been eyeballing a tk 1200 add

[m wood]

havent been able to get a response from advertizer yet, so no detailed info on THIS mill.  I found ONLY ONE youtube video of an older 1200 that was modified to a power feed.  dont care about that right now...but can that crank handle feed be by-passed to a simple push/manual feed?
thanks

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Should be easy enough if you want manual feed to take it of either just remove the rope or chain you could just unbolt the whole show Mate  ;) I take it  the one your looking at is S/Hand and has the crank feed on it   ???

Regards Chris

[LeeB]

You can push it by hand easy enough. I would leave the handle on though. I used to have one and used it for about 6 years before upgrading to a bigger mill. They are good little mills and I cut a lot of wood with mine. I would use the crank to saw and pull back by hand for the next cut. The crank gives you a lot of speed control when going through knots and such. I also just pushed by hand about as often as I used the crank.