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Small Log Mill is
compact and light-weight design easily bolts to your chainsaw bar with no drilling
Using the Mini Mill I cut this 12 foot long beam. It is 10" X 11" X 12' Red Oak. This tree along with about 10 others went down during Hurricane Katrina, I just hated to see the wood rot or be burnt up as firewood.
Thanks for a great tool.
Nick
Lucedale, MS
Dear Mr. Granberg and Crew:
I recently purchased one of your Alaskan portable saw mills from Bailey's. I attached an Echo 670 for a power head and it worked like a charm! I've never cut this clean with a chainsaw before. I'm carving benches, and your mill makes easy work for seats and backs. Enclosed are a few pictures of me in action. As for the noise vs. neighbors, lets just say I've put up with my share--they'll get over it.
I wish you and your company even more success in the upcoming year.
Thank you,
Dave, WI
Dear Erik
The Dualsharp ( F210 ) I ordered came and is working wonderfully. Actually, I ordered two of them. That little device has saved me a lot money.
Sonny Carroll
Custom Lawn Sprinklers, Inc.
Raleigh, NC
Date: December 3, 2001
To: Granberg
From: K.R. Ziegelbauer
Regarding: Small Log Mill
I wanted to pass on our very satisfied position with this mill attachment for our chainsaw. My son Greg and I tried it out yesterday and were thrilled with the results. One of the strong points, over the much more expensive alternative of a bandsaw, was the truly consistent thickness of the slabs.
We are both very pleased with the results, the safety of the mill and the ease of use. Great setup!
The above statement was faxed to us from Ken Ziegelbauer of Housing Innovations, Cross Plains, Wisconsin
4/10/2003 12:26:40 PM Pacific Daylight Time
Dear Granberg,
I am an amateur woodworker and I was interested in milling my own lumber, but I was apprehensive about the safety and effectiveness of Alaska chain saw mills. However, after finally acquiring one I immediately realized my concerns where unfounded. The system is easy to operate, safe (it's safer than cutting logs!) and very precise. I got excellent advice from the staff at Granberg and became proficient in a very short time. I regret not having purchased one sooner.
I recommend the system and I also urge those interested to buy Granberg ripping chain. I started with a ripping chain from a local hardware store and later found that the Granberg version cut lumber literally two to three times faster.
Regards,
E.A. Gruskin
Connecticut
3/18/2002 3:53:29 PM Pacific Standard Time
Dear Erik,
Just wanted to drop you line and tell you that this grinder is outstanding. 3 passes on a chain saw blade is all it needs, a matter of fact it sharpens better and faster than using the normal chain saw grinder. I am going to recommend it to some of my fellow landscapers, who are also members of the Ohio Landscaping Association, that if they need a small grinder for out in the field, this is the one to buy.
Sincerely,
Jim Gallucci
Gallucci Landscaping
Harry H. Rinehart, M.D.
Manzanita, OR.
PS I love the MK-III. It works like a charm. I also got the Mini-Mill at the same time, and it too is a great piece of equipment.
I had the opportunity to use one this summer while cutting hiking trails through the Maine woods. It did a fantastic job of cutting planks for the bridges that needed to be built. I have to have one for myself!
Thanks,
Brian Swierk
Turner, Maine
I've been using granberg products for over twenty years and have never been disappointed in them. my grinders have saved me many hours of work and travel time. I would highly recommend granberg products.
ray l duff
Vancouver, WA
Hi,
I recently purchased a 24" Alaskan Mark III chainsaw mill attachment and the Mini-Mill this summer. Your products really are a great value. The instructions are straightforward and easy to follow. Everything assembles quickly and easily with a few simple tools. The adjustments are quick and easy without a lot of fussing around. The results are boards of uniform thickness that rival anything I have seen come off a $25,000 bandmill. A great investment for anyone who hates to see trees go to waste. Paid for itself in an afternoon with the lumber I produced.
A greatly satisfied customer,
Mike Kelley
Winchendon MA
2/7/2003 5:31:10 PM Pacific Standard Time
I bought one of your Alaskan MKII mills in the late 70's and it has been a great piece of equipment for a long time. I have most of the complete unit with a 54" bar, oiler, and two man handle. I use it with a Stihl 090 and have cut some amazing lumber with it...for instance, 44" wide slabs of live oak...It is truly a great addition to my tool inventory. I was involved in a major vehicle accident coming back from Colorado to Florida and I totaled a tool trailer which contained my prized MKII mill. The rear door was flung open and many of my tools were slung out along a 1/2 mile stretch of the highway during the night ...including the MKII mill. I thought I had picked all the tools up, but I missed a few, including the top mount piece of the MKII mill. This is the piece that adjusts for the thickness of cut and clamps to the upright bars that are mounted on the chain bar. I did not realize that it was missing until I went to use it again and of course, that was a bad day. Anyway, It has taken me a while to find you, and I was hoping that you might have replacement parts for this great old mill. I have built log homes, furniture and cut a lot of custom woods with this mill in the past 25 or so years and it has always been one of my main tools. Please let me know if you can help me out or direct me to where I could find a replacement part....
Thanks,
Harris
Subj: Your outstanding products
Date: 4/4/2003 10:56:07 AM Pacific Standard Time
From: HOrr1@compuserve.com
To: granberg@aol.com
Sent from the Internet (Details)
Good evening (or whatever it is where you are). I've been in touch with you a couple of times, because a few months ago I bought an Alaskan 36" mill in an online auction and, because some of the parts hadn't arrived, I thought I might have to re-order. As I live in Germany, that could have been difficult. In fact the parts turned up about a week later - it seems the rails confused German customs, and they didn't know what to do with them. Since then I've spent many an enjoyable hour sawing beech logs with what I would like to congratulate you on as an outstanding product.
What I need now is a Mini Mill to use as an edger. I'm not sure whether I can order directly from you or whether I should go through your distributor in Germany. In your last e-mail to me (sometime before Christmas) you gave me the name and address of your distributor here, which I promptly lost. I want to order a Mini Mill and some ripping chain, so if you could tell me which channel you prefer me to use, I'll go straight ahead.
Thanks once again
Harry Orr
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Granberg Mark III Alaskan Chainsaw Mill
The perfect tool for opening up new markets and new opportunities
We cut our own lumber and built our off-the-grid home for only $5,000.
If you spend a lot of money on lumber, and would like to slash your costs big-time, have I got a deal for you. I produce thousands of board feet of prime oak, walnut and cherry stock for pennies per board foot. And you can, too! Here’s how.
AMERICAN WOODWORKER "SMALL-SCALE SAWMILLS" July/August 1991 issue, pages 48-49: "A saw that you can pick up and carry has a lot of advantages. You can take the saw to the log instead of having to lug an enormous log to the saw. That can be an important consideration even if you are equipped to move heavy logs. A suburban tree can be carried out of the backyard as boards, without chopping up the lawn.""A more sophisticated chainsaw-mill approach is Granberg's Alaskan Mark III .....""These chainsaw mills are serious tools. Adequately powered , properly sharpened, run by two experienced operators, they will saw a 2-1/2 ft dia. x 8 ft long oak into 2-in planks in little more than an hour, including a stop to sharpen the chain."
FIELD & STREAM "CHAINSAW LUMBER MILLS" by John Decker, April 1996, page 42: "Today, milling lumber at the site instead of trucking the trees to a mill still makes a certain amount of sense-especially if your site is far from roads or other signs of civilization. And thanks to modern chainsaw lumber mills, this is actually possible and affordable. We tested the smallest model of this mill the Alaskan). Quite frankly, after assembling the mill and then bolting it to a Makita chainsaw, the whole thing looked as if it couldn't possibly work. Happily, we couldn't have been more wrong.""But the MK III's low cost and ease of use-and the skyrocketing cost of many hardwood species-means it's well worth cutting some wood into lumber instead of firewood, even if you take down trees only occasionally."
WOODWORK "MILLING LUMBER WITH A PORTABLE CHAIN SAW MILL" by David Mahaffery, June 1995, pages 47-48; "When I bought mine around 1983, the mill and two .076 Stihl chain-saw engines and good quality metal detector a necessity) came to a little more than two thousand dollars. This approximated the value of the milled and dried 8/4 walnut lumber from my first two trees."
WOODWORK "ELM: A BESIEGED GIANT" by Bruce Gray, June 1996, pages 62 and 63; "The current situation with white elm suggests that it makes sense to seek out dying elm and mill it yourself. In four hours, two people can chain-saw mill, move and stack 400 bf of wood, worth about $4,000.00 US. This assumes you are experienced with the equipment, are working a log 40" diameter or larger, and that you are flitch cutting into 2-1/2" thick slabs. City arborists are usually pleased to see wood used in a constructive way, rather than being simply discarded."