Wanted Tom Sawyer horizotal mill.

[twmarriott]

Wanted Tom sawyer/ think made by forrestor? horizontal mill, would consider another make of large ish capacity horizontal, but struggling to keep up with milling and wanted a large capacity wide band mill.

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[Big Beech]

Wasnt he in Hucklebury Finn?

[Stompy]

What capacity are you looking for and what other features? And a rough budget? I know of quite a few industrial machines that could fit the bill

[twmarriott]

ideally I'd like as big as possible but large enough to say through saw a 1.2 meter diameter butt which we regularly get, we are building a new shed for it so up to 10-12 meters? I do occasionally have to mill 30 foot so if its just putting some rails comcrete yard in thats fine. buget is flexible but depends on what you'd get, I know I could get a stenner band rack for what I'm willing to spend/ put in but don't want one, we've loaders and telehandlers for loading / unloading I liked the tom sawyer features (I hired one a couple of times) ie accurate, wide blade, run as long as the rails, log stays static just run through etc...

[twmarriott]

heres one scott seargent had a few years back on youtube....

[Graham w]

heres one scott seargent had a few years back on youtube....

 

there was one in Huntly, Scotland a few years ago, road towable and worked from an operators seat in excellent order. Sold for 14k

[twmarriott]

yes that's within our buget easily, though I'm not worried about road towable, its going on a foundation in a shed.

[Stompy]

I know of a Terglav 1200. 1200mm capacity, set works, band sharpener, 18 kw motor, full hydraulics (clamps, turners) motorised rise, drive and band guides, ride on seat..... think it was about £10,000. Beast of a bit of kit, pic below

 

 

Also know of a couple of other big sawmills like this. A Wravor and a Mebor, both similar spec

[twmarriott]

something like that would do well, I was looking at the tom sawyer as its uk built so parts wouldn't be so tricky, also the head wheels etc are a known quantity. but as a a fall back provided importing something like this wouldn't cost the earth? sound like theres some decent mills out by you in Croatia?

[Stompy]

Hey. Yep there are quite a few big mills dotted about. Timber is big industry out here so these big mills are quite common. You get all sorts, a friend down the road has a wooden framed circular mill with a 1 metre diametre blade, no guarding, direct PTO of the tractor..... makes my stomach turn.

 

Looked at a Mebor HTZ 1200 the other week, 20,000 euros but absolutely top rate industrial piece of kit, it was huge. Google it, plenty of info online.

 

Transport is fairly reasonable, prob somewhere around £700 - £900 door to door broken down and on pallets. Croatia is EU so no import problems.

 

Another pic of the Terglav below: