qbilder
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Here's a new mill I picked up. It's made from the Linn design and saws a full 30", with relative ease I might add. I have been using a small band mill for some time & love the little thing but I was not prepared for the cutting ability of this thing. It was so fast & easy that I felt robbed of the fun of the work involved with milling. I experimented with blades a bit & had a lot of fun with a 2tpi .035" blade. It cut dang near finish clean. The slabs are 3" thick. Took me all of around 30 minutes to load & slab up both 4-5' logs combined.
I bought the mill with big throat for quarter sawing hard maple that I use in building my pool cues. But I already found another use, as pictured. It's an old cedar that grew in the oldest part of a local cemetery, and is estimated to be the oldest one as it was planted right out in the peak of the hill top and surrounded by the oldest tomb stones that date to the later 1700's. An old man who grew up in the area says it's been standing dead his entire life, which is somewhere in the 70's. He said nobody ever cut it for fear of it falling on a stone. I have been wanting it ever since I got the milling bug a few years ago & finally snatched it up once I got the mill for it. Dry as popcorn but still solid.
If you ever thought of band milling, it's well worth the effort. I paid $5400 cash for the mill new, picked up personally in MI. It has a 20' bed and a highway rated axle. I hauled it from way up in MI down to NM with several hundreds of miles at 80mph & it towed just fine. I was skeptical at first because of the price but after cutting 3qs sugar maples, 2ps sugar maples, & slabbing two dry cedar logs, i'm more than happy with the money spent. The other mill I was considering was a timberking and it was $7G's without the axle.
The mill plain cutting maple:
I bought the mill with big throat for quarter sawing hard maple that I use in building my pool cues. But I already found another use, as pictured. It's an old cedar that grew in the oldest part of a local cemetery, and is estimated to be the oldest one as it was planted right out in the peak of the hill top and surrounded by the oldest tomb stones that date to the later 1700's. An old man who grew up in the area says it's been standing dead his entire life, which is somewhere in the 70's. He said nobody ever cut it for fear of it falling on a stone. I have been wanting it ever since I got the milling bug a few years ago & finally snatched it up once I got the mill for it. Dry as popcorn but still solid.
If you ever thought of band milling, it's well worth the effort. I paid $5400 cash for the mill new, picked up personally in MI. It has a 20' bed and a highway rated axle. I hauled it from way up in MI down to NM with several hundreds of miles at 80mph & it towed just fine. I was skeptical at first because of the price but after cutting 3qs sugar maples, 2ps sugar maples, & slabbing two dry cedar logs, i'm more than happy with the money spent. The other mill I was considering was a timberking and it was $7G's without the axle.
The mill plain cutting maple:
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