New Sawmill Slab Rack is my Best Design Yet
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
- I think I've finally got the design working right for my new slab rack. Join me on today's video where I show you how I went from a pile of lumber (cut from my sawmill) to a nice new slab rack. This new slab rack should allow for easy cutting of my sawmill waste with my chainsaw as well as easy bundling when I decide to sell it. Thanks for watching!
#sawmill #slab #firewood #sawmillbusiness #sawmillwoodcutting
Looks like a busy workshop, gotta like that.
Nice job!
I built my H frame from 4.5" posts. 8 legs total. 8' long, 6' tall.
Solid wood shelf 3' off the ground.
Heavy, rigid, movable with forks and you dont have to bend over.
Laying a few 4x4s across the shelf provides space for banding, forks, and saw.
My 36" bar reaches all the way across for a single full cut every 16".
I know another sawyer who bundles flitches and sells them for 50$.
But he cuts railroad ties, and didnt use firewood for heat.
Any actual "slab" got edged for a minimum of a 2x4.
And large slabs were edged into a 2x6 and 2x4 simultaneously.
A edger is the golden ticket.
The long design you made seems like it would hold the long oversized pieces well and cutting them down to fit wouldnt be required as often.
And i place mine inline with mill. Easy transferring.
I enjoy your videos. Thank you!
Thank you for another great video. I don't know about anyone else but I wouldn't mind watching a video of you camping. If those were fishing poles I saw in your shop we might even see you fishing?
Hey Dave. Thanks for that! I’m certainly out and about all summer camping
Yeah, dealing with off cuts are the "things which try men (sawyers) souls."
Sure can creat a message in a hurry
Looks like a good slab rack design! I built one many years ago but over time it slowly came apart, I definitely need to build a new one sometime.
Thanks for posting 👍😊
Thanks for checking out the build Mike
Another fine idea 💡 Sandy now no more messy slabs on the ground 😮😊❤
I’ve got no excuse now!
Well done Sandy, that should work nicely.
Might be a good time to clean the DeWalt miter saw up!!😂
Haha that’s for sure
Just ordered my first Logo the sws die cut looking forward to putting it on my disability scooter, thank Sandy, it looks cool.
Looks like you got a plan going there. I'm going to be interested in seeing how it works out. Looks like it might be a darn good idea. Those slits are always a pain to work with. I find that I carefully stack them. Helps a lot. Nothing gets put on the ground unless it has at least a 4 / 4 or 2 under it to keep it off the ground. Thanks Sandy you always thinking.👍
Always great to hear from ya Del! Happy Easter
Interesting design. I agree when you throw slabs in, it will make a better pile for sure. Get a few cheap ratchet straps, and you’ll be golden. You might even be able to lay the straps in ahead of time and hang each end on a bracket (to keep the strap off the ground). You have ignited my imagination. I will be interested to see how it works after they’ve been cut up!
Great idea about putting the straps down ahead if time!
New to channel, really enjoying your problems and solutions. Trying to take back a family property, that Mother Nature has owned for the last 20 years. Your videos are insightful. We have a Red Pine collection, somewhat like you do. We will be saw this summer and your rack could really be of use. Bought the bark removing blade for grinder, because I watched your video. Thank you, PB
Hi Philip! Great to hear from you and welcome to the channel!
Slick idea, Sandy. Use it a few times, and you'll be using it like a pro. And it's a great idea. BTW, Happy Easter, my friend.
Thanks Bob! Happy Easter!
Sandy, great job on the slab rack, I'm sure it will make your job easier with it, great Video.
Hey TJ! Thanks very much
Well let's see some of the camping tricks n episodes.always need a good slab wood rack but what happened to the one you could cut em all up on.that was a good rack.
I like this it's a really good idea for a slab rack and banding them up Will make them cut much easier plus easier to handle . I may borrow your idea Sandy this is a good one
Thanks for coming along for the video Jeff. Always good to hear from you!
Forgot to comment yesterday, I do need to build a slab rack, I am starting to get a mess again, I want to build something I can move out to the road to give it away to people to burn.
That would be handy if it were on wheels or a wagon or similar I bet
@@sawingwithsandy I never thought about on wheels, I like that.
Nice! I may have to steal this idea. I know you said you'll mainly be throwing the pieces in vs using the loader, but 1 thing I immediately thought of was, if you could get 1 long side to hinge down maybe even halfway from the top it would make loading a lot easier. Thanks for the content Sandy.
I never thought of that but would be a neat thing to work into a design
Well thoughtout design Sandy!
Thank you Bill!
Looks pretty neat there Sandy. Hope you had a great easter!
Great idea to strap them together!
Thanks!
Love those new lights in the shop!
Thank you!
Day light in the shop those lights work great!
I wish I had me a truck that was only 20 years old.
You must not live in the rust belt
@@sawingwithsandy Eastern Shore of Virginia - plenty of salt air and salt water here. 2001 Dodge is still on the road - I can't seem to get rid of it.
You must be doing something right then! Sounds like a great truck
@@sawingwithsandy I got a guy. By the way, you've got a good UA-cam channel. Nice easy going content.
good job Sandy
Thanks Noel! Have a great Easter
Nice work once again Sandy. It should work nice for you!
Thank you! Great to see ya again!
Howdy Sandy- looks like you have a good design going on there. Hope it works out well for you. Take care and God bless
Thank you sir! Happy Easter
@@sawingwithsandy Happy Easter to you, my friend. Blessings
Yes sir that's the slab rack there looks like i am going to build one. i tried different ones but this one looks like the better one. Happy Easter
Thank you. I’m hoping it’s the perfect setup! Happy Easter
I think it's an overdue project, but you finally built it. What I question; if the stack is four feet high (assuming the bottom of the rack is one foot above ground), that means you have to lift the sawn wood, nine feet to clear the rack. Even if you put a strap around the wood, do you have something that'll lift it high enough to clear the rack? If the bottom of the stack was two feet, instead of one foot high, you wouldn't have to bend over as much, and if you cut the sides down for a three foot stack, you're back to the original height, but only have to lift the sawn lumber eight feet to clear the rack. The way you loaded it, the wood isn't lying flat. When you're throwing slabwood into it, that's one slab at a time that'll be lying flat, so a lot more weight to lift. IF you added a piece of plywood on the end and threw the slabwood in so it's in contact with the plywood, your cut firewood would be uniform in length. Even if you only brought a 55-gallon drum (open top) out to the mill, you could be burning it as necessary for heat while you're working.
Experiment with it and refine it. It's a good start, Sandy!!
Thanks Carl! Lots of good things to consider. Im sure I’ll be refining things off and on for the next little while for sure
Can't wait to see how wll it will work. Only time will tell. But it looks great
Thank you!
👍
Hey Paul! happy Easter!
good idea
Thanks Ken. Happy Easter
Thanks Sandy.
Nice proofing of a concept.. One step saver you could add is to close off one end than when you toss the Slabs in that end is already lined up for the length of the Cut.
I was puzzled when You were putting it together that You didn't lay the uprights on the floor to screw the cross pieces on. ??
Mike M.
Hi I may have to give that a try. Thanks Mike. My shop floor is so wavy that it was going to be easier just to stand it up right
MM77 Approved 👍🏻👍🏻…………………………………………….good idea, you needed that.
I was getting lazy after I broke the last one haha
nice job as always
Thank you!
Slab rack is good idea. I have an 04 Tacoma I really like, yours looks in better shape.
Hi Hayes! I sure like those 04 models. Think yours was the last of the first generation body style
Good afternoon Sandy you will be using your slab rack before i built one but it does seam very interesting if it works out good for you i will built myself one because of my back problems i have a hard time picking up the stuff from ground and the way you did those rails to hold the wood of the ground i like that i might even put mine a little higher than you did i think that rack will work good for you and me also thanks for the idea have a happy easter 🐰 🐣
Thank you! I’ll be sure to keep you updated how it works out in the long run
nice slab rack Sandy
Great to see ya Rodney! Happy Easter
Great to see ya Rodney! Happy Easter!
Looks good u should have made the opening at the top around 55” wide so it’s easier to load up
It was something I considered but I wanted to be sure the wood on it would stay straight and be manageable with my tractor
Hi Sandy. I like the trailer hitch on the bow of the Tacoma. I may steal your idea. Love the new slab rack. How about adding some wheels and racing stripes? 😂
Hey Tom! I had a small front mounted plow on that front hitch fir a while. Did ok. It was no match for the heavy snowfalls we get.
Always doing things twice usually winds up being a lot more work and I too am guilty. I hide stuff from myself by putting it in plain sight... crazy... never under the hood for more than a minute, now stuff is frozen or broke, worn out because of not doing a full inspection at least once a year. Parking something for a few months equals a pain to get going... all stuff I have done
I hear ya there. My equipment is same way. When it sits it’s starts acting up
What if in center where 2x4 are make the space a little wider to access with forks after you bind them up so you can lift straight up
I’ve been able to lift a stack out with my initial testing but it is a tight fight for sure. Little wider may be helpful
Nice looking rack... hrmm slab rack that is. lol. I'd have probably placed 4x4 runners under each side so I could drag it around but then, unlike you, I have no way to lift it up. Good vid. Thanks.
That would be a good addition
Great video as always. Been meaning to ask you if you have any problems keeping your tools in the tool boxes in your shop from rusting?
Hey Sandy. Always inspired. Question: if you don’t strap them, how are you going to unload the pieces? That’s a lot of grabbing and throwing and they be too short to lift out with the forks very easily. I don’t have a suggestion really, but maybe you already have that answer (otherwise you kind of have to strap i think). Thank you!
I will likely dump the rack with the tractor forks or unload by hand
Armchair quarterback here. Would having the upper short side braces a board higher than the long side braces be more beneficial and give you chainsaw blade room to cut the bottom slabs or would that mess with your strapping idea?
That’s a good idea. I’m not too sure but it sounds like it may be a great idea
@@sawingwithsandy I’m by no means even an amateur at any of this stuff but as I was looking at the setup I was thinking unless you cut at an angle, the bar will hit the long side upper braces. I guess you’ll know once you cut through the slabs. If you have to stop and readjust to get the bottom pieces then my idea might help. Looking forward to seeing how it works out!
I'm not dealing with slabs, pain in the xxx to store or move around
Sure can be a pain
GREAT IDEA! USE WASTE MOTOR OIL AS A PRESERVATIVE. SLOP IT ON WITH A ROLLER. IT'LL LAST FOR A LONG, LONG TIME. BE SAFE.
Thank you!
That is a great design but I would add a top and middle 2x4 block on each section that the chainsaw won't be going in for extra strength.
Great idea! Thanks Wallace
Hi Sandy. Until you mentioned the straps, I was wondering how you would lift the cut firewood from the rack.
Would your rack be more rigid if you ran boards lengthwise along the tops of the rack's uprights?
Hey Jim. I think they would be for sure. I may have to experiment a little bit to see how many are needed as I’d like to keep a few slots open to put large bundle straps or the tractor forks through from time to time. Maybe I could bolt supports in place ?
Do you have enough waste to chip up with your sawdust to make wood pellets. I have burned wood for a number of years and glad to be free of it now. It is a lot of work by the time one turns to heat and ash. Maybe just a goofy idea .
I like that idea. I’ve wondered what that equipment might be that I’d need for that to work
Sorry for not cleaning up that Amazon link ...this runs off a PTO so you could use yer Kioti right at the mill site, no need to haul sawdust-
Is the adhesive you use made for green lumber, and if it is what is the name of it?
It’s PL Premium. Not marketed specifically for green lumber but it does work well
My Tacoma is a 99
Those are nice model years!
20 yr old truck? It's just got broken in good. I have a 2005 GMC with over 300,000 miles. It's my only vehicle and is driven every day. Plus, it's loaded down with my carpentry tools.
Sounds like you take good care of it to be running strong at 300k. Around here the rust normally gets to the truck before the engine quits
HAHAH My 99 F-350 Crew Cab, Long Box 6 speed Diesel only has 94'000 Miles on it...
How many board feet of 2 x 4’s do you think you have in that rack? I would like to have something similar for limb wood, but cringe at what it would cost in lumber !
I’m not too sure Frank. Wood is free for me
I count 17 each for each side at 5' and guessing 16 foot long times 4 and 4 ea 2 foot for ends. 17*2*5 + 16*4 + 4 * 2. 170 + 64 + 8 = 242 linear feet of 2*4. A linear foot of 2*4 is 2 * 4 * 12 = 96 sq inches. A board foot is 1inch x 12 x 12 or 144 sq inches. 96 / 144 = 2/3 of a sq foot. so 242 linear feet * .667 = 161 board feet. approx of course ;) And of course a real 2 X 4 is only 1.5 inch by 3.5 inch and i treated it as real dimension for conversion.
Think a 2x4 officially counts as 5.33 board ft even though they no longer measure a full 2x4 so 244lf/5.33=46 8' 2x4's...
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Thanks for watching
Love the idea. I've been trying to figure out an idea myself. You might want to add 2x4 on bottem that slabs sit on so they are not even with your base 2x4 so you dont cut through with chainsaw. Also, it would make it sit higher to get strap around the bottom. Going to have to build me one now
That could be a good addition
I like it! when you start to throw the slabs they will pack better and you will gain practice for the Olympic Slab Slinging game LOL! HAve a good weekend. and a Happy Easter... John Toccoa
hahha I'm hoping for the nod to the slab throwing championships one day. Reach my full sawmill slab glory
First ear of sawmilling i built a slab rack myself. Soon enough i realized that messing with slabs takes too much time and effort. Plus i could never burn so much firewood myself. Now i just sell slabs for firewood with 20percent of the price of a fresh log.
Wow that’s a good market where you are. Do you require the people who buy the slabs to pickup from loose piles?
@@sawingwithsandy Firewood is pretty expensive in Europe thats why. Yes they load them on a car trailer or sometimes nearby customers i help out and take slabs to them with log trailer and tractor. Less manual labour too. And even if nobody wanted to buy slabs i could store them in a pile for a year and sell them with brush and energy wood for woodchips. Price i get is pertty much the same.
That sounds like a great way to take care of the Slabs. Where I am I would be hard pressed to give them away. But then again I have lots of uses for them I’m finding
Ok.....I do not know if you've ever seen the cheesy movie "Mars Attacks", but I've been walking around all day saying "slab rack...slab rack" in the same voice of those aliens.....😂😂 It's so fun to say! Looks like a great design!
Hahah I haven’t seen it but now I may have to look!
@@sawingwithsandy do a search for "mars attacks alien ack ack"....lol First thing that came to mind the first time you said "slab rack" 😂
Everyone from Jack Nicholson to Jack Black are in it....
Hilarious movie!!
Dang ya'll now I gotta go find that movie!