Make your own lumber with a chainsaw mill by Jacqueline Tresl Issue #39. Milling a board with a chainsaw lumber-maker.
Figure1: The pieces. Beams, joists and walls were made with a chainsaw mill. Figure 2: The frame. Figure 3: The surface to which the chainsaw bar is bolted. Figure 4: The assembled mill frame is bolted to the chainsaw bar. Figure 5: Muffler clamps hold settings to determine thickness of boards. Figure 6: The metal-edged starter board makes the first cut flat and straight. Starterboard, chain and mill. Guiding the lumber-maker through a cut. These are trying times for those of us who need to buy lumber. There are many methods for making boards from trees. The affordable and practical solution for the carpenter who needs lumber is to make his own boards at home with his chainsaw. The construction of a chainsaw lumber-maker requires a bit of steel and pipe and a few bolts (Figure 1). Once the frame is welded, two recesses need to be ground into the centers of the channel stock pieces which make up the two short sides of the rectangle (Figure 2).
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{clockwise from upper left} we need a bigger house! A little bonus: while maybe that canopy bed is out of the current picture, make your own industrial pipe curtain rods.
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