Not sure what it is you will building with these, but building with full dimension lumber (rough) is easy and fast. I use my rough lumber whenever I can and build complete sheds with it. This is especially true for floor joists and rafters. I understand why you are making the studs a bit smaller so your shed fits in the container. I initially thought you were building a shed for outside!
Pete on "Just a few Acres Farm" was owner and chief Architect of his own company to give it up to be a farmer. Life isn't about who has the most goodies at the end that wins.
For future reference, if you are planning on building a home to live in, you can not use your saw milled lumber for structural purposes. The building codes say that the structural members must be inspected, graded, and stamped. That’s the bad news. The good news is there are inspectors that you can hire that can quickly come out and provide this service on your lumber.
Even better news, we don’t have building inspectors in our area, and it’s commonplace around here for people to build using their own milled lumber for structural members! That said, we don’t plan to do so for the most part anyway. Most of our structural members will be conventional 2x framing and it’s just not worth it to us to mill all those ourselves.
@@AdventurousWay Ahhhh, no inspector. If something happens to the house, will your insurance company cover the claims? Worse, if something fails and a guest gets hurt of dies, what then? I’m just saying what could be! Best wishes, Kevin
@KevinCoop1 yup, it’s all good! We’re working closely with a number of local professionals to “inspect” what we’re doing and make sure everything is safe.
Classically, to straighten a board on the table saw requires using a clamp setup that runs straight, referencing of the table slots, usually. Otherwise you're referencing against the fence with your rough sawn face, reproducing any none linearity, particularly lengthwise curve. Gotta say, though, your "rough" lumber looks better then the bulk of the stuff at my local big box 😂
I think what you're saying is that Diana needs to let me buy a jointer, right? 🤣 But yes, you're right of course. In this case all the boards were actually pretty straight so I wasn't trying to straighten them so much as just rip them to width. I did consider making a jig for the table saw to clamp them to, but it felt a little risky with boards this long with no out-feed table. We were really happy with how straight the boards came out, and in all seriousness, most were straighter than the stuff we'd buy at the big box store. Even so, we do plan on buying a jointer when we start working with lumber for more precise projects.
@@AdventurousWay once you start on hardwoods for cabinetry and furniture, yup, you need the jointer. And upgrade the surface planer with a helical cutter head, right?
Quite possibly. The helical head something I’ve been eyeing up for a while. An alternative might be a drum sander to use in conjunction with the planer. Not sure yet.
We got it from Rockler. I don’t know the part numbers but they were recommending it as a combo with this planer. Aside from the fact we fill it up pretty quickly, it works very well. We recently acquired a shop vac and I’m tempted to try a cyclone system into a much larger container, perhaps a trash can or similar.
Matt those 2x4's become "free" decades from now once you amortize the capital cost of the land, equipment, infrastructure, consumables and most importantly the time value of your labor.
Haha, very true! Although if one assumes that at least some of those are sunk costs that would have been incurred anyway, the marginal cost is reduced. While it may never be cheaper for us to make rather than buy 2x4s, I maintain that the investment in learning has value - both emotional and financial when we can put those skills to use on more valuable lumber.
What is the value of your time? You and Diana are two very sharp young people and could easily find traditional tech jobs paying each of you at least $150,000 per year. This works out to be $72 per hour for each of you or $144 combined hourly rate. This value must be included in any project cost for comparison to hiring a pro or simply buying something. This of course sets aside the unmeasurable value of "experience, quality of life, pride of workmanship, exposure to injury, etc" which may be "priceless" but must be tempered with reality.
I think your last sentence touches on the crux of the issue. This is something we choose to do, we enjoy doing, and we prioritize in life. Every time I look at one of the projects I've built myself it brings me an enormous sense of satisfaction, far more than had I just bought the item or paid someone to build it for me. While I wouldn't say that feeling is priceless, it certainly holds a high value to us. Looking at things through a purely financial lens, it would likely make sense for us to have simply continued our previous careers and outsourced the vast majority of the build work. But we feel that there's more to life than that lens, and place a high value on new experiences, learning new skills, and doing as much of the build work ourselves as we safely and practically can.
Not sure what it is you will building with these, but building with full dimension lumber (rough) is easy and fast. I use my rough lumber whenever I can and build complete sheds with it. This is especially true for floor joists and rafters. I understand why you are making the studs a bit smaller so your shed fits in the container. I initially thought you were building a shed for outside!
Pete on "Just a few Acres Farm" was owner and chief Architect of his own company to give it up to be a farmer. Life isn't about who has the most goodies at the end that wins.
I couldn't agree more!
For future reference, if you are planning on building a home to live in, you can not use your saw milled lumber for structural purposes. The building codes say that the structural members must be inspected, graded, and stamped. That’s the bad news. The good news is there are inspectors that you can hire that can quickly come out and provide this service on your lumber.
Even better news, we don’t have building inspectors in our area, and it’s commonplace around here for people to build using their own milled lumber for structural members! That said, we don’t plan to do so for the most part anyway. Most of our structural members will be conventional 2x framing and it’s just not worth it to us to mill all those ourselves.
@@AdventurousWay Ahhhh, no inspector. If something happens to the house, will your insurance company cover the claims? Worse, if something fails and a guest gets hurt of dies, what then? I’m just saying what could be! Best wishes, Kevin
@KevinCoop1 yup, it’s all good! We’re working closely with a number of local professionals to “inspect” what we’re doing and make sure everything is safe.
Classically, to straighten a board on the table saw requires using a clamp setup that runs straight, referencing of the table slots, usually. Otherwise you're referencing against the fence with your rough sawn face, reproducing any none linearity, particularly lengthwise curve. Gotta say, though, your "rough" lumber looks better then the bulk of the stuff at my local big box 😂
I think what you're saying is that Diana needs to let me buy a jointer, right? 🤣
But yes, you're right of course. In this case all the boards were actually pretty straight so I wasn't trying to straighten them so much as just rip them to width. I did consider making a jig for the table saw to clamp them to, but it felt a little risky with boards this long with no out-feed table.
We were really happy with how straight the boards came out, and in all seriousness, most were straighter than the stuff we'd buy at the big box store. Even so, we do plan on buying a jointer when we start working with lumber for more precise projects.
@@AdventurousWay once you start on hardwoods for cabinetry and furniture, yup, you need the jointer. And upgrade the surface planer with a helical cutter head, right?
Quite possibly. The helical head something I’ve been eyeing up for a while. An alternative might be a drum sander to use in conjunction with the planer. Not sure yet.
I have the same planer and also use it for finishing rough sawn. What dust bag / hose set up are you using?
We got it from Rockler. I don’t know the part numbers but they were recommending it as a combo with this planer. Aside from the fact we fill it up pretty quickly, it works very well.
We recently acquired a shop vac and I’m tempted to try a cyclone system into a much larger container, perhaps a trash can or similar.
Next time plane all 15 in one pass than change planer much more efficent than doing one at a time
I talked in the video about why I chose not to do that this time around.
Matt those 2x4's become "free" decades from now once you amortize the capital cost of the land, equipment, infrastructure, consumables and most importantly the time value of your labor.
Haha, very true! Although if one assumes that at least some of those are sunk costs that would have been incurred anyway, the marginal cost is reduced. While it may never be cheaper for us to make rather than buy 2x4s, I maintain that the investment in learning has value - both emotional and financial when we can put those skills to use on more valuable lumber.
What is the value of your time? You and Diana are two very sharp young people and could easily find traditional tech jobs paying each of you at least $150,000 per year. This works out to be $72 per hour for each of you or $144 combined hourly rate. This value must be included in any project cost for comparison to hiring a pro or simply buying something. This of course sets aside the unmeasurable value of "experience, quality of life, pride of workmanship, exposure to injury, etc" which may be "priceless" but must be tempered with reality.
I think your last sentence touches on the crux of the issue. This is something we choose to do, we enjoy doing, and we prioritize in life.
Every time I look at one of the projects I've built myself it brings me an enormous sense of satisfaction, far more than had I just bought the item or paid someone to build it for me. While I wouldn't say that feeling is priceless, it certainly holds a high value to us.
Looking at things through a purely financial lens, it would likely make sense for us to have simply continued our previous careers and outsourced the vast majority of the build work. But we feel that there's more to life than that lens, and place a high value on new experiences, learning new skills, and doing as much of the build work ourselves as we safely and practically can.