Granberg Portable Chainsaw Edging Sawmill, G555B-24 Inch Alaskan (Mini Mill) Premium Timber Log Cutting Attachment Machine - Wood Cutter Tool Accessories Guide - Manual Milling Wedge Tools - Rail bars

After all these years of trying to freehand mill or hand hew a beam, this tool feels like cheating. Super easy setup considering the outcome you get with it. The only thing i think Granberg could improve upon is using a one piece 'v' rail instead of 2ft sections. Trying to get 12ft of separate sections lined up perfectly even with a straight edge and screw them in place is still open to error. Go big or go home so I tryed it out on this 10ft+ elm log. Damn near perfectly square in the end, but surfacing will take care of it anyway.

I’m a complete chainsaw newbie, so I bought a Stihl MS661 chainsaw with a 32” bar, a Granberg G555B, a G778-36, a Granberg ripping chain, chainsaw chaps, a respirator, and a face shield. For the G555B rails, I purchased some extra v-rails and a 16-foot 2x6 (grade 2). I flattened the 2x6 with hand tools, snapped a final chalk line to align the v-rails, then screwed them in. The actual G555B was pretty easy to put together itself.Long story short, I spent most of a weekend moving heavy logs around with a 48” Log Rite Cant Hook. Some of the logs were 2 feet in diameter and they were exhausting to move. At the end of the weekend, I got the new chainsaw working, mounted the board with the v-rail board to a lot, and cut a 16 foot-long slice off of the log. It was pretty quick!I love this thing.

Constantly used. Excellent product.

It took a while to get it set up, but it does work. Note that they only included 12' of v-rail. I wish they had just raised the price and included 20'. I am edging 16' -17' logs and it is a pain to pull up the 2x6 with the v-rail and try to get it lined up to finish the log. It would have been much easier if I could have done the whole log in one run. I tried a little Stihl first and the bar was long enough but it just did not have enough power to handle the job so I switched to a Stihl 044 and it had the power to do it. I suspect the ripping chain would improve this task considerably. You are not going to put the sawmills out of business with this thing, but it does a decent job. Just don't get in a hurry. If you have any intention of working on logs over 12' in length, go ahead and order additional v-rail and buy a long 2X6 to put it on. You will be glad you did.

This Granberg mini mill model g555b is a great tool for making boards out of logs.The first cut is most important as it dictates the straightness of your remaining cuts. The tip I would provide for the first cut is to nail or screw ( I used screws ) a short 2 X 4 to either end of the log, with the middle of this short 2 X 4 at the height of the top most round part of the log. Make sure this short 2 X 4 is level by placing a level on it. Once these short 2 X 4s are attached to either end of the log, then lay the 2 X 6 that the rails are attached to, onto the log and over these short 2 X 4s at either end. Align this 2 X 6 to the width you want the first cut to be. Screw or nail down the 2 X 6 and you are now ready to cut.Once this first cut is made, the subsequent cuts are very easy.This tool was fantastic for making straight and long cuts.Be sure to keep the chainsaw sharp and obtain a ripping chain versus a normal safety chain saw chain.I have used this tool on white pine and oak logs and am very satisfied with the results.

This is a great jig for beams and a first cut for a large mill. It doesn't take a large saw to run and is easy to set up for your first cut. I like the larger mill for dimensional lumber but this is my go to for edging after using the larger mill. You can use this for all the milling but it takes more time to reset it for each cut. I usually take all of the slabs, sandwich them together, then set my edge mill up to finish up the slabs. I run a 372 XP Husky on it but a smaller saw would do just fine. I also use a ripping chain on a 20 inch bar.

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I use the edging mill to resize logs to load into my logging trailer! This is a must have for a chainsaw miller!