BraumrAg SX92/Giantz "92cc"

[Moparmyway]

What I find incredible is that saw was WOT under a HUGE load for 30 minutes before it ran outta fuel ..................
Is that an auxillary fuel tank in your milling pictures ?

 

[BaronVonChickenPants]

Nice I bet it was an easy session milling silky oak compared to the hardwoods you have been milling.
I found Silky oak likes to warp/cup/bow bad when air drying make sure you have the strip sticks about 4in apart (they call them stickers overseas) and put something big and heavy on top the pack.
From your posts I think you already know all that.

The Silky oak was a lot softer and lighter to work with, being green though it did gum up the chain a bit more than the dry hardwoods.

I have quater sawn to minimise the cupping/bowing/warping, I also cut 3 inch slabs so that even if it does I can dress down to a usable size once it's dry and stable.

The plan is to sticker and store on pallet racking for ~3-4 years before working with it. I wasn't planning on placing the stickers that close, thanks for the tip.

As for the scoring I'd personally run more oil 25:1 and tune to that mix you are working the saw at the extreme end of what an industrial 2T can handle.

We do have another hardwood session coming up, I'll try 25:1 and report back.

What I find incredible is that saw was WOT under a HUGE load for 30 minutes before it ran outta fuel ..................
Is that an auxillary fuel tank in your milling pictures ?

Your are correct, although it's more an external tank, we matched the size to the onboard fuel tank so that we ran out of fuel before running out of oil. The external tank was added so we could refuel without needing to remove the saw from the cut.

As much as I'd love a real big boys saw like an 066 or 08x, I'm just a misguided hobbyist, the chinesium imitation saws was a cheap entry point to see if I enjoy this enough to warrant further investment.

 

[Nutball]

I thought that was an external oil tank. Do you have an external oil drip on the tip of the bar?

 

[BaronVonChickenPants]

I thought that was an external oil tank. Do you have an external oil drip on the tip of the bar?

I didn't have one for that session, I do have one now that I fit for big logs

 

[rogue60]

1. It's ok to put the strip sticks 10inch apart if you keep the slabs that thick.

I said 4 for the silky oak thinking you would be breaking the slabs down to thinner boards like say 4x1 for example.
In the mill we used to have about 20 thousand pluse strip sticks dressed 1x1 for air drying packs of timber.
One more tip I will say is never put a slab or timber straight down on concrete allways start with a layer of strip sticks.