Built me a mill

[Kurt Rosenzweig]

Hi guys! Just thought you might wanna see the mill that I built from scratch. I had all the steel given to me by a neighbor who just wanted it gone and the kicker is that he is also a tree surgeon and will be supplying me with all the wood I want. The last little picture is my first victim. A 20" holly. Please excuse the mess in the back ground. We're doing a lot of remodeling.
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[Kurt Rosenzweig]

Oh well! I don't know why I have problems posting pictures in the body. Maybe a Mod could fix it for me.:D

[Michael Weber]

I copy and pasted the individual links. Looks real nice. You put a lot of work into it. Do you push the saw through the wood and the expanded metal to the left is for walking on while doing it?
Mike

[Howie French]

Kurt, looks great !, what is the cc of your saw ? are you running a ripping chain ? what type ?, how long did it take to make each pass on the holly (approx ft per minute) ?

sorry for all the questions, but this really interests me.

thanks for posting -

Howie

[Hank Knight]

I'm impressed. That's really cool. Milling your own lumber has a feel-good quality about it. Nice work!

[Kurt Rosenzweig]

I guess that i'm running about 5' per minute. As far as the chain it's Oregon ripping chain and the saw is a 066 and I think it's around 100cc. If your interested check out Procut saw mills. That's where I got all my info from. Thanks for the kind words.

[Jim Becker]

Pretty kewel mill you built!

[Grady Cowardin]

Very ingenuitive! I especially like how you connected the two depth adjusters with that chain and idler. That would be a real workout doing them seperately. And its all on a "mobile base", sweet. I'm sure you could re-coup some of the costs cutting for people at their homes.

[Jeff Bower]

The color intrigues me.....why not mustard?:D

[Bill Huber]

Here are the pictures...

Looks kind of neat and I would love to see it in action. Lot of work went into it, it looks like.
I love it when someone takes a hand full of nothing and comes up with something like this.

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