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I had one with two 076's on it. With all that horsepower, it was still slow. You'll won't make a living with it, but good enough for home stuff. First cut is the important one, everything else follows the first. And don't forget, the 076 has a 3/8 (if I remember right) kerf, that waste adds up really quickly.
 
Gary I have seen folks spend a lot off money on those things and never really be satisfied. If you have 4 or 5 long logs you want to square up for beams yes you can do it with time but making lumber boards is just too time consuming and waste too much wood. Just my experience. I have owned a wood-mizer mill for 35 years now on my 4th one and can cut pretty lumber any time.
 
Chains have a much wider kerf than bandsaw blades, so you will end up with fewer bd-ft per log. Chains also need sharpening more, and require a special chain called a ripping chain. You can buy ripping chains, or you can make ripping chains from standard by grinding off 2 of every 3 saw teeth.
 
My neighbor bought an Alaskan Mill and a (IIRC)Stihl 391 w/a 28" bar. Im retired. He lets me use it. I'll try to not repeat what others have said.
* I used the chain that came w/the saw. For all intents, worked ok.
* Got to the point I was sharpening the chain after each pass. Milling is hard work for a dull-er chain.
* Sharp chain also produces more consistent results.
* I did buy a milling chain. Not sure I saw any real difference. Only thing I remember, it was sharp(smile).
* Curf waste.
* A good start on the outer slab helps keep sizes consistent.
* Do not expect perfectly flat slabs.
* I usually cut 2" slabs. You will have a ton of waste getting the boards usable.
* I milled 2 cherry logs in early 2020 Im using now....
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* I milled a 60' hickory. Plan to make a kitchen table next winter...
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Note hickory, front right stack, 2nd from the top. Left side is 4", right = 2". I was tired, had been milling most of all day. Also had a dull chain.

HTH, Don
 
Dad and a friend bought one. What a piece of junk. To short to saw real logs into lumber and way to slow to get anything done. If you're hoping to do your own sawing for lumber longer than pallet sticks you will be sadly unhappy with it. Dad was sawing 12-15 foot logs with one was 20 minutes sawing one slab out with it. If you want a sawmill buy one of the band saws or spend the money for a round blade and saw lumber. The round blade will be the fastest over time. I would like a saw that I could saw some 40 foot stuff with. That costs money to set up a carriage long enough to saw that long let alone the track for it. Local guy here used school bus frames for his carriage to run on.
 
Chain saw mills work and are better then nothing but are slow and waste a lot of wood in sawdust. To get good boards one has to first square the long and then go from there. M dad got one decades ago and we did cut out some lumber with it and built a building or 2
 
There are special chains for ripping. If you are going to try to cut any real quantity, you should invest in one.
 

Well, they've got their place... I'm not going to go over the limitations others have already listed...

I think they've got a place... If I had to make a beam, on site for some project, I expect it would be fine. For very limited quantities they work, but I'd say you need to want to do it that way, rather than thinking just about the end product. In my case, I've used it to cut root balls. No saw mill operator would touch a root ball, and I don't blame them. There's too much grown in to the wood there, so you're going to hit something. I did 1 black walnut, and 1 honey locust. both were probably 24" trees, so the balls were bigger naturally. The resulting wood is spectacular, but it was rough on the equipment, and me to get it.
 
(quoted from post at 16:29:28 01/07/22) If anyone has a chain saw mill, like a Granberg , what are the good and bad points?
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I used a Granberg to build a pole barn. Ran a 2100 Husky on it. The good- You can make dimension lumber. The bad- takes FOREVER, makes inaccurate dimension lumber, SLOW, takes a lot of saw ( at least 5.0ci/80cc) to cut larger logs (18-20"+), incredibly slow, you need to keep the chain sharp and accurately set up, you may need some additional oiling (a manual oiler helps,not found on newer saws), very,very slow, lots of waste which can be good if you have a use for it or bad if you don't and it's labor intensive. Oh, and it's slow! Not as slow as squaring beams with an ax, but still slower than you'd ever expect it to be.
 
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