Need your input BobL

**Travis Edwards** · 1st February 2011, 06:15 PM

Originally Posted by BobL

So you never clean the bar groove, or flip the bar, or dress the bar, or grease the clutch bearing, until you need a new chain?

I flip the bar after about every 8 - 10 hours of continuous use (that's about 3 days of use). When flipping I clean out the groove and clutch area and regrease the clutch bearing and change the chain. I dress the bar depending on wear, even if it's just taking the wire bead off the side about every second/third time I flip the bar. I also swap to the other chain paired to that bar.

I try to rotate two chains for every sprocket so that works out by the time the chains need replacing so does the sprocket. Putting a new chain on a worn sprocket can lead to broken chains.

I agree about the the not enough hands bit when using a bar clamp mill. When using one of these mills I have thought of a possible solution to this that would involve drilling two 1/4" holes thru the bar clamps and inserting 1/4 brass rod thru the holes, as shown in this picture;
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When the bar is placed inside the clamps the rods hold the bar evenly between the clamps. Once the clamps are done up the rods are removed. A more complex solution could be to weld nuts to the outsides of the holes and use brass bolts that are wound out and locked in place.

My solution is cheaper and easier, one of the fold up workhorse things you get from the hardware for about $15. clamp the mill between the jaws, slide the saw into position tighten up the bolts, if you need to you can hold the saw up with a leg while you do the bolts up.

**BobL** · 2nd February 2011, 01:00 AM

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

My solution is cheaper and easier, one of the fold up workhorse things you get from the hardware for about $15. clamp the mill between the jaws, slide the saw into position tighten up the bolts, if you need to you can hold the saw up with a leg while you do the bolts up.

How do you balance any mill on a single workhorse?

I reckon for for sharpening and refueling on site, these adjustable height gorilla platforms like this are the way to go but they do cost $60
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I also have my own custom made portable workbench. It hold a mill very firmly on the table so I can run the CS WOT to tune it without worrying about the CS/Mill falling off.

**Travis Edwards** · 2nd February 2011, 07:32 PM

this is how I did it Bob. retail $19.99

*edit* Don't that 660 magnum look sexy with that bar on it...lol

**BobL** · 2nd February 2011, 09:11 PM

Originally Posted by Travis Edwards

this is how I did it Bob. retail $19.99

*edit* Don't that 660 magnum look sexy with that bar on it...lol

Ah ha - I got me one of those gizmos, mine cost me nothing from the side of the road.

Mine lives outside the shed and I use it as a spray painting and general construction table. I agree, the clamp is useful, but being a lazy bath plug I like to sit down when I touch up the chain (especially on the 60" bar) so I find the workhorse is too high whereas my custom table and the adjustable gorilla table are the right height. I have though about buying another one and docking a few inches off the legs - but I'm hoping another will appear by the side of the road.

**Travis Edwards** · 2nd February 2011, 09:57 PM

Originally Posted by BobL

Ah ha - I got me one of those gizmos, mine cost me nothing from the side of the road.

Mine lives outside the shed and I use it as a spray painting and general construction table. I agree, the clamp is useful, but being a lazy bath plug I like to sit down when I touch up the chain (especially on the 60" bar) so I find the workhorse is too high whereas my custom table and the adjustable gorilla table are the right height. I have though about buying another one and docking a few inches off the legs - but I'm hoping another will appear by the side of the road.

I think I paid 13 dollars for that one about 5 years ago at what is now sams warehouse on special. I like to be able to stand up as straight as possible when I am filing (especially after bending down from 6' 8" using the saw) I find I have better control of what I am doing (and it doesn't make the back ache so much.) But for setting the saw up in the mill this works for me, I can use the point where my leg bends at the hip to support the handle end of the saw, one hand aligns the bar and the other tightens the bolts. By the way I put it in the clamp with a stubby in one hand for the pics, only put it down to take the photos....lol

**itsposs** · 12th February 2011, 09:37 AM

660 Magnum look sexy with that contraption on it is a bit like Bo Derek with all prosthetic limbs and braces Travis

**Travis Edwards** · 21st April 2011, 11:11 PM

Originally Posted by itsposs

660 Magnum look sexy with that contraption on it is a bit like Bo Derek with all prosthetic limbs and braces Travis

You have no TASTE bruce!!!!

**Bushmiller** · 22nd April 2011, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by itsposs

660 Magnum look sexy with that contraption on it is a bit like Bo Derek with all prosthetic limbs and braces Travis

Yes, Yes I think I can see the resemblance

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Regards
Paul

**nifty** · 22nd April 2011, 02:39 PM

Yeh thanks for that Bruce, Im starting to have some really strange dreams now

**Bushmiller** · 22nd April 2011, 04:18 PM

Originally Posted by nifty

Yeh thanks for that Bruce, Im starting to have some really strange dreams now

Oh, and would you like to share some of these with us? Sorry, it's the psychotherapist in me. Actually there's not much therapist

.

Regards
Paul

**itsposs** · 22nd April 2011, 06:06 PM

I rember Allen used to call his mill Bo Derek she was very atractive the 660 looks great but I think I d prefer one with out the C/S mill on it lol, I can be a little odd dont mind me

**nifty** · 22nd April 2011, 09:32 PM

Yeh well who didnt like Bo Derek in Bolero

Better than coming across a curly jarrah log that was, the prosthetic thing, ewww

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