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I don't really need a mill, but could use one, once in a while. This is getting cheap enough to be tempting, and no assembly required. We do have a few hundred acres of trees, loaders, and fork lifts, so log handling is not a problem.
My biggest use would probably be when I have a Cypress shingle job, to buy logs, and cut them like I want them sliced up.
Comments are welcomed.
I sure does look tempting.
That price is really right. Be worth it to supply your own wood for your shop.
Tom, come to the Southern Farm Show at the State Fairgrounds in Raleigh. Show is in early February. Woodmizer, Hud-Son and usually another vendor show off their mills. Over at a North Carolina based web site, there is a list of sawyers, some of who specialize in cypress. They all can custom cut what you want. Some may have the shingle attachment for their mills. I've seen a steam operated shingle mill at State Fair.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tom M King
That's a good idea.
No problem making shingles the way we make them. The last ones were 28" long. I don't do enough of it to be worth buying any kind of mill attachment. With my method, and 2 helpers, we go from boards stacked on a trailer, to a pickup bed full of neatly stacked shingles in not much over an hour, and maybe a half. If I got rid of the sapwood to start with, it would cut out one step in the process. I have to rip that off of each board, by eye, on a table saw without a fence, as the first step.
I'm not a bit interested in standing close to a circular blade while cutting the shingle vertically. I use a big bandsaw, and they are cut, two at a time, on a sled. One helper sets a board the length of the shingles we want on the sled, I push it through ( maybe 2 seconds), and the second helper takes them off, and stacks them in the truck. No hands come anywhere close to the blade.
I haven't had a problem buying boards, but no one so far that wants to get rid of the sapwood, pith, and then quarter saw. You can't have arcing over grain in a Cypress shingle, without it checking.