darkstar
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As i mentioned in my post drying the milled wood ,we have availability of good oak and occaisonally cherry or other fancy wood . We used a friends chain saw band saw mill [looks like a home made version] to mill one decent size log . I have now noticed that there is a warp in most of the logs and am gonna try to sort that out with additional weight ,however i doubt it will work.
Either way im immediatly addicted to producing something of value from what we normally grind up or sell for cheap as firewood .
So i want to buy a good versatile mill and get it up and running .The million dollar question huh?
What i do own at present time, to help ,is one new holland ls 180 steer skidd loader with grapple attachement and a nice f 700 dump truck. Also we have a pretty decent tree service going 3 chippers bucket truck etc etc . We get plenty of wood .
Around here i think the best selling product would be slabs so ill deffinatly want to cut and dry all of our huge oak logs.
With the equipment i have [[[[what]]]] kind of saw mill should i start off with ? Im keen on the petterson with the slab assembly. Since i have a loader though im not so sure i really need a poratable mill. I was thinking of setting up a petterson or a lucas on a semi permanant location and then using the loader to move wood under it .
As i stated i want to saw mostly slabs and any cool burls i come across so maybe i should just stick to something really basic .
Any suggestions ???after reading post all day long im thourghly confused . Total newbie when it comes to milling anything ,so any help would be greatly appreciated . Ive ordered several books but trying to sort through all the different saw mills and their respective strengths or weaknesses is astounding .....HELP....Dark
Either way im immediatly addicted to producing something of value from what we normally grind up or sell for cheap as firewood .
So i want to buy a good versatile mill and get it up and running .The million dollar question huh?
What i do own at present time, to help ,is one new holland ls 180 steer skidd loader with grapple attachement and a nice f 700 dump truck. Also we have a pretty decent tree service going 3 chippers bucket truck etc etc . We get plenty of wood .
Around here i think the best selling product would be slabs so ill deffinatly want to cut and dry all of our huge oak logs.
With the equipment i have [[[[what]]]] kind of saw mill should i start off with ? Im keen on the petterson with the slab assembly. Since i have a loader though im not so sure i really need a poratable mill. I was thinking of setting up a petterson or a lucas on a semi permanant location and then using the loader to move wood under it .
As i stated i want to saw mostly slabs and any cool burls i come across so maybe i should just stick to something really basic .
Any suggestions ???after reading post all day long im thourghly confused . Total newbie when it comes to milling anything ,so any help would be greatly appreciated . Ive ordered several books but trying to sort through all the different saw mills and their respective strengths or weaknesses is astounding .....HELP....Dark