thanks, my great-grandmother took hundreds, it's treasure.
That’s what I’m talkin about!
RE if it's worth dragging to the mill/vs Alaska mill in place... Depends on volume, BUT you still have to drag the boards out. Likely more in and out trips than just dragging the log out.
Not the best. But what kind of volume/lengths are you looking at? I’m envisioning you are wanting at least 12’ logs.
So you are inquiring as to whether an Alaskan mill would be a better option for milling than a Woodmizer bandsaw mill. No offense, but that is about as clueless as it gets and a strong indication that you guys have no clue as to what you are getting into..
A fucking D6 for 8ft logs. Thanks for the laugh son!
As long as you keep running your mouth concerning things you have zero experience and knowledge about, I am gonna continue setting you straight. I encourage you, as well as everyone else, to read this thread from beginning to end..You have gone from blowing up a toy saw while using an alaskan mill, to a 100 acre parcel, harvesting timber, milling lumber, and skidding with a fucking D6. Nonsense from beginning to end.
Yes. Read.
Hey Rico -- sounds like you have some hostility toward a young man who is ambitiously interested in the profession. I've seen a wide array of engaging posts from "Treesap" and have a clear sense that encouragement and mentoring would be favorable to bashing and criticism.
you're cute when you get all passionate. I'm curious on how much they intend on doing on 100' acres, and if an Alaska mill isn't such a bad idea, good production equipment is very different from someone who wants to make a tool shed with pops..
Well he did say they wanted to do "mill allot", then followed it up saying it was "like 5 trees". He also wants to mill with an Alaskan mill yet he needs a fucking D6 to skid logs? He says his father wasn't keen on the idea of a Woodmizer bandsaw mill, then all of the sudden his father wants to put in on a concrete slab and build a roof for it? Kid talks in circles, and I can smell the bullshit from all the way out here on the west coast.
Gosh Meta, I believe that in my own special sort of way I suggested that this kid and his father were woefully unprepared to start harvesting timber and milling lumber..I believe I also suggested that they really needed to go spent some serious time around folks who actually do this sort of thing for a living...Hell, I even gave them some hints on the sort of stuff they really needed to know before they started throwing a bunch of money down the drain...You know, the basic shit like actually knowing how to properly fall and buck timber, skid logs, and mill clean straight lumber....
Slight detail on this thread. First off, I want a skidder like that, but all of our golf-course-lawn customers might start shooting if we drove that across their lawn...
Once the log is locked and loaded you don't touch it...The log is milled from top to bottom, and from left to right..Since it is a swing blade mill you can at any point in the log choose to mill flat sawn or vertical grain lumber...After you learn a few tricks it can spit out perfect lumber at a pretty rapid rate. The biggest downside for some is the fact that there is no automation, so it can be fairly physical.
Thank you. That’s about how I was guessing it worked, but wasn’t sure. I definitely like the idea though, and the unlimited log size - we have had to split logs with gunpowder to saw them on the circular mill because they could not be cut.
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