I honestly don't want to put any damper on anyone who wants to try and mill or resaw using a 14 inch bandsaw. Just want to let folks know the whole score. The problem is power, and using a machine to do something it wasn't really designed for. The latter I am guilty of with most of my power tools from time to time, but the power issue you can't run from. A good analogy would be... you really can't mill 30 inch wide hardwood with a 30cc chainsaw. I get Wood mag, and read through the article last week. Before I bought my larger resaw bandsaw I used to "mill" small logs on my Delta 14". One thing I can tell you from experience is that in general, the 110v motors on them, usually from 3/4 up to 1 1/2hp, aren't beefy enough for the job. It will eventually slice through the piece, but painfully slow for dense stuff over 6-8 inches thick. Also, especially for wet wood which is usually what you want to mill, you need a very sharp resaw blade that won't clog up with sap and wood debris. What happens is your blade gullets start to fill with sap and wet wood and that wet sawdust gets mashed onto the sides of your blade and also coats the rubber tires on your bandsaw wheels. That causes the blade to cut like it was dull, and it starts to "bow" in the cut and gets hot and even starts to smoke. I remember getting to the point many times where I had to stop in the middle of a cut, turn off the machine, wiggle the wood out of the blade, clean the blade with a brass brush and knife, and then go back and keep going. Some wood works better than others of course. I recall that wet butternut was particularly difficult to mill/resaw on the bandsaw. Some types of pine and white cedar can really gum up your blade and tires too. The blade is relatively easy to clean with a brass brush and knife while it's running (I know... dangerous to do, so don't say I told you to), but getting mashed sap and gum off the tires requires more work. The easiest way was to use a brass or nylon brush against the tire while spinning it around by hand but that's also hard on the rubber tire. The harder neoprene tires are easier to clean when this happens, but still no fun. The main problem of sap and mashed lumps of wet sawdust accumulating on your tires is that the blade doesn't track as it should, and your bandsaw won't run as smooth.
Again... not to put a damper on things, but keep in mind you are pushing the envelope and there are problems the article doesn't really address as much as I personally would have if I were writing it. Then again, I'm not a writer, and I'm not selling magazines. Having said that, for smaller dia pieces, you really can use it as a "poor mans bandsaw mill" so to speak if you go slow and address the sap/wet sawdust clogging issues by avoiding some woods, and periodically cleaning your blade and tires.
