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Be warned Bodean Alaskan milling is addictive. :)For only $225 money is well spent for the ammount of valuable lumber it can produce.

No you don't need matching power heads Jay. With my 090-066 setup they help each other along. Don't need an auxiliary oiler either. I did put a .404-8T rim on the 090 and a 7T on the 066.

Stephen if you have someone to give you a hand try a double ended bar and stick another powerhead on the mill.I made my own bar by cutting the nose off a long bar and with a bit of grinder and hacksaw work made a new bar pad tail. You'd be amazed the extra speed and production. You don't even...

Jay actually the opposite full skip in the wder wood full comp in narrower. .....unless I'm missing something? .404 is the best for your 880 or 076. Holds a bettet edge, far less stretching and more stable in the kerf with the larget drive links. Jed, I do have that A Top jig on my radar, may...

Man that's beautiful wood Jay!! If I had access to that Chestnut I would shut down my tree service and go full time into milling.:D Yeah I found those ripping chains with the modified cutters didn't help all that much, was a great marketing strategy for Grandberg though. I had good success...

I remember my Grandberg mill came with a pamphlet about the modified chain, but I believe it was semi chisel. I modified a loop of chisel round filed chain and it cut pretty darn good but didn't hold a good edge long. So I just went and stayed with the regular factory design. I always use .404...

Looks like I won't be milling today, strong winds today with a chill of -35. I got other things to do in my warm shop, will get er done tomorrow .

I was thinking about your furniture making Jay, that's where a chainsaw mill really shines. A person doesn't need a lot of production like someone would do milling softwood 8 hrs a day. Back in the day when a logger friend and I were looking for something to do we were getting permits to remove...

I file my cutters at 10 degrees on the top plate angle. Have tried 0 and found left a smooth surface but was too slow . 10 is a good compromise .

Well Justin in that case if you want to put a smile on your face while chainsaw milling, you need to get a bigger displacement saw. I just use my 066 and 395XP for ripping lumber off of precut cants from my Stihl 090AV.

To add to my last post if some one can't comfortably hand file free hand , then chainsaw milling is not a good idea for them.

Jay, it doesn't take a lot to keep an edge on a sawchain for milling filing free hand, wih just a couple of light strokes per cutter. Depending how clean the logs are you can get by with a quick 5 minute touchup with the file every half to one hour of steady milling. With my Alaskan I have to...

Stihl 090 , 880 or 3120XP motor along just fine. The trick is you gotta know how to hand file.........would be really slow if you had to put on a new pre sharpened chain every half hour. Ha ha.

I got three 16 ft 30" -36" diameter white spruce logs to mill up into 12"x12" timbers for my chainsaw competition on Feb 15. The 090AV and Alaskan36" are all ready to rumble but its gotta get warmer then 40 below windchill first. :D

Butch this is all I have to say to Jay and I'm done with this..........I promise:) Jay, I have held a lumber graders ticket for 13 yrs, 8-10 hrs a day 5 days a week manually grading lumber. I probably cut more bf of lumber in my spare time with my Alaskan in 10 yrs then what you did in 40...

Thanks Butch we all needed that:D

Ha who's the dickhead here:lol: Deva take my advice.......don't use the rollers;) :)

Ha Ha ,and you thought rollers would make things easier when you have to take your hand off the mill or stop completely so you can clear debris out of the way. Just run a square edge like on the Alaskan and push crap out of the way while staying in control . The sawchain can only cut so fast...

You have to be careful incorporating rollers into your chainsaw mill. Has been tried in the past with mixed results. Bark and sawdust from the chain is thrown and lands everywhere, if a chunk of debris or a layer of sawdust is run over by a horizontal positioned roller, the saw cut will be...

Like Jay says a hand held moisture meter with prongs but a good quality non prong are very good too. I only have experience as a once ticketed lumber grader with SPF [Spruce, pine, fir]. CFPA grading rules state 19% moisture content is dry. Softwood is dryer then most hardwoods to begin with so...