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    Smallest cc saws anyone has used for milling

    I've done a fair bit of edging 2-6" thick slabs with a MS261. It handled it fine with granberg ripping chain. It's a small enough cut that it didn't really overwork the saw.
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    My new build it yourself sawmill and rail bed.

    Very nice. I'm starting on mine shortly. I'm overbuilding/futureproofing my rail setup, but the actual head will be a 4 stroke chainsaw mill. It's been a hell of a lot of thinking and research to try and figure out how to get a 3600 rpm engine spinning a shaft 9000 rpm, to spin a chain at the...
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    Panther mill II

    Dropping a strip of 1/4" flat bar that fits snugly inside the uprights on the panther mill, centering it roughly and welding it at the top and bottom fixes the problem completely, and makes the single bolt clamp work about as well as can be reasonably expected. I drew it up real quick to show...
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    Alaskan Mill w/ 4 stroke engine vs chainsaw

    I was just thinking about this today while running our mill at work. We run a (terrible) bandsaw mill as a replacement for our former chainsaw milling operation, and I've been planning on building a mill for home for a long time. The band mill is fast in comparision with the CSM setup time, but...
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    Double power head bar?

    Can you talk a bit about that (or suggest where you've talked about it before)? I do everything else (I even use a hi-lift jack for getting logs up on sills to cut!), but I haven't seen any talk about using rails for cuts after the first slab. Is it a friction thing? I'm using granberg EZ...
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