Mobile Milling
With
the whole timber industry not only locally but nation-wide, restructuring
-- gearing up to cut only small diameter and plantation timbers,
small mills closed, larger mills shutting down and relocating
for supposedly increased cost efficiencies, have created a fantastic
window of opportunity for the very small and highly transportable
mobile mills.
The most
famous mill - the Peterson Portable Saw Mill - invented by American-born
Carl Peterson, developed in Fiji a concept suited to third world
countries - seen as today "Walkabout" sawmills. These
mills are the most earth friendly mills able to be wheeled or
carried into the densest bush without disturbing the flora or
soil - lessening impacts associated with erosion, pollution,
etc.
The Billinudgel Wood Working Company
proudly owns and operates two of these mills -
- a
10" cut circular saw mill, able to cut a 260 x 260 mm timber
beam up to a 520 mm x 260 mm beam or any size up to these sizes.
- a
1.6 meter wide cut dedicated slabber - able to cut dining room
tables, bar tops, etc - up to 1600 mm wide (standard) very accurately
up to 6.2 meters long (standard) -
Using
a very affordable chainsaw chain technology, the cutter chain
has a higher tolerance to nails, dirt, etc, found in salvaged
timber from roadsides or housing estates.
These
mobile mills can fit in the back of a small utility vehicle or
trailer & can be fully erected in 20-30 minutes and be cutting
extremely accurate timber immediately with minimal experience
These
mobile mills have a total weight factor of approx 450 kgs each
unit
Our
smallest mobile mill - one man can carry - is a Stihl 090 on
a "Westford" chainsaw mill. This can mill a log accurately
up to 40" wide (1 meter) and only requires approx 3 ft (900
mm) each side of the log clear to work.
Slope
of terrain is unimportant.
All
these mills can be set up over the log - eliminating the need
to move the log. Sometimes a log may weight up to 20,000 kgs
(20 tons) so traditionally a large bulldozer would be needed
to move the log to a truck, a large loader/forklift to move the
log into a mill and then a complex milling system to recover
the valuable timber.
Today
2 people can set up a single saw mill in 30 minutes, over the
log, and recover the highly valuable timber without the log moving.
The Billinudgel Wood Working Company
- Keeping the Tradition Alive!
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