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I got my bandsaw mill built last week, (man, I’m tired of welding, ready to turn my shop back the woodworking) but before I can cut lumber I needed a way to move the tracks to where I’m going to set it up and to handle the logs. This is what I came up with. It is really ugly!!!!!
It’s built from a few pieces I had left over from the mill but mostly from scrap stuff I had picked up here and there. The only thing I had to buy was the hubs. I built it wide enough to stradle the tracks so that I can just back big logs over the tracks and set them down. The log in the picture is a 12 1/2 foot walnut log that’s 22 inches in diameter on the smaill end and it picked it up real easy. Most trailer’s I’ve seen like this use a winch but I didn’t want to spend the money for one so I made it up to use a scissor jack. I still need to paint it, Maybe now I can get the mill setup and be sawing lumber it a couple of days. Let me know what you think about it.
-- BUILT TO LAST WOODWORKS, West Blocton, Alabama
13 comments so far
BobLemon
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posted 124 days ago
That looks great! Where’s the film clip?
Sawdust2
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posted 124 days ago
The tree doesn’t care how ugly it is.
I applaud your creativity.
Hope you get lots of enjoyment out of it.
3 future LJ’s helping you out?
Lee
-- No piece is cut too short. It was meant for a smaller project.
jeffl
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posted 124 days ago
I built a sawmill also but the guides didn’t work right and its been sitting for a while. If yours works well and you are willing I’d like a idea on the blade guides.
-- Jeff,
Built2Last
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posted 124 days ago
Hey, jeffl. I let you know when I get it going.
-- BUILT TO LAST WOODWORKS, West Blocton, Alabama
a1Jim
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posted 124 days ago
Well design log hauler time to get a ripping.
-- Jim from Heirloom Woodshop Southern Oregon
patron
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posted 124 days ago
great inovation ,
makes me jealous .
however , the only trees we got around here ,
are pine ,
so i leave it to the 6 sawyers around to make planks .
-- david ,new mexico ,allheart
Scott Bryan
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posted 124 days ago
That is a nice compliment to your mill that you built. It looks like you are ready to start cutting.
-- With God's help all things are possible- even woodworking. Woodworking is not just a hobby, it is an (expletive deleted) expensive hobby.
Ben
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posted 124 days ago
I’m impressed
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SCOTSMAN
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posted 124 days ago
I wish I had one of those but then all my trees I own I like too much to cut down and also I am struggling for storage room as it is.You lucky little demon with the eyes and smile tooAlistair
-- excuse my typing as I have a form of parkinsons disease
RichClark
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posted 124 days ago
That is so sweet!... You have my address to mail me the Walnut right?
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ryno
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posted 124 days ago
gotta love child labor in the last pic
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John Daugherty
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posted 119 days ago
Great job! Man I’d love to have a band mill.
HalDougherty
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posted 112 days ago
Good looking log arch. I”ve gota learn how to weld… Harbor Frieght has a 3000 lb electric winch for $59.99.
-- Hal, Tennessee http://www.first285.com