milling pics and vids

[richardwale]

Hi Alec, ok I'll wait for it to season. Am i seeing you next week with the oak boards?do you have any other boards, approx a inch thick, waney edge for sale?

[agg221]

Hi Richard, yes and yes - I'll drop you a PM.

 

Alec

[SteveA]

14" width, 9" depth, which is big enough for most things. I have used it for milling a lot of boards, and dimensioned timber for the extension, both of which it does with ease. I reckon it does a 12" width x 20' long cut in oak in about 2mins, with a kerf of about 1mm. It will do about 6 boards like that to a tank of fuel in the 044 that powers it.

 

It's a lot more temperamental than a chainsaw mill though and on a bad day it will eat saw bands.

 

Alec

 

Didn't know you could get a bandsaw unit to fit a chainsaw. Who makes and/or supplies them in the UK?

 

We're going to need loads of weather boards cut for our barn, could be from oak using a mobile chainsaw/bandsaw.... sounds like much less of a workout compared to doing all of it with an Alaskan.

[agg221]

Didn't know you could get a bandsaw unit to fit a chainsaw. Who makes and/or supplies them in the UK?

 

We're going to need loads of weather boards cut for our barn, could be from oak using a mobile chainsaw/bandsaw.... sounds like much less of a workout compared to doing all of it with an Alaskan.

 

Unfortunately nobody supplies them in the UK - they are made by Ripsaw in the US and are very difficult to import (I bought mine secondhand on ebay after two years waiting for one to turn up). You can get an impression of what it can do from the video posted by Burrell on page 15 of this thread - from about 1:05 onwards.

 

Alec

[SteveA]

Yeah i did see the video, and it looks brilliant. Big shame that nobody is making or supplying them here.

 

Any other bandsaws worth considering?.... that is, portable ones.

[John Hughes]

I found these photos of a couple of years ago.

A trailer load of spruce ready to be towed back to Essex and no I don't tow it all the way with the baby Zetor.

 

 

 

[John Hughes]

A close up of the spruce.

 

[agg221]

That is some really neatly finished stuff - what did you do with it all?

 

Alec

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

Great pics! makes me want to mill more! I only do the occasional bit

[John Hughes]

 

I built my metal shop with this load.

Sorry about the poor photo I have dust in my lens.