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From: "Jim Wilkins" <muratlanne@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Drilling chainsaw bar
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 2024 17:57:52 -0400
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"Bob La Londe"  wrote in message news:vbfd32$t6gk$1@dont-email.me...

As I am sure you are aware, but "chainsaw mill" is a thing.  How do they
manage securing the blade on those?
Bob La Londe

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The chainsaw bar is held between clamps at both ends. These clamps are 
square hollow steel tubing joined by bolts at the ends, with short strips of 
steel welded to the inner sides in the center to space out the tubes clear 
of the chain. Tapped holes in the centers of the clamps can be used to screw 
the bar more securely in place if it's drilled to match. That is what I want 
to do, to eliminate the bottom clamp so the bar can cut a wider slab part 
way down the curve of the log.

The chainsaw guide I have clamps the blade perpendicular to a 2x6 that the 
guide slides on. It works well on logs that are only a little too wide but 
doesn't allow the bar to reach through the slab on thicker ones, because the 
saw body is above the 2x6 and the clamp that holds the bar.