Watching the cutting machine you built... the frame wobbles a bit when pushed from behind... to would be good to pull the frame from the front with a line attached low front center for a smoother cut.
Hackberry always has such a neat bark pattern on it. It looks like a chain pattern to me. The one I cut three days ago was snow white inside of my Hackberry. It was only 8 inches.
Fun fact: According to Wikipedia, “USS Hackberry (YN-20/AN-25) was an Aloe-class net laying ship built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was originally ordered and laid down as USS Maple (YN-20) but renamed shortly before her October 1941 launch. She was later transferred to the French Navy as Araignée (A727).”
Was a bit surprised the blade cut horizontally- couldn't have been paying attention in the build video! I worked briefly in a sawmill back in 1970ish and all cuts were vertical with the logs brought in on railway type bogies so the logs were brought to the blade rather than the other way round. Great job😁
???? Thanks for enabling the closed captions on this video. I sure wish you would on the rest of your videos. Aguard for the blade would be better. Maybe not as necessary since you are behind the saw. The more times you resharpen the blades the more they will break. My blades try to go through the dust chute on the left pulley.
I've not seen a lot of hackberry, but I have a curly board I'm saving for something special. Mine looks like white ash. But the flat sawn bits have an 'electric' looking figure very similar to elm. One of the few woods that may actually look better in flatsawn than more quartered pieces.
That is a nice sawmill you built. I am wondering if you have a piece of sheet metal that you could create a guard for the blade? For your safety and our piece of mind. Thanks brother.
I call it Sugarberry. I tried splitting it for firewood one time. Its got a cross grain that resists splitting. Didn't realize it would hold up so well to rot.
Beautiful! My grandsons attend hackberry hill elementary school here in Colorado. when Europeans first came to this part of the country, there was a hackberry tree lonely up on a hilltop. Hackberry is not native to this area, so many legends arose about how it got THERE. It is nice to see the hackberry put to good use.😊
