Chainsaw Mill Build - Start to Finish

Donn DIY
Donn DIY
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Published 2024-05-06
Needed a small portable sawmill for a job and made one quickly from scratch. It works great! The first sawmill I built was a chainsaw mill but it was stationary. Now I deeded a portable sawmill that I could use on-site and I just built this simple chainsaw mill. More serious work will be left for my stationary swingblade sawmill.

If you want to build your own portable chain sawmill check out youshouldbuildit.blogspot.com/, I'll upload the blueprints there this week.

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Welding equipment borrowed from Spetselektroodi AS, Estonia:
Fronius TransSteel 2700 welder
Optrel Crystal 2.0 Welding Helmet
Hypertherm Powermax 45 XP plasma cutter
All Comments (21)
  • @homemadetools
    Nice summary of an epic multi-part build. We shared this video on our homemade tools forum last week 😎
  • @Mikefestiva
    Great simple DIY chainsaw mill Donn! I really like the simplicity of this build. Thank you for posting, hopefully this video encourages others to make there own version of this to start milling. 😊👍
  • @rjung_ch
    Hi Donn, you are the man, you build such useful and fun projects! Thank you 👍💪✌
  • @fenderbenderxaddo5974
    I’m only 5 minutes into this video and have to say this. You have been working at ground level squatted over when you could be working on a bench. I’m 60 and did it that way when I was younger too, but my back is paying for it now. Work smarter not harder! I’m still milling slabs but it hurts more now😎
  • @beozzie690
    Nice as always. I watched this whole series piece by piece..
  • @TheJure123456
    ...one newer has enough sawmills :) :) Love your videos, keep up the good work.
  • @bobbynash282
    Need a throttle cable so as not to bend over so much, saves the back.
  • @fretless496
    Picked a bad day to quit watching Donn videos. 😁
  • @Stakman1
    That is really taking the chainsaw mill to the next level. I can't help but think what the people who built one of the oldest buildings in Saskatchewan Canada (my province and country) would think of a tool like this, In 1854 when construction started they used a "2 man pit saw", where one man would stand in a pit and another mad above and boards were saw by hand. Thanks for sharing.
  • @Crewsy
    That works great Donn. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
  • @broniusale5987
    If you use top part of the bar, you get much bigger load on bar sprocket.
  • @yodasbff3395
    Nice portable saw mill. Thanks for sharing your videos. 👍
  • @jamesa7506
    "I needed a tool I didn't have, to do a job that I did, so I built it. " 👍💪