Sawing Logs From Around my New Neighborhood
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
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Chapters
0:00 - Pair of White Oak
15:40 - White Oak Crotch
25:31 - Ash Logs
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"Let's do the white oak first because they're kind of small." Small in Matthew's world.
what i like best about your vids is that you show the great grain patterns
Matt, you have become somewhat jaded with all the beautiful slabs you deal with regularly. I would be happy to have the cutoffs (If I had the room), let alone the disappointing mostly straight grain.
Looking at the grain and figures is addictive. My pastor used to work like you. He had to stop. I mentioned how wild and crazy some logs are. He said to never judge a tree until it was milled, because you never know what's inside.
Love seeing you cutting slabs again. The work making the video may be a lot, but I find them very relaxing. And I learn some stuff too. Thank you
The big water splash reveal on the concrete slab was funniier.
Thx Matt for keeping things local.
Hi there, I’m so glad to see you cutting logs and building furniture again. It seemed that you got away from it for so long I wasn’t sure you were going to do it anymore. The last 2 months have been a lot of fun for me and I’m sure the rest of your audience.
Best Regards
Fred Thomas
Cool slabs Matt!
While crotch figure and spalting are the "in thing", there is a classic elegance to white oak. Nice pieces.
Hi Matt, watching you cut ash log with tree tag and nails. I think you deserve to treat yourself to a metal detector so you don't ruin your blade. Love the walnut logs you cut before the ash , nice figure in the wood. SORRY , I meant the white oak with nails , not the ash.
Awesome. Speaking of rust or blue stains. I pulled an entire very old angled pitchfork from the center of a beautiful old crab apple perfectly submerged in the center. That was nuts. My saws don’t but I love finding surprises. Great video wish I lived close. Awesome mill you built there. Respect. Watch your spine - it’s those far out reaching lifts that’ll pop L’s. I watched the whole video I could watch these grains for hours and hours. (Grain reveals) that could be a whole new meditative section. I’d buy a soundtrack of that saw to fall asleep to as white noise haha. And all your cut offs and 5-6 slabs Aw man. Don’t suppose you’re anywhere near CT - RI.
Good to see the mill cranking out slabs!
Thanks Greg!
It's good to see you cutting again.
Made my day seeing you have a new sawing video!! I wish I had your mill, skills, and knowledge. I live in Mayfield, KY which was hit with a massive tornado in December. There are thousands of board feet of high quality lumber going to complete waste (mulch, burning it, etc). If I had a way of gathering and cutting, I could make a lot of $$. Anyways, happy sawing, sir!
Could watch this all day. That’s the coolest sawmill. I tried to see when the complete build for the sawmill, but wonder if you have a playlist of it from beginning to end? Saw several videos on long chainsaws. Keep up the great work as well as the house expansion.
Playlist is the first link in the description. Thanks!
Glad to see you have something more user friendly to move wood with
Nice weather you have there. Good to see that big mill again.
Its reassuring to see that its still just as exciting when you've got a huge mill and a huge supply of logs to cut btw :) hope I can get to that someday soon. For those of us who missed it, why are we so nonchalant about cutting metal? Did the sawblade get upgraded to carbide or something?
this guy reminds me of Tips from a shipwright youtube channel: clear instructions and calm demeanor!
Awesome slabs great job Matt
aways relaxes me watching you cut wood
the way you cut two logs at once was genius!
Much of what I'm curious about and comments are already covered below, just one addition. Take care on your lifting, pulling, and tugging Matt, from an old carpenter/cabinet maker who makes some really sad noises when he gets up out of his chair these days.
Lovely wood
That big forklift has got to be the best investment!
Thank you Lord for making these beautiful trees, And thanks Matthew for showing us the inside!
Mat you should build yourself a solar wood drying kiln.. saw it done on homestead resque.
You should have your two new neighbors come over to see the results of cutting up their trees. Maybe not the pick of the litter but a choice cut slab to make a couple of benchs to put in their yards. Good PR and word of mouth advertising when they show their friends.
I recently watched your sawmill build playlist, which was great. I noted at the end, when you did your first cuts, how smooth the cuts were. Now, you're getting quite heavy saw marks. I also noted that you appear to have abandoned your clamping system, and I'm sure they're related. In the video, you can see the logs wobbling as you're cutting them. By cutting two logs at a time, you're also going to be getting much more blade wobble because the guides are doing virtually nothing. Was this a conscious decision, favouring quicker milling over increased wood preparation time, or had you not noticed the degradation over time? One common reason for poor cut quality is that the blade teeth need resetting. If some have been knocked out of line by milling nails, they'll leave a different kerf compared to the rest of the blade as they pass. This can also cause the log to wobble, as there's a greater drag on the blade depending on which part of the blade is cutting.
Another observation is that your gantry doesn't seem to be advancing equally like it used to. That is, the left side will move forward a bit, then the right side will catch up. Do you need to re-tension the chains at the top?
The differences are quite stark when viewing this so soon after a 5-year old video, so it may be that the decline in cut quality and gantry movement has been so gradual that you've not noticed.
Finally, what happens to the blue staining once it's exposed to air? Have you built anything with the staining that you've kept for a few years? If so, does it stay blue, or does it change colour?
no no no...not a cookie. Its a "turtle". Mark and Jeff have been having a hilarious back and forth on those. Still amazing and cool to see the sawmilling process.
I like your back yard full of logs
The log at 32:36 needs to become art. It looks like a woman with her arms raised and in the log to the left I see a ‘70s bush. Great wood brah!
Matt looks so small next to those logs in the wide shot
According to my youtube app, this comment is two months old??
@@peppigue huh.. If I'm remembering right, I think that was when these videos were private and I got to them from a sublink in one of the live Q&A's since they mentioned the video in it and I was curious. I think the date youtube shows is the date it was published (went live to everyone) and not the upload date.
Edit: this q&a - ua-cam.com/video/gSx8ydorY3s/v-deo.html
Yes, this one has been sitting in the queue since November
Back to the slabbing videos yay
Nice equipment upgrade with the tele handler.
Beautiful timber that will live on
Thanks Matt
That was lovely wood grain all the way through
There is some brill grain pattern agreed especially the crotch pattern I'd love to have, some as a two by three coffee table. Am struggle to find a local saw mill to me so missing out, they are what about £$20 per foot I take it.😁
20 some years ago we lived on a street full of competition. The competition was Halloween and Christmas lights. Every year my neighbor and I would go crazy with something new added to all the old. I used to tie a brown cord around my Oak tree out front, so that I could attach lights, but my neighbor, Roy, always pounded in roofing nails. In a year or two you couldn't find the old ones, so he'd hammer in new ones. Well, we moved and kind of lost track of our friends, but after a hurricane we decided to see how the old neighborhood did. Sure as hell, there is Roy and Kathy out front, but that old oak is GONE!!! So after we said our hellos, I asked why thy took down the tree. Both started laughing and finally said: When we took the tree down we were thinking of you.. All those nails trying to get more lighted rows and shapes and when they were cutting it down we could here them saying WTH and WTF and HOLY SHIT!!! The guy was hitting nail after nail all over the tree.. Once done he said: We'll be burning this one because we are not going to waste a saw blade on it!
Fun to see the mill working again. Are you ever going to motorize the saw travel?
A hydraulic drive would be the way to go, simple, cheap, and variable with the right control valve.
The shorter logs you cut the 1st few slices would make lovely side tables or chest tops.
The whole video was fun to watch
"There's wood in there!" I burst out laughing and nearly choked on my cuppa!
my favorite part
Thanks for the entertainment!
When I suspect metal, I generally pass. Exceptions would be really valuable wood like Black Walnut. Love watching your videos Matt. Your down to earth attitude and speaking style is great. Wish you lived closer to me. Arborist Blair Glenn
I really missed your slabbing videos.
39:12 You're turning into Mr.Rodgers. :)
Your enthusiasm is contagious, Matt! Thanks for sharing the fun!
Hello Jennifer
Not much ash left in northern Illinois. The emerald ash borer got almost all of it.
You should get a wand for metal detecting and save blade problems
Matt i watch your vids quit often but don t comment often just a thought saw some ash 3 inches thick and then when some what dry saw it on its side and tell people on axe sights what you have they would love it
Very interesting
That ash would make some very cool guitar bodies. Strat shape or even Les Paul shape.
Beautiful
Matt, Your logs are like the Tardis, they are bigger on the inside than they look on the outside...
Dangit ya beat me to the Tardis reference LOL 😆
Everyone should use the word crotch as much as he does. Tomorrow I am going to start.
He's the Bob Ross of lumber slabs
I’ve cut hundreds of trees down in my lifetime. I’ve learned more about wood in the last couple of years from you. Make a video of the things you’ve found in the wood over the years. ✌️
at first I wasn't sure if she was a Birch or a Beech but later discovered she was a fine piece of Ash....
Matt, my wife says that her favorite part of the wood is the crotch. Lol. We were laughing how many times you said “crotch”
Will make some nice lumber.
Great looking slabs. Thanks for sharing Matt. God Bless.
So amazing to watch! Very impressed! Do you every do any slabs for us woodturners that you sell? some 20x20x3.5-5" stuff?
Tips for Bridgeport snug gibbs up then back off just till you have smooth movement with handle try to take your backlash down to plus or minus .001 tip for quill stop if you take a small piece of pipe cut a slot in it stick it underneath your quill stop it'll give you a hard stop versus your stop now relies on a snap ring which flexes this is done for accurate depths of repeatability. spacer need to be parallel on both ends I made 3 sizes use knee for depth adjustment all lock should have lite drag to take tiny movement on old machine need to split the difference between the tightest versus Lucius part of your lead screw you don't want a table to bind up but you don't want your table floating all over the place either.that is one of the biggest mistake people make not fine tuning Gibbs and backlash pull oiler pumper 2 time a day when using. a heavy coat of wax on your machine will keep it cleaner wax every 6 month your machines will always shine and only need a light wiping off to clean after use. Good luck with all your endeavors I'm sorry I didn't get this message to you sooner.
I am intrigued at your skill at flipping heavy white oak logs about like jackstraws with your stand-up forklift machine. I am also curious to know if there is any way to collect the sawdust from your mill for easier collection before it spits it on to the ground so for easier clean-up and disposal as potential composting/soil nourishment?
Hey wait a minute. It's below zero, and tons of snow on the ground and he is in short sleeves.
I have been watching you for years from before you built the saw mill. Now that you have lots of room, have you had any thoughts of builting a shed to house the mill and get out of the weather?
Hi As an ignorant Englishman from across the pond What is the end use for these slabs of beautiful white oak?
I really love you videos of your mill and your house alterations. Keep up the great work!
Jeff
Wanna play the Matt Cremona drinking game? Every time Matt says crotch you take a drink. If you can make it to the end of the video, you win!
Like a cow going to freezer camp, bad wood goes to the chipper camp. :)
Does all Matt's crafted furniture come from these slabs? Matt could use the sawdust and make stove pellets to sell. It's best for the environment to use the entire tree. No waste.
Thanks for video, l enjoyed it. Question: why don't you use the hose to water down the logs to see the pattern. It would be a whole lot easier. The timber is to die for, isn't it. Do you keep this timber for yourself for woodwork furniture projects or sell it or cut for the neighbours of trees that have come down. Where in USA are you, l am in Melbourne, Australia.
Matt,
Protect your saw blades, invest in a cheap metal detector.
THERE'S LEPRECHAUN TREASURE IN THEM THERE TREES!
They’re disposable 😉
watching you level the logs, i'm surprised that you haven't cut or saved 4 or six big wedge sections for that purpose. see 27:45
Good evening Matt. Have you ever had a blade completely break on you while cutting logs? Just now getting a chance to watch this video.
Great
Love your property, where did you live before Minnesota?
You need a stone-cutting blade on your mill, so you can mill up those concrete slabs!
You should have Donovan build you a shop for all your carpentry tools and equipment.
He’s a little preoccupied
NICE
Ever thought about a metal detector to use on the logs to get perhaps a general idea of where metal might be before you saw them?
what do you do with the wood you slab? is there a way to buy it from you?
Garden Hose :p
Slabing in the winter my kind of video
Matt how do you decide on what thickness of lumber you want out of it 😀👍
Customer demand + personal demand + what the wood is good for (+ occasionally spur of the moment gut feeling? 🙂) I think sums it up? I'd love for Matt to drop in a little more detail now and then on the biology, chemistry and physics of how different species and growing conditions yields different material properties.
❤
Hey Matt, do you get different coloured staining from different metals?
When are you going to break down and retrofit your saw with a hydraulically driven unit so you won't have to hand-crank it?
Does your “better half” get fed up with all the saw dust going into the house.😡😇🥰
I know this has been asked before is there you don’t hook up some sort of power feed for your saw ?
I bet you have a video that goes over the terminology you use in describing grain features. I'll look for it. Though I'm picking up a ton from just watching, I find myself wondering what exactly is "flame" maple. I've always heard that term in guitar stuff and keep thinking I'll hear you say it sawing up maple. Do you call that something else or is it just rare?
I dont know if anybody else see it, but I see in the "Wild n Crazy cut" a image of a woman with her left arm raised above her head, and her right arm somewhat bent behind her head as if she's reaching for the sky???
Matthew have been following you from the beginning and have never understood how you write off metal in the logs and ruining your baldes in the process?
What are the tags all about ? Never seen that before
Do you have any video or experience with cutting root balls 6/4 or 5/4?
Hey Matt im a retired machinist, i like people working with there hands, your kind of goofy but i like goofy. I was thinking the carbide saw blades that you use are they custom or do you buy them right out of the catalog, and can you give a ball park price on them. Thanks your GOOFY friend Tim
qq: does hitting a nail in the tree wreck your bandsaw blade?
At 15:27, what causes the parallel lines every 1.5 inch or so?