That is one impressive truly portable mill.
Here's my homebuilt Alaskan-style mill with 30" capacity. Built from 3/4" & 1" square steel tube, it features Ball-Lock pins at the most frequently used thicknesses, and screw locks (on the tube diagonals) for infinite variability. Inline skate wheels allow the mill to roll smoothly along the side of the log and UHMW tape on the bottom of the mill provides low friction. Here it sits ready for the first cut in a short maple log where I experimented with white candle wax (paraffin) as the end grain sealant - unsuccessful as it flaked off as the log dried & shrunk. The center upright (between the two handles) was originally designed to allow use of shorter bars for smaller logs; I've not used that yet, and likely never will.
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Really?? I didn’t know the inside looked that good wow.I got the 10’ stick at Grainger. I think it was like $40-50 if memory serves and then I just used little 1/4”x20 carriage bolts for the track. The wood is birch.
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