This is a Timbery 280 portable mill that I added to a trailer of my own so I could store in my barn or go to some ones place to saw lumber. According to the manufacture tag, the mill was made in Greensburg, IN. by Fabrique Par: Timbery. I have researched this compay and find they make several products in Canada, such as Ag equipment, trailers and other steel specialty equipment. As I understand, one of the engineers that either helped or designed the norwood mx34 Left that company and designed this mill. That is why the guides and controls are similar. I was going to buy the mx34 until I came up with this mill due to several factors such as price, welded construction, optional engines,option prices and most of all the prompt answering of questions I had answered quickly with personal phone calls as well as videos they made on the spot showing the answers I wonted. This mill was completely built, welded and the engine came with a 5 yr warranty. I rather not comment to much about WM involvement as to if they bought into or are helping the engineer sell this mill. I have been told the story but can't seem to find much on the net about any facts. But I will say, I bought this mill from a WM dealer and it is running on WM blades. Over all the dealer I bought from check with me regularly to answer questions and to see how it is doing.
This is a manual mill, I have installed a wench to turn the logs and have other plans down the road. The company is offering a power feed as well as power lift towards the end of the year. It's really nice pushing the handle as it speeds up the engine, turns on the water feed and engages the blade. I went with the 20.5 engine and seems to have plenty of power that includes a rpm and hr gauges. It's not a big time mill as it will cut up to a 28 inch log. Most of the trees here are under 28 inch, so I thought I really did not need the 34 inch mill. Ive been cutting mostly on the weekend. I have cut only 6 logs at 13 feet long at the most and have used 2 blades so far. I have cut popular which cuts like butter. I have cut Ash, easy to cut but a little harder, kinda looks like red oak. Now I have recently cut some cherry. ( I have lots of cherry here to cut). This seems to be pretty hard stuff compaired to the rest Ive cut so fare. I stacked my first pile on wood wrong, and mixed it all together. This weekend I went through the pile and re stacked every thing. So now I have 3 piles so far with all the strips in line as they are to be and have each stack with only each kind of wood. I cover each pile with tin roofing then I stack cement blocks on top. I plan to keep cutting, making more stacks of wood till I have all my logs cut. I have about 50 logs ready now. Most of them are stacked on top of each other off the ground in different piles depending on the type of wood. After that all done, my plan is to build a kiln shed, storage shed and then a new home for the mill. After that start selling inventory. I live on a farm have a full time job else where and have to satisfy my wife once in a while so this may take a while but it is fun. I have no problem getting the logs on the mill as I have a tractor with loader and now with forks which make the job much better to do.
