CountryByNet.com Forums :: Re: portable saw mill question

The HF unit (as with most band mills) can be extended to any length quite easily and inexpensively. A limitation is that it only cuts pieces up to 16 inches wide. Well I don't have much need for board over 16 inches wide.

My thought on that is that I have an Alaskan mill which I power with a 32 inch Husky chain saw. I can use this chain mill to square up the cant. A log that ends up at 16 inches wide after it is squared up may have been much larger when it started, before cutting off bark sloabs to square it up. All the band mills that I have seen will take a cant that is taller than the max width it will handle. Because of this a cant of 24 inches or more (in height) can be accommodated. I could always make ripping cuts down the larger logs with my Alaskan mill and then cut dimensional lumber out of the pieces.

I don't expect to have to deal with too many logs that will square up over 16 inches in the smaller dimension.

I don't think this HF unit is Chinese. It looks to be the same as is being sold under a different name, as advertised in some of my wood working magazines. If it were Chinese I wouldn't expect it to come with and recommend American blades.

Pat

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