Talk:Sawmill
The page is kind of a mess, it needs to be cleaned up some more. Anyone should feel free to help out. We should make some kind of template for development. Jeremy 13:47, 14 January 2009 (PST)
A sawmill would also be able to cut wooden pieces that have been rescued from elsewhere, right? I mean, in places like Detroit where there's an almost post-civilisation setting with reuse of previous stuff. Interesting if we could make http://www.gridbeamers.com/ which looks like a project doable by others in any setting. http://www.globalswadeshi.net/forum/topics/any-recent-news-about LucasG 23 March 2009
modularization
Let's modularize this design by by:
- x axis space frame and rollers
- z axis mounting
- z axis raising - need to consider log location
- log holding
- blade attachment to axis
- Blade selection and maintenance
- y axis motion
- motor speed control
Bandsaw
I apologize if this has already been discussed elsewhere. Also, I know these talk pages aren't visited much. But in my meager woodcutting experience, and in watching Doherty's videos, and also from "Saviors of the Rainforest" and the related content there, it seems like a chainsaw would be the best place to start, whereas a double-bladed circular saw would perhaps be more of a niche product.
The evolution:
- Chainsaw for freehand cutting: http://www.turtleislandpreserve.com/internships
- Alaskan mill on your chainsaw for dimensional lumber: [1], [2]
- A track for your Alaskan mill so you don't need to hold the thing: [3], [4]
- Then actually make a bandsaw: http://woodgears.ca/bandsaw/homemade.html
- Then put the bandsaw on a track: bandsaw mill! [5], [6]
Where I am outside of Detroit, there are two machine shops that toss their huge metal bandsaw blades into their open scrap metal dumpsters on a weekly basis, still perfectly good for woodcutting. Bandsaw blades are probably a more straightforward open-source/scrap option than chainsaw blades.
This kind of implies a weedwhip/lawnmower size "power cube"... which again, I apologize for not watching OSE more closely, you all may be onto that already. But, then again, open-source weedwhip and lawnmower (then, chainsaw, snowblower, ice auger, jackhammer, hedgetrimmer, etc etc), that's a hell of a business model, the "low hanging fruit" perhaps.
I absolutely love this guy, though unlike FeF he's using wood as his basic structural material, not metal: http://woodgears.ca/
A.J. 20:17, 27 January 2011 (PST)