| I thought some may be interested in some more chainsaw fun.
The AWP decided the high winds were a bit too much, and decided to shed it's fibreglass blades... they shattered into fiberglass shards.. it must be the last thing to replace in this mill and it's electronics I think.
The blades broke off, and we decided to make some decent wooden blades and be done with it. We were pretty leisurely about it, as he had a twin lister diesel to supplement the power for the duration the mill was out of commission, and a KW of solar......so we threatened to do something real soon.... but didn't.... Murphy was to have none of that.
After a few days of diesel power and sunlight, the Lister's sump filled up with diesel, and the sun stopped shining.... and the forecast was for bleak and overcast for days to come....suddenly all three power sources were down for the count... something had to be done... and sooner rather than later.
So we selected a decent sized Macracarpa log which looks like this:
We hacked into it with Jamies 28" chainsaw and fashioned some very very rough planks,and lots of offcuts too:
You can see an offcut slab left behind as well as these offcuts:
Unfortunately I didn't take pics of the manufacture of the 10" X 2" planks . We cut squared up and true planks from the the slabs using the chainsaw jig method,.... that method can be found here: http://www.thebackshed.com/Windmill/FORUM1/forum_posts.asp?TID=1194&PN=2] and then using the same jig method with a few of Danb's angles we cut the blades out.
As it turned out we were in a hurry to get some power flowing at his place, so the camera was the last thing to remember....Usually he has too much power, ...but suddenly everything was out and we didn't want the Batteries to suffer too much.
So it didn't take long to have the mill flying again. I went back up there today to take pics of them, So now we have fixed the injector pump on the Lister, and built , balanced and installed the blades...... of course the sun is shining brilliantly and the solar is putting out 1KW instead of a few hundered watts, the mill steadily putting out another KW. or more..... and the dump load working overtime again...... sigh.... it never rains but it pours.
[:)]
(and more happy neighbours too)
...............oztules
Note. I had to create another account to post pictures, I just couldn't face the nightmare of all those jumbled files again.... :( |
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