HUGE Sawmill building

The sawmill shed build is great, lots of room. It will be a pleasure to work in. Terry

Looking great

I like your mill enclosure. It’s the best I seen yet and it keeps you out of the weather....subbed and watching.....CHEERS

Nice to see a new video from u. I am jellus, such a big barn....here in Germany u can`t build much or it`s s expensive. Smart idea with the boxes for the saw dust. greeting wolfgang

Good Morning Sir, Outstanding Sawmill building 😇👍👌💪Yes up and down temperatures are so crazy sometimes 🥴🥴Very nice team work installing that great roof 👌👍😇Now that was muddy day pushing your sawmill but you did very well 😇👍 These are OUTSTANDING dust collective boxes 👍😇👌 I can see the fisherman sailor in you by the way your rig your tarp mon ami 🧐👍The problems with tarps with time they are going Kaput ( Like the Montreal Olympic Stadium,,, ) but if you built it like in a one piece garage door frame going up attached by hinges by the top ( just under your steel frame wood framing ) and supported open position be two post at the opposite ends will do the trick. These posts will need somehow anchor to the ground on windy days,,, 🥴 Having a large fire hose or a Fire extinguisher will be nice too ( just in case,,, ) 😇👍🙏 Very nice bolted to the floor ( wood mill and wood bed set up 👍👌💪😇) Yes Cold snap on Friday too Cheers 🍻

Nice work as usual Russell. The sawdust boxes are a great idea. How about a cart on wheels or rails to pile sawn wood on at the tail end of the mill? Then you can roll it out to the end door. If you had a concrete slab out end of the mill to roll onto you could hand bomb onto a truck or trailer or load the stack with your tractor forks?

That is a great building Russell, those large bi-fold doors are a good idea, and I imagine that the hinges will have to be 'super' strong? That roll-up tarp sure is an issue, other than an expensive roll up (garage style ) door, I'm wondering if a heavier galvanized pipe would help at all.

You have constructed a really nice building for a sawmill, and I wish you well in your endeavor to become a parttime sawyer. Albeit I unfortunately believe that you are going to rue the day that you did not go with a concrete floor. The wood floor saved you money in the short run, but for the long haul the wood will begin to slightly bend up and down in places (warp) which will put your mill out of level. The warping will continue to happen over and over until you finally rip out the wood plank floor and pour concrete. It might be good for a couple of years, but I believe when the summer heat comes, the planks will start to shrink, and you will begin to notice the different feel in the floor as you walk across it. Good Luck.

Wow good job

Try rolling the tarp from the top and use a weight to hold the bottom down. I am sure you can figure a way to use the large pipe you have at the bottom to move to the top, run small pipe inside of it and then hook some bicycle chain to the pipe and to the winch set up. Most of the time it will be open anyway right??? Even some plastic sewer pipe will make a roller setup with a little head scratching. That sawdust will make you its slave till you get some kind of blower system to remove it. I am not sure how much sawdust it would take to mix with mud and make it a base to drive on. Going to take some massive french drain system to get it where it will drain the water away short of stilts for the building and lots of rock. I am not much help leaving only ideas and no solutions

Thats a great looking setup you have there eh for milling... someday hope to do something similar. Thanks for sharing

Im sure Roland could fix that tarp problem up for you. He has an answer/ solution for everything. No shortage of comments.

How's she goin'? You have yourself a fine looking saw mill building there Russell. It'll be some nice to start sawing in there eh. A buddy of mine had an inside mill and he used to put his slab wood on a cart and then when the cart was full he wheeled it out to a kind of loading area to be loaded on a truck or what ever. Just a thought rather than have to carry the slabs all the way out the door, just drop them on a cart till you get a load and then make one trip. The LED lights sure do brighten up the place. As for the roll up door, that's a hard one to resolve eh. Maybe if you were to cut the tarp in two and then you could roll up one side at a time. That would work for shorter logs too. And the wind may not bother the narrower tarp as much as it dos the wider one. Again, just a thought. Thanks for posting. She's a great building. Take care!!

Russell, it looks like you did a professional job designing and constructing your sawmill building. What do you think about extending your roof over the bunk area because the tarp is going to be a challenge for a long time. You could put some 4 x 4 beams from the bunk to the sawmill frame and roll logs over to the mill bed.

Great bud Could you make a video of building your firewood bunks. If u could. That be entertaining.

Love the board on board siding. What are your thoughts on exhaust fumes? We put a tarp wall up as well but we used a heavy duty tarp from a grain trailer.

Great work Russell! I was wondering how you were going to manage the sawdust with the back wall closed in. I think you have a great design and will be interesting to see how it all works. Look forward to seeing your progress unfold!

Nice.I have a similar style sawmill shed and I had to put an exhaust fan in mine . The fumes got pretty bad

You need to make a pc of pipe slide into your bottom aluminum pipe and fasten to the wall By securing the bottom Go inside and crank it up a little tighter. Kind of like a barrel bolt on a door

Maybe try a heavy canvas tarp "/