Our farm- home built band saw mill

barnyardorange · Aug 17, 2018

Several years ago my dad was reading farm show magazine and someone had plans to built a homemade sawmill. He sent $50 for the plans and built it. Here's a video of what we are using. Enjoy, Donald
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JF in MI · Aug 18, 2018

Interesting. Is there any sort of blade guide to keep the blade from being pushed off the wheels from pressure on the log?

ivan in michigan · Aug 18, 2018

Looks good but you should add a blade guard over the band wheels . I don't know if you have ever broke a blade or not but on the woodmizer I had that blade would fly all over inside the guard

gtractorfan · Aug 18, 2018

Good job! It's fun to dream about what you can build from your own woodlot especially when you can do it all yourself.

barnyardorange · Aug 18, 2018

Answer to the questions about the blade guard is yes we have made a couple of guards for it, and we are in the process of putting the final version back on now that we know it'll work. And we too, have had some blades break, usually shoots out the side, but with the rpm's, yes it could break and go anywhere.

larry@stinescorner · Aug 18, 2018

great video! thanks!

Geo-TH,In · Aug 18, 2018

Do you like to make sawdust like your dad?

My dad had a 48 inch belsaw sawmill. He made a ton of sawdust.

People with horses go the sawmills and get sawdust for horse bedding.

Sawmill south of town specializes in hardwood. They clean the bark off log before cutting. The scrap wood is chipped and shipped to a place that makes wood pellets for corn stoves.

I knew a man who used his sawdust to heat his building and dry his lumber.

What do you do with your sawdust and scrap?

teddy52food · Aug 18, 2018

He built a mill but it looks like he has to learn how to saw a log yet.

barnyardorange · Aug 18, 2018

Well Geo-TH, The sawdust usually gets mixed into the the mulch pile with the rest of the compost from the cows and leaves from some local landscapers. The slab wood gets used for our maple syrup operation.

barnyardorange · Aug 18, 2018

teddy52food, anytime you would like to make a trip to NY and show us how it's done, swing on by. Every day is a learning process as far as i'm concerned.

barnyardorange · Aug 18, 2018

JF in MI, their are two blabe guides on the bottom of the blade. They are made up by having an upper berring a lower berring and a berring riding horizontal on the back side of the blade to keep it centered. Hopefully I worded this in a way that it can be understood.

teddy52food · Aug 18, 2018

I am in mid Mn. He took too much off the 1st side. Now the boards he is cutting are going to warp like a rocking chair runner. Should take off the opposite side to keep it equal.

sjh · Aug 18, 2018

looks like I've been doing it wrong for 12 years.I don't think so. Been cutting logs like that every day for a living. Each log is different but most you cut like that to make a cant out of them.

teddy52food · Aug 18, 2018

Most of my sawing was for grade lumber. You lose a lot of grade if you do it wrong. Sawing for cants id doesn't make much difference.

Destroked 450 · Aug 19, 2018

I've worked around stick mills and large automated production mills sawing grade, cants and cross ties.
He didn't really take to much off of the one side, but rolling the log 1/2 turn and taking boards off the opposite side before turning the log on it's edge does help to reduce warpage.
I do understand that manually turning logs on a older stick mill or small band rig like his is a lot of work, BTDT with a cant hook.

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