Sawing two huge pine logs on a Wood Mizer LT15 sawmill. FLR Merch here: tinyurl.com/5x... Use EARLYBIRD for 10% off through the end of the year. Fall line ridge.
Watching you saw these logs really makes me appreciate just how much modern technology has improved our lives. Imagine what this process was like a couple thousand years ago.
Amazing. I'm a 60 year Young who has been teaching school and woodworking on the side for many years and I can tell you this was the most relaxing educational thing I've seen on youtube.
Probably not so much from your end Wes but from this end that was a very enjoyable and relaxing video watching those old logs getting cut into beautiful and useful lumber. Thanks for your time and labor in making it. 👍
When we built new houses in the Black Forest after the war, this is what we would do by hand for 14hrs a day, no weekends. Glad that technology has advanced so much since then
Great videos man, keep them coming! Just for your information, the dark patches on the first log is known as blue stain. And you are absolutely correct, blue stain is the beginning stages rot. It does not affect the structural integrity of the boards and as far as grading purposes it is unlimited in all but appearance grades.
¡Qué video tan fascinante! Me encantó ver el proceso de transformación de esos troncos en hermosas piezas de madera. Además, la narración detallada proporciona una excelente comprensión de cada paso del proceso. ¡Excelente trabajo!
Enjoyed this video as well as the others you produce. Your son really does like to help out. Keep that relationship as long as you live. Merry Christmas to you and your family.
That is some fine looking lumber you got out of those logs. Looking at those wide boards makes me want to go out and build something. I hope you and your family have a very Merry Christmas!
Another interesting video to watch, there was nice grain showing on those cut planks of pine, and so nice to see your lovely young son safe in the back ground. Your wife has designed your T shirt nicely, good luck with those.... Greetings from Australia 👍
I have watched on and off in the past and really enjoy your honest videos. Finally subscribed after the walnut log video. I find myself nervous at times in those special logs as well when they are on my mill. You make awesome family videos and I’ve been watching them with my kids as well!
The author does like to from scratch, ru-vid.comUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
As a kid we used to take the saw dust from dad's chainsaws and mix wax and a little bit of hot wax and pack them in ice cube trays and make camp fire starters.. we used them for camping alot..
You are the next one up buddy been watching your channel for months now and seen your views skyrocket. I wish you great success keep your good attitude and I pray you reach the stars. We are all stewards of the land. Save the land!
Do you leave the sliced boards on top of the slab while it's cutting to get a straighter cut? I would think intuitively you'd want to pull them off to take the extra pressure off the blade. Great video.
i do not think you planed this, but when you plugged in your lights, my screen went black and into ads. love to see that slow growth straight grain wood.
Great video Wes. Not been about so much - all sorts going on here (some not good) and not had much time for RU-vid in general. Hope your & the family had a great Christmas, best wishes for 2023, and stay safe & well. 👍👍
Great job. Would it be possible to put a hoist from the roof rafters to make turning the log/cant easier? It might require adding to the rafters, but it would be easier and safer than turning by hand. Wrapping a strap or chain around the log would allow it to be turned.
The shed would need serious modification for that. There's another sawyer on RU-vid, Josaljo Won I think is his name, that uses a chain and his front end loader bucket. I could probably do something with my loader that would be a lot better.
Read through this because it's not going where you think it is. As a rule I absolutely hate videos where the poster has a ton of face time because they spend most of it grinning, mugging for the camera, and bragging about themselves and their skills... however... you spend the time educating and explaining, and you're personable and likeable and it's more of a friendly visit to a knowledgeable friend than a selfie-laden self-love fest full of begging for subscriptions and likes. I intend to see more of your posts and will "like" them because I like them. 👍👍👍👍👍
Since you have a manual mill, have you thought about adding 2 or 3 cross-pieces to the underside so you can use a 1.5 or 2-ton jack to raise the log instead of having to use a pry bar to lift the log? You would have almost infinite control of the height. It sure would help with you being by yourself.
I have a novice question. When you are cutting the boards, why do you leave the cut boards in place and cut the next one? Does that technique improve the cutting? Does the weight of the cut board(s) make the blade track truer?
It’s just easier. The weight on top has no bearing on the blade. The blade kerf clears a path for the blade so nothing but sawdust is touching the body of the blade. So, it’s easier to make a bunch of boards, then take them off, instead of one at a time.
Question: were you concerned the tractor wouldn't pick it up because of it's mechanics or that the log would tip the whole thing forward off it's back wheels because of it's weight? Question: As uneducated about wood as I am, I've seen a lot of these from many different posters and one thing always strikes me, I thought putting water on raw wood warped it, yet you all do it, is there something you do to prevent this, or am I thinking from a misperception? Kudos for not turning this into a continuous/nonstop ad for every piece of equipment and wood treatment you use and instead saving that stuff for the ending.
🤣He probably went and blew $4.95 for a brand new one for doing "square" work. I can't imagine how long it would take to wear the edges enough to make any kind of difference wiping sawdust off boards..... 🤣
It's a good thing you maintained your balance Wes, I don't think that aluminum table is stout enough to support your weight. Wow those wide planks are like some of the flooring that is in the historical houses around my area. You don't see wide pine flooring planks anymore...not that these are going to be used for flooring...just saying. Great video thumbs up.
I just spent nearly and hour watching you cut logs. I don’t even know why, I don’t need wood, but I am still here. Thumbs up. Oh… by the way, is it “sawed” or “sawn”?
In Colorado we have huge swaths of forest that have been killed off by mountain pine beetles. The devastation is a real shame, but fortunately in those areas where the dead trees may be felled, it yields some really beautiful lumber that sells for higher dollar than what would otherwise be gained had it not been killed by the beetles. That's making lemonade when given lemons. As far as I know there really isn't much negative effect upon the integrity of the board.
I would try and make my own press bourd out of all that sawdust that is made make a mold/press a cement mixer to use ase a mixer for the dust and gluepour it in and press it
About a blade per log and about a log per hour🤣 that's the only drawback to band mill. A circle mill will mill all day and never dull and will do a log in less than 15 minutes.....but bandmill can run 1 man and a circle mill needs 3 in the perfect world. We have both in the family. So it's not an opinion, it's a fact. Both use same amount of fuel per hour, band makes prettier lumber but only when it's a very sharp blade. Less waste too. Both have advantages but on a huge log, I will take the circle mill every time
Love this channel but as a Brit hearing the word ‘sawed’ instead of ‘sawn’ keeps giving me forest eye. It’s like texted and tex-ted lol. Awesome to see that pine go.. bet it smells amazing when you’re cutting up a freshly felled 🌲
Looks like you got lucky and didnt have any metal in the log. I bought around 50 used telephone poles knowing there would be the metal fasteners in them that had to be removed but I wasnt prepared for having to pay 20.00 every time to the portable sawmill guy when he kept hitting 9mm and high powered rifle bullets. I can understand the high powered rifle bullets maybe because of deer hunters but when I weighed the other bullets and kept weighing close to 115grains, I knew they were 9mm pistol bullets and can only guess that wherever they pulled these telephone poles out of was either close to a shooting range or a lot of people somehow had the same idea of stapling targets on them for target practice. I still saved A LOT of money by going that route instead of buying Lowe's garbage lumber that's so warped you build a round house out of them, but the sawmill guy said he been cutting lumber for people for over 30 years and has never gone through so many blades on one person and in one day. ... out of the approx 50 poles he hit bullets in 20 of them 😲
