Milling Table & dab of ceder pics

[stihlatit]

Love the setup Trigger. Is it possible to get a few action shots where you are using the saw on the mill. Thanks and keep up the great work.

 

[Trigger-Time]

Love the setup Trigger. Is it possible to get a few action shots where you are using the saw on the mill. Thanks and keep up the great work.

Thank you, and yes on the pics, it maybe after Thanksgiving

Gary

 

[aggiewoodbutchr]

Thank you, and yes on the pics, it maybe after Thanksgiving

Gary

Good work. We'll be waiting...opcorn:

 

[Trigger-Time]

Woke up at 1:30 am, stones was hurting at about 4:30 am
the pain let up, still could not go back to sleep and the wheels
started to spin. I have allot of sick leave built up at work so
I took the day off. To do some lite work on the adjustable rails.
It sure help take my mind off the stones, I just come in the
house it's 2:30 pm, guess I missed lunch!

In some of the pics you will need to use your imagination, the
ceder board is my imaginary rails. I need to get some black pipe
for the cross pieces that hold up the rails, it will need two for
each end, one on each end would work but with two I won't need
to hold up the weight of the rails & saw to drop to the next hole.

This set up is not that portable, unless you have a truck and
can drive to the logs then get the logs on the table. I'm setting
this up for my situation, I live on the land that the trees are on
and have a tractor to handle the logs with. Most of my ideas
are taken for different people here at AS and I have put my own
spin on them. BUT I Have yet to see if MY SPIN on this idea
will work well enough to use it.

If you are to make something like this remember, for the board thickness
that you want, your holes will need to be the thickness PLUS
the kerf of your chain apart. Like on this ceder I'm going to be milling
I want it about 5/8" thick so my cross piece holes are 1" apart

Sorry to be a wind bag, But I mite use some kind of track
for the rails (like barn door track) and hang the saw on two tracks
with wheels, make it adjustable up & down each side the I could
cut siding or cut that in pieces and make shingles.

Hey an ideas or help, I'm all ears


Thanks, Gary

 

[Trigger-Time]

Two more pics, I Sat the one end on the mill table, took the old
end off the rail and put on a temporary end that will be more
like it will have on it. I will make the rails about a inch narrower
than the box or what ever you call it. I think I will buy some
small ratchet straps to hold the rails down, and the end piece
will hang down below the rails to help them from sliding forward
when milling.

Gary

 

[woodshop]

I need to get some black pipe
for the cross pieces that hold up the rails, it will need two for
each end, one on each end would work but with two I won't need
to hold up the weight of the rails & saw to drop to the next hole.

well sounds like you are thinking this through gary... this setup is similar to the one I used on the jig I built for my Ripsaw. Instead of black pipe, I had smaller metal pins going into holes drilled into metal strip stock that had 1/4 inch increments. I solved the problem of having to move the rails (in my case a 3x6 solid plank fortified with 1 inch square stock) along with my Ripsaw on them, by always stepping down the "rail" on the opposite end of where my saw was. Thus was easy without that weight.

If you are to make something like this remember, for the board thickness that you want, your holes will need to be the thickness PLUS the kerf of your chain apart.

...and of course you are not limited just to the thicknesses your holes are apart, as you can always adjust the csm up or down between cuts if I'm following all this correctly. Your tracking idea is interesting... if you want something a little less complicated you might just cap off the top of the rails with say 1" wide 1/4" thick metal strip for the csm to ride on instead of the bare wood.

 

[Trigger-Time]

if you want something a little less complicated you might just cap off the top of the rails with say 1" wide 1/4" thick metal strip for the csm to ride on instead of the bare wood.

Woodshop, if I still worked at Detroit Tool & Die, I would use some
(Nyla-tron) it is a plastic, we had all types but called it all Nyla-tron
I like your idea though. I also thought about ripping a 5/4 decking in ½,
and putting the rounded edges up for the mill to ride on, small surface
to ride, less friction, to push the mill. and the 5/4 decking is
yellow pine which is harder and I think that would be better than
Fur. I also need to put something on the saw side of the rail
because that’s where allot of friction is, the guide on the mill
where it clamps at the power head will not be against the log.
and the saw wants to pull into the log.

Setting here writing this I think I know where some 1/8X1X1 angle iron
is that I could cap the rails with.

Thanks, Gary

 

[Andy Harden]

A few more pics.

Gary

I can't seem to find your pics. Is it my browser?

 

[scottr]

Same here

I can't seem to find your pics. Is it my browser?

Andy , they were here a couple of weeks ago but gone now .

 

[Trigger-Time]

I can't seem to find your pics. Is it my browser?

Andy, I made a change to the table, and to save storage space I deleted
the old pics.

 

[tawilson]

"Andy, I made a change to the table, and to save storage space I deleted
the old pics."
And screwed up a good thread with great pics. What were you thinking?
Upload the pics to this site and don't worry about it. Glad I downloaded a few.

 

[Trigger-Time]

"Andy, I made a change to the table, and to save storage space I deleted
the old pics."
And screwed up a good thread with great pics. What were you thinking?
Upload the pics to this site and don't worry about it. Glad I downloaded a few.

Tom, Each AS member only has so much storage space here, I had
run out, had to make room for the new pics.
And by the way, If I wasn't so thick skinned your post mite of
pi$$ed me off. :angry2: A man can't read emotion into some words
on a screen. Thats what the little smiles are for.

 

[Trigger-Time]

Here is the link to the new change.

http://www.arboristsite.com/showthread.php?t=39953

 

[tawilson]

Sorry, I don't use the smiley's any better than I do the English language, I'd probably just make things worse. I was joking around, but sometimes my humor is so subtle it actually disappears. And no I didn't know there was a limit per user. And you maxxed out in just three months! You been busy. (did I do that right?)

 

[Trigger-Time]

Sorry, I don't use the smiley's any better than I do the English language, I'd probably just make things worse. I was joking around, but sometimes my humor is so subtle it actually disappears. And no I didn't know there was a limit per user. And you maxxed out in just three months! You been busy. (did I do that right?)

Yes SIR Tom,

I don't know how much space AS allows, but I went
to down load some pics, and it would't let me. I deleted some then
I could post more pics.

Dose any one know how many MB we can use here?
This is what I'm using now "You are currently using 3.10 MB to store 24 uploaded attachments."

 

[Adkpk]

As far as I know we can use it all.

 

[tawilson]

And it's good thing, because of our conversation, that there is a link to your new thread from this one. Oh, the pics I downloaded were from the new one, I got confused. Heh, heh, heh.
I just checked my usage, "You are currently using 3.27 MB to store 39 uploaded attachments."

 

[Trigger-Time]

As far as I know we can use it all.

Well I have EGG on my face:blush:

I must have done something wrong, and after deleting the
pics, done it right.

I would put the pics back, but I have deleted them out
of my hard drive. Sorry

 

[tawilson]

"I would put the pics back, but I have deleted them out
of my hard drive. Sorry"
What were you thinking!

 

[Trigger-Time]

"I would put the pics back, but I have deleted them out
of my hard drive. Sorry"
What were you thinking!

Tom, You got the hang of it now