chuckwood
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I've never chainsaw milled before. Looks like it'll be a 30" Granberg Alaskan with a Husky 288XP, and the mini-mill with a smaller Husky for doing the edges. I've got some acreage that's been selectively logged (huge mature oaks), and they left me a good number of big logs on the ground. Jacking them up is the only way to avoid milling on my knees, but how? I'm thinking of welding up a very heavy duty tripod or quadpod with adjustable and removeable legs, and a chain hoist hooked to the top of the tripod. Yeah it's heavy, but I've got a 40 horse diesel 4X4 farm tractor with a front end loader and a trailer to help. Anybody see any problems with such a setup?
Another possible setup that just occured to me is to fasten with lag screws a piece of 1/2" steel angle to the end of the log, and then use a 30 ton bottle jack to push up the steel angle, then put blocks under the log, then more blocks under the bottle jack, and go up another 9 inches or so and so on until I get the height I want. That way I'm working on the end of the log and if it rolls, I'm out of the way. Any other ideas?
Another possible setup that just occured to me is to fasten with lag screws a piece of 1/2" steel angle to the end of the log, and then use a 30 ton bottle jack to push up the steel angle, then put blocks under the log, then more blocks under the bottle jack, and go up another 9 inches or so and so on until I get the height I want. That way I'm working on the end of the log and if it rolls, I'm out of the way. Any other ideas?