Home Made Mills

[quietfly]

looks great. I'm using wood blocks for spacers too, just so i'm as close as i can be to parallel.

 

[tree monkey]

pair of 2071's ported

 

[Mastermind]

Scott, you are all over the milling forum lately. Thanks for sharing your stuff.

 

[Mycamaro_68]

what do you guys think of this guys setup? I found this video and thought that it would be an easy setup to at least start out with.

Edit: I would at the very least add a handle to it instead of pushing with my foot.

 

[Wagnerwerks]

Lol... I plan on using my foot for sure!

Edit...
My wife would probably love to video me cutting for along time... Over my dead body.

 

[Wolverine]

I watched that video early on looking for tips and tricks. I'd love to have some of that lumber!!! I can't comment on his rig, seems to work pretty good except for the lack of handle, like you stated. I'd imagine the all-thread rod has some flex.

 

[HighSierras]

His homemade mill would work fine, but, geez, his body position is terrible. There's no reason to tweak your body like that. Milling is tiring enough as it is. Adding a handle in the middle of the mill and raising one end of the log would go a long way toward not destroying yourself.

 

[VinceGU05]

Always try to cut green. Dry wood is very tough to mill. The wood coming off the chain when milling resembles the dust from a circular saw. When dry its worse and makes things 100x harder all the way around.

so thats why i was struggling the other day. 2 year old dry blackbutt gum.