Best Big slab mill

[mmtrees]

What is the preferred big slab mill?

Easy to setup and use?

[terrifictimbersllc]

What do you mean by a big slab?

[DR Buck]

I think you need to provide more specifics.    Aside from how big how much do you wan to spend?

[Ianab]

Yeah... Best.....
Cut Size?
Cost?
Portability?
Speed?

Get different answers depending on your criteria. 

Woodmizer make a big "headrig" that will slab up big logs a treat. Great machine, but it's neither cheap nor portable. 

Lucas make a portable chainsaw slabber that can cut ~9ft wide. Not as fast as the WM, and a bit more kerf loss. Cheaper, more capacity, and more portable.

Most of the swing blade mills have very portable slabber options that clip on their regular mills for slabbing 5-6' dia logs. So you can have a machine that can cut boards OR slabs from oversize logs, AND can be carried on a pickup. 

A bit more info about what YOU need to don will help narrow down what's best for YOU....

[SawyerTed]

Preferred?  I would prefer the WM1000. 

[longtime lurker]

Preferred?  I would prefer the WM1000.

Neah too slow.

[SawyerTed]

Prefer is 100% subjective.....

[Jack Lilley]

Matt Cremona on youtube.

[JB Griffin]

That mill is painful to watch. Feed rate of inches per minute.  :D

[Dave Shepard]

Preferred?  I would prefer the WM1000.

Neah too slow.

Too slow compared to what other mill that can cut a five ton log that's 67" wide?

[JRWoodchuck]

Yoshihiro Sasada's mill cuts pretty quick and real big.