Bandsaw log sled

It looks good to me, but I think you are going to end up building an out feed table.

Your sled looks very useful but the Turkeys really have my attention.

-- F.Little

Are those Wild turkeys??

-- Have Fun! Joe Lyddon - Alta Loma, CA USA - Home: http://www.WoodworkStuff.net ... My Small Gallery: http://www.ncwoodworker.net/pp/showgallery.php?ppuser=1389&cat=500"

isn’t it exciting to see a .. hmmm .. flock.. of turkeys?
And boy, can they run fast!

-- ~ Debbie, Canada (http://www.execulink.com/~yohan)

Good for you snowdog.
It makes posting projects worth the effort if it helps somebody else.
Couple of things I might add:

I cut a short strip of metal that engages the log with a couple of screws in the adjustable end to keep the piece from rolling during the initial cuts.
I find it bites the log farther downtoward the center and stabilizes the cut for me.

Yesterday I needed to cut a small log ( 5 + “) and found it would not reach the clamp. I used a couple of 2×4 pieces and got it done but now it think I should make a fill piece to hold the smaller pieces up in the clamp.
I suppose I could cut holes down lower and it would do the same thing.
The outfeed table really helps with the weight distribution with bigger logs so I recommend you do it before you break a blade or worse. <g>

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

This looks like a great idea! One day when I get a bandsaw, I’ll have to build one :).

-- Robb

Yes they are wild turkeys, I really love living up in the woods. It makes working for “da man” almost worht the waste of time it really is :)

Bob I do want to make that extended clamp but I am not set up yet for mettle. I don’t even have a drill press yet. I have been looking around for a used one.

I wish I know what the wood was :)

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

Hi snow dog:
About the wood:
You dont tell us what the leaves look like . (Is it coniferous or deciduous)
There is no closeup of the cross section of the trunk
There is no close up of the bark.
There is no close up of the grain.
I dont know where youl live to narrow down the possible species.
It’s pretty tough to make a guess just looking at a computer screen.
It could be Elm????
Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Actually, it looks like DINNER!

Oh the wood! LOL! Looks like pine but that’s a best guess. Lets see the leaves or needles.

-- Bob Vila would be so proud of you!

My guess is it is from a Willow Tree

-- Making sawdust is what I do best

I was told it was hickoryby a local tree guy yesterday when eh dropped off log lengths for fire wood, hard and heavy as lead. YOU wont belive what he dropped in my yard. hard Maple, cherry, birch.. it is to much to save. I’ll pull a few chunks but most will go to BTUs :(

-- "so much to learn and so little time"..

I like the looks of your sled – have been going to build one as we have a few pieces to slice up. I would opt for either hickory or elm as to your wood.
Thanks also Bob for your improved thoughts on the sled

-- cronk, oregon

Back when I was a kid we had a forest with a lot of birch trees. I always thought I’d be like the Indians and build a birch bark canoe.

That bark looks a lot like how I remember birch looked.

My neighbor just downed a tree and I got a few of his pieces. My sled is a lot smaller. 30” is about the longest I can use and 10” diameter about the thickest. I think I got it out of WOOD magazine. I use lag bolts to hold the wood in place on the sled. But yours is a LOT heftier.

-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.

Sawdust, that’s the birch they call “paper” birch.
They sewed the joints with green wood fiber and then tarred inside and out with spruce pitch.

Bob

-- A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner

Thanks. This gives me some ideas to improve on my sled.

-- Bruce from Central New York

new to the party, and way too late, but on the smaller diameter logs, why don’t you simply drill a new set of holes for the clamp an inch or so below the current ones?

-- Ned - 2B1ASK1 http://nedswoodshop.blogspot.com

great pics! looks like how i started- love the turks too!!

Pecan!

-- Drink once, cut twice. New website up.... lazylarrywoodworks.com.au

Holy cow, get the gun, there’s a flock of turkeys in the back yard…..........dinner time.
just jokin…..I actually raise turkeys….well, I do hunt them also.
I wish I had a band saw big enough to re-saw my own lumber. I only have a 14” and am very limited.

-- Built in a Barn Bob