Band Sawmill - any interest?

[choffman41]

Just bought a basic sawmill kit off ebay and expect to spend 40 hours building the complete mill. Thought about documenting the process with pictures and putting it on my website. Question is: would anyone care about seeing something like this, or has it all been done too many times before?

 

[LPitt]

I don't know about the rest of the guys here but I would. I built one a couple of years ago and use it all the time. There is also a couple of really good web sits that are all about building our own mill.

 

[boxygen]

**** yeah!:thumbsup:

 

[Redgoatea]

I'd be very interested in seeing how it goes. I have an old sawmill building but the saws were removed years ago and I've been thinking of setting up new ones and milling my own lumber to fix up the other buildings.

 

[PILOON]

I have been reading up on band mills and would very much like to follow your build.

I have made a basic chainsaw mill that has worked OK, but not very productive, fun however.

 

[Mark @ Everlast]

I build custom Mills. You can see my prototype in operation here: YouTube - marklug's Channel

I'd be glad to answer any questions you have. There are a million ways to build one, so interest really never seems to wain.

 

[Baby Grand]

Hot stuff - I'd read it!

-Jim

 

[elektro21]

I've been wanting to tackle building a mill. No time yet...perhaps in the future. Very interested in seeing your build process!!!

 

[thatguy]

Honestly.. I think if you took pics of paint drying and happen to have a tractor/implements/tools in the background ppl on here would be very interested..

brian

 

[choffman41]

O.K. Looks like some guys would be interested, so I'll do it. The kit ships out in a couple days so I should have it by Aug. 20. When it gets here I'll start snapping pictures of the process and include a labor time and parts cost list.