We switched the head to the other side of the tracks. Now we don't have dust blowing in our faces when we cut the wood. It also helped since it was preciously sitting on the lower part of the itty bitty hill it's on. It was such a nice day, so we got to cutting.
Otherwise useless boards can be cut real thin to make a wood veneer for flooring.
Hubbie has way too much fun on his sawmill, but its become irreplaceable with all the projects we need to get done around here!
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What sort of building are you doing?
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The lumber in the photos is a bunch of random logs that one of our neighbors has been saving up. It's a mix of Poplar and White Oak. I believe he was planning on making furniture and tables out of the dimension lumber. The off cuts and scraps, like the pithy oak cant above, we sliced up into 1/4 inch by 4 inch wide oak flooring veneers. He milled out enough to cover a few hundred square feet, aka, one or two full rooms in his house. He was down right giddy, since he always wanted real hardwood floors.... and it didn't cost him the $900-and-some the big-box stores get for flooring around here. Oh, all of the new lumber to build the actual mill-shed surrounding the saw, was cut on this mill too. It was all 2x6 material and would have cost about $1200 or so from the lumber yard. This rig has more than paid for itself several times over :-)
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You seem like you are the sort of people that see possibility in everything around you, very different than the way most of us live.
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When budgets are tight we find alternatives for our solutions. When we ended up having an extra bit set aside for once we thought long and hard about the mill. The e-coupon we got and the free shipping clinched it. We try to find any way to make things useful. Because you're right, there is possibilities in everything.
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SO glad you're able to use this for all the projects you have around the homestead. That is one thing (a sawmill) that I'd appreciate having here too.
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We got ours off of Harbor Freight. After looking at it and backing out of the site while signed in... we got sent an e-coupon for $300 or $400 off. Then when we went to use it... it was free shipping that day. Ended up costing us about $1600 in the end I want to say. New blades cost us about $110 for a box of 10. It's more than paid for itself. It was one of my father-in-laws dreams to have a sawmill. He was tickled pink when I saw our mill. Sadly he never got a chance to play on it.
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