How to cut planks with a chainsaw

Reader Contribution by Anna Hess And Mark Hamilton
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Cutting your own planks from a downed tree sounds like fun, but we found out it’s also a lot of work and not easy. The Alaskan small log mill is a sturdy guide that attaches to a chainsaw and helps keep your cuts at a particular size, which can be adjusted. I recently did a series of posts on chainsaw sharpening and adjusting where I talked about the time Anna and I cut up a bunch of 2 foot long planks for a do it yourself footbridge to cross our creek. That post has a healthy comment thread with several readers chiming in on how easy and hard their own do it yourself plank production adventures went.

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