Stuarts

👍🏻 Out of interest. What is accurate to us on here? 1mm,5mm??

My experience is with an ES8 as I’ve stated also I can’t comment on a chainsaw.

😅 I can see the thickness difference on the edge of that board from here 😂

The F2+ will take heavy logs fine had no trouble with log weight. Would be good to see if he cut a 1inch / 2inch board 30inch wide not just top cut / quarter cut.

Yes that would align with my experience. I bought it with a 70cm bar and cut some quite big logs to test it out. With that set up it would re cut the log off cuts well enough but not large logs. It’s a long way out for the magnetic holder to stabilise a bar that long. I bought it on the understanding it would cut that size as they state with my thinking if it cuts that wide I wouldn’t really need to use the Alaskan mill much. I wouldn’t of used it on large logs all the time but for the price tag (ES8 considered) & the promo I thought it would work as they stated. They didn’t seem to argue my concerns too much. It could do with the bar being drilled somehow to stabilise it on big logs perhaps? There’s enough people happy with it for me not to argue that it can work well, I’m just not convinced as the timber gets wider, but when logosol say it will cut up to 70cm I believed that. Maybe if they do a video with an ES8, 70cm bar and large Oak I’ll be converted 😃🙏🏻

I agree. If you can get a 70cm bar on an ES8 to cut with accuracy then you are a better man than me and everyone else I had take a look. Quite easy to cut reasonable accurate boards on smaller logs/boards with f2+. I haven’t used a chainsaw on it just the ES8, so maybe that’s different. Someone post me a video with a 70cm chainsaw bar cutting a large log 60cm+ then I’ll agree. Not these small, medium logs I see, haven’t seen any with a bigger bar cutting a wide log, just cuts near the saw not the end of the bar too. I am a very experienced user of saws; Alaskans, self made systems etc no problem. The bar chatter on the ES8 on a 70cm bar they provide (stihl, cannon bars were sold out) is in my opinion without doubt too much for the magnetic bar support to stabilise. You don’t see logosol cutting oak at 70cm’s on their demo videos just mid size pine. Like I say maybe it’s better with a chainsaw, but nobody’s proved it will cut big timber with accuracy….

I bought an F2+ and ES8 electric motor. I sent it back for a refund after weeks of frustration and calks to logosol trying to get a cut accurate enough to justify the price. I don’t like the 4 carriage bed sections that need joining up they are too prone to move, and the longer the bar used the worse the accuracy I found. (With the ES8) I had brand new lo pro chains and bar for several attempts. Others say they have had more success. But I hope you get on well with it!

Read the original post and why he claimed back on the Lo Pro. And that it is ‘miss-sold’ I have already stated I can’t comment on 880/1 but realise you would need to be sensible with it. “Hey up. Lo Pro milling bars are a waste of time on anything over 36inch bars! Discuss” I was answering the post and subsequent ones on lo pro and Rob. And now this post ^ makes you the about the 4th [emoji28]

Basically you’ve had issues with using lo pro. Plenty on here haven’t had any issues including me using 661 & 48 inch GB bar. Decide for yourself what that is saying when others and myself have had no issues and you have, that’s for you to work out. People have tried to give their actual experience with lo pro,and Rob, it is you who won’t listen, not others and that is your choice. “I’m convinced” “no business being used” 36inch only bla bla ... good for you that’s in your experience and opinion with it. Not everyone’s! Stop trying to tell me and others it’s being miss-sold and doesn’t work when clearly it does and can just you can’t get it to work. You couldn’t make it work so you complained and have subtly talked down Lo pro, GB and Rob. You got your money back because you ‘know more’ than Rob no wonder he gave you money back to get you off his case. You now have a set up that works for you. Carry on with that and your new supplier. The rest of us will keep using Rob, GB bars and Lo Pro.

I have used 661 and stihl pmx 3/8 lo pro for couple of years now with 48inch gb bar on everything up to 100cm oak. I snapped my first chain on the weekend but it was old and had stretched and I was cutting hard knotted oak. I have removed a link before to keep the chains tight enough as they can stretch. Absolutely no issues and I have cut some big timber. I have found stihl pmx to be plenty strong enough. I think it comes down to how you mill and maintain the chain ie wedges, sharpening, tensioning, forcing the cut etc. To me if people on here are breaking noses and chain with 3/8 lo pro and 661 set up then it’s user error over equipment. I would definitely go up to 881 when milling larger logs regularly. The 100cm i milled up with the 661 and 3/8 was hard going and I wouldn’t recommend it but it does show what’s possible with correct set up and use. I can’t comment on the 3/8 with an 881 but it sounds logical that you’d want .404.

Ah ok thanks for the info. I have use of an excavator with forestry grab so it can be put on gently. But I see what you’re saying with large logs to be moved. I will have to have a play with it then but I will defo build a log bed [emoji1303]. Cheers. Hope you find a new place.

Nice work Saul. I know you’ve mentioned the F2+ and building a wooden bench to take larger logs. The F2+ is quoted as taking 1200kg. Have you found this to be too much? I understand the initial loading of a large log on to the wooden frame but once a large log is on are you saying it will then be able to lift it up as normal? I know it says it will cut up to 70cm but I guess for example an oak log that wide and 2.8m long would exceed that. I saw the ladder idea for shorter logs you put in a video, like that [emoji1303] Just curious really I am still waiting on my order but hopefully by end of January. Are you getting the ES8 on test I can’t remember? Cheers. Stuart.

Davies is where I ordered my F2+ ES8 etc. I was told everything was in stock except the ES8 so paid on 17/18th December. A week + later I chased them up just to see if it had been shipped. “oh we don’t have any of it in stock” Really nice friendly people but very unorganised was my experience. Of course I can’t speak for any experience but mine.

Send us the link when you come to sell your equipment [emoji1303]

I thought this was the saw carriage? How do you use it without it one...