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  1. billstuewe

    Bands saw blade diving on knots and wider parts in the same log

    Hi Bob! long time since I have been around. I retired in Feb of 2010 and my hobby woodworking became a nice business. I now have a Woodmizer LT40/36hpG. Sometimes it is just the log that causes wavy cuts--especially at knots and other hard parts. The only things that helps is, as...
  2. billstuewe

    Router recommendations

    I made my own out of 4 2x4s--two screwed together at right angles and then a matching set for the other side. The 2x4s must be jointed and planed perfectly straight and true because any flaws will transfer to the work piece. I use a DeWalt 625 3HP plunge with a 1 7/8' carbide insert tipped...
  3. billstuewe

    MS660 w/ 42" bar for milling

    I have the thermal sensor wedged between the bottom fin just above the exhaust port and my experience tells me it is very dependent on the air temperature. When it is 100° I find the saw settles in at a good operating temp of about 290-300°. When it is 60° it runs at about 250-260°. Do NOT...
  4. billstuewe

    MS660 w/ 42" bar for milling

    I have both the 660 and the 880. The longest bar I have for the 660 is 36" so I cannot speak to your 42" bar but I did buy a 72" bar for the 880. Eric Granberg told me I had to use two power heads on a 6' bar or I too would burn up my saw but when I told him that I had a temperature probe...
  5. billstuewe

    Freehand cut?

    It is, sorta, I made it myself from milled wood. It is a bit wider to eliminate the slop (be sure to camfer the edges so they fit into the co0rners of the beam machine. The tool is designed to be used with a 2x4. It has cleats on the bottom and swivels so you can pull it towards you, step on...
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    Freehand cut?

    Here is how I do it-- Here is where you get the guide I am using-- Bailey's - The Beam Machine It works good if you have a way to get the log up on something so the bare doesn't eat rocks and dirt and I like someone to keep an eye on the tip for me and tell me when I am close to the ground.
  7. billstuewe

    Jig for milling thin boards

    I had a job resawing 25 2x12x20' for a client into 1x12s for flooring and used this. I screwed a piece of angle iron to the side of the roller bed for a fence with gap for the blade and added a spring tensioned hold down wheel. It was still a bit of work to push it through and you must have a...
  8. billstuewe

    What are you building with your milled wood? merged

    I recently finished building this mesquite dining table for a client complete with turned bowls. It is 10' long by 48" wide by 12" thick. There is a pictorial write up of building it on my website under the Building a Table tab. www.wix.com/billstuewe/billswoodshop *I logged 112 hours working...
  9. billstuewe

    How Should I Build A Drying Shed?

    The slope of the building should be your latitude and it should face due North. My latitude is 30° so that is the slope of the roof for my location.
  10. billstuewe

    How Should I Build A Drying Shed?

    You could do something like this and speed the drying up a bit--this works real nice. In the summer it gets over 160°F. Solar Kiln by Bill Stuewe
  11. billstuewe

    Auto Feed for AKIII

    thepheniox, your pics are here--3rd post down http://www.arboristsite.com/milling-saw-mills/135039.htm And don't, pay any attention to BobL, you know he is "down under" and he admits he is jealous. Seriously, The crank is extremely easy. I am cranking with two fingers,and when I need a push...
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    Auto Feed for AKIII

    I fear that almost all my red oak are lost to the drought. The elm and ash will drop their leaves, go dormant and com back but I have not seen the oak do that--they just die. These pecan trees were last years drought kill--this year is much worse. There will probably be more trees than I can...
  13. billstuewe

    Red neck milling

    How do you think most of us got started? I have a 4' piece of 3/4" plywood with a piece of wood screwed to the bottom to slide in the miter groove. The ply was cut a bit wide on the left so that when I pushed it through the saw the first time I cut off the left side. Now the left side of the...
  14. billstuewe

    Auto Feed for AKIII

    I have a Woodmizer LT40 that has a seat for the operator to sit in that travels with the saw so I thought I would transfer that idea to my Alaskan mill-----beats the heck out of crawling in the sawdust and works very well.
  15. billstuewe

    Woodland Bumblebee?

    Here is another u-tube that someone did---IT IS GREAT!! I do not cut near as fast as this guy does. He does not use the string crank but pushes and he does not have the beam attached and it seams to move on him as he cuts but I loved it. If my 066 cut this fast I would never have gotten the...
  16. billstuewe

    Woodland Bumblebee?

    The Logosol is a great mill. I bought mine in 2001 and have milled about 15000bf with it. Here is a stack I milled in about 3 days about a year ago. Red oak 16' long by 4' wide and about 30 layers high--about 1900bf. I now have a Woodmizer LT40 and still use the Logosol occasionally for...
  17. billstuewe

    Shop Built Raker Depth Guage

    There are a number of devices out there to file the rakers down but I have settled on using my chain grinder and for years have used feeler gauges to measure the raker depth below the tops of the nearest two teeth. A couple of weeks ago I made this Shop Built tool to do this job for me fast...
  18. billstuewe

    Woodland Bumblebee?

    The Logosol is crank fed--Notice in the pictures above, left hand on the saw trigger and tight hand is cranking, the string is green. I have even rigged the same crank system on my AK III. I made an angle iron bracket to hold the crank and the string runs through an islet in front of the...
  19. billstuewe

    Woodland Bumblebee?

    He is using a Logosol M7 frame. I think he has made/modified his own sled as the Logosol sled cuts horizontal instead of vertical as this one does. I do not see any real advantage to the vertical cut, although I have use it like this, but I turn the mill: This is the normal way:
  20. billstuewe

    Ms 660 running temps??

    I mill with an 880 and have the same temp gauge as BobL and it is wedged tight in between the bottom fin just above the exhaust. It climbs up to about 310F if I stay on it and lug it at 6500-7500 RPMs but if I back off and let the RPMs climb up over 8000 then it will cool back to about 285-295...
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