Sawing Old Logs - How long can I wait before sawing logs into lumber?
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2017
- How long can I wait before sawing logs into lumber? How far gone is too far gone? Are there any advantages to waiting?
I have a stack of logs that have been sitting around for a few years that we can saw to see the results of letting a log age.
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I’m a few years late to the party, but my chickens get pretty excited when I saw through a log that has ants in it. They clean up termites really quick too.
Love how you explain the various things about wood: the different colors (which aren't always viewed), the curling, etc., pros and cons about when to cut and store. Overall, your videos are great. Keep them coming.
Sorry i haven't commented in awhile been pretty sick. Been waiting for a mill video and this is a great one your knowledge of wood is amazing. With the invention of the bandmill so many have started sawing but so very few know how to saw. So much more to it than throwing a log on and putting a blade through it. Matt you have a real expertise few have look forward to more of your expert milling and wood knowledge.
I watched the videos of you building your sawmill. In spite of some troubles I believe it is proof of: "If you want it done right, do it yourself". It is the best sawmill I have seen. It's big, powerful, adjustable and doesn't eat blades. Great job!!!
I go through your sawmilling videos and love how you don't give a crap about leaving stuff on the bed and near missing it with the blade or other part of the saw or even hitting it. I'm surrounded by people who overly care of that kind of things. Like even getting rained on...
Nice mill, dream actually... :)
best saw mill I have seen. I was wondering why people didn't do this! great IDEA, works great! good job!
Just love sawmill Vlogs ..maybe I need to get out more..the Ants bring a whole new meaning to Live edge..
Very educational Matt! I really didn’t realize how much color and beauty a cut log could produce if left for awhile, but not too long. Definetly learned a lot.
Remembering I don’t do social media, I noticed a winch added to the far end of the mill. Nice touch and obviously a great help! Take care!
Thanks Matt, another great video. I learn so much every time I watch one of your work efforts.
This is so cool, thank you so much for taking the time to share this 😁
Hi Matt,
Just a note to say thanks for all the video's you shared with everyone this year. Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Jim
Thank you Jim! You as well!
That was a really interesting video, thanks for posting it. I won't be doing it (don't even have a bandsaw), but it's good to see a professional exploring the interior of old logs.
A day spent doing this almost guarantees a good nights sleep. Fun to watch, too.
Thanks, Matt, very informative video. There is so much to learn about the movement of wood. Thanks for sharing.
I'm wondering how many Felixs (Felixii?🤔Feli? ) there are in Nebraska???
Great stuff Matt. Open you and your family have a wonderful holiday
I started to get really itchy starting at 7:18. I learned a good bit while watching this. Thanks!
Creepy crawlies
I used to think owning a saw mill would be every woodworkers dream but now I think it would be living in Matt’s neighborhood!
I'm sure I've said it before... and I know I'll say it again. I could watch you mill up lumber all day... so satisfying and a great ending... better than a Disney Movie.
This is so cool! I will definitely have to build one of these machines one day.
Never dreamed you could mill multiple logs at once. You are a great teacher as well.
Thanks!
I love your antics.
Thanks for your knowledge!!!!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you & your family
Great video Matt, thanks for all the tips. Like the colors and the grain. Merry Christmas to you, Lindsay, and the boys.
Great info. Watched a couple of your vids. I am 58 yrs old and consider myself fairly knowledgeable, but today after a little research learned the meaning of cant! I have, and use cant hooks inhereted from my forefathers, but never considered what a "cant" is! Lol.
Believe I'm about 40-50 miles north of you here in MN. We have snow and 15-20F today. Looks really nice down south :-)
Merry Christmas Matt!! A prosperous and healthy new yr to you and your growing family.
Merry Christmas to you and your family Matt. Another great video and dang am I jealous of that sawmill
Not that you need another comment, but here is comment 436.
Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. Each video of yours I watch, I find something new I have learned form watching. So thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share your knowledge with us all. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Dale
Thank you so much, Dale!
Interesting info there, Matt. Thanks.
Thanks for another very entertaining episode, Matt. 😃👌👌👏👏
Yessir. Lots larva. You have endless enjoyment in all facets of wood
hmmm. what a good video with lots of good info -- not just for log cutting! good work.
You are a lucky one to cut your own lumber
Congrats. You have learned somash.tanks for yours videos.
GREAT video Matt, thanks for taking the time to put it together. There is quite a bit to know about drying and slabbing. You don't just put the log onto the mill and cut away. Thanks, enjoy the family and have a wonderful year.
Thank you Mark!
Great video, nice and long, Thanks Matt. Marry Christmas
Wearing sorts and the sawmill still in one piece, for a minute there I thought you had travelled in time ;)
Great to see the logs as well as the dried boards in one video, really interesting!
Thanks for posting
Minnesota looks nice this time of year!
Lots of great information Professor Slab.
Clearly a video taken a few months ago, thanks for putting this together. I found it very informative. I look forward to an upcoming one shop day. Do you think you’ll do one in the winter?
Great job Matt
Thks alot Matt I'm learning so much thks for the knowledge
Matt, I have to say I like your shop videos, but I love your milling videos. Your earlier videos helped inspire me and make my decision to buy my mill and start doing videos on UA-cam. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Ben!!
hey Ben, just watched one of your videos earlier tonight
pretty good
Matthew Cremona I’m local and I want to meet you. I have recently come into some material that could jump start me in building a mill of my own and I want to talk with you.
Excellent video a year in the making!
Who needs a home gym when you have a sawmill. Wow, that is a lot of work, but it looks to be worth the trouble. Thanks for the video Matt.
Interesting and informative
I like your old mill, really works great
Great vid Matt! Happy Holidays to you from here at the Outer Banks, North Carolina.
ironically i have found some of my best pieces in what others think is garbage wood, like you i can see what is there in a piece and not only what is wrong with it ,,,great explanation
I agree! Love that beautiful Colors and different shapes of that Wood! That's definitly no Waste!
I agree! Love that beautiful Colors and different shapes of that Wood! Definitly no Waste!
Thanks Matt :) A few things I need to consider about the stuff I have sitting in the snow for another year. I simply couldn't get to it again due to the huge list of jobs I had during the warmer months. If I get a clear day, I'm going to try and get some of them cut up. I was thinking about it today :) ॐ
This is a good video. Thank you for your efforts sir. I hope you keep up the good work.
thanks!
Wow 😳 like your sawmill dude!!
this is a great video man, thank you!
Great info Matt!
Hi Matt. Very informative video, I hope you and your Family have a GREAT Christmas and fortuitous NEW YEAR
Very informative. Thank You.
Thanks for sharing Matt , good information to know!!! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Regards BobLee
Matt: "Cool wood though"
Ants: "IT'S THE ANTPOCOLYPSE!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!"
Hey Matt; happy holidays from Dijon, France. I’m over here visiting my wife’s family. I was given some maple that was in worse shape than what you had cut. And I used Minwax wood stabilizer on it and was I impressed(basically like the penetrating epoxy you use). The stuff that was really bad I have been using to make picture frames. It doesn’t have to be too wide or too thick and like yours the color pallet was nice. Have a great Christmas and on the 27th tip one up for me it’s my b-day. Abiento!
Matt, redgum also likes to move.
I turned a rolling pin, out of redgum,
and the next day, felt like an ear of
corn. But, if you rough cut it, and
let it dry until it stops moving, it has
some beautiful figuring. It also makes
gaps, which can be filled with colored
epoxy. I prefer something blue/green,
because it shows up better.
steve
Gives me the willies watching this. I feel like they’re climbing all over me now. THANKS MATT!
hahahahaa
Great video extremely educational and comprehensive. Well Done
Thank you!
Thanks for the info it helps a lot
Nice! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Matt! Looking forward to Cremona videos in 2018!
Thank you!!
I really enjoyed your video.
Have yet to see any sawing with the orange colored saw mill. Looking forward to that.
So glad for more sawmill videos
I really dig all the sawmill videos and hope they keep coming. Thanks for the amazing content.
Thanks Dustin! I have a few more from the summer that I need to edit
Matt, thanks for this video, following the milling thru to what it looks like after drying, and planing is great.
love the vid clips. i am also intrigued by the colors and textures of wood. cheers from Aus.
thanks!
Love your mill
Very informative.
Informative and satisfying:-)
good info, Thanks.
I must concede Matthew. Your mill is bigger than mine. :-) Cheers, and thanks for the great videos!
Really like how you are going through the whole process from milling till actually having built the furniture. Do you always mill to the same thickness? Never thicker boards needed?
I am old and can't see very well, but around 10:13 in this video, It looks like Matt is using the "Force" to move logs around. Nice video.
Lol thanks Bill!
Hi Matt, thank you very much for this instructional video. I come away from watching your milling lumber videos with knowledge I did not have before.
awesome to hear. Thanks!
Literally using this as a time frame for my mechanical engineering project
I wish I lived where it stays green and warm in December 😉😉 Nice looking maple!
where
Look outside Matt's window @ 19:13
JDWoodworks Thanks! Yes, I was joking! I live about 6 miles from Matt's house and I know exactly how cold is is there! 😂😂
Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us! How long do you recommend to allow the slabs to dry? Do you need a kiln or indoor drying spot? I have some dead standing Oak that I cut down this year and cut into 3 inch slabs and want to use indoors but worried about warping and cracking
Matt.....I love your videos/work/techniques, I envy the logging equipment you utilize, I've seen tons of your videos and I think you do a great job producing them....Even with all your cool logging equipment, what you do entails a lot of back breaking manual labor moving all of those huge logs around, so I have to ask, with all the hard work you do, WHY AREN'T YOU JACKED DUDE??
Really well done with jumping through different backgrounds and the beginning. It was neat.
Thanks again.
When milling, (sawing), logs as shown in this video, how often do you need to change the saw blade? And, do you sharpen the blades yourself?
I prefer flitch sawn for furniture projects, live edges are fine and leave all the options that tree provided for orienting the part to the grain direction and flow. Very nice mill! :)
Thanks Matt,wish you could do a start to finish toot about the large cabinet with the gooseneck doors.That is beautiful...PS Sawing logs gives me WOOD
Wow, I just watched a video about sawing logs.....loved it....think I'll go saw some logs zzzz😂
Enjoy the nap :)
That mill is insane.
Ran into the same problem with wood bores, only they spread into some of my good wood! Holy cow! That pissed me off!
Wow nice!
Great video. Looks like it would have made some great wood turning blanks if cut at 5"thick.
Any thought on cutting log in half lengthwise , giving some time to sort of dry a little before cutting into planks ? (first shave plank cut just to flatten for next full thickness)
sure looks warm over in the MSP area!
You mentioned sweetly. What do you make with it and how did it turn out? I got a bunch of it given to me and it should be about dry enough by now
Great tutorial!
thanks!
Matt after watching the video would it be beneficial for you to put a log cradle on the end of your mill that you could add on when you are loading logs on the deck and take off when not sawing it looks like it might help the same as it does when you are loading onto your trailer!
Borax and Sugar. I always have some around the Vic’s Yard near wood. Warm weather season when ants are active.
Vic
Awesome sawing 👍😁
That's quite a work out
If you are cutting older wood similar to what you have there, would you ever consider trying to saw the log quarter sawn? I know some of those logs were not conducive for that but some were. Also if you haven’t, I’d like see the best use/cut of getting lumber out of a log. Flat sawn, quarter sawn and rift sawn.
Great video Matt very informative. Hope you and your family have a merry Christmas and Happy new year. My sister law live in Chanhassen mn this that close to your town ?