#Harbor freight sawmill how to
#Harbor freight sawmill mod
#Harbor freight sawmill mods

With so many Freight Forwarders out there, it can be difficult to know where to start. These are companies based in the USA which basically give you an address, just so that you can send your purchases there.Īll you have to do is open up an account with a Freight Forwarder and you’ll never have to worry about shopping on US based online stores again. I also took a Sharpy & laid off lines every quarter inch on the standers.Your saviors are called Freight Forwarders. My track rollers started locking up also so I repaired them the same way as the blade guide rollers. This cause most of the dust to now fall inside of the track instead of on it. In the mean time I've added some duct tape to the band housing just below where the blade comes out of the cover. I have planned to add a piece on angle to the bottom of the head post just clearing the track. The dust is traveling over to the idler side & dropping out of the cover on the track right in front of the wheel. Until then I decided to try to deal with where the dust is coming from.

I was having large amounts of saw dust getting in the rollers which I still need to make a way of self cleaning. Cutting Edge (a member of another forum) told me to get the proper tension on the blade use a caliper ran out to 6' & clamp it to the slacked blade.

#Harbor freight sawmill mod

This isn't a mod but I think I should add this as well.

#Harbor freight sawmill how to

As I get time I'll decide how to address this. However they are a poor design & if you don't push up on the hinges & pull down on the handle at the same time the rod will bend. The quick fix was using my wife's hair bungee to hold the cable crank until I tightened up the cam locks. I was having a problem with locking cams not having enough pressure to keep from sliding down the post during a cut. It also moves the stater & locking cams closer to you when standing at the back of the track. Putting the short side in back & the long leg in front keeps the dust from being blown under the roller. Saw dust was packing in the rulers on about every cut. I'm considering upgrading to a bigger engine.Īnother mod is turning the roller legs around backwards & switching sides with them. I replaced this belt from a local supplier. The drive belt doesn't fit the clutch so the side will get cut out of it. Once moving I washed them out & filed with grease. In very short turn the roller bearings on the guides froze up so I removed them popped the seals & used Dextron III to get them moving again. You'll need to call & talk to Derek to get these since they aren't listed in their site. I wasn't cutting very good lumber with the stock blade so I ordered 4° Wood Maxx blades from Kasco. I use C clamp vise grips ATM to hold it in place. I need to be able to move my log dog around to get in the best position to hold the log so I welded small pieces of pipe to angle that will slide over the piece of pipe that the log dog tracks on. I use a 1.5'x2' wood block on the tip of the log dog after getting it into a cant or board to keep from damaging them. I plan on putting this on both sides to help with loading logs to keep then from rolling off the other side. I also bought 2' thin tubing for the standers but since they are metric I had to weld a thin piece of angle in one corner to take up the slack. I'm using H structure & only since I already drilled holes to fit the stock bunks I decided to drill on one side of the H structure for mounting. In extending the track I decided to make new bunks.

This also allowed a couple of extra inch's of log high. I hope this will be useful to people looking into this mill or helpful to those having problems with it.įirst thing I did was order two pieces of angle that was 20' 5/16' thick 3'x4' long to allow me to cut longer logs.

#Harbor freight sawmill mods

If there is a time limit on editing I'll ask a mods help in editing or add to the list in a new reply. I'll keep editing the list in the first post as long as I'm allowed. I usually us file hosting sites to host my pictures. I decided to start a thread that I can keep updating so people that are interested in this mill can see how things are going for me, what problems I'm having, & how I've adapted. I've done a few things in the short time I've had my mill. This was a thread I started on another forum & edited a small amount to be more fitting here.