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Pine milling business idea (review please).

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Today at 07:41:55 AM
Written by TBrown99
Views: 78
After 4 years of messing with my LT-35H (almost 600 hours), mostly "at home" milling with some road experience, the idea is to keep it as simple as possible and highly specialized.

Description: 4 acres of mostly flat land in a highway village area in Vermont with 1500 sq ft. woodworking shop plus some outbuilding space. Nyle l-53 chamber. I'm starting to feel that I should try a business selling top grade white pine. It dries fast and is easier to handle than hardwoods and at the top quality categories it fetches close to what higher level hardwoods do. ($5/bf or higher.) Would go higher than "D select & better" and aim for virtually clear boards as the target market. Target formats would be:Read More

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LT-35 Flat Cuts - Seeking Verification on Technical Adjustments

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Today at 07:16:54 AM
Written by TBrown99
Views: 94
I recently spoke with WoodMizer tech support about some issues with my LT-35H and would like to get confirmation from the community about whether these technical recommendations are valid.

First point: I learned from WoodMizer that the saw head rail comes from the factory with a slight angled peak in the middle area. Tech support said this is an intentional design feature because the tire is in the way of where a center outrigger might go. They recommended going one click higher on the front outrigger to bend the main structural beam slightly, resulting in a flat rail. I tried this and it seemed to work. Is this a legitimate factory design feature and solution?Read More

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Sawing Speed Experiment

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Yesterday at 11:42:12 PM
Written by YellowHammer
Views: 277

I don't know how many, if any watch my videos, but I thought some of you might like this one. It was an experimental progression of several cuts through a 15 inch cant, sawing very slow to wavy fast, and looking at cut quality and sawdust ejection after each cut. The only thing I changed was sawing

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Tooth Desetting Roller Spacing

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Yesterday at 06:05:43 PM
Written by SawyerTed
Views: 255
After searching and reading off and on over the last several weeks, I have not seen a measurement for the gap between rollers on a tooth desetting device.

I run 0.045 blades and set at 0.025. My math and thinking tells me I should have less than 0.095 space between rollers. That's 0.045+0.25+0.25 or blade thickness plus left set plus right set. Read More

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What took so long?

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
March 19, 2025, 10:12:32 PM
Written by Magicman
Views: 1702

Another topic earlier this year rattled my chain and sent shopping:


Now I can only wonder what took so long?? I had tried a battery circle saw years ago which simply did not work. I just finished my first job with the "Hatchet" where my customer's wife cut all of the stickers to length. This thing

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