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peter nap

peter nap

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Yesterday and today, I milled several VERY LARGE tulip poplar's.

These trees were big and I didn't think I would finish before the owner made firewood out of them (the only reason he didn't in the first place was that he couldn't come close to cutting them with his 18" saw)

Anyway...using my 10 degree rip chains was slow and I had powdery saydust a foot thick next to the biggest log.

I got fed up and stuck a skip tooth 60 degree chain on and BOY did that sucker rip. The boards were rough...so what! I cut them oversize so I could plane them anyway.

Anyone else try this before.
 
peter nap

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Was that chizel skip you used? Bet it left some big noodles.:jawdrop:


Sure did! I was as happy as could be too. I was tired of rushing and not getting anywhere. The trailer had at least 3000 lbs of lumber on it when I left.

I got enough from those trees to completely do the loft ceilings in the weekend house.
 
slabmaster

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I'm glad that sped things up for you!I find it is good for softwood like poplar but different when it comes to hardwood unless you use a very big saw and sharpen often.
 
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All I use to mill now are skip tooth round ground chisel. Rougher surface than milling chain, but I'm only using the csm to get the log into cants, and the Ripsaw then makes the boards.
 
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All I use to mill now are skip tooth round ground chisel. Rougher surface than milling chain, but I'm only using the csm to get the log into cants, and the Ripsaw then makes the boards.

Have you tried skip tooth square chisel.Wouldn't it be the fastest chain?
 

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