He's back at it again - Milling Dimensional lumber from Redwood logs with a Turbo Sawmill!
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- Опубліковано 19 січ 2019
- Logs to Lumber - Safely living in a Redwood forest clearing is a continual cycle, producing lumber for maintaining buildings and tending forest health. I transitioned from 30 years of using a homemade Alaskan Mill to milling dimensional lumber with a Turbo Sawmill. Hope to keep doing it for the next 30 years! Filmed by Julie Joynt.
I am so jealous of that lifestyle! Your days must be so fulfilling running that gorgeous wood through your amazing sawmill only to build your own paradise. My hats off to you sir! You are a great man!
Julie you need to tell him he’s a fricking legend
The knowledge he is showing here on you tube. This is what the young kids need to be watching. In my opinion this is better than watching a Hogan’s Hero’s show
Careful now , you're showing your age ! I Loved that show. I sometimes call my boss colonel clink, he has no idea why. LOL !!
Everything about this video is Awesome.
I can't believe all of the negative whinny comments, wow, smh.
I thank you for the project.
You did a great job milling that redwood into outstanding lumber! I love the smell of freshly milled redwood.
Great job, David, but I’m most impressed by Julie. For someone who may not be “technical” or “experienced” in this skill set, her questions, camera work and demeanor are spot on and she makes me just want to hug her... what a beautifully intelligent person. Bravo and Brava!!
Thank you Shane. Agree!
I dunno which is my favorite, the cinematographer or the beast of a man orchestrating.
Great to see a new video these have always been some of my favourites on youtube, very inspiring. Love to you both
Wow, what a nice surprise!!! That famous original video was always one of my favorite! The equally famous beautiful narration not being the least of reasons. Glad to see that not only are you "back", but that you are more at it than ever, and you kept the great narrator!
Thanks Samuel - I love filming David at work and assisting drawing out the wealth of knowledge, with my questions and comments!
jujoynt - Wow!!! It's really YOU?!?!? I am honored! You're famous!!! Best narrator EVER!
@@jujoynt I agree! Best cinematographer and narrator ever on these type of videos!
David and Julie thank you for videos great work.
Your have done this before David! Always a pleasure to watch your skills at work... 👍👍 thank you!!!
I was waiting for a new video for a long time :) Thanks for this one! This sawmill looks great!
Thanks For The New Video David! Blessings and Aloha to You!
What a fantastic milling machine, a pleasure to watch, great video
Thank you very much for the new video!
I'm happy to see you are back to making videos. This was a great demonstration and I liked all the details on the setup.
This is one kickass mill nice video
Hurrah! I keep coming back to your old series. Looking forward to a load more,please!
I enjoyed the video thank you for filming .
Another great video! Really nice to see new videos David!! Really enjoy watching these and your knowledge and precision is impressive!!
Enjoyed watching it.
😀 Thanks again for sharing! Now that's a man I call self sufficient! Fantastic job 👍🏽👍🏽
Glad you liked the video. Thanks!
Suggestion
Drive a spike with a piece of chain and a washer into the ends .
Hook a chain from each end to the 4 wheeler. There you go.
I do this with hay bails.
I use a riding mower.
By placing the washer on the spike first. Then run spike through chain. And drive into the end. Acts as a bearing
I’m sure you may have done this before.
More vids of this guy !! - will be watched for years to come
great video. nice mill. loved it.
Kudos to Julie for Videoing and drawing the information out of David with constant questions. I bet David enjoys the new Turbo Sawmill. It looks alot faster than the Alaskan.
Thank you!!
Goes to show that with some planning and forethought, one is able to maximize the yield of high quality timber from a log. I'm jealous that you have ready access to some beautiful redwood trees to mill into lumber.
Perfection.
OMG! I'm in the NE attempting to do the same with our Eastern White Pine out here, total inspiration!
Nice mill!
Always enjoyable and interesting.
Your sawmill is awesome. I got a little chainsaw mill that I made a video with a while ago, but yours is amazing. Have a great Wednesday, Andreas from Off Grid Sweden 🇸🇪
I relate to what you are doing as I operate a D&L SwingBlade
The voice of operator seems doesn't changes, soft and tender......
David very inspirational hope to work as hard as you when I get to your age.
Has it really been two years since your last post. The videos are great. Great content.
You're doing pretty good, from an Alaskan chainsaw to a saw that can chainsaw Alaska.
awesome
This a good way of making timber
Great video and nice sawmill. Only issue I have with that type of sawmill, (manually reset the blade), if that guard ever comes loose, your leg is toast. Better design if the blade tilted away from you instead of towards you.
Love the wood. Cheers :)
Julie Joynt is back again! I love her interviews and her accent. Julie you have excellent interviews and documentaries. You get the information out of your subjects by drawing it out with questions and observations. Great camera work I might add.
You should have your subjects point the camera at you or put it on a tripod so we can see you as you sum up what happened in the video.
I agree! Julie is great and we enjoy working together. Bring on the tripod!
Thank you John - yes, I think it came together well. My favorite part of the video is where David is rolling the 2500 pound log up the hill with the ATV. Who ever would have thought of that!
Just all those other trees watching 👀 their inevitably fait to come.
You should have a handheld metal detector; great work; thanks for the video and knowledge.
Pour a concrete slab that you can mount a removable winch to, then winch the logs up instead of pulling with the 4-wheeler. The spikes in the log ends for an axle mentioned lower in the comments would be a good idea too.
Looks like he does ever thing the hard way
time for a composting toilet with all that sawdust. :-)
Nice work. This seems a lot harder than a bandsaw mill. The only difference is that the bandsaw mill just slabs the log, So you would have to rip the slabs at some point I guess your mill has the advantage of the dimensional lumber being light enough that one guy can lift one. With my back, I wouldn't want to try to lift one of those wet 4x8s, much less a 16/4 slab!
IncognitoTorpedo these mills are actually light years ahead of a bandsaw. One of the main advantages is that you don't move the log once it's where it needs to be. Imagine having to roll that log three or four times on your bandsaw mill. The reason it took so long is because that redwood log is so expensive. So he is trying to maximize every piece. Another advantage in a swing saw is that you get a dimensional piece of lumber for ever down and back pass.
IncognitoTorpedo I like that you mentioned the only difference is you have to rip the slabs lol. I’m just imagining all the re-handling all the slabs to convert them into boards... I don’t understand where you got to the conclusion this is harder. 2 cuts and you have a light weight finished board to remove.
Hi, David. Just spoke with Rick after any years. He suggested that I check out your UA-cam site. I am amazed at your skill and knowledge on so many tpocsI plan to get in touch with you, my long-ago- friend, when I go to my place in Blue Lake next time. Tell me how get in touch with you.
Audrey Huni Duran
Hi Audrey. What a nice surprise to hear from you. Just go to my website (very old website I’m currently in the process of bringing into this century) davidgroth.com , email me and we can make arrangements to get in touch. Thanks for checking-in!
I will be at my house in Blue Lake on and off all summer. Looking forward to seeing you
David Duran
Bueno!
I wonder if you realize my husband, Dave Duran passed this last September. He had been dealing with cancer and various operations for over 3 years. My title was wife/nurse. I am sad but glad it’s over for him. I have some independence all of a sudden after 49 years!
@@davidduran3214 I am so sorry for your loss Audrey.
Great video , you need to wax all those chains before they rust !
This video was about 10 minutes too short. Beautiful lumber. Great skill!
SO glad you enjoyed it!
Would love to have a couple of truck load of those logs. Would make a great house.
cutting a healthy redwood down? oh boy I'm a big lumber milling wood project kinda guy but there's just got to be boundaries.
I am sure that it was either a dying redwood, or within the boundaries of his property and properly permitted. I am also sure he planted quite a few more than he cut down as well.
Would like to see the slabbing attachment too…
Okay, but, get a oversized cant hook, and that log will roll right up quite easily and accurately.
Novice question from a rookie woodworker here...do you commercially recycle all that sawdust and shavings?
I use the sawdust around the base of rhododendrons and garden paths.
cant you compress all that saw dust and shavings into fire logs or pellets ?
wow, awesome to watch!!! mmmm...I can smell the wood, and the outside where you are!!!mmmm
Thanks and glad you liked the video...there really is quite an aroma from freshly milled lumber!
yes, I was lucky enough to have this type of experience; making furniture; with a small mill; we made furniture and mantels, and fine wood furnishings in bigfork Montana. it was amazing! I truly admire your art, and your mill work.
Yeah... Thanks for mentioning the smell factor Faye. Neighbor lady used to make chocolate chip cookies. I'll never forget that aroma. Same with the woods and fresh cut wood.
why do you a circ saw mill instead of a bandsaw mill?, or did I miss that.
A bandsaw mill is a very different kind of cutting process...a swingblade fits my purposes best.
Take a couple cut off slabs and put it under your next cut. Might save your chain a little wear when you hit the dirt.
Hey fool there is no chain
that's smart; I'll have to remember that trick.
I am completely uneducated when it comes to lumbering/harvesting trees. I have one question and im sorry if it sounds stupid but i would really like to know. Isnt it illegal to harvest redwood trees anymore? I remember watching a cable TV show that showed the "loggers" harvesting deadfall and very old stumps that were cut many many years ago by the look of them because they were not allowed to harvest standing redwoods. I am just curious because i enjoy your videos and enjoy learning about this field of work.
Perhaps you are familiar with what im talking about and can explain what i have mixed up?
Thank you.
And by the way that is absolutely beautiful wood!
I think it would be difficult getting the necessary permits to harvest old growth redwoods...especially since most of what is left is in parks. No it isn’t illegal to harvest redwoods.
Thank you, and yes these had to be old growtn redwoods. The stumps that were in the tv show im talking about were unbelievably large. I mean huge like in the old time pictures they show from way back in the day,. They turned them into beautiful things. One that comes to mind was a hube table top. They had to dig the stumps out of the ground and then take them out of the woods on flatbed trucks. Im assuming those types of redwoods are no longer available for harvest?
I see. Thank you to all who explained. I love to watch these types of videos plus all the woodworking and turning videos. So much talent out there. I only wish i could have even just a small amount of it!
It that called a swing blade mill?? Seems like the blade guard should be bigger, looks very dangerous
Sir... why you insist working alone? God bless you
Nice mill
What the cost for one of the mill
You can find the prices here turbosawmill.com/automated/
any 3 " thick?
That seems to use the patented design of the Australian Lewisaw
Brian Ballard lol (Snopes check required).
@@TURBOSAWMILL I'm not sure I understand. I couldn't find a reference to you guys on Snopes.com?
@@carbonfusion It was Carl Peterson that invented the swing-blade in the late 70s. Whatever patent Lewis had is long expired. Turbosawmill has its own patents. Snopes was to imply (check facts is all).
@@TURBOSAWMILL Awesome, thanks! Don't like snopes anyway lol!
I'm sure glad i have a Wood Mizer , every dimension he needed could of been done within 1 hour with no hydraulics.
Just being curious not meaning to be intrusive but who is the woman? And is she related?
Dang, put the camera on a tripod n go grab the other end of those boards will ya, lol.
Why does the blade have so few tips?
You would have to ask Jake at Turbo Sawmill. All I know is that the mill blade cuts like butter.
Less drag, like a full skip saw chain?
A real shame to see all that Redwood go like this and i'm not a " Tree hugger"
Coulda sold the sapwood
The trouble with producing videos while trying to get something done, you have to do everything yourself even though you have someone else there.
milling starts at 22:00 do yourself a favor and play it on mute at 2x speed lol
You made setting up this log way way more complicated then you needed to.. Like wow, if this is how you do it all the time holy waste of time...
Yes I agree with you. A band saw mill is the way to go for me. Plop it up in the tracks, lock it down and start sawing.
Lol its a lot simpler measre pith to pith either side and get sawing he did a lot more than necessary also the beam is usually never level u don't want it perfectly level line the beam up with the log and skip all the overthinking. And chalk the log before everything.
"Standard logging practice?" Of course not. The woman's tone is really disrespectful, and brings shame on herself. So she could do better? Let's see it. This guy is doing a great job, and she is trying to make fun of him. "He's at it again" ? You bet. Keep going. Ignore the mockers. Lots of people can operate a camera.
Leave the narrator inside next time. Geezus
This machine is a joke!