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  • From: Don Bowen KI6DIU <don.bowen AT earthlink.net>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: [Homestead] Portable saw mill
  • Date: Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:40:11 -0700

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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