Thread: Bit o slabbing for Peter

tease

Al

Will look forward to all parts of the body recouperated and some pix.

Regards
Paul

So I got contacted by this fella, Peter. He had a bluegum, apparently quite large turns out I drove straight past his place when heading there yesterday cause out the corner of my eye driving past I thought it was an old steel farm tank cos of its size


Peter had a nice flat pad and good amount of area to work in, always a pleasure - he even apologised cause he wasn't as ready as he wanted to be (had left some bark lying around!!!) Really nice bloke, one of the many reasons milling is such a pleasure, the people you get to meet are great.

So after some initial chatting and 'fiddling' around the mill was setup over the log and lined up etc. a whole heap of 'extra' care/consideration was taken in this setup, so as a consequence the first slab came off rather late...




The log turned out to be a little over 1200mm wide at the butt and 4.4m long

In the first pic, you can make out some white chalk lines - these are the outlines of two 400x400 posts Peter is wanting to take out of this log after the slabs have been cut, so this is where all the 'extra' care/consideration was taken to ensure the later product of these posts was possible.

We slabbed off the top of the log, then had to roll the partially cut log over after removing the mill out of harms way, the whole mill was shifted in one piece by Peter and Myself and a touch of ingenuity (on a side note, I've approached Lucas about this possibility quite a few years ago now and would like to say it works like a charm)




Turns out the partially slabbed log gave the forklift quite a bit of trouble and the fork was able to lift 2,500kg - the log started out at roughly 5,000kg.

Then because of the need to leave a nice even 'slab' so Peter could later rip out the 400x400 posts, we needed a good deal of time and care to get the mill and the bottom face of the log lined up parallel front to back and side to side with the slabbing bar again and then proceeded to slice slabs from what was the bottom of the log, as you can see, first slab off was nice and wide

I finished packing up quite late and the last slab off was removed under lights...


Really nice slabs, all of them, very little defects, but magic grain patterns with some great feature down the lengths of the outside edges on the slabs, the last slab off was 1200 at the but and 1100 at the head, 4.4m long and 65mm thick, weighing in around 350kg.

Peter ran a tape over the left over 'slab' and apparently each end was 425mm thick, I said to him don't put the tape in a different spot, leave it at that!!!!

Now peter is going to cut out his 400x400 posts using this baby...



I just have to work out how to put up my vids of it in action cutting a 250x250 post to you tube and drop them in here too...

The day turned out to be a whole heap of 'extra' stuff, not so much slabbing, but Peter was thrilled by the results and that meant I was pretty DanG happy too!

Man, that Volkswagon looks evil, would love to see it in action though. Thanks for sharing as usual

Scott I have video of Peter cutting a 250x250 just before we got into the bottomof the log, but I can never get friggin you tube things to paste in the post, dunno what the heck I'm doin bad... mate if you can do 'em I can email the vids to ya?????

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Scott I have video of Peter cutting a 250x250 just before we got into the bottomof the log, but I can never get friggin you tube things to paste in the post, dunno what the heck I'm doin bad... mate if you can do 'em I can email the vids to ya?????

That'd be awesome! I'll post them on youtube for you so everyone can share. Will PM you my addy. Thanks!

Thanks for the email Allan. Your videos are in a format that the forum code doesn't recognise. I've converted them and hopefully they'll appear here once I submit reply. Thanks for sharing, love the Volkswagon and hope everyone can enjoy them as much as I did.

I must be getting old that vdub was one of the scariest things Ive seen .Stradling the log and pulling that beast towards your groin

Not for this little puppy. Love my body parts too much.

Thanks Alan & Scott for the pics & video, great stuff!!.

Holly s..., that Vdub saw is one mean piece of gear, looks like something out of mad max!!

You'd need to be mad, Max to use one. Most dangerous thing ever invented, would rather hang on to a brown snake.

I was really looking forward to seeing the VW saw in action. I worked alongside a bloke who had a similar machine. I don't recall what motor it had, but I refer to it as a Hargan saw, which I suspect is just a brand name ( a bit like Hoover, although they were never big in saws.)

However my bloke stood behind the motor, which to my mind is far safer, but used a similar cutting action. At the time he was cutting boards 17" x 2". I remember he couldn't go all the way through with one cut and had to turn them over and cut about an inch of remaining timber.

Standing in front of the saw like that is akin to those ancient monster chainsaws which had a handle fixed to the nose for a second person to grip. I would be scared! Possibly with the VW saw I would be fearful of the log moving and the saw binding.

Having said all that Peter did a neat job and it was an interesting project. Thanks Al for the orginal thread and Scott for formatting the vids.

Regards
Paul

WOW!!!! I cant believe common aussie vernacualr is now censored, which funnily enough appers in the bloody edit notes wth!?!?!?!

Anyway, Paul, I asked Peter to ring me when he slices the posts out, so hopefully the vid will be much better quality.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

WOW!!!! I cant believe common aussie vernacualr is now censored, which funnily enough appers in the bloody edit notes wth!?!?!?!

Anyway, Paul, I asked Peter to ring me when he slices the posts out, so hopefully the vid will be much better quality.

Sounds like you might have fallen foul of the censor's knife, except I can't see where. Probably because it has been censored. My own view is that if it in the dictionary it should be allowable, but that is my view.

Will look forward to another vid.

Regards
Paul