Saw this video and it looked like a pretty cool setup. Just wondering if anyone has used one and how they liked it?
Guys at local land trust have a similar one, a more basic timberjig running stihl 441 w/32". As for me, 30" Alaskan III & 576 Husqy w/32"and MiniMill & Dolly 6100 w/24". Having diffs getting them to go to full-skip semi-chisel. No prob for me- works great. Yesterday we had both out milling <30" bitternut hickory, bud with the Logosol, me with Granbergs. I prepped one 7' log by taking off slab then ripping one edge through, so the Logosol could participate. Waste of good lumber. He was guiding the cut with the (short) movable stop on the jig, but the whole rig is so flexible the bar tip was essentially out of control. Our conclusion: 32" bar with Logosol jig was delusional. Might work with 20", better 16", if you wanted any hope of dimensional accuracy. Seems that in all their demo-vids they show that jig milling small coniferous dimensional lumber. Now we know why. Working on big northern hardwood, he tossed it aside as a waste of time & materials. Seems some want to save a few bucks with this mill. False economy, IMO. After bud gave up on Timberjig, he mounted his 441 in my MiniMill and got some experience vertically ripping remainder of his first log almost through. Good thing, since his first horizontal rip with Timberjig destroyed reference plane I'd left him with the Alaskan. Milling big hardwoods is sufficiently brutal amusement, you don't really want to include struggles with tools.
To me it looks like one of these Yes it provides you with an aluminum guide but the principle is identical.
My first sawmill was a Logosol, don't recall the model but it was either an M6 or M7. Would saw up to a 16' long log, and with the right jigs I could saw very short logs as well. I bought it used, I was the second owner, and got it with a Stihl 066, a 16" bar and a 24" bar. I ran full chisel chain filed to 10 degrees for ripping. Didn't saw a whole lot with it, mostly smaller hardwood logs. Most memorably sawed up a few 8-10" diameter apple logs, I still have the lumber in my shed. It is slow, well, equivalent to any CSM. Cut is arrow straight and pretty smooth. I liked it and I probably would have kept it, except that a good deal on a Woodmizer LT-30 came along. I was wanting to build a new timber-framed house and the Logosol is not the right tool for that job. This was roughly 14-15 years ago and I bet I'd still be cutting timber for the house if I had to keep using the Logosol. In order to make owning one of them worthwhile, I would already have a big-bore chainsaw 90+ cc, or have a need for one other than just using it for the mill. I would be sawing smaller-diameter wood, maybe in the 12-16" range. I'd really only be using it for hobby sawing, to support a woodworking hobby or maybe I was doing a lot of firewood and came across an occasional log that was too pretty to burn. And, finally, I'd not want to get into the expense and support of a small bandsaw mill. Having said all that, I think the big advantage to using one is having the log at waist height to saw. But, there's something to be said for the much lower cost of a Granberg mill and you can prop the log up on saw horses and use an aluminum ladder for a jig.
