[Homestead] Neat toys

Rob becida at comcast.net
Thu Feb 14 18:22:24 EST 2008


At  2/14/2008 02:24 PM,Don Bowen KI6DIU wrote:
>At 2/14/2008, you wrote:
> >These machines come in a wide price range, going up, up, up as
> >hydraulics are added. And to make true quarter-sawn boards there is a
> >lot of turning of those very heavy logs.
>
>The one I pictures was mostly manual but the other on display had a lot of
>hydraulics including a log turner and a log loader.  Very nice but very
>expensive.

I watched a guy use a Woodmizer with the hydraulics, it was really 
something... later that year I ran into a guy who had gone to a show 
and bought the demo after the show, he was really happy with it too. 
He was a school teacher and told me that he almost paid for it that 
first summer.
I never had the money, not even for a used one 
http://www.sawmill-exchange.com/ .



Rob

becida at comcast.net
Western Washington State, USA




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