Well that came out nice.... Don’t forget to coat the ends... red oak really likes to check. Speaking of checks... if you arrange your logs so the end checks are horizontal... you’ll minimize the number of boards that have them. I realize that you can’t really do that when sawing for a certain grain figure effect... or when sawing irregular shaped logs. But, when they are cylindrical and straight... it yields more board feet of usable lumber.
Good morning from sweet water Tn. Love ur channel. U all do a awesome job. Hey just FYI u need a heavy ballast box 1k + pounds on the back of that tractor, I’ve seen people split the rear cases apart if the tractor has to much weight up front on the loader and the rear of the tractor keeps twisting like I’ve seen your tractor do several times. Just my advice and trying to safe u a whole lot of money in repairs. Keep up the great content. God Bless
Thank you so much. That is very helpful. I actually just built one a couple days ago. It is right at 1000 lbs. It has solved our issues and we can lift logs easy now
Just found your channel. Great job on the LT 15. Good looking Lumber!! Looks like you made that about a year ago can't wait to catch up on some videos and see where you're at. Speaking of where you're at I see a lot of Spanish moss and Palmetto. Where are you at. Well I'm headed back to quartersawing myself here in North Louisiana.... Have a good one
We have some frost on the pumpkins this morning with a temp right now at 33 F. Other than starting out cool it’s going to be what I call, “A San Diego kinda day,” here in SE Louisiana. Severe clear all day with temps getting up to the mid 60s with the humidity in the mid 30s.
You're correct. Standard "rule of thumb" for air drying is one year per inch of thickness. One should also seal the end grain to minimise cracking while the boards dry. Polyurethane works pretty good. Some mills use exterior house paint.
Suggestion: I would not use the orange square to draw straight and level lines. I would use a 2 foot level, that way I could use it to draw true horizontal and vertical lines. If you use a torpedo level to make sure your band saw blade is level. The 2 level may also be used. For wedges, I would the orange square to make blocks. (This square has 2- 45 degree angles and one 90 degree angle.) Note: The blue square (including the 2 legged squares) are seldom a true 90 degrees straight from the store. If you are interested I can tell how to check for square and how to adjust the square to 90 degrees.
I love the look of live oak, which as you know grows like wildfire in Florida -about the only thing I from Florida that I miss, it is a pain to work with but the grain pattern is amazing especially when the wood starts to splat (live oak can take up to 4 years before that happens). It looked like your saw was having trouble pulling the blade through- which is why I’m guessing live oak- so have you looked into the double hard 4 degree blades Nathan at OTW has been talking about lately? I ask because having experience with live oak and knowing how hard that lumber is those blades would come in very handy, being as how they are designed to cut frozen logs and lumber that rates high on the hardness scale. Anyway nice video and wow y’all are coming along nice since you started about 6 months ago. And have you ever heard of Matt Cremona? He has a video from a few years ago where he used a small log on his bandsaw and showed how he does quarter sawn lumber, I’ll look for the video and post a link in the comments to my comment
Ok so here is the Video by Cremona it can get a little boring but if you skip to 10:35 he starts the quarter sawn segment with a piece of branch log. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-IgMR1boYfTc.html
Save your highly figured scraps for woodturners to cutinto pen blanks and bottle stoper stoppers ... Sawyers seldom think about value added products ... Hookup with local woodworking clubs ...
You may want to check out Bus Motor Production’s video on their kiln, here on YT. They are building one out of a shipping container. You can get them as small as 20 feet long and up to 53 feet long.
👍👍 what are the prices for red oak rough cut: Plain cut: Quarter sawn: I think the 3 of y'all make a real nice team. 👍👍Very nice guys 😀 I have some red oak and want to know how to price it. Thank y'all.
I would wear safety equipment when using a chainsaw . If it was just one cut as in the video i would at least wear safety glasses but that is just me. Everyone is different and i'm not saying what everyone else should do, just what i would do.
Josaljo Won on RU-vid, ru-vid.comvideos made a solar kiln that would be cheaper, until you were ready to build one with heaters. You could search back in his videos where he talks about his kiln.
