milling thread

[davidwyby]

Snowmobile riders have heated jumpsuits. I might could tolerate that 😁

 

[Raj]

Well, I bought my 18" Bozeman on sale, putting it to use till the 31" goes on sale. A customer of mine that I did a lot of milling for bought a new bandsaw mill at an auction and found out moving logs is a chore. I borrowed my brother's trailer and left the mill at his house since my gate was frozen and snow piled and he hardly uses his trailer. Well he needed the trailer, I dug out my gate and dragged the mill to my back yard. 31" cut, 14hp Kohler with electric start.

 

[Raj]

 

[stikine]

Hell of a lot better than chainsaw milling.

 

[Raj]

Hell of a lot better than chainsaw milling.

I still like the chainsaw milling because I don't have a way to move heavy logs from customer's yards, yet....

Milled up some oak for a prying rack, one of my friends laser cut a 3/16 plate to back up the oak.

 

[SeanKroll]

Peter, how about rollers (round fence posts/ peeler cores) or skid logs for moving big logs with a redirects from your pulling power (truck?)? I've moved a roughly (green log weight estimated) 2000 pound log with a 2800 pound machine by using skid logs.

When logs are rounds, they can be wrapped with a winch cable to roll them. Roll them into a balance- point pivot (chunk of wood) to pivot/ rotate to adjust the rolling path/ turn a corner.

 

[Raj]

Made this with some scrap steel I had laying around doing nothing. A real trailer axle. 28" cap to cap. I'm working on a wider one, tandem axles.

 

[SeanKroll]

How will tandems turn?
Dually?

 

[Raj]

How will tandems turn?
Dually?

I hope it will turn ok. Not dually, two axles.

 

[SeanKroll]

A long branch/ thin log can be placed under the log (if strapped to the cart) to use as a class 2 lever to shove the whole front end of the log and cart sideways.