Blue Collar Jacket: www.cotoworks.com Patreon: / carlrogers Instagram: / carlroge 00:00 Introduction 00:39 collecting green oak 09:17 cutting oak straight 19:30 experimenting 24:50 new techniques
He also seems to ensure that equipment sounds are not too loud; no sudden, unsettling drill or circular saw sounds. Thoughtful, creative artistry is pure reverie.
You can often rescue green wood bowing by re-wet the board thoroughly, then set the bowed side up in the sun while keeping the underside damp. Care will have to be taken with oak that no iron is touching it or it will blacken quickly. After the initial drying in the sun set it in the shade as you did. Maybe over bend the bow a little so when it dries it will relax straight. Of course all these tensions will release somewhat during re-sawing so it's still hit or miss. Also you may find that, though, counter intuitive, cutting width off of the concave side will help straighten the board since it is the side that is under higher tension. If you cut off of the convex (weaker) side the bow can become worse.
As woodworkers, we rely on our tools to help us shape the wood. When they fail us, the engineer in us finds another way to get it done. The best woodworkers and carpenters I have ever known are excellent engineers. Carl and his dad are up there with the best of them.
You are one of my favorite channels to watch. To see you restore these items is beautiful. The way you film everything with your commentary is perfect. Well done! Watching from USA
$3.75 per board foot here in Emmet County, Michigan. Love the show and have been watching for a long time, and it is hard to wait for the new show. Be safe, take care, and see you on the next show.
Carl, Glad to see you back on your project. The Makita circular saw might benefit by using a solvent to remove the resin built-up on the blade. All the best!
You've taken on a complex engineering project, Carl Rogers. Watching your testament to determination, calculation, manoeuvring the beams, et al., to achieve, as closely as possible, a reasonable elimination of the bow in the behemoth beams by various mechanical and hand-tooled means. You, sir, are the personification of the literary device Man vs Nature. Hang in and may your effort be fruitful. 🎉🎉😊
It's always a treat to watch you work on your massively ridiculous, but fabulous projects. And I mean ridiculous in the best possible way. Please keep the projects coming. Praying for your health as well.
Finally another episode. 😍 When opening ratchet straps, open them all the way up and pull on the loose strap. this will unwind the "spinny thing" and you can easily pull out the strap afterwards. Keep up the amazing content! Cheers from Germany
Your respect for restoring old things is one of the reasoms ppl like you. Reminds me of Scott from The Scottish Isle...bet they would love some of the toys you have! 😅
Carl, I woke up and had a nice cup of coffee watching this video. Looking forward to the next one. Happy holidays to you, your family, and channel fans.
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Sorry to hear about your auto immune disease. My wife also has AS. She has good days and bad days but the most important thing you can do is get on a treatment plan and keep moving. ❤
😊 I was very worried about the fire hazard with all the sawdust. Build up in your shop and I notice. It's cleaned up suessentially, which alleviate my Concern for you, so good job, keep it up.❤
Missed you much, glad your back. I'm so impressed as you are so clever. A permanent disease sucks, I have one my self, but we do force and I do mean force but we could be worse "I keep telling my self that". The work your doing is so interesting to me and many others, it's fun to watch your mind in action as you figure thing out. The roof, the staircase are just wonderful works of art, I'm so proud of you myboy, just antisopating your next segment of this project. You take care, rest when needed, see you next video, much love. Afriend.
All this work and a why I like working with metal over wood. Don’t get me wrong wood is beautiful and you do some outstanding work and I enjoy every minute of every video you post.
I am quite surprised you opted for free of heart here. In hardwoods, that often results in great spring from large timbers. It might check less, but will also check unevenly. Hopefully the mill left you enough material to bring it down to final dimension and have enough for your needs. Hats off to you as always for handling and working green oak! Good luck.
Carl always good to see your notifications come up!! I think that guy was burning leaves in that truck for fuel 😃 I didn’t mind the broken glass but I hope it was empty and no wine was lost in the making of this video!!😳. Nice job that’s a ton of work as anyone who has done it will know! 👍👍👍
Good to see you back at work on your project Carl. I’d figured that perhaps you’d had a relapse after I hadn’t seen any new videos from you for a few weeks. Take care of yourself and I look forward to the next installment of your build 👌
around €90 a cubic foot in Ireland at the moment, for proper seasoned oak, reclaimend (150+year old) 250x110mm 4m long beams were being sold recently for €500 each
Awesome project Carl. You deserve a long life to enjoy that awesome house you are restoring. I’m building a hut here in northern Spain with oak beams. The last piece of green oak i bought cost 100€. Length 250cm width 20x20cm. Hope it helps
I own the Festool track saw and have re-sawn thousands of feet where the cut didn't go all the way through. You should have just flipped the beams and finished the deep Makita cut with the Festool set to the right depth before ever using the bandsaw and planer. A million ways to attack a problem, just worked for me very well in the past. Good luck and thanks for sharing.
Was in the garage today working on my own woood working projects thinking - Wonder when Carl Rogers is posting another video. And here you are!! Love your videos. Thanks for what you do. My price from the local store for dried oak shorts 4/4 is $6.99 CAD per board foot. For 8/4 rough material it is $9.99 CAD per board foot. Canadian Funds in Saskatchewan Canada.
its 2033 local time on Thursday the 7th of Dec 2023. i have a ADVANCED DATA WAREHOUSE AND DATA MINING tomorrow morning at 0900hrs. I stopped studying and gave 34 minutes to Carl, i respect your craft and commitement!
Good afternoon! Excellent work! What is important viewing here is the process and entertaining narration. You do good work not only in the finished product, but how you got there....
Smokin' trucks and vans are so common in rural France! For your big saw you can buy adhesive backed PTFE tape used in industrial production lines, very hard wearing and about .5mm thick.
I'm in Ontario Canada, and you can not get anything like that here.. the mills that could cut it are booked solid with soft woods and no one wants to bother with hardwoods, too hard on the equipment. But I would estimate about $8-10K here.. Nothing amazes me more when watching these French renos, then how they just casually go about buying chestnut, oak and all sorts of awesome hardwoods like it was nothing.
A trick I heard about but havent tried is to clean up both side faces smooth, then split the beam down the center and glue both bowed faces together so you end up with a curved glue line down the middle. Might not be best for your application but it may work for a straight starting point.
IDK how things work in France, but as a professional carpenter in the U.S., I would never take delivery of or pick up beams like those that the lumber yard supplied to you. They left them in the sun before pickup, and in doing so, ruined them. If those got delivered to a job site, they would stay on the truck and go back to the lumber yard, and we would tell them to send usable ones. It amazes me that your lumber mill didn't know better than to leave green wood out in the hot sun to bow.
I recall from the restoration project they has a serious take it or leave it attitude. I got the vibe of they have more than enough business and didn’t particularly care for outsiders…
France is the same as the US. It's just that he ordered them and they were quickly ready (2h remember) they cut it so he could pick them up right after, he had to organised with his mother to come and take them. It's direct fresh cut wood from sawmill to customer in 2h.... If they would sell them to professionnals, they'd store them for drying out.
When I’m carving spoons from greenwood after cutting, I put them in a plastic bag with the shavings this stops them drying out too fast and splitting and warping, I certainly don’t leave them out in the really baking hot sun. Scale this up for the fresh cut oak, (ok it would have to be a big plastic bag 😕) but there must have been some way to lessen the warping with careful handling and slower initial drying. Anyways up enjoyed the video glad to see you back, take care. J Ecosse 🏴
I would’ve removed the stack sticks from the ends of the beams so they could’ve be ratcheted past parallel, then as they dried the initial bow would be corrected or wouldn’t be as bad
Here in Washington county NY (USA) Oak runs between 5 and 10 dollars a board ft, quality of the wood and whether it was plain or quartersawn has a greater impact on price than grean vs seasoned. once you get into finished to dimension and kiln dried lumber the price is more in the 12 dollar a bdft range bd ft is 1/12 a cubic foot which is 1/35 of a cubic meter
Great video as always Carl. poor form from the wood mill in fairness. They would have known leaving them out like that would have really warped them quickly. they could have atleased strapped them all together and put some weight on them while waiting for collection.
I use those same saw horses as a carpenter in the states, on my 2 nd set! If u want to make them better place a 2x6 on top and screw it down! That way no worries about cutting them or running you blade , project, ect.,. ! Nice video Mr Roger’s :)
Rework the fence on your bandsaw to work off the opposite side. That will allow you to rest the weight on the beam just like the circular saw. Adjust or make blade guides for the bottom of the blade to ensure the blade doesn't wonder off a 90º cut. You will still have to stop to move the saw horses but will be able to leave the saw in place while doing it. Obviously none of this is any help for these beams but perhaps something for your future beam work.
big nice worm greeting from Egypt , oak costs about "32000 Egyptian pound per cubic meter" about "800 Dollars per cubic meter " and that is seasoned oak we have no green wood here as you may knew that already since our land mostly desert
Nice to see your videos again. The trick with the bandsaw is not to use the handle with your right hand but to use your right hand on the fence guide. It was actually made in the location to use it as an balancer. If you try it you will know what i mean. Also you can remove the guard to the downcut side of the blade to saw but i have mixed results of blade deflection there. If you have two lines on botn sides you can team up and make a cut as well frome the sides with two persons. Cheers!
Ah the "bleu de travail" i think i must still have some back at my parents from my days working in factory. Very handy and protective, i always wondered why blue...
Good evening Carl from North Wales. Have you thought yet about how you are going to construct ... and waterproof ... the curved roof of your shepherd's hut? I currently work for an organisation that builds and maintains railway carriages. They use (I made) bent lamination to create the curved beams. Ash may be a good choice of timber a la Engels Cochshop in the US, presence here on RU-vid. Here they overboard it with tongue and grooved board, spaced ~ 1.5 mm to 2 mm apart to allow for expansion, followed by thin marine plywood pin nailed to the ~ 19 mm thick boards. The edges are roughly cut to line and then routed vertical using a wedge shaped jig to sit the router on. I imagine that the use of your track saw would be more effective achieving a similar effect in one operation. Then the arris, corner of the boards, is rounded over with a router or other more traditional approach! The secret to waterproofing the structure is use of the rubberized material used for curtain siding on lorries. It is draped over the roof and folded down over one curved end and 'generously' stapled (~ 2 per cm in a staggered high low pattern) to the board ends. The other end is wrapped around a stout batten with 3 - 4 ratchet straps clamped to the wrapped batten to apply horizontal tension to the material. The other end of the ratchet straps are attached to a stout beam clamped across the wide doorway into the workshop. The sides are then pulled tight over the curved top for ~ 450 - 600 mm along the length of the roof by two assistants while the sides are stapled down to the edges of the roof boards, repeating until the other end is reached. When the sides are stapled down the ratchet straps are released and the second end folded down and stapled. The excess material is trimmed off with a sharp knife. The edges of the roof are, in our case, finished with moulded gutter section cut on a spindle moulder and screwed in place and wooden plugs glued into counterbores over the screw heads. However, I imagine that a simple 'half round' moulding would suffice so long as it would take up the curve of the roof, and be wide enough to cover beyond the lower edge of the material overlap down the sides and ends of the roof. They could be nailed in place. The mouldings have a generous bead of Arbomast (www.google.co.uk/url?q=www.arbo.co.uk/products/mastic-sealants/arbomast-br&sa=U&ved=2ahUKEwja5vvxmvSCAxVRU0EAHcquCN4QFnoECAYQAg&usg=AOvVaw3Y9AhoCeFIGq1tCrOhJqU5) butyl rubber sealant applied underneath before assembly. Excess sealant is removed with a narrow scraper, cleaned off and fillets smoothed with a generous helping of white spirit!
Interesting to compare this new build with Dave Engel's reconstruction of a wrecked sheep wagon in Montana. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-AAHVkajdN0k.html
Really enjoyed this video . If you would hear my thoughts ? Gravity is you're friend with green oak as is careful stacking with spacers and blocking . Those irwin trestles are not up to the task and are an accident waiting to happen . Ask me how I know . Keep up the great work and thankyou
I don't know if it would have been possible, but I would have used the bow to my advantage. It would have helped take the weight of the box.... My mom's 400 year old farm has tons of non-straight beams, cleverly arranged to maximize load carrying, but us modern humans are obsessed with things being straight - seems a bit, er, unnatural. And I love the fact that @5:20 the driver tells you how to deal with the bow.... even if it didn't work. To be fair to him, he actually told you to squeeze them tight together... Might be handy to have some wedges close by while you're cutting.
