Welcome to Heavy Equipment Forums Outlawbill! I'll do my best to answer any questions that I can, but I must say I can't recall ever having seen a manual for the mill although it's entirely possible we have one somewhere. My dad bought it new in 1991 and there's been relatively few problems with it. Our biggest complaint is the hose guide system that takes the hydraulics from the upper carriage to the lower unit, it seems to pop apart them plastic links all the time and then the lines just flop over to one side... What a lot of guys have done is to get rid of those hoses altogether and run a small gas engine power pack on the lower unit, something we're still planning on doing eventually... Another issue we had was the slide for the dogs would bind up because there was no support on the end of the cylinder that slides it; gravity would pull it down and then the hydraulic ram would push at an angle driving it still further down and then it would jam up. We installed a simple support and it hasn't been an issue since. The main driveshaft bearings seized up on us at one point so make sure you grease them often, and also take the tension off the blades whenever you don't use the mill, even over night, that seems to help a lot. Other than that the only other annoying issue is that the kohler engine loves to fry ignition coils, so much so that we always have two spares on hand. Aside from all that it's actually been a great mill that has cut hundreds of thousands of boardfeet of lumber for us, it always starts and works, and I'm sure I'll be teaching my newborn son how to mill lumber with it when he's old enough!
