Here's the one that lives here. A buddy bought it with Stihl's largest power unit and discovered he doesn't have the shoulder to start it, even with compression relief. As you already heard, good for large timbers, slow for boards. A major advantage for me is length, no limit to how long you can mill other than tree size. 40' is no problem here, 50' long takes an exceptional tree. I use a boat winch to pull the saw to me at the end of the log.
I also needed long oak rafters.
Sometimes I have an exceptional log I want to mill for resale. This one worked great, after milling for figure.
I tried several rip chains and found none that cut worth a damn until I refiled the angles, then got pretty good production. This is what I expect everyone was talking about concerning slow milling speed. I have yet to try a chain that cut decently out of the box.
Like you, I don't want to mill enough lumber to justify a bandmill's price. My solution was to get an old circular mill, that I haven't yet brought to my property and set up.
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