Thread: witch portable sawmill

the skill mils is to small for what i want 4" cut and is 5 grand.

jack is a bloudy good takler.

is father owend the moggil sawmill that was were the kenmore woolowrths is. then they baught out a nother mill and moved. jack spent most of his younger years round the hills up here then went cutting timber all over qld and northern nsw untill he inherited the mill. then he became a builder for a few years and returnd to milling. he also worked with my father for quite a wile driving his old komatsu dozer.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

i cannot aford to go bigger than the 6" aat the moment but i would love to go with the 8" if someone wants to give me $6000

Double check on the Peterson pricing, they have a better range of engine/blade options.

You can get an 8" cut 13hp ATS for maybe $750 more than the 6" unit. It wont be super fast in the 8" cuts, but it will be about the same in the 6" and below stuff.

Ian

PS I vote Peterson, but you wont be dissapointed with the Lucas either. I dont know enough about the Ecosaw to comment either way.

Go for the 8" saw if possible Carl.

Weisy, if you are asking "witch" mill surely it has to be a "wizard"? (and yes they do exist!)

I've owned an EcoSaw for 14 months. The machine is fine, when its running, but time and again I have found the after sales service from EcoSaw to be frankly, very very poor.

Each day for a while I've been regretting that I didn't buy either a Lucas or a Peterson.

Originally Posted by Darkwood

I've owned an EcoSaw for 14 months. The machine is fine, when its running, but time and again I have found the after sales service from EcoSaw to be frankly, very very poor.

Each day for a while I've been regretting that I didn't buy either a Lucas or a Peterson.

Darkwood, I've only ever looked at Ecosaw's website once and never gone back - sorry to hear you've been having trouble.

Although having said this I have had regret regarding my Lucas, after nearly 500 hours on a 618, I regret not buying the 827 at the time!!!

Weisyboy, put it off mate, wate til you can rustle up th extra dollars, or look into a payment plan with Lucas. If you have the coin to buy a 613 outright, then the re-payments for the extra taken over a few years will be les then 1 cubic metre processed a fortnight. Not really hard to work it, what do you reckon?

I would say to everyone out there, there is no better machine than a Lucas, there sales, after sales and technical knowledge is far above expectation. BUT buy the biggest machine you can even if you have to hang on a bit or borrow some coin. I know feel 'stuck' with my mill, wanting to buy it's big brother.

The huge regret I feel over not buying the bigger machine is only conteracted by my extreme happiness with having my Lucas...

Have I convinced you Carl? Give me a ring/PM me mate, I'll happily talk real figures and real returns with you. I've said it everywhere I'm not a rep or employee of Lucas, just a bloody happy owner/operator and I don't want anyone else to have the kind of regret I have.

Salty72, now you have an 830 and you've run it through it's paces, can you imagine doing th ejob with less than half the ponies under the bonnet??

What he said^^^^^^^. Sawmilling is one game where you can never have too much power.

the other blokes have said it and i'll back them up. save the coin, wait , then get the bigger saw. you won't regret it