I hired a bandsaw mill when I cleared my house lot a few years ago and milled up a lot of lumber. I have a couple of large oaks standing dead now. I’d guess I will lose a tree here and there on an ongoing basis.

Would like to maybe get an Alaskan mill to do a few trees here and there when the opportunity arises. Somebody posted a link to a vendor who sold kits that included some clones of larger saws but now I can’t find it. Is there a good option out there that’s in the 500-1000$ range that is decent enough?

It’s mostly oak and mostly 12-24” diameter. I don’t really want to diy something unless there’s not something budget friendly available.

This is on a family member’s property, trying to get in touch to see if he’s willing to let me slab it up. Figured yall would enjoy. It’s probably 30” across in the wider section, black walnut.

I have 18 acres of woods and want to get into slabbing. I have what I believe is a swamp chestnut oak topple in a windstorm in January of this year. It was a living tree, a proper topple, pulled up the root ball. It was about 80' tall, a two-trunk tree, each trunk 24" ABH and at least one leader has been well off the ground since it fell. how long do I have to get this done? I know it's not a prime tree, but it would be perfect to cut my teeth on..

So it may have been there the day I cut, but about three days later I noticed these tiny holes toward the edges of the tree-near bark. I’m guessing it’s bugs but wondered what you all think. Do you all ever spray anything to keep bugs off after cuts? Do you de-bark the slabs for storage to dry?

Hey everyone. As the title implies, I need some advice about my bandsaw mill. Searching this sub for clues has led me to thinking that a lack of set might be the cause of my cuts running up. So I'd like to ask: how much set is enough/too much? And what's the preferred method of measurement?

I have a bunch of poplar stickered and stacked for about 2 months, but I need to use it in a couple of weeks for trim. If I bring the lengths I need inside our air conditioned house and put a fan on them (I need about 140' of 1x6) roughly how long will they take to get low enough to use for painted trim?
They're currently in 4/4x6x8'
Any help, /r/slablab?

After cutting a neighbor's black locust up into manageable lengths to fit in the bucket of the skid steer I realized I made a mistake. Natural rot resistance of the locust should make for a good raised planter. Put seven chunks through the chainsaw mill at 8/4 and used a combination of galvanized lags and spikes to hold it all together. Put a double layer of 1/4" hardware cloth across the bottom to make the moles and voles work for it. I might send a piece of galvanized all-thread between the long sides to help keep freeze-thaw cycles from blowing out the sides. Driving lags into black locust made the 1/2" impact gun really work for it.

Interior volume is 96" x 32" x 14".