Sawmill Plans to build a heavy duty band sawmill to cut wood for lumber

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NOTE!!!  These plans are DIGITAL ONLY which you must download to your PC.
This is a zipped Download of many files in .PDF Format! NOT A PRINTED MANUAL!  A printed manual is not available
I apologize, but about 1 person per month cannot read the above sentence and then believes he can build a complex sawmill.  Very scary.  Therefore I am going to repeat that no printed material will be shipped.
NOTE!!!  If you purchase these plans you will not receive any printed material.  Please do not purchase unless you are comfortable using a computer.  If you purchase the sawmill plans, you will receive an eBay message with step by step instructions on how to download a copy of the sawmill plans to your Windows personal computer or MAC computer.  The files are very large, about 280 mb in size consisting of drawings and how to.  The files are zipped, so they cannot be directly downloaded to a cell phone because cell phones do not recognize zipped files.
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hese plans are to build a heavy duty sawmill.  The saw is a fresh design based on a simple idea that the saw must be extremely strong, very accurate, easy to align and maintain, and cost efficient to build.
The plans are provided via a custom download link for reading on your computer.  The purchaser will receive an ebay message.  In the ebay message is a custom download link with detailed download instructions which you use to get the plan files, which are about 280 mb in size.  The plans are designed to be read by Adobe Reader on your computer.  NO PAPER PLANS are provided.  Please be advised that printing the plans is not a very good option as there are a lot of descriptive words in addition to the drawings.
If you follow my guidelines in the general section of the plans about how to read and understand the plans, you will find that you only need to print a few of the drawings at most and you will completely understand and build a great sawmill which you can't touch a commercial equivalent one for less than 5 times the cost of your build.
The plans consist of step by step written dialogue, 60+ measured drawings (parts and assemblies), and 3D PDFs of each part and many partial assemblies.  Using the 3D PDFs feature found in the current release of Adobe Reader, you can rotate and view every part from every angle.  The drawing and 3D files were created using the same software used to create input for 3D printers, so the detail is very good.  There are also a lot of pictures and some videos.  So whether you need a lot of hand holding or if you see it you can build it, the plans are designed to meet your needs.  You will likely find that you only need a few of the drawings, because the sawmill is far simpler to build than it looks.  Every part not found in your local hardware store is drawn and viewable in 3D so that understanding what it does and how it works should quickly become understood.
How good of a sawmill do you want to build?  As designed, properly aligned and with a sharp blade, this sawmill will cut a plank 1/8” thick, 24” wide and 8’ long 20” above the track repeatedly in hardwood.  "SK" bushings with 3 adjustment bolts and 2" diameter shafts are used with clones of the original Browning industrial pulleys available reasonably from a national distributor.  Ever try to align something with 2 bolts on a weak shaft that gets stressed.
The demonstration sawmill was built to cut Mesquite, a very hard wood, so it will make short order of any kind of wood you want to saw.  Basically, it utilizes a very simple frame and track.  It has all of the little things that make it a great saw.  A sawmill works best when everything is heavy duty and oversize and you use a sharp blade.  This sawmill has the qualities of the best available sawmills without the stuff most people do not need.  The frame is made from 3” x 3” x 3/16” tubing with a lot of ¼” plate structural supports, so whether you saw with 9HP or 30HP, it will be stable when the blade is 28” above the track and you are cutting at full power.
The saw blade is raised with a 0 utility winch twisting 1¼” diameter acme thread rods, so you raise or lower by pressing a rocker switch which comes with the winch.  The acme rods greatly improve saw cutting accuracy.  You can instead use a cable lift system to save a little money and effort.  I provide a reasonable cost source for the acme rods. The saw cuts easily with as little as the use of one hand because it rides on 3” dual ball bearing wheels which you can build or buy readily and reasonably from gate suppliers or eBay.  The drawings show a new blade guide design using a 2” roller and a ball bearings.  The guides are easily adjusted up/down, in/out, and tilt.  Because they are so rugged, they will keep their alignment.  The design greatly reduces blade stress and heat.
Cost is a big issue and you should be able to saw your first log for as little as ,000 using all new components.   The cost is based on using the suggested component suppliers.  If you follow the provided suggestions, you will likely be able to reduce that cost a lot.   A little creative recycle effort will dramatically reduce your cost.   Much of the cost is steel and the engine and it's snowmobile clutch.  As with pressing a switch to raise/lower your blade, you will find that having a centrifugal clutch is a great feature to have.
The sawmill is relatively simple to build if you can cut and weld steel and drill holes with a drill press.  The demonstration sawmill has been gone through and every possible way of simplifying the build of the demonstrated design, and avoiding the machine shop, has been addressed.
The blade covers lift off and the saw blade is loosened and tightened with a socket ratchet wrench, so blade maintenance is a snap.  Wood covers are drawn and recommended so that you likely will be able to save your blade in the event of a mishap.
The sawmill is designed around 19” pulleys and has a 30” square log capacity with a 20’ stationary track.  A design form is provided so that you can shrink or enlarge the plans so that the sawmill best meets your needs.  If you have access to logs greater than 30" in diameter, the sawmill can easily be enlarged to cut a 48" or larger log, as the design is very strong.  Immagine cutting a 1/8" thick plank 24" wide and 20' long (or just 8' long) repeatedly.  What would you have to pay for a commercial sawmill capable of that?
I highly recommend that you go to YouTube and search for “Sawmill #2 Buy, Download, and use Info” video.  It shows you how to purchase, download, and use the plans.  There is considerable preview about the sawmill plans, such that you should have a very good understanding about what you purchase before you spend any money.
There are three videos of the demonstration sawmill and one of the original sawmill.  Again, My ID on YouTube for the videos is "TexasBen5".
Blades are expensive and dull very quickly.  A dull blade is dangerous and produces poor quality lumber.  A blade sharpener plan is included which will pay for itself in less than 6 blade sharpenings.  It is consistently accurate to within a few thousands of an inch.  It is also easy to build from your shop scrap metal.
If you build this sawmill, you will have a lot of new friends, and if you do a great build, you will get your cost back plus a lot more in short order should you no longer need the sawmill.
NOTE!!! The plans are in Digital format and you must download them to your PC.  This is a zipped Download of many files in .PDF Format! NOT A PRINTED MANUAL!  A printed manual is not available.
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