Updated: Selling my Mill, High Production, 2006 Mighty Mite Mark4

[sgschwend]

The price is $25,000, about 5-8K below market value.

The mill is a 2005 put into service in 2006, it has 530 hours.
Perkin 33Kw, 44 hp series diesel, full hydraulics featuring two log turners, winch, lumber drawback and fence.
Can cut logs 40" in diameter and up to 25' long, 28" wide slab cut.

If you go to my web page (link at bottom in signature area) you can watch the mill in action.

Location is Washington State.  Contact Steve either by email or phone:
sgschwend@sawmillservice.com or (360) 320-0453


Delivery and training is possible, just ask.

 

[sgschwend]

Here is a couple of pics,
 



 

[LOGDOG]

That's a good looking mill Steve. Always did like those Mighty Mite Mark IV's. 

LOGDOG

[sgschwend]

Thanks Logdog.  I have added speed control to the mill's remote, that takes care of the common entry hump most other mills have.

I hope to continue the portable work, but I have this new opportunity to convert local tree service logs to lumber.   And I don't want to own and maintain two mills, the overhead is a profit killer.

One of the areas I am working on is to develop a large beam and post market.  Even though I can cut a 25' long beam I am going to increase that length to 36' which will match the logging truck lengths.  Hopefully business will pickup with these changes. 

The first two pictures in the top post show the log yard that has been regraded and the "mud" is almost dry (foggy day).  I did cut today but only on the side.

As you can see the mill looks new, and with the remote speed control it has never run so good. 

[LOGDOG]

Steve,

   That mill looks like it has a really nice wide throat on it. What's the widest cut you can take between the guides when she's all the way open?

[sgschwend]

Yes it is wider than most.  It can slab up to 30" wide.

It can also cut 12" deep which is very handy when it comes to cutting a stack of parts or beams that you need to offload with another machine so you can leave all the parts cut on the mill and lift them off all together.   Saves a lot of time that way.

I don't know if many machines have a draw back arm (an arm that removed the cut board) but this mill has a drawback or offload arm too; it will remove just about any size part because the arm is remotely adjustable; also the advantage of the hydraulic feed is that the machine has the power to offload those big parts.  I have even taken  20' 8X8 off using the offload arm. 

Mighty Mite has put a lot of nice features into this mill design, the designer is from Oregon; there is a lot of wood cut in Oregon. 

The mill is very road worthy, I have even offering to help deliver the mill to the new owner, it would give me a chance to see a bit of the country.

[Big Timber]

what kind of production do you get with that mill?  10 - 12' logs, leaving a 7x9 tie or 4x6 cant

[sgschwend]

Not sure exactly what you are asking, so if I don't cover your question tell me.  Here is some basic feed speeds:
8" and less 60f/minute
10" 45f/min
12" and larger  30f/min

I once processed 7000 bf of cants into 2" material using 3 helpers in 4 hours (making cants takes time).

If you are asking the rate for taking a small log, and making a cant then the process time would be the time to load, 3 turns minimum, 4 cuts minimum and remove.  I did do a job for a fella that way, his parts were longer however, but I can make a pretty good guess.  I would say about 10 logs per hour, or about 600 bf/hr.  The saw feed would be about 45f/m; which means less than two minute of saw forward (cut) and back (return) movement, so the other 4 minutes is mostly material handling with a small amount to setup each cut.

You can see the largest time consumption (3 minutes) is material handling,  helpers would certainly speed things up.   Also my times are based on all 4 good edges, lowering the quality will speed things up.