The instructions are in pictures, not words. The pictures are laser printed and are quite clear. Sort your hardware and pieces and you should have it figured in no time. Step 1, mount the angle pieces to the center of the cross over so they come together at the center. Once tightened, the dog goes between them. If it's tight, start the dog at an angle and with light pressure it will go in. The cross overs mount to the rail via the square screws. Wing nuts are used on the connector pieces. It will all make perfect sense once you start using your mill.
The 3' lengths are all 3', the gaps people see or the bends people see is because the cross overs are not square to the rail. A measuring tape and/or square fixes the problem.
You can start with a perfectly assembled rail, when you start adding, subtracting sections, moving the dogs and levelers around to the length of your log, it will, after awhile resemble a snake. A small gap or curve in the rail is not an issue, you are leveling the rail from to back and side to side, if the rail makes a slight curve or you have an 1/8 gap, it will not bother your mill a bit. I do keep a cheap joist square and measuring tape when it gets out of hand. If all you are doing is 8.6 logs on a 9' rail, use a lock washer or light thread lock or have the joints welded. Lengths are assembled the way there are because of people like me that add and subtract 3' sections at a time and do multiple logs a day. It is designed that way for quick adjustment. The nature of the beast, vibrations will start to back out wing nuts and we've caught a couple of leveling screws that backed out. Bees wax is the best answer for what we are doing as the rail is indeed being adjusted that often. This is not a design, engineering or manufacturing flaw. All rail systems are about the same.
Per one review about the dogs being cheap...the only way to bend one going in is with a big hit at a bad angle. They are stabalizers, there is no reason to drive them in hard. A little tap with the back of a hatchet and they are home. You do have to be careful prying them out sometimes, don't use your rail as a lever especially near a connector. Common sense and don't drive the dog into the log as if it's a railroad spike. Female (me), back of a hatchet, light tap, it's in. 1" wide, 18" long, under the rail, quick tap, they are out.
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Worked OK
Takes a while to set up just right. The rails are thin aluminum and have a lot of flex. The spikes on it are soft metal, and bent the first time I hammered them into the log. After using them on several logs, I made my own out of steel. They work much better. See photos.I would not recommend buying these.
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Reviewed in the United States on August 7, 2019
