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Re: SawMill Set Up Opinions?!


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Posted by Zachary Hoyt on December 11, 2015 at 10:11:39 from (172.79.148.49):

In Reply to: SawMill Set Up Opinions?! posted by Bryce Frazier on December 11, 2015 at 09:52:50:

I assume from what you have said about the mill that it is a bandsaw mil. If not then disregard everything else I say. We bought a Turner mill in 2007 and I have used it to build a few buildings as well as sawn up enough hardwood lumber to sell a few thousand dollars worth per year for the last several years. I decided that setting the mill right on the ground was the best option for our situation. That makes it easy to roll logs onto the mill but it means more bending over to pick up the boards. If you do set the mill up on an axle I would keep it so you walk along the ground to save the bending over. This will also save having to jump up and down all of the time like you would if you were walking on the wagon. For the first 8 months we had the mill it was outside, then it moved under the wing of a new building where it is in a 10' wide bay. This enables the mill to discharge sawdust onto a 3' wide floor on one side of the mill and I walk on the outer 4' on the other side of the mill. Being under a roof is nice because I can stay relatively drier when cutting on wet days. I still have to go outside to throw the slabs on the cradle and cut them up, and sometimes to carry away the boards if they are not going in the loft of the building, but milling is a great rainy day job. The wing the mill sits under is open on one side and one end so the exhaust can escape pretty well. I will attach a link to an old thread that has some pictures of the building where our mill lives in case the pictures are of any interest.
Zach



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