homemade saw mill

a little 5700 pound sawmill that I made over 6 months last summer. Its ugly but it works, I have since added guards, electric saw head lift and working on automating the cuts and sets.

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[rbmaserang]

from mercury spinning in electromagnetic field to this?

[trilect]

well, the sawmill was fun to build and probably safer.

[msredneck001]

Nice saw. How does it cut? What is the largest log you can cut?

Do you just you have a single belt on your drive? Any problems? I just posted up a couple videos of mine.

I think I need a bigger engine for a 48 inch cut.

[trilect]

Main problems I have:

Manually loading logs is terrible.

My log dogs and clamp system is not good.

My engine isn't strong enough for anything over 25 in wide cut.

Max log length currently is 14'6" long. I may in the future add an extension. I run only one belt for the drive system but in reality I should be using 2 or 3 if I ever try to cut anything over 25 inches in diameter.

[BlueMacGyver]

With proper cutting you should never need any cutting length near 25 inches. Wood that big ussually checks (cracks) too much when drying. Although I bet you knew that even if the viewers don't.

[trilect]

Yep, I did saw a 36 in sycamore and took a solid slab 6x36 from the center. 35 min later while sawing i heard a loud snap. Internal stresses split the board right down the middle. I knew it would probably happen but I had to try it once.

[anooseholay]

@trilect You shouldn't let the back of the blade run against the roller guides though because it will cause premature heating of the blade and will result in cracks starting from the back of the blade and heading to the front. I found that out that hard way...

[95jamesg]

watch your dog he/she might get hurt

[bf2dudes]

a bit overkill don't u think

[BlueMacGyver]

CHECK OUT GARAGE BUILT SAWMILL NEXT- built at cost of 1100.00

[kinghowie8]

lol nice, i liked the gator too