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As soft as redwood is you could haul azz through it with a chainsaw .You'd probabley sneeze for the next three days though .

I've seen 60 foot oak beams in old dairy barns .Now that took a hellish big oak to get those beams .You'd have a tough time finding those giants any more .

All I've ever used was a Granberg mini mill .I got some nice 4 by 12 by 8 foot white oak planks but it was a hell of a job getting them .That thing might work okay if a person had to chainsaw rip a log to get it down to size for a bandsaw or something .

All I can say is chainsaw milling is a lot of work .I tried it a little and formed that opinion some time back . With any kind of luck perhaps I can get my partly finished bandsaw mill completed this summer .Too many things have hampered it's completion and the logs are stacking up .It would be...

Hard maple makes dandy counter or bench tops .

Actually you can find what's left of circle mills for about scrap price . Smaller ones like 48" blade . Fact my buddy had one given to him he just hasn't figured out what to do with yet .I didn't offer any advice either .Been down that road too many times in my life time .Damned circle mills...

Yeah probabley a 400 HP giant bandsaw that cuts both ways about 90 thousand Bd ft per hour .In about three days you won't even be able to find his house just a giant mountain of sawdust .Mrs. Squish will be thrilled over that one no doubt .:lol:

Ole Squish will be looking for a bandsaw no doubt .

You'll probabley need to find a scaffold plank .I bought a number one 2 by 12 by 20 plank nearly thirty years ago that's never seen any weather .There isn't a knot bigger than the eraser of a pencil in it .I went through about 40 to find it at the time the kid at the lumber company asking why...

If you Google it you might be able to find the article a guy did using an aluminum ladder in conjuction with an Alaska type mill .

I found some old pics of a little bit of saw milling .Some heavy oak planks .The Mac 125 with a "mini mill " and a garden bench . It's all red oak .

Used it's 72 bucks .

Most of the rough cut stuff I have has been cut straight one side .The sawyer did a pretty good job with an older Lt-15 Woodmizer . It's just some of those flitchs that need squared .An 8 footer is not too hard to free hand through a table saw but when you get to 12 footers it becomes a chore ...

To edge it just chaulk line it and free hand it through a table saw .It takes a little practice but you'll get the hang of it .I suppose you could use a straight edge and a hand power saw and get the same results .

Oh it's a lot smoother than a circle mill that's for sure .

Electric has a definate advantage over gas or diesel .One it's a lot cheaper and two not much can go wrong with an electric motor except the bearings which last for decades . To get any size though you about have to go with three phase which can be done using single with a phase converter . I...

All I did was look at the design which seemed like it would do the job . Tell ya what ,here's a site to check out .http://www.diybandmill.com/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1 Look at the galley .There must be a zillion ideas for bandsaws,chainsaw mills ,circle mills .Some are crude as a...

That's Alan Combs .In addition to the plans for the chainsaw mill take some time to read some of the things he talks about in a little blog he has . I might add that the carriage design he uses for the chainsaw mill would work for a low horse power bandsaw mill as well .Fact I've seen some that...

What little I've done I've tried refiled chain in several configurations of rip chain .It might have been a teeny bit smoother but it was slow as a snail .Chisel did a whole bunch smoother than a circle mill and a whole lot faster than rip chain which was good enough for what I was doing ...

Yeah they will handle it .Set the saw up to run rich .