BlueRider
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A couple of weeks ago I posted a question about using pentacryl on some olive I would be getting. I did end up getting the olive and it turned out to be more and larger than what I expected. How often does that happen? I had expected three pieces over 9" in diameter and the rest at 9" with an expected yeild of just over 100 bf. the actual yeild ended up at almost 250bf with 3 slabs at or near 20" wide and just ofer 60" long and 2 1/4" thick.
I didn't get any pics while milling, nothing new for a single haded CSM. I had though I might get my dad to snap a few pics but I ended up needing him to help hold the logs. The tree was located across the street and down one house from my dad who lives 3 hours from me in southern California.
I normally mill logs in the 24-36" range. the majority of the olive ended up being 10" in diameter and I had three that were only 3 1/2' long and the others at around 5'. I usually don't hassle with little stuff like this so I really wasn't prepared for how to hold/ stableize the logs. I have to say I appriciate some of the jigs and stuff I have seen around this site much more after dealing with these shorties.
I did a bit of searching on the net and finaly found one site near where I live who sells olive for between $4- $15/ lb. I have a few pieces of olive from a previous tree I got and it weighed out at 4lb/bf. At those prices I figured I would mill what ever was given to me, including the short stuff I normally wouldn't bother with.
Luckily when I bought my new 051 it came with a 20" bar so I took that with me and figured I would have one of my 124 drivelink chains shortened to fit the shorter bar. that was nearly a tragic mistake. finding someone to shorten a chain in southern CA was not an easy task, and I had a masterlink with me. the first clown was going to form the rivit by pounding on it with a hammer. told me he does it al the time. I asked if he does it on .404 running on a 6 hp saw. huh? I finaly found a guy to spin a rivit for me and even he had not seen .404 for over two years. I was definately in land-of-the-small-tree-saw.
The short version here is that I ended up running out of time and tossed a few of the shorties on top of the stuff I milled on site and brought them home. I ended up having a guy down the street from me mill these today on his bandsaw mill. I wanted to see how his mill worked on a small job before thinking about using him on some bigger job.
Not sure of the brand of mill but it is a small light weight trailerable mill with a 25 hp engnine. there are some nice features on the mill but there are a few areas where it is lightweight to its own detriment. several times the mill started vibrating for no obvious reason. I got home and checked some of the boards and they are .050" out of parallel on a 12" board. I,m sure there is adjustment for this. but it may have also been agrevated or exagerated by the design of the outboard blade guide. it is a nice user friendly set up that is easy to adjust while running the mill. this may compromise some rigidity. I wasn't overly picky about the exactness of the boards and don't get to bothered by these things in general, but I have to say I really appriciate the more uniform thickness and parralel boards produced with a CSM when stickering a pile of wood.
The attached pic shows a bit of one of the boards as well as a bit of what his mill looks like. I have a few more mics of his mill if anyone is interested.
I didn't get any pics while milling, nothing new for a single haded CSM. I had though I might get my dad to snap a few pics but I ended up needing him to help hold the logs. The tree was located across the street and down one house from my dad who lives 3 hours from me in southern California.
I normally mill logs in the 24-36" range. the majority of the olive ended up being 10" in diameter and I had three that were only 3 1/2' long and the others at around 5'. I usually don't hassle with little stuff like this so I really wasn't prepared for how to hold/ stableize the logs. I have to say I appriciate some of the jigs and stuff I have seen around this site much more after dealing with these shorties.
I did a bit of searching on the net and finaly found one site near where I live who sells olive for between $4- $15/ lb. I have a few pieces of olive from a previous tree I got and it weighed out at 4lb/bf. At those prices I figured I would mill what ever was given to me, including the short stuff I normally wouldn't bother with.
Luckily when I bought my new 051 it came with a 20" bar so I took that with me and figured I would have one of my 124 drivelink chains shortened to fit the shorter bar. that was nearly a tragic mistake. finding someone to shorten a chain in southern CA was not an easy task, and I had a masterlink with me. the first clown was going to form the rivit by pounding on it with a hammer. told me he does it al the time. I asked if he does it on .404 running on a 6 hp saw. huh? I finaly found a guy to spin a rivit for me and even he had not seen .404 for over two years. I was definately in land-of-the-small-tree-saw.
The short version here is that I ended up running out of time and tossed a few of the shorties on top of the stuff I milled on site and brought them home. I ended up having a guy down the street from me mill these today on his bandsaw mill. I wanted to see how his mill worked on a small job before thinking about using him on some bigger job.
Not sure of the brand of mill but it is a small light weight trailerable mill with a 25 hp engnine. there are some nice features on the mill but there are a few areas where it is lightweight to its own detriment. several times the mill started vibrating for no obvious reason. I got home and checked some of the boards and they are .050" out of parallel on a 12" board. I,m sure there is adjustment for this. but it may have also been agrevated or exagerated by the design of the outboard blade guide. it is a nice user friendly set up that is easy to adjust while running the mill. this may compromise some rigidity. I wasn't overly picky about the exactness of the boards and don't get to bothered by these things in general, but I have to say I really appriciate the more uniform thickness and parralel boards produced with a CSM when stickering a pile of wood.
The attached pic shows a bit of one of the boards as well as a bit of what his mill looks like. I have a few more mics of his mill if anyone is interested.