Thread: Resawing large flitches to recover a slab

sweet, good on ya Rude!!

Yep keep posting pics of them big slabs - just let me get my bib ready first!

Ace looking slabs.

Something to share in case your customer ever asks, but a few years ago, i swapped a local builder two large bluegum slabs in exchange for helping me to nail off the trusses for my shed.
Fairly large pieces,( 4mts long, 1100mm wide and 75mm thick) and his intention was to use them as vanity tops in the bathroom and the ensuit of the new house he was building for himself.
Wished him all the best in dressing them as this would be a fairly time consuming task to the average bloke.
Here is where a bit of enginuity comes in to play.
Appears the new house had treated pine decks all the way round with the usual gaps between the boards. He laid the two slabs out on the verandah,ran some screws up from underneath to hold the slabs flat down on the deck and went to the local Coates Hire store and got a walk behind floor sander.
Two hours later and a couple of beers, job done.
I'll keep this one in mind.

That is a very good idea rosewood, think i'll keep that one up my sleeve aswell.Very cheap and quick way to get the job done.Thanks
Regards,
Rude.

Hey Rude, great to catch up and have a chat...

I'm still a bit dissapointed.... for some reason I always thought you where a Lucas owner, didn't realise ya used that other brand, I'll have to keep it in mind in future conversations

Now I know why we've never seen any pics of ya mill - just kidding, but now ya secret is out, what model do you have?

yep i turn all my flitches over to get a slab out of them.

if its a nice looking log i will flip teh log at half way and take one from the center.

On tapered logs, you finish with a very thin end and fairly fat end, so I dock off the thinner portion (goes to the fire pile) and put the remaining flitch aside for the last log of the job. Then all the bottom flitches get chucked on the last log one at a time and I clean 'em up at around 2" - made a few nice coffee tables out of these bottom flitch 'waste' bits

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Can't do it with all of 'em - I like to get everything I can...

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Yes Allan,

The secret is out,I bought the peterson wpf with track extentions (up to 8m) 27hp 10'' with electric raise and lower and also got the slabber.I also enjoyed the chat but it would have been better over a few coldies.As fas as us owning different machines,thats irrelivent,its the love of the sawdust that counts.
Regards,
Rude.
P.S I'll let you have a go of my mill if you ask nicely

Originally Posted by rude

Yes Allan,

The secret is out,I bought the peterson wpf with track extentions (up to 8m) 27hp 10'' with electric raise and lower

You lazy bugger

I also enjoyed the chat but it would have been better over a few coldies.

or a heap of bluegum sawdust

As fas as us owning different machines,thats irrelivent,its the love of the sawdust that counts.
Regards,
Rude.
P.S I'll let you have a go of my mill if you ask nicely

yeah you're right mate, I'm not really that particular about what machine you have, more so that you save what you can from getting burnt...

Originally Posted by rude

Hi all,

just thought i would post some pics of a recent job i did for a customer who had a large hollow bluegum.After setting up we decided to get a couple of slabs off the top in pic 2 which are 6.5m in length,in pic 3 you can see a large flitch laying on the ground from the previous days milling which is abuot 4.5m long.Pic 4 is the same flitch that was picked up by a crane truck and placed upside down on a now flat surface.Pic 5 is cutting out some 4x4 posts which will go toward the new deck he was building and the other pics are of the end product which is a 80mm slab. while the crane truck was there we also re sawed a flitch from a 6m iron bark.Another happy customer.
Regards,
Rude.

And if you dont have a crane truck near by whats the best way to get flitches on top of a flat topped half log without the bottom log getting bumped and then not level anymore with the mill rails ?

Originally Posted by Mathuranatha

And if you dont have a crane truck near by whats the best way to get flitches on top of a flat topped half log without the bottom log getting bumped and then not level anymore with the mill rails ?

1. have your log secured properly. my logs dont move no matter how hard i bump them.

2. any flitches 2 blokes cant lift i winch up with ramps and my turfir.

3. if im at home i use the loader with the forks on.

4. you could rig up a pulley system with a coupla trees like a crane. iv done this more than once to move logs around a truck.

5. you can put the flitch streight on to the bolsters adn alighn the rails with teh bottom of the flitch.

6. where ther is a will tehre is a way. when things seam hopless all u need is a bit of good old ausie ingernuity. like when u are boged in #### creak without a winch

Originally Posted by Sigidi

You lazy bugger

Was just thinking that and then scolled down to fid you had already typed it

I like the idea that petersen has of the one high/one low rail, would save a fair bit of walking.

Originally Posted by Burnsy

I like the idea that petersen has of the one high/one low rail, would save a fair bit of walking.

how?