Thread: 48" plus bandsaw mills in Vic

why bandsaw?

what are you wanting to cut?

Well, a bandsaw mill because I don't like seeing valuable timber convertred into sawdust............I own an alaskan mill, and it is not the best option for the particular job at hand.

Originally Posted by Juglansregia

I own an alaskan mill, and it is not the best option for the particular job at hand.

witch is?

If you don't do any good with the forum members contact the saw doctors in Melbourne. They may be able to put you in contact with someone. I think Custom saws do bandsaw blades and there are a couple of others that might be able to help.

cheers
Steve

I don't agree. If you get your wood it is always better to cut it yourself and get what YOU want rather then getting a lot cut the wrong way!

<Well, a bandsaw mill because I don't like seeing valuable timber convertred into sawdust............
<I own an alaskan mill, and it is not the best option for the particular job at hand.

Steinar
NORWAY

Contact the vic forestry commision or whatever you call them over there. They will know who has what machine and you can take it from there.

Jugs, I know it hasn't been said well, but I'm interested in the kind of job you're looking at and the difference in kerf a bandmill will make?

are you cutting hardwood or softwood?

Whats the difference?
With any kind of chainsaw mounted the wood is easy to cut. Any new saw for this kind of milling has a very nice cutting and by doing this yourself it is getting more out of a log then going to a mill. You get the cut exactly as you want it. Not every mill has the time to do so.

Steinar - NORWAY

a bandsaw is pretty mutch a dead loss in aussie hardwood.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

a bandsaw is pretty mutch a dead loss in aussie hardwood.

How about doing some research before making a statement like that Carl? Try telling, for example, one of the biggest hardwood saw mills in Australia in Pemberton that their band saw is a waste of time and they should go back to circular saws?

Originally Posted by BobL

How about doing some research before making a statement like that Carl? Try telling, for example, one of the biggest hardwood saw mills in Australia in Pemberton that their band saw is a waste of time and they should go back to circular saws?

i did plenty of research. i spent weeks reserching when i was looking at buying a mill.

they are not bad if it is just a resaw bandsaw. cutting clean wood.

as soon as they lose the very sharp edge on teh blades they folow the grain and cut wavy boards. not so bad in softwood.

mobile bandsaw mills are not good. they are far from easy to operate and run accurately be experts.


but i supose you know beter than me from your vast experiance operating large bandsaws.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

i did plenty of research. i spent weeks reserching when i was looking at buying a mill.
they are not bad if it is just a resaw bandsaw. cutting clean wood.
as soon as they lose the very sharp edge on teh blades they folow the grain and cut wavy boards. not so bad in softwood.
mobile bandsaw mills are not good. they are far from easy to operate and run accurately be experts.
but i supose you know beter than me from your vast experiance operating large bandsaws.

I'm challenging your blanket statement that, "band mills cannot cut hardwood".
I'm telling you that big modern pro-hardwood mills either use or are moving to bands and not circulars.
There is a lot more to general milling than just mobile millers and their circular or CS toys.
The Pemberton mill probably cuts more wood than all the lucas millers in australia combined - I think it is operated by just 9 operators.
I didn't need to do any more research than about 30 seconds of just watching their big bandsaw to convince me that a big bandsaw has no trouble in accurately cutting Aussie hardwood.

Originally Posted by weisyboy

a bandsaw is pretty mutch a dead loss in aussie hardwood.

Best you take yourself off to a high volume harwood mill cutting larger logs & actually see what goes on there before you make a broad statement like that.
regards inter