Milling Basics
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I won't be milling til spring for sure, we got a lot of frigin snow in the last week.
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I like the .404 63 for milling personally. It is slower and takes out more kerf but it also holds up to dirty yard trees I get and oils better. Plus little more chain speed on my old low rpm saws. Cut off a small lag bolt buried in a maple log last summer and even though the chain got dull the teeth survived surprisingly well and only needed a little grinding to get sharp again. Was a 1/4 or 5/16 lag and I caught the square head of it in the cut I’ll have to get picks off my old phone.
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Man I hope I don’t run into stuff like that. Most of what I’ll be milling will be taken off of my own land.
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Never know, lots of the big trees have been around for 100+ years. And personally I try for the large trees my friends take down in town. If I’m making live edge slabs I try to get 30” or bigger diameter trees but take smaller also. Now I have a band mill for doing the smaller wood. Make 1” boards for trim pieces to sell with slabs and pine/spruce 2x4’s for building ect. So no choice but to deal with tree house trees and other stuff.
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Liking this thread so far. Just got my holzfforma 36" mill and got it assemble. Now I just need to find some big wood.
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I don't have a granberg to compare to. But it is a pretty simple stuff. Nothing was missing. Actually had some extra stuff. I will give a better review whenever I find something to mill
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Where’s this axe handle thread you speak of
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Semi chisel or full chisel ?
If full chisel, was it square ground/filed ?
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All round filed and mostly semi chisel, I don’t really know how to square file at the moment and I do my touch ups on the mill. Use a 12 volt and sharpen chain on mill for the day then at end of day I’ll swap chain. Still carry a few spares in case I hit a screw or rock ect but faster to touch it up and keep milling vs swapping chains.
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Yes sir! Now I just need 1 more 28” bar for my 288. Oh and another 18” bar for my soon to be running 254...crap. Lol
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Those are sweet looking bars! I need to get me some.
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