Portable sawmill

A portable sawmill including a log positioning section, a log sawing section and drive means for said log positioning section and said log sawing section;

• said log positioning section including a supporting frame with an inclined face and a conveyor means disposed along said inclined face of said supporting frame with means to engage and move logs transversely of their lengths up the inclined face, said log sawing section including an elongated substantially horizontal log bed adjacent the upper end of the inclined face of said supporting frame, first conveyor means for moving logs along said bed, a first saw assembly including at least two substantially vertical saw blades rotatably mounted on a common horizontal drive shaft disposed adjacent said log bed, means for adjusting the spacing between said substantially vertical saw blades, at least two vertically disposed guide means positioned adjacent the delivery area of said substantially vertical and aligned therewith saw blades, means for adjusting the spacing between said guide means, a second saw assembly including a plurality of substantially horizontal saw blades rotatably mounted on a common vertical drive shaft disposed adjacent to said log bed, second conveyor means for moving along said bed located adjacent the delivery area of said plurality of saw blades, and said drive means including controls for independently actuating said conveyor means of said log positioning section and said first and second conveyor means of said log sawing section;
• said means for adjusting the spacing between said substantially vertical saw blades including means for rotatably supporting one of said substantially vertical saw blades, said saw support means being associated with another of said substantially vertical saw blades and movable toward and away therefrom, and means for effecting movement of said saw support means.