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Hi all, when I left school 6 years ago, I worked for a guy named Dave Welch (some may have heard of him) in cullompton, Devon, and he had a portable Serra Montana sawmill. I worked for him part time for 2.5 years before we parted ways due to him not really having enough work to support an employee. To cut to the chase I want to build a smaller version of the Mill he had, I have good welding skills, a workshop i can use and a trailer chassis, a 5 metre metal chassis i can use as a saw bed, and a Husqvarna 3120xp. My point in posting is, is it worth making this incorporating a chainsaw as the saw element of the mill, as I already have a big saw, or would it be better to hold out for a bandsaw hoping i can find one secondhand? Has anyone made anything like this? I basically want to do this as id love to get back into milling and have most of these bits around that i can use but would it all work? Sorry its a bit of a spiel but hopefully someone can help!

Gotta love sugihara:001_tt1: thanks Rob D:thumbup1:

I've got one its ok but the handle is a bit short. i use it more for hammering wedges in with the back of it than splitting logs. I also have a Fiskars x27 which has a longer handle and is better for splitting IMO.

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Bit of a Derail but is that opposite the Waterman's Arms, Bow Bridge, which is just outside totnes?

Are you able to cut and split it yourself? if so Eurogreen recycling in Titnore lane worthing has a huge pile of arb waste/logs and they will sell you however much you like at a good rate.

No offence intended but y is your scope falling off?

mine....

I've got a 3120xp and its a F###ing horrible great beast!! its ok when u need it but the vibration is horrible!

wotever mate.....it might be a psychological thing but its seems to start better and absolute screams top end.....mind u it did that ne way!!

I'm sorry to disagree with you mate but i got the part numbers off a 562xp pdf manual online, and ordered them from DGM, Devon Garden Machinery, my local Husky Dealer, it took a couple of weeks for them to come in and they fitted straight on?

i cant remember how much it was....got the full wrap at the same time:blushing:

Hi mate ive got the high top cover and bigger filter on my 560xp and she screams! it was a straight swop.

In Devon, (South West England) a Tourist is known as a Grockel by the locals, and in Cornwall they are know as an Emmit....

Hi Mate I've got a 576xp and its a tad underpowered on a 24".....screams on a 20" tho!

I've got one....fits nice, feels great, light well vented....but the visor hinge bit is shite! Ive had to put it back together at least 5 or times in the first couple of weeks:thumbdown:

surely a Racer thats stops to eat isn't much of a racer anyway?

sorry a pigeon coming down the flight line in the heat of the moment, or dipping in to the decoys is just a pigeon....

I've shot one or two....or is this not the best place to mention that.....

severe tyre scrub on the road I should think!

"I wonna see 660 on a rusty ladder and crushed sheds :-)".....more likely someone else's black and decker on a patio chair......apparently he also did tarmac driveways, scrap clearance, capping fascias....oh and free shed/tool store cleanups.....

errrmmm.......do I see a "Do as you likey?" if thats not too un-pc.....

Ok fair enough. Nice JD by the way! is it a 6930? I used to operate one until a short while ago, brilliant tractor...had a lovely "bark" to the exhaust...