Last year uncle and I built our own horizontal band mill on the cheap.
Yesterday, he saw a power line crew cut down a 24" or so oak and asked
them if he could have it. They said sure.
So off he goes in his little 2wd toyota pickup, stops at my place to
get a chainsaw and brings back 18 foot of tree in 6 foot sections.
The tree was up hill, he parked down hill and used a cant hook to roll
it up some 4x4's (cut from my red pines) into his truck and over to my
place where the saw sits.
Today, we turned it into 5/4 oak boards.
Free wood is always a gloat. (unless it has termites :( )
Wes
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> Last year uncle and I built our own horizontal band mill on the cheap.
> Yesterday, he saw a power line crew cut down a 24" or so oak and asked
> them if he could have it. They said sure.
Very cool! I don't have a mill yet but that never stops me from getting
free or good deal wood. I have better than a mill.... A buddy with a mill!!
Milling your own is one of my favorite past times. Now where will I store
all that lumber?
SH
Wolf Lahti <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Last year uncle and I built our own horizontal band mill on the cheap.
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>Details - we want details. And plans!
No plans. We looked at a web page www.linnlumber.com and figured out
enough from that. Bought a few items from him and he sent his
assembly video for his kits which filled in a few more details. I am
sure he isn't the only one out there. Band wheels are browning
pulleys with a vee belt pried on as tires. Works okay for a 1 1/4
band. Suffolk sells polyurethane tires that I am interested in trying
when current tires get tired ;)
We built it thinking hardwood for wood working but so far have made
about 1900 feet of 2x4's for a home remodeling thing. Living in a red
pine plantation has been handy and last years storm that knocked down
many trees made harvesting ez. Pick the ones on the ground :(
As far as costs, lots of time and about 1000 bucks. We scrounged a
lot, have a brother-in-law that gave us 40' of 3" angle, uncle had a
boss that had some old broken down Onan vee twin engines that we
turned into one good 10 hp engine with spare parts as a plus.
Wes
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> Last year uncle and I built our own horizontal band mill on the cheap.
> Yesterday, he saw a power line crew cut down a 24" or so oak and asked
> them if he could have it. They said sure.
I have to get a new uncle.
In article <[email protected]>, [email protected]
wrote:
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> Last year uncle and I built our own horizontal band mill on the cheap.
>
Details - we want details. And plans!