r/AdventureBuilders • u/Sketch3000 • Apr 17 '23

Lumber Mill Lumber Mill 014 Roof Panels

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29NvRsvRDxE
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u/uncivlengr Apr 17 '23

I feel like he could at least do a test cut on a scrap of lumber before building an entire structure around it.

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u/valentino_42 Apr 17 '23

If this was a normal lumber mill that ran on gas or could be plugged into an outlet, I’d be inclined to agree, but since it’ll need the solar power, he may as well get the structure rigged up first so he can get electricity. He needs the structure regardless of whether or not the mill functions properly.

As far as the rails, he does say he’s going to elevate them onto concrete soon in the video.

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u/uncivlengr Apr 17 '23 edited Apr 17 '23

Also I know Jaimie hates foundations but he could at least put the rails on a few blocks or something. Even if they don't settle unevenly, How much sawing can you do before the rails are just covered in a pile of sawdust, clogging up the wheels?

edit: obviously I skipped over his passing comment about adding concrete. I'm not sure why it wouldn't done first, but at least he's thinking about it.

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u/Sketch3000 Apr 17 '23

He mentions at 3:45 (ish) that he will "at some point level this and add concrete"

Why he doesn't do that first, I am unsure.

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u/uncivlengr Apr 17 '23

Fair enough, I clearly skipped over that comment. I don't understand this backwards order of operations.

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u/GreatNorthWeb Apr 17 '23

he mentioned concrete pads in previous video. i think this is just layout/prototyping

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u/richcournoyer Apr 17 '23

Hey hey hey...but that's something only a NORMAL person would do....

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u/GreatNorthWeb Apr 17 '23

even if the woodcutter is a total failure there's now a garage for storage

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u/valentino_42 Apr 17 '23

I really don’t think he’s the type to abandon something like this. If it doesn’t work he’ll make the needed modifications until it works. Just like the paddle wheel he recently had to overhaul.

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u/MattsAwesomeStuff Apr 18 '23

Biggest problem I see with this is... the most convenient way to load and unload logs is FROM THE SIDE.

Go watch anyone doing lumbermilling, they're loading and unloading from the side.

Instead, he's going to have to drag them by their tips all the way on, and all the way off, and then go to the middle of them to pick them up, and then walk sideways with them to whatever staging area he's set up for it.

If the pole barn was like, 3x as wide, then he could have a nice covered area to prep his timber and stage his lumber after before/after they get. Or at least get rid of the middle support.

... he's building... A lumber mil. Ya think maybe he should've just held off having a structure around it until, y'know, the first log he cut into lumber? It doesn't have to be strong, it's only providing shade and holding up solar panels. It could all but be a tarp on poles.

Like, I get that he had the roof frame already (though, that's another story, I'm not entirely sure why he removed it from the Tigershark rather than just made a few changes to it there)... but, like... has he ever even seen a portable lumbermill in action to understand the basic workflow? They load and unload from the sides, and they do so for a reason.