Which mill

[gobbypunk]

Its 3 Welsh lads I am from Barry Island 

[arboriculturist]

Has anyone on here:

 

1 - Bought a Logosol 1001 23hp petrol Bandsaw Mill  and   

2 - Made any money milling larch cladding etc. with it. ?

 

Any insights into how good the machine is and wether it is worth the investment would be most welcome.

 

We get a lot of oversize timber delivered (hard and soft) at Firewood prices that is a pain to process into firewood and plenty of Larch and Douglas that is the ideal size for live edge cladding.

 

Thankyou for any replies in advance.

Edited April 30 by arboriculturist

[teepeeat]

Read through this thread and found some interesting info albeit historical now. Would be interested in which direction the main contributors went in the end and also any updates, lessons learned or other pearls of wisdom anybody can add

[Johnsond]

22 hours ago, teepeeat said:

Read through this thread and found some interesting info albeit historical now. Would be interested in which direction the main contributors went in the end and also any updates, lessons learned or other pearls of wisdom anybody can add

I think most guys start off with a more economy type set up often as not fully manual too. If you have machinery to load and flip logs then that can make a big difference, static mill can obviously be set up much sturdier than a mobile set up. The choices in the UK ain’t that great but you can import if you want to go that route. Woodlands are ok, built to a price but do a good days graft and very easy to work on, I’ve a 130max set up in static mode which is a very handy bit of kit, I also run a Trakmet mobile set up which is a great saw “

now that I’ve fitted a VFD to slow bandspeed down” prior to that it was basically not fit for purpose as far as im concerned. Logosol do good machines that take a right beating and cut really well . Woodmizer of course but I’ve zero experience of them so can’t comment. I think you are worrying too much about the maintenance and breakdown side of things, on the manual mills it’s basic tech, the computer controlled set work type set ups either work or they don’t. I’ve no clue with electronics anyway. If you can wield a spanner to a basic standard you’ll be fine.