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How about a saw head powered portable band saw?
Porting a MS441CM or getting 660
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How about a saw head powered portable band saw?
Freakingstang
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Milling with a saw sucks.. Time consuming and labor intensive. My 660 is ported for tq and is a work saw. 2 tank fulls per cut. Wood is 28" wide oak x 10' long with a 36" alaskan. I have two modded 372's and no way would I attempt milling 24" wood with one. I also run my ported 372's for 90% of the wood I cut. Lugging a 660 around all day isn't fun.
bandsaw manHey, I'm new to milling and I'll always listen to experience, how can I get the best out of an ozzie gum log, are they all relatively similar or wildly different? I'm here to learn mate
It'd have to be portable, some logs you can get a log truck to but not always. Size wise were talking 50+" granberg and a ported 3120. Between us my mates and I sometimes come across large trees in hard to reach places, a friend also has acres of large yellowbox on steep ground with no truck access. We can pull milled slabs out with a ute but not the whole log
redbull660
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660 would have the torque to get it done over the 441 or 461 any day. that's just a fact. That said. there has to be a better way to mill. better chain, better angle?
I don't know anything about it except I've squared up a lot of logs for testing. And when the splitter went down I ripped up 4 cord of oak with a 660. 461 couldn't keep up ripping and I got tired of feathering it in and out of the cut to keep the chain speed up for the 461. The 660 just dug in.
anyway it sure would seem to me even if you were able to get a angle so you semi ripping/noodling it would be 1000x better than cutting it at 90.
Just something I noticed when I was ripping all the oak up. How you played with the angle of the rip made a huge difference in speed.
I don't know anything about it except I've squared up a lot of logs for testing. And when the splitter went down I ripped up 4 cord of oak with a 660. 461 couldn't keep up ripping and I got tired of feathering it in and out of the cut to keep the chain speed up for the 461. The 660 just dug in.
anyway it sure would seem to me even if you were able to get a angle so you semi ripping/noodling it would be 1000x better than cutting it at 90.
Just something I noticed when I was ripping all the oak up. How you played with the angle of the rip made a huge difference in speed.
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