Thread: The James Anderson Experience 2012

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Hi fellow millers,

As requested, here are a few pictures of a good log Tony, Crunchie and I started milling after lunch today. As you can see, the mill is up on three pallets to get the height. Whipped the top off and straight into slabs, 5.9m long x .9 for the first slab, then one metre wide plus for the rest. We used the truck to manouvre the log into position, then simply craned the slabs staight on the back of the truck. Utilised the taper of the log to drive the slabber, no pushing at all. We used a few ratchet straps back to steel posts to help stabalise the mill at this height, and the slabs started to roll off, and very clean too. I will try and get some pics once the entire log is milled. It sure is nice to get stuck into a good log and get these types of results. Aiming to get 3 sets of book-matched slabs for boardroom tables, but who knows what will happen tomorrow!

Cheers

James

...hope you like 'em! Forgot to mention this was a log left over from a milling project I was doing two years ago, so we have had a little diversion from our current project to fit this one in!

looking good James

Wow! Euroa was a good session, spent most of a day with James setting up the BIG log (kinda get tiered of that cos there all big logs) had to rebate the mill frame into the log a bit to make it all fit as well as the rails were only half on the risers and tek screwed on for a bit of extra length. Just after lunch we were under way and after blade milling off the top of the the log the slabber went on. Got to love the crane truck for putting the mill on when you are starting about two meters off the ground. Just on dark we finished the fifth slab and had to leave it on the log, to dark to use crane.

On the second day the blade mill went back on and the boards flew off 20' long 8-10" wide. We ended up with four sets of table tops and a few spare boards, after lunch we chucked a small log on the mill that was and took another set of boards before it turned to crap, so packed all and off to the shed to dump the days takings and packed mill for next log (also big) heaps of burl figure but it ended up being past it's use by date and bugged out half way through on the forth day. So packed up and back to sutton grange for the next part of The James Anderson Experience.

Tony, Krunchie and James

Thanks for the on-going saga complete with picture updates. Terrific and interesting to hear the ways you have coped with over sized logs. Also glad to hear when the logs aren't up to your required standard. People often forget there is a difference between potential yield and actual yield.

I was thinking how we read in motoring magazines of travelogues. So does that make this thread a timberlogue?.

Please keep up with the pix.

Regards
Paul

Picture update on its way

Hi there

Tony and Krunchie have been going through the logs at a good pace this year, but a fair bit of downgrade material which was expected. The best logs will come up over the next few weeks, and I'm sure we can get a few photo's when we start to process what we call "Nan's" logs. Two large trees, one with a single butt log in the 5' x 20' range, and another with a massive 3 part barrel which would probably weigh at least 15 tonne, but we will cut it into three sections to handle it. Looks like we will be milling off scaffold again!

Cheers

James

Here are some of the pics

more pics

Hi guys

Last week we prepped "Nan's #1 Log" as we know it. The main barrell up to the first fork went nearly 18 tonnes, so we cut it into a few sections. We then rolled out the middle section with the two 4wd winches, and the crane truck rolled the largest section. The middle section was very good, with only a little rot in the bottom of the main butt section. It produced 5 great slabs at 1.0 - 1.5m wide x 4.0m long, and many packs of boards.

One surprising feature was one side of the log displyed intense birdeye feature with no evidence of it being there on the outside of the log. Usually we see all the spikes when chasing birdeye, but none here. Nice surprise!

Anyway, hope you all like a few of the pics, and well milled by the boys again.

Cheers

James

...and some of the results!

Looking good, have you milled this log yet?



Looks to have a bit of spiral or twist in it. Hopefully it will be all good

Wow looks good James,
got to love a big red