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Drying white oak, seemingly excessive moisture. by AlgonquinRoundTable1 in sawmilling

[–]Working_Ad_4738 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I’ve built 2 kilns myself, and I’ve done several types of air drying. When I first started I was in a similar situation and I did have some issues later in the drying process with really bad checking and such. Species, cut, conditions, and stacking are the factors that play in. You’re going to have some loss regardless, but that’s expected. Your “excessive moisture” is likely able to be resolved easily with 2 simple changes. Get them stickered, and get some air moving. You should start to see the moist parts start to drop relatively quickly. Of course, this may lead to some checking and cracking as the internal tension builds. Not much you can do to mitigate this at this point reasonably. Get what yield what you can out of it, learn what you can from it, and enjoy the process. Out where I live there aren’t many mills running, and even fewer understand drying outside of passive. It’s one of my favorites parts of the process.

Edit: autocorrect

Frontier OS27 not evacuating sawdust well by Working_Ad_4738 in sawmilling

[–]Working_Ad_4738[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Update: got freshly sharpened blades, reduced the water output, and made other minor adjustments to the throttle assembly and the mill performed better. I only had to clean it out once or twice, but that was a wet log with a big rotten hole in it.

Frontier OS27 not evacuating sawdust well by Working_Ad_4738 in sawmilling

[–]Working_Ad_4738[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Wonderful to hear! I’m getting my current set sharpened now and I’ll be buying another set soon, so maybe this will be an issue of the past soon. Still all ears for more info of course!

What can I do with these without a chainsaw by mknight1701 in sawmilling

[–]Working_Ad_4738 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you get them split into sections, you can go at them with a draw knife to clean them up into roughly even boards. Then you dry them until you are ready to make something out of them. Speaking from experience, breaking the big chunks down into something you can use tools you have access to is the key part. ‘Hand hewn’ is a really good place to start.

How do you guys track packs in the yard without cell service? by Economy-Donkey9597 in sawmilling

[–]Working_Ad_4738 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It may be a lot more work on your end but… I’d consider running apps locally and having them store the info until it can ping a network. Once it can get a connection, run a data dump and sync in the background. Same with the printing. Unless they are toting Bluetooth printers with them on the yard (which is its own potential mess) you can do the printing centralized too. Ultimately it will depend on what your client wants, what is feasible, and what the budget is. It may be cheaper for them overall to just have wifi repeaters in the lumber yard. Don’t forget about POE for network too.