Are you selling all that lumber Wayne? Do you plane any of it. I had a Rigid planer that I burned up in my fire. Not for real production but it served my purposes. I’m thinking about tricking the little woman into letting me get another one and maybe selling off some of this maple I have.
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Yes Mr. Bob
I have enough waste wood to make several trips across the USA.
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Good morning Mr. Tom .
This is not my wood , just sawing for a customer that is furnishing the logs.
Look like there will be about 10,000 board feet in this batch of sawing .
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Another YouTube channel I watch guys seems to be able to fix or build anything, very off grid and mechanic savvy, posted a video of his homemade circular sawmill that is full hydraulic drive. Enjoy!
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We diddled around Friday all day, to discover the bunks that hold the logs between the rails are bent. This kind of throws us off with our measurements. We bought a new yardstick and glued it on the saw frame to measure the cutting height. I think I have to bend the bunks back to the uniform half inch above the rails.
We did get eight 2x4s cut. We are leaving a 1/16th" for shrinkage.
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What wheel axles do you have at your sawmill Mr Wayne?
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Good morning Mr. Jan.
On the pulling side of the blade is a spare tire mounted to an old bushog gear box. The tire is attached where the bushog blade was originally. On the idle side of the mill is the back axle of a small front wheel drive car . I have forgotten what car and year. The tire and wheels are the smaller temporary type that call for about 80 psi of air.
Some details are shown on the first couple of videos on this thread.
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Started with the band saw today, is there anything I need to think about before I weld things together?
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Is it wide enough for the size of logs you will running though it? That will take a big log.
Bob
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I’ll go out and take a video of my saw mill Jan. Maybe there is something there that would be of value to you. It’s a crappy day here.
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Jan, an old master said when we were making a wooden building:
“I’ve already sawed it off twice and it’s still too short” 
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I thought of making it after the rails for the saw I have, so it will be 80cm (31.5 ")
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This video would not play so I deleted the above post. I’ll try again.
It just scrolls but if you click the you tube tab at the bottom it will play off my channel.
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Thanks for the movie Tom, now I understand why it is good with motorcycle wheels, very smooth to adjust, and no oblique loads in the bearings.
Good idea with the holes for every inch, now I got a little more to think about, Thanks.
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Blade changes are a little harder with motorcycle tires and bearings on both sides, no?
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Not too bad Don. Both wheels have enough slot to push them together far enough that the blade comes right off. There are jamb nuts inside on the blade tensioner bolts so the wheel comes back to it original position and very little adjustment is needed to get it tracking again.
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Hard to tell JanA. but I am seeing off center runout.
At the edge of the steel rim.
Certainly at the tire outer edge.
Hand roll over with a felt pen to find the high and low spots on the rim.
Re-mount the wheel on the hub in each position until you get the least rim runout. Distinctly re-mark this.
Only then do the same on the still mounted tire. Chalk your low and high spots.
Then you remount to the rim matching up tire highs to rim lows. And tire lows to rim highs. Two “offs” can make an O.K. then.
“Match-mounting” what they do on the original road vehicles tires and wheels.
Sigh. What good used car auto techs sometimes have to do to no-cost (never paid for the labor!!) solve a shaker.
The other alternative had been to have the wheel mounted tire tread shaved. I know of none with this equipment capability anymore.
Oh. You actual spin balance, last step.
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Hello Jan .
To true my tires on my saw mill I used an electric metal angle girder and approach the tires as a metal lathe would work.
The pull wheel can be powered and spun by the saw mill motor.
The idle wheel can be spun by holding the electric girder at the correct angle .
Because the two tires are connected by the blade I think it is more important having true tires vs being balanced.
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Thanks for the tips, will check what it is, before I do anything.
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