Today's milling

[doobin]

40 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Knocked up some 4x4 chestnut posts. Milled slabs and then used the edging mill to make up the posts. Quite easy when you know how.

Hate to piss on your chips but they will warp like you wouldn't believe!

[Macpherson]

1 minute ago, AJStrees said:

Knocked up some 4x4 chestnut posts. Milled slabs and then used the edging mill to make up the posts. Quite easy when you know how.

 

Never had any Chestnut, looks V nice... so is that horse or sweet ?

 

I see you have the saw lying back in the mini mill, I seem to remember a  video.. probably one of Rob's, where the saw is mounted leaning about half the angle the other way, just a tad past 90 degrees meaning the way that the teeth contact and slice through the grain is different / cleaner and gives a smoother cut.

I know it feels a bit more awkward holding the saw like that but I think there is a difference.

 

Had a quick look on the chainsawbars  site, only really a couple of videos videos of him cutting vertically but now with his Panther equipment, you can see at the start of this one that the bar is very slightly past the vertical but from memory the Mini mill vid I saw it was a little more pronounced, anyway works for me, cheers.

 

CHAINSAWBARS VIDEOS - Chainsawbars

WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK

 

[AJStrees]

8 minutes ago, doobin said:

Hate to piss on your chips but they will warp like you wouldn't believe!

LOL! Well there's a first time for everything..... I was playing about really to see what it would take. 

 

I have a woodland full of chestnut overstood coppice so there is a fair bit the play with. 

[AJStrees]

9 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

 

Never had any Chestnut, looks V nice... so is that horse or sweet ?

 

I see you have the saw lying back in the mini mill, I seem to remember a  video.. probably one of Rob's, where the saw is mounted leaning about half the angle the other way, just a tad past 90 degrees meaning the way that the teeth contact and slice through the grain is different / cleaner and gives a smoother cut.

I know it feels a bit more awkward holding the saw like that but I think there is a difference.

 

Had a quick look on the chainsawbars  site, only really a couple of videos videos of him cutting vertically but now with his Panther equipment, you can see at the start of this one that the bar is very slightly past the vertical but from memory the Mini mill vid I saw it was a little more pronounced, anyway works for me, cheers.

 

CHAINSAWBARS VIDEOS - Chainsawbars

WWW.CHAINSAWBARS.CO.UK

 

Sweet chestnut. Its nice to mill and like the colour. 

 

Yes I done the 90 degree angle and other angles on the mini mill. I haven't used the edging mill for a while and was having a go at different things today to see what could be achieved. I took down the tree last year and its been waiting to be cut up since then. I find winter is a great time to get milling apart from the rain. 

[Macpherson]

2 minutes ago, AJStrees said:

Sweet chestnut. Its nice to mill and like the colour. 

 

Yes I done the 90 degree angle and other angles on the mini mill. I haven't used the edging mill for a while and was having a go at different things today to see what could be achieved. I took down the tree last year and its been waiting to be cut up since then. I find winter is a great time to get milling apart from the rain. 

 

Thick fog here today but I know what you mean, a nice crisp day's ideal,  I got the mini mill at the same time as my Alaskan [ when they were much cheaper ] but tbo I've not used it much as I bought a 6m straight edge and a Makita ripsnorter that does a 4" cut 👍

[topchippyles]

Investment required here lads.F2 logosol for Xmas go on.

[Macpherson]

15 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

Investment required here lads.F2 logosol for Xmas go on.

Yep, might as well spend savings before there worth nothing... what will you buy, maybe 881 for me 👍

[topchippyles]

3 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

Yep, might as well spend savings before there worth nothing... what will you buy, maybe 881 for me 👍

New bandsaw mill due. My logosol be sold in the new year

[Macpherson]

2 minutes ago, topchippyles said:

New bandsaw mill due. My logosol be sold in the new year

Which one ?

[topchippyles]

9 minutes ago, Macpherson said:

Which one ?

Logosol M7