Sawing Boards - Turning a Log into Lumber Part 1
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- Опубліковано 13 кві 2019
- There are many ways to turn a log into usable lumber. This time we’ll take a look at the process of making edged boards.
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I have spent hours just watching you saw logs. It is relaxing, almost hypnotic. It's jarring when you speed up the playback. Please include more sawing.
I like the way you work buddy. You work smart, not stupid. Keep it up
1. I bet you can't wait til your boys are old enough to help you haul and stack boards 2. They are gonna either LOVE or HATE helping you haul and stack boards. 😁👍🏼
hahaha well in part 3 you'll see them shoveling sawdust.
These videos are just so satisfying to watch, seeing logs become lumber is so nice. Then seeing rough lumber become finished lumber is also incredibly satisfying.
Urban timber a resource that needs to be utilized more. Thanks Matt for leading the way.
Depends on the region but most of it gets pretty well utilized just unfortunately not as lumber. A lot of the communities I've worked for take trees and chip them for use in various places around the city landscaping ect. Some sites chip them and use them for environmental controls and then mix the mulch in with the topsoil as compost. It's rare at least that i know where a tree goes to a landfill and is just wasted.
The inch to cm conversion, such a small thing yet so appreciated, thank you :D
I like you're sawing with an eye toward how the wood will look as a piece of furniture. Most sawyers are geared toward production as that's how they make their money. Taking a log and turning into lumber. It's something I enjoy watching. Thinking I should get a mill. Looking at what's available, versus cost, versus utility. Thanks for sharing Matt.
Certainly a fun and rewarding investment. Really opens up a lot of possibilities. Thanks Dana!
Matt I love this video! It's so cool to see you actually decide what type of figure you want in the wood.
-Davis
thanks Davis!
I don’t know how you were beforehand but you’re really great at backing up that trailer.
I was pretty terrible
This is a very interesting series you have planned Matt. It's good that someone is explaining the many different aspects of milling lumber. I also enjoy watching you use your sawmill. It never gets old for me.
thanks!
Beautiful wood, walnut is my favorite, cherry is my 2st favorite. Love it 😍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Matt love you wood working and slabbing videos man keep up the great work. Youve honestly exposed my greatest passion in woodworking over the past year of watching your videos. I found them while I was deployed in 2017 and have been watching ever since. Truly appreciate your work and I look forward to building my own mill when I retire.
Love hearing that! Thanks Drew!
Nice work Matt you did a great job yielding the Most and exposing the beauty of the grain
Thanks!
19:35 Finally! You found your water bucket. Another great one sir. Thanks for sharing.
Really nice Matt. I liked seeing the difference between cutting boards on your mill and your usual slabs. Thanks.
Great video Matt! That Walnut is looking really good! Thanks for sharing your process
Thanks Tomy!
Thanks Matt. I always enjoy watching you saw logs and admiring the grain.
thanks!
looking forward to the rest of the series. I'm more a sawyer than a wood worker and learning how to cut for grade is always helpful. I did a Cedar mortise & tenon trellis from my own milling, sealed it with Boiled linseed oil/turpentine. Sent pic to your web page.
Thanks Matt, for your insight. I have a small manual mill(21 inch) and like sawing the oak. It does take some thought and time for the quality cut. Great video.
I liked the way you explained the process. I didn't see this until today.
Awesome and thank you. We just acquired and band saw mill so looking forward to the rest of this series!!! As always keep up the fantastic work.
Awesome!!
So I'm not the only one who uses a cant as a clamp. I mill my wane boards the same way. Slap em between a pair of cants and cut em till they look 'good.' With today's materials and stabilizers I don't fear or worry about dry rot and spalt in a log. It's character, and you just can not find that in commercial wood these days. My thoughts on that cherry are pretty much the same as yours. The joys of milling our own lumber!
Enjoyable video. Thanks for posting.
thanks!
Another great video Matt!
Some more great looking wood you have there !
thanks!
another amazing video. Always so relaxing and exciting to see what the mill takes on next
thanks!
Your knowledge of cutting boards is exceptional, very nice and good informative video about your specialty, like your style and really hard activities, excellent work, by the way, take care of your back and take it easy young man.
Great stuff Matt. I can watch these mill videos all day
thanks john!
Hi Matt
Really enjoy your channel and your knowledge that you are always willing to share !!
Great looking walnut boards
thanks!
My dad loved woodworking and I believe he would have loved to do what you do if he'd just known about it. Not sure if band saw mills were available decades ago but he would have built one!
Great inventive ideas man!!
Next video request: quartersawing a log! Thanks for the video.
ENJOYED! THANKS!!
Great series Matt, Thank you!
Thanks Steve!
Beautiful lumber!
Good job Matt!!!!
thanks!
Matt, Excellent information and explanation!
thanks Mac!
Interesting stuff there, Matt. Thanks.
thanks, Steve!
Awesome work Matt! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
thanks fred!
Thanks for sharing your knowledge & experience so freely & well. I have worked on a similar mill & know the devil's in the details!
Thanks Ralph!
That bed looks steady as a rock! Nice job Matthew.
Great video as usual. I'm amazed at how conservative you are with saving the jacket boards with extensive sapwood. I've never had luck getting them to dry anywhere near flat. The differential drying of sap vs. heart wists them up into pretzels for me. I have dropped my threshold for sending these to the firewood pile.
Usually end up ok. If they do pretzel, those boards will become stickers. Works out pretty well in that sense
Great video! I'm exhausted after watching it. Seems like Ben-Gay, Aspercreme and Motrin should be sponsors of these sawing videos, lol! Thanks for sharing, truly enjoy watching your process.
Absolutely gorgeous :D Now I trying to figure out a way to put some in a suitcase to bring back with me LOL I have such the project for a few those right now!
thank you Matt
The results justify the hard work. Beautiful boards, Matt. You should get a lathe to use some of that "scrap"! :)
I have pile of bowl blanks that I still haven't turned. Most of them have been waiting for 8 years. thanks!
Great video, keep up the good work.
thanks!
Thanks for the pop up info. Duration and sizes.
Nice tutorial Matt.
My one thought after you said "I'm not a traditional sawyer" was "Rot? Knots? Unstable crotch? Epoxy." lol
Great vid!
Thanks!
Well explained Matt cheers mate
thanks!
Cherry/walnut double whammy. Man I’ll bet that smells goooood.
it was quite lovely on the nose
Nice work! BTW, what sort of arrangement do you have with your neighbours regarding noise and sawdust?
What I particularly like about cherry, is how every part of the grain continues to darken with time. For carving I prefer the dark wood first. And the lighter has it’s place too 🇨🇦ON. Paul
Noticed that in normal speed you are moving faster. Good information.
Your thought process to gain efficiency is amazing !! (ie, putting the boards between the cants to edge them)
I've spent a good amount of time tailing a mill. You learn a lot doing that. thanks!
Interesting that you would complain about the windy day. I’d observe that your audio is still coming through loud and clear. Very impressive. On a windy day, audio is the first thing I’d expect to lose. Very good production values. 🙂
thanks Paul!
Very informative✔✔✔
and today in real time you got some snow =)
Love the @canadianwoodworks tee!
With reference to the area of the cherry that was rotting, do you ever stabilize material such as this. The color and grain are really nice.
Hey Matt love watching your videos. Started milling my own wood because of you. Was wondering if you have any trouble with cracking or checking in your boards.I've been having trouble especially in some of my walnut crotches checking bad. Am i doing something wrong, air drying outside?
Beautiful work Matt, love that bandsaw, I watched your whole series on making it. Didn't you say you were going to put a watering system and a feed motor on it?
You worry too much! It’s all beautiful!
Thanks for the video - always nice to hear how someone else thinks it! It looked like you were cutting 4/4 - if so, what actual thickness do you prefer and why, especially with your wider boards. And, I'll cut a variety of thickness per cant, 4, 5, 6, 8/4 but then have to deal with stickering different thicknesses. Any suggestions?
That overgrown branch might make an awesome bowl blank.
Beautiful action Matt. The logs that you cut are gorgeous! Just wondering, will you be doing anything with the saw dust??
Thanks! I compost the sawdust
Great info Matt..thanks for the video! I bet your cutting that big boy today! Is that music on the video you practicing guitar?
I have a few questions, do you ever completely quarter saw a log? How quick does wood dry in your basement? And do you get any warping issues putting them in the house right away?
Curious: what can you get for, say a bd ft of clear cherry vs a slice with the rot? Does the cost of stabilizing rot outweigh the savings?
Pretty sweet operation Matt , I can’t argue with milling your own hardwoods, years ago I had the opportunity to visit a family owned farm in West Virginia thefamily had 9 siblings that owned a part of the 200 plus a acre property up in the hills each had a lumber mill set up and were milling logs to build their own cabins on the property luckily for the family they had discovered Gaston the ground years ago so they had a lifetime of free natural gas on the property willed to them as well they even had a heated driveway so they wouldn’t have to shovel snow in the wintertime along with gas lighting and generators I thought the entire place was out of this world awesome some of those guys had built their own bandsaws as well and they had plenty of trees on the property to supply their personal needs
that sounds really awesome!
Great Man! Настоящий американский мужик!
Awesome..as always, splash splash never fails to excite 👌👍
Interesting on how you cut your boards. I’m a lumber grader so it’s nice to see you use the board more than how they traditionally would cut it to “upgrade” the board. Also out of curiosity do you know how to grade lumber? And is that how you sell it by the grade?
Next, Matthew makes Hardwood flooring Using the Sawmill
What about some kind of trough to catch the saw dust? Do you use that for anything 🤔
Hi Matt. Realy enjoining your videos! I made a wide bandsaw mill like yours, but i get wavy cuts, and curve ind the midle of of my cut. Cant figure out what is wrong. My blade is 1-1/4” and iam using pulleys AS bandwheels. Any ideas for me?
Mat great video - watching you work on that mill gives me backache ; - (
Saw Dust in your eyes kind of day ! What do you do with all the saw dust?
Love it at 11:40, you're turning the crank on the mill with one hand while pumping the lubricant bottle with the other. Is this the sawyers version of rubbing your belly and patting your head at the same time?
hahahahahaha
What a wonderful teaching video. What are you going to do with the thousand of board feet you have?
The stuff I’m cutting in this series is to replenish my own stock of walnut and cherry
What always blows my mind is A. The sheer amount, and depth, of knowledge that you've been able to assimilate over a fairly short period of time (+/- 5 years?!!), and B. The quality that you manage to squeeze out of what is essentially 'salvage,' and otherwise would have either been firewood, or fodder for some landfill! This all is not to mention some pretty respectable skills as a cabinet maker, and even metal fabricator (with your sawmill)....*and* your ability to make chicken soup out of chicken s***.......all while producing YT videos and raising a growing family!! Really?? OK, you can tell us....what planet are you really from, or are you just a time traveler? LOL :-)
Rip woodtalk. Thanks for throwing salt in our wounds
Maybe you missed Friday’s episode 🤪
No I haven’t ! I saw it in my feed but I’m waiting to listen to it until I’m in the shop. I can’t wait ! I never thought I would miss a podcast until wood talk. Y’all really caught lightning in a bottle with yalls three distinct personalities that mesh so well together.
Hope all is well with new baby
Growing quickly!
Hi Matthew, first question is it okay to remove bark from any size wood even if about thick as your wrist and 11 inch long.
With very dried out wood how do you cut thus branch into something like planks, I don't have band saw. Hack saw tennon saw and 400 mm saw only
Would appreciate any suggestions 😊 for what I do have so if you can come up with some ideas thank you.
So basically always cut with the branch rot side vertical for better yield?
yes, opposite of what I did here.
What do you use for sticker material? Just started milling myself and used some pine pallet slats because I had it on hand
pretty much anything I have that I want to get rid of that's been dried
Hey Matt, I really enjoy watching you saw trees up, but I'm not sure why lol. There's something very satisfying about it. Anyway, I watched you putting in your hardwood floor, would you be able to turn the walnut into floorboards that width? Coz the first thing I thought when you had them layed out next to each other was, omg that would be a beautiful floor, especially if you could keep the full width with the darker wood in the centre and the lighter sap wood on the edges (I think thats what you call it). I hope I'm making sense, I know nothing about wood lol
yes, you could absolutely do that
Very nice Matt. Were you milling that to 7/4?
4/4 thanks!
How do you estimate how deep you think rot and crotch will go through the board?
This is all educated guessing
We carnt get enough sawmill videos 👍 only thing you forgot to mention your cut thickness? Looks about 1.25" ?
I'd love to see a time lapse of the walnut going from green to purple that you describe.
Next time
12:40 if you can stabilize those to boards, those will make some bad ass doors.
Hi Matt, do you sell much of your wood, or just keep it for personal projects?
I sell most of it although the stuff I’ll be cutting in this series will be for my own projects
Great videos I be just discovered your stuff and love watching!
You should try to time lapse each run of the saw instead of cutting it out of the video.
Time lapse / speed up the video of each cut would be amazing to see
👍
Could the cherry be stabilized in a vacuum bag? Sure is pretty even if it is rot.
It could if it doesn't totally fall apart during drying and handling.
Definitely time for some upgrades to the mill. There a few different parts to your channel. The sawyering, the updates, the making of the mill, and the very rare actual woodworking. I think another series on upgrades to the mill would be perfect. I also think more actual wood project making would be great but I know you have deals in place with the woodworkers guild (or at least time/space constraints in your shop) to really do much of that right now.
All that being said I love your channel and am a loyal subscriber and always will be. Just the ramblings of a fan trying to make it perfect for me...lol.
Hi Matt, I am wondering, do you experience much blade deflection when running with the guides so far open as compared to when they are closer together? Does cutting through two cants together make any difference over just one! (Kinda the same question.) also, does the mill's motor labor more noticeably with two cants?
Looking forward to meeting you in Des Moines next month.
No issue with deflection. Cuts are very flat. Two cants is twice the load so yes, feed speed needs to be reduced. thanks!
Does your blade ever catch on the gnarly stuff?
Thank you sir! Some very good information. I plan on purchasing a Woodmizer Mill with an electric motor this summer.
Lots to learn! Thanks again and I look forward to further videos.