You are doing a great job. I enjoy watching your videos. If I were a little younger, I would be looking at getting a sawmill like yours. Be safe and keep up the good work. May the Lord bless you and your family.
Dang, that's a workout and a good day's labor. I like these longer videos, definitely have an ASMR quality to them. Like watching a Bob Ross painting episode. Thanks for the effort.
At 34 mins in you hit the back stop, welcome to the club, we all have done that, those who say they haven’t, they will, great video, you put in a long day, got a lot of lumber done 🙋🏻♂️
I enjoy watching you could up all that Timber and making good Lumber I look looking to get up wood-mizer myself with that said been nice had a set of forks for a bucket, bought some for mine really enjoy it lot of easier work done with it
Great video . You sure got a lot of lumber there . That mill is really nice . The trailer package sure came in handy . Other wise all of those logs would have to be brought to you at your mill site . One thing I don't like about the mill is that the exhaust side (saw dust ) is on the same side that you walk while cutting .Too bad they didn't have the controls on the other side like some mills have .
Here are a few tips that will help you now and later in life. 1. When winching the log onto the sawmill, if it is going crooked, use your canthook to lever it back straight instead of lifting it. Once ruined, your back will never be the same. 2. When sawing a stack of stickers, remove each row as they are sawed. If left, sooner or later one will fall in such a way to wedge against the saw blade and cause it to hit a guide and ruin the blade. 3. Check your vertical saw guides. When you throttle up the entire head raises too much. 4. When stacking the lumber, make sure your stickers all line up on both sides of the pile. A mismatch of a couple inches near the bottom of the pile will get you an entire pile of warped boards. 5. All the long boards go on the bottom of the pile so they are supported. Next will be the next shorter, followed by the next shorter until all are stacked. The one long board with no support near the end will droop several inches as it dries.\ 6. Sell your canthook to some unsuspecting new sawyer and replace it with a peavy. Get in the habit of driving the point of it into the ground near the head of the sawmill where the blade cannnot reach it. Sooner or later you will be leaning the canthook against the mill when it is not in use and saw the handle off. 7. Lay a couple slabs, smooth side up, between the log pile and the loading ramps. Logs will roll easier on them than on the ground or over any bark you knock off. This will matter when you do a 12 to 16 hour day of sawing. It can also leave you room to feed the winch cable under the log easier. 8. Don't just pitch the slabs into a pile, carry them and stack them neatly. On a big job that pile of slabs will be huge and hard to deal with if you just pitch them. A neat pile can be cut into short pieces for firewood easily. Besides that, it will use less energy to carry them instead of throwing. This will be important between hour 6 and 10. 9. Use a couple of the slabs as a base to stack the flitches to be edged on the ground. It may seem like a back saver to put them on the tires so you don't have to pick them off the ground but the first time you bump one and if falls off the tires onto your foot this will become more important to you. By stacking them you can load multiple flitches to edge at once. Do not forget to edge all of them before you quit for the day. The will start to mold by day 3. 10. On a larger log, take off enough cuts to make a good face on the log, then turn it 90 degrees and saw until you are satisfied that you have a good face again, hopefully to a square corner. Then turn it onto one of the flats. At this point if the flat it rests on is at least 6 inches wide, you no longer need to dog the log into place as your engine does not have sufficient power to rotate the log. This means you do not need the supports in place and cannot then saw into them. This will save you money on new bands. 11. It will be faster to load and saw that rotten log into manageable pieces than to use the loader to move it. Climbing onto the loader takes time and more effort than sawing that log. 12 If possible, arrange things so you can easily remove each cut piece to a stack as sawed. With the cut piece out of the way, you only need to lift the head of the mill a tiny amount to bring the head back to the end of the log. This will be important on a long day of sawing. 13. Removing each piece as cut lets you more easily see what the blade may hit. It takes more effort to do so but saves on the cost of replacing blades.
Dang! That was a lot of work, nice job awesome pile of lumber, I noticed you lost your licences plates on the mill Lol keep up the good work and thanks for sharing👍
Yes thanks for the tip it appears in wv, my home state it falls under farm equipment also! I'll check to be sure, got my go package under my mill I like it!👍
That was a good video, thank you. I don't know if you heard me let out a big OUCH when the blade hit something metal. I was thinking it was something in the tree, not part of the sawmill. See you next time.
Something that might help ,, instead of using 1 wire to pull your logs up... use 2 ,, anchor 1 wire on your mill frame where the ramp joins,,,, anchor the 2 nd wire on the mill frame where the other ramp joins ,,,Roll your log up ,, put both wires under the log and join them to your winch wire with a shackle ,,, then as the log rolls up the ramps its controlled by 2 wires,,,
Darrel Carson I was trying my best to get through as many bark cuts as possible before changing it. Those logs were a tad dirty. But they were free! Appreciate you stopping by.
Great video good looking lumber . You need bigger pads underneath the leveling stands . If you watch about @ 2:59 you can see the frame flex at the back end when the saw moves down the rails .
These are just fun to watch, don’t know why, don’t care. How do you know what kinds of lumber to produce? I would think something as big as the last one that got turned into a bunch of 1x1s (or are they 2x2s?) would have been better at a 4x4. Keep posting!
I don't know if this would work but it might be worth a try. Get 2 thinner diameter cables so they fit on the drum for the winch & run each one out at an angle toward the ends of the heavier logs & then straight up to the mill. That would keep the logs square & not let them get sideways.
Have you tried using the log loading winch to rotate the big logs? Take a couple of wraps with the cable around the log so that there is some length to reel in ... might be worth a try. My bad back screams watching you manhandle those things like I used to do once upon a time in my foolish youth.
You should practice with the thumb on the backhoe, you could have saved a lot of effort. Your doing great keep up the good work, look for ways to conserve energy and be more productive.
wayne d Well, he cut them down, loaded them on his trailer, towed them to his property, and unloaded them in a good spot for mill access...so I considered that a big help!
I have watched a lot of your vids. But I can’t help but wonder why are you still load those logs with the winch. When you have that big nice cat back hoe. Get u some clamp on forks or make you some. Keep up the good work.
Most of the wood here is immature, why do you cut logs that aren’t mature? Those are toothpicks. You should practice better conservation and you would have bigger logs to cut
ANY REASON WHY THE WAST AFTER MILLING THE LOGS THAT THE WASTE CANNOT BE USED FOR FIRWOOD FOR CAMPERS OR LOCAL HOMES?? I'M SURE MANY FAMILIES OF LOW INCOME COULD USE THAT WOOD FOR HEATING THERE HOME !
You are doing a great job. I enjoy watching your videos. If I were a little younger, I would be looking at getting a sawmill like yours. Be safe and keep up the good work. May the Lord bless you and your family.
I have no idea why but this is so relaxing to watch!!
Like the old saying goes, "I love hard work. I could watch it all day." :)
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Dang, that's a workout and a good day's labor. I like these longer videos, definitely have an ASMR quality to them. Like watching a Bob Ross painting episode. Thanks for the effort.
Again just got back home 3 am 4th Aug, Scotland great video. It is like meditation. Great.
It is so satisfying to watch you squaring out the uneven logs!
At 34 mins in you hit the back stop, welcome to the club, we all have done that, those who say they haven’t, they will, great video, you put in a long day, got a lot of lumber done 🙋🏻♂️
Monnie Holt Totally wrecked that blade!Nearly two days on this one and still have some logs to go! Appreciate you stopping by.
I enjoy watching you could up all that Timber and making good Lumber I look looking to get up wood-mizer myself with that said been nice had a set of forks for a bucket, bought some for mine really enjoy it lot of easier work done with it
Living the life! Bet your happy with the upgrade.
It's a huge upgrade. Although the little LT10 served me well.
Ok, that's it! I need a Woodmizer! Lol. Great work my friend. Nice lumber .
Dillons Woodworks Haha! Thanks, Mike!
Cheers from Melbourne Australia, another great video thanks.
I love the video mate, very relaxing to watch.
It’s great that you included the accident, many would have edited it out, we all make mistakes!
Graham Battersby I try to keep it real. Thanks for watching!
Great video . You sure got a lot of lumber there . That mill is really nice . The trailer package sure came in handy . Other wise all of those logs would have to be brought to you at your mill site . One thing I don't like about the mill is that the exhaust side (saw dust ) is on the same side that you walk while cutting .Too bad they didn't have the controls on the other side like some mills have .
Gave me a new respect for milling large timber!
That one log was a beast!
Here are a few tips that will help you now and later in life.
1. When winching the log onto the sawmill, if it is going crooked, use your canthook to lever it back straight instead of lifting it. Once ruined, your back will never be the same.
2. When sawing a stack of stickers, remove each row as they are sawed. If left, sooner or later one will fall in such a way to wedge against the saw blade and cause it to hit a guide and ruin the blade.
3. Check your vertical saw guides. When you throttle up the entire head raises too much.
4. When stacking the lumber, make sure your stickers all line up on both sides of the pile. A mismatch of a couple inches near the bottom of the pile will get you an entire pile of warped boards.
5. All the long boards go on the bottom of the pile so they are supported. Next will be the next shorter, followed by the next shorter until all are stacked. The one long board with no support near the end will droop several inches as it dries.\
6. Sell your canthook to some unsuspecting new sawyer and replace it with a peavy. Get in the habit of driving the point of it into the ground near the head of the sawmill where the blade cannnot reach it. Sooner or later you will be leaning the canthook against the mill when it is not in use and saw the handle off.
7. Lay a couple slabs, smooth side up, between the log pile and the loading ramps. Logs will roll easier on them than on the ground or over any bark you knock off. This will matter when you do a 12 to 16 hour day of sawing. It can also leave you room to feed the winch cable under the log easier.
8. Don't just pitch the slabs into a pile, carry them and stack them neatly. On a big job that pile of slabs will be huge and hard to deal with if you just pitch them. A neat pile can be cut into short pieces for firewood easily. Besides that, it will use less energy to carry them instead of throwing. This will be important between hour 6 and 10.
9. Use a couple of the slabs as a base to stack the flitches to be edged on the ground. It may seem like a back saver to put them on the tires so you don't have to pick them off the ground but the first time you bump one and if falls off the tires onto your foot this will become more important to you. By stacking them you can load multiple flitches to edge at once. Do not forget to edge all of them before you quit for the day. The will start to mold by day 3.
10. On a larger log, take off enough cuts to make a good face on the log, then turn it 90 degrees and saw until you are satisfied that you have a good face again, hopefully to a square corner. Then turn it onto one of the flats. At this point if the flat it rests on is at least 6 inches wide, you no longer need to dog the log into place as your engine does not have sufficient power to rotate the log. This means you do not need the supports in place and cannot then saw into them. This will save you money on new bands.
11. It will be faster to load and saw that rotten log into manageable pieces than to use the loader to move it. Climbing onto the loader takes time and more effort than sawing that log.
12 If possible, arrange things so you can easily remove each cut piece to a stack as sawed. With the cut piece out of the way, you only need to lift the head of the mill a tiny amount to bring the head back to the end of the log. This will be important on a long day of sawing.
13. Removing each piece as cut lets you more easily see what the blade may hit. It takes more effort to do so but saves on the cost of replacing blades.
@Ronald Morrison. That's really solid info.
I don't feel too bad now after hearing those dry squeaking bushings on your front loader bucket...Sounds just like my 1984 JCB 1500B
Jim G That was my friend’s loader. It was a huge help! It’s been used pretty hard I think.
@@falllineridge As my JCB...many years of hard work like me
Nice work, thumbs up.
I am surprised the log stayed together when cutting the spacers. I never tried that when I had my mill. I was impressed!
Steve Dawson It was my first try at doing it that way! I usually put a couple of boards up there and edge them til they’re stickers. I was pleased.
Wes, Another great video.
Earl Smithson Thank you!
Sorry about the blade that would suck,I love watching you Gents sawing lumber is to me very tranquil thanks
Nice job. Once again!!
Paul Boulware Thanks, Paul!
Lots of work, good load of lumber!!!
Very therapeutic to watch
Dang! That was a lot of work, nice job awesome pile of lumber, I noticed you lost your licences plates on the mill Lol keep up the good work and thanks for sharing👍
Dave Holmes Thanks for stopping by, Dave!
Not sure about all states, but in Michigan a sawmill is considered a piece of farm equipment and doesnt need a plate.
Yes thanks for the tip it appears in wv, my home state it falls under farm equipment also! I'll check to be sure, got my go package under my mill I like it!👍
The lumber you cut off those pine logs would make great siding for a shooting box on your food plots...your children could start hunting earlier.
That was a lot of timber!
Cheer ....all the way from New Zealand
Good job, good lumber, work with satisfaction !
captgringo Thank you!
That was a good video, thank you. I don't know if you heard me let out a big OUCH when the blade hit something metal. I was thinking it was something in the tree, not part of the sawmill. See you next time.
OLD SCHOOL MACHINIST Yep, worst hit yet with a blade! Appreciate you stopping by.
Nice video.
Something that might help ,, instead of using 1 wire to pull your logs up... use 2 ,, anchor 1 wire on your mill frame where the ramp joins,,,, anchor the 2 nd wire on the mill frame where the other ramp joins ,,,Roll your log up ,, put both wires under the log and join them to your winch wire with a shackle ,,, then as the log rolls up the ramps its controlled by 2 wires,,,
Right before the 1st band change I'm thinking that blade sounds dull and obviously you heard it too. Great video!
Darrel Carson I was trying my best to get through as many bark cuts as possible before changing it. Those logs were a tad dirty. But they were free! Appreciate you stopping by.
Not ever having run a mill, I was thinking 'why is he changing the blade, it looks like it's cutting fine'
Hope you got a few beers for doing that buddy 😀
Just some pretty nice lumber!
I love it.....................wish I had one.
Great. A lot of work.
Why do you sometimes roll the log over 180 degrees and other time just a quarter turn on your second cut?
Hey Wes. Man I need to get a sawmill
Nothing quite like it, TIm. The timber frame is looking nice!
Fatigue will get you every time.
Do you think buying a sawmill is still a good investment with lumber prices dropping rapidly?
Great video good looking lumber .
You need bigger pads underneath the leveling stands .
If you watch about @ 2:59 you can see the frame flex at the back end when the saw moves down the rails .
These are just fun to watch, don’t know why, don’t care.
How do you know what kinds of lumber to produce? I would think something as big as the last one that got turned into a bunch of 1x1s (or are they 2x2s?) would have been better at a 4x4. Keep posting!
Did you film building your chicken house and sawmill shed? Oh grease the backhoe lol
a lot of good lumber
Hey Will you might aught to knock the bark off of those few boards. Termites might set up house.
I don't know if this would work but it might be worth a try. Get 2 thinner diameter cables so they fit on the drum for the winch & run each one out at an angle toward the ends of the heavier logs & then straight up to the mill. That would keep the logs square & not let them get sideways.
QuantityEngineers Interesting idea, thanks for the tip!
@@falllineridge Know as a parbuckle. Look it up.
Have you tried using the log loading winch to rotate the big logs?
Take a couple of wraps with the cable around the log so that there is some length to reel in ... might be worth a try. My bad back screams watching you manhandle those things like I used to do once upon a time in my foolish youth.
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I want to see you build something now
What do you do with the wood with the bark on it
were do you get your music from friend i like it
The bark stripping attachments I mentioned in the previous episode was extremely expensive. Sorry
You could sell the top caps for firewood. Make cash.
Never burn pinewood as firewood.
Boy that is a TON of work. Very Impressive. Really nice sawmill. Do you have a project in mind or just stocking up on lumber for future ideas?
Kevin Ashby Thanks Kevin. Planning on a barn hopefully this Fall.
I do like your Boonie Hat
Great Work! I do have a question though. Will this lumber be kiln dried or will you use it right away?
Stephen Russell I’ll let it air dry for a while. Planning on a barn build hopefully this Fall.
Hey Mike, I’m curious when you use the mill those boards don’t crack before you use them!
how many cuts did you get on that blade
my wife was wondering ....what do you do ....when your not milling lumber....do you have some kind of career job
Is milling how you make a living?
Are you located in Florida???
You should practice with the thumb on the backhoe, you could have saved a lot of effort. Your doing great keep up the good work, look for ways to conserve energy and be more productive.
Appreciate you watching. That was my friends backhoe, I’m no pro! If i was able to use it more I would definitely try to figure out that thumb.
are there woods that are poison or toxic or just nasrty that you should not mill
you should get cash for fuel for truck and mizer engine plus half of the boards.
why aren't you using the scrap for firewood?
Theclaimjumper I don’t burn pine in my house. It’ll creosote up your chimney quick. Just oak and hickory mostly.
IT' AMAZING THAT AFTER THE FIRST CUT TO THE LOG AND TURN IT OVER FOR THE NEXT CUT, YOU DO NOT CHECK TO SEE IF IT IS SQUARE TO THE MILL BED???
good deal :D looks like you both scored. did your friend help or was it all you that weekend?
wayne d Well, he cut them down, loaded them on his trailer, towed them to his property, and unloaded them in a good spot for mill access...so I considered that a big help!
fast foward i wonder why people use it in spot seems weird
you buy trailer separate
Can’t you sell the slab wood or at least give it away for firewood?
prices ?
I have watched a lot of your vids. But I can’t help but wonder why are you still load those logs with the winch. When you have that big nice cat back hoe. Get u some clamp on forks or make you some. Keep up the good work.
Pity you don't have the means to turn all that wood scrap into charcoal.
@34:15 Ouch. :(
Whose mobile home toter?
Most of the wood here is immature, why do you cut logs that aren’t mature? Those are toothpicks. You should practice better conservation and you would have bigger logs to cut
ANY REASON WHY THE WAST AFTER MILLING THE LOGS THAT THE WASTE CANNOT BE USED FOR FIRWOOD FOR CAMPERS OR LOCAL HOMES?? I'M SURE MANY FAMILIES OF LOW INCOME COULD USE THAT WOOD FOR HEATING THERE HOME !