custom sawing slippery elm logs # 558 

Hi Mark, Ed, ZZ, & Hank. Beautiful lumber. I completely understand the " safe factor." Elm trees were unpredictable logs. That I ever cut down in my 37 yrs of firewood logging. The hardest to split. We wait for below zero weather to split one tree. We had a backup of dry firewood. They were " wettest" wood too. It smelled like " fresh tanned leather" too. I heard a man that said: Elm is a waste a time! It heated our house quite well. We do chunks of elm logs & " bank" the woodstove. There will be 3/4 of the logs gone in hot coals. Put on more & continue to heat the house. My first time seeing in lumber. Thanks everyone. Until the next one. 😍😊😉👍❤️🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻

Really enjoy your channel. This slippery elm episode reminded me of a phrase I heard when I was a kid , a very long time ago. "Oh woodsman spare that “Slippery Elm” it’s the only tree my wife can’t climb…".. Thnx Jon P.

Great to see one of those logs nobody would buy get turned into something useful and beautiful! A Cinderella log!

I really like watching thee videos. Really interesting how you deal with problem logs.

I enjoy watching the way you and Mr Eddie work together.

Mark with those very ugly logs you proved you are a master of that mill. Wow great job and some good looking lumber.

Good evening from Lincolnshire UK.

Thes odd logs make for great viewing. Great job. Ever do a weeping willow?

I run a bandmill and I agree with you; the best metal detector is the first cut with a brand new blade

Oh, I pine for the good old days (early in channel) when Mark looked out at the log yard and said, "We have so many logs, we'll never run out!" You all need to start a go fund me for logs me thinks. I love watching Mark, Eddie and the crew in any case!

I have been told that elm does not make good lunber due warping and internal stress. Good luck to owner getting anything good out this lumber. As I watch this video it is reassuring to see the log move about on the cradle as it is being sawed. At least it makes an interesting video. Pretty tough trying to make something from nothing.❤😂

Half past one in the morning , we used to make wooden bearings out of elm for field rollers it was also use for farm trailer floors , still remember screwing floors down with a cranked screw driver always an apprentice job, any way have a nice day

Nathan doesn't saw near as much as he used to. It's great to get my sawing fix from you and Eddie.

Nice. Our barn is elm truss. My Grandpa's father sawed the trusses for that about 1920. This video today gets me thinking how tough it was to do that back then. Really made the old Case steam engine have to work. I didn't think to ask Grandpa what they did to check for metal back then. There was more virgin timber in those early days. Quite a puzzle sawing these. Grandpa was very impressed.

Every time you have to go outside to get a chunk of bark 0ff something and I get to hear the growl 0f the bus motpor again, you're going to get me to wishing the dorr would fall 0off that dog house. Yall did FINE with that elm and the bark was certainly slipping on them. Happy Steam Show and God BlessI

That elm is beautiful wood. I'll make a gorgeous live edge table !

You did a great job squeezing all the usable lumber out of those as you could. Plus you made somebody's day getting all that lumber and it didn't go to firewood.

I love a good challenge.Just to see what happens.Great video.

Jack Nicholson in the movie “Goin South”. “We’ll do all we can do, but that’s all we can do!”😂

Thank you for another great video. Cheers

Great sawing video 😍 love you guys, you are awesome 👍🙏

That's some pretty slick sawing.

In the early 1970s, I had a good friend who built his own house. He built all his kitchen cabinets out of slippery (red) elm. They were gorgeous. In our area, red elm was called "poor man's walnut."

It was neat seeing you play with those nasty elms.

Those are logs one would cut on a horizontal band saw that makes slabs.

10 out of 10- for making fire wood , Mark

Thanks mark! Enjoyed

That was one of my favorite videos! I kind of enjoyed the not so great logs, if they don't turn into pretzels, it may make some decent wood.

Gnome Bros is really keeping his area clean WOW

For what you had to work with you guys did an awesome job. May GOD bless.

I am looking forward to seeing u'all at the show. I never used or sawed any elm.

Awesome job 😎👍🪵

that was challenging and fun. A Friday video on Thursday. Hope to see you guys Saturday.

The ZZ Mark mystery deepens!!

Nice sawing

Happy birthday Brother! Enjoy your last year in your 50’s ! 🎉❤😂

Nice job Mark

Another nice video thank you

Go to proof how good you are at running at sawmill couple of those logs I don't even think I would have tried awesome job

That was a near miracle that you got that much useable lumber out of those nasty-a** logs! A master at work...

Thanks for sharing

Live edge double boom! No milling around!

The big 56” metal detector will always find it…🤣🤣😂😂😆😁

Still great workgood job😊

I understand what Eddie was meaning Mark "just keep cutting 2" live edge slabs don't flip it or anything no squared up edge's just keep cutting 2" live edge slabs" but that's just me that's what i understood Eddie was meaning....

Not to bad of yield for what you had to work with mark, don't let the negative people get to you bud this world is full of experts

ELM?? Very rare in NW WIS. God job on the BOOMS and U-G-L-Y logs!💯💯😎😎👍👍

@Mark Galici , what is the name of the generator/power supply you have used at the saw mill, showing it in past videos?

East central Illinois checking in.

@ 4:28 man the Gnome bros has such a clean area wow

Thanks for an interesting challenge.

Your head and back of the shirt really show the laser!

The best looking piece of wood I ever worked with was curly red elm.

All in all it has a nice grain pattern

Sage, Arkansas checking in.

Hello from Muncie Indiana

Nice pitch on victim #2.

Go Team!

I still can't believe you were able to get any good wood out of those logs. When you sere sawing the last one, we could see the bottom dog in action coming upward. Bill

Elm can be weird but it is beautiful and tough!

Does your metal detector pick up on non ferrous metals like lead? We never worried about lead because it's soft enough to not hurt the blades. We got a decent amount of trees with lead in them and sawed them. We only sawed pine trees.

I have so many swamp elms they don’t even make good firewood, I leave them for the woodpeckers 😂

Complete newbie to milling with maybe a dumb question - how do you find buyers for large lots of lumber?

a little scary at times with those logs.looks a little stained,mabe bar tops or tables? good job sawing

They say even a turd shines when it wet. Lol Nice log cutting. 👍

Still great work

Nice job guys ty ❤😊

We need the BE WHERE OF THE DOG SIGN PUT BACK or at least i would like to see it bach nice vid of sawinglike watching for me its some thing i have never done but enjoy watching the hole process you need to show some of the mettle findings Cheers

Are you going to do a live friom the steam show this Saturday, would love to see it but to drive from Nebraska would be a little extreme. Thanks for all of your videos!

Starting to get hot down in S.C.😎

You have not sawed such poor shape logs in a long time. I am sure it was not worth your time but sometimes you make a sacrifice for a friend. I am glad that you were up for the challenge. At least you got a girl (in the background I think) on your video this time. Good to see you and Eddie.

Those seem a bit short guys, well accepted the first one, it was pretty decent, wats the story?

Good video Bus Motor Productions

hi there you made some nice lumber out of those ugly logs john

Southeastern Pennsylvania here.

Hi Mark. I have a couple of Australian number plates or license plates as you call them i want to send to you for your wall. Where do I send them to? Love your vids by the way.

The board with the pith is called the dog board, right?

These logs look like good candidates for chainsaw milling, especially if the customer wants live edge slabs.

I decked a trailer with a recently dead elm. That deck lasted well.

Heres hoping ZZ can get out early on good behavior to be able to make the show! 😊

1:23 is that the Mrs. from Riggins Ranch'' youtube channel?

Love a good challenge.. 🥴

A person has to be pretty hardup for lumber to that kind of crap in.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly. The Good are the operators, the bad and ugly are the logs.

56 inch metal detector!

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I'd call those LEPROSY Logs.

I miss seeing ZZ Mark

That number two log was a mean and nasty son um a gun.

I think he thought you were going to slab through it without having to turn the log.

Debarking the hard way. Yeesh.

Sometimes you have to eat your sawdust and make the best of the situation at hand.

That's some NARLY WOOD! 😲🧐. Not even,,, pellet grade wood . O well. 🤕💰💰💰💰👍💯😁

Sometimes it’s Better to say ni!

any dogs up dogs down plus booms for the kids today

Mark: "This is Monday and we're filming the Friday night video"...we're going to release it on Thursday, as you can tell the days of the week have absolutely no meaning to us, everything is up for Mill-Speak interpretation. Is that RENS metal detector, part of their *Ren & Stimpy product line? *Ren & Stimpy 91-93' Adult Swim cartoon characters. You must have got the deluxe RENS model, the one that comes with a custom 'Hank' detector caddy.

The customer asks for through-and-through sawn 2" boards, so you turn it into cants and give them 7" boards??? You wasted the best part of that first log. And the second log would have looked fantastic with the crotch flat and at least four good boards, but again, you turned it into rubbish. Sorry, buy Eddie was right to call you out on that.

21:05 You can't hide the WTF in your voice haha

Some of that grain looked good. But those were some ugly logs that you had to work with. You are a pro. "What are we doin; here? Making fun content even when the logs aren't great....or maybe because they aren't great.😉

The slippery elm has nice grain . Ugly logs .