I WAS A CEMENT MASON FOR 30 YEARS AND A LABORER FOR 7 YEARS, I KNOW WHAT HARD WORK IS. WATCHING YOU SAWMILL GUYS ESPECIALLY EDDIE WORKING SO HARD WITH THE LUMBER REMINDS ME OF MY WORKING DAYS, AND HOW I USED TO WORK!
I am not involved in the lumber business - but I love your videos. Nice to see a huge log on the mill. Also a great shout out for all the survivors of the USS Cole !! Eddie is doing the heavy lifting.
I don't know if you guys will see this since I'm commenting on an old video... but y'all have come so far!!! Just watching older videos and new ones... you are getting better every day.
I used to work for a west Fraser sawmill when I was fresh out of high school. When the planer was running 2x4's life was easy! Then every once in awhile the planer would switch to 2x10 20 footers for 2 weeks at a time. I tell ya that weens out the weak real fast. I felt bad cause there was a girl that worked on the other side of the sorting tables and she just sat down and started crying so I helped her stack her tables as well but I never saw her back after that
Love to be working with you guys. I'm a qualified saw-filer (Saw Doctor they call us over here) but spent the past 20 years sitting in an office in front of Computer as admin for a County Road maintenance Contractor; over here in New Zealand. Love watching you guys sawing logs. Keep these videos coming. Cheers
@@markgalicic7788 I'm too far away - - -New Zealand. But, when everybody realises we have all been scammed by the fake "virus"; and the world returns to normal - -I'd love to go over to the US and have a look around. Cheers, guys.
USS Adka? My dad served on the ship from 46 to when the Navy turned all ice breaking duties over to the Coast Guard. He finished out 20 years in 66. Boiler maker on a diesel powered ship, 2 boilers for heat and melting ice and snow. The ship had 2 engine rooms for and aft as originally built the idea was you drove her into the ice until she stopped the reversed the bow propeller pulling the water which theoretically would break the ice. Realty proved the ice was not going with the game plan and she spent the first several years going back to Charlestown Navy Yard to replace the bow propeller until the navy decided to cover the bow propeller area with steel plates and operate as a regular ice breaker. Powered by 6 Fairbanks Morse engines. During the summer season she was charged with keeping the sea lanes open from Mcmurdo sound to the south Atlantic. Had the largest chocolate chip cookie on her that was 12 inches in diameter. Good times and memories.
February has been brutal here in Seattle Washington area as well. We got over 8 inches of snow in one day. WE usually never get more than a 6 total inches of snow a year! It was neat to watch that long log going through the mill. That was as near to clear lumber as we get these days. T.H.E. Eddie is a tough ole bird! I mean that with the utmost respect.
Has to be fun to saw logs like that.. Eddie getting a workout for sure.. Hoping to see you edge on the head rig... thanks for the sawing video.. always interesting.
hi there Mark and Eddie another nice log and great sawing to make real nice lumber . when you two do such a great job of your work its hard for me to make a smart a _ _ comment . thanks for the shout outs looking forward to your calls .thought of a SAC . on that thermometer is there a spot that indicates its to cold to saw. cause i think you are there . good ice sawing love that mill john
@@markgalicic7788 this was air switched to hydraulic for flatter cans and the air cyd was 5 inches . it would work the compressor to death on a bag of cans john
That's a nice hunk of spruce there Mark & Eddie. It's clear for the first half; a prime candidate for Tiger Moth wing spars. ( 20' logs are the standard length around my neck of the woods ) But granted the mills are big concerns running very serious bandsaws. Nice job of cutting up such nice timber.
I’ve been itching to saw some Spruce but there’s not much here at this altitude. But nearer to the Smoky Mountains, they become more prevalent. I’m gonna have to do some scouting. Good sawing as always. Your mill is smooth!
Thanks for the inspiration over the last few years. My son's and I have finally finished rebuilding and setting up an old abandoned, scrap Belsaw M14 sawmill. We are now testing and fine tuning it.
Every time I see the mill, I'm amazed at how it buzzes through those logs. I was wondering this time how many of those boards could Eddie handle before he tired himself out and couldn't do more but he just kept on. Take care and stay safe. Bill
I am sitting in my favorite chair eating tacos and I am nice and warm. The high today was 1 degree F. I have wrestled with 16 footers but 20 ft ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. If the boards were hickory, it would take two men and a boy to move them.
That carriage and track are laser straight!! Great work guys. You've got a real nice set up there and a total hardwood expert on the belt keeping things in order. The future is looking bright!! Now if a few more folk could send in those bills it would be looking even better!! 😄
Whatever one feels good at giving is a very good thing. I was hoping that log was going to be as clear as that other big butt cut that you sawed recently, still a very nice piece of timber.... ah to have back the virgin stands of timber they just fell to make a road back in the day, such as a clearing for a townsite. Those trees built more house than the tree displaced when standing/LOL. Big trees with no limbs for a hundred feet plus. That trailer rebuilding is going together at a good time as people move out of the cities and head for that "off grid" lifestyle. Not for me but for many
While watching, and you say that you are cutting say 1 1/2 thickness, on camera and with the roundness of the logs, it really looks like you are cutting somewhere around the 2 1/4 or 2 1/2 thick cuts because of how we see the bark. . . . Love your videos . .
I respect Eddie's manhood hauling them 20' 2x12's behind the saw, but now cut a hip rafter out of it and manhandle it up onto the roof of a 2 story house. 😁
It’s is a little after 8PM here in St John Parish, Louisiana and it’s 26 degrees and forecast to get down to 23 before morning. The first time at or below 32 so I count this as my fist day of winter. Tomorrow, Thursday, and Friday are forecast to get below freezing too. So that would give us 4 days of winter if we don’t get any more freezing weather this year. And that would be one more than last year. My brother that lives in SW Louisiana near Lake Charles woke up to 3 to 4 inches of snow this morning. He is a Sysco Foods salesman and their trucks can’t make deliveries because the roads are closed due to icing. We have several closed in my area too. The Southern 17 miles of Interstate 55 was closed earlier because it is all elevated over the swamp and they had patches of ice. It’s been raining for a couple days. They must have gotten it one side sanded because one side of it opened a little while ago. This would probably be nothing much for y’all.
You guy's are Great and absolutely a very Big part of Our United States Of Our American's Country and what Our American country was built upon buy the Early Settlers used fresh cut huge timber's to build Our Forts and Home's and Our Town's and Cities and Our Rail Roads !
I have always sawn butt first. Waste travels better in conveyors and tapers are easier to deal with (in my eyes). Many folks just can't get it. I suppose I was taught that way so that is my preference. I regularly get orders for 22 ft low bed trailer decking in green Doug fir. Some days it really pays to be the sawyer eh, LOL.
Oh boy, I remember the times we ran 20 foot Poplar and sometimes Oak at the mill. Most of our lumber was 5 and 8 quarter. 20+ years ago and still hurt from it, I feel for you Eddy.
20 feet doesn’t sound like a lot if you’re talking about the size of a parking lot but when that log starts to go by the blade, and goes and goes .... Anyway, another good video. Very nice log too; nice and clear long planks. Glad we finally got the straight dope on THE Eddie Horvath. Keep the industrial sized man- glitter flying. 😎👍
Awesome video you two, Here in the PNW I have always heard it called a "swell butt". either way the base/trunk of the tree looks like the shape of a bell,
My dad was US Navy and served on the Atka until she was transferred to the Coast Guard when they took over ice breaking duties. He was a boilermaker. The transfer happened in 1966. We lived in Massachusetts and during the summer she would return to Charlestown Navy Yard to refit after 9 hard months of keeping the shipping lane open via Mcmurdo sound. Small world
HI MARK long logs is where U get your board feet of lumber at my dad sawed a piece of timber long tall pine 😉😀😄 when they were done it was 4O5,OOO feet of lumber OMG 5 2 2O22
My Granddad said you can always cut a board but, you can't make it longer. I run a circle mill that can cut a 36 foot long log. Luckily, I have a hydraulic off bear deck. Congrats on the new loader! Keep up the good work!
Mark, your second or third (I do believe it’s the third) dog looks like it is sponging in the rack. It could be the rack and pinion but you would probably hear that so it would be the hydraulics with a bleed back. It is engaging but it’s not able to apply pressure correctly.
Had a 60'+ Norway spruce in our front yard. Company came and removed it in one log. Ground down the stump and replaced it with a weeping cherry +$1000. They said it was going to be used as a ship's mast.
It's amazing with that camera angle you have that inch and a half looks like it's 4 in thick on the RU-vid video but I do like your camera work it just looks like it's too thick for Mr Eddie the pickup malt with y'all be safe
wow Eddie doing a mans day of work in a short while. big dam log. mark have you seen " that chipper guy ". up in MI. does chips and fire wood ,sends logs to the mill I think. he has a video of a huge log he took to an amish sawmill. think it was a Frick not sure. had to be 5 foot dia. think you would get a kick out of it. there log turner is 3-4 guys. anyway another great video, mill running so smooth. take care catch ya later.
Its cold here to! Below 0 for 2 weeks now .and single digit for highs. South central Iowa. Miserable weather . Can't go outside for only a few minutes at a time. And when you try to go out to do something it doesn't work anyway. Try and stay warm y'all. 😊👍👍👍👍🌏🌞🌞
I saw this other lumber cutting video where they were cutting some sixty foot long logs on a band mill, and I'm like "Why don't they cut it into more manageable sized pieces." they needed a guy with a pole to keep the slabs from sagging too much or bind the blade. Plus after the slabbed it went down the rollers to be cut down then.
Cypress trees down here can be 3 - 5x larger at the bottom than @ 12ft up the tree. Same for a number of other trees out in the swamps. Thats a bunch of waste slab wood.
MARK! AT THE BEGINNING OF THE VIDEOS! PLEASE MOVE THE CAMERA A LITTLE CLOSER TOWARDS YOU AND EDDIE! WOULD MAKE IT A WHOLE LOT EASIER TO SEE WHAT YOU GET! THANKS! GREAT VIDEO AS ALWAYS!
