During the last few years, uncle and I built a
sawmill
patterned after the common wood mizer type horizontal band mill.
Definitely a low buck effort but it has done the trick for us. More to
come. The wheels, bearings and shafts I purchased from Linn Lumber . With that
and an
assembly videotape of the saws he sells, we cobbled this together.
The engine is an Onan 9.9 hp vee-twin that uncle got from a guy he
worked
for. We got two engines and a few parts that must have lain
around in a
shed for years. The engine is doesn't have enough power so we
have to
take it easy when pushing saw through log. We are thinking that
15 hp
would be a good place to start. But then again, the engine was
free,
uncle put rings in it, we removed the gearbox unit and put an oil seal
in where
the gear reduction unit was mounted and put the engine to use.