swinger mill bestbier

[snowshoveler]

Totally by accident I have located a swinger mill.
Stopped at a local shipyard (I work on their chainsaws ) and found that they are using a Bestbier mill.
Its a good sized unit with a vtwin kohler on it.
Looks to be able to work on a 4 foot diameter stick of wood.
Anyone ever see one of these.
Its well out of my smarts, but would like to hear from others about it.
Thanks Chris 

[fishpharmer]

First I heard of them.  But there is a lot I haven't heard of ;).

Found this link...
http://www.bestbiersawmills.co.za/

[fishpharmer]

They have an interesting resaw design.
I just found this..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2FHQKnuNNXU&feature=youtube_gdata_player

[pineywoods]

different, edger and resaw all in one unit. It sounds like it's all circle saws, no bands. The mechanics would be interesting

[redbeard]

sgschwend (forum member)  His Brand X swing mill built in Montana by Jay Brand looks very similar and cutting head works the same.

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

I like the resaw  ;) I might have to build somthing similar Myself one of thse days   ;) :D ;D 8)

The head unit would be bloody  heavy but like they say on the site it is a two man settup  ;)

Reagrds Chris

[dancan]

They had it to cut some hardwood timbers for the Bluenose refit .



I talked to the mill builder , these ones are built in Nova Scotia for the North American market with the sawhead being imported from South Africa .
He will also build to suit for customers and offered to demo the mill and the resaw if I wanted to see them in the field .
I will be stopping by his shop to have a closer look .

[donny hochstetler]

thats a nice mill ,looks heavy built , I have a brand x,  looks very simialer, I would like to modify mine a little bit,  i"d like to fab a sidewinder of some sort,also the crank for the up n down gets awful tiring on the way up,down isn"t bad, all in all its a nice heavy built mill

[snowshoveler]

Thats the one thats in my backyard.
Looked to be a nice unit.
They were milling ironwood with it,pretty hard stuff.
Should make someone a good mill.
I would have liked to mill some pine at home with it but,as it turns out there is more than
a bit of hardware in this pine.
I hate people that put nails and eyebolts in trees.
Chris