milling thread

[CurSedVoyce]

Here is the floor and base boards that Robert is doing in the other house. Floor is 1x7.5 tongue and groove beetle kill ponderosa. No stain, just marine spar varnish. We have a full on shaper, so we will be doing all our own molding.

 

[SeanKroll]

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[woodworkingboy]

Beautiful!

 

[BlackSmith]

Sean...

 

[squisher]

Beautiful floors!

 

[Dave Shepard]

Sean...

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I tried to link to Logrite before. They make great tools, I've gone to their shop and meet them in person. Great people.

 

[BlackSmith]

That's a pipe mule Dave, not made by Logrite, would need wider tires for logs I'd think. It would be easy to copy tho.

 

[pantheraba]

Wonderful floors! Fine looking wood.

 

[Bodean]

What Gary said!

Beauty, Dude!

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[Tree09]

Ah yes Bob, the mighty grasshopper by sumner. You can move some rediculous size pipe with one of those, i made a small log arch to go into backyards with some wheels from harbor freight. Better wheels that are larger diameter would work much better, but on dirt you almost need more than man power. I often wonder how a riding mower would do pulling one of those and pulling an arbor trolley. Tongue weight isn't really there, it's a matter of traction. That might hold me over till i can get a mini or something. Anyone try that yet?

 

[SeanKroll]

Your truck has enough traction if you can redirect your rope through a few pulleys to get to it.

You might do well with some plywood... tons less roll-resistance. Three sheets with rope handles for sliding, rather than carrying.

 

[Marc-Antoine]

As a matter of traction, I hauled a lot of sand and gravel with my riding mower (the usual cheap one, 12 hp) and a garden trailer. That's OK for about 900 lbs (plus the trailer's weight of course), even in a slight slope. But if the grass is wet, you are screwed !
I put some gentle quad tires at the rear to get a better grip when the first ones were toasted. They have the small X dots imprints. That's better than the grass friendly tires, but the other limiting factor is the lack of weight on the rear axle. Sadly, the axle and gear case aren't designed to hold much more than the driver, way too weak to sustain a substantial ballast.
Maybe the high end mowers more seriously built...

 

[Tree09]

I'm gonna have to try both of those tricks. Got an oak in the back coming up that the truck will work perfect on, and i think i can pick up a pretty heavy duty lawn tractor for dirt cheap around here. I doubt my zero turn would work too well, even with the tire chains i bought for them.

 

[SeanKroll]

Maple in a back yard, previously topped... only the upright trunks low laterals...surprisingly little decay.

 

[Raj]

Nice!!

 

[Raj]

I have not had the time to go through this thread. Would this be a good idea to mount a hand winch?

 

[sotc]

Seen guys do that.

 

[Raj]

Hope it works. Need to paint it now.

 

[flushcut]

 

[stig]

No.
Been there, done that.
Took it off again.

 

[Raj]

Curious what the problem was Stig? All I could come up with was the aircraft cable spool was too springy or too much tension would bind the chain?

 

[SeanKroll]

An elastic cord might be better.

Last time ( of my very limited experience) we used a bungee on the bar tip end of the frame. Worked well.

If you angle the mill to the length, not so perpendicular, I think I've heard it cuts better.

 

[Raj]

A good custy wanted a start on his 31 inch sugar maple. So he bought me a 36inch bar and a roll of ripping chain. I had to make a larger mill. 15 minutes to make one 8.5ft by 28 inch cut with the 461. I don't know, but a dyneema line on the hand winch was the cat's meow....so far.....

 

[SeanKroll]

 

[MasterBlaster]

Rip it! Rip it GOOD!!!