Band Saw Mill

The band saw is a 'top of the range' model which is towed to site and is usually ready for sawing within 5 minutes of unhitching. The powerful diesel engine allows swift and accurate cutting in all types of timber. Timber handling is fully hydraulic enabling swift re positioning of the tree on the saw bed.

The saw uses a narrow kerf blade which is less than one eighth of an inch thick. This minimises loss due to sawdust.

The mill has many advanced features which benefit the customer by ensuring the maximum amount of timber is processed in the shortest time. I have gone into this in a bit more detail on a separate page to save normal folk from being bored to death by technical babble! Click on the Technical Details link to have a look. Link to Technical Details

One of the major advantages of the bandsaw over other types of saw is that the kerf (hence sawdust waste) is less than one eighth of an inch. So, for every eight cuts you only lose one inch of timber. With other popular saws this ratio is every four cuts you lose one inch. If each board has a value of say £20

this difference soon mounts up so I always recommend people to try and use a narrow kerf bandsaw.

The piccy on the left illustrates the difference in yield and waste between the two types of saw.

This sawmill has fully hydraulic timber handling which includes loading and computer assisted head positioning which ensures the planks are of a constant thickness. This dramatically speeds up production of the saw and is a real boon when it comes to thicknessing.

If you would like to see some piccies of the mill in action please click on the following link  To the gallery