Thread: Todays fun...

Hi Sigidi,
Know how you feel! Doing some pine at local caravan park over the weekend and lost two teeth on two blades and chiped all five on another. Funny thing was trees had tent pegs driven in some years ago but when they were felled the contractor removed them, all that is left in the logs are the black stains but no sign of steel, on two blades have lost a single tooth and the other teeth are if nothing ever happend still as shape as when new.

Well, I've got a similar story from today. We have a largish camphor in the mill being slabbed. The first 4 or 5 come off nicely, so we decide to take a 100mm cut as we go past the heart. All well until we hit....something. Whatever it is, as soon as the chain hit it, it snagged and snapped clean. That's the second one I've done in the last 2 months. I'll open the log up and find out what it was today.

Originally Posted by Sigidi

...ended up getting home at 1600 instead of 1400!!

Why knock off so early - do you have a second job to go to?

Nah woodwould, no second job, but the day starts at 0400, so I reckon by 1400 I can drive home, some days it doesn't work out that way.

No I don't start cutting at 0400, but it's the time I need to wake up to drive there and start cutting on daybreak

I was just rubbing you up; I guessed you were a 'morning person'.

I began my working career outdoors (my woodworking career only grew from the many inclement days during the winter months). My days always began and ended in darkness; I would arrive, ready for work at daybreak and work until dark, often packing up my equipment in the headlights of my land Rover.

WW, setting up and packing up in the dark... that's taking it a bit far dontcha think?

My philosphy is if you start early, you finish early - if you start late you finish late. or if you start early you can get more money by dinner time!!!

My philosophy has always been the old adage; "make hay while the sun shines". I wasn't concerned with 8 hour, 10 hour or 14 hour days, I just worked from light until dark and setting up/packing up wasn't considered 'working'.


I've always been a morning person too. When I had the shop, I would arrive around 6am and get three solid hours work done before the phone would start imterupting me and then I'd work until after the evening rush hour and drive home in relative peace.

I don't relax willingly.

Sigidi, years ago I was working in the Blue Mountains, just near the Hydro Majestic at Blackheath. We had to trim this old Gum that was working it's way towards the high voltage feeder. We knocked the top branches off and worked down towards the fork in the trunk. Got nearly half way through just below the fork and the chain went real blunt real quick. Sent that saw down to the assistant on the ground, he sent up the spare saw and started changing the blunt chain. We shifted the cherrypicker to the other side of the log and started cutting with the same result. The culprit turned out to be one of those old softdrink bottles with a marble in the neck for a stopper. You needed to break the bottle to get the marble out. Someone had put the bottle in the fork of the tree sometime before I was even a twinkle in my father's eye.
I have also found a woolen pullover in a Camphor Laurel. That can really make sawing dificult!
Dennis.

Oh dear. Bugger.!!!!

What sort of cost to replace Sidgi?

About $40 for a re-tip not too hard on the pocket

a mate of mine found a hills hoist in a camphor log a wile back. its sitting on the side of his driveway.

realy funny site half a log with half a hills hoist sticking out of it.

he got me to chop away the log to half way boy did that tke a long time.

i never thaught id have to chop hlaf of a 60" by 8' log away.

y'd ya bother with that log. woulda been firewood if it was me.

I guess I'm much luckier than you folks. Different leauge too.

I'm only (re)milling my Jarrah and Redgum posts
Luckier, I mean I'm only hitting nails with a small blade in my 9....1/4.
Got 3 all ready to go in reserve. 1 min change over too!

Maybe one in twenty posts I'll see sparks.

No matter how hard you look there's residue and flakes in the nail holes I empty.
Metal det isn't always the sol.

But you can't see inside a post or log... I know!

And off to the jointer we go and run the gaunltlet.... AGAIN!
Have had several posts with goodies tucked away in them.....45 yrs ago.

In the morter that came out with one post, I found three 1960's toy matchbox cars.
Rather damaged. Those posts became several malletts.

Never found a hoist though...! Trying to work out how the trunk got to morph with it? Weis? Thats amaz!

Nice work Sidigi.

Cheers.

was going to take a pic today but he sold it las week

the hails was sort of folded up inside it dont know weather the tree did it or it was broken and leant against the tree when it was young.