Alaskan Mill on Ebay

[rarefish383]

I was looking at several Alaskan Mills on Ebay and something struck me. When measuring your bar is it the overall length of the bar or the cutting length? The overall length is about 40 in and the cutting length is about 36, so would I buy the 36 in Mill?

Next question is will the Mill work on my 36 in Homelite 1050 bar? I've noticed all of their pictures show Stihl or Husky saws. There's a large hole in the end of the bar I always assumed was to put a handle on it to use as a 2 man saw. Would that hole interfear with the mill atching? Thanks, Joe.

 

[BobL]

I was looking at several Alaskan Mills on Ebay and something struck me. When measuring your bar is it the overall length of the bar or the cutting length? The overall length is about 40 in and the cutting length is about 36, so would I buy the 36 in Mill?

Yes - If you have a sprocket nose 36" cut bar putting it in a 36" conventional alaskan mill will normally give ~30" of cutting width

Next question is will the Mill work on my 36 in Homelite 1050 bar? I've noticed all of their pictures show Stihl or Husky saws.

Yes.

There's a large hole in the end of the bar I always assumed was to put a handle on it to use as a 2 man saw. Would that hole interfear with the mill atching?

It sounds like you have a hardnose bar - the hole won't get in the way of any normal bar clamp mounting mechanisn. If you do have a hardnose bar you can clamp closer to the end of the bar and get a bit more cutting length - maybe 1.5 - 2" more

The hole in the end of the bar can be used to connect to some non(not many) mills.

 

[rarefish383]

Thanks, Bob. I have a small farm in West Virginia, 30 acres. A storm went throug last year and took down some large pines, 36" dia and 60' to the first limb. I was looking at a couple of them this weekend and figured there would be enough 6X9 beams to build my hunting cabin in one of those trees. The way the trees went down the stump end is about 2' off the ground and the log is no more than 4' off the ground the full length. I can block it up and mill it where it is. Thanks again, Joe.