WM LT40 HD or Super HD?

[BBTom]

no possibility,  it rides on bearings and they are all adjustable, in fact it is part of the alignment procedure.   just loosen 4 nuts and tighten 4 nuts to make the change.  If you think you are going to bend the main tube on a woodmizer by sawing logs, you got another think coming.  You might be able to if you have a really bad accident at high speed on the freeway, but that applies to any mill of any type.  My mill trailers so nice, I hardly know it is back there. 

Keep asking, you don't learn if you don't ask.

[ladylake]

  Dean herring,
  Not that we are all Wood-Mizer salesmen on the forum, but I'll give you another reason to get one. I just finished sawing close to 5500 bd/ft for a customer this week. He offbeared almost every piece of lumber off of that mill himself. Anyway, he apparently had a portable sawyer at his place a few years back who had a four post mill(he doesn't remember the manufacturer). He made mention how aweful it was to pull lumber from the mill towards the end of the day with the 4 post head having to lean over to grab every board. With the WM bed design being trapezoidal, you don't have to do that. Another plus is that boards can be pulled off before the mill returns back to the front of the mill.... the cantilever design has more positives than negatives going for it for sure!

That can go either way as lots of my customers say to like the way my TK offloads better than the   WM mills they used to have saw their lumber.   Steve

[hunz]

  Dean herring,
  Not that we are all Wood-Mizer salesmen on the forum, but I'll give you another reason to get one. I just finished sawing close to 5500 bd/ft for a customer this week. He offbeared almost every piece of lumber off of that mill himself. Anyway, he apparently had a portable sawyer at his place a few years back who had a four post mill(he doesn't remember the manufacturer). He made mention how aweful it was to pull lumber from the mill towards the end of the day with the 4 post head having to lean over to grab every board. With the WM bed design being trapezoidal, you don't have to do that. Another plus is that boards can be pulled off before the mill returns back to the front of the mill.... the cantilever design has more positives than negatives going for it for sure!

That can go either way as lots of my customers say to like the way my TK offloads better than the   WM mills they used to have saw their lumber.   Steve

Touche',  Notice which design is patented and which isn't. There is no shortage of 4 post mill manufacturers.

[Brucer]

There is one sawmill make and model that is perfectly suited to your business. Since I don't have a clue what your business is, or how it is set up, I can't tell you what that one make and model is .

Of course you can go and try out various sawmills (I recommend it), but what are the chances that the owner will have exactly the same business configuration that you will have?

Even when you end up with just the right mill for your operation, what are the chances that you will keep on doing things the same way, year after year?

The fact is, most of the time "close is good enough". And if you find that your business has gone in a completely unexpected direction and your mill is no longer good enough, well then, sell it and buy one that suits you better. I did ;D.

[Finn1903]

Wow, surprised to see my old post come back up.  Well, since I never ran a 4 poster, I would just have to say what I like about the WM design,
Changing the bands are easy when the mill is near either end based on the trapezoid design. 
The hydraulics have more uses then you can imagine, from turning a log using the claw and clamp, holding flitches that need edging, flipping flitches, pulling logs, loading logs..ect
I don't notice the mill behind the truck and the mill just back so well I probably could parallel park the truck and mill on a busy city street.  I once turned around on a two lane road by backing the mill into a drive way to execute a 3 point turn, granted it was dark and the road was busy.  Sure people had to stop but not long.
I do wish the 40 came with a chain turner instead of the claw turner, but that is what the 50 is for.  WM is good at offering a range of products to jump up to!

[Magicman]

Claw vs chain both have advantages as well as disadvantages. 

[Finn1903]

Claw vs chain both have advantages as well as disadvantages.

Magic, your right, I am sure I would say something bad about the chain turner if I had one.
Hey, the claw turns the log allot easier than my cant hook.