This HOMEMADE Chainsaw Sawmill is a GAME CHANGER.
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- čas přidán 25. 05. 2021
- My DIY 100 dollars chainsaw sawmill just got some serious upgrades. Sawmills are great but loading and holding logs can be a real challenge.
in this video i show off some improvement and show you a how you can load large logs with one finger and how to secure the logs to the chainsaw sawmill with a super simple method.
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I know you’ve been back on your feet for a while now but it is great to see. And making some of your best work to date.
I appreciate that! A bunch!
Your creative mind and bad back are making my life easier. Love what you do and hope you are feeling well. Thanks.
That is GREAT . Really enjoy your builds , thanks for sharing .
When I built from the plans I wondered why the tower was so beefy. Good thing is that's an easy upgrade to make. Will definitely appreciate the smaller footprint.
With the cost of lumber now, you'll have to cut a heck of a lot of slabs to only be left with a small mortgage. Nice build, great improvements. Way to go Izzy!
It's nice to see you up on your feet, Izzy!
Thank you. I can't wait to build this. I think I'm going to use your version one.
very very cool! loved the upgrades and overall the entire idea! smart/affordable and do-able! Thanks!!
Excellent idea. Great project.
Awesome! The log is it's own Snatch Block!!
Izzy, get a rip chain for your saw, it will help.
Of all the youtubers, Izzy, you're one of the few that is a pure genius. Cheers :)
I like it ! simple ,clean & it gets the job done ! Well done . & yes even in my country lumber is way expensive now , than it was a few years ago. Well done Izzy .That's a thumbs up from me.
I love your builds , my friend. I've gotten tons of great ideas by watching them so thank you sir!!!
awesome
Thanks for the upgrade video! I plan on building this next week!
Sweet
Dude i wish I had half the talent you do. You ate amazing
If anyone has ever used an Alaskan sawmill they will certainly appreciate the heck out of this build.
Opening the video with a Firefly quote by Jane made me smile. Thank you.
You're amazing man. Pretty slick.
Can’t wait to try 👍🏽
Great innovation invention and motivation painted equipment looks long lasting surely slab yield will be great
Great build! Love all your videos!
Thanks a bunch!
Great improvements!
I've seen people on other channels have mishaps with logs turning sideways while winching them onto the platform. That makes me want to see a dual winch, or a single winch that pulls two cables, so the log isn't being pulled from a single point and the balance isn't as critical.
yes balance is important
awesome build
You are the best, congratulaciones,from Puerto Rico
Than is so incredible. I will build one. Thanks you so much.
Perfect, well done 👍
This is for professionals !! 👍 👌
Greetings from Austria 🙋♂️ Leo
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You still planning on doing the video on the track saw? Thanks, love your videos!
Amazing, i must do some copy-paste job now in my garage 😁
Another great video! Thanks!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Izzy, bro what can I say but bravo, well done, ingenious like all your designs are, wish I had that kind of creative mind, keep up the great work and amazing job God bless you and your family and our entire CZcams family 👪
Nice build and video. Keep up the good work.
Thank you
Well done Izzy
Thank you
Great ergonomic chainsaw mill! I’ll build one soon. I’m a longtime Alaska mill guy.. For your saw, consider a bark box or other more open exhaust. Saw will stay much cooler during those long cuts and remove some hesitation. I run a ms440 with west coast saws bark box and a high volume oil kit on a 32” bar running machine chain, single skip on a 15deg grind with every other pair of cutting plate /top plate ground off 85%. It’s chain drag you don’t need cutting with the grain and leaving the cleaning/sidewall leaves a cleaner cut than a double skip chain ground to 15 degrees.. if not too windy I prefer to rip with top of bar, dust chips clear at the bar tip and doesn’t load up the power head as much. A chainsaw was born to eat wood, if you find yourself having to push harder than keeping contact to cut then your chain or lube probably need attention. Too much pressure and extreme usage of ripping will wear modern bars quickly so keep your bar square and flip it often.
GREAT input Chris!
Lovely invention - very practical for smaller logs......any ideas for the 30" diameter Sugar Pine trees that I just took down? Thinking about no less than 10' lengths for the slabs. Also, what are your recommendations about the sizes of chain and head required for larger cutting?
nice.
adhesion.
All ways thinking out side the box you come up with lot's of great ideals.
Glad you like them!
Nice upgrade Izzy & Crew! Just do me a favor and watch your back trying to move those heavy logs around! 👍👍😉😉
Thank you, i am being careful as i can be. ;)
Great job definitely wanna make one of these soon. Its awesome to see ya doing so well man. Keep up the great work
Thank you
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Awesome.
Have you tried cutting on the top of the bar in reverse? I think it would throw the sawdust out away from the operator and keep the track cleaner.
nice job
Building today that's a $500 saw mill...May, 2021...
Just under 240 bucks all in.. um minus the saw of course and i didnt count the paint cause i had it already
For real... lumber is RIDICULOUS right now but I'm definitely going to build this
And now the prices dropped. I hope you can achieve your dreams.
@@katemoon7476 Still higher than they should be, and here comes round 2. My local big box stores have a few signs up "Get it while you can, suppliers are saying prices to go back up"...oh fun!
🎉🎉🎉 happy 2 yrs since this vid
Are there drawings for the $100 mill on your website? and the upgrades?
Izzy, did you change the way you are mounting the chainsaw to the tower? I didn't see holes and bolts through the bar in your latest two videos. Looked pretty clean. Can you give a little more detail on mounting the saw with the smaller tower? Thanks, Gregg
Where did you get all the HDPE scrap? I get mine from thrift store cutting boards, but I'm looking for something better.
very cool
I was planning to say, "what not drill powered" then saw the drill immediately, haha. this is great.
Almost always a drill . lol
Maggie does the safety squint, haha
dust bag would help. great work
Is chainsaw powerd bansaw mill next?
Is most of your wood dry? Or are you cutting thicker slabs to be stacked and dried (to be planed later)?
That’s cool
Nice Video. #STAYSAFE
Just curious, would you cut medallions on this the same way you would cut slabs? I'm a newbie.
So great to see you up on your feet more. I'm sure it's still a struggle, but you look better every video.
thank you brother!
Only suggestion I have is to start on the other end and use the top of your bar instead. This would make most the dust spit out of the tip end.
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Just to let you know, you actually can glue plastic laminate (countertop material) to your boards or plywood using regular white or yellow glue. If it’s going to be used outdoors though I would use an exterior yellow glue. The catch is you got to have some pressure on your laminate and wood while the glue dries. In room temps takes about an hour to set up but a full 24 hours to cure completely. Once the glue good and dry that laminate not coming off anytime soon whether it’s outside or not? Good ol Titebond exterior yellow glue works wonders keeping the laminate on whatever wood you glue it to? Contact cement for the average home owners can only get a water based contact cement and it’s not very good. You got to be a licensed contractor to get the good high quality contact cement thet’s actually pretty flammable too! Sure that’s why the average home owners can’t buy the good contact cement any longer?
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Do you sell the last plan of sawmill?
Didn't see it in your website.
Make more vids on this!!
A $100 sawmill is just what I need.
Wow. You are so amazing.
Way cool
Pretty nice work, Izzy! It really looks fantastic! 😃
I need to build something like that some day as well!!!
BTW, what a beautiful helper! 😮
Anyway, stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊
Thanks so much! 😊 She is a looker and a hard worker to boot.
@@izzyswan I bet she is!
I see a lot of cheap mill for sale on different places, I own a metal, ladder framed system. durable light and super mobile, is the system I own, I guess necessity is the mother of invention hehehehe, cheers mate, interesting upload
how is the saw mounted on the tower on this version?
I was just at your website and, I didn’t see any shop drawings for this? Is there one and if so, where can I get a set. Materials list be very helpful too instead of doing your own takeoffs!
Bad ass. what did the entire system cost to build?
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air actuators Izzy ,300 is good too...lol
Hey Izzy another great video. Will the plans be updated with with new design to download. I've been waiting to purchase them till you were done modifying. Thanks again
Yes of course! and will send out the updated plans to anyone who purchase the current version but it might be a month or 2
@@izzyswan sweet. I can wait a bit. I need to figure out where I'm going to put it in the first place. Ever think of adding some sort of dust collection?
@@izzyswan looking forward to it
Had an idea about a saw mill that I thought you might be interested in. (I don't have the knowledge to know if it would be possible, or affordable. So I thought I'd share it to see if you were interested.).
Instead of using a chainsaw, modify a circular saw with a 20+ inch blade, and mount that to the side of your mill where you put the chainsaw. The ways I see it going is that the circular would either cut the top, or the sides off the log.
Or do you think it would be better to mount the saw on the bottom and slide logs over the top of it?
i bought the plans last week or so but i havent gotten to he build yet. will the adjustments you have made be added to the plans? i also wanted to say that as a person with significant spinal and nerve damage disability you are an inspiriation and you help me get up and out to the shop most days.
thank you d=so much for commenting. unless people have gone through it it so hard to explain the pain and challenges of serious spine and never damage. My best wishes to you and hopes for many more days of building
@@izzyswan I do not have back or spine issues but I have been through several major surgeries and my strength is certainly not what it used to be so I also appreciate designs that minimize manual effort somewhat. We're not all 30 and healthy, just in our minds.
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You mentioned a track saw video in the works?
Are plans available on your site for this upgraded version?
Not yet I am making a few changes to this version to make it a bit cheaper to build and bit easier to use but i will have them in the next couple months i should think
Might be useful with current lumber prices...
Looks good Izzy. Have you taken the time to figure out how much the new one would cost a user, total?
just undert 240 bucks
New word for today children LOL - "adhesiveness" let's go for "adhesion" instead - nice machine and really well thought out !
I know how to build stuff good. Talking?, not so much. lol
@@izzyswan I think good is a bit of an understatement lol
Because the chainsaw is usually a cross cut, what do you do to sharpen the blade for ripping? Are you able to purchase rip blades, or do you take a regular blade and change the angle to a rip angle?
Yeah you can just sharpen to perpendicular or very slight angle in order to rip better
how do you oil the saw chain
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adhesion is the word
what do we get for 100 dollarsand ordering info
With all the upgrades from the first one, how much do you think this would cost to build now? (not counting the HDPE)
just under 240 bucks not including the paint or hdpe
There's a Russian guy that tried out cutting logs with his chainsaw blade vertical instead of horizontal. He claimed it worked much better (he did it freehand, not in a jig), and he claimed it was much easier. I think I'll copy this $100 sawmill set-up, but I'll try the chainsaw blade vertical first to see if I like it.
What type of chain are you using on the saw? Is it a standard chain or is it a ripping chain?
He mentioned to get a ripping chain in an earlier video on this project.
I honestly thought that you'd upgraded it to a metal version at first. It wasn't until you showed screwing it together that I realized it was actually just painted wood. IMO, that paint job makes it look *way* more professional. That probably isn't the goal, I know. :)
Home Depot special color.
You seem a lot more mobile recently. Hope all is well. Thanks for the great ideas.
I have a LOT of black locust trees. They tend to be
Bandsaw mill search DIY Don. He built quite the saw mill
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Did u mean "Donn DIY"?
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That's a bit beyomd my ability ... and budget. That's why I watch Izzy. The difference between us is skill, not a huge production budget.
Not to change the subject, but how is your “WORM FARM” project doing? Mine didn’t do very well because the boxes got so heavy that they were impossibly difficult to rotate.
I'm curious how it is holding up? Update?
Just so you know Izzy that 100$ sawmill now costs over 300$ to make and I'm now researching too see if making it out of steel is more cost worthy in the long run and last a hell of a lot longer. It's sad I just retired last year and wanted to do woodworking full time and now the lumber industry prices are just about too put me out of business before I'm really getting started, so now I need a sawmill. Your sawmill is awesome looking, do you plan on releasing plans for it? If so, I'm interested 😎👍
just under 240 buck for this build. but i am making some changes to it to make it cheaper to build. should ring in at around 180 when i am done. i hope any way no telling what the prices of lumber are going to do next
how does this design hold up to very dense hardwoods? i got a few big chunks of eucalyptus...
It was great on white oak but that is the most dense i have cut with it
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So, that saw can use a 30” bar. I have put one on it. Granted you will lose a lot of speed with all of that drag. Also I hope you are using a ripping chain vs a standard chisel tooth chain. Im sure you are. Your a smart guy.