Milling Site Layout
The mill is towed to your site behind our 4 wheel drive pickup truck. The mill is 26 feet long and weighs almost 4000 pounds. It will be set up next to where you've staged your logs so this area needs to be accessible, and it needs to be level, or close to it.
Logs should be staged off the ground on runners, for example 4x4's. The centers of the logs should line up with each other. For logs with taper, the smaller end should face the sawyer. Any limbs should be trimmed flush.
Once the mill is positioned next to the logs, the truck is disconnected from the mill and moved. Ideally, it will be moved far enough to be out of the way, but remain close enough to allow convenient access to tools and supplies.
The sawyer works at the end of the mill that had been connected to the truck (the front end of the mill). The control station allows for full control of the mill from this position. The mill cuts through logs as it moves away from the sawyer.
If there are one or more helpers (off-bearers), they will also usually work at the front end of the mill stacking slabs and lumber near by. Material must not be stacked in the exit path of the mill.
The diagram below shows an efficient milling site layout.
