How much timber milled in a day?

[posch jon]

Hi guys

I have a good bit of timber ready to be milled, how much would you say roughly can be milled per day with a mizer LT40?

 

Cheers Jon:thumbup:

[wills-mill]

Hi guys

I have a good bit of timber ready to be milled, how much would you say roughly can be milled per day with a mizer LT40?

 

Cheers Jon:thumbup:

 

It's very variable..... If it's you and the saw operator, you're hand loading, doing a bit of crosscutting, board moving and log selection, cutting different timbers and different sizes, cutting stickers and bearers, you're leaving a reasonably tidy site and you can knock out 100 cubic ft in a day then you're doing really well in the real world.

 

If your sawyer can get straight in and set up, and you can get the timber on and off the saw quickly then that helps.

 

The size of board you are cutting makes a big difference, for instance if you're desperate to have loads of wide 3/4" cladding boards then the sawyer has to take a lot of slow and steady cuts to get through each log.

On the other hand, if you're cutting big beams out of sound, straight logs the tonnage/ cubeage (err?) looks very impressive but not many cuts have been done.

 

Another couple of things thing that will slow the job down:

logs with branch stubs and knobbles that haven't been flattened off

Nerg Nail

Fred The Flint

Big posts and beams to lift around by hand

Uneven ground and cramped sites

[posch jon]

Thanks very much for the info:thumbup:

[Big J]

With three different operators using LT40s, milling various hardwoods at 1-2 inches thickness, the average seems to be about 200 cubic foot of boards for me. Works out at £1.50 to £2.50 a cubic foot depending on operator and charges.

 

Jonathan

[slack ma girdle]

Hi guys

I have a good bit of timber ready to be milled, how much would you say roughly can be milled per day with a mizer LT40?

 

Cheers Jon:thumbup:

 

Have you got Steve Cull in mind, if so he is quick and very efficient.