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[ANVILMAN]

Home built bandsaw            25 inch wheels....Honda Civic motor.. all hydraulic

[Magicman]

That sounds like a "bad" sawmill that your have ANVILMAN.  Welcome, and join us on some threads below.  You must have had some interesting experiences.  What part of BC?

[jcoleman]

TimberKing 1600, with hydraulic log loader, log turner and 20' length - cuts very well, but wish it had a bigger power-plant for my altitude 7,000 ft +

Kubota L4200 w/ forks, 40 Ford 9N

Makita/Dolmar 6401, Husky 272

[morbid fury]

Thomas 2411

[reprosser]

EZ Boardwalk Jr.

[fishpharmer]

Welcome to the forum reprosser.  Nice mill you have there!  Tell us about milling your first logs.

[wwsjr]

Added an ED26 WM Edger last week. One of the last Cat powered in stock. Picked up in GA last Friday. After 8 years of edging on the mill, I finally decided I could justify the cost. I cut about 75,000BF of mostly cypress in past year and have about that much on yard to cut now. I have found good part time help, so maybe the edger will be profitable.

[reprosser]

Welcome to the forum reprosser.  Nice mill you have there!  Tell us about milling your first logs.

Well, after I got home - I had to remove the mill from the wheels and set it up.




then I loaded a SYP log and made the first cuts to create a cant




Then cut some 2"-ish boards



Then I milled a white cedar, an oak, and a wild cherry log.

I posted a video of the mill cutting the cherry log on photo bucket, but I don't know if I can post links here.

I forgot to tighten the blade after starting up the next day, so I got to experience a diving cut...  :-[

I have been busy with priorities, but hope to get a bunch of timber milled before too long. Got the initial batch air dried and ready for the kiln.

[mandolin]

I operate a Hud-Son 228 that I set up on a concrete slab. Currently sawing pine to build my wife and me a house. It's all manual and I love it. I lost a lot of weight over the past summer and when people as me how I lost it I tell them, "Buy a sawmill and run it in Mississippi during the summer."

[boatmiser]

timberking 2000 with debarker and setworks

[paul case]

i had looked for a while, but when you are looking and have the money you never seem to find just what you want.
i had been looking for a heavy bumper pull trailer to haul my loader on and pull with my log truck. found 1! i will try to get pics next time i get loaded up to go to the woods.

its old but just right for my tractor. 3 axles8 hole wheels and 16'' tires. 20' deck and 5 foot dovetail with flip up ramps. steel treadplate floor.  it works real well.  pc

[timberjackrob]

woodmizer lt28 with power feed and log deck package.

[vfauto]

:)New to the sawmilling world,just received a TimberKing 1600 with hydralics and Debarker!Also a John Deere 4310 with forks.

[paul case]

well may i be the first to say''welcome to the forestry forum''.     pc

[timbatrader]

Hi recently bought a second hand Peterson Skill mill electric so not able to take to the logs 

[Wintergreen Mountain]

    2010 Turner Mills 36" Bandsaw Mill.
   


  I ordered it November 2009 and picked it up April 2010.
  Sawed about 5000bf so far and i am hooked on milling.

[Dewey]

I run a Timber Harvester  30 Ht  fully hydraulic  I have ran it part time for two years  and have been running it full time for 15..   I'm in Mid coast maine I saw White Cedar...  Also I have a Ford L8000 with a prentice 110 pulp loader,,,  A Michigan  Front end loader with forks  and deliver with a International flatbed...  Im new th this forum... its been alot of fun looking around..  

[paul case]

welcome dewey,
tell us a little more about you and your operation. pc

[Dewey]

  I saw fulltime until winter sets in...  then I switch to my plowing  and sanding  buisiness...  I like the combination it's nice to get the seasonal break...  I bought my mill while working full time..... Bussiness  picked up  fast  so I quit my 9-5 job to saw. I bought my mill new, and yes I'd like to get a new one..But it is is still sawing great  , I figure I have sawed 2.5 million BF with it....I have well over 10,000 hours on it....I have been sawing White Cedar now for 10  years

[vtdiy]

Hello all. Here's my homemade Simple Saw type band mill. The engine is a 10 hp Robin. I built it several years ago. Thinking about building another mill, swing blade this time.  (Homemade log arch shown, too.)

[tapper2]

I have a belsaw m14 and a homemade bandmill. They both work well. The Belsaw is pto powered with a 40" blade. The bandmill I built has an 8h.p. Honda, with a 28" max. log width.....biggest I've cut was 20. They are both slow going, low-key, but work very well.......and cheap to run.

[doghunter]

1960s era o frick, edmiston hydraulic turner, frick 2 saw edger ,powered by a 371 detroit

[cjfrank]

Ok from the stump,046,066 stihl's, late 70's Iron mule forwarder, 99' JD 250, 1958 JD620 two lunger, 1946 Model "A" JD, 1990 379 Peterbuilt w/ lemco 7000 loader, Allis chalmers 706 forklift, 1933 48" circle saw w/471 detroit, 2008 Woodmizer lt40 hydralic, late 80's? dixon two blade edger, and all the equipment to work with the wood when dry!!!!!!!!!!! dating from 1897 to 1999.

[eireog68]

old b20 mostly hydraulic and would like to make it all hydraulic

[paul case]

picked up a new to me lift 3 weeks ago.


picture is small , but so is the forklift. it works real well. its supposed to lift 3700 lbs but i believe it will pick up much more than that. i am going to try it on 20 ties and see how it does.
here is a pic of the trailer i bought last fall.




pc