That cherry is beautiful! I don't make near as much sawdust as you guys do but I have looked into it for myself and barring some industrial application there isn't much you can do. You could mulch it, but it isn't great for garden plants because it is considered brown mulch (vs green mulch like grass clippings) as it takes much longer to decompose. Unless you can sell it or make something with it my suggestion is to spread it out in the woods and let it enrich the soil and feed the next generation of trees.
Higgins Lake Michigan has a warm 32 degrees, windy, 3 inches of snow. Two more inches of snow tonight. Even warmer weather later this week. Thanks for all the great videos. Have a year.
We just had a small winter storm here in Western South Dakota... love those stacks of lumber... my papaw was a logger, so I love the trees... walking among the trees is my favorite place to be
Well Melissa you answered the question I had about the pool. The look you gave us for the red oak and cherry makes me appreciate nature a lot more. Happy Birthday Hannah. Hello Hunter. Happy New Years everyone. Ed
That wood is beautiful, it will fly off the shelf once you start selling it. When I was a kid my grandfather worked at a sawmill and I would help him bag up sawdust and deliver it to butchers to throw on the floors. People with horses would also come to the mill and get the sawdust by the trailer load for free. We would also fill up an old bathtub add about 15 litres water and mix it all up until it was a thick paste then press into wooden moulds to make fire logs. Happy New Year to the Morgans and all the subscribers.
I do wood working. I have used saw dust off the table saw to get my car out of the snow when stuck. I keep it in my trunk. Its great for traction snow or ice. I also use it on my walk ways when covered with ice. Works wonders. Just a though and you asked l love your channel you guys rock..
We had to put our little Miss Pugsley down today due to bowel and kidney issues with her disorder we documented on our channel. Seeing your dogs so active reminded me of the happy times we've had here these past 11 years with Pugsley and our other dogs. Everybody take some time and enjoy you 'little ones' while you have them! Hope and Pray for all of your viewers/subscribers to be truly and richly blessed in 2020. May God Bless #StaySafe #BeKind #Outdoorgans
Its windy and cold in central Illinois. I watch every night and have been gradually working my way forward thru the past videos posted. I am retired from a wire mill and I am a full time caregiver for my wife who requires 24/7 care and is non verbal too.
Hello from SW MT! Just a few notes from over a million feet cut on my Woodmizer; stickers within 2" of the ends of boards to cut down on checking; at least 4" between piles for adequate air circulation; put 4x4's on top of piles before covering so air can circulate there better. If you go with the pellet mill idea, go with Riverside pellet mills. They are great to work with and also American made if memory serves. Sawdust moisture content needs to be 12 to16% for the best pellets, so you'd have to figure how to get it dry. I cut standing dead softwoods so moisture is not an issue. Love seeing you two working together, keep it up!
I put all my sawdust from sawing at the house in .my garden I had 12 inches this spring. Worms took it all under by mid June. We did have a problem with all of our nitrogen being bound up for about 3 months. All of our vegetables that need high nitrogen did horrible during that time. Last year awesome corn, this year all our corn died. but now our soil is amazingly awesome. Our asparagus went crazy, and it had been struggling for a long time. I will plant corn again this year and give it a little nitrogen and see how it does. Also sawdust is great for cleaning up oil spills around the shop. Then you can burn it in a non catalytic stove about 2 cups at a time for it to burn well.
Sawdust is one of the best composting materials. Lots of lignin. It's a good source of phosphorus. Crops like corn love it. You can grow just about anything in it.
Mike & Melissa, the sawdust does make a great addition to your compost. It breaks down fairly quickly. We’re in the Pacific Northwest, and you should not be surprised to here it’s shmutzing down rain. It has been unseasonably warm thought the wife’s roses have buds & I’m already killing skeeters! Hopefully we’ll get a good hard freeze, else we’re going to be involuntary blood donors this summer!
Hello Mike. I am a woodworker whom makes a lot of sawdust in the shop. I have found that some of the local horse farms will take The chippings and sawdust. Their only issue is with walnut sawdust/chips. It seems that Walnut has an oil that irritates the horses hoofs. I also give some sawdust to the local shelter they use it as bedding etc. this way I get rid of it and it is used in several non-profit areas. As always love the videos and will soon be an owner of a LX150. Thanks again
Monday morning, 08:29 Sunny and 52 in East Tennessee. Beautiful Cherry lumber! The wood chips/sawdust will turn your trails to a greasy would use it for stalls or beddmess when its wet, and hold the moisture for a long time. Maybe find someone with horses or chickens that
Hi Mike you may have worked this out already but if you paint some bees wax or oil based paint on the ends of sawn lumber it reduces any cracking and redo this every so often as needed. Another tip is for oak milling is to 1/4 saw some of it this will also bring out the lovely grians. Love your family vidios. From nz
We are in West Central Wisconsin here and its rained for the last two days and now it's a raging blizzard out right now. 15 degrees colder today than yesterday. We love watching your videos!
I am in the Great Northwest in Western Washington not far from Mt Rainier. Last year I hired a sawyer with a portable saw mill to mill some massive fir trees I had taken down where I built a pole barn. I just took the tractor and loader and dumped it my my compost shed. With the red wriggler worms, kitchen waste, chicken manure and weed waste it made a great compost for our garden. If you produce actual wood chips they are great bedding for chickens and livestock.
West central Illinois - light rain overnight, solid overcast today. Wake up was below freezing, noon is 31 degrees, projected high is 33 degrees. Tomorrow, maybe a little sun, but basically more of the same. Wednesday forecast - 45 and sunny.
Middle of Minnesota, we are suppose to get about 6 to 8" today. It is wet and sloppy on the roads. That is some nice looking cherry and oak you milled, Mike! I sure enjoy seeing what come out of each log. I watch OTW also.Melissa and Mike, you sure work well together!
North Georgia here, wet climate and humid. Wood chips on the ground soak up water like a sponge and attract termites. We produce compost for our garden using mainly sawdust from the Woodmizer LT28 and grass clippings. Carbon + nitrogen
Here in the Chicago area the last two weeks have been incredibly warm and generally clear, almost feel guilty with some of the storms in other parts of the country. Today the temps dropped and we have light snow tonight, but it was almost 60 the other day so no complaints!
Monday night it is getting down to low 30's and there are threats of snow for Tuesday morning commute west of Cleveland. I was told by my dad that there is supposed to be saw dust around each stick of dynamite in the wood crate, so get some dynamite to pack up. I would save some for July 4th for an extra punch. Some folks mix wood chips and saw dust into dirt to make garden soil compost. I love the channel, keep up the good work.
Mike, I have been using woodchips on trails for years - works great, especially in the muddy areas. Need to reapply frequently, but it works for me. Since I am in the hudson valley of NY, I get your weather a day or so after you
I know myself i used sawdust to mix with glue to fix bad spots in the wood, holes and cracks and such when making Cabinets and furniture. Also a company that makes wood pellets for stoves may buy it. In S.E. Michigan we have high wind today 42° calling for 32° and snow tomorrow. Have fun on your vacation! Happy Birthday to Eva! Steak sounds good right up my alley :)))
We have our annual antique days and we set up an old sawmill when we are done we have 1-2 large manure spreaders full, the farmers spread it on the cornfields that are picked.
We use sawdust (and woodchips too) on our walking trails. Makes walking out to the stands quieter in the morning and decomposes nicely to make great trail beds over the years.
Sawdust stoves are available if you need a steady heat source in a workshop/garage/mini hut etc. Also, sawdust is a useful product for chicken bedding. Be aware that wood logs will dry even in very wet atmospheres. I used to run a large coal-fired power station in the UK on the west coast of the country (Wales). Large wood logs (mainly Ash) were bought from the local forests to burn with the coal and would naturally dry from approximately 50% humidity to 25% in about 3 months (before being chipped to burn). They sat outside with no covers and the wood stock was by the sea in the rain and fog etc.
We’ve been having the same weather in Michigan but the northern lower peninsula got hammered today with rain then snow then freezing temperatures. Friends of our rolled their SUV 3 times this morning! They hit some ice on a 2 lane highway which sent them heading straight towards an oncoming semi! He decided to ditch it instead of hitting the truck. Mom, Dad and 3 children are ok. Maybe those 60 degree days in late December are safer! Happy New Year Morgan’s
It's Monday and the cold weather just arrived. Temps in the middle 30's but it's going to level out for the rest of the week. It rained over an inch yesterday but is supposed to be dry for the next few days. Our plan is to cut on a 100' Beech tree blow down and split it into firewood on New Years day. Take care and God Bless.
PTO driven pellet mill! Make your own wood pellets...perfect for a grill, smoker or heating. Sullivan county N.Y. rain, rain & more rain! There calling for a change over to ice Tried saw dust on trails... works great at first.. then turns slick as it breaks down. Not even good for walking trails once that happens. Composting is probably the best option unless you can get your hands on a pellet mill!
Yep that was going to be my suggestion. All sawdust is good to put on the garden except for black walnut never put black walnut sawdust on the garden kill off all your plants
Yes, mix the saw dust with other organic things like leaves, grass clippings, old paper junk mail, things that will burn. and get a pellet mill and press out pellets for wood stoves. Here in South Carolina it has been close to 70 all week.
I had 10,000 board feet of Eastern White Pine and Hemlock sawn by a gentleman with a huge Woodmizer mill back in 2014. His neighbor came over with his 1 Ton dump and I loaded him up 3 times with my loader. He used it for bedding for his sheep and he was very happy. He said hardwood sawdust is great also as long as it is not Walnut.
you can use sawdust for mulch either mix in with the leaves to make mulch. Also Farmers use it for in their animals. I agree sawdust and wood chips will hold the moisture on the trails and make it slimy and slippery. I agree the Cherry is the nicest. It is day 2 of Rain here in Southeastern PA
I only use dry white cedar chips for the dog run . They will not decompose fast . On trails only hard wood chips and large size chips . No soft wood . I have a area on my property that keep for dumping saw dust / wood chips soft wood not cedar . All bark and slivers from splitter / leaves and anything decomposable . Run the heavy duty flail mower over and mulch everything A couple times in summer then I use the pto tiller too mix up . Then in fall scoop everything up and pile in big mounds . I now have beautiful rich clear topsoil piles . It takes a few years too get it going but the rewards are great . When you have a tractor with attachments and large property like you do . It’s the way too go . Clear rich Top soil is worth big dollars 👍
Out in Oregon the use the sawdust from the mills to make compressed fire logs its mixed with wax to keep them together, they sell for 2 dollars each and burn nicely in a wood stove, they also make the bags of pellets out of the sawdust and wax, those go for 5 dollars a bag depending on how much you buy
Lot's of ideas. The sawdust & leaf compost is good but also put in your chicken coop/run. The chickens will add ferlitizer and mix it too when scratching for insects. Lumnah acres puts it in his nest bins. Hope you find a great use. Looking forward to the answer. Appreciate your sharing. Blessings into the New Year. Be safe brother. I'm glad your wife is doing better. She's a great partner and wonderful accent to the channel. ☝🙏👍👉...
Hey Mike and Melissa, it’s 37-56 today in deep east Texas. Rained yesterday 🤗 gotta take what we are given and go with it. Happy Birthday Eva ! The splitting and stacking was a good video. Thanks for sharing with us.
we had freezing rain and then abut 3 or 4 inches of snow here in South Central Nebraska below freezing all night mid thirties day time. The sawdust works in gardens if you have bad soil
You mention that you have a lot to learn about milling but I see that you already know that good logs make good lumber . This puts you far ahead of most milling videos on UA-cam . Keep up the good work , that is nice cherry .
Hi Mike! im in southern illinois, just north of where misssissippi and illinois rivers meet. but rainy and turning colder, we had wind with the rain. the wood looks super! great for all projects and furniture too. You are fortunate to have Melissa by your side buddy! a very fine woman. count your blessings. and life is good! Hope the family is good. and a prosperious new year. 2020 is gonna be good! take care and keep up the good work, we all enjoy your efforts buddy!
Hello Mike and Millessa. Mark in Fort McMurray Alberta. Great channel. For your sawdust use it for your chickens or save it for more chickens to come. If that is not an option load it on in your dump trailer and put it out on the trails where there is wet sections because it will help absorb the water and mud. We used to use wood chips back in Nova Scotia all the time on the trails and it does work both for atv trails and for heavier equipment such as your tractors. First time commenting on your channel from |Fort McMurray sunny day here and -8C 46 F. Great videos guys take care.
It's January 1st, just north of Syracuse N.Y. and it's 34 degrees, lawn is mostly showing, rained about 1/2" yesterday. 30 minutes further north and they are calling for over a foot of snow in persistent lake effect areas.
In West central Wi. we have had everything from rain, snow, combination and plenty of snow on the ground since before Thanksgiving. Northern Wi had 25 inches of snow after deer season which started the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It's a 9 day rifle season. It's currently snowing here, around 2 inches right now We haven't seen the sun all last week. The moisture just keeps going in circles over WI, MN. and Michigan. I would take a cooler day with sun anytime.
Wood chips are used here in Indiana on trails, but the key word being chips. Sawdust is much finer and would just be mush when wet. Bedding as has been mentioned for chickens or cattle maybe. Horses don't do well with dust usually. Here in western Indiana it was in the 60s and raining, but the rain has stopped and the temps are dropping into the 30s.
Greetings from Australia. Here in Adelaide we have had several days of around 100°F. Today is low 70s. But more high temp weather coming end of week. It's not helping with the Bush fires around here. Love what you do.
Mike, I’ve heard that indoor riding arenas use sawdust to provide a soft cushion for the horses. In fact, I’ve been told they buy it from some mills. However, it has to be dry and that’s been our problem. If you eventually move that mill under roof and can collect it dry, you may be able to sell it. As it stands, it’s our biggest waste by product and we dump it with the other waste and debris that comes off the firewood processing. I hate doing that but we can’t collect and keep it dry.
I know mechanic shops or other places that have small oil spills on the floor use it to absorb the spill, then just sweep it up. Farmers usually have shops, they do most of their own work as well. -4C / 28F here in Edmonton, AB. Canada just above your upper Midwest.
Beautiful lumber of the Woodside. In yesterdays video I thought I saw your debarker is out of line. It was not tacking good and the blade was not in the groove. Happy New Year to you and your family.💥🌲🌳🎉🎈 2020 🎈🎉🌳🌲💥
Mike, LOL, you reminded of my dad's friend (a Woodmiser million BF club member). Dad said he could saw a lot more lumber if he didn't fall in love with every board he takes off the mill. Stickering is a precision job, you have to be a stickler about it. Sawdust can be a hazard, a big pile will make heat inside and possibly combust. People will come get sawdust for free for animals (hamster, ferret, etc) bedding.
Mike, if you cut pine its best done during cold weather as it has a tendency to blue stain if the weather is warm. Once the surface is dry the chance for stain is reduced. I hear you don't want to put sawdust on the soft spots, put enough and give it a fair trial. Sawdust is nice under foot in the winter to keep your feet warm and keep frost from around mill foundations.
It was mid 30"s in Central Illinois today. Usually hits your area in 2-3 days. Use the saw dust to fill in wet spots on your trails. Sell it to mushroom farmers or worm farmers.
Wood pellet is cool - maybe the new range could have a tiny burner. How about a hole in the yard and fill it - and then add coffee grounds. Worms love, love coffee. That will be converted into good dirt in maybe a year. It is long tradition in mountain cabins. If you sprinkle in the forest the worms will come. Worms digest sawdust and produce material plants can use. In the mountain cabin - we had a 6-8' tall stack of sawdust (firewood cutting) and several pounds of coffee a week. We went with two 5 pounds of coffee for two weeks and always ran short. Cool to cold days. Wonderful times of past. We had (dangerous) hand probes that plugged into 120. the probes were 3-4' apart when inserted into the sawdust/coffee grounds and then we unplugged and picked off fishing worms! Hill full of them.
I'm in Michigan lower peninsula, lots of rain and high winds, my neighbor is in the UP right now vacationing and its changing from rain to snow and expect 2 inches per hour for the next 24 to 36 hours. Either way a lot of moisture then changi g to snow. Our lake was froze but is now open water. Sawdust... I'd spread it thin off the sides of your trails, helps amend your soil. Love the videos, Good luck.
Mix with other pine chips ... Vacuum bag together or separate to sell for Indoor Horse stalls on the floor ... Cushions their feet whilst standing in stalls for extended time ... Also has more left over even after mucking the stall ... Removal of poop/ Pitchfork
Mike, The sawdust could be used for worm bedding( for fishing). The other thing is to add it to the garden for natural ingredients. But beware it will draw termites into the area in larger quantities. What do the saw mills locally do with their saw dust. I bet most just dump it and let nature that the action. Saw dust on the trails, road, walking paths would make it like glass. As for the wood, oak has been my favorite since I made an Oak book case in 5th Grade (about 1963). But seeing the Cherry makes me want to get some for another book case.
Melissa and Mike I like your 'man glitter' idea. Maybe someone in your area that composts for their garden. The lumber looks awesome👍. Weather here 1 hr north of Madison WI is snowing w/ 1-3 but hr north 6-10. Happy Birthday Eva. And a Big👋 to Hunter🤗
Good luck finding a use for sawdust unless you have strawberry or blueberry plants. I remember years ago when my wife was well we had a big mud hole in our driveway. When I was working out of town she took the bucket loader, scraped up all the sawdust from my log landing and filled the hole. The sawdust made the mud grow and became a HUGE mess. Not one of the finer ideas. What I do is dump it in a low unusable area , out of sight, out of mind. Thanks for the video and Happy NewYear
The tannic acid and other chemicals found in oak are killers for grass and most plants. Making pellets for wood burning stoves and grills/smokers is a good idea, but I think the moisture content is way too high for making pellets from freshly cut wood. I will spread out cherry and apple sawdust to about an inch thick and rake it every hour for a day. When it is dried like this I use it along with chunks of cherry and apple in my smoker. Cherry and alder are very good smoking agents for smoking fish and chicken. Thanks again for this video, and have a Day y’all.
I use my pine sawdust from the mill to fill in mud holes in the trail. It's very absorbent and works great ,I filled a 2' mud hole and it's still dry to this day.
Mike, I've been around some log home manufacturing plants and they use the some of the sawdust to fire their furnace for the kiln. One manufacture also has a company called Barky Beaver. They turn the scraps into mulch for flower beds and such. They also sell compost for top soil. I suspect a large part of the sawdust ends up as compost. I suspect the large mills use the sawdust to make wood pellets sold for pellet stoves and smokers. Tractor Supply sells a pelletized product for stalls and trailers. From working with it, it appears to be compressed course saw dust. Now if you had a chipper and you chipped up all the limbs that you leave in the woods then mixed the chips and saw dust together, used a little digester sprayed on top to break it down, you would also have compost in a short time. Your woods would be cleaner and protected from potential woodland fires. BTW, Melissa gave you a hint on what she wants for her Birthday in this video.
Hi Mike - Scott here from over in IL on the Mississippi River. Got to tell you that the weather is bitter here tonight. No snow yet but we've been getting some sleet. Forgot to check the temperature before I started writing this comment, but as I said earlier, it is bitter.
Buddy, excellent suggestion. When my family ran a sawmill, dairy farmers bought the sawdust by the trailer load for bedding. Just a thought. Good luck.
We have taken saw dust to soak up oil from the floor then used it as a dust down when we sweep dusty floors it gives it a little shine when were done. Looks like your going to have a lot of dust down. John Mangas
Top of the morning M&M! Here in East Central MN it is currently snowing. The temp hasn't budged from 34 degrees for 3 days now, Yesterday we had an inch of rain. It is horrible winter weather. We are supposed to get 3-4 inches of snow on to pf the ice by tomorrow. Arrrrrg! Back in the day they used to use sawdust as insulation when they cut ice from the lakes and stored it for summer cooling in ice houses!
That is a very good idea with all of the hardwood you have. There is probably a market for them. ua-cam.com/users/results?search_query=wood+pellet+maker
Bish Bash I was making 4-5 dump trailer loads a week from our processor. We thought of if, but making wood pellets is an expensive, time consuming process because you have to have a specific moisture contenting.
Sell man glitter lol. With you Mike, here in Michigan it’s warm and muddy. We had over An inch of rain yesterday and last night. So sick of it want it to Freeze and stay frozen so I can get out in THE WOODS. I do more sweeping mud out of my barn/shop than anything else. Happy New Year.
Sawdust makes excellent mulch for strawberries, blueberries, etc. As you say it retains moisture and if you get 6"-8" of it stops weeds. you can just let it breakdown and add to it each year. I have also seen it used as bedding in nesting boxes. If nothing else bag it and sell it.
Hey Mike, here in Ohio we had steady rain yesterday followed by heavy winds over night. lots of trees down and power outages. Today is still breezy with temps in the low 40's, damp and chilly. As for wood chips, I know that in Oregon (lots of rain) they use chips but I imagine they are larger and mainly used on walking and running trails not so much for trails like yours. I'll have to get back with you on uses for sawdust. Unless you just want to find a business that needs the raw material. Have a day and a great New Year.
Include three or four fire starters in Hunters' bags of fire wood...this is after all a premium product and it would be kind of neat as a marketing feature. Also Hunter could make the fire starters, with supervision of course. You already have a hydraulic ram, (the splitter) with some heavy duty pipe you could press the sawdust into logs. But mixing them with your leaves for compost sounds like the best option. Great video M&M, thumbs up.
garden! horse bedding as long as no walnut. actually any animal bedding. can use in the chicken coop laying boxes. compost pile. homemade compressed firebricks. flowerbed foot paths. mulch for bedding plants or orchard. If anyone has a lot of clay in their ground it helps to areate the soil. I prefer the cherry too. But both have a very nice grain.
Fun - Stacking wood so it can dry out but lets pour this water on it first so we can see the grain. (just ribbing you) Yes that one long 4X4 will keep Mike up nights thinking about it. Love the dogs playing chase on the fast forward video. Hunters shadow...
Mike, growing up in Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 60-70's, there was a lot of old large Sawmills, and they would put their sawdust in large pits or side of hill. Years later we would go to these old pits where the sawdust had decomposed or turned dark brown. We were poor, my Dad being a landscaper, and the pit access for free, we would load up the truck (many trips) with this stuff and apply it to the newly seeded lawns and gardens. My point being, dig a pit area where you can dump it (or side of a hill), and in the future find a good use for it. It could be worth gold some day. Which is better for some good soil, wood chips or fine sawdust? Idaho Dreaming Cal in Kuwait, right now at a small camp in UAE. Thanks Again for your GREAT Videos, Ya All put a smile on my face in each one (except when Stanley passed, yes, I had tears in my eyes, and they come back each time you pass by that table).
You should write saw dates on the end of a few boards so when you start selling or using it yourself you know what your cure times are. I know you can moisture check but a quick glance at a saw date would save a lot of time poking.
That cherry is beautiful! I don't make near as much sawdust as you guys do but I have looked into it for myself and barring some industrial application there isn't much you can do. You could mulch it, but it isn't great for garden plants because it is considered brown mulch (vs green mulch like grass clippings) as it takes much longer to decompose. Unless you can sell it or make something with it my suggestion is to spread it out in the woods and let it enrich the soil and feed the next generation of trees.
Melissa is the spark in these videos. She makes great wise cracks. Keep posting.
Just got home 2:20am 2020. Happy New Year to Mike,Melissa,Hunter,Hannah,Eva and all The Morgans followers
Just a thought; sell to farmers for bedding! We used it on the farm from App's saw mill for bedding for cows and chickens!
Need to be careful with using green sawdust as bedding for cows as it can prom bacterial growth and can lead to mastitis in lactating cows.
I think they look for shavings not the dust
Higgins Lake Michigan has a warm 32 degrees, windy, 3 inches of snow. Two more inches of snow tonight. Even warmer weather later this week. Thanks for all the great videos. Have a year.
We just had a small winter storm here in Western South Dakota... love those stacks of lumber... my papaw was a logger, so I love the trees... walking among the trees is my favorite place to be
Well Melissa you answered the question I had about the pool. The look you gave us for the red oak and cherry makes me appreciate nature a lot more. Happy Birthday Hannah. Hello Hunter. Happy New Years everyone. Ed
That wood is beautiful, it will fly off the shelf once you start selling it. When I was a kid my grandfather worked at a sawmill and I would help him bag up sawdust and deliver it to butchers to throw on the floors. People with horses would also come to the mill and get the sawdust by the trailer load for free. We would also fill up an old bathtub add about 15 litres water and mix it all up until it was a thick paste then press into wooden moulds to make fire logs. Happy New Year to the Morgans and all the subscribers.
I do wood working. I have used saw dust off the table saw to get my car out of the snow when stuck. I keep it in my trunk. Its great for traction snow or ice. I also use it on my walk ways when covered with ice. Works wonders. Just a though and you asked l love your channel you guys rock..
We had to put our little Miss Pugsley down today due to bowel and kidney issues with her disorder we documented on our channel. Seeing your dogs so active reminded me of the happy times we've had here these past 11 years with Pugsley and our other dogs. Everybody take some time and enjoy you 'little ones' while you have them! Hope and Pray for all of your viewers/subscribers to be truly and richly blessed in 2020. May God Bless #StaySafe #BeKind #Outdoorgans
Its windy and cold in central Illinois. I watch every night and have been gradually working my way forward thru the past videos posted. I am retired from a wire mill and I am a full time caregiver for my wife who requires 24/7 care and is non verbal too.
Hello from SW MT! Just a few notes from over a million feet cut on my Woodmizer; stickers within 2" of the ends of boards to cut down on checking; at least 4" between piles for adequate air circulation; put 4x4's on top of piles before covering so air can circulate there better. If you go with the pellet mill idea, go with Riverside pellet mills. They are great to work with and also American made if memory serves. Sawdust moisture content needs to be 12 to16% for the best pellets, so you'd have to figure how to get it dry. I cut standing dead softwoods so moisture is not an issue. Love seeing you two working together, keep it up!
Beautiful wood Mike you are lucky to have the trees for it. God bless
I put all my sawdust from sawing at the house in .my garden I had 12 inches this spring. Worms took it all under by mid June. We did have a problem with all of our nitrogen being bound up for about 3 months. All of our vegetables that need high nitrogen did horrible during that time. Last year awesome corn, this year all our corn died. but now our soil is amazingly awesome. Our asparagus went crazy, and it had been struggling for a long time. I will plant corn again this year and give it a little nitrogen and see how it does.
Also sawdust is great for cleaning up oil spills around the shop. Then you can burn it in a non catalytic stove about 2 cups at a time for it to burn well.
Sawdust is one of the best composting materials. Lots of lignin. It's a good source of phosphorus. Crops like corn love it. You can grow just about anything in it.
Mike & Melissa, the sawdust does make a great addition to your compost. It breaks down fairly quickly. We’re in the Pacific Northwest, and you should not be surprised to here it’s shmutzing down rain. It has been unseasonably warm thought the wife’s roses have buds & I’m already killing skeeters! Hopefully we’ll get a good hard freeze, else we’re going to be involuntary blood donors this summer!
Hello Mike. I am a woodworker whom makes a lot of sawdust in the shop. I have found that some of the local horse farms will take The chippings and sawdust. Their only issue is with walnut sawdust/chips. It seems that Walnut has an oil that irritates the horses hoofs. I also give some sawdust to the local shelter they use it as bedding etc. this way I get rid of it and it is used in several non-profit areas. As always love the videos and will soon be an owner of a LX150. Thanks again
Monday morning, 08:29 Sunny and 52 in East Tennessee. Beautiful Cherry lumber! The wood chips/sawdust will turn your trails to a greasy would use it for stalls or beddmess when its wet, and hold the moisture for a long time. Maybe find someone with horses or chickens that
Hi Mike you may have worked this out already but if you paint some bees wax or oil based paint on the ends of sawn lumber it reduces any cracking and redo this every so often as needed. Another tip is for oak milling is to 1/4 saw some of it this will also bring out the lovely grians. Love your family vidios. From nz
We are in West Central Wisconsin here and its rained for the last two days and now it's a raging blizzard out right now. 15 degrees colder today than yesterday. We love watching your videos!
I am in the Great Northwest in Western Washington not far from Mt Rainier. Last year I hired a sawyer with a portable saw mill to mill some massive fir trees I had taken down where I built a pole barn. I just took the tractor and loader and dumped it my my compost shed. With the red wriggler worms, kitchen waste, chicken manure and weed waste it made a great compost for our garden. If you produce actual wood chips they are great bedding for chickens and livestock.
That is Gorgeous looking Lumber!!👍👊
West central Illinois - light rain overnight, solid overcast today. Wake up was below freezing, noon is 31 degrees, projected high is 33 degrees. Tomorrow, maybe a little sun, but basically more of the same. Wednesday forecast - 45 and sunny.
Just love watching the LX150 do it's thing!! Mike the operator, Melissa the stacker extraordinaire!!
Middle of Minnesota, we are suppose to get about 6 to 8" today. It is wet and sloppy on the roads. That is some nice looking cherry and oak you milled, Mike! I sure enjoy seeing what come out of each log. I watch OTW also.Melissa and Mike, you sure work well together!
North Georgia here, wet climate and humid. Wood chips on the ground soak up water like a sponge and attract termites. We produce compost for our garden using mainly sawdust from the Woodmizer LT28 and grass clippings. Carbon + nitrogen
Here in the Chicago area the last two weeks have been incredibly warm and generally clear, almost feel guilty with some of the storms in other parts of the country. Today the temps dropped and we have light snow tonight, but it was almost 60 the other day so no complaints!
Monday night it is getting down to low 30's and there are threats of snow for Tuesday morning commute west of Cleveland.
I was told by my dad that there is supposed to be saw dust around each stick of dynamite in the wood crate, so get some dynamite to pack up. I would save some for July 4th for an extra punch.
Some folks mix wood chips and saw dust into dirt to make garden soil compost.
I love the channel, keep up the good work.
Mike, I have been using woodchips on trails for years - works great, especially in the muddy areas. Need to reapply frequently, but it works for me. Since I am in the hudson valley of NY, I get your weather a day or so after you
I put sawdust and chips in garden in the fall. Beautiful lumber stack love its stacked so uniform and neat, great job.
I know myself i used sawdust to mix with glue to fix bad spots in the wood, holes and cracks and such when making Cabinets and furniture. Also a company that makes wood pellets for stoves may buy it. In S.E. Michigan we have high wind today 42° calling for 32° and snow tomorrow. Have fun on your vacation! Happy Birthday to Eva! Steak sounds good right up my alley :)))
We have our annual antique days and we set up an old sawmill when we are done we have 1-2 large manure spreaders full, the farmers spread it on the cornfields that are picked.
Listening to you talk is like going back to my childhood. Grew up in south central PA and the accent sounds like home.
We use sawdust (and woodchips too) on our walking trails. Makes walking out to the stands quieter in the morning and decomposes nicely to make great trail beds over the years.
Sawdust stoves are available if you need a steady heat source in a workshop/garage/mini hut etc. Also, sawdust is a useful product for chicken bedding. Be aware that wood logs will dry even in very wet atmospheres. I used to run a large coal-fired power station in the UK on the west coast of the country (Wales). Large wood logs (mainly Ash) were bought from the local forests to burn with the coal and would naturally dry from approximately 50% humidity to 25% in about 3 months (before being chipped to burn). They sat outside with no covers and the wood stock was by the sea in the rain and fog etc.
We’ve been having the same weather in Michigan but the northern lower peninsula got hammered today with rain then snow then freezing temperatures. Friends of our rolled their SUV 3 times this morning! They hit some ice on a 2 lane highway which sent them heading straight towards an oncoming semi! He decided to ditch it instead of hitting the truck. Mom, Dad and 3 children are ok. Maybe those 60 degree days in late December are safer!
Happy New Year Morgan’s
Tinkering around admiring beautiful wood. Thatz a day!
Sawing becomes addictive! And contagious ... Just finished watching your video and now I have to go saw some lumber!
It's Monday and the cold weather just arrived. Temps in the middle 30's but it's going to level out for the rest of the week. It rained over an inch yesterday but is supposed to be dry for the next few days. Our plan is to cut on a 100' Beech tree blow down and split it into firewood on New Years day. Take care and God Bless.
PTO driven pellet mill! Make your own wood pellets...perfect for a grill, smoker or heating.
Sullivan county N.Y. rain, rain & more rain! There calling for a change over to ice
Tried saw dust on trails... works great at first.. then turns slick as it breaks down. Not even good for walking trails once that happens. Composting is probably the best option unless you can get your hands on a pellet mill!
Yep that was going to be my suggestion. All sawdust is good to put on the garden except for black walnut never put black walnut sawdust on the garden kill off all your plants
@@2naturesownplace - it always amazes me how such pretty wood (black walnut) can come from such filthy trees..
Love your attention to detail with lumber stacking, Mike! #NoOCDhere HA HA HA! Happy New Year, Morgan Family!
You can so hear the Dred in Mike’s voice whenever pool is mentioned it’s funny 😆 god bless guys
Yes, mix the saw dust with other organic things like leaves, grass clippings, old paper junk mail, things that will burn. and get a pellet mill and press out pellets for wood stoves. Here in South Carolina it has been close to 70 all week.
I had 10,000 board feet of Eastern White Pine and Hemlock sawn by a gentleman with a huge Woodmizer mill back in 2014. His neighbor came over with his 1 Ton dump and I loaded him up 3 times with my loader. He used it for bedding for his sheep and he was very happy. He said hardwood sawdust is great also as long as it is not Walnut.
you can use sawdust for mulch either mix in with the leaves to make mulch. Also Farmers use it for in their animals. I agree sawdust and wood chips will hold the moisture on the trails and make it slimy and slippery. I agree the Cherry is the nicest. It is day 2 of Rain here in Southeastern PA
I only use dry white cedar chips for the dog run . They will not decompose fast . On trails only hard wood chips and large size chips . No soft wood . I have a area on my property that keep for dumping saw dust / wood chips soft wood not cedar . All bark and slivers from splitter / leaves and anything decomposable . Run the heavy duty flail mower over and mulch everything A couple times in summer then I use the pto tiller too mix up . Then in fall scoop everything up and pile in big mounds . I now have beautiful rich clear topsoil piles . It takes a few years too get it going but the rewards are great . When you have a tractor with attachments and large property like you do . It’s the way too go . Clear rich Top soil is worth big dollars 👍
Out in Oregon the use the sawdust from the mills to make compressed fire logs its mixed with wax to keep them together, they sell for 2 dollars each and burn nicely in a wood stove, they also make the bags of pellets out of the sawdust and wax, those go for 5 dollars a bag depending on how much you buy
Lot's of ideas. The sawdust & leaf compost is good but also put in your chicken coop/run. The chickens will add ferlitizer and mix it too when scratching for insects. Lumnah acres puts it in his nest bins. Hope you find a great use. Looking forward to the answer. Appreciate your sharing. Blessings into the New Year. Be safe brother. I'm glad your wife is doing better. She's a great partner and wonderful accent to the channel. ☝🙏👍👉...
Hey Mike and Melissa, it’s 37-56 today in deep east Texas. Rained yesterday 🤗 gotta take what we are given and go with it. Happy Birthday Eva ! The splitting and stacking was a good video. Thanks for sharing with us.
Thanks Melissa, had a wonderful Christmas and looking forward to a great New Year too.
Wau so beautiful cherry wood and this flame structure of the boards are 1A because you can make beautiful furniture
Thank you all for sharing your lives.
We all Love you.
we had freezing rain and then abut 3 or 4 inches of snow here in South Central Nebraska
below freezing all night mid thirties day time. The sawdust works in gardens if you have bad soil
You mention that you have a lot to learn about milling but I see that you already know that good logs make good lumber . This puts you far ahead of most milling videos on UA-cam . Keep up the good work , that is nice cherry .
Hi Mike! im in southern illinois, just north of where misssissippi and illinois rivers meet. but rainy and turning colder, we had wind with the rain. the wood looks super! great for all projects and furniture too. You are fortunate to have Melissa by your side buddy! a very fine woman. count your blessings. and life is good! Hope the family is good. and a prosperious new year. 2020 is gonna be good! take care and keep up the good work, we all enjoy your efforts buddy!
Hello Mike and Millessa. Mark in Fort McMurray Alberta. Great channel. For your sawdust use it for your chickens or save it for more chickens to come. If that is not an option load it on in your dump trailer and put it out on the trails where there is wet sections because it will help absorb the water and mud. We used to use wood chips back in Nova Scotia all the time on the trails and it does work both for atv trails and for heavier equipment such as your tractors. First time commenting on your channel from |Fort McMurray sunny day here and -8C 46 F. Great videos guys take care.
Up here in the Pacific Northwest, Mount Vernon, WA. 43 degrees and forecast for the day showers. Enjoying your videos, keep'm coming.
Wish Eva a happy birthday! It's all about family!
It's January 1st, just north of Syracuse N.Y. and it's 34 degrees, lawn is mostly showing, rained about 1/2" yesterday. 30 minutes further north and they are calling for over a foot of snow in persistent lake effect areas.
In West central Wi. we have had everything from rain, snow, combination and plenty of snow on the ground since before Thanksgiving. Northern Wi had 25 inches of snow after deer season which started the Saturday before Thanksgiving. It's a 9 day rifle season. It's currently snowing here, around 2 inches right now We haven't seen the sun all last week. The moisture just keeps going in circles over WI, MN. and Michigan. I would take a cooler day with sun anytime.
Wood chips are used here in Indiana on trails, but the key word being chips. Sawdust is much finer and would just be mush when wet. Bedding as has been mentioned for chickens or cattle maybe. Horses don't do well with dust usually.
Here in western Indiana it was in the 60s and raining, but the rain has stopped and the temps are dropping into the 30s.
Greetings from Australia. Here in Adelaide we have had several days of around 100°F. Today is low 70s. But more high temp weather coming end of week. It's not helping with the Bush fires around here. Love what you do.
Freezing rain here in ontario for 2 days now. DIY Morgon lumber. Nice. Have a happy new year morgon family 😀😀👍.
Mike, I’ve heard that indoor riding arenas use sawdust to provide a soft cushion for the horses. In fact, I’ve been told they buy it from some mills. However, it has to be dry and that’s been our problem. If you eventually move that mill under roof and can collect it dry, you may be able to sell it. As it stands, it’s our biggest waste by product and we dump it with the other waste and debris that comes off the firewood processing. I hate doing that but we can’t collect and keep it dry.
Saw dust for bedding in the barn and for mulch and weed control in the garden. Snow and ice in Southern Vermont.
I know mechanic shops or other places that have small oil spills on the floor use it to absorb the spill, then just sweep it up. Farmers usually have shops, they do most of their own work as well. -4C / 28F here in Edmonton, AB. Canada just above your upper Midwest.
Beautiful lumber of the Woodside.
In yesterdays video I thought I saw your debarker is out of line. It was not tacking good and the blade was not in the groove.
Happy New Year to you and your family.💥🌲🌳🎉🎈 2020 🎈🎉🌳🌲💥
I thought so too.
The Cherry is very nice and would make some beautiful furniture.
Mike, LOL, you reminded of my dad's friend (a Woodmiser million BF club member). Dad said he could saw a lot more lumber if he didn't fall in love with every board he takes off the mill. Stickering is a precision job, you have to be a stickler about it. Sawdust can be a hazard, a big pile will make heat inside and possibly combust. People will come get sawdust for free for animals (hamster, ferret, etc) bedding.
Mike, if you cut pine its best done during cold weather as it has a tendency to blue stain if the weather is warm. Once the surface is dry the chance for stain is reduced. I hear you don't want to put sawdust on the soft spots, put enough and give it a fair trial. Sawdust is nice under foot in the winter to keep your feet warm and keep frost from around mill foundations.
It was mid 30"s in Central Illinois today. Usually hits your area in 2-3 days. Use the saw dust to fill in wet spots on your trails. Sell it to mushroom farmers or worm farmers.
Wood pellet is cool - maybe the new range could have a tiny burner. How about a hole in the yard and fill it - and then add coffee grounds. Worms love, love coffee. That will be converted into good dirt in maybe a year. It is long tradition in mountain cabins. If you sprinkle in the forest the worms will come. Worms digest sawdust and produce material plants can use. In the mountain cabin - we had a 6-8' tall stack of sawdust (firewood cutting) and several pounds of coffee a week. We went with two 5 pounds of coffee for two weeks and always ran short. Cool to cold days. Wonderful times of past. We had (dangerous) hand probes that plugged into 120. the probes were 3-4' apart when inserted into the sawdust/coffee grounds and then we unplugged and picked off fishing worms! Hill full of them.
Hi Mike and Melissa. 32 F and some more snow coming here in Kenai, Alaska. I like oak, but that cherry is BEAUTIFUL ! Happy Birthday to Eva !!!
I'm in Michigan lower peninsula, lots of rain and high winds, my neighbor is in the UP right now vacationing and its changing from rain to snow and expect 2 inches per hour for the next 24 to 36 hours. Either way a lot of moisture then changi g to snow. Our lake was froze but is now open water. Sawdust... I'd spread it thin off the sides of your trails, helps amend your soil. Love the videos, Good luck.
Mix with other pine chips ... Vacuum bag together or separate to sell for Indoor Horse stalls on the floor ... Cushions their feet whilst standing in stalls for extended time ... Also has more left over even after mucking the stall ... Removal of poop/ Pitchfork
It's been pretty good weather in Gig Harbor, not to much rain.
Really good weather for Hamburger Soup :-))))))))))))
Snow and cold in South East Denver this weekend. 5 deg this morning. It was -48 in Central Colorado near Hartsel. Keep up the great videos!
Mike, The sawdust could be used for worm bedding( for fishing). The other thing is to add it to the garden for natural ingredients. But beware it will draw termites into the area in larger quantities. What do the saw mills locally do with their saw dust. I bet most just dump it and let nature that the action. Saw dust on the trails, road, walking paths would make it like glass. As for the wood, oak has been my favorite since I made an Oak book case in 5th Grade (about 1963). But seeing the Cherry makes me want to get some for another book case.
I live in Wisconsin we are getting rain and then turning into snow 3-5 inches! Finally I can get back to snow plowing!
Melissa and Mike I like your 'man glitter' idea. Maybe someone in your area that composts for their garden. The lumber looks awesome👍. Weather here 1 hr north of Madison WI is snowing w/ 1-3 but hr north 6-10. Happy Birthday Eva. And a Big👋 to Hunter🤗
Good luck finding a use for sawdust unless you have strawberry or blueberry plants. I remember years ago when my wife was well we had a big mud hole in our driveway. When I was working out of town she took the bucket loader, scraped up all the sawdust from my log landing and filled the hole. The sawdust made the mud grow and became a HUGE mess. Not one of the finer ideas. What I do is dump it in a low unusable area , out of sight, out of mind. Thanks for the video and Happy NewYear
The tannic acid and other chemicals found in oak are killers for grass and most plants. Making pellets for wood burning stoves and grills/smokers is a good idea, but I think the moisture content is way too high for making pellets from freshly cut wood. I will spread out cherry and apple sawdust to about an inch thick and rake it every hour for a day. When it is dried like this I use it along with chunks of cherry and apple in my smoker. Cherry and alder are very good smoking agents for smoking fish and chicken.
Thanks again for this video, and have a Day y’all.
We use it for mulch around our blueberry bushes so if any growers around you.
I use my pine sawdust from the mill to fill in mud holes in the trail. It's very absorbent and works great ,I filled a 2' mud hole and it's still dry to this day.
Mike, I've been around some log home manufacturing plants and they use the some of the sawdust to fire their furnace for the kiln. One manufacture also has a company called Barky Beaver. They turn the scraps into mulch for flower beds and such. They also sell compost for top soil. I suspect a large part of the sawdust ends up as compost.
I suspect the large mills use the sawdust to make wood pellets sold for pellet stoves and smokers. Tractor Supply sells a pelletized product for stalls and trailers. From working with it, it appears to be compressed course saw dust.
Now if you had a chipper and you chipped up all the limbs that you leave in the woods then mixed the chips and saw dust together, used a little digester sprayed on top to break it down, you would also have compost in a short time. Your woods would be cleaner and protected from potential woodland fires.
BTW, Melissa gave you a hint on what she wants for her Birthday in this video.
"The only thing nicer is a mirror" Good one Melissa! I couldn't agree more!....lol
Hi Mike - Scott here from over in IL on the Mississippi River. Got to tell you that the weather is bitter here tonight. No snow yet but we've been getting some sleet. Forgot to check the temperature before I started writing this comment, but as I said earlier, it is bitter.
Here in se Wisconsin warm about 55 to 60 deg on Sunday a little rain. The wood looks great.
Buddy, excellent suggestion. When my family ran a sawmill, dairy farmers bought the sawdust by the trailer load for bedding. Just a thought. Good luck.
We have taken saw dust to soak up oil from the floor then used it as a dust down when we sweep dusty floors it gives it a little shine when were done. Looks like your going to have a lot of dust down. John Mangas
Top of the morning M&M! Here in East Central MN it is currently snowing. The temp hasn't budged from 34 degrees for 3 days now, Yesterday we had an inch of rain. It is horrible winter weather. We are supposed to get 3-4 inches of snow on to pf the ice by tomorrow. Arrrrrg! Back in the day they used to use sawdust as insulation when they cut ice from the lakes and stored it for summer cooling in ice houses!
I would recommend your sawdust into making wood pellets for a wood pellet stove burner....
That is a very good idea with all of the hardwood you have. There is probably a market for them.
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Was going to suggest this too. However, it does turn into compost well.
This is the best idea.
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I was making 4-5 dump trailer loads a week from our processor. We thought of if, but making wood pellets is an expensive, time consuming process because you have to have a specific moisture contenting.
Sell man glitter lol. With you Mike, here in Michigan it’s warm and muddy. We had over An inch of rain yesterday and last night. So sick of it want it to Freeze and stay frozen so I can get out in THE WOODS. I do more sweeping mud out of my barn/shop than anything else. Happy New Year.
Sawdust makes excellent mulch for strawberries, blueberries, etc. As you say it retains moisture and if you get 6"-8" of it stops weeds. you can just let it breakdown and add to it each year. I have also seen it used as bedding in nesting boxes. If nothing else bag it and sell it.
Hey Mike, here in Ohio we had steady rain yesterday followed by heavy winds over night. lots of trees down and power outages. Today is still breezy with temps in the low 40's, damp and chilly. As for wood chips, I know that in Oregon (lots of rain) they use chips but I imagine they are larger and mainly used on walking and running trails not so much for trails like yours. I'll have to get back with you on uses for sawdust. Unless you just want to find a business that needs the raw material. Have a day and a great New Year.
Include three or four fire starters in Hunters' bags of fire wood...this is after all a premium product and it would be kind of neat as a marketing feature. Also Hunter could make the fire starters, with supervision of course. You already have a hydraulic ram, (the splitter) with some heavy duty pipe you could press the sawdust into logs. But mixing them with your leaves for compost sounds like the best option. Great video M&M, thumbs up.
garden! horse bedding as long as no walnut. actually any animal bedding. can use in the chicken coop laying boxes. compost pile. homemade compressed firebricks. flowerbed foot paths. mulch for bedding plants or orchard. If anyone has a lot of clay in their ground it helps to areate the soil.
I prefer the cherry too. But both have a very nice grain.
Fun - Stacking wood so it can dry out but lets pour this water on it first so we can see the grain. (just ribbing you)
Yes that one long 4X4 will keep Mike up nights thinking about it. Love the dogs playing chase on the fast forward video.
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Mike, growing up in Northern California Sierra Nevada Mountains in the 60-70's, there was a lot of old large Sawmills, and they would put their sawdust in large pits or side of hill. Years later we would go to these old pits where the sawdust had decomposed or turned dark brown. We were poor, my Dad being a landscaper, and the pit access for free, we would load up the truck (many trips) with this stuff and apply it to the newly seeded lawns and gardens. My point being, dig a pit area where you can dump it (or side of a hill), and in the future find a good use for it. It could be worth gold some day. Which is better for some good soil, wood chips or fine sawdust? Idaho Dreaming Cal in Kuwait, right now at a small camp in UAE. Thanks Again for your GREAT Videos, Ya All put a smile on my face in each one (except when Stanley passed, yes, I had tears in my eyes, and they come back each time you pass by that table).
You should write saw dates on the end of a few boards so when you start selling or using it yourself you know what your cure times are. I know you can moisture check but a quick glance at a saw date would save a lot of time poking.
Love the organization!!