Thread: Experienced miller req. Central Vic, big logs.

To close and the mill head will over balance the frame

I see.
Just the rails seem very long and without the middle post I experience the whole lot starting to shake sometimes. Thats with a blade, with a slabber I can imagine that it woud be worse?

I just saw this thread, Nice work krunchie - good to see someone making sawdust!

I would of loved to be there just for the experience!! would be a great learning curb

Hi folks.
As you can see, the boys have been working hard punching out the packs of boards. They are doing a great job, making the most of what the big logs have to offer, as well as keeping up a steady pace. Tailing out from the top of a seven foot high log is not easy, especially when you're pulling out 10" x 1 1/2" x 12' redgum boards at a rapid rate.
I have found over the years that pallets are the most stable to build a platform for the mill to get the height over big logs. Even when the mill base is approaching 1 metre off the ground, the mill is just as stable as if it were on the ground, as long as you tek screw the props to the edge of the top pallet or a nearby log.

There is only one downgrade log to go which will be cut into bridge decking, then over the road to the other paddocks. After that, they can have a well earned rest before I take them to "the mother log". They haven't seen this one yet, I'm keeping it as a surprise!! It is about 7-8' in diameter, 20 ' long and has a beautiful burled figure in it. I haven't prepped it yet so it maybe rotten, but it looks good from the outside. Will need a 20 tonne excatvator just to roll it away from the stump!

Anyway, the blokes are doing a great job and I can't recommend them highly enough for any contact milling.
Cheers
James

what a great job those slabs look fantastic, some amazing grain.

keep up the good work

Originally Posted by Bernt

I see.
Just the rails seem very long and without the middle post I experience the whole lot starting to shake sometimes. Thats with a blade, with a slabber I can imagine that it woud be worse?

Even if it did shake a bit (which a slabber is more prone to than the blade) it wouldn't matter too much as you aren't doing dimensional boards, but the operator can always lean against the rail a little while slabbing so it reduces that shake, so even though no middle leg, it's not such a problem. Besides being up so high a conventional middle leg wouldn't reach the ground.

:green with envy Smiley:

Great job

Originally Posted by tassietimbers

There is only one downgrade log to go which will be cut into bridge decking, then over the road to the other paddocks. After that, they can have a well earned rest before I take them to "the mother log". They haven't seen this one yet, I'm keeping it as a surprise!! It is about 7-8' in diameter, 20 ' long and has a beautiful burled figure in it. I haven't prepped it yet so it maybe rotten, but it looks good from the outside. Will need a 20 tonne excavator just to roll it away from the stump!

James

James. don't tell them but you could put a couple teaser pics of the "Mother Log", for us, in the ether!

I won't when be going back to the "mother log" until it is ready to prep, so I can't supply any photo's. If the log shapes up ok, we will put a few photo's on the forum, but I don't like to 'count my slabs before they're milled'. As much as they look good on the outside and ends, they can be disappointing when you open them up with the mill, and vise versa. I have another 8-10 logs in the 4' to 6' diameter range, so we might have a few good photo's of those to post as we mill them. Krunchie or myself will keep you posted. Maybe next year I'll bring a monster log home on the truck and anyone who wants to see it being milled can come along!

Cheers
James.

I would like to tag along, nothing better than prevuing on your favourite timber

Once in a lifetime chance to mill logs that big these days. Great work boys

Well not quite but close to it, James gave me a heads up as we were milling on a site down the road and this is what we saw. This is the bulk of what we had done in the last 3-4 weeks of milling and racking up about 130 hours of time on, in or around the mill, just over 2500 km and more wood then Pinocchio at puberty

Twas a fun time and a hard time milling someone else's timber when they have more experience and refined knowledge of the species then yourself.

But all in all the picture will tell a thousand more words then I can.

Till next years Red Gum adventure keep up the wood.

Rob

Hi folks

Just a final note on the big log milling project. Spent the last few days making packs of timber up ready for the truck from Krunchie's and Tony's milling efforts over the last few weeks. The logs have produced some magnificent timber, and plenty of it. I loaded the 40' drop deck semi today, and we still have 1/2 another load to go, all just from 15 logs.

And if you are wondering how big the slabs were, they are up to 1.8m wide by 4.0m long and clear with great birdseye feature along the sides. All up the logs produced 20 slabs from 1.0 - 1.8m wide and up to 6.1 long, as well as about 25 cubic metres of great furniture quality boards, mostly 200/250 x 40mm.

The blokes have done a fantastic job and made the most of these great logs, and their effort is much appreciated. I just have to find the time to prep the next batch of big logs up, and the boys will be invited back. Anyway, thanks to all involved and I'll try to add some photo's of the spoils, especially when we are racking out the big slabs.

Cheers
James

All that from 15 logs, thats hugeId have to go back 50 years to my great grandfathers mill to see results like that, thats fantastic