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Make Your Own Lumber! The Harbor Freight Sawmill!

  • 07-11-2015 01:40AM
    #1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭


    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:

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    Into this:

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    I had a roof to build and got stuck in.

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    Here's the roof I built with it!

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    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.


Comments

  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Watch Ryder


    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.



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Watch Ryder


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,311 ✭✭✭BreadnBuddha


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


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Watch Ryder


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



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 592 ✭✭✭Watch Ryder


    Fantastic work. Are you still there? How is the weather holding up for you?
    For Opsec reasons I must remain aloof my BnB friend. :)


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