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    Western Red

    unreal
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    building with green lumber?

    If your planning a post and beam structure, then cast in screw jack post saddles into your concrete footing for each post. This way you can compensate later for when the beams shrink. If your framing walls, leave them un-cladded for six months to air dry, but strap the walls to help resist...
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    CSM Birch

    Some recent birch milling. Plan to use the material for dresser drawer fronts.
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    Milling dry logs

    Seasoned logs have great grain stability. I would and have milled similar material. Check out my project entirely milled from seasoned logs
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    Alaskan Sam Mill questions - Please help

    I run a 288xp with a 30'' bar usually, and a 36 inch granberg mill attachment. I mill log diameters from 24'' to 30'' diameter. However I have purchased a longer bar for 30''diameter logs to allow my saw to cut the center of the log with out pinching the nose sprocket with the mill mounts at...
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    Cottonwood Milling

    There is enough wind fall to leave the living standing if milling crown trees.
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    Chainsaw bogging down

    might be possible that the rakers are filed down to low.
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    What are you building with your milled wood? merged

    The beams, posts and rafters is douglas fir, the fascia and soffit is cedar. I appreciate your interest and compliment.
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    What are you building with your milled wood? merged

    chain saw milled gazebo I love looking at every ones work, just wanted to contribute to the post with a project i did last year. All of the wood was milled with a Granberg alaskan mill and 288xp.
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    CSM Newbie

    A chain saw mill is an excellent way to rip large dimension timbers into smaller material for many reasons. One being the ability to mill the log/large timber at its origin of fall, reducing the need for energized equipment to position logs/large timbers, and its relatively inexpensive to get...
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    The house my chainsaw built

    I really like your work, great job. Did you also csm the flooring? what species of wood is the floor?
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    Chain saw milled gazebo

    OK. So I am thinking I may try a CSM on an 036 Pro. I am not cutting anything over 16 your 056 should work well enough if your not planning on milling anything larger then 16''. I would recommend using a granberg alaskan mill easy to use and affordable. Every one will say bigger is better as...
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    bmans timberframe

    very nice work , that is an impressive accomplishment.
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    Chain saw milled gazebo

    I used a Granberg Alaskan mill and a husky 288 xp. Sadly i have no photos of the milling process. The trees were all blow down which had been laying there for a couple of years, judging by the onset of decay. I milled douglas fir for the rafters, posts and beams last winter, and cedar for the...
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    Chain saw milled gazebo

    Just wanted to show every one my gazebo i built, and milled using my 288xp.
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    Green Timber twist question.

    if possible use wind fall, it will warp less because it has already dried.
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    Thinking of ChainSawMilling (?CSM??)

    definitely fasten your guide fence, with out doing so your finished product would most likely have a twist.
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