Part of the reason that I bought the property here in the green belt of TN is that we do not have any of those restrictions. You pay a couple of hundred bucks for a building permit after a perk test and then you can have at it. I probably will never be able to get insurance on the place but I don't give a hoot about that.
My limitations for here are

Need a perk test for the building permit.

Can not build on more that 10% of my property as it is in the " Tennessee green belt " ( heck with 45 acres 10% ... NASA does not have a building that big )


I don't have pine on my property , so I am building out of oak, hickory and black walnut with a few bits of poplar thrown in for good measure where I can get away with it.

The missus did the sketch of the house that she wanted. I then took a ruler and calculator and the the math on the statics etc. and had a friend that is an architect check it out to see that my calculations worked. .....The poor guy has more gray hairs now than the time before he went through my calculations as he is used to pine and a 2x4 for him is only 1 1/2 x 3 1/2
He never had to deal with a Kraut enginerd in his line of work that was not a civil civil engineer as this guy did not believe in building targets

There are several reasons why hydraulics for this application are not a good idea.

First of which is that I would have to run a pump of that engine and have less power to drive the actual saw. For the lifting it is not precise enough and I would have to add some sort of lock to hold the saw head still while cutting. Hydraulics need the power as they are being used. Unlike electrical power that is used from the batterie and charged as long as the engine is running , even when not cutting. Cost is another factor as I would need spool valves hoses and pump and hydraulic motor for the carriage more bearings and belts etc.

Lol
Germans……

Artistes to the bone

I know ............. and I have known this pig headed Kraut for 60 years and live with it

There is a word for us

Why do you think the wine regions of France send there barrels to be repaired in Germany

That was not a question….
You know the answer

Family joke.
We all wanted to put “ you can’t tell me “ on my Grandfather’s tombstone.

Nice.

Looks good, I had a woodmizer and cut a lot of wood with it. You might add a water tank with a hose and an outlet right where the blade enters the log. That little bit of water helps a lot on blade life. If you drag logs, I recommend if they get muddy or dirty that you power wash them before cutting. Dirt packed in the bark will dull your blade in a second. You will spend as much time sharpening blades as you do cutting lumber.

wow is what i say, no dought your gonna get it done. merry christmas.

I think you will need blade guide rollers because of the force the log puts on the blade trying to push back against it. The woodmizer had one side that was adjustable so you could move it in and out depending on the size of the log. That is where the water outlet was. You want the blade guide as close as you can to the log.

That was the part about almost done. I did mention the water and guides above. Its what I am working on at the moment. Just letting the welds cool off as I am typing. Burnt my fingers more than once during this build
The fuel tank from the old ATV is going to be the water tank on the saw and i'll just use a portable boat fuel tank for the engine fuel.
I turned the guide rollers out of an old boat prop shaft and they run on a couple of ball bearings each. I think I posted a Tube video on my chanel about making them.
When I go to the scrap place the missus always tells me not to come back with more stuff than I take there

Sorry, I didn't see that.

Hidden amongst all my ramblings .... But I gat the guides finished and mounted today ... fuel water and electrickery left to do in the next couple of days.

I wish I had Your Brain

or at least half of one.....

exactly what I was thinking..........lol

Beware what you wish for ..... it aint to pretty in there at times

I mulled thing over this morning and came to the conclusion that you can build one of these even if ya can't weld. You could make all those joints with sturdy angle bolted to the box sections with rivet nuts etc. It would take a little longer and involve a lot of drilling etc. But it would sure work. As I said before, I am lazy so I welded things together that do not have to come apart or need to be adjusted in time. But what I am saying is that anyone can build one of these and other things if ya just sit down a minute and think about it. I have about 800 bucks in this thing for materials that I had to buy ..... the rest id re purposed stuff. From a floating dock, a boat trailer, a old 6x6 ATV a boat prop shaft ... the " dash " with the switches and relays is a 30 cal ammo box.
I don't know if " Mechano sets" were ever a thing on this side of the pond. But think of it as metal LEGO. where you get to build stuff out of little strips and able of metal with small nuts and bolts. I has a bunch of that stuff as a kid. Now as a semi adult, I few the whole world as a large size mechanic set. So if ya put yer mind to it, there is almost nothing that ya can't fix or if it cant me fixed .. make it new. All of my tools are in a 8x19 foot enclosed trailer including the work benches. Even my hand loading stuff has room in there. So ya don't need a big shop either as an excuse not to make what you want.
Using this saw mill as an example. As a whole it may look daunting for someone to build it. But its just like eating an elephant ..... you do a little bit at a time. Divide the job up into smaller and smaller components and concentrate on each component ... then it all comes together a bit at a time. I did not make a single drawing for this thing and just " made it up " as i went along. Its part of the big elephant of building a house by myself with the materials that grow on my property. For that house I need lumber. So I need to build a machine to make that lumber.