I'm sure this is not new..love this channel..this is what it is supposed to be!..and it's a family mill I love it in pa.. Keep on keeping on..much respect to you all.👍❤🇺🇸
I too got a chuckle of that disputed board size....lol You ladies definitely need good cowhide gloves when working that lumber AND EYE PROTECTION!.....you gal's are far too gorgeous to get needlessly hurt . Love your show !
Emerald you really have a talent for videography! From narration to music choice you nail it every time! Really enjoy your work! Former Western PA resident now Texan.
It's easy to see why this channel is so addictive. You start with a beautiful forest in beautiful mountains and then mill it into the most beautiful lumber by extremely beautiful young ladies. Even your feller trims conical butts into straight cylinders. What an amazing operation.
Thanks for sharing. I was raised on a circular sawmill. I ran the edger and was the slab totter, and lumber stacker. On other days I was a log turner on the carriage. This was between the ages of 14 to 24. I must say that I really didn’t enjoy it then. Now I have a LT35 wood-mizer and love it ! It brings back a lot of precious memories, that at the time I didn’t realize would be precious. I love the smell of the pine sap and the sawdust. I am 62 now.
Love your videos… it is shows like yours that is what reality TV was always meant to be… keep up the good work and hopefully YT won’t punish you out of business.
12:27 "the other guy..." Yes. I had discovered it myself by chance. It's really interesting if you actually have viewers who don't notice this themselves.
Like always, an informative, intelligent, entertaining video. Congrats on getting a LT70, I am guessing it will be a while before it arrives. It is good to see a small company growing. Always like seeing your brother and his dog in the back ground, makes me happy to see a boy and his dog making each other happy.
Growing up in Northern Minnesota our neighbors were a lumber yard and as a teenager I ran the edger quite a bit, they had a gang saw setup that they put the edges through, it them in 16 inch lengths and sold them for firewood pretty cheap to get rid of it. It was a pretty high demand item.
I love the explanations of how the machines actually work. the view of controls and how they cut. I would like to see how well you do as a sawyer coming close to the scaled amount of a log. A sawyer will make or break a mill they say. Oh yeah, I was always told to hold the scale stick inside the bark. Keep up the videos and thanks.
Another brilliant video. Thanks to all at the lumber yard! Such stunning, beautiful red hair. Good music, too. Funny at 8:35. Now hug and make up. I have to say, watching the slow motion at 11:00, shows that anyone who sees the finished boards has no idea how they were gradually and painstakingly brought into being, separated from the rough side bark and ultimately from a standing tree. The same can be said about a polished human being after being shaped and sanded by the sharp teeth of long days and nights of learning, work, loss, sadness, and as much happiness as we can squeeze into our hearts and lives in spite of it all. Slow and easy does it and steady as she goes, is the best way, keeping an eye on the now and the distant goals, enjoying each step we take along the way we try to choose, but that gets occasionally varied by circumstances beyond our control. Anyone who sees us at our end will have no idea how we were gradually shaped and polished all those years, but we will remember every step and everyone, and it will bring tears to our eyes that no one can possibly understand. Make every day count for good.
My house was built in 1970. It was one of the last ones built without using plywood.. Wall sheathing, sub floor and roof deck is all made from 3/4 pine. With the price of plywood and OSB the way it is, I can see people reverting back to 3/4" boards. I think small independent saw mills like yours will thrive.
Your family is a shining example of what makes your country great. Your work ethic is impressive. Can you share more information on your equipment? What saws do you use and why, how you chose a firewood processor, splitter, elevator, skidded etc.
I remember when you guys painted the block wall beside the lt 15 and then lt 35 and 40 .When you move up to a lt 70 I hope Woodmizer gives the Boss a great deal.The ladies of Ironwood are sure making their products look good on video. Great job Emerald,Jade and Sammie
The RU-vid algorithm really hooked me up, this week I watched one of your videos, since then I’ve become an addict. Emerald, your camera work is amazing, it’s like watching a reality TV show. Your family is tougher than nails, even grandma, just last week she was jumping a dirt bike over her art studio, just kidding. Thanks for sharing your knowledge, and I appreciate the entertainment.
I was looking for alignment lasers as well. I use them on my gang rip saw cutting molder blanks, way faster than doing it by eye. Another good vid. Keep it going and may the sawdust fly!!
@@robertsimmons1264 I was talking about the edger, pieces like the little sliver of live edge is in a rack taking up space. Most places that produce a high volume of nice boards, also ... saved some of the decretive cut offs like burl slabs, run out of places to stack stuff. I know that a person could make firewood out of the little slivers, but how much firewood like that do you save? I would bet that most of it never sells, it just piles up.
lm new to your channel , l find it very interesting the aspects of running a mill of course l luv to get down to the ground and work it as long and hard as anyone !!! lm sure if the wood left overs were planed and finished and finished even with a coat of laquer you wood find buyers in the hobby market and at farmers markets , you have to show them how much fun and easy it is to make great wood crafts and products hehe !!!!!!
Emerald you need a bigger thermos, you seem to like coffee as much as I do. I can't do any work in my shop with out my 20 oz. cup of coffee, when it's finished I have to go get some more. Great video, thumbs up.
I love watching your videos but I would like to offer some advice. I notice that your trying to maximize your productivity and profitability. To that end I notice that your sister has to bend over to pick up the board's to put through the edger. If you could place the carrier's that you carry the board's over to the edger in line with the end and place it on an either hydraulic or mechanical lift table you could be pulling them straight on to the edger and on the discharge side has another carrier in line with the end and let the fliches side off of the table you wouldn't need someone to unload them just take the finished board onto the trailer. Also the same way as your mill kicks the board back to the operator so as to maximize efficiency if there were a carrier there to except it easily you could be cutting faster with less movement. Every time you handle that board it add's cost. Or less profit. If you are interested contact me and I will try to explain it better. Thanks
Very often when you cut the edges, you get excellent strips from one or two sides as a by-product, which could be used as such under the surface board when building a board wall. And I understand you burn them all for warmth. Well, you know what's best for you to do, so: I was just thinking out loud my own stupid thoughts.
Have y’all thought about using totes to catch most of the sawdust from the mill and the edger? Seems like that would make for faster and easier clean up.
These are knowledgeable, hard working young women! I enjoy the videos illustrating the craft in detail, showing the unseen magic of the sawmill - and how much real labor is involved. I do however encourage your team to wear gloves and safety glasses against splinters, restrain your hair, and remove or restrain drawstrings on clothing that are a hazard around moving equipment.
Have y’all ever thought about making 1 x 2 that are about 6 foot long and sell them to the farmers to pole tomatoes with. Down here in Louisiana you will pay around $2.00 apiece for them
You need to get the scrap hopper at the aligned with the outfeed of the edger. So you can just slide the scraps along rather than pick them up and swing them around
wow thats great how diversified you have become !! l luv this stuff and luv to help in anyway working with wood !! Any thoughts or suggestions l have are ment with the best of intensions !!! ok l saw the wood coming from the edger 1×3 and 1×2 being what looks like to be being discarded , this can be rerun as nice battons it dosent matter if they are not full lengths it can be used up as my dad always said the money is in the value added as lm sure yu all know !!! create a good product and it will sell !!! you all have a good day now!!
Another great video my favorite job is running a edger..I know your parents are extremely busy but would be great to see a Q&A with them eventually I'd love to get to know the parents of such a hardworking family..ps I find it hilarious watching your little brother in the background lol
judea the 10 year old boy.would be asked to.leave the family bui because of osha requirements of a commercial business.maybe you can get by having a small family business. but if the business grows and needs employees other than family members other rules take affect. m'n uy
Evaluate every single step a person takes. Work to reduce the number by half, then do it again. 1. When loading you grab an edge and lift it, then you walk and grab the mid-point and pull it. Raise the stack so it "falls" onto the edger. 2. You take the edges and walk around a machine. Make it so a pallet is underneath and you simply throw them into a chute that drops them under the edger. 3. Don't have the stacks at the end perpendicular to the edger's outfeed. If you don't use machinery, then all this requires elevated processing equipment. But you all are smart enough to figure out a better process. Motion is waste. Eliminate it :).
What gas do you run in your small engines? Do use any additives to stabilize the gas or eliminate the problems with the ethanol? It may be that since you run them so much (almost daily) you can get away with 10% ethanol. Nice job on the videos and the lumber.
Around 9 mins into the vid the wheels of the trailer are somehow, lets say.. gone!? Here in Germany you would loose your licence when using trailers like this due to overload. As much as I like your vids, in case of security by work it is hard to belive on which low level you take it in the states.
Pretty cool machine. Is rough cut lumber slightly longer than the stated length so that the customer ends up with a true length once they square up the ends? For example, would a rough cut 2 x 8 x 10 be slightly longer than 10'?
Great vids. Young people working hard. Would it be more efficient to turn the edger around so the scrap is on the same side as the pile they end up on? But why no commercials? You gotta get paid.
The only advice I can give you gals is keep your abs as strong as you can. They really help with back problems.if you 3 hurt yourself your hurting the whole team. Best workout is doing the basics at home , push pull and situps,it's all it takes.
You would improve speed and efficiency if it were set up where the loaded trailer were inline with the edger instead of perpendicular to it. The edged board would come right off the edger and onto the trailer rather that picking it up and turning 90 degrees. Then, working always from the engine side of the edger, you'd grab the two edging strips and move them into the scrap holder. No turning with them either. A setup without the posts in the way would help too.
I agree, unfortunately we are working with what we have and it is more important to us that the edger is under cover from weather than anything else. The polls are supporting the roof, and the trailer obviously can’t be put inline with the edger with the huge curb.
There are a couple reasons why we prefer not to, many people disagree but I have found that it is harder to work with gloves, and they only make your hands softer. If you don’t wear gloves you don’t really get splinters.
Thanks for another great video - would like to know your setup, this machine comes with engine options, yours seems to work great as configured so it would be good to know so I can get a quote for the same machine - trying to learn from your success - thanks
I love your videos but i,m in agreement with others, i got tired watching the over steps you take on each board. People here have some good ideas to lessen your motion and time. Either way you girls are great to watch. PS, can,t wait for my order to arrive. Are you getting hoodies soon?
Hiya, what a wonderful video, thanks to you both. Does the sawdust on the finished planks have any effect on the drying of the wood? That riving knife behind the fixed blade on the edger, is it there to hold the cut apart or hold the plank square, or both? When might you be getting the LT70? Can we watch from arrival to working, in other words, the whole set-up? Stay safe, Steve...
How are you determining the width of board to cut from the flitch? I don't see the operator using a measuring device to determine the minimum board width that can be cut?
most lumber has pre determined sizes like 2x4 2x10 and so on the left side of the cut is set by the thin fence on the left or the stationary blade so the cut will be done according to the biggest size they can get out of it and it would come with experience and using the built in scale on the edger the scale starts at zero where the left blade cuts from there it will be a 1x6 or 1x8 so they would set it at 5and a half or 7 and a half and so on not being dressed lumber those sizes might be over size like a 1 inch thick rather than 3/4 of an inch as it is rough lumber not sure how things are classed in the US
