I just picked up 400 board feet of hard maple lumber. I brought in a trailor load of 15 inch to 18 inch logs into the sawmill earlier this summer. I had about 250' sawed at 1" and 150" at 1-1/4". I will be using the thicker for work bench tops. All wood was kiln dried to 9%. I was disappointed by the 400 board feet, I thought I should of had alot more with the huge load of logs. The mill I used had a circular saw type blade. Upon investigation of some of the boards, I realized the blade was using up about 5/8" of wood per cut. I have alot more hard maple to cut when the leaves fall and I was wondering what would be the best type of setup that I would want to deliver my logs to recieve the footage per log? Any advice is welcome.