Esko's Homemade Bandsaw Mill
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- Went to visit Esko today because I needed some lumber for a frame in the trailer to haul materials. It cost about $2000 to build the mill. Most welded material was scrap metal salvage. It has a 20 foot cut capacity with another 4 foot by adding the extension. The wheels with axle come off to keep operating height at a lower level. It uses a 13 HP motor which could use more power for cutting large hardwoods.
that's the best diy sawmill I've seen so far on you tube...I've seen hundreds and this is by far the best..
Esko is not just your average old man. He has had some very special mechanical training, possibly a machinist. This saw puts everything else I've seen to shame. Well done and thanks for posting this.
May not cost a lot to build but the amount of skill and craftmanship in the thing was huge.
I hate people that can build stuff like this. Shows me up for being as useless as I am!
"saunapuita". Yep, he´s definately a Finn.
That yellow lever was genius! I have more than couple times milled my side supports and ruined blades. You got never too much Saunapuita.
like the mill,good concept,just ordered plans from another builder who sell s them on ebay(plans)also like how clean esko keeps his yard, a tidy man!!also like his wood crib for cutting the off cuts into firewood good idea(hence the clean yard I'm assuming!good job
Would Esko be interested in selling the plans to this sawmill? This is the best and most efficient sawmill I have seen on youtube.
I like the way you have the back posts set up. That is a very good idea. I have never seen that before. Your clamping system is great also. The companies that build mills should hire you to design their mills. Fantastic job.
Tell the old man from one sawyer/fabricator to another, he build a hell of a saw. Nice job, I see allot of innovation and I love it.
+Michael Tonn I'm due for a visit so I will do that! Yes he really likes the little roof on it : )
I've never seen anything from your channel before now. As an American Finn in the South Puget Sound region, as soon as I saw the name "Esko" in the title of this video (uploaded 7 years prior to my viewing/ comment in early December 2022), I thought, "that certainly looks like a good Finnish name;" confirmed by seeing the Suomi 🇫🇮 flag sticker on his sawmill 💙👍😀.
It would be interesting to know whereabouts in Canada either you or he may be? My own Finnish-American family on my äiti's (mom's) side has had several connections to our neighbor to the North over the years - my great-grandfather who prospected up in the Yukon and staked the first claim on Bear Creek during the Klondike Rush, and met and married my great-grandmother-to-be in Dawson; my grandmother who was born at their cabin at the claim on Bear Creek and later came rafting down the Klondike as a young girl in the early 1900s (along with her parents and the rest of her siblings born later in the YT and/or Alaska) to ultimately settle in their farmstead in Southwest Washington; my namesake grandfather who rode herd for a time as a cowboy in Alberta as a young man, and extended relatives who supposedly still live in or around Nanaimo. Not surprisingly, several of my relatives also worked directly in the woods, or in other roles for major Forest products companies in the PNW (WA State). Lastly, I got to personally see a good portion of Canada from practically one Coast to the other through various invitational/international School band competitions we participated in there, during my Junior High and High School years, so I've had an appreciation of your country for decades.
Apologies for being long-winded and rather tangential, but it was interesting to see this video pop up in my feed today, and for whatever reason, I felt the need to comment. In the event that Esko is still doing his thing, please tell him "Kiitos paljon!"
Päivää Matti ! I'm Janne from North Bay, Ontario. Esko is 80 now and lives slightly east from here. Not as many Finns in my area as there are in Sudbury, the Sault and Thunder Bay. My father decided to come to Canada when I was 5 back in 1970. You have quite some history in western Canada. thanks for the family history. I could only imagine what it was like over 100 years ago.
That by far is the best homemade sawmill and set-up I've seen yet. Would like one like that. Good job Sir.
This is the best DIY (or BIY, Build It Yourself) saw mill I ever saw on TH-cam. Its not only well made but he has incorporated safety features too. The main chassis I see, one can use old trucks chassis rails for that, and I would use as much scrap steel for the rest. Thumbs up #596.
The best homemade i've seen on youtube, good job
Typical finnish enginering! "If i don´t have it, i build it". Excellent saw mill!!
you do need to have a scrap yard and $4k in 2022
Hieno saha ja hyvin dokumentoitu. Kannustaa muita alalle yrittavia.. Itse olen tehnyt myös sahan joka oli pitkaan kesken mutta nyt taas työn ailla, taa on hieno harrastus. Kiitos hyvasta videosta.
That is by far the nicest homemade mill i have ever seen I it possible to go that Machine run?
hey there thank you so much for sharing your experiences! i have very interesting question to you, Would you be able to come down to Mongolia and make one for me??? of course my offer won't dissapoint you. best regards creative old man! :D
wow very nice, looks better than most of the commercially available sawmills out there. job well done.
Bens saw
I had an old cantilevered wood miser , only had 8.5hp B&S motor . Electric feed on anything up to a 16 inch face you could run it full speed , daily down the speed as the log got bigger than that . To watch it , it seemed to shake all over the place, but sizes were always very good ( The four post design just seems to be more stable ) how did it run with the tire wheels ?
Who in the hell can dislike this vídeo? This is the best homemade sawmill i've ever seen!
Definitely one of the top ten home built mills on youtube. The old man's got it going on in the fabrication department.
better than woodmizer
Olipa kiva nähdä suomenlippu sahassa
Kinda funny watching an older fin in canada, From and older canadian Living in Finland :) Awesome saw mill have to say very impressive
Nice job, would you like to make me one, you did such a great job
Very nice, well thought out. I will be taking lots of notes from this one. Thank you.
That's way cool! I'm a new sub. I saw where you commented on a comment I made to Outdoor Retiree
Hi, I'm in the Philippines and wanting to build a mill. I been watching so many youtube videos and this set up is by far the best, even compared to big company buy of the shelf mills. love the log feed to the mill. Please post plans and type motor use
Hi Joe, did you get around to building a saw mill? I'm also in the PI and am making plans to build one as well. Would love to pick your brain about this, if you don't mind.
i'd love to see how he did the tiltable log stops
how long in total hours to build it?
This is what you call engineering all handcrafted total respect given.
excellent job i've been a filer for years and prefer circle mills but that is way better than anything on the market including wood mizer
Your post is old so your probably thinking what the heck and so think the very best sawmill to date, even Cook has too much on his mill and overloaded with remote this and remote that. This mill can be remade and if I have anything to say about it, I will share this video far and wide. It made me a little nervous when he tightened up the blade, I just wasn't there but I have broke blades back in the day when I first started sawing on one. That was a shake saw that I started on but the very same concept. He put them all to shame and with a quickness. He is my age probably (72) and getting around better than me. His log ramp is flat ingenious plus his log dogs are so simple you wonder why they are not all like that. He is to my word, a master of this trade
Kerroppa Eskolle terveisiä.
That's a slick set-up !! Looks well built. Would like to see how he measures in conjunction with lowering/raising the blade to cut dimensional lumber. I'm sure he has something ingenious!!
Everyone says this is the best DIY saw on TH-cam, so I suppose I better agree with them 😁😁😁
sure would like to build one just like it
He’s done that many times, knows his machine well!
It's a john deer special. 😏
Where did you get the blade guide bearings? Havent been able to find that part anywhere.
Really nice sawmill, This wouldn't be near Thunder Bay, Ontario by any chance?
Nicest home made mill I've seen yet.
Nice mill, great set up ,,, damn nice logs ,little taper and straight . Well done old man. Love the safty idea on the log stops, that will save a few blades, also love the idea of not pushing from the sawdust side. And wood on the wheel guards
Nice, can I buy it?
For the cost of...not much to build..2 thousand..may be 5max..
He thought of everything! Very nice.
esko should take some measurements and sell design plans. I would buy it b as it look better built than alot of store bought bandsaw mills
ok mister
Goodntite is a great word.
So tell me "chuck" how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could split wood!:)
That's great maximum respect from Australia
Hook up a garage door opener for remote automatic operation,like I did my iron fence.
How is it? Thanks
I have less than a hundred in mine! and all was from scrap as well.
Now that's the way to load logs, amazing idea.
Thought I heard ricochet rabbit in there at about 6:10 🐇
Really nice! It doesn't seem homemade but modified? I wish you would have taken a video of him taking a full cut and not just squaring it.
+David Sanders Its definitely all homemade! The main rails would have been better as rectangular tubing as it would be stiffer. However the I-beam material was available and was butt welded to get the necessary length. I'll get another video in the spring to cover the requests : )
I guess I was thinking more of the bandsaw itself not the table. If so, great job!
I love samill and america welcome to belize all
This could be a professionally built Mill for all I know very nice
Nice setup!
How much did it cost to build, in comparison to buying one? I know the fun in building, but this rig looks expensive - although very awesome!
Sounded like he said $2000, dont know what currency.
$2000 Canadian, eh! Also like I stated all the metal was free salvage so if one were to buy metal for it,it wouldn't save you much compared to buying one.
how does tht blade rotating lever system works?
Nice Job esko
Wish I had his talent. Luca
Awesome mill! I plan on building one pretty soon and I like his design. It looks really well thought out and looks to work very good as well. If you could get another video showing the up close workings of it that would be great! Thanks!
+roadhazardguy I was out visiting yesterday but he has the mill in storage for the winter. In the spring I'll try to get a detail video.
+Canuck Woodchuck okay thanks! I'd like to start building mine this winter(texas) but there's no telling if that will happen or not..
Did he say gudintight .
Cool saw, nice and well built.
Where can get that saw
nice mill i wish i had one , you did a great job
He is a very smart man, he built a beautiful sawmill
i thought you werent suppose to lubricate bandsaw blades? he has a lubrication tank according to the video
you must lubricate the blade. we use a little dawn dish soap in the water. it keeps the band from getting sticky and assist in clearing the saw dust
thought it made the band slip on the drive wheel
That's an incredible mill great video!!!!!!
How HP Engin
Sweet.
hyvä Suomi!
Great design, really thoughtful even to loading logs.
Very slick.
very nice video
Damn that's nice ,well done !
echt klasse die maschine.....aber eine frage hätte ich doch....!! wie hoch ist die drehzahl der laufräder der säge....??? und die schnittgeschwindigkeit ??
Entschuldigung, ich habe keine Ahnung "Google translate"
Hi I want to buy one i am from Bhutan. Can you work out the costs and how fast can I get
Please quote and send new development
Nicely done, great looking mill :)
BEST
Very nice job.
Which province are you located?
Ontario, closer to Quebec.
Best ive ever seen
Great system
Gut sawmil.
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FX TX
Would love to see more of this mill, especially how he uses the springs to assist in raising and lowering the saw.
Hey Jeff, I went for a visit today and filmed some more with my Gopro. I'm uploading right now, so hope that helps.Look for the video Old Man Mill Build details on my channel.
Those springs do not assist raising the mill head, they simply take up the slack in the roller chain since it does not complete a circuit....
@@canuckwoodchuck6396 how do I find your channel
Genius!!
Hieno saha!
Wspaniałe arcy dzieło! ;).pozdrawiam;)