Like others, not to throw water on your campfire, but a half inch blade would not mill heavy wet wood well. Also as was mentioned, you need lots more power to mill than the electric motors on those things. You said you want to mate a chainsaw powerhead to it... daunting task unless you have access to a full blown machine shop, and are pretty good at fabricating stuff like that. For example, you need to get the oil from that little hole in the powerhead out to the gearing. In the Ripsaw, they have a cast piece that mates to the saw, that has the hole embedded in it, that dumps the bar oil right onto the spur gear that powers the big wheel the band goes onto. Then there is the guide... that Ripsaw has to rest on something as it's going down that log, it rests on the flat surface of a cant, or a guide beam. But the mill itself has to have a fence or something flat integrated into it that can do that. In fact, something that can be raised or lowered to get different thicknesses of boards you want to mill.twoodward15 said:
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