Iron Inventory

[Meadows Miller]

Gday and welcome to the forum Mate  do you mill fulltime 
CMS or Baker on the side of the screen might be able to help you out with a S/H resaw or know where a one is located

Chris

[Quartersane]

Graduated in 1998 from a single-aught Frick (wooden frame/carriage) to a WoodMizer LT40 manual mill.  I'm hoping to move on up to at least an LT40 Super after my current stint in the corporate world is over. 

[boman1]

2005 Woodmizer LT40SHDD51 & 2005 Woodmizer ED26 Edger. I have it set up to cut specialty timbers for my brothers tie mill. Mostly cut 12x12 20's

[tyb525]

Now it's an LT10 and a chainsaw mill.

[idahohay]

I run an old Mighty Mite band mill, has hydraulic feed and up-down, everything else is manual. 16' length and 28" width. Bought it used about 25 years ago.

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

And Welcome to the Forum Idahohay  looks like your getting a dang good run Mighty mite Mate 

Reguards Chris

[petefrombearswamp]

2008 lt40shdd51 with accuset2   for an expensive toy in my dotage.
Sold my old mill to Chuck white last spring, he is working it hard!
I only saw when the mood strikes me (when I can get to the mill in warmer weather)

[Papa1stuff]

Well Pete ,you can hook up to your mill and come down here to Florida ,park it next to mine and help me mill all these logs I get from the landfill!

[Tropical man]

Running a Lucas swing blade and 4 Morgan horizontal thin kerf bandmills.
Using the Lucas to square logs over 10", then to the Morgans.  Smaller logs go straight to the Morgans.
The Morgans are set up in two feed through lines, 2 Morgans per line.
We average 15 to 16 mbf of logs per day with this setup.
Also have a new Peterson swing blade in the warehouse but haven't used it yet.

[Papa Bang]

Kara circle saw YS 2000 from Finnland and a two saw edger. Are there any other Karas out there?

Bruce

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Welcome to the forum Tropo  & Puppa Bang  pull up a pack anytime fellas  You'll have a ball plenty off great Blokes here  I do 

Bruce  ive settup and runn and trained operators on Karas in 3 states off Australia Masters and F2000s proboly done around 4 to 5000 + hours on em easy  Ive only used one Old 94 mod YS model  and that was different 
 
My best months average was on an Master up in Qld in 01 I averaged 8000  bft sawn per 9 hr day in plantation pine (Edging on the table we didnt have an edger  ) targeting 8x2s out off the larger logs and 3x2s and 4x2s out off the smaller ones with recovery going down  to 3x 1/2s    I use to go like a cut snake on em    but  you felt it at the end off the day  and the two blokes stacking and docking didnt like it much as they where use to only doing about the 4000 mark before i got there 

They are a Bloody good little production mill if you can keep them in logs from 10" to 22" dia and 12 to 20' long  you can Punch out some timber  anything bigger or smaller starts to slow you down abit  Like any machine they have their limits and comfort zone they like 

Ive done logs upto about 30" dia on the std mill with 44" saw and then finished the cut off with a chainsaw more times than id like to remember  the smallest runn logs ive done on em is about 4" 

The Aust Kara Rep wanted Me to go to Finland in 02  to enter the Sawyers Championship For kara and similar mills eg Laiomet ,Slidetech built by Tommi Laine the world champion  ;)they have there and i passed up the chance as i was too buisy at the time  just another what iff  as Dave still tells me he reckons id give Tommi a bloody good runn for his money    i might still do it some day 

Reguards Chris

[beenthere]

Gday

Welcome to the forum Tropo 
& Puppa Bang 
 pull up a pack anytime fellas  You'll have a ball plenty off great Blokes here  I do 

Bruce  ive settup and runn and trained operators on Karas in 3 states off Australia Masters and F2000s proboly done around 4 to 5000 + hours on em easy 
 Ive only used one Old 94 mod YS model 
and that was different 
 
My best months average was on an Master up in Qld in 01 I averaged 8000  bft sawn per 9 hr day in plantation pine (Edging on the table we didnt have an edger  )
 targeting 8x2s out off the larger logs and 3x2s and 4x2s out off the smaller ones with recovery going down  to 3x 1/2s   
I use to go like a cut snake on em   
but  you felt it at the end off the day 
and the two blokes stacking and docking didnt like it much as they where use to only doing about the 4000 mark before i got there 

They are a Bloody good little production mill if you can keep them in logs from 10" to 22" dia and 12 to 20' long  you can Punch out some timber 
anything bigger or smaller starts to slow you down abit 
Like any machine they have their limits and comfort zone they like 

Ive done logs upto about 30" dia on the std mill with 44" saw and then finished the cut off with a chainsaw more times than id like to remember 
the smallest runn logs ive done on em is about 4" 

The Aust Kara Rep wanted Me to go to Finland in 02  to enter the Sawyers Championship For kara and similar mills eg Laiomet ,Slidetech built by Tommi Laine the world champion 
they have there and i passed up the chance as i was too buisy at the time 
just another what iff 
as Dave still tells me he reckons id give Tommi a bloody good runn for his money   
i might still do it some day 

Reguards Chris

I figured out a way that I can read Meadows Miller posts....

[Meadows Miller]

Gday

Beenthere is that reading them twice Mate 

Reguards Chris

[Tribune]

Peterson10" WPF

[mad murdock]

for now a Granberg Alaska mill on my Husky 372 XP.  plan to build a mill, probably a swing blade w/narrow kerf blade.  1964 Garrett Model 15 Tree Farmer.

[KyTreeFarmer]

I have a very old Foley-Belsaw handset circle mill that was sold thru Sears & Roebuck. 34 ft. track, 3 headblock 14ft carriage, with 38 in. solid tooth blade all rescued from briar patch. Powered by 6 cylinder Chevy engine on skid. Rewooded and set up about 15 years ago. Sitting idle most of the time since.

Woodmizer LT 15

[aksawyer]

LT15 custom with self added independant hyd.Thomas 153S skidsteer.Cletrac 1940 ag4 dozer.1985 White cab over short logger w/prentice self loader.Husky 288.Husky 288XP.Stihl 066,036,290.Husky 55 Rancher.Could go on all day with the manual tools.Aksawyer fairbanks Alaska

[Ron R.]

Just puchased a Belsaw Model M with 40 inch inserted tooth blade. Powering it with a 1965 3020 Diesel John Deere. That is when I get it together . Now gotta buy some toys to load logs with.................Ron

[islandlogger]

Peterson 8" WPF, 24 HP Honda,   Love IT!!

[GregW]

Norwood LM 2000 purchased in Oct of 2000. 13 hp Honda. Was electric powered for 6 yrs. When elec motor died I put the Honda back on. The mill has paid for itself at least five times just by sawing other peoples logs.
 



Also have:
1970 Ford 1600 tractor w/home made "log blade" on the loader
1974 International S8 skidder
Norwwod sharpener and setter
Too many other things to list!