Yogi05
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On machinery yeah, on car stereos, not so much...
Tractors and wood! Show your pics
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Yogi05
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There's some glass half full thinking
Skeans1
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BackRoad
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It's a Playstation for big boys!
Just curious Mr. Skeans...once you're dialed in and working, is it mostly joystick action, or are you needing to also push buttons all day long?
Just thinking that might get old quickly...
Just curious Mr. Skeans...once you're dialed in and working, is it mostly joystick action, or are you needing to also push buttons all day long?
Just thinking that might get old quickly...
Yogi05
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Meh, I'm a push/pull and see what happens kind of guy. LOL
Bigger problem borrowing that thing for a weekend would the roughly 3000 mile transport.
Probably require some careful planning
I'm curious about BackRoad's question too.
Bigger problem borrowing that thing for a weekend would the roughly 3000 mile transport.
Probably require some careful planning
I'm curious about BackRoad's question too.
Gordon Gould
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You are going to have some nice maintainable roads up there. A product of good planning.
gg
John_Mc
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What stuff did you find? There was a great article in Northern Woodlands magazine in their Autumn 2007 issue. That happened shortly after LHCF came into existence. There are a few other articles floating around out there as well.I just did some off-site reading about your land coop. It sounds like a very unique opportunity which you and others are involved in.
Skeans1
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It depends on what I’m doing if it’s younger thinning it’s pretty much all joysticks unless I overshot a length I want. I’ve ran the machine both ways and honestly it’s not bad doing the whole push buttons to run the head all day depending on how it’s setup.
Right joystick rocker
Up- Full head open/stand head up
Down- Full close/under 15.5”(for you international types around 39 cm) it’s my saw as long as you’re holding onto a tree in the standing position. Once a tree is fell and being processed that same button becomes your pause to your auto feeding to the length once your at the target you tap the rocker again to saw.
Left joystick rocker
Up- Extension boom out
Down- Extension boom in/once a tree is cut with the right joystick a tap of this rocker allows feeding to be started.
Yogi05
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Seems simple enough
BTW, my kind of international types measure in imperial. Inches and feet. We weigh using pounds. Liquids are metric though. Litres instead of gallons, and the elders
like me still know what a gallon looks like.
It's funny if you think about it. Anyone around 40 yrs old or younger grew up on the metric system but even the young construction workers use inches and feet and stores sell lumber
in feet, not metres.
The only conversion I can do is to tell you 39cm is 15 1/2 inches. Why I know how to do that is snowfall is always reported in cm, but I mentally use inches, even though I know
what a metric amount of snow looks like. Temperature is metric because it is actually simpler. 0 celcius is frozen and 30 is getting uncomfortably hot. 35 is Arizona hot.
The trucking industry uses kilograms on the paperwork but actually operates in pounds.
(More rambling.)
BTW, my kind of international types measure in imperial. Inches and feet. We weigh using pounds. Liquids are metric though. Litres instead of gallons, and the elders
like me still know what a gallon looks like.
It's funny if you think about it. Anyone around 40 yrs old or younger grew up on the metric system but even the young construction workers use inches and feet and stores sell lumber
in feet, not metres.
The only conversion I can do is to tell you 39cm is 15 1/2 inches. Why I know how to do that is snowfall is always reported in cm, but I mentally use inches, even though I know
what a metric amount of snow looks like. Temperature is metric because it is actually simpler. 0 celcius is frozen and 30 is getting uncomfortably hot. 35 is Arizona hot.
The trucking industry uses kilograms on the paperwork but actually operates in pounds.
(More rambling.)
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Yogi05
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Technical question.....
I cut a couple more trees down today. I have been trying to use 10in dia to minimize waste in slabs. I could get some dimensional lumber from slabs I guess, but my
push is for my landscape timbers and someone else wants the slabs at the moment anyway.
I dropped a 12 in + or - a few weeks ago and I put those logs aside for stuff I'll do later, but...
Today one tree I took down was a touch over 13 " dia for a good length (about 18'). Youtube told me to center the pith and make sure it's in the middle of my timbers.
It looks like I can get 2 timbers from each of these large logs so my question is...
Can I cut right through the center of the pith when making two 6x6" or will that make them weak?
And, if I cut right on the edge of the pith (provided it measures out ok) and not have any of the pith in the timbers, does that make it weak, or unstable
when it dries? Like warping etc.
Can I do this (see sketch) without an issue?
My setup is not good enough to do quarter-sawn (poor system of securing logs) and frankly, I'm not sure
how to lay something like that out yet. Baby steps.
I cut a couple more trees down today. I have been trying to use 10in dia to minimize waste in slabs. I could get some dimensional lumber from slabs I guess, but my
push is for my landscape timbers and someone else wants the slabs at the moment anyway.
I dropped a 12 in + or - a few weeks ago and I put those logs aside for stuff I'll do later, but...
Today one tree I took down was a touch over 13 " dia for a good length (about 18'). Youtube told me to center the pith and make sure it's in the middle of my timbers.
It looks like I can get 2 timbers from each of these large logs so my question is...
Can I cut right through the center of the pith when making two 6x6" or will that make them weak?
And, if I cut right on the edge of the pith (provided it measures out ok) and not have any of the pith in the timbers, does that make it weak, or unstable
when it dries? Like warping etc.
Can I do this (see sketch) without an issue?
My setup is not good enough to do quarter-sawn (poor system of securing logs) and frankly, I'm not sure
how to lay something like that out yet. Baby steps.
