Entry level circular sawmill

[Robert Raven]

silverclaw.eu

 

Found this- I've always thought a big circular saw would make a simple and robust mill for small timber, or a re-saw to go with a chainsaw mill. Nice to have a choice of power options too.

[Graham w]

£7000 very expensive for a 2.4m cut. i would go for an old rack mill, cheap as chips and last for years

[agg221]

£7000 very expensive for a 2.4m cut. i would go for an old rack mill, cheap as chips and last for years

 

I agree - a racksaw would give you more for a lot less. Either that or a big old Stenner or equivalent vertical bandsaw which will take a thinner kerf and allow a wider cut, which is handy if you want to re-saw wide boards, like when you suddenly find that your stack of nicely seasoned 2" needs to be 1".

 

Alec

[delabodge]

problem Ive had trying to resaw air dried timber alec,is that its obviously dried with some movement,and when put back on the mill its never going to cut them accuratetly again,unless I plane one side flat first,then I lose the thickness! mainly oak to be fair,the yew etc works fine,

[agg221]

problem Ive had trying to resaw air dried timber alec,is that its obviously dried with some movement,and when put back on the mill its never going to cut them accuratetly again,unless I plane one side flat first,then I lose the thickness! mainly oak to be fair,the yew etc works fine,

 

I know what you mean but I've done it slightly differently. I am not the expert in this but I bought a load of 3" elm in 15" average width that had been seasoning since the 1970s and I needed it at 3/4" finished size. I took it to someone who is very good at this and we ran all of it through a big vertical bandsaw, against the fence but the top of the board was a long way above it. The saw has no infeed or outfeed rollers, so it's a person on each end of the board. This made it almost freehand splitting by eye, but the wide band kept it true and we didn't lose a single board. Obviously you can't take the cup out (although you can deal with a bit of wind) but it did work surprisingly well - the inner board was flat both sides, the outer boards flat one side to use as a reference to plane the other side from.

 

Alec

[delabodge]

as long as it works,,cool! there is an old bloke up the road from me with a pitsaw/stenner he used to cut all my cedar that way,before I got a mizer, his place has to be seen to be believed,30ft high with off cuts and lives in a wooden shack,right in the middle of it all, man after my own heart.

[corylus]

as long as it works,,cool! there is an old bloke up the road from me with a pitsaw/stenner he used to cut all my cedar that way,before I got a mizer, his place has to be seen to be believed,30ft high with off cuts and lives in a wooden shack,right in the middle of it all, man after my own heart.

 

Pics pls

[se7enthdevil]

yeah i want to see pics of that.

 

where is this clive, it would be nice to know who is around with a stenner if i need to ask him if i can use it.

[delabodge]

cant get near him at the mo as its flooded all around him!

[difflock]

E'el ave floated away then!

Well, all except the Stenner Saw.