Now you're cooking Emerald. Every log has its own story to tell, and while you know what that story might say, because you have heard similar tales so many times from other logs, out here in viewer land, each log is new and fresh, and its tale just waits to be told. So, once upon a time, there was a rotten log. shaped like a frog, and a fit log cutter, shaped like a princess. Little did the princess know that if she kissed this frog log then it would become a handsome prince, so she cut it up and made lots of board feet out of it and a great video explaining what she had done for her viewers, then they all lived happily ever after, except for the frog log, which/who was destined to become inventory.
I don't know if I was assuming you mentioned that was a 10 foot log or not but if so it would appear as though a couple of good 8 footers remained. I was wondering if you keep a pile of miscellaneous dimension lumber, shorter pieces due to this rot issue for example and yet work great as blocking material, a shorter post etc that otherwise one would pay top dollar for dimensional lengths and then have to cut them down to a short length anyway.
Hi Emerald, I just want to say that "It's all your fault" that I'm not getting any work done around the house because I can't stop watching your video's. Keep up the good work. Don't worry, I'll take the weekend off.
The girls are teenagers. But they are young women who are very mature for their age. More so than many of the females much older than they. It is a compliment to call them redneck chicks with super class. Great job Boss Man.
Watching your videos is just mesmerizing. And learning about your craft is a bonus. Videography is getting so good. Not to mention how absolutely adorable you and your family are. Love everything about the channel. Boss man and lady must be so very proud. Great job
Yes I really do enjoy watching the girls working and teach things and thank you for your time you do very good job and I am proud of you have a nice day stay warm your Friend
your so good at captivating the audience in these instructional "how to" type vids. and the boss man too. iv'e learned so much from this channel. infact i had to go to my local timber yard the other day with a friend, and while i was there i started reeling off all this knowledge and lumber terminology. the look my pal gave me was priceless.
Just retired, find your videos interesting and educational. I always wonder what they did with logs with rot in the middle. Thanks for the answer. Love the music choices when watching the videos.
When I sawed logs with rot I would cut all the good off and then the boards or cants with rot got cut back shorter . A lot of times the rotten ends got cut off in the woods after falling the tree.
My Dutchman side would want to get every possible board outta that log. I'd be cuttin' 1X2s 4 foot long with the last little bits. LOL I would have to make myself realize it's not cost effective. Love your videos!! VERY well made!! Perfect time length.
In your first cuts you can always consider cutting an octagonal cant to keep the board width down and the grain central. It means more edging but can increase the yield of good boards. Also try setting the log so you cut parallel with the bark. Referred to as setting the taper. In hardwoods like Ash the heart is waste anyway so you can improve the grain appearance. Length of usable pieces increases and especially with species like Ash where olive may or may not be desired the value of the yield can be improved.
I've watched the sawyer at the mill where I worked work really hard to get around rot to salvage any board footage that was in the log. There is good lumber there to be gotten, but it takes a lot of thinking and manipulating. As for things you say all the time, I catch myself constantly saying, "Okay, so..." on my knifemaking/blacksmithing channel. It gets annoying when I'm editing the videos. 🤣
Great vid as usual and informative. That sure is a good size log. It just goes to show how knowledgeable you are in how to mill with out a lot of waste. Great job and vid Emerald.
Hi Em’ ya that’s how I attack a punky log just whittle it down tell ya get to the punky stuff. I may also cut the log short to 8 feet if I can. Thanks for sharing. God bless you and your family.
It looks like you got quite a bit of lumber out of that log, I'm curious if you record the actual board-feet you mill out of each log and compare it to the estimates that are recorded on the end of the log?
@@KenBreon it's essential to record input and output. Not just by volume, but also by costs. With margins so low working for nothing or less has to be kept to a minimum and targeting the profitable orders maximised. Sales staff should be made to justify the actual profit of an order. Repeating an order which was a loss leader is crazy except if you have no other work. By that I mean it can be better to lose $1 by doing a job than to lose $100 just waiting for the right job to appear.
I looked up flitches and fletches - and guess flitches are log portions sawed in the long dimension and fletches are the stabilizing feathers in archery.
Nice video Em......., Could you please do a video explaining the terms you use and what they refer to. What is a "flitch", and so on. Jerry in S.E. Pa.
Keep experimenting with your video technics. Your getting clever and accomplished. Thank you for the teaching moments each time. I've realized now how much I didn't know.
Great video! I bet you'll cut of the last 400 - 500 millimeters of the end, and make use of the rest of it. But you guys did not show it or tell it, I'm I wrong? Breg from a Scandinavian hardwoodworker :D
I have seen red pine like that and when cutting a twelve foot log you can just keep cutting if it is just one end and then cross cut the rot off to get ten foot or eight foot boards out of the good parts. When it goes the full length though there is not much point. Red pine often rots from the ground up so that first stave at twelve foot or more can save a lot of board feet when you are milling. I have seen them get a lot of fourteens around the edges from a fourteen foot log while still getting ten footers out of the middle that way. Even a really bad one might give you eight foot from the middle. It is really sad to see one that is rotten more than six foot up the center. It is also better to cut one by lumber out of such as even the part that is not rotten might be a little weaker so you really do not want to cut two by stuff that might be used for structural strength. Hard to grade on the fly with such logs for strength.
Just ask my ex how she handles a rotten log😜 No honestly your videos are always entertaining and informative, you're probably teaching a lot of people, more than you realize!
I felled a rather big pine, cut it to length and as I made the last cut near the base out popped a very big racoon. A bit startling followed by laughter 👍😂👌
I love the slow motion sawdust waterfall at 5:57. Awesome videography, by an awesome team of sawyers. Thanks for the explanation of how to deal with rotten logs.
Even with the rot inside the log there must have been enough to save to cut and mill shorter boards ? Interesting to see how much or little the rot extends into the log. Nice explanation Emerald, thanks
Watching this should be mandatory for history classes because it shows why back in the days European countries had to chop down whole forests to build their wooden ships. The degree to which trees can be used as material for high quality products is obviously not always the same.
Emerald,,hope you enjoyed your few days off ,,we only got three inches of rain from Ian ,and I wondered if your area got as much as we did here in western North Carolina
Hi. I'm an Aussie. It's interesting what pops up in your suggestion box. I have an interest in timber milling and looking to get back into it, hence my research that lead me to your channel. Fascinating. Regarding the issue of struggling to fit the larger log into the WoodMiser bandsaw have you heard of a Lucas Mill. It's an Australian developed swingsaw circular saw. It can handle any size log up to say 5' diameter and cut up to 20' length in standard form. Size of cut is up to 10" x 10" with the 10/30 unit. I have seen an American YT operator do very well using a Lucas Mill in tendem with the bandsaw. He used the Lucas Mill to cut the flitch (cant) out of the log and used the bandsaw to cut the boards.
That was a cool video, interesting to see what was inside, looks like there was actually a lot of useful wood on that log after all, more than i thought there was going to be.
Who does the camera work, video editing, and media management? How much time is put into each video? Camera type? Are the videos a step in a future career or just a hobby? Wouldn’t mind seeing the “behind the scenes” techno stuff Keep up the great job 👍
Logs are like a box of chocolates, ya never know what your gonna get…😊
My favorite is aunt explosion chocolate… A rare flavor, but a very exciting one. Tends to run all over
There is a place for every log and sometimes that place is the firewood pile.
Come on you lot while watching click the thumbs up. It really helps them out.
Great video, I do like it when you talk a bit more of a personal video
You got more wood out of that log than I thought you would. Good job!
That's why the head sawyer is the highest paid person in a sawmill. At least here on the west coast.
Thank you very much. I enjoyed the end of the video. That tree had health issues :)
You should offer milling lessons to the public. You are a good teacher.
We have trained many visitors. Boss Man.
I like how you carefully articulate every word when you say LUMBER CAPITAL LOG YARD LOL
"All right"... 'Alrighty then'... 'Okie dokie'...😂 So cute...🤟
Good show Emerald...It's all good.👍
Excellent video Emerald. Although I enjoy all your videos, I find the ones where you narrate what you are doing to be much more interesting.
Yes I agree. I only mill for our homestead so I am always eager to learn and these gals never disappoint 👍
We all missed you last week.
Now you're cooking Emerald. Every log has its own story to tell, and while you know what that story might say, because you have heard similar tales so many times from other logs, out here in viewer land, each log is new and fresh, and its tale just waits to be told.
So, once upon a time, there was a rotten log. shaped like a frog, and a fit log cutter, shaped like a princess. Little did the princess know that if she kissed this frog log then it would become a handsome prince, so she cut it up and made lots of board feet out of it and a great video explaining what she had done for her viewers, then they all lived happily ever after, except for the frog log, which/who was destined to become inventory.
Look at your little self manhandling that big old log! You ladies are tough!
Emerald you are so strong , beautiful day in Pa. Your the best at showing us novices the way to cut a log!!
I don't know if I was assuming you mentioned that was a 10 foot log or not but if so it would appear as though a couple of good 8 footers remained. I was wondering if you keep a pile of miscellaneous dimension lumber, shorter pieces due to this rot issue for example and yet work great as blocking material, a shorter post etc that otherwise one would pay top dollar for dimensional lengths and then have to cut them down to a short length anyway.
Em has the prettiest hair I have ever seen. It's absolutely beautiful. It's like all the colors of autumn. She belongs in Rohan or Windhelm.
All right. I just wanted to say that I loved the beginning of the video - your hair was just glowing and shimmering in that sunlight!
I'm glad you found a great example. Cheers!
Great video Emerald, Thanks for sharing your techniques on how to get the max out of a log.
It’s kind of like a box of Cracker jacks in the old days with the anticipation what the toy was going to be after you opened the box.
Hi Emerald, I just want to say that "It's all your fault" that I'm not getting any work done
around the house because I can't stop watching your video's. Keep up the good work.
Don't worry, I'll take the weekend off.
The slow motion sawdust waterfall was awesome. Great edit!!!!!!!
The girls are teenagers. But they are young women who are very mature for their age. More so than many of the females much older than they. It is a compliment to call them redneck chicks with super class. Great job Boss Man.
i would like to see more on how your shingles are made and how you decide to make adjustment to the shingle jig to keep them consistent.
Watching your videos is just mesmerizing. And learning about your craft is a bonus. Videography is getting so good. Not to mention how absolutely adorable you and your family are. Love everything about the channel. Boss man and lady must be so very proud. Great job
Gotta agree you’re getting great at the videography. Keep up the good work!
I’m a little curious as to why you wouldn’t leave the cant large enough to make shingles and use up far more of the log.
Yes I really do enjoy watching the girls working and teach things and thank you for your time you do very good job and I am proud of you have a nice day stay warm your Friend
Alright! That video was ALRIGHT! LOL. Great job Emerald! 👍👍
You never really know…… you won’t until you try it. Love it,
Wood Mizer should hire Emerald as a spokesperson.
your so good at captivating the audience in these instructional "how to" type vids. and the boss man too. iv'e learned so much from this channel.
infact i had to go to my local timber yard the other day with a friend, and while i was there i started reeling off all this knowledge and lumber terminology. the look my pal gave me was priceless.
I am glad you find the information beneficial. Boss Man.
Just retired, find your videos interesting and educational. I always wonder what they did with logs with rot in the middle. Thanks for the answer. Love the music choices when watching the videos.
How come your knot drinking your coffee are you board of it Have a great day ladies 🚜☕️👍
I cut out the rotten part and make guitars out of the rest.
When I sawed logs with rot I would cut all the good off and then the boards or cants with rot got cut back shorter .
A lot of times the rotten ends got cut off in the woods after falling the tree.
As always, an interesting topic and presentation.
Good job saving as much as you could...
Thanks for sharing 👍!!!!
👍🐺🧙♂️🦊👍!!!!!
I love your voice, because it is soothing. You young ladies know what you are doing.
Like a treasure hunt,,,,and very interesting 😎 makes me wonder what are some of the more unusual things found in a Tree and or Log.....
Wow, you even make rot look interesting.
Thanks!
I sawed a maple that had some stain indicating metal. Got it down to 6x12, sawed in half and hit 3 nails
Thanks again for another awesome video, well done!!
Had a feeling that it didn't go to deep.
Could you get a 4x6 minus a foot off the length? Maybe again some lumber for your self?
Nice job.
My goodness, those eyes! 👏
That was very interesting Emerald. Thank you for the info Blue eyes.
My Dutchman side would want to get every possible board outta that log. I'd be cuttin' 1X2s 4 foot long with the last little bits. LOL I would have to make myself realize it's not cost effective. Love your videos!! VERY well made!! Perfect time length.
In your first cuts you can always consider cutting an octagonal cant to keep the board width down and the grain central. It means more edging but can increase the yield of good boards.
Also try setting the log so you cut parallel with the bark. Referred to as setting the taper.
In hardwoods like Ash the heart is waste anyway so you can improve the grain appearance. Length of usable pieces increases and especially with species like Ash where olive may or may not be desired the value of the yield can be improved.
Excellent video. Enjoyed the sped up filming with Jades help and the little weird guy help as well. Thanks
I've watched the sawyer at the mill where I worked work really hard to get around rot to salvage any board footage that was in the log. There is good lumber there to be gotten, but it takes a lot of thinking and manipulating. As for things you say all the time, I catch myself constantly saying, "Okay, so..." on my knifemaking/blacksmithing channel. It gets annoying when I'm editing the videos. 🤣
Good to see the sun shining again!
Great vid as usual and informative. That sure is a good size log. It just goes to show how knowledgeable you are in how to mill with out a lot of waste. Great job and vid Emerald.
Hi Em’ ya that’s how I attack a punky log just whittle it down tell ya get to the punky stuff. I may also cut the log short to 8 feet if I can. Thanks for sharing. God bless you and your family.
It looks like you got quite a bit of lumber out of that log, I'm curious if you record the actual board-feet you mill out of each log and compare it to the estimates that are recorded on the end of the log?
I have done that in the past, currently we do not. Boss Man.
@@KenBreon it's essential to record input and output. Not just by volume, but also by costs. With margins so low working for nothing or less has to be kept to a minimum and targeting the profitable orders maximised. Sales staff should be made to justify the actual profit of an order. Repeating an order which was a loss leader is crazy except if you have no other work. By that I mean it can be better to lose $1 by doing a job than to lose $100 just waiting for the right job to appear.
I looked up flitches and fletches - and guess flitches are log portions sawed in the long dimension and fletches are the stabilizing feathers in archery.
Good video , your explanation of how to salvage a rotten log was very informative
You seemed so happy today, was a joy watching you😊
Em, What was the final total for the board footage from this Rotten log? The scalers estimated about 60.
So pretty, so smart, hardworker, great content creator, and hell of a lumber mill operator. You are amazing!!!
Excellent explanations, as usual.
Nice video Em......., Could you please do a video explaining the terms you use and what they refer to. What is a "flitch", and so on. Jerry in S.E. Pa.
+Jerry De Mas 👍👍
Keep experimenting with your video technics. Your getting clever and accomplished. Thank you for the teaching moments each time. I've realized now how much I didn't know.
Great video! I bet you'll cut of the last 400 - 500 millimeters of the end, and make use of the rest of it. But you guys did not show it or tell it, I'm I wrong? Breg from a Scandinavian hardwoodworker :D
That was fun to watch, Em and instructive as well. And thank you, Jade for the nifty camera work! Cheers!!
Emerald looks like superwoman - she has power like superwoman - she is superwoman! 💪
I have seen red pine like that and when cutting a twelve foot log you can just keep cutting if it is just one end and then cross cut the rot off to get ten foot or eight foot boards out of the good parts. When it goes the full length though there is not much point. Red pine often rots from the ground up so that first stave at twelve foot or more can save a lot of board feet when you are milling. I have seen them get a lot of fourteens around the edges from a fourteen foot log while still getting ten footers out of the middle that way. Even a really bad one might give you eight foot from the middle. It is really sad to see one that is rotten more than six foot up the center. It is also better to cut one by lumber out of such as even the part that is not rotten might be a little weaker so you really do not want to cut two by stuff that might be used for structural strength. Hard to grade on the fly with such logs for strength.
I love watching you and that beautiful red hair! MERCY! God bless and thanks for sharing!
you handled that log like a pro as always.
could you cut off the bad end and make some shorter boards?
Thanks Emerald, you out did yourself yet again, you are AMAZING
You got some really good lumber out of the log, Kudos Emerald. another informative video. Thanks
Just ask my ex how she handles a rotten log😜
No honestly your videos are always entertaining and informative, you're probably teaching a lot of people, more than you realize!
Beautiful grain on that log despite the rotten core.
Emerald is looking so beautiful. Her family is amazing the way they work together. ❤
being from PA, the "alright" is just a part of our PA talk
Great job cutting that one up. Have you run into a log full of ants or termites?
I felled a rather big pine, cut it to length and as I made the last cut near the base out popped a very big racoon. A bit startling followed by laughter 👍😂👌
Glad it ended in laughter as opposed to it tearing you a new one.
@@dontfit6380 yup it turned out the first about 16' was hollow so I left it there for him to move back in. He was more startled than me I'd say😂
I love the slow motion sawdust waterfall at 5:57. Awesome videography, by an awesome team of sawyers. Thanks for the explanation of how to deal with rotten logs.
So, you take circles and ovals and turn them into rectangles and squares and aspire to as little waste as possible. Love your vids!
You're teaching how to use my new mill Can't wait to start sawing
Better weather today.
Huge log...what kind of lifting capacity does mill have?
You got quite a bit from that log. Very informative.
Nicely done.
Supermodel lumberjill.
Even with the rot inside the log there must have been enough to save to cut and mill shorter boards ? Interesting to see how much or little the rot extends into the log. Nice explanation Emerald, thanks
Watching this should be mandatory for history classes because it shows why back in the days European countries had to chop down whole forests to build their wooden ships. The degree to which trees can be used as material for high quality products is obviously not always the same.
Very well explained, thanks! Lol look at your water tank... I wouldn’t drink that well water Em 😂
Would be interested in the comparison of estimated vs actual yield,especially in the rotted center logs.
You’re model looking and a hard worker 😊
Emerald, always taking some of your time to share your knowledge with your viewers! Thank you!
Emerald,,hope you enjoyed your few days off ,,we only got three inches of rain from Ian ,and I wondered if your area got as much as we did here in western North Carolina
Question instead of throwing the rotting wood away way don’t you put it in a burn barrel for heat in the winter time ?
Love the little dirt on your forehead at the end. Little dirt never hurt anyone.
Hi. I'm an Aussie. It's interesting what pops up in your suggestion box.
I have an interest in timber milling and looking to get back into it, hence my research that lead me to your channel. Fascinating.
Regarding the issue of struggling to fit the larger log into the WoodMiser bandsaw have you heard of a Lucas Mill. It's an Australian developed swingsaw circular saw. It can handle any size log up to say 5' diameter and cut up to 20' length in standard form. Size of cut is up to 10" x 10" with the 10/30 unit.
I have seen an American YT operator do very well using a Lucas Mill in tendem with the bandsaw.
He used the Lucas Mill to cut the flitch (cant) out of the log and used the bandsaw to cut the boards.
That was a cool video, interesting to see what was inside, looks like there was actually a lot of useful wood on that log after all, more than i thought there was going to be.
I like your thought process in planing just How to cut a mystery log..!!! ✅😎
Great channel ! I bet your father is proud. Good job
Who does the camera work, video editing, and media management?
How much time is put into each video?
Camera type?
Are the videos a step in a future career or just a hobby?
Wouldn’t mind seeing the “behind the scenes” techno stuff
Keep up the great job 👍
Love y’all 😊👍🏼🇺🇸❤️