My custom-made sawmill looked like this:
The trestle at the front is the input table, roughly level with the surface of the circular saw, and the workmate at the back is the output table. Even with this, and copious amounts of candle wax on the saw table and saw itself, the big planks were tough to cut up. A dozen or so times the saw overheated and cut out. We then had to wait for it to cool down.
Still, it worked. The end result was a set of pieces of beech for laminating, each about 50mm by 75mm.
There are a couple of pices cut from the the thinner (34mm) wood in there too. The ones at the left that are clamped together were particularly bent. I was curious to see whether the small clamps I have would straighten up the bent bits (and they do), and whether they would be a reasonably straight unit when clamped (and they are).
Today work was suspended for a while when Bob came over in his AZU:
He's hoping to make his one (the one on the right) look a bit more like mine, by changing the engine for the later unit. It's a lot of work, but I am sure he'll succeed.
Tomorrow we're expecting Jeremy and his digger to make the post holes for our new gates. These have now been fitted with their hinges
thanks to Tony's extremely useful pillar drill.
The weather forecast is very good for the next few days. I don't want the posts to float out of their holes before I can concrete them in, and luckily there's no rain forecast before the weekend.
Impressive stuff. I hope you'll be able to get the bench into the workshop ok!
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