Whats The Longest you have sawed on your mill ?

[Autocar]

 You have sawed on your mill ? Once I had a neighbor buy a old rail road tressel. It was yellow pine and fir ,but not real fimilar with fir,but know it wasn't western red. The timbers were 8x30's something, we sawed 44= 27 foot 2x8's on a Saturday morning. The fir was nice and light but the yellow pine would make your eyes bug out when you took them off the end of the rollers  ;D Those 8x 30's were bolted togather making a huge timber. There was creosote all the way though the boards and it was summer boy did the shed smell. The out side chuncks had alot of inbeded gravel but after cleaning them a little they sawed like a dream.

[Chuck White]

Now, those were some cuts!

The longest I've sawn on my LT40 is 20'.

[NWwoodsman]

I cut 32 footer now and then, could go out to 40 but haven't needed too. My Modil Deminsion gets a little bouncey on anything over 20.
Jason

[sigidi]

I've done 7.9m (26') bearers and beams a few times in good old Aussie hardwood they make ya eye's pop when you pick 'em up ;D so my 3x6 bearers and 2x6 beams weighed 102kg (224lb) and 68kg (150lb) respectively - no offsider for those guys either ;)

Here is a 7.9m log next to the mill...



and here is how much space I had at each end of the log when rolling it into my mill...





I don't get that particular now with log rolling, now I just slide one endframe out the way and roll the log in - much easier 8)

[bill m]

I sold some logs to a timber framer last winter that were 53 ft. and he sawed them on his wood mizer. I did not get to see them being sawn but saw them when they were done. 12" x 12" x 53 ft.

[Chuck White]

I sold some logs to a timber framer last winter that were 53 ft. and he sawed them on his wood mizer. I did not get to see them being sawn but saw them when they were done. 12" x 12" x 53 ft.

That can be done easy enough, but if you're going to do more than one or two of them, you should splurge and buy extensions for the sawmill.

You can buy extensions for a Wood-Mizer so that length is no obstacle!

[Ironwood]

40' x 5" x 40+" on a chain mill, one cut when the chain got "marginal" took seven tanks of gas in the 394's :

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

The longest timber i have sawn on different mills over the years looks like this  ;) You gotta love doing them as i have always found it different and a small challange which gives you a nice break from std sawing jobs  ;) ;D ;D 8) 8)

Jonsered 6000+ Band that i used in the log building business was around the 15.8 meres or 52' long mark for log building components

Lucas Mills on a 6-18 i have gone upto about 12 meters or 40' with a set of 6 and 8 meter tracks (but could have gone out to about 14m or 46' easy ) cutting hardwood,spruce and oregon building beams upto 2' square
And on the 10-30 atm im sawing 8.5 meter 28' long and have about 20m3 sawn or 8500bft to go on spotted gum bridge beams to go on my current job in spotted gum and ironbark in those lengths Allan im pretty lucky there mate i just slide the top connector pipe ou of the sizing and use two 2 ton slings on the florks of the loader and lift the logs in and the 10x10" or 10x8" beams out  as im getting two two of them plus a 10x6 or somthing like that out of the top cut out of ea girder Mate

Karas and Laimets both peak out at around the 9.2  meter 30' mark but you can push alittle longer 3 to 4' on an 8 meter table but its more of a pita than anything else  an intresting to say the least  ;) :D ;D 8) as you have to pich the log with the turner and then pull the carriage  back while the logs in the cut  all with your  still spinning as the hyd for the feed works mill runn of the saw shaft on most of them ;) :D ;D

the longest ive done on a 16' three knee Tess digital sizing carriage was about 28' long cypress posts and beams  from memory but i also had to skew the logs in through the opening between the posts on the mill shed as they where about 24' wide and thats about the longest ive done on any carriage over the years  ;) ;D ;D 8) 8)

Regards Chris

[customsawyer]

I've reached out to 50' on a few logs but I have 44' of sawmill if I had to do very many of them then I would just hook up my extra 12' of ext.

[Dave Shepard]

I've sawn 21' on the LT40. You have to get them on the mill just right. There is another LT40 about a half-mile through the woods from me with a 24' extension at a timber frame shop. I saw some long stuff being cut there last November.

[paul case]

18' but dont tell anybody .pc

[Meadows Miller]

18' but dont tell anybody .pc

Ill tell everyone Mate  ;) :D :D :D 16's are what i lke the most  botu any log will do Me Mate  ;)  :D :D ;D ;D 8) 8)

Regards Chris

[nas]

I sawed a 28' walnut for a timberframe on my 21' LT40.  If I had to do more than a couple I would buy an extension.

[fuzzybear]

48' on 32' track.... it wasn't fun. There were 4 of them that needed cut on the taper for cabin logs. Luckily the customer had a crane to help load and slide the logs back to finish the cuts.  I had to add extra bottle jacks along the length of the logs to keep the sag out to get an even level cut.  realigning the logs after the first section was cut wasn't as hard as I thought.  Still took half a day to do the 4 logs. 
  The guy was so happy he brought me 4 more that needed split in half.
I helped a friend 2 side 60' with an alaskan mill. The old 2100 was put through the paces that weekend. 

[scsmith42]

The longest that I "have" sawed was 44'.

The longest that I "can" saw is 58'. 

[tyb525]

Probably about 10 hours straight ;)

[pineywoods]

I did a couple of 30 foot 12X12 on a standard woodmizer lt40, BUT I had a fork lift and two brawny redneck helpers

[paul case]

tyb525,
was that on one log?pc

[Autocar]

Man alive some of you guys sawed some long peices  ;D

[customsawyer]

You notice no one is asking how long of a story some of us can tell. :D
Might be a neat contest but would take a lot of space.

[terrifictimbersllc]

This one about 22' I think.  The next one after that was 25 feet.  LT-40.

[paul case]

ok i will bite.maybe youall said before but i just gotta know how are you doing this on mills that dont cut that long? pc

[beenthere]

This one about 22' I think.  The next one after that was 25 feet.  LT-40.

What was sawn out of that 22' log? 

With the large knots and multiple sweep, I'm curious what wood product it produced.

[tyb525]

paul, no it wasn't one log, it was more like 10 18" walnuts :D. I've cut 13' on my LT10, max length is 11' (had to do some real maneuvering) (I wish WM would've spent the extra few $$ to make it 12'  :( :)

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Your Doing Well Ty  ;) ;D ;D just knock some extensions up yourself for the lt10 there have been acouple of good threds on the subject of lt15s over the last 12-18 months Mate  ;) I use to build mine in pairs 12' sections ea for the Jonsered as it only had a 16' cut as std with a 20' track  ;)

Probably about 10 hours straight ;)

;) :D :D :D Thats a good number there too Mate   ;D  ;D 8) any longer on a consistant basis and your starting to burn yourself out  Mate  ;) the longest run of Sawing ive done in one days about 16hrs plus about 1hr of saw maint the most hrs ive done in a weeks been the 110hrs but that was working 7 days a week running kilns in hardwood mill as well as being leading hand on the second shift Which kept me running around from about 6.30am till 9.30pm then a boiler check and a steam change at 12 to 1 am in the moning which took up another hour or so if all went well  ;) all for a whoping $650 clear a week  ??? : : those barstards  got their moneys worth outa me alrite over the 18months i was there  ;) :D :D :D

Auto its got more to do with not using the words. No I cant saw somthing that long  ;) often enough Mate  ;) :D :D :D

Jake i think preople dont question  because we are all strait shooters  ;) ;D 8) and theres no point being a Bs artist on here anyway  ;) 

I Reckon we all would be pushing to beat the longest piece of timber ive seen in a pic that came from a mill the West Coast or B.c  about the turn of last century which was 110' long sawn on a manual carriage  ;D 8) 8) ill try diging up the pick as i think its in one of my old industry mags  ;)

Rgards Chris