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[Johnpl315]

Here's my days work! Started at 8.30, finished around 12.00 got soaked to the skin and have up!

Anyone want some nice 2" oak slabs?!

[Johnpl315]

Looks a bit pittiful in the photo but they are 10" long.

[Johnpl315]

Wait 10', 10" really would be pittiful!

[Big J]

Tough day today with cutting a lot of smaller diameter logs, but in about 8hrs cutting we put 56 logs through the mill. All logs 3m, average 300mm diameter. Being cut to 1" and 4x6.25" cants mainly. Some 4x8" cants.

 

All logs pressure washed, 3 tonne of firewood produced, much sawdust and I'm shattered. So are the two guys who laboured! A log count PB for me by a mile.

[OliB]

Generally speaking I used to produce 12-16 8"x4"x8' oak sleepers in a day on my logosol M8 working alone with a tractor to tow logs, but no loader on the tractor. That's .576 to .768 cubic meters a day.

 

Today I took delivery of a woodmizer lt40, and after completing the training day I milled 16 oak boards for the kiln at 1" by 14" (0.336cumic meters) plus some random width 1"boards from a log the logosol M8 couldn't even handle in under 30 minutes. That log would have had me reaching for my alaskan mill, and taken most of the day, and would have wasted a board in kerf for every 2.5 boards produced, giving more like 12 boards (.252 cubic meters).

 

I honestly don't know how I ever lived without hydraulics!

[Big J]

Welcome to the big league Oli! Hydraulics are king!

 

My new monster mill is scheduled for delivery around the 1st of October. I will miss the Logmaster though. It's working bloody hard and not missing a beat. Over 100 tonnes through it in the last 5 weeks.

 

Jonathan

[irish surgeon]

Hey big j, looking forward to seeing that big beast in action. Show some pics when it lands

[OliB]

Thanks, I'm really liking it. steep learning curve tho.

 

Also the logs I once preferred for the csm are very different to those I now prefer for the Woodmizer. Shorter, smaller dia logs that are slightly curvy are a waste of time, just got to finish the pile before moving on to my other pile of longer larger dia logs. Same amount of handling, a little extra time in the cut and many times the output. I think that may be the biggest difference between hydraulic bandsaws and csms. It takes me the same amount of time to mill a small 30cm log as a 50cm one pretty much. The 50 cm log yields lots more sawn timber with a proportionately lower waste, and a greater ability to get different dimensions of sawn timber to suit requirements.

[kinderscout]

This is tomorrow's job 30ft +oak,hopefully to be cut into beams but it does look as if it has a bend in from the pictures.5ft dia would like to get it done in the day,we will see.