Make Your Own Lumber! The Harbor Freight Sawmill!

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I got a nice treat from a neighbor a few weeks back, the opportunity to use his Harbor Freight Sawmill!

Here's how the machine is used:

It's more than just the chainsaw conversion, but a proper carriage-driven engine thing with a great hooping sawblade!

Turning this:



Into this:



I had a roof to build and got stuck in.



Here's the roof I built with it!




Beams, beautiful beams! I worked out each beam costs me roughly 3 Euros or so (plus my time to work the mill), compared to about 30-50 Euros for the price of the beams, plus transport.

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Here's the concluding video on how-to the sawmill.

While these sawmills are not cheap (this one cost about 2000 Euros) if you have plenty of lumber to use on a project or want genuine 4x4s, oddball sizes etc, they are worth a look.

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BreadnBuddha

Watch Ryder wrote: »

Fantastic work. Are you still there? How is the weather holding up for you?

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Here's the final look of the outbuilding so far:

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BreadnBuddha wrote: »

Fantastic work. Are you still there? How is the weather holding up for you?

For Opsec reasons I must remain aloof my BnB friend.