Hey guys,
The wife proved her worth and picked me up a Logosol big mill basic for my birthday 2 weeks ago. Finally getting around to using it, been a hectic start to the new year. Some pics of my first time with it, went down the trail behind my house and found a decent spruce the forest fire took down. You can see most of it is black! Set up was super easy and making adjustments was the same, quite impressed with this kit. Installing the timberjig on the 395xp was easy enough, I did have to ream out the attachment point just a little bit to move the jig forward giving more clearance for the exhaust. Going to try milling some large birch the fire also took down this weekend.
The 395xp laughed at the soft spruce lol. All my local shop had for chain was Oregon full comp semi chisel rip, worked ok out of the box but to much dust. Using the knowledge gained from all you folks here in this section I gave the teeth a touch up and dropped the rakers. Much less dust but i'm sure I can go further, there was no signs of bogging at all. Went all over town this morning looking for a digital angle finder to get real precise with the raker angles but none to be found. Amazon it is!
Ill make sure to keep posting my progression, thanks to all the contributors in these this section I had learned a lot before even trying my mill for the first time from you guys. Still lots to learn on my end that's for sure!
The wife proved her worth and picked me up a Logosol big mill basic for my birthday 2 weeks ago. Finally getting around to using it, been a hectic start to the new year. Some pics of my first time with it, went down the trail behind my house and found a decent spruce the forest fire took down. You can see most of it is black! Set up was super easy and making adjustments was the same, quite impressed with this kit. Installing the timberjig on the 395xp was easy enough, I did have to ream out the attachment point just a little bit to move the jig forward giving more clearance for the exhaust. Going to try milling some large birch the fire also took down this weekend.
The 395xp laughed at the soft spruce lol. All my local shop had for chain was Oregon full comp semi chisel rip, worked ok out of the box but to much dust. Using the knowledge gained from all you folks here in this section I gave the teeth a touch up and dropped the rakers. Much less dust but i'm sure I can go further, there was no signs of bogging at all. Went all over town this morning looking for a digital angle finder to get real precise with the raker angles but none to be found. Amazon it is!
Ill make sure to keep posting my progression, thanks to all the contributors in these this section I had learned a lot before even trying my mill for the first time from you guys. Still lots to learn on my end that's for sure!