MachineJunkie

Oh man, this is great stuff. I definitely will want to try it out on some of my machines when I redo them. Now i'm thinking we all should make our own tags for the restoration "Restored 2014 by... etc" I can already envision the custom warning tags i'm going to put on my machines "WAR...

Man, that cross saw manual is fascinating! Makes me want to pull a nasty one out from a yard sale, clean it up and sharpen it! I definitely will keep a eye out for one of those saw filing tools you scored.

oh man, that thing is cherry. I'm looking forward to stripping and bondo'ing all of my machines when my elusive barn finally gets built.

Well, it's been a while since I've posted here but on Thursday, I pulled the biggest arn haul I've done in my life to date and had to share... Being the craigslist addict I am, I somehow stumbled across an ad."Bandsaw/resaw/mill... with a 7" wide blade and feed rolls that tip to make clapb...

http://providence.craigslist.org/bfs/2901553686.html thats the crown i was eyeballing earlier, but the lowest height is 91.5" and my garage door opening is 84" with the top molding trim removed, which allows my '46 towmotor forklift to squeak in and out as it is with the mast tilted almost...

excellent. 350 pounds sounds pretty manuverable. I was looking at a 20MT with 130" lift capacity but it seemed way too heavy to be useful, leave alone portable... I actually have the last two photos bookmarked in another thread about moving, i just couldnt see much on the e-track even though it...

Looking for more pics and guidance on adding e-tracks to my pickup bed, and info on crown stackers. CrzyPete, it looks like you have a fork-over model b crown stacker? Just one battery in it? how much does it weight and how hard is it to lean it back and insert it into your custom hitch mount? I am ...

no, not mine. just happened across it. I often do searches for "Sawmill" among other terms as i'm trying to find a edger. This unit looked rather interesting as it can do short pieces and looks like a well made unit that's all cast iron and assembled into one piece... I suppose, with a goo...

ran across this in ebay... there's an opportunity to make a offer if you're interested...

Cheers

Matt

P.S. I'm looking for a gang edger for rough sawn lumber, please let me know if you see one!

DP, I got my lumber wizard iii detector in the mail today and immedately started testing it. Sadly, it was a little disappointing. I had the fine tuning setting set as senestive as i could set it to, and yet couldn't detect a big, fat nail (the kind you could cruify someone with, with just one nail ...

I will defintely use the mill to make wood for its own building some day, but i am still divided on what kind of building to do... I would ideally, like to have 20' spans for the logs to go in and beams to come out. The track is long enough to permit me to cut logs up to 25' if i recall correctly, b...

It was getting warmer, and the sawmill husk was now plumb and level on a new pair of 8x8's. The time had come to put the track together and for that, my uncle came by with a bobcat to help buddy and I move the track pieces in place, before putting the carriage on and the engine in position. He showe...

I'm home for a couple days, so I finally sat down at the computer and caught up on the latest in the MJ forums, and now the saga continues...Pete, is that big bag of popcorn still there? maybe a little stale by now but... The engine and carriage were home, so we returned to the site to pick up the s...

Reg, I'm pretty sure that if Czy took that shed apart and moved it, he would most likely have ruined most of the boards and some of the jointery. I've tried to dismantle a 30x30 barn before near Rochester, NY and the end result was that most of the joints were damaged and would need to be redone int...

DP, you're right. It does beat most competitiors by $25. I bit the bullet and bought it myself too as I have quite a bit of sawing logs that were cut down in close proximity to houses and may have metal in them.

Thanks for the legwork!

$25! That got my attention immedately as i knew what the lumber wizard was and had been putting off my purchase of one. Turns out there are two models on the Lee Valley website, and the big one i was going to buy, is $75... so much for my short lived impulse to buy it tonight. Can you tell me how th...

Wow! great stuff! Defintely something we all can use when it comes to saving the old barns in the Maine countryside out here. A new home for more machine storage! How has it been coming along so far? has the new door frame been roughed out and doors built? Any power going into that shed? What will i...

Oh yeah, I defintely will want a building for it all. Ideally, I'd like the planer to be in the same building as the sawmill, but i don't have a concrete slab under the sawmill or a building over it yet. I am planning on doing a pole barn building with wooden trusses over the sawmill, then add the c...

Great news!! My wife just delivered a healthy baby boy yesterday morning at 9:32am. We rushed to the hospital some half a hour away at 7:30am and were barely there for two hours before the kid popped out. I'm still reeling from the experience. But I disgress. That's not why I came online. As soon as...