Manual Sawmills Need This - Portable Sawmill - Frontier Sawmills OS35, OS31, OS27, OS23

[@NSTactical]

Stan Laurel at the sawmill😂

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Thank you

[@joerodrigues3816]

As always my friend great video and thank you for sharing it and as always God bless you and your family and your friends always stay safe and healthy.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

God bless you too.

[@PeeksPeakHobbyHomestead]

I spit my coffee when the log broke free and took a run for it. 😂 That looks like a great solution though. I don't have a big enough tractor to load big logs. I could use that system.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

All of my woes would have been less had I read the instructions a little better. I need bigger pictures. 😁😁😁

[@terryk3118]

Thanks for the great video. Actually, I was yelling at you the whole time, but you weren't listening! Wise choice to learn with a smaller log too! Enjoyed tagging along with you today.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Thank you. I sure thought about pulling up a big log. I am trying a big log out tomorrow.

[@MoneypitHomestead]

Lisa and I laughed as you asked us to, my friend! But really, it was another great video, and it looks like this could be a great tool for you all to get some big log on that mill! Keep making great videos, and I talk to you later, buddy! Donald

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

I have a big white oak with a crotch in it. It should make an awesome table! It is massive.

[@MoneypitHomestead]

@@TonysTractorAdventure I am looking forward to that video! Donald

[@stevencroon]

I have an lm29 with this loading system and changed the hand winch to an inexpensive Harbor freight 3500lb electric winch, real game changer 1 Can load a 24 inch log easily.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

You are the second person that said that. You have me thinking. I have a nice winch that I didn't use on my old atv.

[@stevencroon]

Oh you will like it, saves the back cranking on that hand winch. You do have to watch the balance of the log so it doesn't come up the ramp crooked but that can be easily adjusted with a cant hook Any old battery will load quite a few logs on a charge. I used an RV electrical hook up cable so I could disconnect the winch and take the battery inside when not in use. You will develop your own tricks after you saw a couple hundred logs. Have fun, make something cool.@@TonysTractorAdventure

[@Hfoutdoorsyt]

Good job

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Thanks

[@davida.p.9911]

Very cool accessory!! I tried to help out as best I could, I guess you couldn't hear me say "Watch out Tony!" 😊 Thanks for sharing, my friend

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Thank you, my friend. After I did that, I thought, how stupid was that. I knew better and still did it.

[@SabineRiverValley]

I bet you could Fast2K a pipe in the ground off of the side of your mill and mount that there, so that you could leave it connected semi-permeantly. Then I'd work on getting a cordless drill connected to that crank.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

I have absolutely thought about doing it. I am think hard on taking the big plunge on the hydraulic upgrade for this unit. Have you saw the upgrade kit?

[@SabineRiverValley]

Oh yeah. I know a few people with Wood-Mizer mills who have the full hydraulic setup. See, that's what Frontier did to you... they let you get a feel for getting that log up there easily, but still left it just enough frustrating that you start seriously considering the hydraulic upgrade.🤣 Sneaky sneaky!

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

That's Right!

[@MerlinspopTBH]

Put a loop off the cross timber overhead and connect the hook there and swing it out

[@JoeTheFarmer]

Man that is a smart setup. Well done brother! That winch looks legit, looking forward to more sawmill videos!

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

More to come! I look forward to seeing yours.

[@Tapthatsugershack]

Awesome stuff, as always 👏 looks like a great upgrade. A little support under the main lift support would help it be more steady and tie it down, mite flex too much, and bend your bunk but definitely make the job much easier if you have no equipment. And I love that the videos are true and you guys don't cut out the bad, lol 😊

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Absolutely! I have to show the good and the bad. I like to show the good in bad also. It can always be worse. I think I will tweak it a little after a couple logs.

[@BigelowWoodcraft]

Tony, you're right. Without a tractor you have to have this system. I built this exact system with an electric winch when I first got the mill. Still use it occasionally when my tractor gets maxed out by a log. Parbuckling always works.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Yes sir! I have a big Tulip Poplar that my tractor can hardly get off the ground. I will try the winch system.

[@m9ovich785]

Thanks Tony. If You ever find that a log slips from side to side from the cable not being in the balance point. I can describe a mod that I did for My log bunk..

[@Bodhranarama]

Hi Tony. Use a simple climbing 'biner and it won't slip off until you want it to.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

I really like that. I just bought a grade eight bolt and a length of big chain to hook into. I didn't like how the cable kinked at the last.

[@abundancebydesignpermacult764]

For a mill that’s staying in the same place, do you think a 6x6 post in the ground with a bag of concrete and a harbor freight hand crank winch could do just as well? Saving my pennies but don’t want to waste time and money.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

I think it probably would work.

[@smisky1086]

you tried to put the bolt thru the double-wide bunk which spans 2 track sections, it would (probably) work on the mid-track bunks which are not as wide...

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

That is not the case with this sawmill. All the bunks are exactly the same.

[@robertwinton2649]

🤗❤️👍

[@EdwardEmmick]

Sure seems like a lot of work.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Heck, I love to work. If you don't love work, this may not be for you. For me, I hate sitting around. I had rather chase a challenge.

[@HossCartwright79]

I have the os31 right now my backhoe is down i was thinking about making this purchase but its like $700 with taxes they get you not including the loading ramps with the winch system i think the ramps would be easly made out of some tubing not much there for almost $500 just for the ramps for the cost i think i could make this myself everything needed would be around $700 i have everything needed already or probably use a set of four wheeler ramps or maybe a 6x6 post with pieces of angle attached to bottom to hold into the rail with safety chains and buy a four wheeler winch with a wireless remote control like on my mule would be my only expense i like tge idea one guy said about mounting the winch off to the side ontop of a good pole or maybe even to the barn post lag it in with some long bolts. Any way thanks for the video

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Shipping is a cost too. I recommend getting everything at once to new sawyers. That saves on shipping. My tractor is down too. I pulled a small log up with a side by side.

[@Westernfamilyranch]

Tony. DO NOT OVER LOAD IT. I broke mine because I was overdoing it on log size. But it worked great while it lasted.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

Thank you for the insight. I was worried about that exact thing.

[@johnvogel641]

Would be nice if kit came with all the parts there.Guess Frontier does not think packaging is important.Guess I do not have to think Frontier is important either.And this is how they treat a spokesperson ? Oh wait the spokesperson is too smart to read instructions.Now I get it.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

You seem angry. I wish you the best.

[@jaimelago8941]

Tony it is too much work you have a tractor

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

You are right, but some of the logs are too big for my tractor to lift. This new sawmill will cut a 30" log

[@CFAinNoVA]

If you used the tractor and grapple to place the log at the base of the rail system why not just pick it up and place it on the rail? I see not point in the winch. You need a tractor any way.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

You must have missed it. I talked about it in the video.

[@dennisbrooks4742]

Too much faffing around to use.

[@TonysTractorAdventure]

It was my first time. It would get easier after use. Like everything in life.