Thread: slabbing/slicing?

I'm not very confident in my metallistic\welding skills to attempt making anything as "sophisticated" as the gear in this thread.
In a previuos post I was asking about this:
http://www.haddontools.com/lumbermaker.html

it's simple - maybe too simple - and probaly unsafe (OH&S) but wondering if you or others have used anything like this, or know anyone who has, and what was the outcome.

one of my mates had one of those he ended up throwing it down the hill into his dump. it was hard to keep straight and there is nothung stopping the nose of the bar from swaying from side to side and then you end up with funny looking boards.

dont waste your time or money.

Welsfords makes and sells one similar to that one Jedo





So far Ive not used it... for one reason or another... and it requires you drill two holes through the bar to attach it and I had until now an aversion to drilling into tools especially new ones

This was the sheet of instructions that came with it



For small stuff it should be alright which was my thoughts when I bought it aside from the fact that I was in a rush and didnt have time to go through their mill setups costs etc so grabbed one as I left around $100 I think maybe less been a few years now and still it sits on the top of the shelf in the shed gotta do something about that one day soon eh?

Ive tended to avoid doing anything with it or saying anything about it for over a year now... she has forgotten I even bought the thing thankfully... now we have the logs out the back and some other logs available to us shes more in the mood to agree to a mill purchase... after the new house is up of course if theres anything near enough left to buy one that is she really has to stop wanting things for the new house like kitchens who needs a bloody kitchen eh? or a laundry? We have a creek people!!! sigh... flamin sheilas!