Today's milling

[Johnsond]

On 21/09/2021 at 22:02, bilke_user said:

Doing my best to keep up with sleeper orders, shame to mill some nice Douglas into raised bed blocks but gotta make hay when the sun's shining

Tidy set up, are you running some kind of extraction system with that ??

The Trakmet tends to throw dust everywhere including on me, doesn’t matter how hard I try to set up with the wind at my back it just seems that site layout etc dictates otherwise. 

Edited September 23, 2021 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

Nice to get back on the Mill. Cutting some Birch planks for a pal and what’s turning out to be quite nice Elm. 

Edited September 23, 2021 by Johnsond

[Johnsond]

3 hours ago, Rough Hewn said:

Dropped off the 5 finest pieces of olive ash to a luthiers yesterday.

👍👍Every day is a school day Saul, had to google that one bud. 

[trigger_andy]

Nice to get back on the Mill. Cutting some Birch planks for a pal and what’s turning out to be quite nice Elm. 

Cracking boards them!

[trigger_andy]

Tidy set up, are you running some kind of extraction system with that ??
The Trakmet tends to throw dust everywhere including on me, doesn’t matter how hard I try to set up with the wind at my back it just seems that site layout etc dictates otherwise. 

Have you tried a 12-24” length of flexi hose on the end of the outlet? It should direct all the sawdust down the way.

[josharb87]

Could you post some more pictures of your trailers log loader please @Johnsond? 

[bilke_user]

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

 are you running some kind of extraction system with that ??

No, just the trunk from the mill and the last hour every day spent shovelling it into bags.

1 hour ago, Johnsond said:

 

 

[Johnsond]

25 minutes ago, bilke_user said:

No, just the trunk from the mill and the last hour every day spent shovelling it into bags.

 

Looks like Woodmizer have that side of things pretty well sorted then, I’ve a list of things I want to tweak on mill and one of them is to open up the outlet more on the bottom rather than the side, bit of sheet metal work but should be achievable. 

[Johnsond]

1 hour ago, josharb87 said:

Could you post some more pictures of your trailers log loader please @Johnsond? 

Hopefully that makes sense, 12v hydraulics and the winch are ran from a battery in pick up bed with an Anderson connector/extension set up. 

[josharb87]

Looks great! Something I’ve often thought about but never done. 
Im guessing you use a combo of winch and hydraulics?