Ms 880 in homemade mill

[Eddie39]

Hi guys just thought id post this video a friend put on YouTube a year or so ago of me and a mate using my ms880 and a homemade mill to mill some of the smaller limbs of a really big red oak i felled the tree was a standing dead one that was at least between 40-50in at the base and what a thump it hit the ground with it was SOME BUZZ i tell you, am just sorry i never took a video of it as it was hitting the ground


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3j31Z2--48

 

[BobL]

4 things.

1) naked bar nose = high risk.
2) looks like there was a lot of unnecessary pushing going on.
3) it looks like you were milling on your knees
4) 2 people driving mill

Compare that to this.

 

[Kicker_92]

If you're able to add a couple of center braces like the Grandberg MK3, it will make it much easier to start and exit the wood. Either that, or use a guide board for each cut.

I like your idea of the extra handles on all four corners, but like Bob said, watch out for that tip!

 

[BobL]

If you're able to add a couple of center braces like the Grandberg MK3, it will make it much easier to start and exit the wood. Either that, or use a guide board for each cut.

Yep - very good idea.

 

[Eddie39]

Yep - very good idea.

I hear what your sayin that one was the first one made i made another one that had two centre braces which worked much better as for the nose showing there was a guard originally but the brackets weren't made of heavy enough gauge steel and as we began to use it ,it started to bend with getting knocks as we were setting it on the ground after each cut so it was removed before it became a real danger ,i wouldn't have liked the chain to catch it ,by the way that mill of yours looks the business i definitely like the design but as for myself all i can say is you live and learn that's what its all about until eventually you have something that your happy with I'm still learning would like one of those Alaska's or a Logosol there real nice mills and portable that's the main factor for me anyway i be in some real hard to get at places at times where hiking in and out is the only answer

 

[dave k]

As Bob said looks like it was a bit of a battle going on to get that slab done !
Where are you based up there Eddie ? Im up in the Wicklow mountains.

 

[Eddie39]

As Bob said looks like it was a bit of a battle going on to get that slab done !
Where are you based up there Eddie ? Im up in the Wicklow mountains.

Dave at the time that vid was taken i was living just at the base of the glenshane mountain and your both correct it was becoming a bit of a battle as the chain was right and dull at that stage as we were milling all the forks which had lots of dirt,grit and even small stones embedded inside them as the tree was growing it just grew over them plus it would have been a bit easier if id had a milling chain on and not a standard 404 rollomatic but that was the last few slabs and i didn't think it was worth the hassle of unclamping the saw and taking it to the garage to begin sharpening it as it takes a while to hand file a chain of that size to leave it right as am sure you know yourself . You live in a right remote part of Ireland yourself the Wicklow mountains, its a place Ive never been to YET. Id say there would be alot of peat bog and forestry in that part of the country maybe a bit like Connemara but correct me if am wrong dave