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Experience with LX250 or other super-wides

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Today at 11:25:48 AM
Written by Ews
Views: 19
Interested in folks who have experience with the LX250. Really the only bad thing I've heard about it is that the blade wheel size leaves you with a tradeoff - when you're really using the width capacity you can use a 0.055 for the smoothest cut and expect blades to break prematurely, or use a thinner blade and accept some wavy cuts. And you're limited to narrower blades based on the housing/roller design and lower HP motor.Read More

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Horizontal slab shaver.

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Today at 07:25:53 AM
Written by Dave Shepard
Views: 84
Many years ago I saw a horizontal slab shaver for sale on Sawmill Exchange. It was a slow speed, low hp (10 hp 3 phase) setup that would have been at the end of a conveyor. I have never been able to find another, and was wondering if anyone here had heard of them. I know there are Salsco machines today,...

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Thinking about the future....

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Yesterday at 08:54:22 AM
Written by yankeeredneck
Views: 709
Been about a year since I posted on here. A lot has happened ----- tore a tenon off the bone on my right arm last year --- had surgery and lost some mobility in it -- not much just 5% but enough to know I'm not the same. Still having to rehab the arm some.

Wife - who runs the mill more than me -- had surgery and has about 3 more months to go on recovery ---- I'm seeing that as much as I feel young -- our bodies say different. Read More

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Selling my portable 60" circle saw

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
May 15, 2024, 05:38:15 PM
Written by handhewn
Views: 679

My old sawing /mill partner and I are getting to old/tired (70s) to run the saw anymore. We want to sell the saw but we have no idea what price to ask. I looked on the "sawmills for sale sites" but I could find not anything similar. And, this is a circle saw and that's a whole different beast. The fact

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Stacking long lumber in a tight space

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
May 15, 2024, 04:32:53 PM
Written by WV Sawmiller
Views: 600
Well I learned a new technique to stack long (14' in this case) lumber in a tight space. I have a 5' add on to my barn with permanent crossbars built in to stack lumber. The bottom row even has the stickers permanently attached. It will hold a 4' wide stack with the barn wall on the back. It has a very low front head bumper you have to watch carefully when you stand up. I had 308 bf of mostly 1X12X14 boards from my last Whatcha sawing post I had not stacked and stickered yet. I cleared out the bottom deck to use for them. Read More

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