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Okay, I've been having problems with my ProCut sawmill that I built. I built it the way it says, but the clamping system that was designed in the plans did not work out very well for me.
The problems: The cant, when vertical, got pulled out of square by the chainsaw, & on 14' or 16' boards, the cant would vibrate side to side badly for the first 2' or so till it got close to the supports... then vibrated bad again for the last 2' as it got away from the supports. The clamping system was in my opinion a bad design. I love the mill, just not that part. The first few pics with the date stamp of 12-24-05 show the old system of cutting.
My solution: Put in log bunks, covering the 4 1/4" vertical steel plates with the "V" cut in them, plus adding 3 additional bunks, Add 3 log fences that adjust vertically with a bolt going through a nut thats welded to the sleeve. Lastly, put in two cams that will slide in and out horizontally to lock what I am cutting into the log fences... holding them secure & square.
I've finished the first two parts, the bunks & log fences... still have the cams to do. I've got them cut, just have to decide how I want to put them on etc.. Everything so far has been easy, except for making sure everything is square, level, right height etc... LOL
Here is a bunch of pics!!
The problems: The cant, when vertical, got pulled out of square by the chainsaw, & on 14' or 16' boards, the cant would vibrate side to side badly for the first 2' or so till it got close to the supports... then vibrated bad again for the last 2' as it got away from the supports. The clamping system was in my opinion a bad design. I love the mill, just not that part. The first few pics with the date stamp of 12-24-05 show the old system of cutting.
My solution: Put in log bunks, covering the 4 1/4" vertical steel plates with the "V" cut in them, plus adding 3 additional bunks, Add 3 log fences that adjust vertically with a bolt going through a nut thats welded to the sleeve. Lastly, put in two cams that will slide in and out horizontally to lock what I am cutting into the log fences... holding them secure & square.
I've finished the first two parts, the bunks & log fences... still have the cams to do. I've got them cut, just have to decide how I want to put them on etc.. Everything so far has been easy, except for making sure everything is square, level, right height etc... LOL
Here is a bunch of pics!!