Milling Logs Into Lumber
own a milling attachment for my chainsaw and enjoy being able to be in greater control of harvesting and processing my own lumber. I have always saved straight lumber and split it into quarters to season. Now I am able to make reasonably consistent lumber and learn a lot more about trees and wood in the process. Here are some pictures as I have been learning the art of milling wood. It is fantastic and complicated as each tree is different. I have included some photos of my neighbor’s band saw mill as his crew is sawing a white oak log for me.
Green Ash Fraxinus pennsylvanica
Red Oak Quercus rubra stack, quarter-sawn.
Milling a green ash crotch.
green ash crotch
Cutting a walnut log at Fall River
Another view of the same log
Wind-felled Cottonwood at Andover
The Cottonwood
White Oak
On the bandsaw mill
Sawing one of the quarters
Quarter sawn White oak drying in the barn
Scavenged Black Walnut Crotch.
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Nice lumber. Is this what they call an Alaskan mill? We have a band mill but it will only cut up to 30″ diameter. We’ve been toying with the idea of purchasing a chainsaw or Alaskan mill to use with a 48″bar. How wide will your chainsaw mill cut?
Hi!
You haven’t thought about building your own band-sawmill? The kerf is much smaller, as you know, and thus you get one extra-board per log. I would say that you also spare in energy, if you can use electrical energy.
We aim to build one and give all the instructions free, putting it on the net.
Here you can see some pics (English text):
http://provillage.wordpress.com/category/in-english/
More pics here, but the text is in Finnish, but all the links are to English-language sites:
http://provillage.wordpress.com
All the drawn pics are made by my friend Tero Syvänen and he has ‘copylefted’ them. And if you are really interested, write him and he will tell more about the project.
Henry