A guy asked me to make as many 2 x 4's as I could from a 10 ft log that was about 14" at the small end. I got 23 with just a little bark on a few. It took nearly 2 hours to do, so there's no money to be made sawing dimensional lumber with a manual mill w/o a DRO or other accurate indexing method. Counting rotations of the crank didn't consistently give me 1.5" between cuts; I ended up having to measure for every cut, check it, and adjust as needed. Does anyone have a proven method to make consistent thickness cuts on a manual mill? I'm not talking making 4/4, 6/4, etc. where it's ok to be off by even up to 1/16" from cut to cut.
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John