Frontier Sawmills, Behind the Scene Look at a Portable Sawmill!
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2023
- Sawmill Info bit.ly/3I0ktkd A portable sawmill requires a significant amount of work to operate, including hauling off excess sawdust, burning excess wood chips, maintaining the bandsaw sawmill, and managing log placement.
Hauling off sawdust is an essential task to keep the work area clean and reduce the risk of fires. The sawdust can be used as mulch, compost, or animal bedding, but it's important to dispose of it properly.
Bandsaw sawmill maintenance includes regular cleaning, blade sharpening or replacement, and lubrication. Maintaining the machine's performance is crucial to prevent accidents and ensure smooth cutting.
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I use my older sawdust in the garden, we put it in the middles after the plants come up and prevent weeds from growing and help hold moisture
I tried getting your attention about the bolt and your glasses, but You Tube doesn't have "Shout O Vision" yet.....lol! 😄😄 Good work as always Tony! Take care and God bless!
God bless you as well.
Excellent job with the red oak. I too have piles of sawdust to deal with. I've been mixing it slowly into my soil for my food plots. Keep up the great work.
How long does it take before it breaks down? I have had a lot of people tell me that it would pull all the nitrogen out of the soil and take years to break down. I was planning on mixing a lot of it into the soil and just adding extra nitrogen.
Happy to see you again my friend and hope you and your wife and family are all doing well god bless you all. Great video as always
Hello Joe. We are doing good on this end. We had some terrible winds and storms but we made it through.
Hey Tony, your putting that jug on backwards….
Never mind, you caught it
There is always a lot of work behind the scenes before you can start cutting up the log.
Thanks for showing it
Thank you for helping out.
I haven't run my os27 in almost 2 years! Watching ya to get a refresh. Have a good one!
I love running that sawmill.
Pile up the sawdust and throw in grass clippings and others green material. You’ll have some good compost if you use your bucket loader to turn it often.
Thank you, Don. We are definitely going to have plenty of sawdust.
Gizmo 🐕 on the job...making sure all goes well 💯👍🤠
Like a Boss
One thing I learned in 50+ years of being around and working hardwoods. They do not dry much in log form. Ash is the only exception. Very rarely will you ever test below 34/35%. Hardwoods will become compost before they dry out. Even my oak and hickory firewood split 4x4x16 takes time to dry out. The ends will read 13 to 15 but if you chop them in half, it will read 25/27 or more. Your blade water is adding something but not as much as people would expect. Drying takes time and heat, nature gives you time, the heat is up to you. Good luck on the green house and the raised beds. They are a backsaver.
Thank you for the well thought out comment. You are a teacher and I appreciate that.
Tony we've always got your back, it's just that you can't hear us yelling at the screen. Stay warm bud, sawmill is dug out here at the Cay. Time to get sawing! 👍🍻🇨🇦🇬🇧🚜
Right on! I need some sound-O-vision. LOL!
I always felt uneasy about the combustible diesel/sawdust melange lying around your mill. Since you went down the water lube and recycling route I am much less concerned about a total loss condition developing. Plus using everything is great for sustainability. More power to you all. Thanks for posting.
I will sure have plenty of sawdust now. We are aiming to build a plant nursery in the long run. I could just pile it up for years and make compost out of it.
The art of do and redo! LoL Tony
I am a pro at it!😁
The hole in the top is big enough to put your hand in there and pu in a custom brass ball value, makes it easier to turn on the water
Great video thanks Tony very enjoyable
Glad you enjoyed it
Burn it in small piles but don’t allow it to burn out all the way. Have a hose handy and before it turns to ash you’ll be able to save the char which you can spread on the soil and it’s great
Thank you for the insight
Another great video Tony!👍🏻
Glad you enjoyed it
if you have a wood stove I would suggest making the sawdust in to briquettes to burn on your stove.
I read your comment and started looking a pellet presses. Now look what you have done. 😀
Enjoy watching. Thanks
Thank you
find me a some cardboard looking barrels 55 gallon barrels but sawdust inside there and I knew couple guys that grew potatoes in it in the Sardis and it worked really well
That is a cool idea.
The cheap windshield washer fluid works great for keeping the blade clean and cool.
A lot of edible mushrooms grow on substrate based off sawdust. There may be a local grower who would buy it. Or start growing your own. You got the added benefit of the dust not having binder and glue like you’d get from a workshop.
Thank you for the insight.
I like your sawmill shed. I need to build a similar one using white oak cut on the mill.
This is a temporary location. I plan on building a more permanent structure soon.
I use 10% Simple green for keeping the pine sap at bay, seems to work good and smells nice too.
Thank you. I don't plan on cutting much pine up, I will keep that info in my back pocket.
As you stated, manual mills are a lot of work. I built my mill a couple years ago and enjoy running it tremendously. I liken it to opening a new loaf of bread--you never know what the log is going to look like on the inside. The moisture meter test was interesting. I tested a 30 inch red oak that had been down for at least 3 years and it was at 32-35%. I truly thought it would have been much drier. But, oak is pretty dense and takes a long time to dry if not put in a kiln. Good video!! OH! oak sawdust is very acidic and I'd use it sparingly on the garden. Too much and you won't have much of a crop. (In My Humble Opinion)
Sawdust can be combined into a compost pile and turned into it over the season then used the next year. If you have animal pens you can use it as dry bedding as it absorbs moisture and helps to keep the area dry. Or you can burn it and use the ash on your fields. If you have a smoker you can also use it in that to help smoke the meat if it is an appropriate saw dust such as hickory, walnut, pecan, apple, or peach..
Thanks for the info!.I think I may do some of all of it.
I'm learning may need a sawmill
I'll give you a warning. Saw milling is addictive.
Another great video Tony! Would like to see a quick overview on that Titan dumper if you havent yet. Be well!!
I did a video on the dump bed thing about a year and a half ago. It has been handy for stuff like this.
@@TonysTractorAdventure I need to search for that one.
It’s clear to me Chief that Tanja is the one who keeps stuff straight. Gizmo was going to let you screw up several times. I know he out ranks you, but maybe have a sit down with him?? Good stuff and stay safe. 6 out.
I think Gizmo doesn't really like going to the farm without Tanja. He keeps looking for her.
Watch out for your sunglasses.
I appreciate it.
Ied dig a big hole and berrie it if ya can’t get rid of it put it back in the soft area or put it along the walking trails it would look good out their their is a lot of stuff ya can do with it
A lot of good ideas.
My past experience is to burn the sawdust and then place it in the garden. It adds phosphorous to the soil which enriches the soil.
Thank you. We added a bunch of ash this year to the garden.
Love your channel mate. Watching from Melbourne, Australia. About your sawdust - why don't you bag it and sell it or give it away? So many uses from animal shed floors to using it for cleaning up spills in workshops etc.
A lot of species of trees we cut are poisonous to animals. Black Cherry is a good example. It will kill animals. It is not good for gardens either. Cedar is bad for chickens. I have been putting my pine and oak dust in the garden. I catch it, because the stuff on the ground is mixed.
I told you it was backwards but you didn't listen!! lol
I am a hard head. LOL!
Hey Tony, what's the span on the front of your shed there? More specifically, what is the size of that beam or is it an engineered beam? I like the simplicity of the shed design and need to get one built for my LT35... - Thanks Josh
It is 28ft and it is an engineered beam. This is a temp building for me. We will develop a more complete building at another location.
@@TonysTractorAdventure where does one find a beam of that size or did you mill and put together yourself? Sorry for all the questions, have just been trying to figure out how I solve this span issue without breaking the bank... my mill is 24' long and will mill a 21' log... unlikely i will do that often but would like the option if I choose... so could probably get away with 24 - 28 as you have done. Thanks for any insights...
You should sell sun glasses nobody is logo on corner
Once again I was yelling about your glasses.
I didn't hear you. I was just about to saw them up.
When I added the roasted sawdust to the soil it made tomatoes plants grow into tomato
trees. Wow what a harvest we had.
Nice!!! I look forward to next years garden.
Don't yell at me! I was screaming into the screen, MOVE YOUR SUNGLASSES!!!!. But you ignored me.
Thank you for the help. I heard you.
I was yelling to you about the tank being on the wrong way. You just didn't hear me.
I just about put it on backwards. Then it would have fit. 😁
Fess up how much stuff you ran over or over backed into stuff.
More than I care to mention
Some of the wood you saw is not good for being direct in the soil... walnut for one, oak....they have chemicals that can harm plants.... burning it will remove some of those and ad to the soil as potash..... root crops love potash.....tree leaves are another sources for potash once burned....
Thank you Stan. I think I will burn it when I can right where it sits.
Put a pad under the tank
I have not had a problem with the tank on my other sawmill.
PLANT SOME TOMATOES IN IT THE DIESEL WILL GIVE EXTRA FLAVOR....... LOL
Like I said, I stopped using diesel a while ago. This was clean sawdust.😁
People want saw dust sell it,give it away or make a area so people can self load from the road
Firewood in and about your area must not have any values as I see people in such a hurry to make the boards and then just deal with the waste later... that always seems to bite them in the worst way. A simple bunk that you can stack sorta, meaning close to a decent pile and not every which way in the piles, so ya can take a saw and just get the stuff cut into a size length that fits most stoves. I ain't saying to split or stack this wood once sawed but in a pile where some air might just circle around it some.. its easier than a large pile thats gonna be burnt up in some pile... granted some stuff is just that, notty words pile. I would think that if a man just wackes it in reasonable lengths then someone would give a little for it and that money is beer for those who enjoy that stuff that makes ya wobble a bit and make you apologize for doing some stuff ya don't remember.... or ya could buy a rack of nails, some screws for the next project... or a little black dress for the misses and try to tell her ya didn't do nothing wrong, ya just like her better than a good peanut butter and jelly sandwich. Hard to beat a peanut butter sandwich with some good berry jam on the left over pancakes from yesterdays breakfast and yeh get to em before the wife gives to the chickens or dang dog who always seems to find a way to con ya out of the last bite on yer plate/LOL I know that sawed sided wood doesn't seem to dry really as fast as split wood but then I could be way wrong on that. I haven't seen a axe in my mitts for some time... fact is, guys who can't walk or even stand without someone holding them in that position.... well they just ain't the best anything but a fork handle... course I am down to just my left arm working as all my fingers in my right hand are paralyzed or just got no feeling in them. Great years of getting really old before your time. If I could still even stagger a little, I would find myself doing something if it was wrong even.
I deal with waste right away by burning it. I don't have time to sell firewood and I don't want strangers coming to my property.
@@TonysTractorAdventure I so agree with you and strange people coming on your property.... never considered you having people come to your own property. I cut wood on my brothers property while he was doing a large clean up for his air strip for his little plane hobby. I know one thing, getting old is no fun with only a ssi check coming in for cash.... doctors took all of the savings, land and home for surgeries that didn't work. Thats my fault going back to the same doctor listening to his "I have it figured out now" just to be disappointed again. Firewood allowed me to buy decent clothes and some better foods that I was just scraping by on before... I sure did not want to make you mad at me for suggesting the firewood
We are right in the middle of building our retirement place. Once everything slows down, I will sell wrapped firewood and sell to local stores. That is where the money is. Bulk firewood spends almost as much money as it makes. Look at wrapping plastic around 6-9 pieces of firewood and selling them to the stores and campsites for $4-$5 a bundle. I have offered the wood to people I know, but they want me to cut it up and deliver it for free. I am still a young man of 54, but I have had both knees replaced and a bunch of surgeries. The Army was tough on my body, so I understand some of your pain. Still, lean into it each morning. 😀
@@TonysTractorAdventure I wish to thank you for your service and know just what your saying... kind of surprised they don't ask you to pack it in the house and start the fire as well... people have little gratitude for other peoples time.. a narcissist attitude kind of