Homemade Bandsaw Sawmill Pic.

[jssmitch]

OK, as promised, go to my gallery for all my pictures making and operating my Homemade Sawmill.  Sorry, I have not figured out how to post to the post yet.

[thecfarm]

The hard part is done once you have them in an album



 

Click onto your album,click onto the picture you want,it will get bigger,scroll down a little,will say Insert Image In Post,click onto that,say yes, and that's it. click onto preview to make sure you want it. I like to hit the enter key once or twice to bring the picture away from the post. The enter key also helps when posting 2 pictures back to back. It leaves some white space between them.
Looks good. I always like to know,what's the plan for all of the lumber? have your own trees?

[barbender]

It looks like you did a great job. I have to add one thing, get some guards around around that blade.  ;)

[customsawyer]

Nice looking mill.

[pineywoods]

+1 on the guards. I would assume you ain't broke a blade yet..scary.

[tcsmpsi]

Yes on the guards.  Well, there were still plenty of trees over in Dayton when I was there the other day. 

[Hilltop366]

Nice, how is it working for you?

[jssmitch]

In response to all, I have my own trees to a point, and my wife has plenty of honey do jobs to take up all the lumber.  Just mainly trying to keep myself busy.

Yes, I intend to put blade guards on.  I had to get the bugs out without having to redo to much, but now that I know it runs without much problems, I will be starting on guards, then some stout rails under the base so I can just drag it around and not have to worry about how solid the base is before I load a log.

I have found a few things that I want to change a little, so next week I plan on putting it back in my shop and do the changes, like a 12V winch to raise and lower the blade and a more stable/stout tension system, then the guards.  Just wanted to let everyone see what is happening this far.

[Woodchuck53]

Great job. Is it your own follow on plans or did you do some from scratch? I want one but have way to much invested in the circle mill rebuild to think about it now. Maybe one day.

I think the guards ought to be priority one tomorrow morning. Less chance of trying this or that after a mod. and getting hurt. I think from the gist of this forum we all work mostly alone and some may not make it in the event of an oops. Stay safe fellows I have a lot of questions yet. Chuck

[jssmitch]

Chuck, to be honest, I have been turning ideas around in my head for a while, then one day I walked out of my shop and the first thing I saw was the old JD Gator just sitting there and then it hit me like a ton of bricks.  There is my saw mill, so I just started taking it apart, and looked at my steel pile, and had to buy a little, but just started putting ideas together and now I have a working sawmill.
Guess I was just blessed with the ability to plan something in my head and go to it.
No work on the mill tomorrow, have two of my great grand kids, then Sunday have to drive 150 miles to a funeral, then wife has a Dr. apointment Monday morning, then I go to my Audi. for a Mapping session on my Cochlear Implant on Tuesday, so looks like will be next Wednesday before I do anything else with the mill.

[hackberry jake]

What diameter are your band wheels? They look small, but maybe it's just a big mill.

[jssmitch]

Bandwheels are a total of 18" overall.

[Jay Sybrandy]

Hey,
Do you still have this mill ? Can you get the blade tight enough and how wide can you cut I want to make a bandsaw mill that can cut 4ft and use 18" tires but people said that I won't be able to get the blade tight enough

Thanks

[schmism]

just order some real band wheels.  19" ground steel wheels from cooks is $700 for the set.   Its worth the investment for the most important part of the saw.

[Jay Sybrandy]

just order some real band wheels.  19" ground steel wheels from cooks is $700 for the set.   Its worth the investment for the most important part of the saw.

Im aming to spend around $1000 on the whole mill

[ozarkgem]

Get some 19" v belt pulleys from Surplus Center. I have used them for 8 yrs now and they work good. And you only buy them once.