An unexpected start to this project came from a buddy whom just handed me a Husqvarna 385XP with a couple extra chains. I've been skirting the edges of getting into the home sawmill/portable sawmill/chainsaw mill thing for a couple years. From here on called Chainsaw Mill (CM). Talking with my son Zak, that's something he's interested in doing on the farm and we, lawd lawd... we have the trees.
Planning to start getting after it, as Elwood said ...
So I mined the site and saw (ok that's the first pun) there were a couple threads on Solar Kiln @bowhunter1023 / and fabricated sawmill @twireman but not much on CM and milling on site where the felling takes place. I don't have a front end loader, excavator, tractor, etc, nor do I want to. This is bucking the felled tree into ~8'-10' elements and slabbing the bucks in place then moving the man handle-able slabs to a drying location.
What I'm looking for is folks that have actually done the CM thing to add to this for folks to all get smarter on - including myself! Lots of videos out there in the infosphere to help the lay person be safe and get started on CM and many are damn good "How TOO's". I'll be adding to this from time to time as we get to the point of ID'ing the trees, felling, treeeside CM assembly, CM'ng, moving and stacking slabs, drying, etc.
For an overview of what CM is this is good 101 video.
Planning to start getting after it, as Elwood said ...
So I mined the site and saw (ok that's the first pun) there were a couple threads on Solar Kiln @bowhunter1023 / and fabricated sawmill @twireman but not much on CM and milling on site where the felling takes place. I don't have a front end loader, excavator, tractor, etc, nor do I want to. This is bucking the felled tree into ~8'-10' elements and slabbing the bucks in place then moving the man handle-able slabs to a drying location.
What I'm looking for is folks that have actually done the CM thing to add to this for folks to all get smarter on - including myself! Lots of videos out there in the infosphere to help the lay person be safe and get started on CM and many are damn good "How TOO's". I'll be adding to this from time to time as we get to the point of ID'ing the trees, felling, treeeside CM assembly, CM'ng, moving and stacking slabs, drying, etc.
For an overview of what CM is this is good 101 video.
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