I have enough house heating wood stored away for almost two years . Have enough motor fuel stored for two years or more. I have been trying to give away the wood and I load it for anyone but no one wants it . I had so much sawmill slabs and cull logs that I was having trouble moving around the mill.
If I had some means to quench the fire I could have had a very big pile of charcoal but can’t get within 40 - 50 feet of the fire because of the heat.
More logs coming in very soon.
Dig a pit, with the loader and then the heat radiates up and not out towards you. Then you can use dirt to quench it as well.
It will have dirt in it, so it might not be that great for engine grade char but the best place to do it might actually be your garden. then you don’t have to dig it back out. It might retard growth for a year or two as microorganisms and the pH balance back out, but under several inches of dirt it may not, and it will hold a ton of water that roots will be able to access. It will also have tiny air gaps to promote aerobic conditions.
IF you don’t want to burn it, you can just bury it like the garden. but It does it anaerobically so it might promote bad microorgasms. I don’t know.
I edited the my response (in case you didn’t see it) Pine will work for gardening char and hugelkultur. While I am thinking about it, the ‘new’ way (current trend) to do weedless gardening is to use woodchips as the mulch. But you probably don’t have a shredder to make it. The carbon in your garden will help a -lot-. It applies to fields as well, but you don’t have that much wood.
OH and the last thing is if you make it into char, it would be good fuel for the First annual Argos Ox Roast.
Here I am trying to show some details on the saw, the wooden oak guides for the saw blade, cleaning and oiling the surface of the wheels with oil, here is a container shaped around the wheel, with some oil in it, a cotton strip is soaked in it, which slowly raises the liquid and emits it outside under the felt, … but there is also a starting mechanism and a three-phase capacitor for reactive energy compensation, so the conductors are less current loaded and the consumption is probably 10-20% lower
You could also use reduced voltage for starting. The 75kw induction furnace I had required a low voltage starter due to the mass of the generator. Mine was mechanical with a transformer but I have one from an old grain elevator I tore down decades ago, The elevator was set up to operate on single phase with line shafts. The low voltage starter was one that used rods in metal cups filled with salt water to have variable voltage to the motor as it started up.’
I only have 3kw 1450rpm on my band saw, it’s a bit too small.
I have a new 7.5kw 1450rpm motor, but only have 16amp fuses, any idea if I can use this motor?
I have the same sawmill that you have, the electric version, but I’m still running the bar and chain. Are you happy with your conversion to the bandsaw?
I am considering to make that conversion too but there is too many things to do before that so I don’t think that it will happen anytime soon.
I would try it first, fuses are cheap.
But there isn’t that much mass that needs to start spinning so I don’t think it needs it.
I could be wrong but like I said, fuses are cheap
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