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Some of you guys may see my pic in my avatar and not know what you are looking at besides an old man. LOL It is my chainsaw powered saw mill, it's how I get my wood and lumber for wood working projects. I can mill it any size I want up to 36" wide, any length, and up to 12" to 14" thick or more. I can mill a log where it falls and not have to move the log, just slice it up and move it board by board. I can get species of wood that you can't get at the lumber yard. For me milling tree's for lumber is just a part of the whole wood working project, it's fun for me, very hard work but fun and rewarding. I have thousand s of dollars worth of lumber and all it cost me was a few gallons of gas and oil. The mill paid for itself with the first log I milled. Here's a few pics of what I did this weekend. I live in Michigan and these logs where at a friends house in Ohio, I milled them for him. Here's a few pics. This was several logs of beautiful ambrosia maple. The one large slab that is leaning up against me is 9' long 30" plus wide, and 5" thick. It will be chunked up for turning blanks The last 2 pics show what ambrosia maple looks like, it is beautiful with a finish on it.