Hello everyone My name is Michael I'm new to this forum, A friend of mine suggested I check it out. I have built many things over the years, but one of my biggest things I would say was my cabin from the ground up and I have slowly finished the wood work inside. I for years now always wanted a sawmill because I have trees on my property that I would like to mill for some great lumber for wood working. A mill has always been out of my price range, but in the last years or so I got talking with a friend about home built bandsaw mills, I started looking into them and I decided this last spring I would try to build one. It took me a little over 4 months to build, with about 50 hours of build time, the first 2 months were mostly savaging parts and pieces for it and the last 2 months were welding it up. With salvaging parts, the mill only cost me about $350 to build and now I'm milling great lumber from trees I already planed on taking down for more light anyways, I took photos documenting my build and made a video of how I went about building a mill, because when I was researching in the spring before building it, I did't find any good youtube videos with detailed step by step and close up photos of drive train parts so that's why I made this video.
I'm posting a link to my homemade bandsaw video on youtube, This shows how I built my mill with the free to cheap parts I found when building it, I hope it encourages others to set out on building there own! In no way am I saying to build it just like my mill, instead work with what you salvage and come up with maybe even a better mill!
I hope you enjoy the video