After lurking on here for a while I finally joined when I had a few extra minutes at work... and something to actually post. I am running an '87 Woodmizer LT40, with Factory repower (Kohler) that was my dad's until he upgraded to a new LT40 Wide, so I have this in my barn until he decides to sell it. Current Job is 5-600 square ft of shiplap paneling, I had about 300 ft dry, so last weekend I edged and lapped it all. Now to finish the job I need to run some more logs, all white pine that were cut and stacked off the ground about 4.5 years ago. Pic below is the 300 ft I finished last weekend, 6", 10", and 14" wide boards, 3/4" thick. The reason I dubbed the thread "Sunrise Sawing" is as I said in my intro post I have 3 toddlers so most of my chores and work are done before 7 am.
Welcome !! to the site, nice siding what are you running for blade? I usually saw black locust but I have 35 16' spruce logs coming in in january to make board siding for a customer and I know most that saw pine have trouble with wavy boards JB
The paneling is going to be interior (as far as I know). Blades are either Woodmizer silvertip, or red streak, sharpened by a semi-local outfit (Paris All Sharp) or by me if Paris wont do them (rust, damaged teeth etc.) I usually have the most trouble with waves in red pine if the blade isn't sharp or the feed is too fast around the knots. Soon as I see a wave, I change the blade. I have enough blades and sharpen most of my own that I am not shy about changing them out often, usually every log.
Welcome to FHC! I dabble with milling using my chainsaw mill, wish I had the space for a band mill. Especially in today's day and age where lumber costs more than jewelry....
Welcome!! Bet you cut through white pine pretty quickly. I’ve done a bunch of csm’ing as well. It’s a slow labor intensive process but it’s all I can afford.
Welcome to FHC. Where abouts you at in MI? If Paris is semi local you're north of me a bit. Someday I'm gonna get a mill.
Got the rest of the pine done over the last few days, still a lot of moisture in it. The power feed on the mill went out on me so I had to pull the drive unit and push the carriage manually, oh well, new parts should be here today. First pic was taken just before the power feed went out. Yesterday didn't go well, my tractor is out of commission so I was using the cable loader with ramps, one log had a bit of a crook in it and it got hun up while loading, so I borrowed the neighbors Kubota and lifted the 3 point too high and blew out the back window. There goes any profit I was goin to make.... I am in Williamsburg, Just north/east of Traverse City
Always something that causes a monkey wrench into the works sometimes it seems we always go backwards . what are you using for blade lube on the wet pine I have been using cotton spindle lube and washer fluid mix it seems to work well JB
For Christmas i bought Ms. buZZsaw a mood ring. If she's in a good mood its green, when she's in a bad mood it leaves a big red mark on my forehead!
Welcome to the FHC! Great to have you! Its always cool to see whats inside a log once its sliced open. Saw (no pun intended) one used and used it for the first time this year. Fellow FHCer buzz-saw lives a couple minutes from me and has one.
ONLY ON YOUR FOREHEAD well thats beats a mark on the forehead that reads GRISWOLD ( as in the logo on the bottom of a cast Iron frying pan) JB....I believe if I got my wife a mood ring it would just smoke
I use just water for the pine, A LOT of water. Usually about a gallon per log feeding both sides of the blade. When its cold out I mix it with windshield washer fluid, it helps, but still seems to ice up if its in the low 20's, But I am too cheap to run strait WW fluid. I have never heard of the cotton spindle lube, may have to look into that. No sooner had the customer gotten home than he called, said his wife didn't like the wide (14") boards and asked if I would rip them down. I told him to bring them back and I cut a bunch more at 4" for him. I am hoping to resell the 14" at a premium since it is rare to get boards that wide. Small pile of sawdust under the table saw from all the rabbeting....
Moral to the story do not make decorating decisions without wife's consent I get the cotton spindle lube from Lindstrom Equipment mail order and I use the window washer concentrate instead of the pre mix it is a little cheaper JB
