Looking for a chainsaw/sawmill attachment to mill 12" diameter X 28" length logs. What I need is about 3/4's of the log for my carvings the other 1/4 I don't use.

My objective is to have a flat side to hang on the wall.

I'm looking for a good chainsaw mill that would accomplish this task. If you can tell what make to get and if they do work to take about 4 to 5 inches of wood of off one side of a log.

Thanks

Have used the kind where you spike a 2x4 to the log, and the saw bracket slides on it as you cut. Fairly cheap, works great. You need to buy a ripping cut chain for it, which is just a chain with only 1/2 the tooth width. Can be had/ordered at most any Chainsaw shop.

How much you wanting to spend? Norwood and logosol make some nice ones on tracks but there between 1000 and 2000 dollars. I think baileys carry the logosol and northeren tool the norwood.

Isn’t the Alaska saw mill about a hundred bucks ?

Thanks for the tips and advise. I'm sure that the 2000$ one is better but for as much as I'm going to use it I would prefer a lower cost attachment. I will take a look to see what that Alaska mill goes for. These would one cut about 30 long taking one slab about 4 inches off of one side.

Interested how they work if you used one of the cheaper styles.

I’ve not looked for a time but am interested in the Alaska mill as I have about a hundred dead ash trees to deal with. I have seen several home made types but it seems that an Alaskan mill sells for a hundred or so not counting saw and rip chain .

I see im thinking of the bigger style, sorry.

Northern tool has them starting at $ 139 and $199 for the big 36” model .

Go to Youtube and look up ( poor boy sawmill ) might save you all some money , might be perfect for what snowy is doing.

^ I will take a look thanks everyone for the help.

That’s pretty cool Mr. Coffey , looks like it could use some refinement but doable.

The Alaska Mill will do what you want. It requires a reasonably high HP saw and a good sharp chain. A skip tooth ripping chain helps a lot.

Since you will be making relatively short cuts it should meet your needs.

It can be a lot of work on longer cuts but i would suggest you rig a way to get the piece you want to mill at waist level . It will save your back immensely !

Golf Ball: you do NOT want to tackle 100 ash trees with an Alaska Mill.

Old timers used wedges and an adz. If your carving get a end plane for the bar and you can use it for shaping as well. I bought one from Hudson. The saw mill rail attachments seem like they would work. I seen where a guy on the internet built a mill using two tires to drive the band. It looked like it worked as well as my Hudson.

I still use the wedge method to split logs to big for my mill it's an 18" capacity.