Should You Mill Wet Or Dry Logs On The Sawmill?
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- Опубліковано 18 жов 2024
- In this video I will discuss whether to sawmill logs freshly cut or dried first. I've got some very dry Black Locust, Black Walnut and Maple to saw into slabs on my Woodmizer LT40 and will share this little secrete with you!
If you're wondering if you should mill wet or dry logs on the sawmill, then this video is for you. I'll explain which one is best to mill and tell you why. After watching this video, you'll be able to make the decision that's best for your business!
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Great job !!
I've milled dry, not my preference either.
Cheers !!
Thanks 👍 Ya dry just eats the bands!
Eats the bands, and the fine sawdust is enough to drive me crazy. Hardwoods and cedar are the worst ever. Cedar dust in the air really bad.
@@thearrowheadwoodsman3811 Black Locust is my least favorite dry wood to mill! Lost my voice once milling fairly dry locust for a few days...lost my voice for a week nearly! The sawdust was horrible!
We prefer to cut logs green as well. Hard to find spaulted wood in a green log 😉 actually we just put a pond in to soak dry hardwood logs in. From what I understand some mills store their logs in a pond. Your thoughts 💭
Yes! I mill mostly softwood so should have mentioned that! Good catch! As for the pond, even for softwood the big mills keep them wet with sprinklers to prevent them from drying out!
Since I do less hardwoods (a lot less) I checked with the pros on FF and was told spalting happens when green/wet so not impacted by drying. So I guess, mill it green :D Keeping them wet will help keep them from checking though and allow them to maybe continue to spalt??
ERIC I like milling green except for white pine, i like to let pine dry at least a month or so to let sap drain out ends
I've mill a lot of pine that's been down a month or even all winter and it's still 'green' or 'wet' to me but when I run into dry pine it drives me batty lol. dulls the band so fast I am changing them sometimes every 400bf!
Thanks for another great video
Thanks for watching!
I hate cutting dried out logs, I prefer milling green, except yellow pine. You end up with a half of a gallon of sap with every board foot. Great video that’s for sharing. Take care
Hey, thanks buddy! Haven't milled Yellow Pine but Ponderosa can be pretty wet and I do end up with sap sometimes all over LOL but I'll take it! Cheers!
We called your "wet" wood
Green.
Yup, ne too but sometimes wet helps s8nce its dripping with sap 😉
thank u
You bet bud! Hope all is well?
@@TheOldJarhead you supplied a total knock down of a disagreement here as to wet or dry wood. i say wet and the crusty cranky sawyer, self taught, if that tells you anything says dry. got im ! but a further question. woodmizer offers blades on 4,7,10 degree pitch. does one work better in wet doug fir and cedar than does another?
With my 26.5hp LT40 I find the 7s work better in Doug Fir than DH10s I really like 4s as well. 4s seem to be flatter on wide cuts than DH10s and 7s but also dull fast when they go vs 7s. To me the 7s are the best all round but bimetal 10s are definitely good too!
On a side note, re: milling wet or dry: I don't really understand why a sawyer would insist on milling dry. Checking occurs because the end of the log dries faster than the middle of a log and when left long enough makes the log unusable for anything more than posts or beams at best. Even the big sawmills water their logs while waiting for them to get to the saw in order to prevent drying ahead of time. Once milled, the drying can be controlled via stacking and stickering or via kiln and the resulting lumber is far superior. Of course, that doesn't mean I won't mill dry logs, of course I do and will if that's what the customer has but I always advise to get the sawyer out asap after felling as it's going to produce the best lumber ;)
@@TheOldJarhead precisely my point. he is not my employee and they are not my trees. the tree farm is in far western oregon. a region that does not require a lot of effort to find really good information or evidence to the " wet" perspective.
but a codger is a codger, and when an old woman is actually the owner codgers can be overly influential.
what really irritated is there are two ponds sufficient in size to hold hundreds of logs and the fool is blasting the bark with a h. f. electric pressure washer. comical. but things will improve rather sudden- like with my discovery of your video
Sound advice. So many people cut logs then wait a year or so to find someone to cut em
Thanks! I've run into that many many times and I always wish they hadn't!