Harbor Freight Sawmill Full Review | North Idaho Mountain Homestead
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- This is a full review video of the harbor freight sawmill, central machinery sawmill. It produces rough cut lumber for our 9.5 acre homestead in the mountains of Idaho. #harborfreight #shiplap #review
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I use sawdust in compost. My local supermarket leaves rejected and old vegetables in the back for people to pick up. I mixed the vegetables with sawdust and compost it. Makes it very good compost
Ok good idea. Thanks!
Yep -- the sawdust will improve the texture and organic content of clay soils, but it's high carbon content will deplete nitrogen as it decays. So, green waste mixed in during composting balances that out . . .
@@robertphillips93 use as a mulch on top instead of incorporating and nitrogen robbing isn't a problem. Otherwise, the nitrogen isn't "gone", just tied up and will be released slowly over time as it continues to decay.
Be careful what kind of sawdust you use, walnut is horrible to use. Pine is very acidic, so only some plants like it, etc etc.
harbor freight is a blessing ......never before has it been easier to get yourself off grid and still enjoy 1st world comforts
Nice looking dogs and cat
For the water drip system add a second valve. Leave one valve adjusted to a slow trickle. Use the other valve to turn it off and on. That way you don't waste time adjusting each time.
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The sawdust you could bag it up and burn it during the winter. Would make good banking before going to bed
Get a pellet mill for the Saw dust. You can use it in fireplaces, etc. There are ways to use them for a conventional wood stove.
As regards the saw dust, my dad would pack it into small paper bags sealed up with a little sticky tape. Then he would stack them so the weight would compress them (to burn slower) It really does chuck out some heat on a fire and saves money on logs, coal ect.
We have 5 Harbor freight stores in our area now. Love that store. Some stuff is good some is junk but I can't stay away. I have stuff I bought and never opened up yet but at least I'll have it when I need it👍👍👍.
I'd mix pine only sawdust with lawn clippings or pure horse manure for compost. Need greens (lawn clippings), browns (pine sawdust) and moisture and need to mix it. A 3 or 4 bin system is ideal. Make a pile and move the pile and add moisture as needed every week or two. Make a finished product in 2 or 3 months. I personally have horse manure and sawdust but prefer 1 or 2 year old composted. Pile can shrink by 3 or 4 times your original pile. I'm in western Montana so similar weather and garden season.
Nice thanks!
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Hey thank you Ed! We appreciate it, welcome. Thanks for watching!
We're getting a Harbor Freight in a town hear by soon. Might look into it, thanks.
I use my sawdust for so many different things. Bedding for my chickens, compost, ground cover, sawdust logs I make with old newspapers in a rolling kit I bought years ago (they burn for hours) weed cover around my plants and trees, etc.. I don't think it would be difficult to make a wheel cleaner out of cable to keep the sawdust from building up around your wheels. Another good video guys!
Thanks Craig!
You can buy blades from harbor freight, or at least that is what customer service said when I talked to them. I was going to buy an LX25, but I cannot have 4+ grand sitting for a year. I would compost the sawdust, I wouldn’t recommend putting it raw on a garden
Don't mix it into your garden soil, but layer saw dust on top of your garden. It will suppress weeds, retain moisture, and breakdown slowly to release nutrients into the soil.
Right, but not mix in when it is new.
Mike: I have had a Predator 200cc for years...if I do not run all the time, I have to turn off the gas and let the motor run out of gas or the gas will run down during storage into the crank case. Smell the oil to check.
Yeah y'all should put your sawdust on your garden and also put your chicken in your on your garden along with the sawdust mix it all into the soil so that way you will have good organic fertilizer as it all compost and breaks down.
Sawdust can be used as a carbon component in making compost. It's not a bad choice for covering garden pathways where you don't want getting random "weeds". It's good substrate for growing mushrooms. There are plans for DIY sawdust burners people are using to heat shops. Lots of ways to put sawdust to work ;)
To clarify, the carbon in sawdust helps balance the nitrogen in "hot" compost components like manure and fresh grass clippings.
you can also add it to wet paper mulch and use a brick press to make fire blocks if you use a woodburner for heat
The sawdust is good for using in garden, compost or if you have an outdoor outhouse, its a good carbon to use between dumps. I used an out house one summer while living in an old farmhouse. There was always a five gallon bucket full of it in the outhouse. It works as a deoderizzer and assistes decomposing the waste.
Saw dust is great for maintaining walk ways and trails through the woods
Great video guys! Thanks for sharing your experience with the mill! Nice detailed walk through. I would suggest using the sawdust in your compost pile. I think others mentioned the same. 👍🤙💪✝️ stay blessed!
Maybe let us know what blades you ended up getting? I am looking to pick one of these gems up in a month or so.
Definitely compost the saw dust along with everything else you have.
I would really like to get a portable mill maybe this one will work for me.
Can you post a link for the aftermarket band that you did purchase? Of it is already on here somewhere I apologize, I just haven’t found it yet.
Use the sawdust in compost as the "carbon" component. Use it as mulch around plants but do not mix it into the soil as it will strip out nitrogen. Use it on top of pot plants soil to deter slugs from your peppers and strawberries. Designate an area for dogs to pee and poop in and cover it with a thick layer of sawdust to absorb urine and to cover poop to control smells in your yard near the house.
Or just feed your carnivore pets the appropriate diet(raw meat, organs, & bones). No more smelly waste & pee spots, plus leaner healthier doggos.
Those were great uses for sawdust! I'm glad I read comments. Some good stuff to gleen from! Thanks for sharing your thoughts 🙏
I saw a video the guy took that sawdust mixed it with something and compressed it to make logs and Bricks for the fireplace and burned it in his shop wood stove
Nice, thanks!
Great review. I certainly learned a lot. How long do the boards need to dry before u can use them? What a journey guys. Great job🙂
It depends on the use. We’re looking for less than 9% moisture for interior use.
It really depends on the area where the boards are stickered/stored. They will only go down to the moisture of the air they are kept in and that's usually about 20% outdoors. That can take a couple months to a year or more, depending on what specie the lumber is, thickness, where it's stored and a host of other things. To get the moisture below the outdoors humidity level, the lumber will have to be moved into an controlled environment, like inside a house that's heated or air conditioned, for at least a few weeks.
If you intend to use sawdust as compost or mulch, be sure to let it age well first, otherwise it will rob nitrogen from the soil.
Thank you.
Yes it uses nitrogen to compost the carbon (wood) BUT it releases the nitrogen back into the soil after... You can spread a little nitrogen fertilizer on the sawdust to get it to compost faster. SR
I saw another video that shows how you can adjust the tightness of those clamps, so you can loosen that right clamp that you said was too tight. Not sure if anyone else said that already.
Use an L bracket with a paint brush attached to it and mount it to the cross beam to clean the wheels…. You might want to get some extra blade guides for future use as well as a couple extra saw blades….. good review….
that's a good idea
Nice review guys, what is the largest diameter log you can run? For the money, it seems to do the job. The cleaner the logs the longer the blades will last. Take care and be safe. Jack
If you take the push handle off of the mill (just 2 bolts) it will allow you to crank it up to have almost 29 inches off the bunks and it is 31 inches between the mill posts. So, in theory, you can squeeze a 29in log on there, but 27 inches is a more realistic max because of a couple factors. With the push handle left on, 24 inches is the max diameter
In olden days, they used sawdust for insulation! Especially in ice houses for storing ice before refrigerators were invented!
What is the foot print measurement? I want to build a slab for it to sit on.
Many small engine repair shops recommend non ethanol fuel for small engines.
Thanks!
make peletts with sawdust, get a pellet mill
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Great review! For sawdust to decompose, it needs a lot of manure mixed with it. Human waste works well. Any animal waste will do. Do not mix it in your garden bed fresh, nothing will grow there for years until it gets enough nitrogen to decompose.
Theres this guy down the road from me who has the same sawmill bolted on a trailer. After a hurricane, him and his sons would go around the neighborhood looking for fallen trees they could handle and cut for a few bucks.
Sawdust I use for compost as well as for animals bedding.
Do not use Walnut sawdust, its bad for plants and pets
Compost the sawdust. Then add to the garden.
Ive been reading the motors are honda replicas. Anyone read that? If so, that’s pretty damn good, right? I’m new to all this
You can take your sawdust get you some tubs or something like that and put sawdust inside drums or whatever fill them up with water and then get you a plate of steel put on top and It will pack it down and make sawdust cubes and when they dry they are almost ridgid is the original wood was
Nice, cool idea! Thank you.
I looked at the mill on Harbor Freight's website and saw no mention of log length capacity or even an option to purchase additional rails. What length will this cut?
SAW DUST raise chickens use for there flooring, nesting and insulation ........ enjoy S
Uh, how much was the mill???
Why go to all the trouble of making a vid about the "cheapest" sawmill out there, and not tell us what you paid for it. If you really wanted to go above and beyond, you could even through in there a couple of price comparisons to other mills! C'mon guys!
Saw dust, chick coup nesting box bedding !!
We use sawdust and wood shavings in the chicken coop. The hens will lay eggs on it and it's good for keeping the coop clean too. Nice mill by the way, we use a chainsaw mill currently but a bandsaw is on the list if we ever get to the stage you guys are at :)
Nice thanks for the tip! And thanks for watching!
I catch sawdust in 5 gallon bucket. Dump when full into trash bag. Deliver full bags to neighbor who has horses. They love it
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That right hand side clamp you said it tight to lock .. There is a screw on the back side that's closest to the blade guard that you can loosen to adjust how tight that lock clamps down
sawdust animal bedding
do you ever think that in 5 or 6 years down the road you would upgrade to a different sawmill
maybe watch a Chanel called ( Matthew Cremona ) he uses carbide blades and never changes them for at least 6 months and that is on a mill he made that cuts very large logs 3-4 feet wide logs
Hey guys Thanks for the review So can u guys leave the link of the band sawmill....
Take the sawdust and throw it in dry spots in your lawn. It’s the best soil builder you can get. Any place with poor, dry soil, dump it there.
Sawdust solution:
When I was a kid, all butcher shops had sawdust on the floor to soak up the blood. You must open a butcher shop and that will solve your problem.
Good for a composting outhouse/toilet. Everytime you relieve yourself "#2" add to the top after done
Decaying sawdust will suck the nitrogen out of your soil, so do not put it in your garden. It is best to let mother nature turn it into soil. Pile it up somewhere and just let that happen. When you are older, you will appreciate the foresight of your youth.
Put it in your compost pile. Have holes in your yard? Fill them in with saw dust. Do you use rocks to make walls along low places in your creeks, put the saw dust on the wall to fill it in. Use it in the winter as a none slip walk on ice.
How I use the measuring system is off of the wood I cut so I sit the blade on the top of my already cut big peice (I think thats called a caunt or can't peice) and set it to 0 then if I'm cutting like 1 inche peices I just go down to the 1 inche mark make a cut then go to 2 inche mark make a cut so on and so on. Hope that helps I use that little measuring tool alot on that thing and it works great for me.
So what Blades did you buy if HF blades are no good. I’m about to purchase this mill.
Dry the sawdust to 10-15% moisture and you can turn it into basically free fuel pellets.
never mix sawdust into your garden it will leach away your fertility but it can work great as a mulch to help keep the moisture in your garden beds
Well done. For what they cost, it won't take long for it to pay for itself. At todays cost you could spend that much on one pickup load of lumber.
lumber prices are still killer right now despite them saying they have gone down. A 2x4 is still $9 at the local box store.
Also, maybe make a video of the adjustments that you made when changing the band… please and thank you in advance.
Do you have any suggestions to buy a blade for this saw mill? I’m thinking about buying this mill
My hunt club uses wood chips, saw dust etc to fill in mud holes, it absorbs the water and actually packs down hard and no more mud holes. Works great here but you probably don't get the rain we get here. Good for oil spills, Anyway, awesome review!
Good idea! Thanks Rick!
Great review, I'm considering picking one up... Can't beat that predator, I own a few of those motors !!
Like the video, I am putting mine together now.
On your wheels for the rail system, does the right and left hit the rail stops equally in the start position or do the left wheels hit the stops first?
For the sawdust, you can get a bag, like the ones attached to vacuum cleaners, attach it to the part that shoots the dust out and collect the dust. It can be used for fertilizer, fire-starter, etc.
do they sell an extension? and how long can the logs be on the stock track?
Take it from experience mixing it will hender you garden,as it rots you can mix it in
How do you winterize the mill to keep it protected from the elements? Do you just tarp it up?
Chickens, Chickens also could be pressed into logs for the wood stove
Put a second petcock in your drip line. Adjust the closest to the blade for whatever flow you want and the second is just on off with either full open or full close.
Sounds good thanks.
You can buy a cheap inline valve with push lock fittings for the plastic line Just add it in before yer shutoff. Cheap fix
use your sawdust for insulation in chord wood wall construction
Flip flops and a chainsaw? Sounds like my kind of fun. I hit that subscribe button at lightspeed.
Welcome! Thanks for watching!
Make Briquettes out of the saw dust.. Briquettes for the fire place or oven
You can get a cheap Chinese pellet mill and make wood pellets with your sawdust
Hardwood??? Mushroom growers will buy if hardwood.
local gardeners will buy your compost. just don't compost walnut. it will kill your plants. To get it to break down faster, get some alfalfa cubes or pellets and soak them in water. the next morning just add it to the center of the pile. This will help it to compost quicker. There is info online for this. Have to add green.
No longer available. They don't know when they will get them again.
If you had a wood pellet stove, you could pelletize the sawdust and burn it for heat
Sawdust is used for the composting toilet...
Get a pellet maker. Make sawdust into wood pellets. Heat your home.
Sawdust for composting toilet.
We have a large chicken coop did we use our sawdust in and it works pretty good
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We had a door & cabinet shop with MOUNTAINS of sawdust, & we sold it for "Horse Bedding" & local Pet shops instead of paying to have it hauled off
good job. good dogs too.
Sawdust: If you are going to put it in a future garden do not mix it in. That would actually be bad for your garden. You should just put a layer on top of the native dirt. If you have animals it can be bedding. You can line the floor of a dirt barn/pole barn or stables with it. Definitely do not till it into your soil, that would be bad. It will be fine as a layer, like mulch. It will produce mushrooms, that is part of its breaking down.
Great video. Have you ever used a green line laser module as an alignment tool ?
Just a suggestion........don't go up in the pitch of your voice at the end of every sentence when you are speaking, Liz. You will make what you are saying easier to listen to and not so predictable.
Don't mix sawdust in soil place it on top 4" deep keeps down weeds
Harbor Freight? Pure junk.
Our thousands $ in rough cut lumber say otherwise..
@@LaidBackLiving , Harbor Freight has no resale value. They use the cheapest bearings on Earth. Sorry, but I'm not impressed.
Typically, only shady businessmen have resale as a priority. Thanks for watching!
most everything from harbor freight is garbage.
Great video guys. Very helpful. I've been looking at these mills for awhile now. You pretty much covered everything I had questions on. In the not too distant future I will buy one of these to build a cabin so this has been very helpful! Thanks!
Thanks! You won’t regret it.
sawdust to chicken coup to garden
Just watched the video. I'm am looking into buying one myself. I read through the comments and didn't see it mentioned but the saw dust can be turned into wood pellets for pellet stoves. You can buy a pellet machine for 1200.00 on Amazon. It could be another way to make a little money on the side. Bags or pellets from the big box stores sell for around 5 dollars a bag.
Pellet auger to offset heating bill. Or bbq
Saw dust is good for farm animals