Making a Sawmill Shed - PT 4 - Milling a Cherry Burl 

THank you

Ha! Thanks a lot. I really appreciate the kind comment. I've been using it some this last week and it works great and keeps the weather off the slab and the rig.

Thank you for taking the time to watch!

Thanks a lot! Sometime I want to just have a 2 car garage and not dozens of carburetors to tend to and tons of snow to push around, but i do enjoy it most the time. Thanks a lot for the comment.

Hey hey, good evening. Thanks for the nice comment man!

Thanks a lot for the suggestion!

Thanks a lot

Thanks a lot!

Thank you. i built and and designed it but it isn't mine. It is at a place where I no longer work.

Sweet! Well, both are good options methinks. I would love to have a big metal structure one day. I am so fond if I beams.

Heck Yeah! I am glad you stumbled upon it too! It is a surprisingly good shed design, and I would be happy to email you plans if you would like. I would love to check out more of minn some day. I put a new video out every friday morning. Very funny, the internet paying off. Well done. Maine humor.

@@BusHuxley Yessah...!!! I see a lot of "downeast ingenuity" in your projects. I'm glad you take all of the time to share it with us. My long term plan is to build a timberframe home on the 20 acres I'm on now. I've got 50-80 ft white and red pine throughout the property. Would appreciate the sketches

I actually considered something very much like this, a heavy fabric that was on a roll, but after having worked in it through all the seasons now, including some very heavy snow storms, the dead air inside seems to keep the snow and rain from blowing in. it never really gets wet or snowy.

Thanks a lot! This is a good point and I think we will probably do this soon, but we may be moving it once or twice in the next couple months. The door is still working great when I open it!

Awesome! Thank you very much.

Thank you very much

Thank you very much! Your very kind to say all that. It is an astoundingly well thought out mill. I cannot believe how much wood i can cut on that with not a whole lot of effort! If you give me an email, i can send along plans to you. Feel free to message me too if you want with your email. I think you could almost certainly substitute 6x6 for the posts and maybe scale is down a foot or two as well. Thanks again for the comment.

Your offer is very gracious, I would greatly appreciate you emailing me a copy of the plans. Regrettably, I do not know how to message you without making my email public. ?? Funny, I just watched your video on Chicken and biscuit and now I am starving. My mom used to make that all the time. You seem to be a very busy fellow, doing lots of fun stuff.

Hey there! Thanks for the comment on the CHix Bix vid. That good winter food. I guess you have to confirm your name with youtube, which i don't quite understand to send private messages. I wish it weren't so complicated. Im going to try and post the plans on my wordpress writing page so people can just go to it and download the PDF

Ok thanks. I'll look for it. You are truly a very talented guy, Mr Ranger. ;>) From what I have read about you I am thinking that your dad did a good job.

Here is one I don't mind public: gator1369@gmail.com I just tried it and it still works. Thanks in advance.

That is a good suggestion and one that I puzzled over at great length last winter when I was building it, but after a few giant snow storms I determined that it doesn't need one, as for some reason, the snow and rain don't really blow into that space. I think it is a function of the mass of dead air trapped by the three sides.

If it ever does run a steel cable at the top right with turnbuckles and thread a heavy tarp through the holes on the cable. Weigh down the bottom with anything and slide it to the end like a shower curtain when in use. Works well.

Thank you very much! I appreciate it.

Thank you good sir! Happy spring to you too. Yes, it make me feel like a simpleton with a short temper.

Yeah, I've seen that too. While I do heat with wood and I use the slabs to make maple syrup this mill is at the farm that I work at and we use the dust for livestock and chickens. I have thought about the pellet maker thingy.

My wife uses the sawdust from my band saw mill to mix with shavings that is used for bedding in the horse barn.

Thanks a lot sir!

Harold Gatlin Yeah, I have too. I got some good stuff out of this one but it was too far gone for most projects. I have a friend who is turning a lot and I bing many burls which I am finding in the woods.

Thanks a lot! Glad your here for the ride. As you can now tell, my aim is multi-directional as I am maintain many irons in various fire at one moment and filming most of it. Dust collection is working great.

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Ha! Imagine that! Thank you kindly sir!

Yes! I have thought about that. This mill is actually at a farm and we use the dust for all of those things. I've seen that technique used and liked it. Thank you.

Thanks. email?

@@BusHuxley yes its freddraw@yahoo.com thanks man

Email address and I’ll send em

Thanks, although, none of it belongs to me. It is all at a place where I used to work and no longer do. So it goes.

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Thank you very much! It is holding up quite nicely, a few months into the season now. Much appreciated.

David Hensley It is a good idea but I built this at a place that I used to work as no longer do. The shed was begging for tons of small shelves between the two bys

Leonard Shultz Thanks for the comment. It isn’t my shed. I designed and built it at a place I used to work. It kept the weather out surprisingly well without the curtain. I had thought about it.

@@BusHuxley Well I still think it was well built and looked good.

Sure thing. Email?

Sure thing! Thanks a lot for this comment. Very kind to say. send me your email here and Ill send a copy along

Any chance either of you still have these drawings?

Thank you!

I just let it dry naturally once it was built. Thanks a lot for the comment!

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@@BusHuxley egraham@egsinc.com thanks

Indeed I was! I was in fact just this afternoon milling in that shed some nice clean 2x4s and three 4x6s for the House from Trees I am building. It was really satisfying to look around and how well it is holding up. And it kept me dry the whole time!

Heck yeah! Thanks a lot and welcome! There is a whole lot of variety here, as my focus covers about 360 degrees. Almost every week there will be something a little different than the last week, unless is bust building season down on the house from trees, which is coming up here. Glad your here.

No problem. I hope it works out for you

Thank you

I dont quite understand. There are three total on the front.

Ha! The one gets all worked up when i lift that squeaky sawdust door. Thanks.

Thanks a lot. I milled everything in the absolute dead of winter up here in Maine when there is relatively low moisture content in the wood to begin with. But I accounted for the inevitable shrinkage in boards and the minor shrinkage in beams. It is ok to have some air movement through the gaps. Thanks for the question.

One of these days ill tuck into learning that program and just love it. If i can figure out editing software then i can do that, right? I looked at some span charts and asked an engineer friend. as it currently sits there isn't a hint of deflection over the 26' . I will happily send along my scrawled up plans. Thanks for the comment.

Sketchup is very addictive. But that's only because with it, you can test any idea you've ever had. Personally, I've modeled my entire property as exactly as I could (laser level, etc.). Including underground pipping, wires, and drainage. Now I can look at, measure things to see if I have room for whatever. And then there's my tools. I don't have a saw mill, but if I did, I'd have it modeled up in as exact a detail as I could manage, so I could test mods and such. One piece of advice though, use groups and not components. You'll soon understand what this means in Sketchup, but components never seem to completely let go of their "group", which makes latter editing a real pain..

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Sketchworks is good fun and useful but ultimately limited. The main issue is the difficulty in converting to CAD in the free version. As AutoCad is free, universal, more powerful and free I would take the effort to learn that instead. Less intuitive but much quicker when you get the knack. Thanks for posting, I could do with something similar for my mill but concrete is the biggest hassle/expense - how thick was you slab and does it have mesh/fibre. Cheers

The capacity is only 20' but yes I did mill that on the LT 35. It was a bit cumbersome, but not wholly impossible. The log i used was 27'" wide at the butt and 26'6" long. It was too heavy to lift with the forks, but the hydraulics on the mill hoisted it up onto the rails. I had the butt facing the engine side and had the 6 plus feet hanging off the far end. I would make a pass to the end of the rail and then with the running chainsaw, but the slab off and muckle it away. Then i would reset and roll the log and repeat until i had a 20' 10"x16" with a 6' round stock still on the end. I then ripped with a chainsaw one side of that flat. I then rolled the whole thing back towards the motor so the cut end stuck through the opening under the motor and over the levers. Then proceeded to mill that last 6' feet to the same dimension. then i cut off a few gigantic 1 by boards. i had the camera set up and rolling with a dead battery. of course. Show less

Thanks! That is a good question, and at this point, there really isn't anything i would do differently. I have milled many thousands of feet of lumber at this point and it has faced much weather of all sorts. I might make the rafters two more feet off the back to kick the snow farther, but thats about it.

Hey there. The front poles are 12' 6" or just over three meters and the back ones are are eight feet or just under two meters.

Address?

Bus Huxley egraham@egsinc.com

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Bus Huxley thanks

It is clear Eastern White Pine and it is 26'4" long. 8" wide and 14" tall. It was a little bit of work to mill is out as we don't have that extra set of rails on the LT 35, but it was doable. Really shitty to hear about your shed being taken down by a tornado! Terrifying. I would like to think that this would hold up to a hurricane, but who knows. I anchored the posts with a bunch of concrete lags and the sheer weight of it! So I have a clear opening of 26' wide and 12' high. Very very little rain or snow gets into the shed, amazingly. Thanks for the comment.

Bus Huxley thanks.. don't have any white pine left in South Carolina but I got over 350 yellow pine on the ground after the storm.. I'm sure that will work. Thanks

Everything is true to the numbers on the plans, actual 8"x8", 2"4" so on, so forth. It is the only way I know how to build. Dimensional lumber is very confusing.

Ten-four, ill send them along shortly if you fire off an email address to me. You can private message me if you want. Thanks!

elad the dad at g m a i l . com

Nice work! Thank you for the kind comments and interest in the shed. I have sent the plans along. That mill is a heck of a tool!

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It would be totally fine to do this up on piers.

@@BusHuxley i figured. Thank you for the reply. Just like to get others opinions. Anyway i could get a copy of the plans? I screen shot it but they didnt come out so great.

Sure enough. give me an email address that you want them sent too.

@@BusHuxley thank you. Huntbig24@gmail.com

@@BusHuxley any luck sending the plans out?

Western Maine. In fact this belongs to someone else who i was working for.

Just reply here with an email address and ill send it. Thanks

Ok thanks . creekcanada@gmail.com

I do. If you send an email ill send them too you. You can do a private message too.

Ive been pretty solid in there, with all the spaces between the green lumber that i sheathed with and the giant opening there is plenty of air flow.

Don Motz The sawdust exhausts on that side of the mill and can all be shoveled out and down the back wall. It’s quite a bit easier to shovel the sawdust into the bucket of the tractor right against that little door then up and over the mill. Thanks for the question.

You mean the bucket of the tractor cant sit level with the mill and shovel it into it once instead of handling it 2 times.....ok.....just more time and work just for sawdust.....lol.

I love your shed I just brought a wood muzzle lt_40 used mill I would like to build a shed could you send me your plans

I will be happy to but i need an address to send it to. the message feature is gone from YT now

Hey there! I will be happy to mail you the plans. Just send me an email address.

What’s yours?

@@BusHuxley I sent my email in a direct email to you. Thanks

That’s great! Send and email and I’ll send them to you. I’d love to see pics.

Sure. Email?

Thanks a lot! Yeah, I am becoming a builders slowly, but not one quite yet. You can do it! It is simple. Good luck!

fha gerber Thanks for the constructive critique! Just send me to the link of the video where you demonstrate the design, harvesting and milling of materials, and building in the middle of winter a 30’x15’ sawmill shed with a more elegant sawdust mitigation system. You spelled better incorrectly as well.

@@BusHuxley what ever it is still a shit system

It is indeed built almost exclusively with green lumber. Thanks!

Bus Huxley Awesome it is very nice could I get a copy of the plans? I just ordered an LT 35

Yes sir, leave an email here and ill send them along. Youre going to love that mill. I wish I owned one.

eltorobowen@gmail.com thank you!

Hey hey! Glad to have you here. There is going to be quite a lot of saw milling coming up this winter, for the house that I am building. This mill does in fact not belong to me, but a friend who i work for. We do a work trade for my time on the mill. It is really great to be able to fabricate anything board wise that I can imagine within 22' long and 24" wide.

That mill is at the farm that I work at and as you likely know, there is a near endless need for saw dust up there. Good idea though! I wondered the same thing. Making a hydraulic pellet maker!

Thanks for the sub. I am glad you're here and hope you enjoy the weekly uploads of the house build.