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And in response re the Lucas Mill slabber, my problem with it is firstly speed, secondly exhaustive effort of pushing for anything more than a few minutes, maintaining the sharpness of the chain (and

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Hi Muttley, I am impressed with your results.  4 minutes for a 4m slab 4ft wide is very good.  Have you replaced the Kohler engine with a V8?  Or maybe you don't know your own strength?   

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On 4/2/2018 at 16:28, skc101fc said:

Ok what's going on here?

The electrons are not pleased. We must make a blood sacrifice to the great Cloud.

 (bloody technology)

 

In fairness and as a counter argument, I have a Trekkasaw and am thinking of heading the slabbing bar route, driven by a firewood processor motor or harvester bar motor, as the band head is hydraulically driven from a 3 cylinder diesel powerpack. They are still a pretty physical beast to operate (and need 2 people as standard to push), and I think that a Lucas is a more user friendly and better thought out package overall.
The head is sturdy but a little bit crude and the bands are expensive too. The advertised cutting width is our old favourite where it's counting log diameter rather than cutting width. Trekka's will cut about a metre wide board edge to edge.

 

 

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