Thread: Back to milling at last

Geez Bob looking good. Is it still LSG? Just the colour in the last one is so much more than the othe

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Geez Bob looking good. Is it still LSG? Just the colour in the last one is so much more than the othe

Yes it's LSG.
Those slabs are book matched but one has had some water put on it and I think it's just the water + the lighting angle.

Excellent job Bob and a bit of beer money to boot. Does it get any better? I'll stay posted .

Regards
Paul

Nothing to do with milling but it's part of the same project so rather than start a new thread I thought I would include it here.

It's been a bit wet to work outside so I have been working on marking the stirrups to support the turtle body parts which are made of logs and will be sitting in a stream of mulch and have kids crawling all over them the council says they want these things firmly pinned down so I am making a set of custom HD stirrups to do this.

The stirrups use a 100 x 200 x 8 mm steel plate with a 600 mm long, 50 x 50 x 3 mm SHS post and a piece of angle to stop them dropping in the concrete footing.

I have to make 24 of these things.


One of the body parts of the big turtle weighs about 1/2 ton so I made a couple of extra HD stirrups using 150 x 230 x 10 mm plate and gusseted the post.


A Metal cutting bandsaw helps a bit.

You're on a roll there Bob. Very impressive.

BT

Originally Posted by Anorak Bob

You're on a roll there Bob. Very impressive.

BT

Cheers Bob,

To be honest I'm very slow at production.
I understand one needs to be well organised, have everything on hand, and set up scheme/system/jigs/workflow etc.
With me it's cut the bits for one - make it, work out how to make it better, down to the hardware for a dingle dongle, make the next one, realise I need more steel so off to the Steel mecrhant, see some good offcuts in the scrap bin, could save a bit of money using those so buy them instead of stock lengths. Phaff about with the offcut when I get home, they end up being more trouble then it was worth, shoulda stuck with the one stock size (council is paying for it anyway), . . . . yadda, . . . . yadda.
It wasn't until I had made #4 that I started to go in to bulk cutting out.
It's not rocket science but its also not me.

Still, I have just about cut all the bits and its just a couple of hours of welding should knock it all off.
One really good thing about it is it is giving me plenty of welding practice.

Originally Posted by BobL

Cheers Bob,

To be honest I'm very slow at production.
I understand one needs to be well organised, have everything on hand, and set up scheme/system/jigs/workflow etc.
With me it's cut the bits for one - make it, work out how to make it better, down to the hardware for a dingle dongle, make the next one, realise I need more steel so off to the Steel mecrhant, see some good offcuts in the scrap bin, could save a bit of money using those so buy them instead of stock lengths. Phaff about with the offcut when I get home, they end up being more trouble then it was worth, shoulda stuck with the one stock size (council is paying for it anyway), . . . . yadda, . . . . yadda.
It wasn't until I had made #4 that I started to go in to bulk cutting out.
It's not rocket science but its also not me.

Still, I have just about cut all the bits and its just a couple of hours of welding should knock it all off.
One really good thing about it is it is giving me plenty of welding practice.

Ha! We have more in common than just our name !!

That is more fun than I thought Bob!

Milling some great timber AND welding AND all for kids..

Good stuphph indeed!!!

Originally Posted by dai sensei

Geez Bob looking good. Is it still LSG? Just the colour in the last one is so much more than the othe

I was thinking the same thing, looks a lot like Cahdagi with the dark streaks in it

Originally Posted by BobL

A Metal cutting bandsaw helps a bit.

You'll have to do something about a bigger shed Bob, it's looking a bit tight for space in there atm


Pete

Originally Posted by pjt

. . . . You'll have to do something about a bigger shed Bob, it's looking a bit tight for space in there atm

Pete

Yeop right now she's chokka with 24 freshly made 600 mm high stirrups, a fume hood extractor project just about done, and piles of other crap all over the floor.
I have to start moving something out as I just bought a 3 phase compressor that needs some electrical mods done on it before I move it into the compressor enclosure.
Currently that's on the back veranda along with a small bandsaw project and a bunch of other stuff.

Don't mean to rain on your parade Bob...... but self design of structural components and practice welding... ?
Product liability and qualifications spring to mind......surprised council is allowing it.
Sorry mate, wouldn't like to see you get jammed up.

Originally Posted by Barterbuilt

Don't mean to rain on your parade Bob...... but self design of structural components and practice welding... ?
Product liability and qualifications spring to mind......surprised council is allowing it.
Sorry mate, wouldn't like to see you get jammed up.

Rain away. T'will be but a light sprinkle after a 50 year deluge of unqualified plumbing, electrical, chemical handling and other jobs I have done most of which represent far greater risks than this job. However, just to reassure anyone that is worried about me, I am explicitly following the instructions provided by the council's builder.

Originally Posted by BobL

Rain away. T'will be but a light sprinkle after a 50 year deluge of unqualified plumbing, electrical, chemical handling and other jobs I have done most of which represent far greater risks than this job. However, just to reassure anyone that is worried about me, I am explicitly following the instructions provided by the council's builder.

It's not milling but it's part of this job so I put it in here.

One of tasks on this job is some chainsaw carving of some tortoise parts (necks, legs feet) out of logs. Apart from a few dodgy seats I've never really carved anything with a chainsaw before but like other stuff I'm up for learning something new. Yeah, I know I'm not qualified and shouldn't be doing this.

Firstly I roughed out the parts using a regular chainsaw (MS 441) which gets me part of the way there but when I tried using it as a carver pretty soon I realised I needed a proper chainsaw carver.
Apart from the flexibility of the smaller saw with the pointier nose after wielding the 441 for about an hour in the various contortions and orientations needed for carving my arms were like jelly.

Anyway the boss has bought me an Arbortech carving wheel and a brand spacing new little carving chainsaw.
The saw is a baby 35cc MS211 with a 12" carving bar and 1/4" chain.
Here it is up against the 70cc 441 with the 25" bar I have been using to roughly cut the body parts out of logs


Here it is alongside the bosses 880 with the 36" bar
It looks puny but the MS211 is a gutsy little saw.


Just for fun I had to make the obligatory man coming out of a tree


Even though the MS211 weighs 2/3rd of the 441, after 4 hours of use my arms are also right now pretty tired.
It's a lot of fun though, much more than I thought.