Interesting how somebody with no knowledge about YOUR operation is more than willing to spend YOUR time or YOUR money telling you how to do something. You’re a hobby operation, using scrap logs, for fun. And, it’s fun watching you. Thank you for being you.
Hi from Mönchengladbach Germany. The Video is a right Relaxationstarter for the Easter Time. Greetings to Eddie & Marc, too. I love the smell of fresh sawed wood. It makes me calm down after working with stainless steel and drilling concrete.
@@markgalicic7788 A lot of thank you from your answer. Best wishes to your family and friends. The Friday before Easter is an official ceremonial Day in Germany, so all Team members from our company had started with the work at 5.00am and finished at 4.30pm a Repairjob in a Waterwork from a village thats 70 miles away from our workshop.
Hi friends! Good work as always👍. I wish you all a nice Easter and happy egg pecking. But don't take your own, ha ha. Best wishes from Hans and Cheers 🇦🇹🍻.
It's amazing how many experts RU-vid has made and all they have to do is sit on their arses , enjoying your videos something therapeutic about watching a log being milled
Hey Mark. You are one of the best head saw operators that I have ever seen and I have seen several over the years. You make excellent decisions that result in optimal yields from your logs. I agree with your practice of removing rotten/punky wood from the log by cutting thicker than normal slabs. By doing that you put deteriorated wood into the fire wood pile where it belongs and you improve the quality of the lumber that you are selling to your customers. It’s a win/win as far as I am concerned. You and Eddie do a great job of keeping the customer first and you both do many many things very well. The proof of that is in the quality of your lumber and the number of repeat customers that you have, That is probably why you always have an abundance of orders to fill! That’s a really good problem to have!
I always like your positive and supportive comments about other peoples sawing videos on RU-vid.that’s what it’s all about. Kinda like the real world when you treat people with respect instead of finding fault and tearing down you get karma coming your way as a result. It’s easy to find fault,until you put your own channel out there. It’s entertainment for goodness sake. Have a good weekend everyone. Keep it coming Mark,love what your doing.
Hey guys! Love your channel! Something fascinating about sawmills! I’m from upper Michigan where there used to be lots of sawmills. Even Henry Ford had a mill where parts for model tees & others. It was a little town called Pequaming. There were lots of copper mines (Calumet & Heckla) that needed timber for lots of projects under & above ground. One of the more famous sawmills was in a place called Donken Mi. And of course there is the Horner mill that produces bird’s eye maple for flooring like portable basketball floors. Lots of paper mills as well that reduces pulp into paper. Keep up the good work!
People who say your are being wasteful apparently don't realize all your so called waste is used is other ways like fire wood and animal bedding. Keep up the great work you and Eddy do.
Anybody complaining about waste is uneducated concerning wood quality and the different grades of wood. Who ever said you are not a good sawyer does not know what they are talking about. If they do not like your sawing they can just not watch the channel.
Mark? Anyone who wants to complain? I would tell them to get them an acre or two, their own saw and show us how THEY do it, eh? Keep em coming, sir! Loving it!
It would be easy enough to imagine work practices that resulted in more boardfeet/hour, but I enjoy how you have the client's requirements in mind at all times as you dialogue with the big wood
Its like a woman having a child does not make her a mother!!!???. I say to the person whom said these things to you Mark, needs a reality check to ones life in knowing love and a nice word. Once a man asked me "what have you done in life?" of which answered am satisfied with the life I have lived and cannot change the past but look forward to doing better in the future with a smile. After this there was no more bad comments.
Your train of thought got derailed. Happens to me all the time. Nice reverse shot of you working in the cab. Shouldn’t 2x6s be cut at 5 1/2” instead of 5?
There are so many variables there that I don't think an accurate estimate is possible. It depends on the wood species being cut, the diameters of the logs, how much taper/belly/crookedness of the logs as well as the dimensions of the boards being cut.
Awesome video :) also I have a question,after each log is cut,the sawdust is used as a biomass or something like this? Greeting from Montreal in Canada :)
Eddy was looking a little cold. I am not sure why I like watching this. It is interesting and it is something I wish I had. Do you buy the logs or does the customer have to bring them in??????? You may have already said but I do not always catch things.
hi Mark, Eddie serious question when you use the taper on a log is it ever benefical to adjust over half of the taper sense you lose the same amount you gain on the other side
Personally I like your side gig. You guys get the orders and perform. Your happy the customer is happy and got a good product that’s all that matters. Let naysayers sell punk wood and see how long they get orders. Peace
@@buggsy5 You are real close to the reality. The original lumber was cut at the full size on the inside of the dimension. so it was full cut less the kerf when wet. The lumber was then dried or used as is and dried in situ. When the lumber dried is shrinks. When finished drying its new dimension was similar to current dimensional lumber sizes. Now that I say all that, it is only one of many stated origins of the differences. If you google it you can see many origin stories.
Right on guys great movie!! It occurs to me that spruce must be the ultimate sticky wood. I makes me wonder what a mill would look like that sawed primarily spruce. The sap must get all over everything. It can even get on your hands while framing so I can just imagine the sawing equipment.
I would say the 'monkey puzzle' tree (Araucaria araucana) is far worse. Cut the bark and it bleeds profuse amounts of white sap, just like PVA glue. I did a couple of orders for a local woodturner, but never again! The mill was just covered in real sticky sap with sawdust embedded in it.