My sawmill & milling the unpopular poplar (with fires and saving lives!)
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- Опубліковано 7 вер 2024
- Join me in getting my sawmill open for the season, and seeing what it's like to mill poplar. I filmed this over a two day period, and lots of other events occurred to keep me on my toes :)
I gave it all some more thought, and it will definitely be a last resort wood for me. I didn't want to use a brand new blade on this wood, but I didn't use a horribly dull one either (I did try 3 different blades). I found that the mill struggled, or the blades struggled, more so than any other wood I've milled. The wood was quite soft, rather wet, and very 'stringy', almost like a hemp rope material (similar to cedar, but much worse). I have a feeling (just my perception) that it would dull blades quickly too, so for that reason I think I will avoid it for now. To give it a fair analysis, however, I should probably actually put on a brand new blade, so take this all with a grain of salt ;)
Wow, a mechanically inclined woman, I think I'm in love! It's great to see you so capable, much respect.
I have been using poplar lumber for 50 years for building and furniture. Latest project was a 12 by 20ft gothic arc greenhouse made from the salvaged logs the power company made in cleaning up the power lines. You got to love free material.
And nothing paints better than poplar.
Sawed poplar 30 years ago and used the lumber right off the mill to frame a 12x16 shed. It is still standing and not even showing its age. However, the shed is off the ground on sonotubes so air can move freely underneath. Because it was green when used, it was easy to nail together but if you wait til it is dry, it becomes as hard as hardwood. Good luck with your project
I know this is all two years ago, but wondering if either of you have had problems with the blade popping off using poplar wood due to its lack of sap production? I have a new HM126 and I’m milling about 2,000BF of poplar for trim/finish boards.the blade slips off too much for my liking and is starting to be an expensive little mishap! Any ideas suggestions other than what’s in the manual would be appreciated if you have any experiences ☺️ Thanks for the great video!
sorry but had no problem sawing poplar on my Woodmizer nor any problems recently
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I love that wood I make furniture . Totally awesome in my eyes . Great work on what you do.
Watching folks like you getting it done is so inspiring.
I hope you keep doing your videos, they are inspiring and show that women can do anything!!
Females from my generation spoke about equality and spent a lot of time protesting in their own ways. I want to compliment you for doing what women should always have done. You have decided to do what you want in order to make things. I'm proud of your positive attitude and get it done energy.
Poplar is my favorite wood for framing. If it's kept out of the weather, it's durable, and astonishingly strong, much stronger than pine or fir. It will span much longer openings than any common wood that I know. I have a poplar framed barn that had a tree fall on it. The poplar framing broke the tree and I had minimal damage to the structure. Don't overlook it. It's great wood!
The comments are interesting in that there are two major types of Poplar. Tulip Poplar is a more southern tree that has a wood with a slightly greenish hue. It's used a lot by furniture makers as a wood to be stained or painted. Northern Poplar, or Popple as it's called in some areas, is more like the Western Quaking Aspen. In fact, it may be the same tree.
Love poplar
Negative ! Fir is strongest framing lumber ,( glue lam beams ), columns, beams , etc... just a bit harder to get old growth, which is very superior !!
Thst wood is actually really good for interior trim. Few limbs and very streight.
Poplar is great for trim, even in bathrooms. It has a fairly tight grain and produces a good surface for paint. I would not recommend staining, it has a tendency to come out blotchy and bleeds green through lighter stains.
@Shane Humphrey the set of the tooth is actualy very important. It's what cleans out the saw cut of sawdust and allows the back of the blade to slide.
Yes ,lots of trim boards made of poplur
Back in 1953 my dad built our 40'x40' house completely out of popular as that was all we had. He fell the trees, hauled them to my uncles sawmill, milled them into 2x4, hauled them home and built the house. Walls were 2x4 on the flat to 8'. Finally got help from the neighbors as he was shingling the last 1/4 of the roof. Love the videos that I have watched so far, looking forward to many more.
pro tip from milling lots and lots of lumber in Ontario. It took me a lot of years to find out if you use diesel instead of water for blade lubricant the blades last twice as long.
Great channel!
Wow! Ok. That is a great tip! Thank you!
Poplar is a great wood for trim in houses and doors painted or stained we use it all the time for painted trim and painted doors it can take more abuse than pine trim .
Poplar is great for furniture making! The back panels and the structure of drawers can be made very successfully with poplar. It is beautiful once oiled or lacquered, but doesn't take stain very well.
Don't feel bad. My wife was burning leaves in the yard and it got away and burned up some fence posts. I was at work so missed the excitement. A teenage neighbor helped her get it put out. Its a lesson learned and life goes on.
Hey! Glad to see your channel show up in my feed.
I like poplar for vertical board siding on woodsheds. I mill it and put it up immediately so it doesn't warp. It shrinks and let's the air pass thru to dry the firewood.
If the customer wants a tool shed instead, I just cut battens for what will be gaps.
It's cheap and abundant and isn't covered in pitch!
Regards!
Never even thought about the pitch! Bonus!
Hey Michygoss - I've been milling and using cottonwood poplar for jobs around the farm for several years, mainly because they grow quickly and are abundant here in central Alberta. Makes good fence boards for low pressure cattle alleys, but needs replacing more than spruce. It is definitely not a structural wood, but has great character when used on small furniture projects. It dries to a 'very dry' moisture content (will suck the moisture out of your skin in a jiffy), and is stinky to cut and sand. Definitely want to wear a mask or respirator when working dried material as it seems to have the same capacity to irritate as cedar.
Have watched and enjoyed a few of your videos; thanks for making them.
Thanks for that! I’m definitely keen to keep using it from time to time! If you saw any of the pole barn shed videos, I did the roof sheathing/roof boards in aspen poplar, and so far so good! Has sort of swamp smell to it! Haha
Your doing a great job. I wish more woman were as energetic and practical as you are. Poplar is expensive at our big boxx stores in the states. I purchased a large dowl rod for a coat hanger rod for the closet. I believe its used in fine carpentry cabinetmaking.
My father milled a bunch of poplar in the sixties , used it to frame grain bins , still straight , 24 ft walls. And knew a old farmer who wanted to build a house , he got mad at the price of lumber and milled poplar to build it , frame , siding , interior , everything he could . The house turned out pretty nice. I read your description after posting , your feelings are partly correct , it does hold a lot of water and can take a long time drying , once dry it cuts and mills better . It can be very stringy to cut lengthwise and the fibers in the wood are springy so they close up in the cut and grab your saw blade, cross cutting isn't to bad . Make sure it very dry before unstacking it or have it well nailed in so it will dry to the form you want , it warps and twists like a son-of-a-gun
Thanks for the video. Poplar is used in Chicagoland for trim work because it holds paint very well. There are better woods for staining.
Hi Michelle I've read the comments and you have had some good advice. just to add to it if you're going to sticker the stacks use lot's of stickers i.e. 6" apart and a heavy weight on top . The reason is popular can move and twist as it dries .another trick is to over cut the sizes then at a later date you can plane it if needed. It is also a good wood for in doors of a house etc. Cheers! Enjoy milling its fun!!!
I installed a poplar floor in a cabin.. Homeowner bought it at a clearance sale.. I had some left over cherry from an other job.. Used the cherry making borders around the room,, woodstove,, kitchen area,, red & white mix made a beautiful floor. Poplar was big brown heartwood. Poplar makes great trim,, fast growing tree,, short life span,, like fir,, neither are good for outside projects.. Fir holds nails better than all the stud woods..
Hi Michelle , I'm considering a mill and stumbled on to your Vid. What a beautiful property . You are just awesome, guy or girl, it doesn't matter.
If I'm the Capt. and choosing team members, your my first pick !!! Rock on buddy....and I hope you take this as a complement....
you are surely not hard to look at !
I just found this video and it is great to hear that un-poplar is indeed popular, lol. My wife and I just completed setting up our Bozeman mill. We have 50 acres in Saskatchewan and our property is covered in aspen/poplar we have started cutting 4x4's for the construction of our Rabbit Den tiny homes. We will be posting soon. Great video thank you.
Poplar is a common name for many types of trees. Aspens, cottonwood, and balsam. Here in the S.E. We have a Tulip poplar, it’s grate for lumber. Lasts a very long time as long as it stays dry.
Just saw your video and you are doing awesome job saw milling. I'm a sawyer also from Georgia ,you said that was a popular log but didn't look like the populars here. Ours has a yellowish/green color around the heart. Just keep up the great work and it will be very rewarding for you in the end, if you need any answers give me a shout and I will be glad to help
To make your mill blade tighter I would kinda make a tightening clamp for it kinda like how you tighten a chain on a motorcycle. They have a bolt threaded with a washer welded at the end of it while a bolt is on the other end. The washer of the stud it's been welded onto would go on the engine mount bolt then drill one more hole for another bolt allowing it to stick through the chassie using a wrench to tighten up the sawmill blade. I only mentioned this because I own a fab shop and have done this to a bandsaw. I know it's not a sawmill but it's the same concept only for metals. lol
Popular is common for furniture frames for upholstered items. I used it once for a screen door and it has been durable enough, well painted, but its co-efficient of expansion is such that the door varies significantly in width, seasonally. Keep experimenting!
When I was young I remember asking an old man if Poplar wood was any good. He said the Poplar tree once said.. "put me up and keep me dry and any oak I'll defy". It was ofter used for structural timber in barns and mills in Ireland but cannot be exposed to the elements.
Great video! Poplar loves to move when it dries so put weight on it or use ratchet straps on your stack. Ask me how I know! A cant hook would really help you flip the logs on the mill.
one use for poplar, I have used it as floor planks in a loft area. Keeping it dry is key as poplar loves moisture and will soak up any available
You know! Most important thing is that you pay particular attention to detail. You to do things the proper way. That's really good. I'm particular, sometimes a little too much. Stick with it. I appreciate you. Tim
You know, the spark could have happened to anyone.
You are too beautiful to be out there cutting lumber.
Here in England, I'm on a smallholding & have had a lot of near disasters over the years... We can all relate!
Look at you go girl, running a track loader, chainsaw and a saw mill? damn, where are these girls hiding? lol
Well I just stumbled onto your channel. You are an inspiration for getting it done. The past two years me and my daughter have been working together and I’m so proud of her get it done attitude. We fell trees, she is my rigger, we mill logs she understands the cuts better meaning boards per tree. She is a badass and so are you. And thank you for putting up mishaps we all have them and we learn from them. I’m going to check out some more. And also share with my kid. So cool!!!!
I’m going back to your older videos. I love the propane tank end for a burn pit. ❤
To help with he adjustment phase of your operation I suggest a trick we used to adjust mirrors in a optical train. to start, use 4 clamps instead of only one. Add the second to oppose the forces of the first and then add a second pair on to the other side of the engine parallel to the first set to deal with the twist. By loosening the far side clamps one turn and tightening the near side clamps one turn, the engine will move one thread pitch outward (tighten the belt.) Hint: for a permanent solution, weld nuts to the saw frame and use hex nuts to push the engine, we did this to help align large mirrors when I was working for a living. By using 8 sets of nut and bolts, in 4 set of opposing pairs, the engine can be moved to any position in the thrust range of the bolts (about 1,5 inches of 75 mm.)
Another opution is to mount the third pulley on a lever with a spring to keep the tension on the belt at the proper level. Best of luck in your sawing, Riki2Tails
Poplar is a very good usable wood. can be used for siding, doors, trim, flooring as well as framing.. saw stickers to separate your boards in rows when stacking them on you drying platform . on your top row put any waist wood piled onto your stack for weight to help keep your boards flat . for your plat form you can saw some timber’s
I like milling aspen, it saws nice and makes good lumber. It's best used green though, after it dries it's as hard as a rock.
I used poplar the roof of a log shed I built 30 years ago. I was told that as long as the roof doesn't leak, it'll last forever. I used roll roofing that only lasted 10 years. I tore it off and the poplar lumber underneath looked like the day I put it up. I went shingles the second time and the building is doing great for not having much invested in it.
The chainsaw is the right color! I built a dogsled of poplar, it has a very long fiber in its grain structure, it bends well in a steam formed bending situation, I made the runners, and bows of bent aspen strips and the whole sled weighed about 15 lbs. light and strong. It makes awesome tongue and groove paneling
I built my own mill when I worked in a repair/fab shop. I milled spruce, tamarack, birch and some poplar. The bigger the poplar the clearer of knots they are. I made a crib/daybed out of it really nice to work with.
Poplar is an excellent wood for building toys with and furniture work. It doesn't splinter like a lot of woods. It gets harder as it ages. I think it makes really nice paneling as the colours start to come out. Let it sit for a year before cutting it as it holds a lot of water. Peel the logs while they are green, the bark will come off easy. Thanks for sharing.
I have built many outdoor buildings and shed using rough sawn poplar as the wall boards. The super secret - old timely way to make it last is to save all your old motor oil, hydraulic oil and similar used petroleum products. Then all you do is “paint” the poplar with it. It will las as long a cedar. Thanks for sharing, Steve
good tip! thanks. have you ever burned the wood (charred it) as a preservation method?
Glad you got a hold of that fire. You and your 3-4 legged pals weren't hurt and finding Clyde. Maybe there's a retro kit for the engine mounting. May be steve can design one. Thank You for sharing your day.
Michelle, watching (and very much enjoying) your UA-cam(s) is my latest guilty pleasure. You are so capable and skilled and have such grit and enormous vision. You and Steve (a very lucky man indeed!) are very well matched. I wish you much success with your building projects and UA-cam channel. Seriously, I believe anything you wish to share of your construction projects on your beautiful property via UA-cam will be wildly popular.
Hey from Ontario...my gf & i have been sawing poplar lately...there can be a lot of difference between logs...I made beautiful 2x8 t&g plank flooring staircase & railings for my old house outta it...now I mainly use it for metal roof strapping...I cut 1 1/2×6 mostly...also the warped clear sideboards r good to use for drawer sides n stuff in cabinetmaking...I like to cut down the tree then saw it the same day in summer or it'll move all over the place...can't let them sit in the sun...I also use water based foundation coating on the log ends to prevent checking...unfortunately it doesn't stand up to any outdoor use at all...the stresses will reduce as a log sits around but then as indicated by the smell its already begun to rot throughout lol
Ps by poplar i (we) mean trembling aspen...its pretty inferior compared to the tulip wood yellow poplar variety from down south...
Softer wood species like poplar, cottonwood, willow etc are desireable for trailer and bridge decking boards. They take heavy loads without cracking and splitting like the harder woods will.
Interesting
Awesome job! I also have a UA-cam channel and just purchased a mill. It’s very addicting sawing your own lumber. Glad you found your pup. Keep it up. Looking forward to see more-Aaron
That's an awesome sawmill! Great work. #purplecollarlife
Hemlock, cedar, fir, pine, poplar all quite useful for carpenters and cabinetmakers.That Woodland Mills bandsaw is a good machine!
We built our hunt camp out of green , shaped poplar logs. With a good roof overhang they remained very dry. Over time they became dry and very hard. Nail bending hard. 30 years later it's as good as new. Key is, keep it dry.
First time viewer, I hope you have better days or periods of time then what you went through in this video. Good Lord you are a hard working woman, and here in the USA I pay a pretty high price for nice milled Popular. Keep on smiling.
props for how you persevere Michelle. Inspiring.
Poplar is what we generally use for trim. Due to no knots (like pine), it holds paint a lot longer.
Very impressed, you've got the skills and enough muscle to make it happen. Thanks for sharing! Great video quality and editing!
I love your videos! Your voice carries is perfect and you do so many different things. Keep up the great work!
I have a Bobcat too. Change your fuel filter often. It will be easier to start and it should keep the water out
Man what a day you had all part of life
YOU GO GIRL! Thanks for sharing 🥰 Have a safe and blessed day 🦊
poplar is great for interior stuff especially trim, looks like you could easily make that idler wheel for the drive belt adjustable and then never have to move the engine
I should almost change the name of the title as it’s actually trembling aspen - a type of poplar, but not the poplar that most people are thinking of. Everyone around here just calls it poplar 🤷🏻♀️
Woodland mills has since designed the newer models to have an idler wheel pulley to do just that - adjust the tension without moving the engine, but I’ve heard mixed reviews about that. I’ll see how this year goes and try and devise my plan. 👍
Just found your channel... I've gone 15 years without ever signing in to make a youtube comment, but I just couldn't resist this time. About the belt tightening (you asked for ideas), a little trick I've used on things like that is to tighten the bolts just barely tight enough to keep it in place, but loose enough that you can still knock the thing around a bit using a hammer and a wood block. You might have to do it in stages - start loose, hammer the engine mount in place, tighten the bolts a bit, hammer some more, tighten, hammer, etc. Love your stuff! I grew up in B.C. and then Alberta, and now live in Idaho. Got a little homesick watching... You're awesome!
Thank you, and welcome! Yes - I actually do that. Just loosen them enough so that the engine will move. But even then it’s still a struggle, to be honest. It’s not as bad, but it still wants to twist. That’s why I had the clamp on there, for what it was worth. 🤷🏻♀️
I haven’t had to mess too much with the belt these days, so it’s kind of a non-issue at the moment. Until it is again. 🤪
Live and learn! Great job handling a serious situation. Now you know that you're able to think fast, adapt and overcome! excellent work kid!
Great video. I think it’s really sad here in BC that we seem to be conditioned to think conifers are the only usable trees. I’ve seen some beautiful T&G made from poplar. I’m anxious to mill some on our property this summer. And milling that poplar earned my subscription.
Try using 3 jacking bolts to tension the belt .2 for tension and 1 away from the pulleys to twist motor for alignment
Keep up your extremely good work lady don't think about what people says about the job on your sawmills as long as you make some lncome ,you did great technique s and try it on the jobs though it's challenging.keep extra care on your work be safe.👍👍👍🤩😎💝
I really like how you demonstrated your skiing skills, honesty super cool 😎
Poplar is a great choice for pole barn construction.
This looks more like an aspen to me. I’m familiar with the southern tulip poplar. It’s a easy wood to work with and can be stained to look like several types of hardwoods. It was used a lot for log cabins by early settlers.
Yes - I should change the title of the video! It is trembling aspen, most commonly referred to as poplar around here. Same family I guess. I’ve milled some 1” boards for the pole barn shed I built last year and so far so good! Installing green is key I hear.
One could make a hell-of-a-kickass Weber kettle clone with that propane tank end.
Around my neck of the woods we use poplar for saunas because it doesn't hold the heat and is more comfortable to sit on. And I know people who use it for building barns and animal stalls because when it dries it is very hard. I milled a bunch of it for a neighbor with my HM130MAX into 1.5" and 2" slabs that he was saving for sauna use.
young lady, you are a rock.. you need to get a peavey.. we are so blessed that you and yours are safe and sound..
I milled some poplar many years ago and found that it gets very hard as it drys. Enough to bend nails or split the wood. You may want to predrill holes for nails or screws.
Hello There. 'TULIP POLAR' is an extremely stable wood, & it's fantastic for framing, specially after it's dried down to say under 15- 16%.
What you have there doesn't look like tulip,,, like you mentioned, tulip polar will have a greenish tint around it's heartwood.
ALL of the farmers in my area want to buy every foot that I milled,,, for siding on their barns. It will last 50-100 years!
I've been building movable hunting cabins with my poplar,,, I cut 2 x 3 studs & 1/2" ship lap boards. Then I spray on some walnut stain sealer (homemade,, soak the walnuts in water or paint thinner,, then strain & spray. ;>) to darken the hunting shed up.
(tip) I demo old campers & re-use the windows, doors, axles & frames for my ' tow behind cabins'.
BTW,,,, IF you rack polar for an extended period, make sure you spray both sides of the boards with a BORAX soap & water mixture,,, If I have some extra SALT, I'll add some of that too,,,,, Spray 'em before you rack 'em.
FYI,,, Here in Ohio,, we have a massive outbreak of 'POWDER POST BEATLES',,,, & they LOVE polar!! Eating the Borax soaked wood will eventually kill them, & not hurt anything else. ;>)
Great video Michelle
I just got done framing the rafters and roof deck on my cabin in poplar, its been great to work with and by us in KY I can't hardly get pine but poplar is plentiful and inexpensive. I turned our really nice!
My Father in law made a reasonable living selling Poplar wood to paper mills to make toilet paper. If you have access to transportation for the wood and a paper mill near by, that might be another way to use the poplar.
FIRE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Welcome to the club!
I do software mostly for banks and when they are building new banks or doing upgrades they often use popular for the interior trim. They say it paints and stains well. I have never used it but I am sure you can find a use for it. Take care
The fire thing happened to me too one day. I live in the woods too. Managed to get the fire out, but it was exhausting and stressful and damn close to becoming a disaster! I now keep a few fire extinguishers around.
Here in "Mayberry" NC, tulip poplar is very desirable for logging. This may be a different species than up in BC. When I lived northern Vermont, they called what I call gray birch "popple" and it used only for pulpwood (paper). Yes, I've had the old grass fire fun also-it really spreads fast.
Poplar is great for lighter weight paintable guitar bodies.
18” x 15” x 8/4” solid slabs at premium; 4” to 6” x 15” x 1.25” for cheaper joinery pieces.
Absolutely love your opening scene....wow, I’m gonna subscribe and I’m glad I did, wow, a fire and a poor lost senior dog, dang, nice, scary drama! I love poplar and I’ve made some pretty cool things with it, one of my best is butcher block barn doors with a big frosted glass window in the middle, made them my bedroom and bathroom doors. Another is a huge Island butcher block for my sister’s kitchen, it’s a beautiful wood with some green hues and interesting colors and grain. When you love woodworking but can’t afford walnut or cherry it really fits the bill. Thanks so much for your time, creativity and a great episode
Being a Little Bitsy Gal, you sure are strong, enjoy your vids, keep em' comin'. Put a screen over your fire propane tank end.
i never imagined i could be jealous of a woman because of all her toys.
Good stuff, always something to learn on WM sawmill. I have the 2015 HM126, it’s a good mill when maintained and setup to spec. Good luck on the two cabins.
So much to learn! Yes.
Thanks - it’s certainly going to be challenging 🤪
Came across your channel and have been checking out some of your videos. Thought you may find it interesting that in Northwestern Ontario a good friend of mine has been building log homes for over 45 years and regularly uses poplar (Trembling Aspen) on home builds. He was always perplexed by the negative reputation the tree species has as you highlighted. As long as the logs are clear and free of rot/decay, they are straight and do not warp and twist like the various pine species when they dry/settle. Your drive, ambition and determination shown in your videos is impressive...good on ya for going after what you want!
I'm a old man who now lives in alaska. I did live in washington state for a very few years then came here. The timber down south is much better as we have tons of cottonwood and some spruce in the central alaska homeland now. I milled timber in what we call southeast alaska and there the timber mirrors that you have. Most times the birch, popular, and cottonwood got pushed into piles and burnt because of no market for it. As years went by I really wanted to do something with it besides firewood. I milled a bunch of cottonwood up into two by multi dimensions and took it as soon as sawed down to the lake and just dumped it in the fresh water to soak. I found that if it soaked in the water, the tension was not near as bad as all the oil in the tree had left into the pond leaving me just wet wood that could be stickered and let dry which it did dry and a lot faster without the oil in it. If just left in the sun it turned into bananas shortly but used inside of a cabin it seemed to stay and not shrink up and leave huge spaces between the boards. It does take stain very well and is quite pretty wood. I can only wish we had cedar here as it kinda stops at about petersburg. From there is a lot of cedar and spruce, hemlock and some fir.... for the life of me I can't remember the name of this fir as its not doug fir. Only really big stuff is mostly spruce and have hauled on trucks stuff that was over twenty foot on the stump. Our cedar got big but not too tall and the heart was rotted away for the most part on most all of it. So on a different note, the engine seems to have enough power for what your doing so get the husband to weld a thin strip of metal along the side of where this engine bolts down so it can't go catty wampus on you. I kinda wish that you used the peevy to roll those logs as it can lead to some terrible back strains or even injury.... its each persons choice tho and who am I to tell you how to do anything. As far as soaking the popular trees.... who knows whether or not it will work and in the yard that your in right now seems not to have any liquid water although you might have some "powdered water" somewhere near.... yes thats a joke. You must be a loggers daughter or married to a logger.... just a guess... I did hit the subscribe just to see how you make out with this
I've milled Poplar on my Woodland Mills for shiplap siding on outbuildings. If treated it is OK but doesn't offer up near the protection and rot resistance as a lot of other species. Light, fast growing and functional but treat it similar to a softwood when exposed to the elements. Keep it up.
Great video. I have tons of it and I'm going to start milling some up. The big companies are using it for pallets.
Just to clarify, I’ve since learned that the species of tree is quaking aspen/trembling aspen, which is a type of poplar, but not the type of poplar that many people think it is.
use a cant hook to turn those logs, it is a lot easier, and you can nudge the wedges with a foot while holding the log in place. i have a HM 126 and have never had the issue with getting the belt tight, they may have modified what i have, 2012.
i watched your video as i wanted to see what you thought about the mill. i really like mine. and yes, a dull blade makes things kind of go out of whack.
if you wish to dry wood faster, when the tree falls, or you drop them, leave the leaves on, that will draw moisture out and help to cure the wood faster.
good video. I have some on the mill myself, and i have to level it once a year, full maintenance about every 6 months, serviced as needed.
good job, glad you love dogs, i have 4 rescues, all are shepherds of some kind, 3 shelty/boarder collie mix, (the dogs that run, fall down, back up herding, down again) and then the rest are german shepherds with russian names to avoid confusion about nationality.
I use poplar off of my mill for all sorts of furniture projects. You are doing a awesome job! Next on the list you need a cant hook.
Wow! My dream woman right here! 😎👍👍
Poplar is excellent for milling trim moldings and ,properly dried is a great wood for furniture construction.
Adda girl, keep up the great work 💪🌲🌲👷♂️👍
I'm milling some Cottonwood (in the Poplar family) here in WA state for a barn project. It *is* nice wood as long as it is cut in oversized dimensions. True 2x6 in poplar can replace a store bought 2x4 Doug Fir just fine IMO. Forget about drying it since it will take way too long. Just put it up wet taking shrinkage into account, keep it away from rain and soil contact, use heavy gauge 40-60d nails with pre-drilled holes and you'll be fine!
We have cottonwood here as well, haven’t touched that either! Thanks for sharing!
If your using it for siding (bat and board) install it wet and tight. It will shrink together. It’s excellent wood for that purpose.
I know a guy near Sudbury that built his work shop about 30 years ago out of poplar, he cut the studs a full 2 inches by 6 inches. I was impressed, it was heavy built and if you keep the poplar dry, it lasts just fine. More commonly it is used for paint grade trims. I just want to add that he built the shop while the poplar was green, for easy hand nailing and used steel for the roof and siding.
That is great info im close to sudbury and has ton of poplar on my lot. They are 70-80 feet tall and straight I was wondering if I could use it for anything other than fire wood
@@LiamG903 Over size your lumber, use good framing technique, and make sure the poplar stays dry. The guy who I referred to had a concrete wall to build his wood wall on, I can't remember for sure, but maybe about 12 inches.
@@pseudopetrus sounds good, Ill Certainly play with some and see how it works out
@@LiamG903 awesome, I wish you good luck!
i ran across this vid today if you keep popular dry it makes great building material if it get wet and stays wet it rot fast have used it for floor joist and beams in barns and sheds for years no issues t all unless a roof has a prolonged leak it will rot fast
78 year old retire engineer here. I liked your video and subscribed. Not sure you will learn much about the various wood properties from that angle, but there are always woodworkers like me interested in buying what you can turn out on a mill. Of course I don’t build log cabins either, so good luck with whatever you decide. Eastern Pennsylvania here.
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