Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 428-pouring a portable sawmill base/foundation and first time milling YouTube Country Roots Farm
Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 428-pouring a portable sawmill base/foundation and first time milling YouTube Country Roots Farm
Today we are driving to North Carolina to get a sawmill for the farm.
We looked at buying a like a carport style barn and it was going to be like seven thousand dollars since metal is so expensive now.
We were talking about it and we’re like there’s a lot of things that we need to build.
There’s a lot of expense at finishing the inside of the shed to house, so we decided that instead of spending seven thousand dollars on the
carport/barn situation, we’re going to spend it on a sawmill and be able to build a lot more buildings than having one building.
I’m very excited so Austin learned early on in our dating relationship that if we’re going take a car ride and there’s an opportunity for
an adventure on said car ride then we also have to take the adventure!
So, on the way to get this sawmill we saw a sign for a Historic Landmark which was a covered bridge and I’ve only ever seen one covered bridge before.
So how are we not going to stop, and it was only like 30 minutes out of the way.
Well, this is not the way I wanted to get this thing off I had gone and bought these chain links that are rated for over a thousand pounds.
I know this thing doesn’t weigh but a couple hundred pounds and the Yanmar 221 with the bucket will pick up five to six hundred pounds, so it could
easily pick this up off the trailer at max height.
The teeth are right here now. I can curl and it’ll lift up another foot or two, but I just don’t see that working and not having the whole thing swing off.
So, what we’re going to try and do is I’m going to have to spin it the other way and we’re going to lay it in to the bucket with the track at the bottom facing into
that not the band blade not the blade.
We’re going to turn it you know 90 degrees and I’m going to have to set it in there strap it down and then I can gently take it over to this new spot and set it down. Thank you!
We’re going to use some cement blocks and some treated four by sixes to make the base that the track will sit on for the mill so that we can level it out.
So, we don’t really have a frost line to worry about, but we also are not 100 sure this is the forever site for the sawmill, so we didn’t want to do something more
permanent and then want to move it in a year or something when we have more land cleared.
So, this is where we’re going to get it started and we’re going to set up the foundation.
Now we got zero, three, six, nine, right? I’m really kind of just letting the tool do the weight.
We’ll put the wedges between the block and not the track. All right you want to tap it on that. How about the other way?
You’re sitting I haven’t done this one yet. I got you yeah, she said you want to add a little bit under the butt of it so don’t slip right there? Got them.
Let me come up. It’ll come up a lot yeah you want to try a two-inch block in there is it that looks like it’s going to switch down some too, there we go.
I drive to that but hang on to it, I need it either way. All right and then we’ll uh maybe squish it down a little bit. Wow!
How are you doing, Chip (our goat buddy coming over to say hello)?
Thank you. A lot of room I figured it’ll stretch a little bit after using it.
See every time before you cut you make sure it’s 35 pounds of pressure and then when you’re done cutting you take the pressure off the head of the mill.
All right choked got a pine tree. I’m going to get some nice, amazing lumber out of a tree.
Well that one will be great for the greenhouse base. It’s like the right Dutch you know. It’s got to be dipped in here somewhere.
All right so this is the Oscar 428 and we have a lot to learn obviously with sawmilling because it’s a brand new tool for us,
but I could not be more proud of having boards cut today. Like I’m super proud of you. That sawmill is intimidating!
I think it is but oh it’s intimidating to me. The sawmill works fine but we got to revisit this track system we built it and then it rained like three times before we got the head on it
and I think it’s just gotten it all out of level. I’ve tried to level it yesterday and today. I’m only on my third pine log and it seems like it’s already out of alignmen again because it keeps binding halfway down. This is 13 feet log that I’m cutting so it’s a big log though. I know it shouldn’t be binding but I’m just saying it definitely you shouldn’t be binding for us.
I’m brand new at this and actually got to cut lumber today. Obviously every tree you cut you’ll learn from so for sure. There’s only one way to go.
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