Mister Sawmill

[Osagedon]

I am looking into buying a portable sawmill and was wondering if anyone had any experience or advice on the Mister Sawmill products.  Thanks,  Don

[ronwood]

Don,

Welcome to the forum. I don't have any experience with Mister Sawmill. You might want to do a search on the forum.

Ron

[solodan]

Welcome Don

I know nothing about Mister Sawmill either other than I've seen their ads. Where are you located? by your name I'm guessing your not out this way.

[york]

   http://www.mistersawmill.com/

  small but rugged looking...

[thecfarm]

Osagedon,welcome to the forum.While you're waiting for a reply go to the top of the page and find the search button.Put in mister sawmill.You will find a few posts about this kind of sawmill.What size,model you looking for.Doing this for yourself,trying to make some,alot of money with it?

[tcsmpsi]

What other comparable mills have you looked at?

I followed your link to mister sawmill.  To me, they seem a little light. 

Though my comparable, portable, manual mill has an 18' rated log length, I can actually cut 19', and has 4 dogs (wouldn't mind 6), with 8 leveling legs, with 1/2" steel bunks every 30", weighs around a ton and costs less $$$.

Baker (sponsor over on the left) makes similar mills to the mister sawmill that you might need to take a gander at.

Just food for thought.

[Osagedon]

Thanks for the warm welcomes.  To answer some of your questions I am looking at the Mister sawmill model 21. This will be a personal mill.  I dont intend on making money with it. I would like to build a workshop and cut lumber for my hobby which is building bows. Yellow Pine for the workshop, osage orange for the longbows.
                                                             
                                                                        Don

[Dave Shepard]

Welcome to the Forum, Osagedon! Do you cut out blanks, and then rive them to make your bows? There was a discussion about this somewhere a while ago. I made some pegs for a timber frame from some osage, it was some stringy stuff!


Dave

[Osagedon]

Dave,  In a nutshell the boards (slats)  I make bows from are 1.25" wide at the widest point tapered to.5" at the tips. The thickness of the slat in the middle of the bow is approx.  500ths tapered to 325ths at the tips. Length varies somewhere around 65 inches.  The backs of my bows are laminated with a slat of bamboo. As for the sawmilling I will probably cut 1x2's 6 ft. long from osage orange.

[Greg Cook]

Welcome, Don, glad you made it.
The searches appear to reveal little more than others asking the same question as you. Maybe someone will step forward who owns one. Happy Hunting!

Greg Cook

[BlueRidge]

Hello all, I've recently became acquainted with this site... seems you guys have loads of information on sawing....

To introduce myself, my name is Terry, I live in Deep Gap, NC and own Blue Ridge Sawmills and Equipment. We are the regional distributor for Mister Sawmills.

I know forums such as this has (and rightfully so) rules and obligations regarding soliciting so I'll try not to do this.

If you do have any direct questions I would be more than willing to answer any. You may email me at blueridgemills@bellsouth.net .

[Tom]

That's the right approach, Blue Ridge, but we don't have any problem with new folks joining in.   Have a seat over here next to the stove. 

[thecfarm]

BlueRidge,welcome to the forum.We do have loads of information on sawing.

[zopi]

does Mister Sawmill make coffee too?  ;D

That'd be a good mill mod...coffee maker on the mill...i'd never leave it..I'm in here right now because I have to eat and no one would bring my dinner to the mill.. :D

Welcome Blueridge!

[Greg Cook]

I, too, have heard of coffee mills, but thought they were unrelated to sawmills. Maybe that's why CRTreedude moved down to 'Rica, to be near the source.

[logwalker]

Osagedon, welcome to the forum. I took the time to look at the website and It looked ok but on the light side for me. I am the type that always considers used equipment first for the value. I ended up with a LT40 woodmizer, Electric, hydraulic, resaw and lapsiding attachments, on a trailer, all for $11,000. A 1994 model but very functional and workable. I first owned a manual mill for 5 years and know all about the amount of work involved in sawing. For not much more money than he wants you could end up with something that will work well and be worth your investment forever.


One of the most important things to do right on a mill are the guides. The ones on the Mistersawmill are not what I would want. I had those on my first mill and they were an endless source of headaches. The bearing in the back looks like it would work but it doesn't. It only contacts the blade at a single point and ends up rolling a flat onto the back of the band. It happened over and over to me. I finally converted over to the flanged rollers used on almost all the commercial mills and it stopped the problem. But it wasn't easy to convert the guides and I would not recommend it. Also those guides on Mistersaw don't have much in the way of adjustment. and that is very important.

Enjoy the search for the right mill. Good luck and remember we like lots of pictures here. Joe

[zopi]

I, too, have heard of coffee mills, but thought they were unrelated to sawmills. Maybe that's why CRTreedude moved down to 'Rica, to be near the source.

heh...I bet Juan Valdez has a CoffeeMizer....

hmmm...Biomizer...Coffeemizer...THAT would make a metric butt ton of coffee...

[ARKANSAWYER]

  A few years back I went over to Mister Sawmills place (just 15 miles away) and looked at the mills and took some photos.  That thread should be on here somewhere.   The mills look alot like a Baker Lil buddy  model for the most part.  Workmanship was good and the mills were made from steel.  Come pick it up and stop by the mill and we will give it a run.

[Osagedon]

Thanks Arkansawyer and everyone else for the info.  Greg Cook a fellow forum member invited me over to see his TK 1220 and to teach me about sawmilling.  This was the first bandsaw mill I have ever seen in operation.  I was impressed with how sturdy the saw was built and how fast it sawed through the cherry log Greg had on the mill. I think I am going to give Timber King a call Monday.

Does anyone know how long it usually takes to get a mill from Timber King once an order is placed.  Do they keep them in stock or do they have to build them?

                                           Thanks Again          Don

[Jeff]

 800-942-4406 is your most accurate info on that question.

You can even talk to the head of the company if you are so inclined. Thats Will Johnson.

[Greg Cook]

Enjoyed the visit, Don, but unsure as to how much I can "teach" anyone about milling.  Mostly I can tell you what I've messed up on, maybe you can avoid the same issues.

My understanding from the guys at the Tk office when I picked up my saw was that the keep several 1220's on hand.  Of course, that was then, this is now...

Come back any time, and remember to bring a bow next trip.

Greg