Hey Everyone, Thought this would be a good video to understand the real speed of the Mahoe sawmill. Here we are cutting some 1x8 Pine Barn Boards for a customer.
It's amazing what people "Think ya'll should be doing" with zero information re: the choices you've made *and why* e.g., board thickness, stacking, blades vs bands, cell phone use etc. They must be a real joy to be around each day. *Great demo. God bless.*
@@brentmiller3951We're all free to choose and free to suffer the consequences. Can't help it if I have found the truth (Jesus) and the truth has made me free! He has made a great difference in my life!
That is an amazing saw. I have enjoyed watching your video so much I have become your newest subscriber. I hope to see more of your videos in the future and I shall spend a long weekend bingeing on your previous video. Stay safe &God Bless. 🇨🇦✌️
Great sawmill ! I used to have a mobile Diemensional sawmill same as this but 2 edger blades . It could cut top wane off when getting to other side of log in one pass !
I cut 6 foot sugar pine logs with mine in the field. No other saw mill in the world is as versatile as the mobile demestion mill, also called the Volkswagen mill😊
Yep, I've got a mobile dimension sawmill. The double edger is a plus. And I can put the 8" edger on and it works like that one. Plus electric up and down is nice. But a nice copy of the mobile dimension.
I like it. Nice smooth cuts. I was a bit squeamish when you got down near the end though thinking you might strike metal holders. I had never seen this type mill before. Two perpendicular circular saws spinning makes sense though. Move the saw not the log. I like it
Great video. Similar to the Mobile Dimension Saw that I used to have. I would have raised the mill and cut another 2x4 off the side of the log just after the last vertical board.
I lived on Vancouver Island at the time and sold it to a local fellow in about 1991 before I moved to Vancouver for work. Loved that mill and had cut many a thousand board feet with it. Always ran the mill by myself. The biggest job I had was a burnt timber salvage job where I was cutting up logs 2' to 6' in diameter and mostly 16' and 20' lengths. All lumber was cut from 4x4 to 4x12 size with some 2" side lumber. All the logs had to be cut on site because no sawmill wanted any logs with charcoal on them, since they all sold their chips to pulp mills. While I was there, there were 3 Mobile dimension sawmills on site and a portable head rig sawmill which cut all the logs under 2' diameter. All the lumber that was cut there was then shipped to Vancouver to be re-manufactured. There was over 3 million board feet of timber on that mountain side, but I wasn't there for the whole job. @@SharpeTimber
Bands or WIDE band saws are way better than circle saws. Efficient is a whole log every 1.4 seconds. Sure different league when it's saw after saw after saw in the big mills but they control the price or value of the products.
The both of you are talking big commercial mills. One of you was fair enough to admit a woodmizer couldn’t keep up. In this class and hp, the mobile dimension, Mahoe, even Peterson and others outpace the bandmills every time. There is no log turning and these things custom cut with a simple setting. Factory bandmills are definitely the way to go, but at what price? I live in a community where we are literally surrounded by sawmills. The smaller operators use blades. They are in business and making money or they wouldn’t be doing it. We have furniture and cabinetmakers and they use their lumber, in fact some of the mills are sold out and dedicated to certain buyers. Frankly, I wouldn’t even want to buy the sharpener and tooth setter for one of those big band mills and if you hit something solid, guess what? For the blade mill, they just replace the teeth which are relatively inexpensive in comparison to buying one of those gigantic bands. Just saying. It all boils down to cost of operation, overall efficiency and the ability to market your product. In other words, business.
@@sammywick2292also, what does all of that equipment cost including maintenance? That is right. One of those commercial edgers cost more than this mill. I see two men here. How many in your super fast operation and at what cost. These guys are operating outdoors. How much did your building cost. See, you aren’t even being fair in comparison.
Good job on milling up those boards in short order. Does the Mahoe mill have a sizing stop for consistent board dimensions? It looks like you are measuring each one individually with the control handle.
Thanks! It doesn't have a stop for the dimensions, but each tick is a sixteenth. I find it is still very accurate and fast. Also I am starting the joinery for my oak framed house, will have some videos of that soon.
A mill set up very similar was a Petterson and I had the pleasure of offbearing then eventually sawing with it. Simple yet most just have a hard time seeing how to grade logs for the most in them. I liked how well they complement the band saw logs after making cants from nasty logs that were at best mostly furniture... there are so many ways of getting nice pieces from logs deemed firewood. One way that I sawed was to make all small cants, stack them on the band saw, then saw them.... anyway that works for the person running one is sorta the right way to do it but from how you cut.. I'd say your the one man machine gun for speed, accuracy plus grade. Very well done.... if all alone and no one to offbear for you, have you considered mounting higher up to allow boards to drop into a conveyer and off to the trim saw or other given names of milling?
Hey @morgansword thanks for the comment, that's cool that you used to saw with a Peterson. But I agree it is nice to have a circular and bandsaw mill for different things. I have thought about making some system to offload the boards and maybe stack them. might do it in the future. First just building my home, then next on the list is a big timber framed sawmill shed.
That mill is so going to pay for itself and then some. Having the ability to mill your own lumber for building construction or whatever is light years ahead in home building. I am working on my second home and sourcing materials is a pain. Fine work my man.
Wow pretty amazing I been watching a lot of milling videos either chainsaw or ban saw and yours steals the cake but I imagine its pretty expensive and how often do you sharpen or replace the blades? Id probably go with the ban saw or chainsaw mill type set up though for expense as Im sure yours is quite expensive. Good video though pretty awesome first time Ive seen one like yours besides something the Amish might use.
I have. Used a wood mizer quite a bit and it's prowess for making various cuts is being challenged with this unit. Although for the larger cuts this has limits of distance from edge of blade to shaft. The wood mizer would cut much larger cuts with ease, where this one wouldn't. But on the other hand with this you don't need to move the log like with the wood mizer.
That is a cool mill, howcome after the middle of the log you didn't change the cut to thin top boards? looks like you could quarter saw the log without rolling it but maybe once?
Just needed to cut some barn board for the customer as he ordered. But it is possible to quarter saw without moving the log. I can get about 48 percent quarter sawn on a good size log.
Thanks! So the cable wraps around a steel puller each way, if they are too tight the mill wants to move on its own when you are not holding the handle.
What happens when they re gone? Where are the teak? The mahogany? The ash? Tiger oak? Ask about solid furniture and it’s cost. Now it’s replaced by saw dust glued together and surfaced veneered with plastics and sealed with liquid plastics. Barrysaid
No I just watched some videos, cut a few logs with it to practice. It is easy to figure out. Especially if you have any experience with other circular blade mills.
Could you give us a tutorial on how you move the mill over for your cuts being exact, mechanical lowering, or raising your mill? Could you also show how it stays exact to your settings
Hey Ben, yes I will make a video for that! I did film one but there was a problem with audio from the wind, I got a new mic so I will film that soon! Thanks for the suggestion!
Olá, bpm dia! gostei muito desse vídeo! essa é a oro final com dois discos, um na vertical e outro na horizontal!. como faço para comprar uma aqui no Brasil?
I single hand my mini Max. The tailor out don't need to step over the beam, just needs to wait besides the operator. He woke up eventually that he is not needed.
Wood ends up with so much waste. The waste from milling and then the wood workers. Dad taught wood shop for nearly forty years. He talked about the waste and taught me how to save pieces for later jobs.
Yes some of my workers are constantly answering text messages during work, and I need to do their work, and pay them .. I have a present for them for July 4th.. they’ll buy their stake and beer with another employer’s money..😊
37 hp Briggs and Stratton fuel injected. Wanted it with the Kubota diesel but apparently wasn't allowed to be imported to Canada because of emissions. But it still works great with this engine.
They are made in NZ...Peterson mills are better...and the turbo mill is better too...turbo mill is built and designed by the son of the inventor the the Peterson mill. ( the first swing blade sawmill)
Yes they are made in new zealand. I would have to disagree about the Peterson and Turbo Saws being better than the Mahoe. Both of those are swing blade mills and you need to go back and fourth to cut a board. The track for the Peterson mills goes right on the ground, saw dust covers it quickly and risk of logs damaging the track. In my opinion Turbo saws are okay but not as well built as Mahoe. Mahoe has auto feed, a single beam that carries the head off the ground and out of the way for cleaning mill and loading logs, returns the boards to you for easy stacking and cuts a finished board each pass. They are very heavy duty and well built.
I agree with ya about the track system on Peterson. But all 3 sawmills have to take 2 passes to cut a single board...I've used all 3 and I guarantee the swing blades are faster... Both auto swing mills have the option to not only return the boards but push the board if u had someone tailing out. Swing blades are awesome in high tension logs.. allowing u to release the tension while cutting boards in both vertical and horizontal cuts..thats impossible with a mahoe...and if u get those Mahoe blades pinched in a deep cut...well thats fun. Yup the mahoe is definitely robust...but both the swing blades are built really well..the swing s are more portable especially the manual Peterson models. So depends on ur portability needs I suppose. Anyways I'm not knocking the Mahoe...I just prefer the swing blade system..so what ever tickles ur fancy i quess bro. Either way milling is fun!
I have a Lucas mill as well and its probably at least 3 times slower. How does the Mahoe need 2 passes to make a board? I agree about the tension, I have ran into that while cutting some oak beams haha wasn't fun. Yeah those are some good points, really depends on what you are using it for, I'm sure they all work great, we used the Lucas for the last 10 years and it served us well. Cheers!
@SharpeTimber u have to bring the mahoe back to make another cut ..which is when ur dragging ur board back. .that's two passes...the swing blade is simply making a cut on that pass ..and ur not comparing apples with apples ..u can't compare ur knock off lucas swing blade with either the Peterson ASM auto or the turbo mill... Lucas were Petersons Australian distributor before they copied the Peterson ...except for their stupid gas strut locking mechanism. Man I sound like a troll...but what eva. I have my preference and u have urs
Customer was coming to pick up and only had a pickup truck so we had to hand load it anyway. But I understand what you're saying, we usually stack it and move with a skid steer.
Similar only in that is has a circular blade really. We have a Lucas mill that we used for 10 years, worked great for us and cut a lot of lumber. But the Mahoe is a lot faster, easier to load and take boards off and way less tiring to operate.
I've read many of the comments, it's hard to believe how stupid some people are. I have a pretty good band mill with a 20 h p Honda engine. Any dirt on a log is a blade killer I mean just one spot will kill the sharpness of the blade. No one has commented that this mill only cuts into clean wood all the time except on the last right side cut to cut the last edging. It makes a huge difference which way the blade enters the wood. The only other way is to debark all the logs which is great if you want to take all that time. I also cut an inch off many logs because sometimes dirt gets driven into the end of logs
