Nice job! I also built my bandsaw mill with 99% recycled materials. I used an 18" upright bandsaw and converted it onto its side and put a spacer to run woodmizer 13'2" blades. Worked out great. I used park model rv trailer for the frame rails. I mount an electric winch to pull logs on. I have a 1957 wisconsin 9.25 hp engine and can cut up to a 34" log 21 ft 6" long and I mounted tires so it is fully portable. I have $900 wrapped up in the entire project that is the mill and a full trailer with tandem axles for hauling logs home. That price includes the $200 dollar box of blades from Cooks and 3 winches from Harbor freight. 2,500 pound to roll the logs on, 2,500 for the bandsaw head up and down, and a $300 12,000 pound on the tongue of the trailer to load logs to bring home. Sure is fun to cut logs up! Again great job and have fun making sawdust fly! Jason
Great post, this made me think about my grandpa so much I just started crying. I never knew him but everyone who knew him talked about what a great man he was. What a machine you have made with a few dollars, some patients, ingenuity, and a bit of hard work. I would bet my grandpa could have made a mill like this so I might have to build one myself. Thanks for the video and inspiration.
+Cole Woodyard Thanks Cole for checking out my build :) I bet your grandpa could have built a mill like this, Some of the old timers where real good at building stuff and not just that but good at re purposing stuff, that's one thing I wonder about with this future generation of kids? I sure hope some of them figure it out?
Thank you very Much Mike for all the good information you putted on RUclips. I will be inspired by you in order to built my own homemade Band sawmill. Thanks again. Pierre
Hey goldendredger It's great to here about your build! There's just so much stuff sitting around to build a mill from. Good job man! Plus you did not break the bank to building it, $900 for a portable mill is great.
Good job young man! I wish bandsaw mill's existed 45 year's ago when I really needed one! back then conventional saw mill's were about all you could get from outfits like Belsaw and used ones were virtually non existent. Now that I'm old I couldn't make one if my life depended on it!! I still have my 1976 Harley FLH but I guess it might be overkill for this project!! Keep building! You never know when the next million dollar idea might pop into your head!!
Bad ass build Mike! I even love the way this machine sounds! You are right about the old time tinkerers. Unfortunately that kind of ambitious ingenuity is hard to find today and admittedly even if you presented me with all the materials, I would still have a hard time wrapping my head around a project like this. I do love admiring the fabrications that others create. Guess that makes me an arm chair Tinkerer...Lol! Good luck with your saw, and thanks for sharing!
Hi Mike, I`m the one who build the Pocket Bike sawmill, i needed something that i can carry in my airplane. You have build a really great sawmill on a low budget. Good job!
Claude Ouellet Thanks Claude! I spent sometime looking on youtube at sawmills, and yours stood out as a real inspiring build! I was impressed with what you did with that little pocket bike, You made a super compact sawmill that can be transported just about anywhere! Great job as well :)
Thanks Alex for the nice comments :) It's been so nice to have this saw mill, this may sound strange but even though it's loud to run, I find it to be quite relaxing and a bit of fun to use. Thanks for watching!
This video has motivated me to build my own mill. I'm building mine on a boat trailer and I'm using a lot of the tips/ methods you used in this video. Thank you. This video has been an inspiration for me.
Right on Autoverse thanks for always checking out my videos. Yes this is back when I made my own music for my videos, all sample based on my old Akai MPC 2000XL sampler. Haha yes the Festiva 👍 I ended up installing a 1800cc DOHC Ford Escort GT engine in it, the little car really ripped and got good mileage as well 😂
Very good job on that sawmill. I like the way you put your video together also. Started on my mill but health is dragging the process out. Couple decades ago, I would have spent night and day till I had one built. Maybe that is why my health fails me now days. Only got one sawmill video on my channel and it only covers my concept on a drive system. I have started work on it again and plan to post more videos as I go. I plan to leave my saw in one spot to move up and down and move the log back and forth on a trolley like Wayne Keith does. Even more, I plan to place enough rail that I can reach log pile on one end and lumber drying building on the other end. Anyway, my dreams are bigger than what I can get done for the most part but hopefully, this dream will come about.
this is awesome........im in the process of building one out of bicycle parts.......got my idea from the motorcycle sawmill videos and the pocket bike sawmill also.......great job
This is fantastic, so close to what I've been designing to build for the same reasons as you, blade speeds is what I've been after. well done on the build!!!
I’ve been looking for a video like this one. I think I have everything I need to build a Mill. It’s true that old timers would lose it if they seen all the things we have today. I was almost ready to spend $5000 on the mill but now I’m having second thoughts. Money is too precious and I have the skill
Such a cool invention! Well I know it’s not totally original but it is custom designed and built by you, so I salute you for inspiring the DIY’ers out there. I love how you work through all the different ways to make the tool not only work, but easy to adjust, maintain, and access needed wear parts. You have an amazing mind for foresight! If you’re not a machinist by trade, then you have the mind of one (or an engineer). Thanks again for the videos.
I see the yellow-jacket influence. I used the unastrut and acme thread system. It powers up and down quickly with a winch motor. I built one as well and it only cost me about $200. It works well and I have milled several 1,00 BF of lumber so far. The ONLY adjustment I ever use on the blade is to inflate the tire up to about 70 psi when I quickly change out my sharp blade. Simple air out / change blade and air in and I am back to work. Not many folks know the bigger radius of the wheel the thicker possible cut / bigger log can be handheld, give you use a longer blade as well. I have cut several 3 ft. diameter logs. I used heavy I beam on heavy cement pads as well. Thinking about the next cut etc. I would bump the cant stops and waste a blade before I started just using wood 1 X 1 instead and they work just as well. in fact some time I intend to cut through them when I do a re-saw of the slab wood. All in all your saw looks great and it does everything you need.
Hey Mike, that's a really cool build, great to see someone else with that much personal ingenuity, we just need to pass it on, thanks for the show. I know Washtucna and the fishin near there.... That was certainly a surprise, thanks
+Copper Head SevenPointThree Well thanks for checking out my mill videos :) By making these videos I hope to encourage others to work with what they have and to see what they can come up with. I'm real happy to own a mill now, It's been something I've always wanted but could not afford, Now I'm able to thin some trees on my land and mill some great lumber! PS some of the photos at the end of the mill vid including the Washtucna grain silos were from a road trip I did around the time I was getting close to completing my mill, that's cool you have been through there too! Thanks again for checking my mill videos out, and I look forward to see your mill and how you go about building it with what parts you find!
You are amazing! Haven't seen all of your videos yet, but I seem to end each one with my mouth hanging slack-jawed. I've run a saw mill before, think it was about a 12 horse. There's a lot of variables and adjustments that can make it frustrating, but it's very satisfying producing boards from logs. We sawed some old growth Western red cedar and some 200 year old logs repurposed from buildings built in the late 1700s. Both amazing stuff. Also, congrats on the music, way better than most background tracks.
Right on! This mill I built has come a long way, I have added a lot of helpful features to to over the years. My mill is also 12 hp, I bet that cedar really turned out nice! I mill western red cedar a lot on my mill, it’s abundant on my property, I use it for board and batten out outside and inside for ceilings and some trim around windows, but the stuff you milled was old growth and that wood is beautiful stuff! Thanks for checking out my channel Wayne 🙂
I know this is an old video but thought I'd comment anyway. I was going to try to build my own sawmill but now there is no way. lol Thanks for this video!
I made a video last year about a smaller Woodland sawmill I bought, you may want to check that video out, it’s a pretty affordable well built mill 😊 thanks for checking out my videos.
That is awesome. I wish I had the mechanical know how to build one like that. I can weld and cut, but wouldn't have a clue putting all that together like that. thanks for sharing.
I wanted a saw mill for some black walnut and cedar logs, I looked at saw mills but 5K is to rich for my blood but your video was my answer, Shoot I have a Kawasaki 18 horse motor collecting dust and rail road ties rusting away.. This is my next project, Have to finish rebuilding a 28 foot pontoon boat first. Thanks for this video Ben
***** Hi Richard. I have had no problems with the clutch on my mill, My motor is 12 HP and the clutch is rated for up to 13HP so I'm under that. I never had the clutch slip in a cut, but I have had a belt start to slip a little and I had to adjust it a bit. The cost of this clutch was about $75. The original shaft size clutch was going to be over $300. so If It does go out in a few years, then I don't mind buying another one. I built the mill less than a year ago, and I have had a hard time moving big logs around to mill, so I only have about 20 hours of run time on it, but spring is around the corner and I'm getting a John deere crawler so that should help with moving the logs to the mill. I'm going to make another video of running the mill this spring to show it cutting lumber. I hope this helps :)
Mike, your accomplishment is fantastic! I can appreciate how much time and work you put into this project. It really inspires me to get going on my project. I have been collecting parts for a couple years now, but I’m ready to get started. Am using a chainsaw mill, but been wanting to build a bandsaw mill for a long time. Thanks again for the great video and sharing! - Peter
pgoessnitzer Thanks for watching my Bandsaw build video! You definitely should build a band mill, I have been real happy with mine! If you haven’t seen my other videos on my mill you should check them out, these a lot of cool improvements I have done to it. Do you have a video of your chainsaw mill? If so post a link, I would love to see it. Take care and thanks for your nice comment :)
Great Job!!! I admire you and all of your abilities.I have a mill and enjoy working with it.I once cut a small deck of cull logs for a farmer who had sold some logs but the loggers culled out what the mill couldn't use.I got a ton of good lumber out of that deck that other wise would have been wasted.It just takes a little more time and care....been through washtuckna a few times to pick up peas and lentils in Poluse.
thanks for watching and for the nice comments! that's great you have a mill too, I really like seeing the saw dust fly, and to get great lumber out of logs. what hp is your mill and what make?
I say you should do it! I found it so useful around my land. I'm thinking of building a second mill in a few years, something smaller that I can load up on my truck and take to a friends house or job and cut the logs on site. So I will be keeping a eye out for more salvaged part to keep the project cheap. Thanks for watching my video!
Amazing build. You are correct in that we the people of today take everything for granted. Everything we get is handed to us if we present enough cash for it. You are inspiring and hope you do more. Good addition with the music. Don't pay attention to the haters, they have no life and are only looking for a reaction. Thank you. Makes me want to go out and make something.
Thanks for watching :) I'm in the early stages of building another bandsaw mill, a little smaller one, Check back in in a few months, by then I should start posting some build videos.
Great video, very efficient and resourceful, And a mill that can produce lumber so you can build Michael Angelo structures at home,And with in house made music with a double dose of selflessness to share it,GOD HIMSELF IS SAYING WELL DONE :)
Hey sir, I'm building a chainsaw mill with a 15 horse motor and a 36 inch blade but I have a 35 horse horizontal motor that I'm wanting to make a band saw frame using motorcycle wheels that will also work on my rails. I would like to see a better pic of how the trailing arm assembly is attached to the frame. You have made a great mill and the video is very helpful and has given me the idea bout how to build my band saw mill. Thanks
Really great project and video. The project is excellent but the perfect problem solving is the best part. I'm really impressed with the eloquently simple ways you figured out the mechanics. This is something that is going to get built by me in the near future so thanks for the resource. I saw that the pallet racks were 36" but what's the over all length? Can you give overall dimensions of the saw cage as well? This would help me a lot in the foraging and planning stages. Thanks.
Very nice job and its very similar to the one I am currently building !! I bought a 16 HP Duromax motor (CHINA,not a chevy diesel) on ebay for 200 bucks new with a starter !! ..
A lot of work and ingenuity went into this mill. I'm designing one now that uses parts from a kalamazoo horizontal metal bandsaw. So far I'm using the pulleys, tensioner, guides and guide track from it with a new 6.5hp predator motor. A little smaller than yours.
Thanks for checking out my mill build! I have many other videos of my mill in operation and upgrades I have done to it, so check out my channel if you get time :) I have been real happy with my mill, It's well worth building one, you will for sure be happy to mill your own lumber! When you get done you should post a video of it, I would love to see it!
Mike festiva I sure will when I get done. I have 16 acres of timberland in Missouri and tons of dead fall on the ground. It kills me to see it laying there. My mill should have a 24" wide cut and I can go about 10" deep max. What I can't cut my neighbor can. His runs a 144' blade.
justin: depending how small you go, like at most 8" boards, then 10 or 12 horsepower is needed. 15 seems pretty middle of the road. if it cuts faster, and you don't want to spend an eternity on each board, and have the kerf right, you could slowly make boards with a 6 1/2 hp mill. but just think of a moped, or my first honda, which was 5hp 50cc. that would not run a mill of any use.
My biggest problem is the alignment of the wheels & band saw , and also the welding job .... Not everyone can do it but I will try this when I retire.... Thanks again buddy.... God bless
magnum mesiona. The best advice I could give on your wheels is design a plate where you can adjust wheel tracking ( forward, back and side to side). It will take the frustration out of throwing your band if your wheels aren't perfectly aligned.
Putting the swingarms down at a 45 degree angle would have made the clearance greater than just 12 inches. Then cutting the tubing just above the adjustment wheel slot plates bringing them back into the horizontal plane and re-welding them would give the same adjustment. Great looking saw and scrounging abilities to produce a working solution for an economical price..... I've got stuff lying all over my place to make one and a shop full of tools. The project list is long and time is short....maybe one day.
Very nice build. I am currently working on a similar but a bit smaller sawmill. I'm using 12" bandsaw wheels and a 7 HP gas engine. So far it's going OK. My biggest challenge ahead is the bandsaw blade guides. Everything else I seem to be able to do and I am by no means a mechanical minded person. I am enjoying this build because it gets me thinking ,planning, designing and I'm looking forward to see if it works.
That's great to hear! I'm collecting parts for a vary similar build as you, 7HP, smaller wheels too but air filled. I want to make one more bandsaw with off the shelf parts that anyone can find the parts and buy, I want the mill to be smaller and easy to take part to move to friends houses or to set up close to a tree so if you have no way to move heavy trees you could just set the mill up close and start milling. I'm not sure if you have seen any of my other sawmill videos? I have upgraded my blade guides from these original plastic ones that I built in this video. I show some of the ball bearing guides I added to my mill in another one of my videos, they may help you out to get some other ideas? I'm starting to design a newer guide system for the smaller mill that I hope will work good. I would love to see your mill, If you get time post a video of your project, I and others would appreciate seeing it :)
I looked for the videos that have some up close shots of how I made my bearing guides, maybe it will help you out? I also give bearing numbers so you can order them on e bay. This is one video with close shots, I think it about 2 minutes in? ruclips.net/video/nE5Ars6igiA/видео.html and the other video I change the bearings for some spring maintenance, I think it's about 4:30 into this video where I work on the bearing guides. ruclips.net/video/HHOcU-9PgCU/видео.html
hi I have watched your movie several times now I think you are very talented. I believe the old 1000 c.f. Kawasaki in the iron pile will be the donner for my mill .Thanks hartley
Nice! I hope you pull the Kawasaki out and reuse it and build a mill, let your friends know what your looking for as well, I found by telling my friends what I'm planning on building, they always keep a eye out for used parts and pieces for me and this saves a lot of time and money :) Thanks for watching Hartley!
Really nice project Mike :) in my opinion that power feed should be instaled at the right sideof your saw mill to avoid all that saw dust on it :). i´m really interested to build my own saw mill.
awesome mill! im looking to build one soon! So true, their is a ton of good junk everywhere, its insane! I noticed the great music too in the first part of the vid! Very nice! Usually difficult to concentrate with other garbage music in the other vids i find! Keep up the good work and build your dynasty. - north of the 56 parallel
That is SO awesome! I have the rack,an engine,rounding up various other pieces.....As far as the tires,what pressure do you run them at to ensure the blade doesn't cut into them?Are the only guides the ones down low where the cutting happens?I would have thought there would have to be support all the way around the back side of the tires like how the pulleys are on the metal bandsaw I have like yours.Thank You so much for sharing!
+btchhopperou812 I have to agree with the man here on the music, you could have sure found something better then that, however, the video itself was awesome. Excellent job building the saw mil and making the video also, short of the sounds LOL. One great thing ou did was give the guide for the feet per minute on the blade speed. I am in the middle of building my on saw mill and have spent three days calling companies trying to find out what you just told us and I gave up on finding it out. I saw another video of a home built mill that showed the rear of the mill in progress of cutting and guestimated the clutch to have a 3 " pulley and the shaft pulley to be about 9' and it used trailer tires that that looked the same as what I just bought cheap, which are 20" in diameter so I calculated the speed and ordered a 9.25" pulley for the drive shaft and a centrifugal clutch with a 3" pulley about three or four hours ago. I am not going as far on the cheap side as you because I have a couple partners and this will be a business, so I will order a new engine. I'll look at the site you talked about tomorrow, what was it, Cook's Saw MFG., but I had already thought about a 13 HP engine. I'll check out the H.P. to FPM blade speed alot better now and order the best one. Thank you so much for your time to make the video. I wish I could learn to make a video like this. I would love to show ya'll the boiler I built to heat my home and shop with. That cut my Utility bill from over $6-700 the last three years down to less than $200 this year, and that my man, I did build on the cheap. Two use oil drums, one 265 gallon for the fire box and then I paid $100 for the 550 gallon drum I used for the tank. Still cost me a bit over a grand but heck, I saved that in two months this winter. Carry on my man. Dennis
Thanks for the video, I was thinking if you used the rear motor cycle wheels with the bike sprocket still on and a 100cc or 200cc motorcycle engine you could select the right gear for the blade speed you need. You might need a fan to cool the engine though
The for checking out my video! I actually have quite a few videos about improvements I have done to my sawmill since this video, Power feed, electric throttle and blade lube control and auto blade height set. I definitely think you could run the chain drive and use the clutch and gears. Take care
Awsome use of scrap and bits and pieces and still very professionaly done . the poney clamp hold downs are genius. I have tons of them laying around. I'm still not sold on vehicle tires? I have ran architectural millwork shops and the massive bandsaws require so much tension on the blade to be correct in tune in not confident I could get that without steel wheels. Tracking and lube floating the blade in the open air wheel? Tell how it is working after you have ran it. Nice job.
Thanks for checking out my mill build! This is actually the first video I had ever posted on RUclips, if you go to my channel there sho e a play list of quite a few videos on me running and adding upgrades to my bandsaw mill. I was a bit skeptical about the rubber wheels too when building it but I’m completely happy with how well my mill cuts. I do maintenance on a bandsaw mill at my work, it’s a 40HP electric for the saw head and another 40HP for the hydraulics, it’s got the traditional metal wheels they are 36” so I have something to compare it to, and again I’m really happy with my mill and it’s been running for over five years now. Take care
Hi Mike. I am wanting to build a bandsaw mill like yours is there any way you could help me with the plans. I just watched your video and I really like what you did.
@Mike festiva I love this. All of this. I happen to have like 90% of this crap in my backyard, and I'm so inspired right now.. but I have a question - - So... What keeps the band on the rubber tires? the blade guides at the cutting level? Is that all? Do you worry about the band walking off the tires under cutting tension?
Thanks for checking out my video! That’s great if you have most of this stuff, I have many videos showing this mill in action and upgrades I have done to it. The way the blade stays on the tires it because of the tires being crowded, the blade tries to ride to the highest part of the tire, the blade guides and roller bearings keep it from pushing off the back when pressure is on the blade in the cut. I also have tracking adjustments on each wheel it set the tracking of the blade. If you have any questions feel free to ask 🙂
Best tutorial build on a good functioning, and inexpensive, bandmill I have seen!
Nice job! I also built my bandsaw mill with 99% recycled materials. I used an 18" upright bandsaw and converted it onto its side and put a spacer to run woodmizer 13'2" blades. Worked out great. I used park model rv trailer for the frame rails. I mount an electric winch to pull logs on. I have a 1957 wisconsin 9.25 hp engine and can cut up to a 34" log 21 ft 6" long and I mounted tires so it is fully portable. I have $900 wrapped up in the entire project that is the mill and a full trailer with tandem axles for hauling logs home. That price includes the $200 dollar box of blades from Cooks and 3 winches from Harbor freight. 2,500 pound to roll the logs on, 2,500 for the bandsaw head up and down, and a $300 12,000 pound on the tongue of the trailer to load logs to bring home. Sure is fun to cut logs up! Again great job and have fun making sawdust fly!
Jason
Great post, this made me think about my grandpa so much I just started crying. I never knew him but everyone who knew him talked about what a great man he was. What a machine you have made with a few dollars, some patients, ingenuity, and a bit of hard work. I would bet my grandpa could have made a mill like this so I might have to build one myself. Thanks for the video and inspiration.
+Cole Woodyard Thanks Cole for checking out my build :)
I bet your grandpa could have built a mill like this, Some of the old timers where real good at building stuff and not just that but good at re purposing stuff, that's one thing I wonder about with this future generation of kids? I sure hope some of them figure it out?
Thanks Norm Nelson! I hope this video encourages and motivates others too build a good mill.
Thank you very Much Mike for all the good information you putted on RUclips. I will be inspired by you in order to built my own homemade Band sawmill. Thanks again. Pierre
Awesome video! Very informative! The best sawmill build video I've ever seen!
Hey goldendredger It's great to here about your build! There's just so much stuff sitting around to build a mill from.
Good job man! Plus you did not break the bank to building it, $900 for a portable mill is great.
Good job young man! I wish bandsaw mill's existed 45 year's ago when I really needed one! back then conventional saw mill's were about all you could get from outfits like Belsaw and used ones were virtually non existent.
Now that I'm old I couldn't make one if my life depended on it!! I still have my 1976 Harley FLH but I guess it might be overkill for this project!!
Keep building! You never know when the next million dollar idea might pop into your head!!
Even created the music! Way to go Mike!
Thanks 😊
Great Workmanship! You did a great job planning it all out and finishing it up!!
Awesome mill, awesome soundtrack. Great job neighbor!
Awesome build Mike, thanks very much for taking the time to help others.
...also, about how much fuel cost per board foot? ... let's say at a16 inch wide cut?
Excellent video! I like the use of motorcycle pars! Thanks for sharing.
Great video. Thanks for sharing and now i know i can build one without breaking the bank.
Bad ass build Mike! I even love the way this machine sounds! You are right about the old time tinkerers. Unfortunately that kind of ambitious ingenuity is hard to find today and admittedly even if you presented me with all the materials, I would still have a hard time wrapping my head around a project like this. I do love admiring the fabrications that others create. Guess that makes me an arm chair Tinkerer...Lol! Good luck with your saw, and thanks for sharing!
Hi Mike, I`m the one who build the Pocket Bike sawmill, i needed something that i can carry in my airplane.
You have build a really great sawmill on a low budget. Good job!
Claude Ouellet Thanks Claude! I spent sometime looking on youtube at sawmills, and yours stood out as a real inspiring build! I was impressed with what you did with that little pocket bike, You made a super compact sawmill that can be transported just about anywhere! Great job as well :)
Absolutely beautiful, your mill is one of the best I've seen! Well done sir!
Music is awesome, and this is a blessing that you have given out to everyone to view. Thank you.
Thanks Alex for the nice comments :) It's been so nice to have this saw mill, this may sound strange but even though it's loud to run, I find it to be quite relaxing and a bit of fun to use.
Thanks for watching!
Nicely done! It looks like saw mill will bring many more wood projects to completion.
This video has motivated me to build my own mill. I'm building mine on a boat trailer and I'm using a lot of the tips/ methods you used in this video. Thank you. This video has been an inspiration for me.
Enjoyed the video and the music and the respect for the old Craftsmen from years gone by
This is worth watching for the chilled music alone, it’s also neat to see the Festiva in the background.
Right on Autoverse thanks for always checking out my videos. Yes this is back when I made my own music for my videos, all sample based on my old Akai MPC 2000XL sampler.
Haha yes the Festiva 👍 I ended up installing a 1800cc DOHC Ford Escort GT engine in it, the little car really ripped and got good mileage as well 😂
Very good job on that sawmill. I like the way you put your video together also. Started on my mill but health is dragging the process out. Couple decades ago, I would have spent night and day till I had one built. Maybe that is why my health fails me now days. Only got one sawmill video on my channel and it only covers my concept on a drive system. I have started work on it again and plan to post more videos as I go. I plan to leave my saw in one spot to move up and down and move the log back and forth on a trolley like Wayne Keith does. Even more, I plan to place enough rail that I can reach log pile on one end and lumber drying building on the other end. Anyway, my dreams are bigger than what I can get done for the most part but hopefully, this dream will come about.
this is awesome........im in the process of building one out of bicycle parts.......got my idea from the motorcycle sawmill videos and the pocket bike sawmill also.......great job
This is fantastic, so close to what I've been designing to build for the same reasons as you, blade speeds is what I've been after. well done on the build!!!
I’ve been looking for a video like this one. I think I have everything I need to build a Mill. It’s true that old timers would lose it if they seen all the things we have today. I was almost ready to spend $5000 on the mill but now I’m having second thoughts. Money is too precious and I have the skill
Great job! It cuts very fast!
Wow, you have come a long way since back then! Aiways impressed with the things you build.
Thanks Mike! 🙂 my tools, video editing and skills definitely have improved over the last 5 years 👍
Awesome job building the mill, kudos for an excellent tutorial and great dogs........
Such a cool invention! Well I know it’s not totally original but it is custom designed and built by you, so I salute you for inspiring the DIY’ers out there. I love how you work through all the different ways to make the tool not only work, but easy to adjust, maintain, and access needed wear parts. You have an amazing mind for foresight! If you’re not a machinist by trade, then you have the mind of one (or an engineer). Thanks again for the videos.
Thank you very much!
I see the yellow-jacket influence.
I used the unastrut and acme thread system.
It powers up and down quickly with a winch motor.
I built one as well and it only cost me about $200.
It works well and I have milled several 1,00 BF of lumber so far.
The ONLY adjustment I ever use on the blade is to inflate the tire
up to about 70 psi when I quickly change out my sharp blade.
Simple air out / change blade and air in and I am back to work.
Not many folks know the bigger radius of the wheel the thicker possible
cut / bigger log can be handheld, give you use a longer blade as well.
I have cut several 3 ft. diameter logs. I used heavy I beam on heavy cement pads
as well.
Thinking about the next cut etc. I would bump the cant stops and waste
a blade before I started just using wood 1 X 1 instead and they work just as
well. in fact some time I intend to cut through them when I do a re-saw of
the slab wood.
All in all your saw looks great and it does everything you need.
Nice job!
Hey Mike, that's a really cool build, great to see someone else with that much personal ingenuity, we just need to pass it on, thanks for the show. I know Washtucna and the fishin near there.... That was certainly a surprise, thanks
+Copper Head SevenPointThree Well thanks for checking out my mill videos :) By making these videos I hope to encourage others to work with what they have and to see what they can come up with. I'm real happy to own a mill now, It's been something I've always wanted but could not afford, Now I'm able to thin some trees on my land and mill some great lumber!
PS some of the photos at the end of the mill vid including the Washtucna grain silos were from a road trip I did around the time I was getting close to completing my mill, that's cool you have been through there too! Thanks again for checking my mill videos out, and I look forward to see your mill and how you go about building it with what parts you find!
Great video, lots of great ideas!
Thanks for sharing
Thank you Thank you
You are amazing! Haven't seen all of your videos yet, but I seem to end each one with my mouth hanging slack-jawed. I've run a saw mill before, think it was about a 12 horse. There's a lot of variables and adjustments that can make it frustrating, but it's very satisfying producing boards from logs. We sawed some old growth Western red cedar and some 200 year old logs repurposed from buildings built in the late 1700s. Both amazing stuff. Also, congrats on the music, way better than most background tracks.
Right on! This mill I built has come a long way, I have added a lot of helpful features to to over the years. My mill is also 12 hp, I bet that cedar really turned out nice! I mill western red cedar a lot on my mill, it’s abundant on my property, I use it for board and batten out outside and inside for ceilings and some trim around windows, but the stuff you milled was old growth and that wood is beautiful stuff! Thanks for checking out my channel Wayne 🙂
You have inspired me. Thank you for taking the time to make this series.
Thanks Matthew! I appreciate your nice comment :) I hope to post more sawmill videos this spring so keep an eye out for them! Take care
I know this is an old video but thought I'd comment anyway. I was going to try to build my own sawmill but now there is no way. lol Thanks for this video!
I made a video last year about a smaller Woodland sawmill I bought, you may want to check that video out, it’s a pretty affordable well built mill 😊 thanks for checking out my videos.
That is awesome. I wish I had the mechanical know how to build one like that. I can weld and cut, but wouldn't have a clue putting all that together like that. thanks for sharing.
I wanted a saw mill for some black walnut and cedar logs, I looked at saw mills but 5K is to rich for my blood but your video was my answer, Shoot I have a Kawasaki 18 horse motor collecting dust and rail road ties rusting away.. This is my next project, Have to finish rebuilding a 28 foot pontoon boat first. Thanks for this video Ben
Great job, Mr. festiva! 😉
***** Hi Richard. I have had no problems with the clutch on my mill, My motor is 12 HP and the clutch is rated for up to 13HP so I'm under that. I never had the clutch slip in a cut, but I have had a belt start to slip a little and I had to adjust it a bit. The cost of this clutch was about $75. The original shaft size clutch was going to be over $300. so If It does go out in a few years, then I don't mind buying another one. I built the mill less than a year ago, and I have had a hard time moving big logs around to mill, so I only have about 20 hours of run time on it, but spring is around the corner and I'm getting a John deere crawler so that should help with moving the logs to the mill. I'm going to make another video of running the mill this spring to show it cutting lumber. I hope this helps :)
Nice mill! Thanks for all the info!
You are awesome builder mike keep those videos coming whatever you build I love it 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👋👋👋
Mike, your accomplishment is fantastic! I can appreciate how much time and work you put into this project. It really inspires me to get going on my project. I have been collecting parts for a couple years now, but I’m ready to get started. Am using a chainsaw mill, but been wanting to build a bandsaw mill for a long time. Thanks again for the great video and sharing! - Peter
pgoessnitzer Thanks for watching my Bandsaw build video! You definitely should build a band mill, I have been real happy with mine!
If you haven’t seen my other videos on my mill you should check them out, these a lot of cool improvements I have done to it. Do you have a video of your chainsaw mill? If so post a link, I would love to see it. Take care and thanks for your nice comment :)
This is a great build! Credit to you!
Great info Mike, thanks for sharing it.
Thanks for this! Exceptional work!
Great Job!!! I admire you and all of your abilities.I have a mill and enjoy working with it.I once cut a small deck of cull logs for a farmer who had sold some logs but the loggers culled out what the mill couldn't use.I got a ton of good lumber out of that deck that other wise would have been wasted.It just takes a little more time and care....been through washtuckna a few times to pick up peas and lentils in Poluse.
thanks for watching and for the nice comments!
that's great you have a mill too, I really like seeing the saw dust fly, and to get great lumber out of logs.
what hp is your mill and what make?
nice video. Learned a lot. Thanks for sharing
Nice bandsaw mill I been wanting to build a mill for years I'm still looking for salvaged parts and good ideas!
I say you should do it! I found it so useful around my land. I'm thinking of building a second mill in a few years, something smaller that I can load up on my truck and take to a friends house or job and cut the logs on site. So I will be keeping a eye out for more salvaged part to keep the project cheap. Thanks for watching my video!
You're very resourceful. I like that. That's how I like to approach my challenges too.
Thanks Paul! Resourceful is key to building stuff especially when building on a budget :)
nice job, one of the best vids!
Amazing build. You are correct in that we the people of today take everything for granted.
Everything we get is handed to us if we present enough cash for it.
You are inspiring and hope you do more.
Good addition with the music.
Don't pay attention to the haters, they have no life and are only looking for a reaction.
Thank you.
Makes me want to go out and make something.
Thanks for checking out my mill build! It's always nice to hear that people like you enjoy seeing these videos, I really do appreciate this!
Only a absolute hater would thumbs down on this. 2thumbs up bro. One of the best ive seen. Nuff RESPECT
Great vid. Very informative
I've long fancied one of these as I have a lot of trees. Nice job, if I can find the time I'll build one. Thank you
Thanks for watching :)
I'm in the early stages of building another bandsaw mill, a little smaller one, Check back in in a few months, by then I should start posting some build videos.
Great video, very efficient and resourceful, And a mill that can produce lumber so you can build Michael Angelo structures at home,And with in house made music with a double dose of selflessness to share it,GOD HIMSELF IS SAYING WELL DONE :)
Great video and build. Thanks
Inspirational! I thought about building a small bandmill, but to many other things first. Some day?
Hey sir, I'm building a chainsaw mill with a 15 horse motor and a 36 inch blade but I have a 35 horse horizontal motor that I'm wanting to make a band saw frame using motorcycle wheels that will also work on my rails. I would like to see a better pic of how the trailing arm assembly is attached to the frame. You have made a great mill and the video is very helpful and has given me the idea bout how to build my band saw mill. Thanks
Really great project and video. The project is excellent but the perfect problem solving is the best part. I'm really impressed with the eloquently simple ways you figured out the mechanics. This is something that is going to get built by me in the near future so thanks for the resource. I saw that the pallet racks were 36" but what's the over all length? Can you give overall dimensions of the saw cage as well? This would help me a lot in the foraging and planning stages. Thanks.
Very nice job and its very similar to the one I am currently building !! I bought a 16 HP Duromax motor (CHINA,not a chevy diesel) on ebay for 200 bucks new with a starter !! ..
A lot of work and ingenuity went into this mill. I'm designing one now that uses parts from a kalamazoo horizontal metal bandsaw. So far I'm using the pulleys, tensioner, guides and guide track from it with a new 6.5hp predator motor. A little smaller than yours.
Thanks for checking out my mill build! I have many other videos of my mill in operation and upgrades I have done to it, so check out my channel if you get time :)
I have been real happy with my mill, It's well worth building one, you will for sure be happy to mill your own lumber!
When you get done you should post a video of it, I would love to see it!
Mike festiva I sure will when I get done. I have 16 acres of timberland in Missouri and tons of dead fall on the ground. It kills me to see it laying there. My mill should have a 24" wide cut and I can go about 10" deep max. What I can't cut my neighbor can. His runs a 144' blade.
justin: depending how small you go, like at most 8" boards, then 10 or 12 horsepower is needed. 15 seems pretty middle of the road. if it cuts faster, and you don't want to spend an eternity on each board, and have the kerf right, you could slowly make boards with a 6 1/2 hp mill. but just think of a moped, or my first honda, which was 5hp 50cc. that would not run a mill of any use.
love it and gonna use lots of it, thank you and God Bless
My biggest problem is the alignment of the wheels & band saw , and also the welding job .... Not everyone can do it but I will try this when I retire.... Thanks again buddy.... God bless
magnum mesiona. The best advice I could give on your wheels is design a plate where you can adjust wheel tracking ( forward, back and side to side). It will take the frustration out of throwing your band if your wheels aren't perfectly aligned.
how do your blade guides hold up? would you make them any different?
Putting the swingarms down at a 45 degree angle would have made the clearance greater than just 12 inches.
Then cutting the tubing just above the adjustment wheel slot plates bringing them back into the horizontal plane and re-welding them would give the same adjustment. Great looking saw and scrounging abilities to produce a working solution for an economical price.....
I've got stuff lying all over my place to make one and a shop full of tools.
The project list is long and time is short....maybe one day.
Now that's what I call some 3rd world country ingenuity! Great job
Very nice build. I am currently working on a similar but a bit smaller sawmill. I'm using 12" bandsaw wheels and a 7 HP gas engine. So far it's going OK. My biggest challenge ahead is the bandsaw blade guides. Everything else I seem to be able to do and I am by no means a mechanical minded person. I am enjoying this build because it gets me thinking ,planning, designing and I'm looking forward to see if it works.
That's great to hear!
I'm collecting parts for a vary similar build as you, 7HP, smaller wheels too but air filled. I want to make one more bandsaw with off the shelf parts that anyone can find the parts and buy, I want the mill to be smaller and easy to take part to move to friends houses or to set up close to a tree so if you have no way to move heavy trees you could just set the mill up close and start milling.
I'm not sure if you have seen any of my other sawmill videos? I have upgraded my blade guides from these original plastic ones that I built in this video. I show some of the ball bearing guides I added to my mill in another one of my videos, they may help you out to get some other ideas? I'm starting to design a newer guide system for the smaller mill that I hope will work good.
I would love to see your mill, If you get time post a video of your project, I and others would appreciate seeing it :)
I looked for the videos that have some up close shots of how I made my bearing guides, maybe it will help you out?
I also give bearing numbers so you can order them on e bay.
This is one video with close shots, I think it about 2 minutes in? ruclips.net/video/nE5Ars6igiA/видео.html
and the other video I change the bearings for some spring maintenance, I think it's about 4:30 into this video where I work on the bearing guides. ruclips.net/video/HHOcU-9PgCU/видео.html
Soon as I have it done and tested I'll try to make a vid of it. Should be in a few weeks.
I clicked on this channel expecting to see a Festiva project car build. But some really cool stuff, none the less! lol
Haha I had a little Festive years ago and that’s kind of why my channel has its name 👍
@@Mikefestiva is that where the festiva axle came from for your log arch???
Great video. Well done.
Foot note went by too fast but with pause I made it through the entire video thanks for sharing your knowledge.
Wow, nice job, basically you built a band saw from trash, way to go...
Haha that’s one way to put it 😂
Thanks for checking out my video 👍
That was fast and good thanks
well done sir very nice job
hi I have watched your movie several times now I think you are very talented. I believe the old 1000 c.f. Kawasaki in the iron pile will be the donner for my mill .Thanks hartley
Nice! I hope you pull the Kawasaki out and reuse it and build a mill, let your friends know what your looking for as well,
I found by telling my friends what I'm planning on building, they always keep a eye out for used parts and pieces for me and this saves a lot of time and money :) Thanks for watching Hartley!
you should publish a pdf of how you did this for others to follow some good step by step directions :)
Really nice project Mike :) in my opinion that power feed should be instaled at the right sideof your saw mill to avoid all that saw dust on it :). i´m really interested to build my own saw mill.
awesome mill! im looking to build one soon! So true, their is a ton of good junk everywhere, its insane! I noticed the great music too in the first part of the vid! Very nice! Usually difficult to concentrate with other garbage music in the other vids i find! Keep up the good work and build your dynasty. - north of the 56 parallel
Lots of very good ideas. Thanks
You do amazing work love watching you work. Thanks for your videos. Keep up the good work 😀😀
Super nice built.😀
My mill is still working great 👍 even after 7 years of use 🙂
That is SO awesome! I have the rack,an engine,rounding up various other pieces.....As far as the tires,what pressure do you run them at to ensure the blade doesn't cut into them?Are the only guides the ones down low where the cutting happens?I would have thought there would have to be support all the way around the back side of the tires like how the pulleys are on the metal bandsaw I have like yours.Thank You so much for sharing!
Real nice job may try one myself
Awesome build... music puts one in a trance and starts to get creepy as hell after a few minutes tho lol- but not bad by any stretch
+btchhopperou812
I have to agree with the man here on the music, you could have sure found something better then that, however, the video itself was awesome.
Excellent job building the saw mil and making the video also, short of the sounds LOL.
One great thing ou did was give the guide for the feet per minute on the blade speed.
I am in the middle of building my on saw mill and have spent three days calling companies trying to find out what you just told us and I gave up on finding it out.
I saw another video of a home built mill that showed the rear of the mill in progress of cutting and guestimated the clutch to have a 3 " pulley and the shaft pulley to be about 9' and it used trailer tires that that looked the same as what I just bought cheap, which are 20" in diameter so I calculated the speed and ordered a 9.25" pulley for the drive shaft and a centrifugal clutch with a 3" pulley about three or four hours ago.
I am not going as far on the cheap side as you because I have a couple partners and this will be a business, so I will order a new engine.
I'll look at the site you talked about tomorrow, what was it, Cook's Saw MFG., but I had already thought about a 13 HP engine.
I'll check out the H.P. to FPM blade speed alot better now and order the best one.
Thank you so much for your time to make the video. I wish I could learn to make a video like this. I would love to show ya'll the boiler I built to heat my home and shop with. That cut my Utility bill from over $6-700 the last three years down to less than $200 this year, and that my man, I did build on the cheap.
Two use oil drums, one 265 gallon for the fire box and then I paid $100 for the 550 gallon drum I used for the tank.
Still cost me a bit over a grand but heck, I saved that in two months this winter.
Carry on my man.
Dennis
talented guy!
Thanks 😊
his is a great build! Credit to you! 👍😊
Thanks Ray 🙂
Great Video!
What an awesome video
Thanks Zack! 👍
great work, very well explained. Thanks for sharing your experience.
Thank you Jean :)
wow very cool man.
Love it.
Thanks for the video, I was thinking if you used the rear motor cycle wheels with the bike sprocket still on and a 100cc or 200cc motorcycle engine you could select the right gear for the blade speed you need. You might need a fan to cool the engine though
The for checking out my video! I actually have quite a few videos about improvements I have done to my sawmill since this video, Power feed, electric throttle and blade lube control and auto blade height set. I definitely think you could run the chain drive and use the clutch and gears. Take care
nice job on video, comments, great melodic trumpet music ...that you too?
Thanks! Yes I made the music as well using my Akai MPC sampler.
Awsome use of scrap and bits and pieces and still very professionaly done . the poney clamp hold downs are genius. I have tons of them laying around. I'm still not sold on vehicle tires? I have ran architectural millwork shops and the massive bandsaws require so much tension on the blade to be correct in tune in not confident I could get that without steel wheels. Tracking and lube floating the blade in the open air wheel? Tell how it is working after you have ran it. Nice job.
Thanks for checking out my mill build!
This is actually the first video I had ever posted on RUclips, if you go to my channel there sho e a play list of quite a few videos on me running and adding upgrades to my bandsaw mill. I was a bit skeptical about the rubber wheels too when building it but I’m completely happy with how well my mill cuts. I do maintenance on a bandsaw mill at my work, it’s a 40HP electric for the saw head and another 40HP for the hydraulics, it’s got the traditional metal wheels they are 36” so I have something to compare it to, and again I’m really happy with my mill and it’s been running for over five years now. Take care
Thanks Mike I appreciate the response. Good to know the wheels are working well. I'm collecting the parts hopefully it goes well.
Nice job buddy 👍 also nice tunes
Thanks 😊
Nice video, thanks.
Barry
thanks for watching :)
Hi Mike. I am wanting to build a bandsaw mill like yours is there any way you could help me with the plans. I just watched your video and I really like what you did.
Great build I've been thinking about doing one very similar.
Great video and thanks for the ideas! I'm starting to look for parts. :)
Right on! Keep me posted on your progress :)
@Mike festiva
I love this. All of this. I happen to have like 90% of this crap in my backyard, and I'm so inspired right now.. but I have a question - - So... What keeps the band on the rubber tires? the blade guides at the cutting level? Is that all? Do you worry about the band walking off the tires under cutting tension?
Thanks for checking out my video!
That’s great if you have most of this stuff, I have many videos showing this mill in action and upgrades I have done to it. The way the blade stays on the tires it because of the tires being crowded, the blade tries to ride to the highest part of the tire, the blade guides and roller bearings keep it from pushing off the back when pressure is on the blade in the cut.
I also have tracking adjustments on each wheel it set the tracking of the blade. If you have any questions feel free to ask 🙂