Esko is not just your average old man. He has had some very special mechanical training, possibly a machinist. This saw puts everything else I've seen to shame. Well done and thanks for posting this.

that's the best diy sawmill I've seen so far on you tube...I've seen hundreds and this is by far the best..

That by far is the best homemade sawmill and set-up I've seen yet. Would like one like that. Good job Sir.

That yellow lever was genius! I have more than couple times milled my side supports and ruined blades. You got never too much Saunapuita.

Nicest home made mill I've seen yet.

Kinda funny watching an older fin in canada, From and older canadian Living in Finland :) Awesome saw mill have to say very impressive

I like the way you have the back posts set up. That is a very good idea. I have never seen that before. Your clamping system is great also. The companies that build mills should hire you to design their mills. Fantastic job.

This is the best DIY (or BIY, Build It Yourself) saw mill I ever saw on KZfaq. Its not only well made but he has incorporated safety features too. The main chassis I see, one can use old trucks chassis rails for that, and I would use as much scrap steel for the rest. Thumbs up #596.

The best homemade i've seen on youtube, good job

Very nice, well thought out. I will be taking lots of notes from this one. Thank you.

Nice mill, great set up ,,, damn nice logs ,little taper and straight . Well done old man. Love the safty idea on the log stops, that will save a few blades, also love the idea of not pushing from the sawdust side. And wood on the wheel guards

Tell the old man from one sawyer/fabricator to another, he build a hell of a saw. Nice job, I see allot of innovation and I love it.

This is what you call engineering all handcrafted total respect given.

Hieno saha ja hyvin dokumentoitu. Kannustaa muita alalle yrittavia.. Itse olen tehnyt myös sahan joka oli pitkaan kesken mutta nyt taas työn ailla, taa on hieno harrastus. Kiitos hyvasta videosta.

like the mill,good concept,just ordered plans from another builder who sell s them on ebay(plans)also like how clean esko keeps his yard, a tidy man!!also like his wood crib for cutting the off cuts into firewood good idea(hence the clean yard I'm assuming!good job

That's an incredible mill great video!!!!!!

Nicely done, great looking mill :)

He is a very smart man, he built a beautiful sawmill

Now that's the way to load logs, amazing idea.

Who in the hell can dislike this vídeo? This is the best homemade sawmill i've ever seen!

Cool saw, nice and well built.

Nice setup!

May not cost a lot to build but the amount of skill and craftmanship in the thing was huge. I hate people that can build stuff like this. Shows me up for being as useless as I am!

nice mill i wish i had one , you did a great job

That's a slick set-up !! Looks well built. Would like to see how he measures in conjunction with lowering/raising the blade to cut dimensional lumber. I'm sure he has something ingenious!!

Everyone says this is the best DIY saw on KZfaq, so I suppose I better agree with them 😁😁😁

Damn that's nice ,well done !

Definitely one of the top ten home built mills on youtube. The old man's got it going on in the fabrication department.

He’s done that many times, knows his machine well!

wow very nice, looks better than most of the commercially available sawmills out there. job well done.

He thought of everything! Very nice.

That's great maximum respect from Australia

Very nice job.

Awesome mill! I plan on building one pretty soon and I like his design. It looks really well thought out and looks to work very good as well. If you could get another video showing the up close workings of it that would be great! Thanks!

Great system

Would love to see more of this mill, especially how he uses the springs to assist in raising and lowering the saw.

Very slick.

excellent job i've been a filer for years and prefer circle mills but that is way better than anything on the market including wood mizer

This could be a professionally built Mill for all I know very nice

Would Esko be interested in selling the plans to this sawmill? This is the best and most efficient sawmill I have seen on youtube.

Nice Job esko

That's way cool! I'm a new sub. I saw where you commented on a comment I made to Outdoor Retiree

very nice video

Olipa kiva nähdä suomenlippu sahassa

Best ive ever seen

That is by far the nicest homemade mill i have ever seen I it possible to go that Machine run?

i'd love to see how he did the tiltable log stops

sure would like to build one just like it

"saunapuita". Yep, he´s definately a Finn.

Hook up a garage door opener for remote automatic operation,like I did my iron fence.

esko should take some measurements and sell design plans. I would buy it b as it look better built than alot of store bought bandsaw mills

Genius!!

I've never seen anything from your channel before now. As an American Finn in the South Puget Sound region, as soon as I saw the name "Esko" in the title of this video (uploaded 7 years prior to my viewing/ comment in early December 2022), I thought, "that certainly looks like a good Finnish name;" confirmed by seeing the Suomi 🇫🇮 flag sticker on his sawmill 💙👍😀. It would be interesting to know whereabouts in Canada either you or he may be? My own Finnish-American family on my äiti's (mom's) side has had several connections to our neighbor to the North over the years - my great-grandfather who prospected up in the Yukon and staked the first claim on Bear Creek during the Klondike Rush, and met and married my great-grandmother-to-be in Dawson; my grandmother who was born at their cabin at the claim on Bear Creek and later came rafting down the Klondike as a young girl in the early 1900s (along with her parents and the rest of her siblings born later in the YT and/or Alaska) to ultimately settle in their farmstead in Southwest Washington; my namesake grandfather who rode herd for a time as a cowboy in Alberta as a young man, and extended relatives who supposedly still live in or around Nanaimo. Not surprisingly, several of my relatives also worked directly in the woods, or in other roles for major Forest products companies in the PNW (WA State). Lastly, I got to personally see a good portion of Canada from practically one Coast to the other through various invitational/international School band competitions we participated in there, during my Junior High and High School years, so I've had an appreciation of your country for decades. Apologies for being long-winded and rather tangential, but it was interesting to see this video pop up in my feed today, and for whatever reason, I felt the need to comment. In the event that Esko is still doing his thing, please tell him "Kiitos paljon!"

Gut sawmil.

Goodntite is a great word.

Sweet.

Wish I had his talent. Luca

Nice job, would you like to make me one, you did such a great job

how does tht blade rotating lever system works?

Hi, I'm in the Philippines and wanting to build a mill. I been watching so many youtube videos and this set up is by far the best, even compared to big company buy of the shelf mills. love the log feed to the mill. Please post plans and type motor use

Hieno saha!

I love samill and america welcome to belize all

Really nice sawmill, This wouldn't be near Thunder Bay, Ontario by any chance?

I have less than a hundred in mine! and all was from scrap as well.

I had an old cantilevered wood miser , only had 8.5hp B&S motor . Electric feed on anything up to a 16 inch face you could run it full speed , daily down the speed as the log got bigger than that . To watch it , it seemed to shake all over the place, but sizes were always very good ( The four post design just seems to be more stable ) how did it run with the tire wheels ?

Wspaniałe arcy dzieło! ;).pozdrawiam;)

Where did you get the blade guide bearings? Havent been able to find that part anywhere.

how long in total hours to build it?

Where can get that saw

Nice, can I buy it?

BEST

Typical finnish enginering! "If i don´t have it, i build it". Excellent saw mill!!

How is it? Thanks

Kerroppa Eskolle terveisiä.

echt klasse die maschine.....aber eine frage hätte ich doch....!! wie hoch ist die drehzahl der laufräder der säge....??? und die schnittgeschwindigkeit ??

hey there thank you so much for sharing your experiences! i have very interesting question to you, Would you be able to come down to Mongolia and make one for me??? of course my offer won't dissapoint you. best regards creative old man! :D

hyvä Suomi!

How much did it cost to build, in comparison to buying one? I know the fun in building, but this rig looks expensive - although very awesome!

Thought I heard ricochet rabbit in there at about 6:10 🐇

Really nice! It doesn't seem homemade but modified? I wish you would have taken a video of him taking a full cut and not just squaring it.

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Which province are you located?

How HP Engin

ok mister

So tell me "chuck" how much wood would a wood chuck chuck if a wood chuck could split wood!:)

It's a john deer special. 😏

Did he say gudintight .

i thought you werent suppose to lubricate bandsaw blades? he has a lubrication tank according to the video

For the cost of...not much to build..2 thousand..may be 5max..

. FX TX