Sawing massive 50 foot pine
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- Опубліковано 8 лют 2025
- In this video, we cut through a massive 50-foot Southern Yellow Pine with a 66” solid tooth saw. As you watch, you’ll notice the water spraying onto the saw blade - this is a crucial part of the process to keep the blade cool and reduce friction during the cut. There is no top saw used in this cut, just the powerful 66” saw slicing through the wood. Keep in mind that this video is raw with no commentary, so you can enjoy the full, unfiltered experience of the cutting action. #SouthernYellowPine #SawCutting #Woodworking #Logging #Chainsaw #SawBlade #WoodCutting #Timber #Sawmill #Lumber
Very nice to watch, I'm 67. My grandpa ran a sawmill in northern California in 1965, I had the opportunity to live with him one summer. One of the best times in my life. We lived in a swansonhut. Lived in the woods 3 months.
Growing up in New England our friends were lumberjacks and owned a sawmill. The fresh smell of Eastern White Pine being cut was amazing.
Have to say it is nice to see the work saw mills do getting done attention on social media. Our mill now is nearing a milestone of cutting lumber the owners father set out as black walnuts years ago. Even before it was popular he was planting future lumber in rows like many tree farms do today. Thanks as always for sharing your work, time and skills.
@@joelmcmahan7386 thank you brother!
That was some clean lumber.
Home Depot had those circular saw blades on sale last week.
Prices started at $14.99. I’m guessing they were a little smaller than the one here. 😆
That is one nice sawmill.. I got a bandmill back in 2022 . I love milling lumber and slabs , but it’s all manual .. my buddy has a mill similar to this but with a smaller blade .. I love seeing that thing run .. you got some primo lumber outta that monster log
@@McCallContractKlimber thank you! 👍🏻
JUST AWSOME!!
Nice it takes a super carriage like you have to handle those big ones thanks for sharing.
WOW!!! That was one big log! Beautiful lumber, and looked like quite a few select grades sawn out of it! Now, if you can get the logger to clean up the end of the log before delivery, you wouldn't have so much splintering on the end! Great job sawing that bad boy!!!! Thank you for sharing another great video! Dan
Thanks for watching Dan! 👍🏻
Samills dont have chainsaws?
They do! But why should they be doing the loggers job..... That logger is getting good money for that log. If he had cleaned off the end, the boards and timber piece wouldn't have all them splits in them!!!!
I have watched quite a few videos of fellers in the PNW and up in BC. None of them cut the butt once the tree is down, just go to where they are going to buck first section for length.
It's such a beast i just giggle watching it!
How much horsepower to run the blade and how heavy is that log?
I love how smoothly everything is going! 🪓👌
Pekerjaan yang luar biasa.. alat potong kayu yg bagus 🎉🎉🎉
Awesome logs. Great video, keep safe.
We sure will, thanks for watching!
Badass!!!
Nice vid mate 👍
Beautiful pine.
I'd love to have some native short leaf like this
Nice to have enough power, Pa and I run a 336 Moline gas power unit on ours with a 42" Simonds insert, 48 tooth hammered for 450 and it can be a struggle in big harwood.
1 st time watching,,, what do you drive that blade with ? Awesome!
@@ButchBerry-e7g 300 hp electric motor. Thanks for watching! 👍🏻
Never seen a mid-cut saw before (not sure of the correct terminology). It must be the only way to cut a 50' beam without damaging the planks. Quite impressive!
That is one way to do it. Another way is to cut full length and then have a trim saw that cuts to desired length. Do a search for "cutting 60 foot Fir log. That would be the Hull-Oaks mill in Oregon. There are several videos of them cutting long logs.
Awesome!!!
I’m glad you enjoyed it buddy! 👍🏻
Nice
Short and stout carriage and only three head blocks, made for 50 footers! Nice.
Hope the mafia doesn’t own that thing. 😂
Or a bond villain😮
Very cool.
What's the next process for all the trimmings? Waste or is it somehow cut down again to make timber?
Either chipper or edger
Would be fun to have some of those boards kiln dried and ready for a project.
Looks like that saw lead is out a bit, lots of cutting on the backside of the saw on the return pass
Seemed to take forever...
Does the long post end up being a power pole?
Bridge timber
Im an electrician at a sawmill. Haven't seen a head rig in a while.
What is the thickness and diameter of that blade?
@@Deanguilberry it’s about 1/4” kerf and 66” diameter
@SolidToothSawmill Wow. That's big. Thanks
How wide is the kerf with a blade that size?
@@freethinkish around 1/4”
Can this type of setup mill hardwoods like honey locust, black locust, or Osage orange, or is this ideal for the softer woods? Rookie question.
O yeah! we used to be a hardwood mill
Is there water spraying on the blade?
@@Kickstartjake yes sir 👍
Absolutely loved watching this . I’ve done some 16 ft 35 inch pine on my lil lt 15 wide an thought they were big logs lol just toothpicks compared to this behemoth. Just subscribed an you can add me to one of ya reg viewers .
I’m glad you enjoyed it! Thank you for watching and subscribing!
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294,000 views and only 916 thumbs up/likes. How lame the viewers are this video! 😠.
That's a lot of board foots from one stick of wood.
My guess for monthly power bill.......
$10,000/month.
😂😂 close
Do you get special orders for big pieces of lumber like a 12 x 12 x 30 ft?
@@davidfry145 yeah that’s sort of our niche. Cutting big timber like this. We cut any size
What size was the beam ? And what thickness are the edge boards ?
12 x 12 and getting 1” and 2” off the sides
Someone needs to have a talk with the buncher operator. Atleast get someone on the deck to clean up the double butt cut before it gets put on the truck to the mill.
My luck their would be rocks stuck in the fiber pull.
He does not face the log right always flop first cut side down on big logs
Куда в США утилизируются опилки и кора с дерева??
Paper mills and pellet mills
@@SolidToothSawmill ясно,в России на бумагу пилят берёзу,на пеллеты пилят всё подряд,а отходы,кора и стружка на свалку
Наверное очень старая лесопилка .
We been around for 50 years
Worked at a saw mill when i was younger. It's definitely hard work stacking that fresh cut lumber. The mill is still open. Mueller Brother's Timber. In Old Monroe Missouri.
Wood work is done by very special people who work very hard and your video is very special sir 👉❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
To bad that faller cracked the base
I'm a Karen. I cannot believe that you killed that wonderful tree. What a waste of oxygen making tools. We need those to breathe.
Only a hand full of safety issue.
How thick are those planks being cut?
1” and 2”
I enjoyed watching that! Thanks!
Around here, in Europe, when I buy timber the local yards use band saws rather than the circular saw in the video. I wonder why that is? The set up is otherwise similar. The local electricity supply would likely struggle with a 300 hp motor so perhaps that's the reason. I am curious if anyone has an explanation of band/circular saws. The local timber is also pine btw
I would recommend a band saw because it has a smaller kerf. We use circular saws because that’s just what we are set up on and have used for half a century. Thank you for watching Mike and I’m glad you enjoyed it!
Thanks for your reply. I was wondering if it was a trade off between Kerf and speed. Your cuts seem very fast but perhaps a band saw with similar power would match it or even exceeded it as less a material has to be removed.
It is good that you are using what you have rather than chasing the latest equipment. There is a balance to be struck in everything we do.
Not really looking like an efficient process
What a damn wasteful cutting method! That damn century-old blade must take a 3/8" kerf.
Not necessarily. I worked in a production sawmill in the 80's in Northen Arizona. We did mostly Ponderosa Pine, but we actually got several species of softwood that came through. Our head rig was a giant bandsaw with 8 ft wheels, an 8 inch wide band saw with teeth on both sides all powered by a 200 hp motor. That blade was also 3/8" thick, but it cut through gigantic logs as quickly as this saw does. The mill produced a lot of "waste," which was sold to make other wood based products. Nothing seemed to go by the wayside. So, for me, it is interesting to see a circle saw at work in production cutting lumber. While I agree the saw eats up a lot of wood in the kerf, sometimes you just have to use what you've got and make the best of it. I ran the edger machine next in line after the head rig. One night, we got a log so big that the sawyer had to take bites out of it around the log circumference. When he finally was able to take the first standard cut out of it, what came down to me was a slab 52" wide, 16 and a half ft long and 2" thick. I flipped it twice to grade the lumber before running it in the edger. Not a knot, a stain, nor even a bad grain pattern anywhere on the slab. I had the largest piece molding grade lumber I have ever seen in my hands. I cried because the piece couldn't be more than 48" wide, and I actually had to cut it into smaller pieces! I miss that mill! Concerns about the Mexican Spotted Owl eventually closed the forest for timber harvesting and as a result, shut us down.
@johncrawford6571 I favor the Woodmizer bandsaw method, but none are made that will handle this monster log!
@davidwilburn6314 Right on, David! Woodmizer makes an excellent machine! And yeah, nothing they make would handle that log for sure, but if you can cut it down to a couple or three pieces, one could get an extended track if there was room for it. And then, yes, I wholeheartedly agree with the Woodmizer bandsaw method! Cheers, my friend!
Why so much water on the blade and log?
I noticed that to? I noticed the saw is running out a little. Most be getting to warm from it
Cooling probably.
@@lostoutthere504 it’s for keeping the blade cool. Gotta run water on solid tooth saws. We try to wash the logs as much as possible so the blade will last longer. Especially when we get a lot of rain and the log yard gets muddy.
What really gets me is i had some GREAT pine on my place , around 50 trees , I cut them because of how close they were to house and how many, no one would come and get it , not even for free ,
Have it piled up , going to burn it all .
Damn shame
@@SEOKLADUCKIN yeah unfortunately if they are yard logs then mills don’t want them because of nails and other metal
@@SolidToothSawmill mine had zero nails , had several 90+ inch circumference, strait as a string as well
@@SEOKLADUCKIN sounds like really nice timber but it’s just a precaution mills take
Awesome logs. Great video, keep safe.
Thanks for watching!