Veramacor
ArboristSite Lurker
Hi all, Name is Jeff - brand spanking new to the site. I've been following the milling posts for the past few days. I'm real keen on the chain saw mill concept. To me its the best way to get into milling because of the low cost of a chainsaw and a csm like the Alaskan.
I see one of the bigger problems with milling large logs is getting them off the ground to a comfortable milling level. I'm an owner of a bad back and milling at a comfortable height is quite important to me and I assume it is to others on AboristSite.
I've seen the Logosol and its crank system, but the price is still to high for me at this point. I like to work with dimensional wood anyway and am looking to build my own "poor man's logosol".
I'm thinking of building it entirely out of treated 4x4s, even the ramp. With a cant hook rolling up the ramp I would think is manageable, but keeping the log from sliding down would be hard! I've thought about it and what I came up with is an idea that
#1 I have never seen applied or haven't looked hard enough
#2 Think it might actually work.
The attachment PDF file shows what I'm dreaming up. Picture a log being rolled up a ramp by a cant hook. The ramp is made of 2 4x4s in parallel. To keep the log from rolling down the ramp, I thought maybe a bracket that houses a bar connected to a spring might keep the log from rolling down the ramp.
As the Log runs over the bracket, the bar compresses down to parallell with the ramp. After the log 'gets past' the bar, the bar would 'flip up' because of the spring in side the bracket housing that its attached to (kind of like small a garage door spring)
If this setup actually would work, it would be relatively inexpensive to build (specially if you are milling your own 4x4s!).
Some lag bolts, screws, lumber and this bracket mechanism and I think you could build it for under $100 easy.
Consider this a public domain invention for y'all out there if this is not out there. Would anyone be willing to try and help me pursue this idea? Calling out all you metal fabricators!
Or, am I just all wet?
Jeff
I see one of the bigger problems with milling large logs is getting them off the ground to a comfortable milling level. I'm an owner of a bad back and milling at a comfortable height is quite important to me and I assume it is to others on AboristSite.
I've seen the Logosol and its crank system, but the price is still to high for me at this point. I like to work with dimensional wood anyway and am looking to build my own "poor man's logosol".
I'm thinking of building it entirely out of treated 4x4s, even the ramp. With a cant hook rolling up the ramp I would think is manageable, but keeping the log from sliding down would be hard! I've thought about it and what I came up with is an idea that
#1 I have never seen applied or haven't looked hard enough
#2 Think it might actually work.
The attachment PDF file shows what I'm dreaming up. Picture a log being rolled up a ramp by a cant hook. The ramp is made of 2 4x4s in parallel. To keep the log from rolling down the ramp, I thought maybe a bracket that houses a bar connected to a spring might keep the log from rolling down the ramp.
As the Log runs over the bracket, the bar compresses down to parallell with the ramp. After the log 'gets past' the bar, the bar would 'flip up' because of the spring in side the bracket housing that its attached to (kind of like small a garage door spring)
If this setup actually would work, it would be relatively inexpensive to build (specially if you are milling your own 4x4s!).
Some lag bolts, screws, lumber and this bracket mechanism and I think you could build it for under $100 easy.
Consider this a public domain invention for y'all out there if this is not out there. Would anyone be willing to try and help me pursue this idea? Calling out all you metal fabricators!
Or, am I just all wet?
Jeff