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Thoughts on cutting a Bois D'Arc tree.

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 31, 2025, 05:11:02 PM
Written by DocGP
Views: 625
My uncle has one about 18" at the base, and 14" at the 8 ft mark. It will only make one 8' log, but it should be a nice one. I don't need it, but how would you cut it?? Probably will slab it 8/4, but looking for other thoughts.

Probably stack it on stickers under the barn, with rachet straps, to air dry. Read More

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Opinion on pros and cons of chainsaw chain

Posted in Forestry and Logging
March 30, 2025, 07:18:50 PM
Written by Swift1230
Views: 577
Newbie here. Thanks for the add to your site. I have owned a couple Stihl saws in the past. I just purchased my first Husqvarna 450 rancher with the 20" bar and the sp33g nk chain. I'm looking to upgrade the chain to something a little more aggressive. It is the 80dl .325 .050. I'm looking...

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Best Belt

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 30, 2025, 04:24:02 PM
Written by Buswork
Views: 496
What is the best brand drive belt for TimberKing 2000, B56 number.?

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Rough Sawn Lumber Sizes?

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 30, 2025, 09:41:25 AM
Written by whittle1
Views: 881
Just curious what widths you are cutting SYP to off the sawmill to end up with a
5 1/2" board after Kiln dried and edged. I recently cut to 6" wide and will go to 6 1/2 in the future. A couple problems I had was the few boards that had even a small amount of sweep would not clean up. The other was when edging on the sawmill stacking eight 1" boards the blade was just skim cutting, still cut straight but blowing sawdust all over me.Read More

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Probably the last Ash logs I'll ever mill

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 30, 2025, 02:06:51 AM
Written by Brad_bb
Views: 974

Today I finished cutting up this 18' Ash log. I got it last summer from another local sawyer along with 4 others. This was the biggest and after Bibby'ing down the butt end I was able to take a flitch off each side with my mill head at the max height. In the first pic, one flitch was taken off and

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