Cody Colston
11-11-2015, 10:21 AM
Two points here. I use water with a couple ounces of Cascade dishwashing liquid and a couple ounces of Pinesol per gallon. My mill had sat idle all summer and evidently the Pinesol had settled out and turned into Pine sap. I had to disassemble the two valves on the lube line and clean them out with a stiff wire in order to get the lube to flow.
The other point is that when sawing SYP, I found that keeping a rapid drip of lube going while sawing and then opening the control valve for a few seconds of heavy flow after every log kept the band basically clear of sap. I only used a couple of gallons of lube for 1500 bf of 4/4 pine and kept the band clean.
The other point is that when sawing SYP, I found that keeping a rapid drip of lube going while sawing and then opening the control valve for a few seconds of heavy flow after every log kept the band basically clear of sap. I only used a couple of gallons of lube for 1500 bf of 4/4 pine and kept the band clean.