Milling Picture Thread

[djg james]

Nice!

thanks for the post. Informative.

Iv been a welder or making blue prints for most of my life until now. Eventually ill be doing this kind of stuff.

I literally had ZERO wood working tools. Iv got a long ways to go but want to get there eventually.

Blue prints. Wow, that takes me back to my HS shop class. Made one in drafting class. I'm starting to dabble in welding. I took a class 30+ years ago for the fun of it. Now I have repairs to make.

 

[StihlPotlicker]

I get about .21-.22 with my micrometer sandwiching the chain between two metal plates to get accurate kerf. That's on my Archer 3/8LP .043, I don't think it's a whole lot different than my 3/8LP .050 though. There are some LP chains maybe a bit narrower kerf than others. LP chains get most of their narrowed actual cut kerf through their lower height and lack of oscillation so probably create a narrower actual cut kerf than a normal height "narrow kerf" chain would like .325NK or what have you.

I run the Stihl LP. I know when I did timed cuts after getting my ported 661 back, that Archer chain cuts slower than Stihl chain. make me wonder if their ripping chain is slower too?

 

[StihlPotlicker]

Blue prints. Wow, that takes me back to my HS shop class. Made one in drafting class. I'm starting to dabble in welding. I took a class 30+ years ago for the fun of it. Now I have repairs to make.

it's sad that schools are doing away with shop class/ Vo-Tech.

 

[StihlPotlicker]

milled these logs after we had F1 tornado come thru

 

[StihlPotlicker]

nice to have little helpers to load the mill for me LOL

 

[StihlPotlicker]

helping mill boards for their hut in the woods

 

[Seachaser]

helping mill boards for their hut in the woods

@StihlPotlicker
Is that the standard CS holder that comes with the F2?

 

[StihlPotlicker]

@StihlPotlicker
Is that the standard CS holder that comes with the F2?

yes on the saw carriage, but I upgrade the ns system so I can mount a 28" bar

 

[StihlPotlicker]

log too big for 20"b/c

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

I run the Stihl LP. I know when I did timed cuts after getting my ported 661 back, that Archer chain cuts slower than Stihl chain. make me wonder if their ripping chain is slower too?

Am sure it is. Only have one 20" loop of 63PMX, and haven't compared. Though the Stihl LP is the gold standard, compared to regular 3/8, the Archer still feels like a racecar.

 

[DX250]

My production for the day with a broken saw for scale. I had the clutch blow apart and trash the oil pump.

 

[fields_mj]

now I was using a dull chain and should have taken the time to sharpen it, but I was lazy, so I would have used less gas if I would have sharpened it.

Milling with a dull chain because you're lazy??? I tried that mistake once. You and I have different definitions of lazy!

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

Milling with a dull chain because you're lazy??? I tried that mistake once. You and I have different definitions of lazy!

Truth. My "laziness" about that in the past has made me work five times as hard.

 

[U&A]

it's sad that schools are doing away with shop class/ Vo-Tech.

There is an agenda….i mean reason.

 

[U&A]

Working on revision #3 of my first cut system. Once i finish it ill share.

 

[StihlPotlicker]

Milling with a dull chain because you're lazy??? I tried that mistake once. You and I have different definitions of lazy!

Ya I was filming a vidja, and the cant was pushing thru the log dogs

 

[StihlPotlicker]

There is an agenda….i mean reason.

yup 100%

 

[Coralillo Lo Pro]

log too big for 20"b/c

Between what I've tried and another guy I was talking to in MA who was buying a variety of LP ripping chains to compare, the offerings aren't that good aside from Stihl, certainly not in the US. Oregon's LP had super short teeth that wouldn't last too many sharpenings, Woodland Pro has been erratically ground like it was reground crosscut chain (both the stuff I got and the guy from MA got), and Laser is erratically ground Granberg style which is common because the Granberg grind - even from Granberg - is an often erratic regrind of normal chain. The Panther LP I got from the UK - which come to think of it is all I've been using in 36" loops, I've been wrong to say I've been using Archer - has been pretty good, I've been happy with it. I just bought and made new loops with Archer and not even sure if what I have on my 36" bar is one of those new loops or it's a resharpened old Panther chain. So can't say I've tested Archer LP a whole lot yet.

 

[U&A]

3120 oiled foam filters arrived. Installed it on a cage from a old felt filter. Trying to stop the fines from getting past the filter..

This saw has been thru a few thousand board feet of logs so far and my P&C look perfect…. but I do see some fines getting past the felt filters. Probably getting past the mating services top or bottom. This is a much more sealed/snug fit..

 

[U&A]

Between what I've tried and another guy I was talking to in MA who was buying a variety of LP ripping chains to compare, the offerings aren't that good aside from Stihl, certainly not in the US. Oregon's LP had super short teeth that wouldn't last too many sharpenings, Woodland Pro has been erratically ground like it was reground crosscut chain (both the stuff I got and the guy from MA got), and Laser is erratically ground Granberg style which is common because the Granberg grind - even from Granberg - is an often erratic regrind of normal chain. The Panther LP I got from the UK - which come to think of it is all I've been using in 36" loops, I've been wrong to say I've been using Archer - has been pretty good, I've been happy with it. I just bought and made new loops with Archer and not even sure if what I have on my 36" bar is one of those new loops or it's a resharpened old Panther chain. So can't say I've tested Archer LP a whole lot yet.

Iv used my archer .063-3/8 ripping chain a few times now and i like it. Ill keep buying it. I think I like it more than the woodland pro ripping chain. It seems to stay sharp just a few cuts more