We make a sawmill with our own hands

Information on how to make a sawmill with your own hands, will interest lovers to work with wood, those who are going to independently build a house or any other object from the tree.

With this tool, you can secure a small extra income by performing simple orders and sawing wooden items.

Of course, the self-made sawmill is less convenient and functional than the finished one, which can be bought in the store. But usually a professional tool is expensive.

Therefore, it makes sense to try to collect the sawmill itself, using for this photo and video from this article.

The process of creating a band saw frame

The self-made sawmill can be tape, disk or chain saw. The first type is more common among fans of independent creations.

It is used in cases where logs are required to obtain planks, uneven bars or half-parallel grooves. With its help, and shallow processing of the tree.

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In addition, the band sawmill with its own hands, with skillful use, will be able to provide the following:

• excellent quality of the surface of wood;
• rather good accuracy at work;
• minimum amount of waste;
• high performance;
• increased energy efficiency;
• and it is less difficult to manufacture( the foundation does not require a special foundation).

It is clear that it has good advantages in comparison with competitive models, and if you make a choice in its favor, you should carefully approach the process of manufacturing a band sawmill.

Where should the work begin?

From all the variety of models, you should make for yourself the one whose drawings you will understand and simple. They should be carefully studied, understood and only then begin to collect.

Otherwise, the risk is great that time, nerves and money will be spent, and the result will be zero.

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Drawing the creation of a band saw frame and an independent process of its manufacturing are two things that can not be divided.

In our article we give an example of ready-made calculations that can be used accurately or make their own adjustments. For detailed information, please see the video on the subject.

Often allowed errors

Haste is known to be good in certain situations, and the process of creating a sawmill with their own hands does not apply to them. In this case, inattention and haste will serve a bad service.

Often the errors allowed in the end have a negative impact on the quality of work that our chain mini sawmill will perform.

The most common mistake is the use of low-quality materials. And it does not matter which sawmill you have in the future, chain, tire or chain saw, it still will not last long.

You can not save on materials that are used in work. The mechanisms of any sawmill weigh a lot, and the logs that are processed are not easy, and the installation must withstand all this.

Thus, a poor-quality unit very quickly fails, unable to withstand the weight. The sawmill can not just bend, but also fall apart completely.

But the money for its production has already been spent.

Step-by-step construction of a band saw frame

In order to make a sawmill with your own hands, you need the appropriate material, and, of high quality. The photo shows the instrument that we will be doing.

For this, it is necessary to prepare a considerable number of pipes, a half-inch diameter and more. Also, several pulleys will be needed for the grain harvesters.

They may be new, but may be used, but then they should be in perfect condition.

It is impossible to make a sawmill without rails, which are made most often from corners in 50 mm.

To ensure that the wheels do not quickly become unusable during movement, the corner with its edge must be directed only upwards.

Sleepers are made of a profile of different diameters. Between them, a pipe 2.5 to 2.5 cm in size is necessarily welded.

Small projections are made between the profile pipes and sleepers, in which bolts for adjustment are subsequently installed.

On them, assembled into the construction at a distance of half a meter, but not less, put the bridges. They will serve to install logs that are to be processed.

Here also installed pulleys, one of which must regulate the size of the finished material, usually it is attached to the right side.

That is, it must move and be tensioned by means of a spring. The left pulley must also be fixed, but it can also move in view of the size of the band saw frame.

Both pulleys are parallel to each other.

The final step is to make the frame of the frame, on which the whole chain construction is installed. For its production, a channel is used, as in the photo.

How to make a sawmill

from a chainsaw Another type of sawmill that can be assembled with your own hands is a sawmill from a chainsaw or a bus sawmill.

Several photos and videos will complement our instructions and will consider in detail all the remaining questions.

For making a mini sawmill from chainsaw two eight-meter channels are required, the height of which can vary from 140 mm to 180 mm. They will be the basis of the design.

In addition, you will need:

• corners, size 50 per 100 mm;
• 2 rails;
• screed( the number depends on the holes);
• bolts and studs.

The rails must be turned upside down.

For the entire length of the base, at a distance of approximately 1 - 1.5 meters from each other, it is necessary to drill the holes, their diameter should be not less than 14 mm, but not more than 16 mm.

They are inserted screeds, the length of which is centimeters 25. They can be cut from the remains of a pipe 3 to 4, designed for water.

Prepared from the corner of the prepared metal from the metal stands, on which the prepared base is attached.

Without them, no single chain sawmill from chainsaw simply does not exist. It should be noted that all elements of the basis of the future sawmill should be strictly straight.

No corner construction is provided. Welded braces will give it extra rigidity, it will stand confidently and firmly.

A mobile trolley is mounted on the created structure. It will be based on a steel plate, the length of which is 600 mm, and the thickness - 4-6 cm

To it from below, you need to weld a corner, 40x40 mm, after which all this should be installed on bearings or rollers.

At the top of the mount two of the same corner, and now they are attached to the chainsaw, for example, "Ural", which will work as a chain bus mini sawmill.

In order for the logs to not move freely, it is necessary to make a clamp for them, which will fix the processed material in one position.

This construction can be made from pipes and movable hoses. If you are supposed to work with very heavy logs, then set the slopes and thus facilitate work.

The most difficult thing to encounter when making a chain chain saw from a chainsaw is creating a mechanism that will adjust the thickness of the workpiece.

The best way is to use a simple method, consisting in vertical installation on the edges of the frame of jacks of any type, capable of providing an extremely rigid fixation.

The thickness will vary by adjusting these jacks. An example of how a chain chain saw is made using a chain saw is shown in the photo.

How to make a sawmill from a circular saw

Another tool that you can make yourself and which is very popular is the disk sawmill. This is an indispensable thing during the construction of wooden rooms.

Its use makes work much easier, saving a lot of time and effort. Thus, the question of how a disk sawmill is made by one's own hands is taken in many heads.

Types of disk saws

With a sawmill, you can get any kind of sawn timber.

The main part - a circular saw - is fixed in such a way that it has the ability to saw in two directions and, in addition, rotates by 90 degrees.

These are the features that allow us to classify the disk sawmills into the following types:

1. Horizontal - the work is carried out using a saw carriage that moves along the log in two directions. Such a sawmill is dismantled, its productivity is high, and the waste remains at a minimum;
2. Corner - with one disc or two. Single disk works both vertically and horizontally in two directions. Angle sawmill, in which the disks are placed opposite each other horizontally and vertically, in other words, orthogonally, it works with high productivity.

The process of creating

It is not difficult to create a sawmill from a circular saw if you have not only a simple desire, but also some knowledge and skills.

To begin with, you should carefully study the drawings and diagrams that you can see in the photo. One of the simplest designs is a regular table with a shaft and a saw placed on it.

Part of the saw that saws the tree, rises above the surface.

The base of any disk sawmill, whether angular or horizontal, is made of metal or wooden goats, fastened together by ordinary boards.

The top of the table is covered with a sheet of steel 200 mm wide and 4 mm thick. Instead of a sheet, plates connected to each other by jumpers and screws can be used.

For the manufacture of discs, it is better to use a sheet of steel or duralumin. The disc diameter should be no more than 500 mm, and the number of teeth can be only 2 or 3.

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It is the latter that are the key to quality cutting in the future. In addition, the design of the guide is also important. The easiest way is to cut out a n-shaped saddle from boards or logs.

Attach a saw and motor to it. Thus, the angular circular saw is assembled.
Observing all the recommendations given in the article, you can easily manufacture any sawmill yourself.