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    saw sizes to cuting width information

    I have heard of those 13hp honda engines going for as little as $150.00 a piece in the USA, they are made in China, but I have been told that Honda themselves had a hand in setting up the factory in which they are made, but don't quote me on that one. There is a tool hire shop here in my home...
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    saw sizes to cuting width information

    I think it could be done, as on a chainsaw clutch, it has a direct drive to the chain and reduced in size to the drive sproket. Using a harvester sprocket keeps the chain almost level with the bar end taper and is kinder to the chain because it runs with less of a climb onto the groove. A...
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    saw sizes to cuting width information

    Unfortunately I do not have any good pictures of the experiments I did back then, but I will have some when I have perfected things on what I'm doing now. I started out using my old bogg standard shop bandsaw, a Startrite, which has the top section mounted to a foot or stand, it took these...
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    Ripsaw question? DIY?

    check out the band mill by the Alaskan Bandmill guy Gene 1605, it is fabulous good for 1100.00 ft bds a day, it has got to be the most simple and reliable system on the market today.
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    saw sizes to cuting width information

    For the past fifteen years I have been collating information on chainsaw milling systems and their effective uses, the following information is what I have worked out, some of it might be of use to those contemplating buying or starting out in the art of chainsaw milling. A good guide to...
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    Stihl 084 VS 090 for milling?

    090 084 088 880 Any of the saws mentioned are good for a large chainsaw mills, the old 090 has a bullet proofe crankshaft as does any of the bigger Stihl's. An 084 tends to over rev slightly, the newer 088 and 880 have about the same kind of power, but have been modified to give more ft lbs...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    Homemade bandmill Here is a few more photo's of the bit and bobs I have collected for making the homemade bandmill. The two wheels are off a Fiat Cincento or Cinquecento, the space saving type nice and small with a tyre size of 105/70/14, plus two stub axles to fit them, one hub has the...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    showing the chasis, the flat 75mm flat surface of the angle is where a 20 X 20 X 5 mm angle is welded with the point of the angle facing upwards, this is where the trolley wheels with run upon, more pictures coming soon. The upright box on the side of the chasis is for the turn over wynch...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    Here is the first pictures of my home made bandsaw mill. The chasis will be made in two 3 meter sections to keep things short and nimble, and both pieces connect via two 25 X 50m tubes, with a 20.00mm bore and 125 X 20 nut and bolt, see picture. Each section is made up of two side rails...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    For the tensioner I'm going to use a small hydraulic ram with gauge and screw type piston, similar to the kind found on a set of hydraulic pullers. For height adjustment I'm going to use new acme rods and nuts linked across with bycicle chain and sprokets. The saw main frame will be of...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    Making a Home Made Band Mill I have found the ideal wheels and tires for the simple band mil, they are two of those space saver wheels from a Saab, nice and narrow with brand new tires fitted, got them from our local breakers yard 20 bucks each. Got an old lawnmower tractor ride on Honda...
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    On closer inspection, it looks like the rubber tyres are solid, like the ones found on some pallet trucks, the mounting of the stub axles would be easy to do, needing only one strong box section or cross member, instead of two like most band mills on the market. However it works, its really...
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    Band Saw wheels

    Bandsaw whels The wheels on a Woodmiser and others have a V groove in the center of the wheel, the belt is a fairly slack fit over the wheel and is kept in place by the momentum of the band.
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    Bandsaw Homemade

    Hi Came across this home made bandsaw mill on the netty, belongs to a guy who lives up in Alaska, check out those trailer wheels and stub axles.
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    New Toy

    Was the mill ex military or is it just the colour of it
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    Milling Willow?

    willow As a musical instrument maker, bagpipeworks, I can tell you that the willow is good for making the stocks for the drones, nice and light and stable.:)
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    Making a ripping chain

    ripping chain The chain picture is exactly the way I have done them in the past, one thing I did notice is, the pink grinding wheel pictured has a square edge to it, if you profile the wheel, using another rougher stone, so it is the same shape as a file, you get a better cutting action, it...
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    Need a Mill?

    get yourself a portable mill No wonder no one is bidding for it, it looks like it has just come off of Walton's mountain. Buy a portable mill and take mohammed to the mountain, a chainsaw mill may be slow, but they can handle just about anything you throw at them. Milling a decent sized olive...
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    Milling again Western Red Cedar

    The western red cedar came from an old hotel, the trees were planted there when the hotel was built about 250 years ago. The sections of the tree that is sitting inside the Forrestor mill are from near the top of the tree, the larger butt sections are where the Roller-Matic comes into the...
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    Nails in logs: What do you do?

    Metal in wood I have found many metal gremlins in good logs over the years, I use an old fisher metal detector and an old chain, if things ring the alarm bells, one such ting was a huge metal shackle about half an inch thick, that was used to teather one of the second world war barrage baloons...
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