INSANELY EASY CHAINSAW MILL TEST DRIVE! + First impressions VS homemade mill 

YESSSSS!!

Excellent tip!

johnsobj cedar shims

Dale Church he is sawing pine, you do not need to seal pine or soft woods, the sap seals the ends.

Thanks Donnie! Always appreciate the reminders!

SPOT ON, you do not need a lot of ''fall'' from one end to the other in order to make it work, but any degree of fall is good, , I have run one of these, and tried to cut one on a slope, , , it is diffidently easier to carry the saw to the higher end of the log than to push the saw through the wood, uphill,

Good Point .. bar maintenance is important, , , one thing I learned was look at the bar rails, and make sure the chain is not wearing itself INTO the bar, so that the rails of the bar are outside the cutting width of the chain, , some times the rails have to be peened in a speck to do this, and a lite filing job to remove the KNURLING effect cures this. you can not remove too much of the rails, if you do the drive teeth will bottom out in the bar, and wear the drive teeth out, and you loose the grip of the teeth in the drive sprocket, and derailing the chain may also result.

Yes!! So excited to use the entire tree! Been saving all the bark and dust for all kinds of projects. Zero waste.

Noticed that after our first cut. It's what we normally do but apparently out of practice after 4 months off. After this video we milled up all 5 logs. Went like lightening after we got things sorted and into a groove.

+shadomane Everything was green for us in this use. We have milled up a few seasoned logs too since then. Green cuts easier! Easier on chains too!

+guy mcelwee I've heard of such contraptions. If we get heavy into beams we'll have to do something. The fatigue will start to set in! Thanks for the tip!

Steven Grotte or you could bag up the sawdust and sell it to horse owners who will use it for stall bedding

+John Bladykas We're cutting a pine in this video, but we're also cutting fir for structural things.

+outdoorcountryboy forlife Thanks and thanks!

They work great! Plan on slower cuts and more sharpening.

We love Codys channel. Nice guy! I think always removing the bark is extreme and not always needed, but with some species it is important because of bugs. Like pine bettle.

Pure Living for Life ahhh - I don't know much about Douglas Fir other than I'd LOVE to have flooring made out of it - it's my favorite wood -

That totally crossed my mind, but then I was pondering the safety and difficulty that might ensue trying to keep it untangled, out of the saw should the wind kick up. Plus we lack a place to store the sawdust for now. So we just went ahead and worked. Lol. We may just try that on the next round though. Seems much easier doesn't it? :)

Wouldn't the corners stay if you just put heavy objects on it? Or even stake the corners to the ground somehow until you need to pull it up? They sell things to put large garbage bags on so you can lay on the ground to sweep leaves into. Would saw dust inside toilet paper rolls be a good fire starter, too?

Addressed this in another comment below. For lumber you waste too much wood squaring the log. For beams it's a no brainer.

Pure Living for Life i never thought of it that way... hmmmmm we never wasted anything at the mill but all of us worken there burned wood for heat. my only question and no one seems to answer it is how do you ge square wood if you leave a live edge on the stuff ur cutting? if u square it out after wouldent that be just as much wastage? im not sure how particular u are about the thickness of oyur boards but i see a lot of guys on here using aluminum ladders for there first cuts. the wood here is pretty crocked even the No.1 wood we get lol. i wish u guys well bro we'll be starting our home stead soon i hope just waiting for land prices to come down a bit further so we can get hte most bang for our buck!

It'll take quite a while and you might encounter oiling problems with a longish bar, the minimum I reckon would be 24''. My old husky 66 was just about up to that size but it really amounted to chainsaw abuse.

Thank you, I appreciate the info. In the end, I'll be taking to a mill, which in my neck of the woods are not lacking.

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Nice feedback! Thanks!

+88s10Durango Agreed... not to loud, but enough to hear the saw do its work during parts of the wood. The sound can be very telling...

We didn't really buy the saw so we could mill. We knew we'd be milling so we invested in a saw that could do it all but we knew we'd need firewood too so it's a very versatile tool for us. We haven't done a bandsaw mill so we can't testify or truly compare them. However my mind is telling me good luck moving logs around. I think milling is pretty straight forward but moving logs isn't so easy. At least for us they're on a hill and that makes it way more difficult. So mills aside think about where you'd be milling. The reason a chainsaw mill makes sense is we need only get them a short distance. Even a portable mill would have a hard time getting where our trees are. So I guess consider that in your decisions too.

Excellent point about moving logs. Thanks again.