around
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    At the Tree loppers yard we have this, and now they also have a large Bobcat type thing with forks and grapples
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    This gear and the Hiab capacities on the trucks limits what size logs can be brought back to the yard and that's the main reason why I've not been able to mill any wide and long slabs.

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    What an awesome rig!!! That would be a game changer!

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