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29th July 2013, 02:24 PM #1Senior Member
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My Mobile Sawmill has Arrived at Last.
My Mobile Sawmill has Arrived at Last!
I purchased my cleared farm almost 40 years ago now and started planting it with trees. As you would appreciate some of these trees are now big and the forest needs some thinning out. Mostly I have planted Hoop Pine and it would be quite impossible to make a living from selling the trees as logs to a sawmill. What I had to do is to purchase my own small sawmil. The obvious choice would have been a Lucas Mill and my neighbour even owns one but they are good on large logs but too slow for smaller logs which I have a lot of with my pine. I have had to purchased a much more expensive Finnish sliding table one man sawmill called Slidetec. This notice is to say that it is here and set up at least in a temporary way. My immediate task is to cut the pile of logs I have collected already and then to build a shed specifically for the mill. The specifications are that it can cut boards up to 12 inches in width and logs up to 8 metres in length and 76cms in diameter. Logs bigger than that can go next door to the Lucas Mill. My forest is made up of mostly Hoop Pine but I also have Gympie Messmate, Qld Maple, Red Cedar, Silver Ash, and Camphor Laurel. I prefer to sell whole trees or whole logs at a time but I can also supply individual boards as well. Yes, I’m open for business and people are welcome to contact me. Ph 07 54 866 147 or leave a message on 0427185692. Thanks, Bob
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30th July 2013, 09:10 PM #2Skwair2rownd
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Good for you!!!
From that species list i take it you are in Qld., Perhaps the sunshine coast hinterland or slightly further north.?
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30th July 2013, 09:21 PM #3Senior Member
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Yes, you are right. I'm just north of the Sunshine Coast.
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30th July 2013, 09:26 PM #4
Bob, good looking machine. Maybe after getting it set up, a report for the forum?
Pat
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided. Mark Twain
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30th July 2013, 09:38 PM #5Senior Member
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Yes, I will do so when I move it into a specifically built shed and have mastered how it works and have hopefully a few regular customers. I think that it is an important concept to find ways to make farm forestry a viable proposition as is being done in other countries. It is perhaps easy to plant trees but to then turn them into some money making venture would be really something.
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30th July 2013, 11:04 PM #6GOLD MEMBER
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If you don't mind me asking Bob, how much did it set you back? Just curious, in the "compared with a kara way".
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30th July 2013, 11:22 PM #7
Good luck with it all Bob
Mapleman
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31st July 2013, 08:43 AM #8
I'm fairly sure you will have a brisk trade from this forum's members.
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31st July 2013, 09:21 AM #9
Bob, I had a look at the mill on youtube and that is an awesome looking bit of kit.
Should be able to reduce that pile of logs pretty quickly as well.
As Wolften said you may find a market here in the forums so keep the posts coming.
Good luck with your project.
Cheers, Ian"The common law of business balance prohibits paying a little and getting a lot.. it can't be done.
If you deal with the lowest bidder it is well to add something for the risk you run.
And if you do that, you will have enough to pay for something better"
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1st August 2013, 02:36 PM #10
That's one hell of a machine! Looking forward to seeing the product soon. Congrats.
...I'll just make the other bits smaller.
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1st August 2013, 08:41 PM #11Senior Member
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Amazing Machine!
It sure is an amazing machine and I'm still learning how to use it. I have a great pile of Hoop Pine logs and some others that I have collected over the years that must be sawn up immediately before they deteriorate too much. I'm thinking that I will get them CCA treated and sold as fencing timber. It is not a good market as prices are very low.
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1st August 2013, 11:14 PM #12
i priced the kara, slideteck and the blue one the same as teh slideteck from over the border, cant remember the name at present.
the kara was twice the price of teh others.
i have worked a kara and would love to see the others in person but they seam to me to be the same machine just layed out a bit different.
i would reccomend against going the landscape materials as they only retail for $600/cube its not worth starting teh mill up, you are far better selling half as much as at twice the price.
to save the logs, cut them into squares sticker them with 50mm stickers and cover them to keep the rain off. they can be resawed easy once you have a market.
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24th May 2017, 08:35 PM #13Senior Member
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Well unfortunately, the Slide Tec is not as good as it advertises itself. This is a serious complaint but true. It can cut 10 inches without too much trouble but anything over 12 inches, it certainly struggles as an understatement. Theoretically it will cut 14 inches but to do that with hardwood, I'd sure worry. Pine is a bit easier, but that is all. There is a small oversized chain saw but I have never used it, and the thought of using it seems fanciful. It is a complex story but to cut the bigger logs, I have purchased a 10 inch Lucas mill which to it's credit,it does exactly what it says.
The Slice Tec eats the smaller diameter pine logs but it is a challenge to find a market for smaller dimension wood.
I also have not used some of the extras I paid for and at the moment I don't think that I'll be using them. It all adds the expence with no gain.
I do intend to write a longer story about it all but at the moment I'm short of time. I also intend to post some pictures but my digital camera has broken down and cannot be fixed and I've also tried to post some picture but cannot do so because I'm too dumb on computers.
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24th May 2017, 09:25 PM #14GOLD MEMBER
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What have you got driving it Bob?
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24th May 2017, 09:45 PM #15Senior Member
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I have an 85 hp tractor driving it through the pto. One of the initial problems was that the blade was getting hot. I was definitely told that it would not need water on the blade to cool it but it definitely does need water. I have added it and that solves some of the problems.
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