Trailer decking

[Trafficman]

Soundguy,
Yes. The kerf is ALOT wider than a bandsaw mill, tend have a shorter width, the bar/chain is heavier, & a lot louder than a BSM. Figure on sharpening the blade a lot too.

T-Man.

 

[Soundguy]

i imagine you loose 5/16" at least on a cut.. vs what? 1/16 on a bsm? or 3/32 on a buzzsaw?

oce you make a few cuts.. that starts to add up.

soundguy

 

[2manyrocks]

I had enough white oak sawn locally for my 16' trailer last May for $150.

That's a great deal.

The issue with the chainsaw mills is not just the amount of kerf, but the awful amount of work it takes to handle the saw. I helped a friend with his woodmizer bandsaw mill, and that's a lot of work. A chainsaw mill is even more work.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Owning your own will is worthless unless you are in the the middle of no-where, like far northern Alaska. In the lower 48 I would bet there is a saw mill within 30 miles of 90% of the people. I have one 3.5 miles from my house. You would never know its there but asked some old timers and found a good resource. I can get board cut out of the timbers I take them for pennys per board feet. They have the equipment to move the large timbers, logs, and can do it safely and quickly. We sell logs to them all the time also or simply give them some stuff in exchange for what we need.

Look around and you will find a good saw mill that can do anything you need for a very reasonable price.

Chris

 

[schoolsout]

Oh! so youv'e worked with this stuff too huh!

Porch and decking at the house is Ipe

Also called Iron Wood...can't drive a nail through it it is so dense...it also sinks in water, I believe.

 

[Wacky]

havee you thought about using rumber? Rumber Materials

I really hope to hear back on this material sent an email but still no response. Anyone try this yet? Any dealers near western WV?

 

[Trafficman]

Diamondpilot,
Ummm, I know of 3 guys that are making their living off logs to lumber with portable mills, like Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmills > Products > Manual Sawmills > LT15 Portable Sawmill or LT15GO Portable Sawmill or even Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmills > Products > Manual Sawmills > LT28 Portable Sawmill . They slice them up, put them in a solar kiln for until they're dry (anywhere from a week to a month) then sell the boards as lumber. I'm looking at the LT15 for my own woodworking shop. :licking: My County routinely turns logs into mulch and will give them to residents if they can load & haul them away. :drool: No contractors though. :thumbsup:

T-Man.

 

[2manyrocks]

We had a first rate local sawmill that bit the dust financially. It stayed closed a few months and then was sold to an out of state company. They ran it for a while and then they relocated "our" mill to their primary location because they make more money there. Before they moved the mill, they used to sell lumber to the local people, but some local customer behaved really badly about a sale that they quit selling lumber locally at all to small buyers.

The smaller mill sold out and closed, too.

There are couple of mills on the edge of 30 miles, but one of them is pricey and neither is convenient.

Trees everywhere, but not so many mills anymore.

 

[Diamondpilot]

Diamondpilot,
Ummm, I know of 3 guys that are making their living off logs to lumber with portable mills, like Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmills > Products > Manual Sawmills > LT15 Portable Sawmill or LT15GO Portable Sawmill or even Wood-Mizer Portable Sawmills > Products > Manual Sawmills > LT28 Portable Sawmill . They slice them up, put them in a solar kiln for until they're dry (anywhere from a week to a month) then sell the boards as lumber. I'm looking at the LT15 for my own woodworking shop. :licking: My County routinely turns logs into mulch and will give them to residents if they can load & haul them away. :drool: No contractors though. :thumbsup:

T-Man.

Doing it for a living and owning your own to make a few boards here and there is a totally different thing. I guess I should have qualified what I said.

Heck, I could also buy a paving machine and a roller and paved my drive last summer myself then stored it all for 20 years till it needed re-done but I would rather pay someone to do it when needed. I will be money and frustration way ahead.

My local saw mill is very small. It housed in a pole barn and ran by a father and son. They only do custom work and only open when needed.

Chris

 

[Soundguy]

used to have a big mill in the next city up. they closed, and someone put together a portable mill on a trailer.. that stayed around about 5ys, and now nada.. I don't know of a mill in central fl that will sell to regular 'walk in or custom-job, customers.

soundguy