Chainsaw Milling Bar & Chain
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That blue zone should be good. Good work. Wear safety glasses and hearing protection.
Yeah that's better but watch your clamp location.
Oh man...I didn't even pay attention to that when I put it back together. I was more focused on the oiler placement. Thanks for the guidance, I will definitely pay attention to that! If all goes as planned I'll be milling tomorrow!
A question in reference to the sprocket... What's the closest I can get to the rivet closest to the clamping bar?
First cuts went a lot better than I was expecting! Went a lot faster and smoother. The finished slabs were pretty smooth, could barely see and feel the saw marks on it! Ended up using Carlton semi chisel full skip chain, cutters filed at approx 25 degree rakers filed at about 7 degree. Took just 10 min to mill through an 18' log and 22" at it's widest. Also after that first cut realized I definitely needed to zip tie the throttle, worked flawlessly! Now going to rig up one of those log lifters that @BobL has made. Looking at the 42" and 48" Hi lift jack, does that 6" difference really matter? What's a good degree of slope to set the log at? Thanks for all the advice and input, appreciate it all!
It depends on how aggressively set the cutters and rakers are and the length and diameter of the log.
In general the greater the slope the less you have to push, up to a slope where the weight of the mill and saw are too great and the saw bogs down depending on chain aggressivity, or the start of the sloped log is too high to lift the mill up to. Logs above about 4ft in diameter become more difficult to lift and if sloped will then be too high above the ground to lift the mill up to.
In practice any slope is better than no slope so I just usually lift the log up to where the top of the start end of the log is about 3-4ft above the ground, if the log is short I often lit the other end as well - I think lifting both ends up of the ground is as important for ergonomics as the slope. Sometimes I even raise the log up a bit more after milling way about half the log.
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