![]() In fact, optional rail track extensions for cutting longer are available with no limitation. The SW26 band mill logs 26″ (66cm) in diameter, sawing boards up to 23″ (60cm) in width and up to 118″ (3m) in length. Just remember that owning a sawmill doesnt make you a sawmiller any more then owning a drill makes you a dentist.SW26 Ideal sawmill for whether you are wood hobbies, lumber company or seasoned sawyers, this’s personal-size mill can cut timber for the wooden house, building materials, furniture. *Insert standard gratuitous plug for Lucas Mills for making a good product in Australia, with great backup service here * Honestly if you got three big trees and only three I wouldnt worry about the size issue. Against which the hydraulic turn and clamping functions on a bandmill will make it easier to process smaller logs. A swingmill however can handle stuff out to 1.5m diameter (Lucas) as standard, and a whole lot bigger again with some playing around. Bandmills have a throat width and anything that dont fit through there is a no go. ![]() The biggest determining factor is going to be your log resource. they only cost when they're cutting, and all that hydraulic stuff means they even it out on cost of production. Dont pay no mind to band cost when someone comes along talking about that. In terms of ease of use a hydraulic bandmill wins hands down. In terms of portability a swingmill wins hands down. Look you got a 20k budget so that limits what we look at, and you want to be portable to some degree.Įvery mill is a series of compromises, and with whats available in that price range you're going to have to make some serious trade offs. I kinda like the look of the NORWOOD which now also makes a little brother called FRONTIER.Īny thoughts or suggestions much appreciated. Followed a past thread and there didn't seem a clear answer at the time as to if portable bandsaw mills were up to the job of Aussie hardwoods? Easy to move around and adjust the log on the support rails.Ħ. How do they compare in adaptability and efficiency to the lucas?ĥ. Some companies 'seem to have' fixed the band sharpening issue.Ĥ. They look easy on the body? I'm mid forties.Ģ. However, I do like the look of the new 'portable bandsaw mills' that are on the market these days.ġ. It seems common for most folk to use a Lucas Mill down this way instead of portable bandsaw mills? So what kinda mill would YOU go for? (lucas, chainsaw, bandsaw) With it's potable nature (mill on trailer) MAYBE I could do a couple days work a week to pay the thing off? Hope to use wood on site for future building projects. I will have a tractor (45 -65hp) hopefully with logging winch - another post. I like doing a bit of this work each week. And if we are doing at least that amount of milling each year, it 'might' make more sense to simply buy a mill and do it ourselves? ![]() A pretty good result I think, but that wood will be gobbled up on our next build soon enough. The year before last, we had someone come in (8 days) with a lucas mill and mill up some logs. ![]() I can imagine, there will be trees to be milled each and every year. As for the silver wattle, this time of year, a handful of them, usually at the edge of pasture, seem happy to fall over of their own accord:-) ![]() In the short term we have a dozen or so large stringy bark trees that will need to come down. Trees on our property are for the best part stringy bark and silver wattle. ![]()
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