I really hope to get some money for taxes. A bandsaw sawmill would be first in my list. For now, the neighbor gave me this for my chainsaw. It’s a lot of work and a lot of gas. This is a trial run on a 5" Birch log.
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Thanks Wayne that’s good perspective on plank pricing,I haven’t bought a 2? ln about 8 years,since I got some help from a friend and tore down two buildings with crobars.the ones building fell apart with back ho bucket, once roof and walls were removed.they were about 30\30 feet square and had one by 4 and 1\six 8_10_ loads of boards,the boards were free for removeing the buildings.That sounds like a good price for brand new wood,with no nails too grind off.
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just throwing a few wood porn pics out.
hit up a couple of branch piles from last year.
shear set on wood splitter holding in nice.
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When turning leaves into pellets you have to grind them up fine like sawdust
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Yep.Yep.
Even small system home electrical generating on woodgas does add up to quite an annual woodpile.
My new Yamaha EF2800i penciling out to 7 1/2 cords annually to have 500-2500 watts available hourly electrical for 16 hours a day 365. (old now - I do sleep more on the other 8)
Well the wood sweating-for-power’s is just another way to live long and healthy and wise!
Regards
Steve Unruh
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Very nice Wayne.
A bandsaw sawmill is what I really want up here.
Where did you get the plans? I’m a guy that needs something to go by. How long did it take you to build?
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For your use I would suggest you look into a “swing blade” saw mill. It can be done quite simple ( I say quite) Look at JO Olson’s posts. He shows his in a very short video, but you will garner the simplicity. Then look at others on youtube TomC
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I would absolutely love a swing blade sawmill. The problem is, they cost money, lots of it. There are a lot of people up here with sawmills, 3 within 10 miles from me. None of them are busy and they still charge a premium for their lumber. Don M pointed a video from YouTube my direction last night with a chainsaw sawmill. Ran with a 10hp engine. It looks simple enough to make, it will just take time.
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Hello Mr. Bill,
Thanks for the nice comments .
There were no plans , I gathered up what I had handy and laying around . The only thing I bought to build it was a few small sprockets and roller chain .
I don’t really remember but I think about a week . I originally built it to be mobile. It has a trailer hitch , jacks and axle that I can bolt on . I had an old tractor that powered and furnished the hydraulics until the tractor went down about ten years back .
My intentions at the time were to take it to some wooded land I have about 10 miles from home and set it up there sawing. I was going to give it a test run where it is setting now ( 18 years later ) but have never moved it.
There are a few benefits of having a little mill and sawing . You will have enough waste wood to heat a house , enough scrap to drive a few wood burners . Also one might pick up a little change when sawing . In the three min video above I sawed 40 board foot of wood . At 25 cents per board foot sawing fee is 10 bucks 
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Wayne, have a good day. Found this guy and his contraption machine saw mill; it´s awsome and a proof of tenacity and will. I liked it and thats why I share it. Looks easy to build.
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Hello Abner.
Thanks for sharing the video . Enjoyed it !
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Great, but I think I like the Russian homemade sawmill better!
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Yeah Pepe, that´s a good one. Here it is…
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My conclusion to sawing lumber with a chainsaw is illustrated in these videos. The sawdust pile grows faster than the lumrer pile.
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What sawmill…?
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I went through all this yrs. ago , then I built a band mill , after that I bought a Harbor freight band mill for $1500.00. By the time you buy a chainsaw big enough to really do some sawing, and built an apparatus to make it saw you will save money, and time, and make better lumber with a cheap bandmill. Al
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