[TheForge] now for something completely different

[Ron Childers]

Isn't there an "Alaskan sawmill" still sold in Mechanix Illistrated? You
hook up the chain saw to a frame and the straight 2x6 and set the thickness
of the boards. It takes a different chain to rip as opposed to sawing across
the grain

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of terry l. ridder
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2007 10:05 AM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] now for something completely different

hello;

last fall the township cut down all the trees in the hedgerow/fenceline
on the country road i live on. i asked for the wood from from the huge
maple tree that was right across from our house. well the township gave
me all the wood. i have close to 125 logs sitting on the west end of
the property. most are 10 ft long and relatively straight.

my original plan was to cut up the smaller logs for firewood and
the larger logs for lumber or square them off for landscape timber
use.

would anyone know of a simple way to make a reasonably safe device
to guide a chainsaw in squaring the smaller logs?

the logs and wood from the huge maple tree i would like to take 
to the kingston saw mill for sawing. that will have to wait for now.


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terry l. ridder ><>
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