It seems to me that the smaller log could have been cut in half lengthwise and then cut into boards to get a better yield. They'd be short, but higher grade.
Hard to answer if it is worth it or not. Really would depend on what said person was going to do with the wood. If they were going to resell it as boards, probably not. But if they were going to make a table with the book matched pieces or possibly a resin river table or even further cut it down for cutting boards or serving trays, then yes, probably. Personally, I like the contrast between the dark heartwood and the light sap wood of black walnut for some projects.
I’ve cut some banana’d logs like that. Sometimes after i have squared up the log into a cant I’ll peel off a board and it will come off bowed again! Internal log stresses i guess. When i see that I just keep rotating the cant taking boards off to keep it even. I’ve had phantom nail strikes too. I think some have been stones in bedded in the bark from being skidded out.
I’m not a sawmill expert, but I think that with a relatively small log, you couldn’t have done better. As someone said in another comment, at least it isn’t firewood. Great vid. Yes absolutely that wood is worth $100. At my fairly local UK Hardwood/Exotic, sawmill/Toolstore it would cost more. I have just seen another comment about buying wood from a country wide box store. Yes absolutely some of their softwood/ Construction wood is more costly than the $100 that you charged. For really nice wood.
In the end if the customer knows the cost and chances of getting what they want from a log upfront it matters not the value. Some people have cash and don't care just do it. You have to charge what you do so don't sweat it.
Adjust your prices to compensate for the inflation that has been since you decided your hourly rate last time, 8-10% for the last year, adjust also for the inflation that you expect for at least the next six months. I suggest that you ad a little bit more on the first hour as a starting fee, adding a few bucks for your work starting up the sawmill, for your work with charging for the work, book keeping and so on. E.g, $125 for the first hour and $110 for the following hours. The $15 extra won't cover your extra work spent on the first hour, but it will anyway show you and your customers that the pricing is set in a fair way to compensate you for your work done, while it implies that you are not overcharging those who bring more extensive jobs.
Hey there buddy how are ya? Gotta a question for ya. Do you Resharpen your own blades, send them out, Or buy new? What blades do ya run! The going rate here in Northern California is also 100 an hour, for hydraulic mills. I have a manual mill so I charge a lil less, I’m not as productive as a hydraulic mills. I really enjoy seeing the look on customers faces when they see the beauty in the lumber that was once their logs. I try to get the most out of the log and the best quality. I mostly cut for lumber, and beams. I ask what they are using the lumber for and try to cut the knots out of rafters and large load bearing beams the best I can. I box the pith when I can to keep the beam straight or don’t bother with the pith and cut around it then throw it in with the fire wood pile. Just depends on the customer. I love saw milling it’s amazing, and hard work, I don’t have to pay for a gym membership, I get paid to work out hehehehe. Thanks for sharing and God bless you and yours.
Yeah great video, I am over in the Netherlands (Holland) we are paying $100 for a pack of stud framing pine 15 lengths at 7' 2"x3". $100 of walnut here I could carry out in a plastic shopping bag 😂
Seems like the first log you sawed with the bend could have been rotated 90 degrees as that edge looks straight, especially after seeing it cut. Am I correct in what I am seeing? Nothing wrong with a slab that curves along the edge. Or for either of these I may have center cut for one larger piece of heart wood for a mantle, post, etc.
I'd be quite happy with those cuts for $100. Is there a good way to get boards from a smaller length and diameter log, especially if it's straight? I like the sign there. God bless and thanks.
Walnut sapwood is generally pretty useless but that would have made some good novelty stuff picture frames maybe cutting board parts nothing in quality of furniture but I'd pay a hundred bucks for it in Colorado you'd be lucky to get five board feet
I have to say YES!!! I'd pay one hundred dollars for that wood with all the cut offs. I see a few nice things that wood would make. I doubt that I could sell what I'd make to recoup my money but I could make some nice personal things from it. The beauty is there and a lot of it is in the cut away pieces... Back in my past people said that I wasn't worth a plug nickel and I hear it enough that I believed it to the point I want to end my life. That night my wife found me as I was about to do it while I was in a drunken blackout. She found me and it stopped me then I past out. The next day her and my son told me what I had done. I was nothing but a old drunk. I found help to stop drinking. Then one night I ment a old recovering drunk excon. He told me that I was worth so much that Jesus hung on the cross for the likes of me. That old man became my AA sponsor and he lead me through the 12 steps to recovery and that when I meant Jesus as my personal LORD and savior. I so came to understand that me as a whole the good parts that were a few. BUT my real beauty was in all the parts of me that had been cut away over the many years stuck in a bottle is where in real beauty lies that had brought many to recovery and to the saving knowledge of Jesus The Christ... Be blessed my friend in Jesus name... BBE..
On the face of it I personally say no it isn't worth it. Still green wood. BUT for some that bring it there may also be sentimental value. Dad planted that and now he's gone, etc.
I would say no. I have cut and milled walnut over the years and have got some great wood and some poor quality stuff too. I avoid the kind of logs that you milled in the video. Way too much sap and with the sweep on the one log there was too much waste. Now that's just my opinion. As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so someone else might love it. I can see a possible interesting table top if one enjoys contrasting colors. I guess it's a toss up.
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The way I see it is you got more yield out of those logs than if they were turned into firewood I do like the contrasting colours
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Our walnut here only has 1-2 inches of sap wood unless it grew in fields. I have 32 inch walnut log waiting that only has half inch sapwood .
It seems to me that the smaller log could have been cut in half lengthwise and then cut into boards to get a better yield. They'd be short, but higher grade.
Hard to answer if it is worth it or not. Really would depend on what said person was going to do with the wood. If they were going to resell it as boards, probably not. But if they were going to make a table with the book matched pieces or possibly a resin river table or even further cut it down for cutting boards or serving trays, then yes, probably. Personally, I like the contrast between the dark heartwood and the light sap wood of black walnut for some projects.
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I’ve cut some banana’d logs like that. Sometimes after i have squared up the log into a cant I’ll peel off a board and it will come off bowed again!
Internal log stresses i guess.
When i see that I just keep rotating the cant taking boards off to keep it even.
I’ve had phantom nail strikes too. I think some have been stones in bedded in the bark from being skidded out.
Firewood. On another note, youre looking good, really trimmed down.
I’m not a sawmill expert, but I think that with a relatively small log, you couldn’t have done better. As someone said in another comment, at least it isn’t firewood. Great vid. Yes absolutely that wood is worth $100. At my fairly local UK Hardwood/Exotic, sawmill/Toolstore it would cost more.
I have just seen another comment about buying wood from a country wide box store. Yes absolutely some of their softwood/ Construction wood is more costly than the $100 that you charged. For really nice wood.
In the end if the customer knows the cost and chances of getting what they want from a log upfront it matters not the value. Some people have cash and don't care just do it. You have to charge what you do so don't sweat it.
Adjust your prices to compensate for the inflation that has been since you decided your hourly rate last time, 8-10% for the last year, adjust also for the inflation that you expect for at least the next six months.
I suggest that you ad a little bit more on the first hour as a starting fee, adding a few bucks for your work starting up the sawmill, for your work with charging for the work, book keeping and so on. E.g, $125 for the first hour and $110 for the following hours.
The $15 extra won't cover your extra work spent on the first hour, but it will anyway show you and your customers that the pricing is set in a fair way to compensate you for your work done, while it implies that you are not overcharging those who bring more extensive jobs.
Hey there buddy how are ya? Gotta a question for ya. Do you Resharpen your own blades, send them out, Or buy new? What blades do ya run!
The going rate here in Northern California is also 100 an hour, for hydraulic mills. I have a manual mill so I charge a lil less, I’m not as productive as a hydraulic mills.
I really enjoy seeing the look on customers faces when they see the beauty in the lumber that was once their logs. I try to get the most out of the log and the best quality. I mostly cut for lumber, and beams.
I ask what they are using the lumber for and try to cut the knots out of rafters and large load bearing beams the best I can. I box the pith when I can to keep the beam straight or don’t bother with the pith and cut around it then throw it in with the fire wood pile. Just depends on the customer.
I love saw milling it’s amazing, and hard work, I don’t have to pay for a gym membership, I get paid to work out hehehehe. Thanks for sharing and God bless you and yours.
Yeah great video, I am over in the Netherlands (Holland) we are paying $100 for a pack of stud framing pine 15 lengths at 7' 2"x3". $100 of walnut here I could carry out in a plastic shopping bag 😂
Seems like the first log you sawed with the bend could have been rotated 90 degrees as that edge looks straight, especially after seeing it cut. Am I correct in what I am seeing? Nothing wrong with a slab that curves along the edge. Or for either of these I may have center cut for one larger piece of heart wood for a mantle, post, etc.
I'd be quite happy with those cuts for $100. Is there a good way to get boards from a smaller length and diameter log, especially if it's straight? I like the sign there. God bless and thanks.
Walnut sapwood is generally pretty useless but that would have made some good novelty stuff picture frames maybe cutting board parts nothing in quality of furniture but I'd pay a hundred bucks for it in Colorado you'd be lucky to get five board feet
I have to say YES!!! I'd pay one hundred dollars for that wood with all the cut offs. I see a few nice things that wood would make. I doubt that I could sell what I'd make to recoup my money but I could make some nice personal things from it. The beauty is there and a lot of it is in the cut away pieces...
Back in my past people said that I wasn't worth a plug nickel and I hear it enough that I believed it to the point I want to end my life. That night my wife found me as I was about to do it while I was in a drunken blackout. She found me and it stopped me then I past out. The next day her and my son told me what I had done. I was nothing but a old drunk. I found help to stop drinking. Then one night I ment a old recovering drunk excon. He told me that I was worth so much that Jesus hung on the cross for the likes of me. That old man became my AA sponsor and he lead me through the 12 steps to recovery and that when I meant Jesus as my personal LORD and savior. I so came to understand that me as a whole the good parts that were a few. BUT my real beauty was in all the parts of me that had been cut away over the many years stuck in a bottle is where in real beauty lies that had brought many to recovery and to the saving knowledge of Jesus The Christ...
Be blessed my friend in Jesus name... BBE..
On the face of it I personally say no it isn't worth it. Still green wood. BUT for some that bring it there may also be sentimental value. Dad planted that and now he's gone, etc.
I would say no. I have cut and milled walnut over the years and have got some great wood and some poor quality stuff too. I avoid the kind of logs that you milled in the video. Way too much sap and with the sweep on the one log there was too much waste. Now that's just my opinion. As they say beauty is in the eye of the beholder so someone else might love it. I can see a possible interesting table top if one enjoys contrasting colors. I guess it's a toss up.
Is it common for the sap wood to be so thick in Walnut? Seems like a waste.
TheCritterWindow: if you let your logs sit the brown will bleed into the sap wood and you’ll have less waste.
In my opinion. You'd be better off cutting those into firewood.
Not my log so not worth the money in my liking. The owner though if the log came off their property