Making Lumber With a Chainsaw - FHC Farm Bulletin #1

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The process of using simple chainsaw attachments to turn logs into usable lumber for the small farm or homestead is briefly described in this very first edition of the Farm Hand's Companion Farm Bulletin.
The smaller attachment is a Beam Machine, and the larger one is an Alaskan Mark III portable chainsaw attachment for a 24 inch bar. (Mark IV's are now available at Northern Tool.)
Be sure and subscribe to the Farm Hand's Companion channel and watch episodes of The Farm Hand's Companion Show as Pa Mac takes an undeveloped piece of property and turns it into a small subsistence farm.
Also visit www.farmhandsco... to find articles, posts, photographs, and encouragement for today's self-sufficient farm or homestead. (And be sure to check out the General Store for books (like Pa Mac's "Building an Old-fashioned Pole Barn") or DVD's by Pa Mac at www.farmhandsco...)

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3 окт 2024

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@benbloomer7503 Год назад

It's good to see you living the life.

@robertclark2714 Год назад

Amen. We mill our own lumber and there is time to be with the Lord and appreciate the magnificence that He has placed all around us.

@georgeschmitt8205 Год назад

Oh man another FHC. Gotta save it. Can't just go half watching it while I'm doing something else.

@hillmeetsvalley3667 Год назад

Yahoo! Talk about a good way to start the morning 😁

@johnshearing Год назад

Getting ready to build a small timber frame. Been doing months of RU-vid research. I have found your videos to be the most entertaining, uplifting, and among the most informative too. Thanks so much for what you create.

@___PK__ Год назад

Gotta see his video about cutting the bottoms of cladding boards (say board n batten) on an angle. It works to shed the rain big time!

@johnshearing Год назад

@@___PK__ yes, thank you. I saw that one. It's a rare gem not found anywhere else on RU-vid. At least not that I could find.

@___PK__ Год назад

@@johnshearing Indeed. I did test it with flat and angled boards. I had a sealer on them. The difference in and after the rain is drastic. I still marvel at it. Have a great evening.

@adevx1824 Год назад

It's about cost for time and effort. While I love the romanticism of doing hand hewn with an axe or chainsaw... if doing 30+ logs the saved time of renting/buying a mill would lend well to overall build quality/ artisanal touches. The felling could be by axe and chainsaw, haul with atv or tractor and mill it!

@mylesfalconer9183 Год назад

Pa Mac, may your chain always be sharp. Your videos are one of a kind. Thx!

@youngguns1319 Год назад

Always happy to see you drop a new video

@ciphercode2298 Год назад

Always great to see ya. Kinda nostalgic seein your old jonsered 670.

@Cotton2Ennis Год назад

Definitely worth it, but the labor is what many do not understand if they have never done this. You make it look easy and some may question this in mid stream as they attempt it. Experience is what they are watching, the way he holds the saw and moves with the saw, these are things that take time to learn, but it is doable. If any attempt this 1) be careful and start out slow 2) do not make any jerking or fast movements 3) watch your hands and your feet and keep clear at all times. Good luck and enjoy the fruit of your labor!

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

Those are 3 good rules of thumb to keep in mind, Row. Thanks for the input!

@Cotton2Ennis Год назад

@@farmhandscompanion Thanks, I'm experienced working with tools, but you are the "master" at demonstrating the ways of old, I have learned things from you and am grateful to you for your instructional videos

@rogerhuber3133 Год назад

I really enjoy all your videos and always learn some thing new.

@Dezedaantje Год назад

How about wearing some nice earmuffs to go with your self milled lumber, so you can hear peoples reactions to your pretty wooden boards. But great video, love the chainsaw mill, affordable piece of equipment.

@douglasvantassel8098 Год назад

Thanks for making these!

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

You're very welcome, Douglas

@mriwayanofficial69 Год назад

Amazing procces ,good job👍👍

@terihomer5316 Год назад

I have done this with my mill and have a few oak logs to mill this spring.

@elizabethjohnson475 Год назад

Such a good video, obvious made so long ago, but nevertheless educational.

@LolitasGarden Год назад

It was about 10 years ago that I distinctly remember writing in my journal about a video I saw where a guy named Pa Mac use a chainsaw mill to make boards. Since then, I've chainsaw milled myself sick building a small cabin, and have upgraded to a woodmizer for building my house. Thanks for the inspiration.

@brianphilbrook5262 Год назад

I’ve got one of those chainsaw mills they are handy.

@Trailseeker13 11 месяцев назад

My grandpa modified a bit for his brace into a wedge type bit used for splitting wood in kindling

@scottlight3688 Год назад

Pa Mac, another great video. Glad you have returned to making these! - P.S. Wear some hearing protection! Your future self will wish you had! Or, maybe you had some smalls ones in your ear and I missed them.

@___PK__ Год назад

That's a lot of lumber!

@rbnhd1976 Год назад

Gonna be a good day thanks Pa

@BackToReality Год назад

Another enjoyable and educational video. Thanks, as always!

@badgerholefarm2656 Год назад

We've been entertaining this for months now. We have some trees laying out, drying, ready to go I'm just waiting on the nerve. This helps!

@hikerx9366 Год назад

What an awesome life you have, so self reliant, good humored and full of great and useful ideas for us all. All I can do is dream of such a life. ❤God bless🙏🏼

@johnreno9418 Год назад

I use an 80V electric chainsaw with an 18" blade, it is a smaller chainsaw than the ones recommended for the mill, so I had to grind down the clamp surfaces to clear the chain. After that it works well and does the job. I've always said that Pa Mac's videos are the best on You Tube.

@happilyretiredmark2964 Год назад

Awesome video as always. I kept waiting for a trip or a ponder or some other PaMac humor but this one was the teacher teaching....”here’s what you can do to cut your own lumber without paying $20,000 to do it.”

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

Thank you, Mark. Yes, these new short-form "bulletin" shows are produced in third person to reflect the style of the old farm bulletins of the early 1900's. There'll be more to come, too (but that's not to say there won't be a trip or a ponder thrown in from time to time, so keep a sharp eye out)

@babel1980adam 11 месяцев назад

Nice

@1969elder Год назад

I milled some small logs and ran in to some old nails on several. After I bought a small wand metal detector I discovered it was cheaper than replacing damaged chains and bandaids lol. Thanks for sharing!

@Kilroy1225 Год назад

Put one end of the log on the ground and saw down with the help of gravity- A lot less labor.

@danm18835 Год назад

Hello, Can I ask you a question?

@olddawgdreaming5715 Год назад

It's always worth watching this video often to see how it is really possible to use those chainsaw lumber mills and actually how simple it is to use them. Thank you for keeping these video's active and the entertainment you provide is fantastic. Fred.

@donaldgarmon7368 Год назад

Thanks for the walk-thru demo, well done!

@Sgt-Gravy Год назад

Awesome! It's a wonderful set of tools that can build a life.

@TheRedneckprepper Год назад

@doylerabjohn3435 Год назад

Great video, I am interested in getting a Alaska saw mill. You made that look easy. Thanks.

@deborahdanhauer8525 Год назад

Whatcha gonna build Pa?🤗❤️🐝

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

That's a good question. There's always somethin' I need to work on!

@deborahdanhauer8525 Год назад

@@farmhandscompanion can’t wait to see it, what ever it is to be! ❤️🤗🐝

@jimh4167 Год назад

👍👍👍

@Join.The.Partee Год назад

❤❤❤

@floridaknight3052 Год назад

How much gas does it take to slice up an 8 inch pole?

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

Not a lot at all for an 8 inch pole

@SaintCoemgen Год назад

The main problem I have with chain sawing logs into lumber is that the chain saw blade is so much thicker than a normal lumber making saw blade. So a lot of waste. For average sized logs, a good stout band saw would do more with less waste. I guess one needs to decide on the cost benefit ratio of that loss.....

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

That's correct, Saint Coemgen; everything usually comes down to upsides and downsides. At least with extra sawdust you can cover your chicken house or milking barn floor.

@SaintCoemgen Год назад

@@farmhandscompanion Actually, I was very wrong in specifics. That is, with a bit more research I found one can get a narrow gauge chain saw chain 0.043 inch (Husqvarna has one), or about 1 mm. Which would be about-ish a band saw width. So, for the specifics, if one wants to spend the money to minimize wood waste with a chain saw "lumber mill" one can. Ergo, I was wrong in specifics. A general chain saw still wastes a lot of wood IMHO. But that is mainly because I deal mostly with high value hard woods, where ever millimeter counts. As for saw dust, not having chickens or cows, I throwing saw dust into a compost pile (those I do have). Saw dust is a great source of "brown" material for any compost pile. Hope this helps.

@kevintulak9987 Год назад

I picked up an attachment a while back and am just waiting for enough snow and ice to melt so I can get to work. Do you use the regular chain on your saw or do you have one specific for milling? Thanks for sharing.

@farmhandscompanion Год назад

Hey Kevin, I've used both, and both work. The rippin' chain does seem to work better, however.