Mobile milling

[muttley9050]

I completely get everything your saying, it all makes sense. I guess big sawmills use bandsaws coz they can. There staionary, so have plenty of handling equipment, I have none. I also don't have asmuch lockable storage as id like and a bandsaw mill is gunna use some up. If your mobile milling its easier to setup on log or in woods with out other equipment. I'm not disareeing with your opinions but am questioning if a swing mill is more suited to me right now.

[Big J]

Fair enough sir!

 

The LM1 track sections disassemble pretty small, but it's such a heavy thing that it's not going to be possible to move without a folklift.

 

The site you live on has a reasonable amount of woodland - would it be possible to put up a shed around a mill that is lockable? Having your mill on a good, solid base and well set up speeds things up no end. You'd have plenty left over from your budget with the band mill being half the price, and the beauty of a shed is that you can mill when it's chucking it down!

[muttley9050]

The problem of the extra weight of quality. Think the shed on this site is probably a no no. But I am looking for the right bit of woodland to buy, a shed there would be possible, but security would always be an issue. I could park a trailered bansaw at home, but would only be outside under a tarp. Security isn't much of a problem, but I wonder how much this would shorten the life of the saw? Oh decisions.

Edited April 29, 2013 by muttley9050

[muttley9050]

To the original op, sorry for the hijack. Here's a couple of pics of the haul from the days milling last week. Still a few cube of odds and sods to treat and stack.

[Big J]

Regularly trailed bandsaws don't last as long as the tend to rust more and maintaining alignment is more time consuming. As you say, you can have something that is light and easily portable, but at the expense of quality, or something heavy and solid, that needs 6 men to move it.