Resaw some 8/4 Cherry in Southern Arizona

--------------------------------- Time to buy a bandsaw, maybe?

Lew

Too big for the usual bandsaw. What he could use is an Alaska Sawmill which can cut them to dimension without lifting the beams.

Check with your local tree cutting services. They may know of a nearby sawmill, even if it's a personal one.

Or start here:

Hello Bob,

I wood google for local woodworking clubs. (pun intended)

And / or seek assistance at

Mike > I need to find a mill or the like to resaw some 8/4 Cherry. 6" to 12"

If you have a lot of it, contact Wood-Mizer Customer Service

In Albuquerque, NM:

How about putting a small classified ad in the newspaper?

Pete Stanaitis

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Oh? Jet's 18" bandsaw has 12.25" resaw capability. For that matter, my low end Rikon 14" bandsaw can resaw 13". What's your definition of usual?

Lew

I have two of them and the use of several more but the cut it too wide/ tall to manage. I would like to keep the keep manageable so as to get

Thanks for the response. Bob AZ

Tell me son, how do you propose to hold that 12 foot long timber the size of a tree while you feed it through your bandsaw. Do you have an understanding of how heavy that size beam would be?? It is NOT the height it is the Length plus the height.

Now if you happen to have a twelve foot roller table both input side and the output side, then I am sure that you could do it. But how many of us has such equipment in our shops.

Jack

This assumes that he has the equipment to get it from wherever it is onto the roller table . . .

Do *you*?

Let's do the math: 8/4 thickness x 12" width x 12' length = 2 cubic feet, or about 80-85 pounds, which is hardly unmanageable if you have a helper or two.

Or call the sawmill manufacturers to see if they can refer you to one of their buyers. Some guys want referrals to help defer the cost of the mill.

-- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw

-0500, godsword wrote:

These things are do-able with roller stands and a helper. The problem is, this stuff is rough and 10-12 inches wide, so his yield suffers. Bob and I just resawed a 2x10x6 footer+ and the second board resawn was about 4 feet long. It ran about 2-3 inches a minute. The saw _was_ screaming some.