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19th December 2011, 10:08 PM #1
About time to see some milling on the small milling forum!
Al's been off the forum for a couple of weeks, I pop my head in here... and what do I find? no milling has been going on......hmmmmmm
An intersection upgrade close to home and a bit of good spotting by my better half saw me score these...
and yup that's my first load of logs on the new trailer. Went there with Bob the cat on the trailer, loaded the logs, took 'em home, then went back and got the bobcat.
I also had a red stringy looking for a home, so i fixed up a winch to be able to load it without the bobcat...
This is it in action on a test log...
I went off and picked up the red stringy after the test log worked out cool. The 1.67 cube red stringy log back home, ready to be offloaded.
The red stringy sliced up into 4x1, with 'bad' boards taken out and a handful 2x1's came out too.
The waste from the red stringy, including the bottom flitches
Then that brings us to whats on the cards for tomorrow...
A bluey loaded into Bo ready for the morning and the last of the blueys from the intersection upgrade, destined for a bit more 4x1. Hope it helps to scratch everyones milling itch.I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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19th December 2011, 10:32 PM #2
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19th December 2011, 10:37 PM #3
What happens to the waste stringy?
BBQ wood or pen blanks?Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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19th December 2011, 11:17 PM #4
Allan
"Smokin!"
Have you thought about placing an electric winch on the side of the trailer for side loading. It looks like you have a manual come-along device although I can't quite see in the pic?
It looks a really good set up.
Sorry I can't help with the milling at the moment, but I think you and others make up for this.
Regards
PaulBushmiller;
"Power tends to corrupt. Absolute power corrupts, absolutely!"
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20th December 2011, 12:52 AM #5
Hello Allan
Yes, you are right, we have been missing milling, thanks for sharing
Sincerely
Willy
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20th December 2011, 08:09 AM #6
Cliff you're welcome to it if you want it - or anyone else for that matter. My plan is to take it with the other 'un-millable' stuff like branch forks to the local dump once I'm done...my "millsite" is rather unorthodox and needs to be cleared as soon as I'm finished...I'll post a pick later today
Thanks for the kind words Paul,
the winch cable comes out the back of the ute, to a pulley block mounted in the middle of the trailer, then goes out and around the log and finally gets anchored back at the middle of the trailer. The ramps are my bobcat loading ramps and they stow away under the trailer deck permanently, so it's easy to bring the log up the side of the trailer using the winch - no manual labour
More coming WillyI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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20th December 2011, 08:19 AM #7
Dunno if this will work.....youtube of the test log being loaded
winch loading test logI love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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20th December 2011, 10:52 AM #8.
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About time to see some milling on the small milling forum!
I'm getting closer, I pulled out the mill yesterday and cleaned it up.
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20th December 2011, 06:31 PM #9
Al I am keen for some bottom flitches to use at my school. Any chance of picking some up? Regards Damien. Give Me a PM with your number if they are available.
I'm a dancing fool! The beat goes on and I'm so wrong!!!!
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20th December 2011, 06:35 PM #10
So this is what the 'millsite' looked like...
Good old tell tale signs and being a busy intersection roadside tree I was a bit surprised it was the only thing I found....
So I went through nice and steady, heard the all too familiar noise of metal on metal. When I flipped the board over, turns out I'd managed to slice down the axis of the nail lol.... (sorry not the best pic)
The fruits of about a days work spread over yesterday and today.
Ended up starting yesterday quite late, around midday - once the mill was set up, logs unloaded from trailer, area made ready etc. Today was a good start engine on at 0800 and the timber was stacked, sorted, strapped and loaded by 1300. All destined to go to forum member Rude for decking a little over 500 lineal metres of 4x1.I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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20th December 2011, 09:27 PM #11SENIOR MEMBER
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Nice one Al, Trailer, Bobcat etc serving you well
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20th December 2011, 11:40 PM #12
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21st December 2011, 06:43 AM #13
Hey Cliff, how do I get the you tube vid to play in the thread like that walnut vid?
I love my Lucas!! ...just ask me!
Allan.
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21st December 2011, 09:08 AM #14
Good question, they normally just come up.... let me try.
Cliff.
If you find a post of mine that is missing a pic that you'd like to see, let me know & I'll see if I can find a copy.
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21st December 2011, 09:10 AM #15
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Cliff.
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