Quarter Sawing White Oak on the 00 Frick, 18 Sept 2022
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- Опубликовано: 20 сен 2022
- This was a log brought to us by a friend. The blue stain on the end is an indicator of metal and the metal detector found two nails that we removed. However, I was anxious to get sawing and didn't metal detect the others until after we sawed through three nails and damaged all of the saw teeth. We then took all of the quarters down and metal detected them. Of course, the first quarter we sawed had the only metal in it. Lesson learned, just glad it was only nails and nothing larger.
Very nicely done.
flawless work, love your equipment!!
Happy to see you out there messing around the sawmill again. Really enjoy all your videos and always look forward to seeing more. Thanks
Thanks. I have been working our our place in the NC mountains the past year and haven't had much time for the mill. Nice to be back working over there.
Thanks for the video
You wife does an excellent job and love her sense of humor.
Thanks so much Karen, she appreciated your comment. She does a great job on the video work and I am so thankful for her that she puts up with my crazy hobby's. I do remind her daily how much I appreciate her. Now if I could just get her in bib overalls standing there sawing, I think I would get a lot more views! LOL! Would be much better than watching me saw!
hi there good to see you sawing , good show john
Thanks John, may be doing another video soon. Got some maple logs this weekend and bought another Frick mill this weekend as well. The Frick is pretty much trashed but it has a lumber gauge that I can restore and put on my mill.
Loved it, nice to see that mill still doing it's thing, was a cross tie buyer in the 90s in West ky and Tennessee there were still a number of these still working daily back then
thank you for the new video ! I really enjoy everyone one of them.
Glad you enjoyed it! We enjoy getting to saw on the mill even if it is only a couple of times a year.
Looks like that old Frick is still sawing very well. Glad to see you post a new video, hope to see more. I really enjoy watching you saw..
Thanks Scott, wished that I had more time out there at the mill. Been slow this past year, only getting to saw once or twice but the mill still sawing great.
A noisy, dusty day sawing is better than a quiet, clean day in the office
Yea, sitting at a desk all day gets in the way of my personal life!
Nice work, love the sound of that Cummins
Thanx
That Cummins has been a great engine. I know the favorite is the Detroit Diesel for these old mills but the Cummins was available and I grabbed it before it got sent to be recycled. It has served us well over the years and starts right up every time.
I really like Cummins as well….I have a 380 bigcam for mine…
A long time ago someone told you that you needed a smaller engine because you were having saw issues, I almost went crazy, im sure glad you didn’t listen to them…
They are a little easier on fuel as well…….thanx
My uncle was a diesel mechanic for years and told me that this HRF-6 Cummins would be easy on fuel and maintenance and he was correct. The biggest issues we have had with it is the governor but that is external and works fine after we sent it off to the factory to be rebuilt. The engine though has been great. Not sure how long they made the HRF-6 as I don't see any others around but it is a good engine.
Seems like these old mills were advertised as "1 man sawmills". Must have been some real men back in the day lol. My back hurts just watching ya'll work.
They were advertised as "one man" but honestly, I think one man would run his legs off and not get a lot done. I could saw a lot faster if we had two off bearers and another person helping me load and roll logs at the log rack. Last year we had 5 guys there sawing 1x12x16' pine. I kept three off bearers running between the saw and the trailer. We sawed about 1500ft in two hours of which time also included cleaning up the sawmill after sawing. You are tired at the end of the day running this mill but we love it!
@@davidcunningham257 old sawmill videos are really popular. Maybe post more and often if you have the time. Yours is a piece of art btw.Great job on restoration.
@@amossnowdaharleyman9179 Thanks so much. I wished I did have time but being a mechanical engineer full time at my day job, I don't have tons of time to spend at the mill. Will be retiring in a few years and hopefully that will change.
@@amossnowdaharleyman9179 I wished I had time to do so but being a mechanical engineer full time keeps me busy at work. I only get to run the mill on occasion but enjoy every minute that we get to run it.
Those are clever rail scrapers, we placed the keyed rail to the rear so that if the carriage tilts while turning a big log it doesn’t come off. Ours is a Lane, do Frick lay it out similar to yours? Nice wood and sawing.
I saw those type rail scrapers on another mill and made them for ours. They have worked really well over the past few years. I was concerned that they would wear out quickly but so far have been great.
Mine had the keyed rail on the saw side and most of the Frick's I have seen have it that way. I suppose it is to prevent any build up of sawdust on a flat surface? Although, it would build up even on the keyed track as well if you didn't have the scrapers.