Nice job. But I do so wish you'd get a cutoff saw with a slide able to handle those boards without tilting them up against the blade guard. I'm missing part of a thumb owing to a mistake with a power saw. Please, please, please be safe.
Time is money, set up a bench with a sliding miter saw and a stop block and you will fly through that part of the job. No more measuring each piece and stop the cut pieces from falling on the ground. You are hard workers, Cheers.
100% agree. They could also look at a radial arm saw. Little more dangerous, but the old beefy powerful ones can be had for real short money. The sawmills around here still use them. Also, I'd put some effort into building at least roofs over this machinery operations. It'd be nice to have the mill under cover, and that saw station permanently set up.
Set yourselves up a little bit of an extension table with a 4' stop block on it, square the end and then slide it down to the stop block to cut it off. You can move it out of the way when not in use. I use this set up when I build with lumber off the Woodmizer for framing. Great for cutting studs to length or any repetitive cuts.
I am simply amazed how well you young ladies work together and are family. Running the band saw mill is tough work and you ladies working together make it look easy. I don't know how old you two are but that's a lot of work. Keep up the good work. I love watching your videos.
Loving your videos. You all do a great job making them. I did sawmill work by myself last week. 10’ boards was a good workout. The older you get the heavier those boards get and the longer it takes. Watching young people like yourselves make that work look so easy. Thanks again for posting and telling us some about how you business got where it is now.
Yep, like the longer vid showcasing more of your talents. Keep em coming. That looked like a gorgeous day in Pa. Hope you got a nearby swimming hole, it looked pretty warm!
Another great video! You gals are tougher than me! lol! I never mill in anything less than jeans, long sleeves and with gloves! I can't imagine milling in shorts and tanks and the resulting sawdust covered everywhere. Good show!
I agree with the other comments about getting a slide chop saw, it would be much safer, and a stop block could save a lot of time. I enjoy watching you all work, don’t want to see anyone get hurt.
Another great video! You work hard to get them perfect boards, only to be used as targets for hatchets! That must be painful to know how these nice boards will be butchered. Keep up the good work.
Thanks for the longer video. I'm not going to suggest what would make the work go faster, safer, more accurate, and efficient, you gals probably already know. keep up the good work and best regards.
Haha no way, a 10 minute video! Finally I can sit down and I don’t have to get up 3 minutes later. I really enjoyed the longer videos. Even though you might think they are boring they aren’t. Especially when your trying to learn like me. Em you should make a funny video with Sam, Jade and your little bro!
Thanks for the encouragement on the longer vids, I want to keep it interesting, you know? Funny you mentioned making a funny video because Sami and I have been thinking up some ideas recently! You might just be in luck...
@@lumbercapitallogyard Hey I got a perfect upload schedule for yall... Ironwood acres videos on Sundays and Funny or not timber videos on fridays (great way to end the week!) haha
New subscriber here. Noticed the drops and imperfect bass wood that you were pitching to the side. Bass is a very nice carving wood for fishing lures( I'm not very good, but I've tried it myself). This may be another market for you. Just saying........
New subscriber - love your videos. One question I have is how you picked Woodmizer over other saw mills. One quick comment about lifting board into blade. Sooner or later that will bind blade and can cause a wicked kick back. As a retired safety engineer I cringed when I saw that. I have investigated too many accidents where people have been seriously injured and in a number of cases impaired for life.
I follow your videos as soon as they come out ............Have enjoyed them all! But, you are working too hard when you are doing "cut offs" that take multiple repetitious measurements. Sugestion: get the Boss to get you a slide cutoff saw that will cut all the way through the boards you are cuting, (using a chopsaw the way you are doing is too dangerouse .... kickback)! Then, make up a table out of a 2x12 long enough to lay the boards you are cutting on it, with a 1x3 attached to the back edge. Have the Boss get you 2 flexable sticky back rulers that you can run along the top of the 1x3 back stop both ways from the center of your 2x12 table. A block of wood and a clamp will make a stop going either way. Where your drawsaw cuts through your back stop will be zero on either side of the cut ...... lay out your sticky tape ruler with this in mind. Now you can measure one time ...... set your stop and make as many repititious cuts as you want!
Ide love of what you're doing guys and I hope that maybe one day I can experience of what you're doing, maybe if you're in need of a Filipino worker I'm happy to apply for you guys to support my family
I see you lift up the board as it has not been cut all the way. I purchased a new Dewalt 12 rolling cut off and it has changed the way and speed I can cut. I do not think you need the lazar one but get the non lazar it less cost.
Curious about your sawdust removal...shovel it up by hand I assume ? I built my mill building similar to yours.....shed with open face on the loading side, back wall where the dust collects, and have shoveled for 30 years. Even with thin kerf blades, it piles up ! Getting ready to build a new shed, and got a little smarter this time. My mill is manual (no loader arms) so I built a raised log deck slightly higher than the mill bed and roll my logs in with a peavy. The new building, I picked a slope, cut into it and built a retainer wall 30" tall with a concrete slab for the mill. Now my logs can sit at ground level and still roll in on the mill that sits down. For dust removal, I bought a small grain conveyor, 8" wide x 20' long. I'm setting it on the dust side down in the floor with a metal grate to walk over. My plan it to sweep (or kick) the dust in the grate, flip on the conveyor motor from time to time and convey the dust off the lower side of the building. When the pile gets big enough, move with the tractor bucket. You guys could do the same (don't know what is on the back side of that cinder block wall) by digging a pit in the floor on the dust side and running a conveyor at an angle to pile on the back of that wall. Save a lot of hand moving.
Have you ever been told you have a unique gate,, something I've always noticed of people... I know weird right,,. But anywho you do.lols😎 Sammy looks like she cleaning a Chimney... lols. My mind wonders so... AIN'T IT JUST AIN'T IT 😎 And I like periods commas Smiling faces.. I figure you guys hear enough sawmill talk,, just trying to break the monotony.
Ask the boss to teach you to use a circular saw . You'll be able to measure the board slide a sticker under it then cut it with out lifting the board so much . You girls can do it .
Targets! At the Hatchet House where customers can try to throw hatchets and have them stick into the boards hung on the wall as targets. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-mW_SKVt94eM.html
Great video. I'm just curious, why don't you cut the logs to 4' lengths before you put them on the mill? It seems like that would save you a ton of extra work.
Maybe look at investing in a bigger mitre saw or a slider so you're not having to lift those boards up into the blade to finish out the cut that looks annoying to deal with.
