Watch this BEFORE buying a chainsaw mill.

Professional Homeowner Cole Taylor

[coletaylor]

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[gregorymackinnon]

Cole, just stumbled on your channel. I also have a Logosol F8, mainly use it for milling rough 6x6. Power head is the 661. You have some great points. Most of the time I do find the mill to be a main in the ass. But the fact that I can carry the mill to the tree is why I have this rig on the wood lot. Thanks again.

[Hill_billy_fred]

I have been using a Sthil 271 with a 24” bar and rip chain for 3 years. It gets the job done just fine, let the saw do the job and not force it.

[riverdigger]

Great video!! Bed rails are some of the best cheap guides!!

[annfinke]

This is one of the best videos I've seen about chainsaw milling and points out practical aspects for consideration. I have been thinking about whether to get a Granberg and I'm now thinking that what I probably need is to find a local with a mill (actually a neighbor has one) who would be willing to mill my timber for me. I will rarely be cutting timber that I would want useable lumber from (mostly now I am cutting firewood), and I can always get one later if it becomes a more serious endeavor.

[harmonicresonanceproject]

I learned a lot here, certainly enough to keep me out of trouble.

[kroad]

...best tipp ever is the steel bars for fixing the ladder that it can be extended... absolutely brilliant... many thanks....

[johnk.]

I have a farmmac 660, it's a clone of the ms660. Haven't had that many problems with it. You're right about idling the saw before and especially after every cut, they need to cool down.

[notRCrosleyHacked]

Thanks for the very clear and important video. I am a novice and appreciate the advice.

[FatherOfTheParty]

Great points. I have a bandsaw mill and it's great for logs that I can get to and transport with my tractor. On my property, I also have a lot of dead standing / downed trees that I either can't get to easily with my tractor or, they're simply too big for my tractor or my bandsaw mill. Slabbing out a 36" Honey Locust where it fell means I get access to wood that I would otherwise not.

[jeremytaylor]

Thanks for this info! I would add that a chainsaw mill gives you the liberty to cut logs where they fall. This is a great advantage if the logs are located in a hard-to-access area. Personally, I'm in an urban area (Atlanta) looking into chainsaw milling because I don't want to buy a tractor and grapple to move big logs onto a sawmill, nor do I have the space to store a tractor or sawmill. I want to cut them where they landed and easily carry the boards. If someone's tree falls in their fenced-in yard, I can't get all that equipment in there. But with a chainsaw mill I can cut it where it landed AND they get free mulch! Is it tedious? Yes. But getting all the equipment required for sawmilling takes a lot of added time and manpower as well, so in my situation where I'm just doing this as a side hustle in an urban area, chainsaw milling seems to make the most sense.

[waymanyhobbies]

Best chainsaw milling video on YouTube! Every other video just shows milling. You teach the finer points of milling. Bandsaw miller's can learn from this video also. 👍

[kensaunders]

I have a Holzfforma g070 105 cc power head. I've been using it for 4 years now. This is the first year i've had difficulty starting it. I have ordered tune up bits. It still has great compression. I've been using it primarily on sweet gum and pine, with the occasional red oak and am only running a 42" bar.

[wkmac]

Very informative and good information to consider. I'm at that place of Chainsaw Mill or Bandsaw mill and you gave me a lot to think about on Pros/Cons I've not seen elsewhere. Thank you Sir!

[soundsmith]

Great information! I have been doing research concerning chainsaw milling. I am glad I came across your video. Great content, Thank you!

[brendan]

I've got a farmertec ms660. It was purchased as a bax of parts and assembled by myself. Some OEM STIHL parts were used in place of the kit parts. It's also a good idea to upgrade to a high flow oiler if you plan to use it for milling.

There is a lot more kerf waste with a chainsaw mill than a band mill, but the portability can't be beat. I can just toss the equipment in the back of my truck, head to a site, or atop when I see a log I like, and get to work. You take the mill to the wood, not the wood to the mill. The final cut slabs are much easier to movw than an entire log.

A bandsaw mill will use less fuel per cut and the amount of physical effort will be much greater for the chainsaw.

There are a lot of tradeoffs on both sides and I guess if one were to do it as a business it would be worth having both in the long run.

[sawdustadikt]

I like this “perspective” video on milling idea. I really appreciate you bringing something new to the milling space, most videos on milling are the same exact video, with different faces, saying the same thing. I like the bar stock/rebar idea, very original. The absolute best tips video I’ve applied is on flowering elbow’s channel. I think it’s 20 tips for milling or something. The repeatable quality I got from board to board is amazing. I popped a saw doing this, so now I keep things real clean blowing myself off then blowing the saw out with compressed air with every tank filling. I know not practical for some but I’m a carpenter, I have a couple hundred feet of air hose so I might as well use it.

[charliebutcher]

I have both the chainsaw mill and a small bandsaw mill the max log on my mill is about 20 in.. Clearing on our farm i often run into much larger logs my granburg mill and 660 clone saw allows me to make a few cuts and then Mr Sawmill takes over from there!

[davidbrown]

Nice to know. I'm in the process of just getting started in doing some milling.
First tree is a bed frame, footboard and headboard the second is a few bridges need to be built through the woods for the bigger tractor and pickup truck to retrieve firewood and the lumber. Note the bridges aren't very long or wide but need to support the tractor weight and the lumber. 3rd project is a home made kiln. The dryer wood will be used in my wood lathe. So far I've turned a few small projects, I hate buying lumber having it at my disposal.
I've looked into an Alaskan mill, don't know how good the quality is

[ivanremillard]

Great video. First time I’ve seen anyone use an extension ladder that way, such a good idea 👍