![]() ![]() The real bargain comes in IF you can find a 20% HF discount coupon from the site.Īnd that's the point of this thread and the threads I've got on other forums - I'm trying to research the quality of this mill. Especially in the rails.Īnd their "yellow line" sold thru Harbor Freight, is even slightly less metal (the cage on the minimill is 2 post, on the Oscar 18 it's f our post) and a shorter warranty, for a slight reduction in price. I'm coming to think their "red line" is a lighter weight mill than something like a Norwood, Woodmizer, TimberKing or a Cooks. Over on another forum there are a lot of posts about the Oscar 18, and except for a few, the users are positive about it. Too bad they don't get online and join AS and then tell us first hand about the quality of the mill or of their experiences with it. Some guys in China or somewhere else in Asia are probably sawing with this HF bandmill right now! Except they'd have a Robin Subaru engine on it instead of the Briggs. I'd love to have a bandmill, but I really don't do enough milling to justify the cost so far. What if it's a really good machine and people that buy one keep it and don't return it? I'm interested in this mill myself, didn't know until now that HF sold anything like that. I think HF never sends any of that stuff back to China, it just gets sold here for pennies on the dollar to whoever wants to take a chance on it. If very many people in the US were buying these HF bandmills, the returns would eventually be showing up on ebay, being sold by ebay tool liquidator vendors real cheap. Some of the HF stuff is of dubious quality. I always do my homework on the net first before buying anything major at HF. HF will sell you parts for their products, and they will also happily accept a return and let you go get another one. And if you're lucky, it may be something that is actually very well made, like my big HF drill press. The HF bandmill might be a good purchase if you're handy enough to keep it running. Then, there's the HF stuff that works very well if you are good with machines and you can modify or beef up the item in question to make it fully functional (often done by a bit of welding or drilling, etc.). The quality of some of their stuff is surprisingly good. 5.56/.223 $600.Yeah, the welding forums *love* to talk about Harbor Freight. New Conventional Loan Limits by pianoman9701 How do the Idaho land owner tags work? by andrew_in_idaho Washington Wolves Put Down Following Multiple Livestock Attacks by jackelope WTF No muzzy or archery late season for BOTH Washougal AND Siouxon this year?!? by Calvin Raybornīest and most accurate case trimmer by buckfvr Got around to sending teeth in on a bull I took by cedarriverįS Remington 700 stainless 7mag by MADMAX Quote from: Shrimper on May 31, 2017, 01:33:34 PM Ah a sawmill thread. Cooks makes blades just for the HF mill and they are really reasonable at around $15 a blade.Ī piece of equipment is a must when moving logs around for milling. One other item is to get good blades for the mill. There was a coupon offered that brought the mill down to $1,799 and it came to just over $2,000 with shipping and tax for me. The people posting on this site have done some really neat things with their HF mills and this thread was what finalized my decision to buy the mill. Below is a link to a thread dedicated to the HF mill and there is a ton of good advice. I think the woodland mills have a very similar model to the HF and are probably built by the same manufacturer but cost more. Wish I would have just done this from the start instead of building and third piece extension. I also built an extension so I can mill up to 15' but I'm now in the process for building a new one piece track out of 21' 4"x3" steel angle. The biggest weakness IMO is the two piece track and getting that perfect for straight lumber. Looking at comparable mills I think the HF mill is the best bang for the buck. There is a big learning curve but once all the kinks are worked out this mill will cut superb lumber. So far the harbor freight mill has exceeded my expectations. The band saw outcuts the chainsaw mill 10-1. ![]() I have owned a chainsaw mill and now I own the harbor freight band saw mill.
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