I was out with dad getting some av gas this afternoon and on the way home we stopped at a property he's been helping clean up. The current owners inherited it and they live out of state and somehow dad got hooked up with them to help them haul scrap from the property and help them hold a series of auctions. When we walked into one of the shops he said "at this point anything you see you're welcome to take, they don't want to have another sale and the rest has got to go". I look in the corner and see a granberg chainsaw mill. I couldn't believe noone grabbed it at one of the sales. It looks to be in very good condition and has 36" rails. Looking forward to milling a few logs with the 394.
Imo, don’t bother. Just use 10 degree angle on the top plate of a loop you already have. I’ve milled a ton and never used a dedicated milling chain.
Although I am new at this whole milling thing I can say that a chain with 10 degree angle works just fine . I bought my chains from a member here. In fact I need to get a couple more ordered. It's rough on equipment and dusty but tons of fun !
I just use square ground chain for milling. Does very well. Wood Wolverine I am surprised you do not use square ground.
With a 32" Bar, you are only going to get about a 26" cutting width, a bit more if you take the Dawgs off. You typically need about 6" more bar than the "Listed Size" of your mill, to get the maximum capacity out of your Mill. The Listed size of a Mill, Is NOT, it's milling width capacity, it is the overall length of the frame rails. This has been discussed before, I went out and measured my 36" Granberg, with the Bar clamps set at their maximum capacity, IIRC, I came up with 33.5" between the Inside faces of the bar clamps. Ideally, what you are milling will be several inches narrower than the width set on your mill. Most find it more comfortable, and they get better results if you mill with the bar at a little bit of an angle to the log, rather than perfectly perpendicular, most tend to mill with the nose leading the powerhead a bit. Try to maintain a fairly consistent lead angle, while milling, seesawing the the nose back and forth tends to give poorer quality cut, than a consistent milling angle. Welcome to the club, as others have warned, it can be very addicting. If you thought that CAD was Bad, you better just put that Granberg down and walk away, CSMAD, is Everything that CAD is, but MORE. Now you will be constantly thinking about, and trying to Rationalize even BIGGER saws than you ever thought you would, but Now you have Bigger bars, Auxiliary Oilers, winches, additional (Read LOOOOOONGER) Handle/Rail sets( to make your 36" mill, a 48", 56", 60" or 72", even 84") then there are Helper Handles, double ended bars(to run TWO POWERHEADS simultaneously ), there are just to many other goodies to list them all, never mind that you will now be thinking, "I Wonder what that Log Looks like inside", instead of just, Ohhh, that would heat my House really Nice( There Will be Plenty of Left overs for that) Don't TRY to say that We Didn't WARN You Doug
