Hey Fritz: Thanks kindly for your input.
Couple of points, On the economic side of the question, I can argue that. I can put my mill on the site with my Subaru station wagon. (with no trailer) Usually I can walk the mill to the saw logs by myself, and then carry out the lumber by hand to move off site, or to stack for drying at the clients place of choosing. No Skidding, No forwarding, minimal soil compaction. The usual stuff I mill is storm damaged, blown down 'yard' trees. This isn't production. So board-feet-per-day and PMPs aren't even on my radar. Loosing 1/4 of the wood at the planer, well, thou and I differ on that point of view. If folks intend to finish to 3/4, I mill to 7/8 to allow for shrinkage and a finishing pass. My lumber is already dimensionally accurate. again leave the sawdust at the mill, or on the floor of the shop. Preferences. For my personal projects, I tend to go straight to sanding, and don't even plane. Note, I can mill 1/16 laminate off the board face accurately. I've never seen a band mill do this. I'm milling stuff that would have been bucked and split for firewood at best, hauled to a landfill at worst. and my kerf is >6.5mm Good on ya for your wood chip processing. near zero waste is a great achievement, and a worthy goal. Kinda where I am trying to go myself. Thanks for your story, and keep it up. > Hello Chip, > despite you dont wont to deal with this rigt now, > your Chainsawmill is far from sustainable or economical! > The kerf on a chainsaw is at least 10mm to 12mm in compare to a > Bandsawmill 3mm! > Your claim bandsawmills wander a bit... only if your blade is dull or > badly maintained! > I cut on my Bandsawmill up to 4000pmp a day,average 2000pmp depends how > the wood is! > You can not possybly mach that nearly with a Chainsawcut! > But than thats what you got and you may as well use it! > My boards are cut 1'' on center, i plane them down to 3/4 and have > therefore very little sawdust or shavings,my shavings are pressed to > Briquettes so i have allmost no loss! > Fritz > > _______________________________________________ > Biofuel mailing list > Biofuel@sustainablelists.org > http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel > > Biofuel at Journey to Forever: > http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html > > Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): > http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/ -- --- Chip Mefford -------------------- Before Enlightenment; chop wood carry water After Enlightenment; chop wood carry water --------------------- Public Key http://www.well.com/user/cpm _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list Biofuel@sustainablelists.org http://sustainablelists.org/mailman/listinfo/sustainablelorgbiofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Search the combined Biofuel and Biofuels-biz list archives (70,000 messages): http://www.mail-archive.com/biofuel@sustainablelists.org/
