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Milling oak with a chain saw

Discussion in 'The Wood Market' started by Paul Dokken, Nov 26, 2021.

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    Paul Dokken

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    A friend Has some trees that are about 20 inches in diameter of white and red oak that he has cut down and I’m wondering if anybody has used a portable chainsaw mill? If so can anybody recommend one?

    Paul
     
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    If you go into the "Sawyer Room" section, that is a lot of milling content.

    Oak is no joke!

    I recommend a Grandberg. USA made.
     
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    Paul I have many customers that do milling almost all use the grandberg mills that is also what I have there are plenty of options out there but most are cheap copies to do milling you really need 70cc saws and up this is a case of "Bigger is Better ":whistle:it takes a lot of power to mill also 25;1 on the mix it will extend the life of the saw any questions there are a lot of answers here !! JB
     
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