mickthetree
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Morning all
I have slowly been clearing the jungle garden at the house we bought a couple of years ago. There were a number of badly placed horse chestnut trees including some near to where we plan on creating an extension.
Plenty of good firewood in there, but it seemed a shame to just burn it all. I've toyed with the idea of hiring or even making a bandsaw mill as the logs are just too heavy to manhandle onto my 17" bandsaw. But then I thought, why not take the bandsaw to the wood instead?
I looked into making a track for the bandsaw but it seemed much easier and safer to leave the bandsaw static and move the wood through on a trolley that I already had.
I created a track to keep the trolley in a straight line, but actually what was really required was something for the wood to run against having removed the table. I added a small bar just above the bottom guides and instantly it removed any "grabbing" and made for a very smooth cut. The largest pieces were 12" and the saw handled it easily with one of Ian's Sabrecut 3TPI blades. Cheers Ian!
The log in this video I had already ripped in half with my chainsaw, but that looses quite a bit of material so I have left the others in the round. The piece in the video is tapered as I'm correcting for making a bad previous cut. I think this log has been down a year already, but some of the others I have are much more recent.
I had a load of shims (feather edge offcuts) which I used to adjust the height of the wood on the trolley. Screws were used to hold these and the trunk in place.
Just a couple of years drying now then I can make something from it!
I have slowly been clearing the jungle garden at the house we bought a couple of years ago. There were a number of badly placed horse chestnut trees including some near to where we plan on creating an extension.
Plenty of good firewood in there, but it seemed a shame to just burn it all. I've toyed with the idea of hiring or even making a bandsaw mill as the logs are just too heavy to manhandle onto my 17" bandsaw. But then I thought, why not take the bandsaw to the wood instead?
I looked into making a track for the bandsaw but it seemed much easier and safer to leave the bandsaw static and move the wood through on a trolley that I already had.
I created a track to keep the trolley in a straight line, but actually what was really required was something for the wood to run against having removed the table. I added a small bar just above the bottom guides and instantly it removed any "grabbing" and made for a very smooth cut. The largest pieces were 12" and the saw handled it easily with one of Ian's Sabrecut 3TPI blades. Cheers Ian!
The log in this video I had already ripped in half with my chainsaw, but that looses quite a bit of material so I have left the others in the round. The piece in the video is tapered as I'm correcting for making a bad previous cut. I think this log has been down a year already, but some of the others I have are much more recent.
I had a load of shims (feather edge offcuts) which I used to adjust the height of the wood on the trolley. Screws were used to hold these and the trunk in place.
Just a couple of years drying now then I can make something from it!
