What? No bandsaw milling threads?

[Dustin4185]

We’ve been eyeballing a local mill for work. It’s a Woodmizer, but a manual smaller mill. It would be used for shed building lumber and such around here. I believe it is a LT15 with extended bed. A local guy bought it to build a barn and now wants to move it along. It only has 85 hours on it or so.

 

[Sawdust Man]

We’ve been eyeballing a local mill for work. It’s a Woodmizer, but a manual smaller mill. It would be used for shed building lumber and such around here. I believe it is a LT15 with extended bed. A local guy bought it to build a barn and now wants to move it along. It only has 85 hours on it or so.

Those are very good mills.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sawed up these oaks today....




Made cants then re sawed em into 1x6s....






Finished the order....600 boards later...

 

[Mastermind]

Sawed up these oaks today....

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Made cants then re sawed em into 1x6s....


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Finished the order....600 boards later...

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Nice !!!

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sawed up a big un today.
Making 3/4" x10 siding boards.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sometimes when I have a dirty log and a mostly dull blade....

I'll take a slab off all four sides, then turn it 45° and whack the corners off to get rid of the grit....then I can put a fresh blade on and make lumber.
Especially useful on bigger wood where you need a good sharp blade for the wide cuts getting it down to cant size.



I'll move the blade up and down to follow the contour of the log, so as not to lose any yield...








Sometimes if I have only a bit of wane on the corners I'll just use a chainsaw and clean it up that way.....

 

[Mastermind]

I've been looking at a debarker for a chainsaw.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I've been looking at a debarker for a chainsaw.

I have one....of the log-wizard variety.

They work pretty okay....kinda.
Blades get dull fast on real dirty logs, and of course it doesn't work well at all after it's dull.
It's surprisingly heavy and kills my left elbow holding it up.
It kinda has a mind of it's own as far as controlling where it goes on the log.
Makes a gimongus mess.
Doesn't work very well on dead dry oak bark.
Works very well on live/fresh pine bark.
Doesn't work well on very thick bark.
It's great for logs that have just a few dirty spots.
It's currently mounted on an old 026 that requires 30 pulls to start....but that's my fault.

Bottom line is, I should probably use it more than I do...

 

[Fleethirte]

i asked my father in law if he wanted to go in on a bandsaw mill together.
well without giving me a answer he randomly orders the woodland HM130 And says I just ordered this.
im like, I thought we could go in together and he says well now you don’t have too….

 

[Sawdust Man]

i asked my father in law if he wanted to go in on a bandsaw mill together.
well without giving me a answer he randomly orders the woodland HM130 And says I just ordered this.
im like, I thought we could go in together and he says well now you don’t have too….

Nice!

How long for delivery?

 

[Mastermind]

i asked my father in law if he wanted to go in on a bandsaw mill together.
well without giving me a answer he randomly orders the woodland HM130 And says I just ordered this.
im like, I thought we could go in together and he says well now you don’t have too….

Sounds like you have a good father in law. I had a great one.

 

[Fleethirte]

Amen, my in-laws spoil us.
it’s already shipped should be here this week.

 

[Fleethirte]

I’m trying to convince the in-laws I have a better location at my house to put it…. Even though we live 4 mins away

 

[Sawdust Man]

Sawed a bit of decent cedar yesterday.
Sure cuts easier than oak!

 

[Loony661]

Sawed a bit of decent cedar yesterday.
Sure cuts easier than oak!View attachment 405079View attachment 405080

Smells amazing too.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Smells amazing too.

It do!

 

[Mastermind]

I've yet to cut cedar. Not much to be found locally.

 

[Sawdust Man]

I've yet to cut cedar. Not much to be found locally.

It's an invasive weed over here.

It mills easier than anything that grows in these parts.

 

[Elkhunter]

Lots of cedar in the Ozarks, used to fish a lot out of Theodosia tons of cedar around there.

 

[Sawdust Man]

Lots of cedar in the Ozarks, used to fish a lot out of Theodosia tons of cedar around there.

Way too much....

I'm doing my part to fight the invasion.....lol