LT40 WIDE

[John S]

Is anyone here milling with the new LT40 WIDE?  I am thinking about upgrading from LT40HDG28 to a wide with the Yanmar 35hp and am looking for reviews.  I am not concerned about the limited reach of the debarker, just curious about the performance of the mill.  Thanks.

[tawilson]

I got one last week with the 35hp gas engine. My first mill so I don't have anything to compare it to. But I  love it.

[tawilson]

It has cut nice boards even with my rookie mistakes, like forgetting to tighten the blade. The only waves I've gotten are from trying different speeds to see how fast I can push it. And that was from hitting knots. The next knotty log I put on I'll slow it down to see how it does.

[Darrel]

Wide is something I'm also interested in learning more about. I think I can see a new mill in my future and I'm thinking wide. I can't tell you how many times I've needed just a little bit more. I'm sure if I did go wide, there would be times that I needed just a bit more, but I'm also sure that it wouldn't be nearly as often.

[John S]

Yes, I had a job this week where the extra six inches would have saved lot of chainsaw cuts and blade backing out, but as you (Darrell) mentioned the same could happen to a WIDE with a larger log.

[woodworker9]

I've gotten to a point where the extra 6" wouldn't be enough.  I love my LT40, but I have passed on quite a few logs because they were just too big, and now the source of logs is upset because I'm not taking what he has to get rid of, so to keep the relationship going, I'm going to take them, keep them up off the ground, sealed well, and figure out what to do next.

I see a sawmill build in my future, more along the lines of 60" capacity.  I can't afford to plunk down the $$$$$$$ big money it would cost for a commercially made saw to do that. 

[jmouton]

we are hopefully buying a new mill within a year and we are definitly getting the wide option,,needed it in the past alot,,,make bigger slabs for tables and such,,,bigger is better right??


                                                                                                          jim

[4x4American]

I think that the "wide" should just be the standard.  I also think that on the wide models they should have longer side supports to handle the bigger logs.  Because trying to square up a large log with alligator arms is difficult. 

[AdamT]

I pick up my new Wide 40 Thursday morning. It will have the 35 HP yanmar.
Being an existing WM owner I got the discount that pretty much paid for the wife head option. Looking forward to it. Been without my own mill for too long.

[Magicman]

I got the discount that pretty much paid for the wife head option.

I need that option to keep my wife's head straight.   :D

[John S]

MM, I was wondering about that also!!!

[Darrel]

Hey AdamT, let us know how that wife head option works out for you. :D

[Magicman]

Kinda like; "I know that you believe you understand what you think I wrote, but I'm not sure you realize that what you think that you read is not what I meant." 

[paul case]

With discounts she will save you right into the poor house. ;D

PC

[thechknhwk]

How much is that option, do you have to upgrade to new wife?

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Y'all keep on and your gonna all be in the po house.

[4x4American]

Y'all keep on and your gonna all be in the po house.

IDK, I think with the wide option it enables folks to sell $400 slabs instead of measely $300 ones  ;)

[AdamT]

Hahahaha! Gotta love autocorrect on an iPhone. 

Unfortunately my "wife head" has cost me more in the long run than the discount given by woodmizer. But well worth the extra cost!!!

[jmouton]

i will sure try to get more for slabs,,    ,4x4...  i know you were not talking about us but we sell some big slabs for 300 also,,so 400 it is, wider is better

[MartyParsons]

Hello,
  Here are some pictures at the last show.


  

  

  

  

 

We found this little Walnut crotch piece in the burn pile.  ;).


Marty

[4x4American]

Looks good, is that Barry?  Hard to see on my phone in the sun .. the caption under the first picture should say still not wide enough lol lol

[John S]

Hey Marty, is that a standard (non-super) LT40 with the Yanmar 35hp?

[red]

Yes that is Barry

[POSTON WIDEHEAD]

Good pictures Marty. Thanks

[Peter Drouin]

Barry does get around, 8)