[AT] sawmill was: tractor day

[Mark Greer]

Farmer,
Do keep us posted about your experience with that mill. Dad and I have been 
contemplating the same purchase for a couple years now since we got to play 
with one at the Paul Bunyan Show. We have a few dozen logs sawed every year 
and it would be nice to be able to just cut up one or two at a time as we 
get them. Now we pile up 15 or so and have the sawyer bring the mill to us 
for a LONG day of cutting and stacking lumber.
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Indiana Robinson" <robinson46176 at gmail.com>
To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
Sent: Wednesday, March 04, 2009 7:30 PM
Subject: Re: [AT] sawmill was: tractor day


> Hi Don:
> I bought the smallest Wood-mizer. a model LT-10. I bought the
> Wood-mizer for several reasons. First it is kind of the John Deere of
> bandsaw mills. I may want to sell it in a few years and it should
> resell better than most.
> I also figured that in this shaky economy they had hopefully a better
> chance than most of staying in business.
> Wood-mizer makes their own blades. As I looked at other mills many of
> them bragged that they came with those "great Wood-mizer blades". I
> figured if they were so good that the competition was bragging about
> them then maybe the saw was better too.
> I have been watching them for a long time going back to a few years
> after they started. I had looked at them at the Indiana state fair
> this year and was very impressed with their construction and quality.
> I also like that their world headquarters is 30 miles north east of
> here in Indy and one plant is only about 30 miles south east of me.
> I wanted something smallish and simple because this time I will only
> be sawing for me. I owned a large bandsaw mill years ago which was
> made right here in my county by an old friend of my father and I
> (Kasco Manufacturing Company). I was really pleased with that one but
> I don't need anything that large, fast or complex (or $$$$). Back then
> I was doing custom milling and some light mill-work. Back then with
> that mill I could saw a log 24' long and 30" in diameter. With the new
> saw I can cut a log 16' long by about 24" in diameter.
> This Wood-mizer shows great design and finish of construction while
> some of the ones I looked at appeared to have been built by "Bubba's
> scrap yard and tree choppers".
> I'll let you know how it works fairly soon.
>
>
> -- 
> "farmer"
>
> "Good clean muck never hurt nobody!!!"
> Morris Moulterd
>
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>
> Francis Robinson
> Central Indiana USA
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