Four years ago, I set up three bases and concreted them 80 cm deep into our meadow for our Woodlandmill HM 126 14HP band saw. I dug the holes by hand. For the concrete, I used trass-lime-cement with different sand grain sizes ranging from 0 to 32 mm. The electric motor of the concrete mixer was no longer working, so I mixed the concrete by hand in about 30 wheelbarrow loads with a shovel (ca. 10load per base). It was hard work. Our band saw has been standing firmly and accuratly ever since on iron rails. We still need to use it more so that the investment pays off. Larch and Arolla pine are precious timberwood. Maximum cutting lenght (with two extension) is 7 meters.

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Some further larch logs, slowly loaded onto the rapid tractor. The crane's maximum lifting capacity was again at its limit. The arrangement of the logs turned out this way and was a bit awkward because the crane position, the pump position of the cylinder and its lever lengt as well as the iron extension of the loading bridge were often in the way. A few considerations and additional manoeuvres with two sappies were necessary.

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Fetched some larch logs and slowly loaded them onto the rapid tractor. The crane's maximum lifting capacity was at its limit. The chopping of some larch log for another fence post project continues.

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