I've always wanted a sawmill, but they always seemed so large. Then I saw a small one in this topic: http://www.gscalecentral.net/tm?high=&m=82759&mpage=1#83148 by Shawn on 21/8. It gave me some good ideas and I decided a similar small mill for cutting sleepers would suit me.
My available space it is only 150mm wide, but there?s 1.8m length available. I raided my barbecue wood pile for some timber and made most of the shed and log stage from bits of gum tree. The roof is corrugated plastic sheet.
Logs get offloaded from the train at the right end to a rough log 'stage'.
Then into the mill on rollers.
The sawn timber sleepers will be loaded back onto rail. I think I need a crane here.
The saw blade is made from styrene with the teeth cut on a bench grinding wheel. (the one hanging on the wall behind is my practice one) There's an electric motor behind the blade which also belt drives a (dummy) shaft ( and maybe a steam piston and flywheel in future).
Now it just needs some 'clutter' and sawdust.
Future plans include a sound system and motor control to ?wind up? the speed of the blade, then a cutting sound and then ?wind down?.
My available space it is only 150mm wide, but there?s 1.8m length available. I raided my barbecue wood pile for some timber and made most of the shed and log stage from bits of gum tree. The roof is corrugated plastic sheet.
Logs get offloaded from the train at the right end to a rough log 'stage'.
Then into the mill on rollers.
The sawn timber sleepers will be loaded back onto rail. I think I need a crane here.
The saw blade is made from styrene with the teeth cut on a bench grinding wheel. (the one hanging on the wall behind is my practice one) There's an electric motor behind the blade which also belt drives a (dummy) shaft ( and maybe a steam piston and flywheel in future).
Now it just needs some 'clutter' and sawdust.
Future plans include a sound system and motor control to ?wind up? the speed of the blade, then a cutting sound and then ?wind down?.
