In Poland with the new sawmill...

[sandspider]

Cheers, works now. Looks impressively swift.

[Big J]

Cheers, works now. Looks impressively swift.

 

Very very quiet too. You don't even really need ear defenders.

[Andymacp]

That's very impressive !!

[delabodge]

When I win the lotto rollover next week I'm going to donate a few to the are talk raffle lol

[Copford sawmill sussex]

Very nice, really smooth and quick cut

[Big J]

52 tonnes cut on the mill in the last 5 days on the machine. 271.5 hoppus cut today from 1200-1730 with some time wasted on digging a massive Victorian nail out and the resultant band change. All elm, 1.5, 1.75 and two inch mainly with a couple of 3s and 4s. Mostly cut through and through and average of about 32" diameter, though one large crotch piece had me cutting 113cm above the bed.

 

Anyway, now I've sorted the blades, very happy indeed. Incredibly quick mill.

[Celtictimber]

Looks really nice machine John fair play

[Big J]

Looks really nice machine John fair play

 

It's halved the amount of time that I need to spend on the mill, opened up a whole size range of logs that wasn't an option before (unless I halved them, which is very time consuming) and has hugely reduced my running costs. Here are the figures:

 

One full production day on the Trak-met: 400 hoppus foot (I've done up to 380 in a day, but I've yet to get more than a 7hr day on it due to lack of light/other jobs).

 

Cost of diesel: £8

Cost of labour to unload: £120

Cost to resharpen: £0 - total of £128

 

On the Logmaster this would have taken two days, so:

 

Cost of labour: £240

Cost of petrol: £40

Cost to resharpen: £75 - total of £355

 

That's £227 saved, as well as one less day that I have to work. Given that we cut that volume pretty much every week, that's an annual saving of about £12000.

[Big J]

Another 134 hoppus foot of oversized sweet chestnut through this afternoon from 1430 to 1715.

[Celtictimber]

Yea you can fault that Jon. Would you change anything on it. How are the hydraulic speed and strength wise. I would love to come and see it, but it's so far.

Cheers Grant