Thread: Info on 10/30 Lucas Mill

Have been reading along with the kerf debit with great interest, a small increase in waste will be out weighed by the price of the end product.

Evader the doctor hope you can help with hollow ground teeth, I have heard it improves cutting speed by up to 20%, it's a option Lucas is working on. Do any of your customers use them, advantages and disadvantages.

thanks jase

Originally Posted by TreasuredTimber

Have been reading along with the kerf debit with great interest, a small increase in waste will be out weighed by the price of the end product.

Evader the doctor hope you can help with hollow ground teeth, I have heard it improves cutting speed by up to 20%, it's a option Lucas is working on. Do any of your customers use them, advantages and disadvantages.

thanks jase

Jase, Lucas aren't working on it - they've done it. Reports from Lucas guys at the maleny show where we had the first Australian Sawmill Showdown, are that the hollow ground is a very effective increase in cutting performance. The lads Ian and Dudley did mention it might be good to run some hollow grind and some flat grind blades in the arsenal

I've not tried them personally and if not for the added cost of a new grinder for hollow ground blades, I'd just get my sawdoctor to chuck the hollow tips on the blades when they go for re-tips and in that way it's an easy transition.

I haven't heard of anyone on the forum using them yet, so it'd be interesting to see if someone has given them a run...

Too true with the kerf but apart from extra saw dust u may also get one layer of board less .I still belive the extra force required to push a mill that size all day for a jod would leave you pretty nacked at the end of the day .maybe they have plans to automate the mill like a peterson now that would be nice.common lucas i no you are out there.

Originally Posted by jmaxwell

Too true with the kerf but apart from extra saw dust u may also get one layer of board less .I still belive the extra force required to push a mill that size all day for a jod would leave you pretty nacked at the end of the day .maybe they have plans to automate the mill like a peterson now that would be nice.common lucas i no you are out there.

John I don't know how much 'more' knackered one could be pushing a model 6 and picking up 3 tonne for the day or pushing a model 10 and picking up 3 tonne for the day.

For me in the scheme of milling and tailing myself, whether it's a model 6, 7, 8, 9 or 10 not going to make any difference on being 'more' knackered at the end of the day

that maybe so for a young fella like you allen but when you are just shy of 50 you need all the help you can get .

Being 'younger' isn't the answer to everything...

I've got my own physical problems to work with too.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

Being 'younger' isn't the answer to everything...

I've got my own physical problems to work with too.

Not mention the emotional ones
How many posts has it been since you mentioned "love" and "lucas"?

As you said Sigidi moving the quantity timber is the same in that you have smaller board and more trips or bigger board and less trips, but the secret is sharp saw! Blunt or dull teeth mean you a fighting with the mill, eg pushing or pulling, now that’s the extra effort that kills you. Sharp saws = less effort required.
In my experience more than 2x chipped teeth (corners) on the same side and you start having problem with the blade wanting to follow the grain (wander). When milling sheoak I try to persist with chipped teeth because Murphy's law as soon as you change the blade you will hit another gravel rock and there goes another tooth.

Here are a few pics of some Jarrah Burl slabbed last week
Jase

TT, that's spot on. Unless the blade is wandering, press on. Nice burl slices, BTW. Here in Brisvegas we don't often get burls, let alone something as pretty as that.

Where I'm slicing my next lot of blue's from there are a few burls kicking around - I'll see if I can score some