Wood is perhaps the most common building material to date. Long gone are the days when the process of building a house was carried out using the most primitive tools. Now, to carry out this kind of work, new technologies and the most modern equipment are used, including a sawmill, with which the wood is processed to the desired size. Unfortunately, this tool is not accessible to ordinary Russians, because it costs hundreds of thousands of rubles. However, there is a way out of this situation - designing a home-made sawmill. Learn how this happens in our article today.
Why is it more profitable to make a sawmill from a chainsaw?
In general, a chainsaw is a unique device, because on its basis you can make almost any tool, from a makeshift lawn mower to snowmobiles. In our case, the use of this device allows you to design the desired element almost without involving any additional parts and assemblies. Judge for yourself - we already have an engine, and together with a gas tank, the frame is also present, and even the chain remains in working condition. We will not change or convert any of the above. The only thing we need to do is a metal canopy that will be attached to the saw body. You can see the approximate design of such an apparatus in the following photo.
As you can see, home- made chainsaws from a chainsaw are practically no different from a true saw. That is, the efforts and cash costs required to complete this operation are minimal. This is the whole advantage of using this tool as a sawmill.
How to make a sawmill from a chainsaw?
To create such a device you need to have two channels with a size of 150 ... 180 x 8000 millimeters (height and length, respectively). In addition, in the work you will need several corners of 50 x 100 mm and two rails. The latter need to be turned upside down. When creating the basis for the sawmill, several holes of 14-18 millimeters each should be drilled in it. The interval between them should be approximately 1-1.2 meters.
Also in the work you will need screeds. They can be made from a regular water pipe with a length of 250 millimeters. Bolts should be used as connecting elements, not welding. Racks are made from rectangles, on which the base of the sawmill is then fixed. By the way, in the manufacture of the base it is unacceptable to use deformed elements. All parts must have a strictly even shape. As for the distance between the racks, they should be placed to the end of the base with an interval of 80-100 centimeters. Additionally, you can weld the braces between them, so that the structure seemed more durable.
What to do next?
At the next stage, the sawmill from the chainsaw is equipped with a movable trolley. It will be based on a steel plate measuring 600 x 50 millimeters. A metal corner of 40 x 40 millimeters should be welded to it from below. Then the cart must be placed on bearings or rollers. To its upper part also weld 2 corners. The chainsaw itself is attached to the latter.
At the final stage, a structure is made to fix the log. What do I need to do? Here you will need a metal tube with a diameter of 35-40 millimeters. Also during the work it is necessary to use a movable hose, which will be located with subsequent fixing at the desired height. In this case, the height value should not exceed the length of the pipe itself. So, our do-it-yourself do-it-yourself sawmill is successfully made. You can safely start its operation and process wood of almost any diameter.
How to make a sawmill from a chainsaw? Method number 2
Here is another method for making a sawmill at home. In principle, this option of creating a cutting device is not very different from the previous one - the drawing and tools for work will be the same as in the first case. However, this technology of manufacturing the sawmill will be more elaborated. How is a sawmill made from a chainsaw with your own hands in this case? In the drawing you will need to indicate 4 main elements. This is a saw, its drive, a mechanism by which the thickness of the resulting board is adjusted, as well as an element that allows you to move the saw part of the structure. You should also indicate the location of the device for fixing the log.
How is the saw and its drive made?
There is nothing complicated here. Since a sawmill is made from a chainsaw, all of these elements, including the motor, will already be ready. Therefore, all that is required of you is a serviceable saw with cutting teeth and a working engine, which, in principle, is present in the design of this tool.
Now about how to make a mechanism for adjusting the thickness of the board. Sam cutting the logs on the sawmill occurs by lowering or raising the base of the device, which is held on 4 screws or is welded to the plate with nuts whose edges are bent. A lock nut is located in the upper part of the base. It is delayed after the sawmill from the chainsaw is configured. We adjust to the appropriate thickness of the processed log.
How do you do a sawmill from a chainsaw with your own hands? The saw part of the tool should move along the guide angles along the frame. In this case, between these elements a distance of 50-55 centimeters should be observed. 2 casters are welded to each rack, the upper of which rests on a guide angle, and the lower one keeps the sawmill from lifting. If it is not possible to use rollers, bearings of 20 millimeters can be used.
The device fixing the log on the sawmill
The wood on this tool is fixed using two combs, one of which moves with a screw, and the second remains stationary. After installing the logs, the first movable element is fixed in a stationary state using several screws. After installing the locking device, you can safely begin to operate the sawmill and process the first wooden workpieces.
And finally ...
We note several rules for the operation of a home-made sawmill:
- From time to time, lubricate and sharpen the tool chain, since the quality and speed of the work you do depends on these factors.
- Before fixing the log or board, make sure that it does not contain foreign metal objects (nails, screws, etc.) other than those that are nailed when attaching the device to wood. The teeth that hit the surface of such parts become blunt in an instant, and it is possible that such a chain will only be subject to replacement.
- In no case do not remove the product from the sawmill before the engine shuts off. Otherwise, operator injury and device breakdown are simply inevitable.