A bandsaw mill is a lot simpler, but way slower and less versatile. My grandpa's is a mobile dimension saw, and I think they still make them. It's got two edgers, so once you've got the first board off, you can get two with each following pass if they're narrow. It's got an aircooled VW engine punched out to something like 1800cc, and a rope that wraps around the crank to start it. Something like 14 V-belts to drive everything, and no clutch to disengage them for starting either. I've got some of the 8x10 promotional shots from when he bought it, showing one of them cribbed up on about a 12-14' log, just working away at it. It came on a trailer that could be used to pull it to a site in the woods, but he always used it as a stationary saw.
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He deserved much more than a flower pot on the head.
NGL, that’s pretty cool. How do you reckon it would cut through something like mesquite? Twists and turns all though it with a ton of knots.
Probably be slow going, but it's got carbide inserts on the main and edger blades, so it would probably cut fine as long as it's good and sharp, and no rocks hiding in it. I think it'll cut something like a 5"x14" beam, the shot I posted earlier was just using the bottom edger to clean up some green maple slabs my brother cut with his chainsaw. The widest slabs we did that day was 28", so multiple passes for sure.
We shouldn't have bothered with squaring them up while green, I wasn't able to get near enough weight on them to stop them from warping while drying. They've been drying in my shed for 3 years now, probably going to make a table and a couple benches for the deck out of them. I've also got a fir tree that split off into 3 to use as a base.
Kristian
Yep that’s identical to my buddy’s, they pulled it out of some blackberries and gave a guy a $1000 bucks for it. I helped them rebuild the saw and engine on it. Back when he was building logging roads he could bring home 5-6 foot diameter fir old growth. We cut a lot of that for the main structure of the cabin. For siding we did cedar.
That sounds like a pretty good life right there. Beats the hell out of a cubicle farm.
That's some big fir. There's a few trees like that around here still, but not many. I was back to the biggest one I've seen around here last week, but it's dead now. My dad cut some similar size ones from the same area back in the 70's and said they were between about 450-600 years old.
Kristian
7:30 on Sunday nights was Disney time.
Dang bro that looks like so much fun to be able to do that.
The guy I buy from is turning it all over to his son but he’s still out there every day. I bought a little chainsaw guide to try to cut some beams but haven’t used it yet.
Very jelly over here.
I just want to say again how much I appreciate all of you.
Helping us all to smile, cuss and laugh out loud every day is so valuable.
Helping us all to smile, cuss and laugh out loud every day is so valuable.
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the last 3 and a bit years should have taught us to listen to everything and believe nothing
Going to turn in the Clinton’s , see how that goes
It also depends on the tire itself, how it is made, how it is stored, is it sitting on a car outside or is it un mounted in a dark cool room. There are many things that go into it.
Story time:
Many moons ago when a Cadillac dealership also had the Jaguar franchise I worked for them. Major Cadillac in KC. The Jags did not move real well, and got discounted pretty heavy near the end of the model year. This is XJ6 days. (Still love that car)
When sold they would come back with horrid vibrations, wheels out of balance, and they flat would not balance. Pull them down and inside there would be these little golf ball sized rubber balls.
What was happening the tire was coming apart from the inside, the car sitting for so long ruined the tires. I had never seen anything like it. Several cars had the issue.
I also had race tires that left un mounted and in my garage went three years before being mounted and run, I did not notice any difference. Differences in tire brands and compounds yes but old and new, no.....but they are not that old.
I still have a few old cars that don't see a great deal of use. One with "real" wire wheels, tubes in the tires. On the tubeless general shape of the tire will be looked at, and I will make a decision to keep or replace. If I know the history and know that car has sat on flat tires for even a year yes I will replace it, or if it has been outside I will replace it.
Same with motorcycles, depends more on condition then age.
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. I just happen to have one on order, but it doesn't have spark plugs, though. I love this car.....but then again I do like the orphans. I really enjoyed this video.
Got to talking about "unloved" cars, and told a story of a Chevette diesel I saw at a local car show not long ago, it was perfect. You just don't see them anymore and it was getting quite a bit of attn.
Seen one mustang you seen them all, but when was the last time you saw a perfect showroom fresh chevette. You know you would stop and look.
Sounds like bias ply.
Called a TeePee burner, used to incinerate waste from the sawmill in the days before value added products. Had a half dozen in my neighborhood in the 60's, now only 1 or 2 are standing. Used to drive by them at night and the would be glowing red/ orange ! I really need to stop and get a photo before the last of them go away.
I would pick a bone with this, it was not the 60's. It was in 1979. Now what happened in 1979?
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A group of people I knew had a name for it " 3B's ". Beers, Burgers and bullshiting, that usually involved dropping transmission / transfer cases etc ( I might add, with out the proper lifts / stands etc ).
I won’t disagree with the department of education reference.
But ask yourself the question:
Who was responsible for creating it staffing it and who were running the schools by that point. 20- and 30-somethingsomething former 60s hippie radicals.
Who the hell do you think is running the Senate and the deep state now? All these septagenarian fruit bats are former Woodstock acid washed hippies who infiltrated government and are trying to create their shining path before they die.
And huge numbers of them were compromised by the KGB back in the 1960s. Because through the US Canada Institute and other fronts, the Soviet union was massively driving the peace movement and the drug movement and all the other radicals.
Yep, it took them until the 1970s. And then another 40 years to get to where they run everything. But make no mistake about it. These are fullbore communist radicals at every level.
Fortunately, they’re all going to die soon. Of old age. And I have a lot of faith in Gen X and their ability to bring us back from the brink.
Cheers.
I thought it was the corner, or was it the tree, or the light post, or the fire?
“For an unknown reason, the driver lost control of the vehicle and the vehicle partially spun around and began to travel in a south-easterly direction.” The coroner report stated, “The vehicle then struck a sidewalk and the driver’s side struck a tree and then a light post. The force of these collisions caused the vehicle to spin 180 degrees and it continued to travel in an easterly direction. The passenger side of the vehicle then struck a tree and it then burst into flames.”
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It was the age of the tires that caused the loss of control on what was a pretty routine test drive. I’m surprised this is not common knowledge here.
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www.thedrive.com I agree as well,
I think a lot of the Gen X people are looking at this shit show and saying, this is just not right. Now we all know there are people on the other side of the argument, but I really think there is not as many of those as we are lead to believe. A "silent majority" I think is a thing. The people that just want to be left the hell alone and do their own thing, send their kids to school, work, pay taxes, buy a house......... but they are seeing the attack on those things, those base 1 things and now they are getting noisy. And they are coming together. Nothing will bring a trump hat wearing guy and a feminist mother together faster then a tranny following the daughter into the bathroom. Or learning in the school the finer points of anal sex. They have pushed the line for decades and finally found where "normal" people will come together and say enough of this shit, this is just crazy.
I also think the millennials and Gen Z (my son) are not having any of this.....again for the most part. They see the pure evil of all this and are not liking it one bit. the 20's 30's 40's are not liking this one bit.
I was only joking a little bit, but that has some interesting information.
"Automobile compression ratios increased from an average of 5.3-to-1 in 1931 to just 6.7-to-1 in 1946."
It was the age of the tires that caused the loss of control on what was a pretty routine test drive. I’m surprised this is not common knowledge here.
The Truth Behind What Caused Paul Walker's Fatal Crash
The likely cause is so mundane we never talk about it. Let's change that.
A former Budget employee said so. Must be true.
Doing what he did, where he did it is pure stupid, on a Darwin award level. Yes he was very stupid.
Would that be during the days of Calvin Coolidge?
So that would have been on State Line? You love the XJ6 S3? They spanned a lot of years.
You mentioned golf balls but never mentioned the condition of the inner liner of the tire as I suspect could have been a heat issue. Also, you never addressed the year nor the tire brand, I have very little to go on.
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