portable saw mill for the lumber?

[Carols Clucks]

My guy has a saw mill up at the ranch, I have been very lucky and getting some nice custom milled lumber. So far new barn style doors for our 100 year old "garage", a garden entry arch and some other stuff too. He LOVES using it, but did not buy a cheap one because he has several big projects ahead, a WoodMizer. But, when he was looking at them, he found one that he also liked from Harbor Freight for a couple grand.

I am looking forward to a second small garden shed and some lumber to fix up the old horse stall and make it in to a small storage barn for garden equipment.

 

[mohillbilly]

I have 40 acres that look like a dozer went thru knocking all the trees down, they are all laying almost flat except their roots are still attached and most are still green they fell like dominoes during a wind storm last spring so once I get mine I will be busy.
I have one white oak that i haven't figured out how to cut yet It's trunk is 6ft thru at its smallest end.

 

[Bullitt]

no I have never seen a poplar tree around here I guess they cut them down when they started Poplar Bluff

I will be cutting mostly red and white oak along with some Hickory, and red cedar

Do you have a picture of the sawmill you bought?

Poplar Bluff has no poplar trees. You are probably right, they probably cut them all down.

If you build with oak and hickory you will have some very strong structures. Red cedar is very nice wood, and cedar repels bugs, so that's good. Maybe you could sell some of the lumber to pay for other needed building materials to build your new coops.

You said you are trying to figure out how to cut a 6-foot-diameter oak tree. If you have a chainsaw with a 3-foot blade, you could cut through each side. But most people don't have a chainsaw with a 36-inch blade. You might have to rent a chainsaw for a day.

 

[Jake1297]

MoHillBilly,

Be careful cutting your trees that are laying down. The roots still in the ground have a lot of energy stored and the stumps will have a tendency to spring back into the upright position especially hard wood. In doing so it can throw your saw back very fast. I'm sure you know about this already, but I had to mention it just in case. Good luck.

 

[mohillbilly]

MoHillBilly,

Be careful cutting your trees that are laying down. The roots still in the ground have a lot of energy stored and the stumps will have a tendency to spring back into the upright position especially hard wood. In doing so it can throw your saw back very fast. I'm sure you know about this already, but I had to mention it just in case. Good luck.

yea Jake I know It is why I have a piece of 4 inch I-beam that I wedge the rootball with before I start cutting on one

 

[mohillbilly]

I haven't recieved the sawmill yet, I don't have a 36 inch chainsaw and not worth renting one for just one log....I may just cut it int cants and then saw them up on the mill

 

[Bullitt]

Or maybe you should focus on smaller trees and ignore that giant oak. That might be the easiest thing to do.

 

[afveteran88]

Well I pulled the trigger on a Granberg Small Log Alaskan Mill/ It was only $139 and that is something the wife and I could agree on. I will be running a Stihl 036 with a 20" bar and it should do fine for the smaller trees I have access to. I would had loved to spent 7-8K on a nice one but this should get me started. I plan on using it for a turkey coop. Here is a link to the one I got.

http://www.baileysonline.com/itemdetail.asp?item=G777&catID

 

[Bullitt]

Does it come with knee pads?

 

[afveteran88]

That will be the challenge in bringing the log up to a comfortable working height. I do have a 16 year old so just have to come up with some kind of stand.