welcome to Firewater Farm sawmill. this is a family business where we cut, we sell & show yall what we do down at the farm. We cut any type of wood, pine, cedar, walnut, ect. no doubt that this is probably the best sawmill & wood cutting business thats out there as of now.
Great video, I’m from Maine, but moved to Littleton, 7:46 North Carolina last year. I bought a house with a 1800 sq ft. Wood workshop and just retired and will be getting into woodworking. I get green wood and slabs from my from my neighbor at below market value but need a kiln. I will be building a solar kiln but also had the idea, I guess not unique haha, to build one from a container like you have. It’s good to know I can checkout Nyle up home and will. Not sure how far you are from Littleton, NC but would love to see your set up one day.
@@firewaterfarmsawmill are the molecules of the wood very shaky and very fast as to cause a warm feeling on the skin or show a high number on a thermometer
Yes sir we dodged a bullet with that hurricane. had 6 inch’s of rain from it. You can mistake if I’m wrong, but. haven’t we had a Helene before or I’m probably thinking of something else.
@@firewaterfarmsawmill As I recall, central and eastern NC got it from super storm Sandy in 2012, then another hurrican blew threw in 2016 that all but wiped out our dog breeders farm in SE NC with 8" and the resulting flooding.
Probably wood from the Amazon because we humans love to destroy this planet! Soon, there will be no going back! We’ve stripped all the animal’s habitats, and are fishing out the ocean, to the point the whales are dying of starvation! Sorry, but I never feel good when I see a harvested tree!
Great video, I'd be intersted in seeing how square the beams are before and after the trim. You can place a framing square on it for comparison. Did you cut a half inch off each side? I recommend a portable corded 3" Makita planer, if you want to surface the extra ones you own.
Do they charge you to mulch it, or do you give it to them for free and they mulch it and sell it to redeem their mulching costs, or do they buy it from you, mulch it, and then sell the mulch?
About every 6 to 8 months they come out to mulch it. But yes, We give it to them for free to mulch it all up. I wish they can take all the hard woods of slabs and logs we got laying around that has rotten of the years but sadly thats not profitable for them to do. The only thing they come out to mulch as seen in the video is just cedar. Probably in the next 6 months they’ll come out again to mulch. Thanks for watching 👍🏼
It all depends on what you’re cutting. Like for example; if I’m cutting cedar with a new blade. I can cut about 15 to 20 logs.(using a ripper blade)But if I was cutting hardwoods it tends to get dull on me about 8 to 10 logs. I Always use a turbo 7 blade when I cut hardwoods. But I do remember having a blade one time on the mill that lasted me 3 days! But that usually happens every blue moon. Most the time the reason it lasts me so long is because it gets sharpened a 2nd time. Thanks for the feedback back!
lol no, it took us 3 days to saw that up. A week and 5 days to cut the rest the logs. In this video I sawed up the 3 big logs we had. Left for the guy.
Y'all doing a good job on the yellow pine I have sawed it and southern red cedar a lot and it's always nice to see and I love to saw red ball cypress which is another southern wood . God Bless Y'all and have a great day 🙏🙏🙏👍💪
Yes it is red ball cypress that grows in the south swamps you aren't going to find it in the hills it's usually out in the middle of a pond if you can find the ones that got left from people years ago that have been on the bottom of the pond or river, Creek and so own you have something that is usually much more valuable than black walnut there are bigger mills from Texas to the Carolinas.Makeing flooring siding paneling I have a few big ones in my ponds but I don't cut them down in less I have a deposit for the wood but when I find one that is in the mud and water and I can get it out I saw it in to cants and put it in the barn it's better than money in the bank.if find some in a pond you know it is red cypress it shads it leaves it is in the cedar family but it loses it's green in the winter juneapr and cedar stay green year around I have all of them on my land and some black walnut and I don't cut them in less I have money in hand I also have a few pine sinker that I find in the water here in a few months when the pond lizards go to sleep for the winter l will be out there looking for them easy to find in winter the water is cleared up and lower here south east Alabama north Florida, butt God Bless Y'all and have a blessed week and stay safe 🙏 and if I get the money I will owen one of them hydraulic cook sawmills I have a manual home made with some cooks part on it but every time I go over to cooks to get blades or something I have to walk around the ones that they have out to ship or pickup a lot better than anything else out there in less you get a Baker but then you are going to have spend the money but people buy them woody mixers all the time and then they start a ut chanel and thinking they are going to get rich like some of the people that have had channels for years
There’s two reasons why we do it. 1 is because we like to see what we dealing with. Also making sure if it’s rotten. And secondly the most important of them all is because if you leave the sawdust on the cant. While cutting, the sawdust will start to clunk up on the bed of the mill. And make your cuts inaccurate. Pine, oak, walnut & sweet gum is really bad of doing it. Cedar or poplar logs tend to be pretty clear and no need to clear the sawdust.
I routinely cut pine logs that size on my sawmill. I don't consider a log that size a challenge until you get to 20 ft in length. I cut a lot of big timbers and it's hard to get a big timber from a small log.
Y'all kiln dry that gum?. Been wanting to saw some just heard bad stuff all my life about sweet gum . Chanel I watch called bearded lumber saws it. I'm bout ready to try
Yea. Bearded lumber seems like they know what they’re doing and good people. But sweetgum ain’t to bad to saw. Majority of it got sold to a man that lives in Texas and he drove all the way from there to North Carolina to pick it up. Will say. Whatever you do with sweetgum is when you saw it make sure to scrape the sawdust off. We’ve learn when stacking it if you leave it out in the rain, or a very humidity in just a couple of days. It will stick together like glue and be a pain to pull them apart. All the sweetgum you see we sawed was 4/4 and the thickness stayed the same. And the with stay majority the same surprisingly! Probably only a few boards shrink a 15/16 of an inch
We’re located in small town name Peachland North Carolina. Got about 200 boards of cedar that are 1x6x8’s. In stock, if you’re really interested in buying wood. And it’s not too bad of a drive for you. Hit us up on our email. Firewaterfarmsawmill@gmail.com for more information. Thank you.
@@firewaterfarmsawmill Oh Yea. I'm sure you know where Cherry Point is. I just looked , it's a 4 and a half hour trip. May have to take a day off. Make a trip of it with the wife and 4 dogs. Can't be gone 8+ hours. I'll be in touch. Thanks guys.
No problem, I’m here at the sawmill for Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday Wednesday and Sunday i do my second job. So any of them 4 days in the week would work best. Again, thanks for the comment and checking us out. We appreciate it down here at the farm.
with pine, most the time it will shrink 1/4 of an inch. so with the 1x7's we cut it came out to be 6 3/4. and the 1x8's came out to be 7 3/4. and with the thickness of it. it surprisingly didn't shrink to bad at all. we cut it up into true 1 inch and it shrunk down to 7/8.
