Wow thanks for letting me know. I just figured it was some dirt on the log mostly dulling the blades. Glad i dont saw a lot of hickory. Its not real common around here, and if someone has a hickory tree they dont want it taken down.
Nice she'd. 58 year old millwright here giving you advice. Don't bounce your logs on the machine like that. You're messing with all that leveling you did. Roll your log onto a couple of sleepers on the ground, then gently set it on your log bed. Also free wood should always be cut rift to quartersawn.. flat sawn will warp and twist too much.
Thanks for the tips! These big slabs being cut thick like that i have never had an issue with warping or twisting. Maybe luck or proper stacking but ill keep an eye on em, thanks for watching!
I just found your channel. I have a hm130. You did a great job on that hickory. Aka... Devil Wood. Consider 4° blade. It will help you on hardwoods. Honestly that's all I run on my mill. Good video.. keep them coming!
I was surprised how well that little tractor seemed to handle the log. It must have quite a bit of weight in the rearend more so then some kubotas i've seen and used. I like your little shed by the way and if you can ever get a hold of some wormy maple you will really think nice wood once you saw into it. I've made my coffee and end tables out of it several yrs ago and wish my floor was the same stuff. Back when i was a logger i'd often cut a good bit of the stuff around little streams and stuff but don't get into it very often now just doing firewood and stuff. I love messing with and cutting wood though. It's something that never gets old to me. Be safe and happy milling!
Yes the backhoe on the back adds 900 pounds and around 500 pounds in beat juice ballast in the rear tires keep in on the ground well. Never heard of wormy maple, sounds very neat, thabks for watching!
@@AaronTurnwald I was never able to see past about mid rear wheel in the video so i wasn't able to notice a backhoe. lol That makes perfect sense tho. You should look up the maple. No need to reply again and thanks for the response.
shagbarks notorious for holding and collecting dirt sand and debris in the bark folds ,...many times when i cut them using my chainsaw sparks fly from the chain if ya can knock the bark off ...i would , nice barn, mike
I milled some big hickory. I was planning on making some flooring. I planed some boards and boy is that some hard wood. Nice mill and building setup that you have. Hickory gets fungus growing in the sapwood till it dries out. I wonder if there is a good way to prevent that? I kept mine inside and it still had grey in the sapwood.
That was a very nice Hickory log, I don’t have any hickory on my land at all, 😢 I have lots of sugar maple, beech, eastern white pines, cedar, birch, spruce and fir. I also have the WM bandsaw HM126, with blade sharpener. I see you do 7 & 10 degree, I do 14 for the softwood, and mostly 7 since I saw lots of frozen pine throughout the winter. I love your shed.
Thanks for the comments! Yes i narrowed it down to using just 10 and 7 degree blades. Eliminated the 14 deg blades because i didnt see the need for them. 10s seemed to do me just as well. Thanks for watching, enjoy your mill!
Hickory is in my opinion the worst on chainsaw or any cutting devise, the bark is gritty without any added dirt from handling. I have seen sparks fly when cutting at dusk with chainsaw or in low levels of light. pecan, walnut, oak, gum, black jack, they are all murder on saw mills. Yes, the building is a Gem, very very nice. I agree about the slamming of the logs but sometimes it's unavoidable unless you tractor it off. you could put it on forks of tractor, roll it towards the tractor let it drag as heavy as possible against the back of the forks to ease the slam. you're not the only one that has slammed a mill, I have too, and lots of mills catch pure Hell because time required and effort involved, and many don't have equipment or help to handle properly. You can BURN up as much time at a mill as you want to, quarter sawing is very labor intensive on a manual mill. We had a Frick circular mill, still do but not been run since dad passed (23yrs) I don't remember him mentioning quarter sawing or the pith, Grandpa had a mill too but that was before my time,. my point is I don't know how long this quarter sawing has been popular. I just got the 130max but have been away from milling almost 30 yrs. I'm not against quarter sawing just have not done enough to have an opinion and its kinda new to me. Always plenty of free advise.
You can spray the log down with your garden hose or pressure washer to remove dirt from dragging it out of the woods. A wet log is cooler on the blade too.
P.S. Aaron i would to build nice dinette table to accommodate a large set of people . what will it take to have that done - by the way thats a great sawmill you have there!
Great video. How much was that mill if you don't mind me asking? I have 55 acres in the mountains of Virginia covered with huge poplar trees. I plan on buying a mill in the next few years and cutting the lumber on site to build my house with. Timber framing. I would like to have a 20' logbed, 16' minimum. These poplars are straight as an arrow and no limbs until the very top 1/4 of the trees.
Did you jack up the small end 1 1/2 inches so the center of log is parallel to the mill? You did say the small end was 18 inches and the big 21 inches right?
Average shagbark on my farm in Southern Indiana is probably around 25" at breast height..I've milled alot of hickory and I hate it. It's the hardest most abrasive wood I've sawn.
Your first video for me. Noticed that you have a bucket to catch the sawdust and very little room next to that wall. Is there a reason not to turn the mill 180 degrees around so the sawdust would blow out toward the doors?
Hi Thanks for watching! I believe the video is deceiving. The walk space is 5 or 6 ft wide on the bucket side so no issues walking around. So far the bucket process has been excellent an I haven't had a need to change it.
Lol! Brock, it appears that having a dead battery clock in the background is a good way to generate comments. Have had multiple people in different videos notice that clock. People like clocks!
I've got tons of hickory trees on my lake property in Kentucky. Don't really like the mess they drop on the ground. Plan to cut down many of them. No real market here. Good firewood though. It's hard on saw chains, bandsaw blades, woodworking equipment but can make nice cabinets. Considering getting a mill when/if COVID prices improve. Any advice would be appreciated.
Best advice i have is, get a mill. Some of the most fun you will have if you like woodworking or anything related. My favorite kitchen cabinets i have ever seen are hickory.
I have the 130 max without the trailer, and my only regret is not having the trailer. The 130 Max is a great unit and will make you so many sellable boards to pay for itself in a very short time period. There are better blades available for these mills, taking things slowly will increase your board footage also. Again, no regrets on purchasing Woodland Mills products.
It depends on the species of wood. I dont really get much hickory like this but being hard as a rock i dont expect much loss in thickness at all. Now some of the wood like pine thats soft i have seen as much as 1/4 inch loss. Thanks for watching!
Its the outer layer of lighter colored wood. Every tree has it. Its the live part of the tree that carries the water and everything the tree needs to live.
