Good eyes! It is a Norwood lumbermate. I have about 50 oak logs between 12 and 24 inch diameter I need to cut up. The saw work great ion the about 10 logs I have done so far. I made posts and headers for the house I built and have made some oak stair pieces and some decking.
The hard part isn't the sawing. It's loading the log (Boomer with bucket forks has cured that now) and stacking and storing the wood for proper drying. Air drying takes about 6 mos so you either need to plan what you need well in advance or make lots of everything.
Yes I have one thats about a year and a half old and enjoy working with it a lot. I wouldn't want to rely on it for 40 hour a week stuff but for myself and some custom sawing for some friends it works great.If you do a search on sawmills you might find a pic of my mill. and I agree the forks save the back alot when moving logs.
Thanks for the pictures Jay. Your backhoe does seem to sit pretty far back, is there a reason or could the sub frame be shortened up some. I'm still deciding between the Brush Hog unit and a Bradco 408. Do you mind if I ask what you paid. Bob
I don't think you would want to move it in as the BH seat might interfere with the toolbox and the toplink holder. It also keeps it out of the way of hitting the bottom 3point arms. It isn't adjustable. The brackets locate it there. My dealer had Bradco as well, but as I remember it was quite a bit more, so I really didn't look at it too carefully. The dealer steered me toward this one as being the best match for the tractor. I paid about $5350 for the hoe, HD bucket, subframe, plumbed with the "power beyond" kit, setup and installation. I bought it all together wuth the tractor, FEL, Bushhog chipper and the backhoe. and that stretched the budget to the max. I wish I had gotten the rear remotes though when purchasing the tractor, its hard to justify the dollars separately now, but would have been easier to add it to the loan then.
