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The Farm Life
เข้าร่วมเมื่อ 4 ส.ค. 2013
From the crazy mutts, to wrangling a young cougar, to watching the tractor run away straight to the house, living "The Farm Life" there is never a dull moment! Come join us on the journey to create a homestead full of adventure, mishaps, hard work and happiness. We look forward to bringing you along through the everyday life of a small farm and the projects and hobbies that go along with it, such as milling logs into lumber, building a timber framed barn, learning the craft of blacksmithing and knife making, metal working/fabrication, woodworking, horsemanship, gardening, forest stewardship and much more...
Dozer Blew Up - Barn Build Comes To A Screeching Halt
The barn build hits a hard stop when the Dozer that I have owned for 11 days at this point blows up! It developed a serious knock in the engine and was consuming oil like no tomorrow. So in the shop it goes to see what happened.
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Barn Build Series - Part 4 - Hired Help
มุมมอง 786 ปีที่แล้ว
Make the most of the help I got! My Uncle and I continue on with moving dirt with only one or two minor set backs we are making good progress.
Barn Build Series - Part 3 - New Toy
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Exciting times when a new toy shows up and the hillside gets carved away making room for the new barn. My Uncle comes up to lend a hand running equipment.
Barn Build Series - Part 2 - Excavation 2.0
มุมมอง 646 ปีที่แล้ว
Continuing on with carving out the hill side to create a flat level area to put the barn, Every tree that comes down will eventually go back up in the form of a timber in the barn right where they fell!
Barn Build Series - Part 1 - Excavation
มุมมอง 586 ปีที่แล้ว
It has finally begun! Excavation on the barn has started. There is a huge amount of material to move and plenty of trees to come out. And it all starts now!
Setting Up Electric Fencing And A Sneak Preview Of The Barn Build
มุมมอง 366 ปีที่แล้ว
Getting a new area fenced to move the pigs out of the garden and a preview of the Barn Build being started!
How To Build A Sawmill - Part 2 - Log Deck
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Part 2 of the "How To Build A Sawmill" series - This video I cover the materials and rough measurements that make up the Log Deck along with a mutt that tries to steal the show...
Homestead Full Of Crazy Critters!
มุมมอง 436 ปีที่แล้ว
While waiting for winter to end I take some time to play with the mutts which is definitely more their idea than mine, and I get the new hay net strung up!
How To Build A Sawmill - Part 1 - Quick Release Log Dogs
มุมมอง 15K6 ปีที่แล้ว
This is the first in a series on how to build your own sawmill. I will take you through all the components that make up my homebuilt, own design, DIY, Bandsaw Mill with design considerations, Tips, Tricks, and even some Bloopers!... This video focus's on the quick release log dogs.
How To Coil And Uncoil Bandsaw Mill Blades
มุมมอง 3.3K6 ปีที่แล้ว
A short video on how to coil and uncoil bandsaw blades. These methods will work on most bandsaw blades whether its a small shop bandsaw or a portable sawmill.
Have Pig, Will Travel... Oliver goes on a road trip to a new home
มุมมอง 386 ปีที่แล้ว
ROAD TRIP! We have had Oliver since he was a piglet and raised him to be an excellent boar. It is time to take him to a new home as we plan to keep some of his offspring for breeding next year. Unfortunately it wont be financially feasible to keep him as a pet without being able to do his job! So he gets some new girlfriends!
How to Build The Best Pig Waterer - Electric Fence Didnt Work, Now What...?
มุมมอง 2126 ปีที่แล้ว
A brief description of how to make the best pig waterer and apparently the electric fence doesn't work so good in the winter! Oliver our boar walked right through it. Now we have to figure something out for his own bachelor pad away from the new born piglets.
How To Revive A Piglet - Two Litters In Two Days!
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Sleepless nights and a long couple days while tending to two Sows that gave birth in two days, resulting in 14 healthy piglets! One piglet was born not breathing and a successful attempt to revive it was caught on camera!
Wind Storm And Pigs Destroy everything
มุมมอง 476 ปีที่แล้ว
The joys of winter weather! We had a wind storm come through last night which destroyed our brand new horse shelter. Worked on fixing up our other pig shelter (with the help of the pigs...)
The Homestead Gets Buried - Pig Shelter Collapsed
มุมมอง 2676 ปีที่แล้ว
Trying to unbury the homestead plowing snow with the ATV YET AGAIN! and dealing with some collateral damage of a collapsed pig shelter, with a new use for ratchet straps!
Great design... have a Norwood mill...their dogs are junk...your design is better...very much like the ones Hudson Mills make...which I have made...they have both the log dog snd the back stop...on a common peice of square tubing... work well...👍
Weld a C shaped piece to the back side of your log dog clamp for more hand space to release the dog
A log deck is the most overlooked component in bandsaw milling when it comes to increasing your productivity. I ended up fabricating log decks and jib crane for both my bandmill and circle mill. I can load it full in the morning, have a helper cleaning and peeling logs while I run logs through the mill and offloading onto my other deck behind the. Don't have to stop to load logs w/ a tractor or pull cut lumber from the mill so it's a 2x increase in productivity. Nice bandmill you put together. Regards.
Thanks guy.. big help!!!
Just send the end of you handle to 90 degs and it will give you more room to fit your fingers in to release. Nice video
My husband is working with his sawmill, he saw your idea but he doesn't know how to do it, can you explain a little more please
Hello
Ingenious solution! Very inspiring!
Cool man
What about a 2 day old. Having hard time breathing? She was eating fine off a bottle early a.m. and now she's gone lifeless with gasps of air. Is she a loss or should we keep reviving her?
Great idea using reciever tube!
Nice job on your log dogs! Your mill looks great. I am in the process of converting my 36 year old band mill to an adjustable head unit. I will be copying your dogs. Very much like your concept of repositioning, if needed.
Wow that looks like awful material to work in.
My wife saw this and said she wants to clamp my skinny bits
How about a c-lamp as a track stop, just for insurance? I have ADHD, so would definitely saw right off the end. ;)
What is your power plant and how does it work? Looks like a Honda single cylinder 12hp?
Yes an older single cylinder 13hp works great I'm sure the bigger the better but the price was right and it works great. When buying a clutch for it buy the most robust one you can get I went through two of the cheaper go kart ones and then finaly spent the money I should have the first time and haven't had an issue since. Happy milling!
@@thefarmlife2958 Thanks! Really helpful. Linn mills sell a clutch I'll buy that is quality and rated up to 20hp. I'm thinking the 16hp Kholer or 13hp Honda to stay in my $800 budget. Sure would like the vtwin 20hp but $500 more. Slightly tempted by 18hp Duromax for $350 to get started with. Excited to build.
I'm getting ready to build my own mill with a Linn Lumber mill head. I like the log dogs solution you designed and will likely give that a try.
One improvement I would make is give yourself more room to grasp the handle. When it is good and tight its a little tricky to release. I hope to hear how your build goes!
Thanks for responding. I'll let you know how it goes (probably end of summer). I can't think of a reason not to make the handles a little longer as it appears the clamping force means really yanking on them in your and maybe weld a hand grasp on back side of each handle?
What happened to part 3 on the carriage of saw mill? Good log deck and log dog videos; but no saw head/carriage video!
Nice build!
I have a Norwood and the dogs are dogs! Yours are the best I’ve seen for milling down to below an inch. Great video. Thanks!
Thanks for sharing ideas..im on it! PS very cool!!
If you extended the length of your 1/2"sq. stock cam handle, it would lend more fulcrum leverage. And as you pointed out, a little more bend at the end of the handle, less pain onna filanges.
Great series thanks for sharing like the movable log dog clamps!
What happened to part 3 on the carriage of saw mill thanks. Kozbilt
Dear Sir, Following you for while now & really enjoying watching your progress. Rest assured, I'll keep watching your ongoing saga. As for "look Ma, no hands"; I sincerely hope she wasn't looking, I think you'd have a devil of a job explaining that!!! keep up the great work. Kind regards.
Thanks for watching! haha Lots more to come.Take Care - Jason
Dear Jason, Thank you very much for your courteous & heated reply. Keep it coming my old fruit, I'll be waiting. Kind regards.
Dear Sir, Nice work, keep it up. I just can't wait to see the next instalment. Kind regards.
Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your courteous reply. I must say feeling trees with an excavator is a very novel & ingenious way ( not to mention quiet & more efficient ) to removing them. Your machine must be in the region of 12 tons or thereabouts??? Kind regards.
New sub from Jim’s TTC, hi! Could you add an extension to the ends of your locking cams making them slightly longer? if you shaped them such that you could get your fingers underneath with the extra length they’d be easier to undo and lock due to the extra leverage. Cheers Graham
Graham Monaghan welcome! Jim has a great thing going! I am thinking I should be able to bend them out about which should help and if the extra leverage is needed I'll use your idea and add an extension. Take care!
Does it worrk???
Almost too well! Very sturdy.
Great video. Subscribed and add this to my playlist
Hey, Thanks for the support! Take Care.
lol hey bro great video but man u r a brave s.o.b. holding that blade between your legs like that lol!!!! new sub from the tradesmen channel!
HAHA Calculated risk... Really appreciate the support!
lol ya it hangs to the left and the teeth were on the right lol risk excepted lol
Very nice! Your wranglin one heck of a snake there. Thanks for sharing! Found you from TTC New sub! - Will
Debtfreehomesteaders hey Will, really appreciate the support! Stay tuned more mill content! Best regards, Jason
Good job, I really liked the gunshot after the rooster. I just added this video to the playlist. I'm going to be doing a video in a couple of days and start mentioning channels from the list. Thanks for sharing.
Really appreciate the support Jim!
Dear Sir, Your link appeared fromJim's video clip (The Trafesman Channel) It's a very professional way of handling safely band saw blades. Please be advised that I have subscribed & very much look forward to seeing more of your future adventures & wish you well in your endeavours. Very well done. Keep it up & kind regards.
Dear Sir, Thank you very much for your hearted response. Kind regards.
Really appreciate the kind words and the support! Best regards.
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