Portable Sawmill?

[valley ranch]

Hi, Just curious: Does anyone here have a Portable Sawmill? Did you buy it, plan to buy one, did you build it, plan to build one?

Richard

 

[Smart Red]

One is sort of on the drawing board, but we have someone nearby who will slab wood for us rather cheaply.

 

[Smiles Jr.]

I would love to have a new WoodMizer sawmill but it's just too economical to have the guy a few miles from here do it at his mill.

 

[thistlebloom]

Are you talking about something like this Richard?
LINK

Fixed the link!

 

[digitS']

Somehow, the "s" dropped off "Spokane" in the url, Thistle'.

http://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/4836947300.html

Steve

 

[thistlebloom]

Somehow, the "s" dropped off "Spokane" in the url, Thistle'.

http://spokane.craigslist.org/grd/4836947300.html

Steve

Thanks Steve! That's the one! Must have had a little mouse spasm.

 

[freedhardwoods]

About 20 years ago, the sawmill I was working at burned down. They brought in a Woodmizer LT40 fully hydraulic to keep sawing while they rebuilt the big mill. I ran it for a couple weeks. Of course it wasn't as fast as the big stationary mill, but I thought it worked pretty good.

I have read a lot about the Timberking brand. The design looks very good, and it's built by the same people that make Woodmaster woodworking machines. I special ordered a big Woodmaster about 10 years ago. The sales man didn't know if they could build one the way I wanted, so they got the production foreman on the phone and he said he could build it the way I wanted. I put several hundred hours on that machine and was very pleased with it.

 

[valley ranch]

Yes, that's what I'm referring to, that type of thing. I'm working on one, not that big, as I have time. I burn so much Douglas Fir as fire wood and I'm buying lumber. It would be great to fire up my mill and mill what I need. I know people have them some make their own.

 

[valley ranch]

Here's what I've got so far. There will be another wheel, that the band blade will ride on, on the left side of the mill carriage. The the mill bar can be cranked up and down for the size of the cut.

It's clamped together, I'll weld it to the carriage when when it is all laid out.

The carriage will ride on a track that I've built.

Richard

 

[valley ranch]

I'm milling this square tubing so it will slide into the 4" steel tube. There will be two like the other side, but this side will move for adjustment.

Richard