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    Posted: 18 Apr 2018 at 8:34pm




Here are a couple pix. of the mill and the slab process.--Need to skin the bigger logs down so they fit on the band mill. thanks; ac fleet

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What does something like that cost, and where did you get it....? Thanks, Darrel
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Wow.  I'm impressed on how smooth the cut is. Thumbs UpThumbs Up
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I have to ask. What are you using as your guide for the first cut?
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Cost, they start at $150, plus saw.
They use a ripping chain.
Guide, most use a 2x for the first cut.
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Well mine is a Granberg model 777 ----36" size,---they come in several sizes and priced accordingly.---I think the wife found this one at Northern tool.--That's where our bandmill and de-barker came from too.
The guide for the first cut for me is a short luni. ladder blocked on the lower end so it don't slide off.--I can't cut very fast because my ole spine is not good at all , so I just slowly slide the big saw along the ladder.--You can use most anything for a guide.--they even make luni. guides, which can be purchased seprately . I won't need to do much with this big saw since I use it mostly with a little 42 cc saw w/16" bar, making short boards from firewood length logs.--You would be surprised at the amount of good boards that can be skinned from that stuff.
The ripping chain is ground differently than a regular chain, giving a good fairly smooth  finish cut ,--A couple light passes in the ole planer, and it's ready for finish! lol!!!

If you want " hobby wood",--short stuff a small saw will work good, IF you want serious wood, big diameter , long stuff, then I would recommend the biggest saw on the market, and some guys use a power head on both ends!! LOL!!!!  ----I can barely handle the 8000 on one!! thanks; ac fleet
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I always had a hankering to rip some boards out of red cedar to do some wood working projects with. This set up would have been perfect for what I had in mind. Don't think that I have the gumption to do it any more now. Darrel
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I built my own out of square tubing. Easy enough to do but adds some weight. No one around here knew what a ripping chain was. I just modified mine. It's fun to do projects from start to finish. Also you don't know what a tree will give you until you open it up. Advice would be to get the largest saw you can and if you would do alot I would consider an auxiliary chain oiler. I would not want to do it all day unless I was a gorilla and a young one at that!
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Wish I had some red cedar!!! LOL!!!! none of that around here!! thanks; ac fleet
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I baby'd 2 red cedars on the edge of one of my corn fields for about 20 sum years. was gonna become a few pieces of furniture. the first year the big green farmers took over, they destroyed them, said they didn't like them. they weren't even in their way of field work! they'll pay....that;s to come yet!
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Eastern Red Cedars are not good in pastures but burn nicely.
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Link to a YouTube video:

Using an aluminum ladder as a guide for making the first cut.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XuMacK-dmwY
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man, my back hurts just watching the video!! Chainsaw mills must be a young guys machine !
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That was interesting.
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Originally posted by ac fleet ac fleet wrote:

Wish I had some red cedar!!! LOL!!!! none of that around here!! thanks; ac fleet



Back in the area where I grew up (should say, where I spent my younger years, as I have yet to "grow up"), in extreme western ND, there were thousands of red cedar fence posts. They were not milled at all, just branches and trunks cut to length and put in the ground. Mostly done when original homestead fences were put up. As all of em were being removed and replaced, that's where I would have aquired my "red cedar". Back in the day when when water beds were "the thing to have", I had visions of building a water bed frame out of the stuff. I just loved the smell and color of red cedar. Darrel
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We both like the cedar here!--I have heard that it can take over pastures.--Anybody know of a pasture that I could cut ?? LOL!!!! ---It is really a nice wood to work with too!
JB,--I struggle with my mill, but bad back and old age is not a good combination!! LOL!!! I still get it done, just takes longer than it should now days!
Did get 2 of the 3 big logs skinned down with the chain mill and then finished up on the band mill today.---Might  would have got all 3 done, except that I cut into a bunch of nails deep inside of the second log!--Had to go sharpen the blade a couple times so that really slowed things down!----At least it didn't break the blade!! LOL!!!! thanks; ac fleet
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AC Fleet; I think that what takes over a pasture is "creeping cedar." I haven't heard anything bad about actual cedar trees. Darrel
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they make the best windbreak
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I guess there are a lot of different varieties of cedar.---I went up to Galena with my buddy one time and there was a lot of nice cedar growing on the bluffs  and hills.--Some was hanging from rocky limestone outcroppings along the Miss. River in that area.--That's about 230 miles North west of me! thanks; ac fleet
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