Cheap chainsaw mill?

[theflyingpig]

Hi all,

Has anyone got any experience with cheap chainsaw mills like this?

Chainsaw Mill For Saws 14"-36" Bar Tree Pruning Commercial Homemade Wood Cutting | eBay

This chainsaw mill is designed to produce smooth-cut slabs from your logs and trees. Lightweight and portable design enables you to mill lumber where the tree falls. The chainsaw mill constructed of aluminum and galvanized steel is sturdy and durable, helping you hold the chainsaw stably to get...

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I only need to make a few cuts, but the timber has not flat surface to use a rail saw or band saw....

Thanks for any input...

 

[Burnerman]

I've no experience with such a device, and it could work well enough on a log that was completely uniform and parallel - which rarely is the case!
Personally I'd head for a wood yard and ask them to do the work for you......much safer!
John

 

[robinbanks]

but the timber has not flat surface

It would do if you ran it through a band saw.

I guess you might want to get into chainsaw carving first, and use the saw to take the high spots off the log, then when you've made a flat suitable to run that guide along, use it

 

[nickjb]

You make the first cut along a guide to create a flat surface. Often an aluminium ladder fixed to the log. I have been considering something similar. Chatted to someone who used one on the timbers in his extension. He made some nice pieces that would've cost a fortune from the wood yard.

 

[theflyingpig]

Thanks all. I've tracked down a local guy who has got a more heavyweight version... Glad I did - he reckons my little chainsaw wouldnt manage...