Sawing logs longer than the mill on a WM LT40

[zopi]

Me, I would tackle that with a chainsaw mill...

Had a guy approach me once about doing a forty foot sailboat mast...would have been happy to do it but told him he would have to buy me twenty five feet of bed extension...lol...the one advantage of the lt-15....

[carykong]

Has anyone laid a roller bed on top of the saw bed of their mizer to ease the movement of the cant when cutting a length beyond the capacity of their mill? just curious.

[losttheplot]

I lift the cant up with a pry bar and slide a piece of 2 inch pipe under it.

[Chris Burchfield]

pnyberg, thanks for the thread.  I've seen other threads about cutting longer than the mill.  They seemed to be an awful lot of hassle.  I've seen the way my blade will dive on occasion and I'll increase the coolant and bumping the head height to regain control, till I'm out of a cut.  If I don't it will smoke.  What I never noticed in other threads is how Dan Shade will rise out of a cut.  Makes total sense to me.  Thanks to Dan Shade also.