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Yes please, anorher vote for this feature
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Ooooohh lovely. get the feeling this threads losing control. - funny how that happens
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No I don't quarter saw. If the customer asked for it I would but I would also have to learn fast! Nearly all of my work is producing construction type timber for farm sheds or fencing. Some of my arty clients have had me slab their logs but invariably don't know what they're going to do with it apart from storing the slabs indefinitely !! Seems a shame to use the lucas just to produce firewood. I cut short oak as 8 x 8 gateposts at 7 or 8 foot long. Lighter and shorter lengths still make strainers. The unusable knot ends would go for firewood. Farmers don't tend to care where the pith lies or that there's knots in the timber as long as the posts last forever or longer. Shaun
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I wish all my work was major size logs, a great feeling of maximum output. Unfortunately most of the time its 18 - 30 inch stuff, heavily tapered, bowed and horrendously knotted. Loads of wastage and a second rate product. Its the client's timber though ,I can only advise and then take the money. Yes the mill is relatively new, 16 months old and 220 hours on the clock. Love it but hate the slabber !! S
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And thanks for the pleasure I've had over the years reading the most wide ranging of subjects. What a service. . Shaun
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Thank you
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Hi Steve. One issue for me is logging in whilst going through the timeline. If I see a post I want to add to I come back out to go to the main menu, log in and then can't remember where the post was so have to scroll through them all again. As I don't look every frequently enough this can at times be a hell of a long way through the listing. What I would like to see is a login access from any point at all ,if that's possible? Otherwise Arbtalk works great for me. Thanks Shaun
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This was a pure gem of a macrocarpa . 18 feet long ( this piece, there was another 18 &12 foot section but obviously reducing diameters. ).The chainsaw is a 36 inch 066. Had to keep taking of the blade flip lever to pass under the the cross rails until it was worked down enough, producing 9×3 rails. It was a hard slog getting the lucas unit up that high and working almost under the blade!
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Good use of the ballast dog there for quite a weighty load. I like the look of the low sides for loading over in comparison to most other very similar designed trailers. Good to see in use. Shaun
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My handwriting is normally appallingly scruffy, if I have birthday, Christmas cards or a letter to write I'll always go for the fountain with ink from the bottle. -its a sort of ritual thing that slows me down and makes me think a bit more. Shaun
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Just in the middle of watching tattoo fixers, had a few ciders as well , when the ads came on and suddenly noticed the similarity between the muller rice bear with a coiffured carpet on his head, and Donald Trump with the same item on his. Is it just my mind, the cizzer or the truth?
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Good to hear your progress. The losing traction issue, was that due to overloading or balance of load on trailer. I've got the yam 450 kodiak with independent rear suspension, this I know often doesn't put trailer weight on the rear axle in the same way a solid rear axle does, giving some damn unpredictable handling characteristics. I keep looking at the trailer design and wondering if I can also mount a round bale carrier on it ,but the length of drawbar looks like it would be a real cow to manoeuvre. -trying to make one chassis do every job.
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I also use a lucas as contract milling service. Too right - loads of sawdust especially when doing small dimension work. BUT the sawdust is, like the timber and offcuts, my clients property, its his or her issue to move it anywhere. But before I pack down the mill I blow out the airways ,frame nooks and crannies, and also the air filter . - thats the clients sawdust too! Oh and yes I use the aforementioned ryobi - at least it don't blow the guts out of my air filter!!! Shaun
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Mill in situ?
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Thanks for the warning. For some reason I didn't. Normally I'm too curious and click before I've thought. - is it a baddy? Shaun
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That's a really good answer, but probably not to this post. A nice insight into commercial techniques bog all to do with stihls quality.!
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If that's the afterlife, I won't mind arriving. Three greats looking great!!
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Oregon full skip chisel chain 3/8 .063 now available at chainsawbars.co.uk
skc101fc replied to Rob D's topic in Chainsawbars
Hi Rob. Would you consider looking at skip chain for us lucas millers . The chains are .404 , 063 , 27RX 3 or 5 skip. The machine (10" lucas mill) is supplied with 5 skip which is good all round chain but cutting speed could be increased on softwoods or smaller diameter timber with the 3 skip. I've tried making my own from conventional 404 saw chain with cutters ground away and angles changed but the chains snap too often,- I guess too much horsepower, and loads of vibration issues. At 190 drive links per loop you wouldnt be too long getting through a hundred foot reel. Shaun -
Hi. One excellent tip I learnt from another miller is to lift the entry end of the log higher than the tail end .That way the slabber self feeds through the log requiring much less manual effort to make a pass. Don't have the slope too extreme or the unit is a real cow to pull back to the top. I got it badly wrong one job and ended up pushing the unit uphill all the time. - Dear God I wanted to die at the end of that job, and with the client stood there watching didn't feel like admitting I cocked up after the first couple of cuts. Just lied and told him the wood was really tough and hard, to explain the sweat and purple face, rather than dropping the unit down and turning it round !! Ya never stop learning Shaun
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Just keep on buying then you'll be sure to be there at the end
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Yep, used that one as well. If you're the sort of tit that I am, and spend a long time planning where to get stuck next, you get quite proficient at making solutions like this !!
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Love the idea of just blowin the needles under the sofa. Saves a whole heap of effort. Thanks for bringing us this. Shaun
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Good marine ply seems to be getting harder to find.-lots of crap coming out of asia claiming to be marine or wbp that delaminates with the moisture from virgins breath and chicken farts. Creosote away. Shaun
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Smoke, - over fuel -difficult to assess , or insufficient air - easier to check. Blocked air filter or collapsing flexible intake pipes? Open up a direct air to manifold joint and see if things improve. This will show an air intake issue, if no joy you're then starting to look deeper I'm afraid. Blocked fuel filters/ injectors dont smoke but do kill power. Shaun
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Going back to the original post, yes a length of chain or even knotted rope works just as well, but try to keep you pins in a straight line on each 'leg of the v' so no one pin is loaded any more than another. Its got me out scrapes/ wet holes many times without spending money on super kit that spends 99.9% of its time taking up usefull space. If ya flush spend away, if ya practical use ya head. Shaun
