treefella83
Established Member
spent a week on holiday down at my dads and ended up working most of the holiday on the saw mill.
if any one is interested here are some pics.
these trunks are to be milled and used as the main supports for a discovery centre .
we had a few problems at first as this machine in its current state is only used to cut planks and square posts.
the posts needed to be 320mmx320mm and normally we would cut of small planks and have a square log to work with but most of the logs were a lot smaller than 320mm wide at one end or the rough log just does not lie flat or true .
with a bit of maths and lots of small wedges we were able align the centre of the log at both ends with the bed of the saw mill .
it takes about 30 minutes to cut each log and they need 49 of these.
i had never worked with larch before and found that the saw dust was like handling fibre glass horrible stuff.
if any one is interested here are some pics.
these trunks are to be milled and used as the main supports for a discovery centre .
we had a few problems at first as this machine in its current state is only used to cut planks and square posts.
the posts needed to be 320mmx320mm and normally we would cut of small planks and have a square log to work with but most of the logs were a lot smaller than 320mm wide at one end or the rough log just does not lie flat or true .
with a bit of maths and lots of small wedges we were able align the centre of the log at both ends with the bed of the saw mill .
it takes about 30 minutes to cut each log and they need 49 of these.
i had never worked with larch before and found that the saw dust was like handling fibre glass horrible stuff.
