Today's milling

[Mr. Ed]

8 hours ago, topchippyles said:

How you finding that new saw ed 

It’s fine for what it is - I have to go and wiggle my bearings a bit this morning to try and tilt the blade down, but overall I’m quite impressed. 

[skc101fc]

Thank you Khriss - I think I've got to go back in fiddle with my wheels, for the blade seems to have developed an upward slop - as it comes out of the wood I can no longer just wheel it back, but have to raise the head - that only mean that the blade is cutting at an angle I think. I've got one more similar to do, which will probably give me just not quite enough for the staircase. Ha!

 

Before you go making adjustments on band wheel angles, are you truly sure it's not tension coming out of the timber? Or that one edge ( of the lower teeth) hasn't been minutely damaged by grit, steel or as we all do ,more than once, in my case, cutting too close to the log stops.

Looking at your sawlog pile in one of your pics, you have some less than perfect lengths with crooks and twists. Timber from leaning or woodland edge trees will often have wild grain, with lots of tension/ compression issues that will deflect the saw blade a surprising amount if there is any slight damage or lack of sharpness and set. Similarly when tension is released each time you remove a board the fibres can expand causing movement in the log by several mm. If tension is suspected, flip the cant over frequently to keep the movement in the fibres of the wood equalised.

 

Where abouts in SW are you?

I'm near Drimoleague, West Cork

[Johnsond]

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood. 

[Stubby]

1 minute ago, Johnsond said:

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood. 

Superb !

[Paul in the woods]

21 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood.

 

Very nice. What do you plan to do with them? Can you use the light wood as well as the dark?

Edited March 6, 2021 by Paul in the woods

[topchippyles]

11 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood. 

Stunning pieces 

[topchippyles]

3 minutes ago, Paul in the woods said:

Very nice. What do you plant to do with them? Can you use the light wood as well as the dark?

Can you replant milled timber then ? 🙄

[gobbypunk]

Nice Elm boards ,we just font get any Elm down my way it does my head in 

[Mark armstrong]

39 minutes ago, Johnsond said:

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood. 

Stunning them dave mate 

[Rough Hewn]

Bit more Elm today. Same as before destined for firewood. 

Absolute stunners[emoji108][emoji108][emoji108]