Jeff Miller Inc

10/04/2026

Is it good enough? How can we make it more accurate?
A lot of Bandmill cutting issues originate with a lack of carriage maintenance and the track having issues, alignment issues, and or a structural leg that isn’t bearing the weight it needs to. The Bandmill itself and the Band Blades may also contribute to poorly manufactured Lumber. Like anything that you’re looking for better performance, you need to constantly be asking yourself
“ what’s not the way it should be.”
When you switch out your circle blade mill to a Bandmill, you’ll need to do better carriage and track maintenance.
If you tilt that Band mill to 17°, you’ll need to do even better track and carriage maintenance. If you think you have to have a double cut, be prepared to do better maintenance than you’ve ever done in the past! It won’t be a choice you can make, the equipment will make the choice for you.

10/01/2026

A couple of sequoia’s getting transplanted in southern Michigan

09/21/2026

What’s your side clearance? How long is your toothface? What Guage saws are you running? Do you use a frost match? Do you chisel it or grind it in? Do you run it year-round?  what species are you cutting? Do you cut frozen or half frozen Timber ? The last time you had a cutting issue how did you fix it? Was it a carriage issue a track alignment or week structural steel ‘soft foot’ issue Was the bandsaw blade not being put up correctly ? In your entire length of Trac, do you have more than about five pieces of Shim stock? Why?  is your Bandmill? actually put in square with the track ? My experience has been out of 100 mils I found four that were less than a 64th out of proper location to the track I would say 20% of the time it’s a Band Saw blade issue that I encounter the other 80% is not related to bands only it’s other issues in the Mills maintenance are lack of so in my experience a vertical Band Saw needs adequate maintenance and alignment attention. Tilt the mail and the courage somewhere between 15 and 20° and you have to do a little bit better job on carriage, maintenance, and track alignment if you have a tilted mill and your double cutting the quality of workmanship on the track the carriage and now also the Bandmill? require diligence and insight and paying attention to details that won’t matter as much on a conventional single vertical Bandmill. 
Make a punchlist of what you go through when you’re trying to identify why you’re not getting the results that you’d like.

Mill layout and development.Project-construction management and oversight. Optical alignment services for tracks, carriages,bandmills,linebars and edgers.

09/18/2026

This is one of the four legs holding up a 34,000 pound Bandmill. You want it to stay where you put it, how much Welding is needed, and when have you welded too much ?
 Heat moves things .  on Mill tracks, extra heat can play havoc on the alignment. Do it’s necessary, do what works, and remember to stop before you turn into a blacksmith.

09/13/2026

Making it easier for the operator to do the right thing. Get the difficult LOGS onto the carriage quickly without losing them between the nose skids.

09/13/2026

What if………?

08/25/2026

38 miles south of Washington DC, installing our 4th bandmill in 50 days. 2 more to go in the next 4 weeks.

08/06/2026

Less than four weeks away from cutting LOGS into LUMBER , a lot of may timbers are about to exit this Mill .

07/31/2026

Stretching a Used carriage Track Frame.
The Vee rail side of the I-beams were positioned to within .05 - that’s the thickness of three business cards stacked together That’s a lot of pushing and pulling on the track Frame over a 70 foot long span 

07/26/2026

man cannot live by Timber alone ….
Or  maybe that was by Bread alone ?