Lucas VS Peterson dedicated slabber

[Walnut Beast]

The Peterson specifications are 6 to 20 slabs per hour depending on size. May be slow to a degree but in a days time you could get a pretty good jag of monster slabs. And portable. 

[Ianab]

The Peterson specifications are 6 to 20 slabs per hour depending on size. May be slow to a degree but in a days time you could get a pretty good jag of monster slabs. And portable.

That's the design idea. If you are just cutting smaller logs in your yard, they aren't really the machine you need. A LT 15W or EZ Boardwalk will slab 24" logs quicker.  THE chain slabbers are designed to be hauled out into the bush (or urban yard) to salvage large and potentially high value logs.

The logistics of moving a large log from the spot it fell usually make moving the mill to it a no brainer.  Then you start pulling off potentially $500 slabs. The Lucas guys were demoing their "super slabber"at a show a few years back. They had hauled in a BIG (8ft dia?) chunk of knotty / figured Kauri pine that had been left in the forest years ago. Sure it would have been an all day job to slab it up, but all the slabs were pre-sold, and by my rough calcs they would have been worth close to the cost of the whole mill. If salvaging that log was all you did that whole week, it would still be a good paying week.

But if that's not the sort of logs you have, then it's not the machine you need.