Sawmills, sawmill buildings, drying sheds, and kilns... show your pictures!

[bindian]

Thanks. Yes to both. I retired 8 years early when I took a covid early retirement from Southwest Airlines. After 28 years with them............I took their 12 months pay and paid insurance retirement package and ran. Been sawing and paying my bills, with lumber sales, ever since.
hugs, Brandi

 

[s219]

Early retirement to saw lumber, sounds like my dream...

 

[bindian]

Early retirement to saw lumber, sounds like my dream...

It is awesome. But it is not all good dreams, as I am working hard at staying retired. It really hurts when your diesel on the mill (the whole mill) has to go to the diesel specialist for Tier IV issues. Which is where I am at right now.
hugs, Brandi

 

[Rustyiron]

Dang, I thought that crap was only on higher horsepower equipment. And here I've been jonesing for a diesel mill.
It's got to be fairly simple (computer wise) and be not to hard to delete that junk.
Hope you get it squared up and back to sawing.

 

[bindian]

Dang, I thought that crap was only on higher horsepower equipment. And here I've been jonesing for a diesel mill.
It's got to be fairly simple (computer wise) and be not to hard to delete that junk.
Hope you get it squared up and back to sawing.

I said Tier IV, but I think it is an electrical problem. I have replaced or cleaned my fuel system up to the injector pump. Including the electric pump. Still has intermittent rpm issues. When I can get it up to full rpm, it stays and runs great until I disengage the autoclutch and it goes to idle. It may idle at the correct rpm, if not............I re engage the autoclutch and it may or may not go back to full rpm. Can't do serious sawing that way. So hopefully, they got working on it Friday afternoon. I will know more tomorrow. Their electrician says there are 5 connectors that act up if dirty. Not a more dirty enviroment then sawdust flowing around the engine.

It is completely electronic, so it has to be hooked up to Yanmar's service computer program to straigthen any faults out.................at $149 an hour. It doesn't use diesel exhaust fluid. Don't think I would ever go back to gas. Maybe some day 3 phrase electric!
hugs, Brandi

 

[Rustyiron]

Yanmar's good stuff, I've got one in a 115hp skid steer. Not a lick of trouble but it's pre emissions. It seems like all the previously very reliable manufacturers are wrestling with this mumbo jumbo requirements. Still reliable underneath the emissions BS.

 

[bindian]

I didn't realize Yanmar made skid steers. I knew they made excavators. What model Yanmar do you have?
hugs, Brandi

 

[Rustyiron]

Brandi it's a Gehl SS and they used the Yanmar back then. With the "tier" increase they went to Cummins then Deutz I think. Yanmar bought ASV I think for the US market and distributors and their big machine is up to around 130hp, it's got a Yanmar in it.

 

[bindian]

Got it. Thanks for clarifying.
hugs, Brandi

 

[bindian]

Got my sawmill back from the engine shop. Nothing found but lots of debris and some water in the tank. I had removed the sawmill's tank and flushed it out two weeks ago, so the debris and water was from one 5 gallon can. So my nice 116 gallon non metal fuel storage tank with a lid and pump must be the bad guy. Bad thing about this tank is after I won the bid on it at RBAuction in Houston, I realized it doesn't have a sump drain. So I will be getting rid of it.

They put fresh fuel in and ran over 30 minutes with no problems. They also put Agri Clean fuel additive in. Says it mulsifies the water in the fuel, so little water droplets instead of a big blob going thru the injector pump, if it gets in at all now.
Until I get my fuel storage tank cleaned out, I will have to strain fuel into a five gallon bucket, then pour it into a fuel can with a strainer funnel and leave any water at the bottom of the bucket. I got abut 100 gallons of it with Power Service in it. Don't want to mix the Power Service and the Agri Clean together, so fueling will be a whole 'nother ball game for awhile.

So RustyIron..................it wasn't anything related to the Yanmar and it being TIER-IV. It just doesn't do well on not so clean fuel....................like my older broke in machinery.
hugs, Brandi