Start to finish, cleaning up a Oak Tree and slabbing the 37 inch dia trunk with a Granberg Alaskan Chainsaw Mill. Part II will follow in a couple months.
also where did you pick up that hand winch? i have tried several different ones but had to return them because they were not able to bolt to the alaskan mill.
The winch is a cheap $20.00 , 500lb winch I found on ebay. I had to drill one hole in it to mount to the mill. Very Simple. I'll be creating a video about it, as others have asked how to do this. Notice the crank is much shorter. I removed about 2 inches off the length as the torque to turn it is very low. I can still almost spin it with 1 finger to pull the mill thru the log. I installed about 80ft of parachute chord on the reel.
Its a customized .404 x .063 Semi-chisel chain. Every other cutter tooth has the top plate ground off. The extra side plates can clear all the chips better, out of a very large diameter log. With this 6ft bar, there are something like 240 drive links.
009to090 wow that's a long chain. Yeah I'm running the same thing with some of the top plates ground off as well. What filing angles do you use on the teeth? 0 degrees on the regular cutters and 20 degrees on the "scoring" cutters? Granberg style
This big tree has a new saw
also where did you pick up that hand winch? i have tried several different ones but had to return them because they were not able to bolt to the alaskan mill.
The winch is a cheap $20.00 , 500lb winch I found on ebay. I had to drill one hole in it to mount to the mill. Very Simple. I'll be creating a video about it, as others have asked how to do this. Notice the crank is much shorter. I removed about 2 inches off the length as the torque to turn it is very low. I can still almost spin it with 1 finger to pull the mill thru the log. I installed about 80ft of parachute chord on the reel.
009to090 awsome I'll look forward to the video on the winch
What chain are you running on the 090
Its a customized .404 x .063 Semi-chisel chain. Every other cutter tooth has the top plate ground off. The extra side plates can clear all the chips better, out of a very large diameter log. With this 6ft bar, there are something like 240 drive links.
009to090 wow that's a long chain. Yeah I'm running the same thing with some of the top plates ground off as well. What filing angles do you use on the teeth? 0 degrees on the regular cutters and 20 degrees on the "scoring" cutters? Granberg style
Are you using a 660 or 880?