[Homestead] Portable saw mill
Don Bowen KI6DIU
don.bowen at earthlink.net
Tue Oct 2 20:40:11 EDT 2007
At 10/2/2007, you wrote:
>There is another factor. With a personal sawmill one can cut large
>stuff, like four by sixes, six by eights and larger, that in a lumber
>yard would be expensive.
>
>I also contemplate squaring one or two side of a log to use as
>interior posts or corner posts. But those cuts are most economically
>made with a chainsaw mill.
Both valid reasons to have your own mill. And the cost and destruction of
logging your land is better controlled by yourself rather than cowboys on
skidders.
How much timber is needed to justify your own mill?
Don Bowen Awl Knotted Up KI6DIU
http://www.braingarage.com
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