Haywire Haywood
Fiscal Conservative Social Retard
How bad is cherry for checking and warping? I'll be milling a bit of that today.
Ian
Ian
How bad is cherry for checking and warping? I'll be milling a bit of that today.
Ian
My experience with cherry is that it is average as far as splitting and warping goes, maybe a bit above average (meaning a little worse). It doesn't dry as stable as oak or walnut or poplar. I found that how well a wood dries in a stickered pile has a lot to do with how it was milled. Quartersawn or riftsawn boards give far less problems than flatsawn, and in general the thicker the board the more stable it will dry without twisting. Flip side though is as soon as you start getting into more than 8/4 stuff (2 inch thick) then it does often check as the outside of the board dries faster than the center.
How bad is cherry for checking and warping? I'll be milling a bit of that today.
Ian
I started to, but I think it has carb problems. No power and it's spitting a lot of gas back onto the air filter. I have a wet spot the size of a silver dollar on the felt. I need to go back into the carb and see if the metering lever is out of whack. I did a search (hurray for me!) and found a nice diagram on how to adjust the lever. I put the 372 (gulp!) on the mill with the 28" bar and a loop of 3/8 full skip semi-chisel. That made better time than the 041 with LP ripping chain.
One thing I'm figuring out with the LP is that you have got to stay on top of your bar dressing. Just a little mushroom on the edges and the bar becomes wider than the kerf and it jams up.
Ian
I started to, but I think it has carb problems. No power and it's spitting a lot of gas back onto the air filter. I have a wet spot the size of a silver dollar on the felt. I need to go back into the carb and see if the metering lever is out of whack. I did a search (hurray for me!) and found a nice diagram on how to adjust the lever. I put the 372 (gulp!) on the mill with the 28" bar and a loop of 3/8 full skip semi-chisel. That made better time than the 041 with LP ripping chain.
One thing I'm figuring out with the LP is that you have got to stay on top of your bar dressing. Just a little mushroom on the edges and the bar becomes wider than the kerf and it jams up.
Ian
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