Our Timber Frame Barn Build: Saw-Milling the Girts 

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That new blade cut through that yellow pine like a hot knife through butter.great tips on hand sawing

Thank you Nathan for explaining the notching for the sawkerf, this is great idea. I have seen Japanese saws used before but never with the explanation you gave with this video. Since I became disabled and not able to do the woodworking like your doing, even though I did many of them when I had my millwork business. In some ways, I am doing these things through watching your videos.

I agree 100 % on personal projects, do what brings you the most joy!

That trick with the knife and the chisel is called the knife wall trick .Timbers are looking good for the barn cant wait till it starts going up

Opening shot from the drone up the the forested valley was incredible. Could watch 5 minutes of just that.

I learned two non-milling things from this video. One, the reason why the japanese pull saws have that wedge shape is that on the back stroke the teeth dig in better, and on the push stroke they dig in less. Brilliant. Second, and I can't believe I have never seen anyone do this or even thought of it myself, when using a square it makes sense to put your pencil on the measurement and slide the square up to it. Completely compensates for the random shape of the pencil. Thanks!

Always enjoy your videos and appreciate your efforts to make them educational. I do have a suggestion. If you place a sawhorse closer to where you are using the chisel, you will get less bounce and it will be more efficient. By the way, that is a manly chisel.

I remember when my late father was teaching me how to saw, he used say “let the saw do the work” thanks for the memories.

Those Japanese saws are great, real handy.

Such beautiful scenery, of course it always is!!!

l sawed l have sawed and l did...Over and over again....Thanks sawmill man...Over and over again...lol...!

The file used to sharpen Japanese saws is called a feather-edge file. Sharpening them is definitely trickier than western saws, though, so many are like yours, with replaceable blades.

I love my Japanese saw. Been using it for over 40 years. Great tool for building or repairing wooden boats or doing interior joinery. Nice piece of wood. lovely color.

Some unique stress relief on the last cut. Sideways shift, not up and away from the center.

THAT INTRO THOUGH...Gods work is amazing!!!

Love the saw Nathan, really nice. My daughter is currently working in Japan and I’ve asked her to get me one for Christmas!! The white pine looks really nice, totally different . You have snow we have floods!! Looking forward to the next videos. All the best Graham🇬🇧🇬🇧🌧☔️💦

Thanks Nathan! You know, wood is just beautiful. Even that white pine was lovely. Can't wait to see that crotch walnut you'll be cutting. And the Japanese hand saws are a joy to use. Good cutting! DaveyJO in Pa.

White pine is reasonably stable and that log doesn't look crooked at all. No problem running a 8-1/8" square and then quartering into four girts. If it does crown or bow, put the crown up and the bow out in the building orientation. I just run a simple diesel drip on my bands. I'm guessing your getting a Big Al slotted mortice square for you next tool?

A hair dryer works great to thaw out those tubes. Won’t get hot enough to melt anything, and does the job.

If you watch the reflection in the saw and maintain the saw angle so it maintains the appearance of a straight piece of wood, the cut will be square to the edge you are watching. I use both Japanese and Western style saws often depending on my mood (LOL).

Liked that Japanese pull have to get me one of them and give it a try

That Japanese saw makes short work of those logs. I used to think guys were buyin them up because it was trendy. I might need to add one to my tool box

great video Nathan. im gonna have to re-watch it though cause crazy cat tommy was off in the living room napping in the sun coming through the front window. guess its to be expected it being the first warm day in almost a week. cant wait to see that big ol walnut getting milled. I bet its gonna be flat out beautiful. say hey to everyone from me n ol crazy cat tommy.

Hey Nate, great video! Glad to see comment about resaw, looks like some styles & rail stock. As a custom home builder in Maine & New Hampshire coastlines, we had a lot of freeze ups and if you like to eat in the winter, we would use a torpedo heater and a tarp tent to keep working. Even the masons were able to keep sand thawed and dry up concrete. Hope this helps. Mick from Hawaii

I really enjoy your channel, BTW it's been 80 degrees in California where I live

I too love the Japanese saw and hand tools.

👌 that saw is pretty fast. I bet I would cut it in about 10mins.....😂 I see inspector sign off on the log.....lol...have a great weekend with the family.

Nice job as usual.

Hi Nathan, Really enjoyed this video. After your remarks about loving to work with a chisel and a Japanese saw I thought you might enjoy this video on You Tube ..It's titled " Grand Pa Amu Made a Combination of Luban Table With a Piece of Wood". I have never seen anything quite like it . You may already know this mans work .

Its not about the speed, its about how you enjoy your time ;-)

Japanese saws are very accurate. Because you never load the blade in compression, it doesn't want to buckle and wander. In tension all the time it stays nice and straight. Because it stays straight by tension you can use a very thin blade and thus get a thinner kerf and less resistance. Same thing is true of Japanese chef's knives. You cut by pulling and the thin blade stays straight.

Yes back again...forgot to say that the opening shot was amazing.

Nice video! Good Job!

Looking good love the grain

Great video 👍

I like it

Very off topic, but I was thinking about this when the shot of the mill was showing the tires. ...Do you do anything to prevent flat spots on the tires while it sets there? Maybe pick it up and rotate the tire a few degrees? Do you ever tow it? Just curious. ....Excellent video

As a trucker, i can confirm that the “winter” wiper fluid will still freeze. Well above its “rated” temperature. Take that with a grain of salt though. Thats just my experience.

There's a product called Bostik Blade Coat that is supposed to stop the build up of pitch on your blade. I don't know how well it will work on a mill but I figured it was worth mentioning

It really pays to get a top of the range sawmill.

*When first scribing any line with the triangle or any square or any straight edge, one can first use any thin sharp blade, such as an X-ACTO type or any carpenter's knife. (draw a pencil line afterwards if you want a visual cue to see) It produces what is sometimes referred to as a Knife Edge, which is especially good when having to do corner planing to prevent wood burs or chipping... and produces the cutting edge you were after. | Plus, old time hands will just use their same carpenter's knife (with blade retracted to only a small tip point) to hand pull a cut through the wood that you did with your chisel... much faster, but requires skill that is learned only by making the mistakes of cutting too deep or skewed.*

Finally got to use a Japanese pull saw last week, was cutting 3×3's for a headboard I'm making and my back saw went dull, so since I didnt feel like sharpening it at the moment I grabbed my dads Japanese pull saw since it's just been sitting, in the package no less, for about 3 years opened it up and used it. Needless to say my dad isnt getting it back, dont arrest me but yeah totally stealing it

At 12:05 that was an odd to me tension snap, if I saw it correctly. What was going on there? Good seeing your hand tool methods. Thanks for the video.

I can appreciate you walnut-lovers, but it'll always be the pine for me!

Hey Sir really enjoy your videos, question I think I had a video about the spray foam on the ceiling, I am having trouble with drips of water ...did u have water dripping and if so did that spray foam stop that...thanks

If you have a freeze up next time use a hair dryer. Puts out some heat but not as a heat gun, this will get the job don with no damage.

Glad you saved the second and third cuts for re-saw....looks a waste of lumber if you don't.

Japaneses pull saw seems easy to use!!!!!!!!!!!! Most people beginning wanting to use the pull saw stroke!!!!!!!!!!!!

Can you sharpen and set this new blade type with your blade sharpening machine? P.S. Misread the title initially and thought it said Grits. Only thing they need is butter.

Was that a new shaving horse in the back ground?

If you want to do accurate marking out, you don't use a thick pencil to mark your lines, you use a marking knife - you also, as seen in your video, move the square to the marking knife, then proceed to mark your line (you can then use a sharpened, harder pencil to mark the line). Nathan, I must commend you, you're the first person I've ever seen on youtube lay your saw kerf in a prepared trough when crosscutting a board, this is a basic skill you first learn as a apprentice cabinet maker - long over due on youtube. However, may I suggest, that instead of a speed square, you use a traditional carpenter/cabinetmaker's square, they tend to be much more accurate. Lastly, I'd use a marking knife or a Stanley knife instead of a big 2 inch chisel, not everybody has a 2 inch chisel and they can be less accurate, because of the surface area, you have to strike them harder to mark your line, whereas a Stanley, you can run over the line several times, until you reach your desired depth, also its easier to be more accurate over a wider board with a marking knife/Stanley. Traditional European saws are at least as good, if not better than Japanese saws, but you have use them correctly, that is, let the saw do the work, most people try to over muscle a hand saw - any tool can be used badly, it not the tools fault, rather, its the person using it and their lack of knowledge of how to use it.

What is the black object that resembles a starter motor in from of your saw blade and it swings away as soon as cut is made? It looks like it pre-cuts the bark!

Paul Sellers uses the same cut. He calls it a knife wall.

What happened to that warm Tennessee weather? I saw a lot of snow.

Snow schedule??? I live in Alaska and kids go to school in my school district no matter how bad it gets. It don't matter if it snowed 3 feet kids are expected to be there.

Mama Cat for President!

what do you usually do with all your saw dust and cut scraps?

Damn, weren't you just saying it was 90 a few weeks ago? I guess the seasons have decided to change on you, eh?

That crotch log looks amazing.

😊😊😊😊👍👍👍👍❤

maybe momma cat is deaf??..:P

Any lumber from those cutoffs?

Everyone needs feline oversight or supervision. As almost any feline person will tell you. They also show you how to conserve energy, until 2 or 4 AM. Good Luck.