I have a new LT 70 Electric and I have a lot of work to do. Can you share more pics of your deck, conveyor and edger setup? You obviously have a great deal of experience at operating a band mill.
The reason the head is wobbly is do to the operator not allowing the carriage to stop and the drive chain is excessively loose. You can see it flopping all around every time he changes direction. It's not supposed to.
Thanks man! I fabricated the transfer table myself, it's powered by an air cylinder on a a foot valve. The Cook's edger works out pretty good, we've had to do some repairs on it but nothing major, I'd say it holds up ok for as hard we use it when we saw big blocking logs, it's not a complicated machine and pretty simple to work on.
For sure! I might have to copy that transfer table idea, nice job on that. I just picked up a used Cook's edger is why I asked. I like it, but find I'm constantly adjusting the belt tracking.
nice set up I see only one guy working the edger and stacking??? what is your average BDFT per 8 hr shift, and how many guys plus the sawyer. our LT 40 can average 3000 BDFT with 3 guys including the sawyer in 8 hrs. could be better with a few up grades. I do like that 70. see our short video 3000 ft in 8 hrs.
When running with two people including the sawyer 3000' - 4000' is pretty typical with decent logs. This is with shutting down to move lumber and slab bundles. We have done over 5000' a day pretty steady when we had 3 people including the sawyer. The mill is definitely capable of putting out more than what we normally do.
my boss ran across your video and wanted to know. does the conveyor belt with edger work good on end? we liked this setup about put it super 70 next few weeks gonna do few changes
+Chris Lucas not sure exactly what your asking. The conveyor belt works good at getting stuff back away from the mill, it doesn't do so good at running tapered bell ended slabs out onto the greenchain endwise. The mill is in NW Pennsylvania Crawford county
I wonder why you never see any other major brand doing commercial sawing like this? I've seen Baker sawmills on Commercial jobs, Woodmizer for sure, but no one else. At least not major bandsaw mills under 100k..
Hi Oliver, Wood-Mizer now sells the LX range of machines which has eliminated this problem. However, with correct maintenance, this problem can be averted on the LT-70. It is concerning, especially within the first 500mm of the cut. in this region there will be some minimal sawing variation but nothing out of the expected quality for a machine in this price range.
oliver5sc Lol I'd like to watch a Woodmizer mill beside a 4 post on uneven ground. You couldn't get straight boards from the four post until it would be perfectly level. The mono rail mills are not affected by uneven terrain.
@Linda Marion Take the first portable sawmill shootout for example. They had to set up their mills before sawing, and Woodmizer smoked the competition by beginning the first cut in less than a minute! The four post mills took a lot more time to level.
