For the last month, in between other jobs, I've been slowly preparing some ground.
Hauled material around with a improvised dump trailer (awkward, but I made do), leveled the area, brought in two long concrete pylons and pushed them into position.
Now they just need to be leveled and bedded.
Milling like it's 1938 courtesy of @YesterdaysMachinery on YT
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Spent Saturday and Sunday with my brother milling white ash into the parts needed for a new staircase. It’s a full-family project as the ash came from my wife’s family bush lot. The stairs are for our new home on the property where my wife’s grandparents lived from the 1940s on. My children are the fourth generation to have called it home.
Sawmilling Redwood Boards
Just finished milling 50 boards from a massive redwood trunk I brought from Napa to Salem.
These boards will become benches and gardening builds in my greenhouse — the natural patina and lightness of redwood make it ideal for outdoor woodworking projects.
Took about two hours to mill and get everything squared up. More to come as I plane and build!
Read the full post with photos: https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=389
Of course now you'll be wondering what a Hewsaw is.
It's a fully automated, computer controlled and configurable sawmill.
First there's four large cutting heads (two per axis) that simply chip away the round part of the log, there are no flitches cut, just woodchips which are typically burnt to heat the drying kilns.
Then there's an adjustable stack of circular saws, cutting the shaped log into planks or beams.
The rest are just feeders and guides, which as you can see are also configurable in case you want to cut curved logs as in this animation:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bxB2f7MQZg
#HewSaw #Industry #Sawmill #Machinery #Engineering #Saw #Wood
Large scale industrial lumber processing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvbgwdTGoyo
#Sawmill #Industry #Wood #Engineering #Machinery #Factorio #Factory
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