YOU SUGGESTED THIS! I'm Thrilled with Results, Chipping Waste from the Sawmill
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- Today I tried a Suggestion many of you have offered over the years, Working at the Sawmill and Trying to do something productive with all the waste generated. I'm starting to use the Split-Fire Chipper to make a useable product with some of the waste off the mill. #smallbusiness #sidehustle
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Mike, I’m a firefighter, the easiest way to break one of those windows is a spring loaded punch go down in the bottom corner and it will just shatter
I came here to say this! :)
City of Oakland tested daily.
well then why do I see cops all over the internet trying to break a window with a baton? why dont police carry one of these things?
@@arresthillary9502 Ya can’t take down a suspect with a spring loaded punch, and the tack vest doesn’t have a pocket for it.
@@arresthillary9502Going to take flak fo this but no one said cops are the smartest people on the planet. Try it if you like. The OP is a first responder.
One of the best uses for wood chips is winter traction. Seriously. People put down salt, but it washes away as it melts the snow and ice, so you end up having to re-apply it regularly. If you put down wood chips, they stay in place, but float up to the top. If you have a thaw and the snow melts a little bit, the wood chips float to the top instead of washing away, and you always have good traction underfoot. Best of all, you don't destroy the landscape with all that winter salt being put into the ground.
This video made me wish I could get my tractor back up and running. That mahindra has been nothing but a nightmare from day one, and adding more to is seems like a bad idea. But a chipper like that would sure be nice around the homestead!
Mike, I mechaniced for 45 years; check owners manual on you "cars" but for 20 years (aporx) the front passenger head rest is removeable and one leg of it is pointed to use to break out if under water. Please pass this on to your followers, I also have one of the tools for that in case I forget and or panic
Believe it or not, a barge on the Arkansas River hit a bridge in Sallisaw, Oklahoma yesterday. US Hwy 59 is closed until inspection and repairs (if needed) can be made. Memorial weekend 2004 a barge hit a bridge in Weber Falls, Ok., on interstate 40. Killing 3 and injuring several. It took about 10 or 11 months to open again. Happy Easter, everyone.
I have purchased several resqme® Car Escape Tool, Seatbelt Cutter / Window Breaker. They are a spring loaded window punch and “letter opener” like seatbelt cutter that goes on a keychain. I have them zip tied to the visor on all of my vehicles, and have given several as gifts because they are so cheap. I’ve been a cop for 20 years and keep one clipped to my vest. It’s come in handy to break a window, open the door, cut the seatbelt, and get someone out in an emergency. HIGHLY RECOMMEND. Thank you for another great video!
How do you cut the ziptie holding the tool to your sun visor?
Mike, what you need to break a side window of a vehicle is a spring loaded center punch. You push on it at the bottom of the window and when it snaps, the window will just crumble to the ground. I’ve done it and watched it done also at a monster truck show when they get the junk cars ready for the show.
Mike put a 4" hose on the spout of the chipper and run it right into an ibc tote if you have one with the bladder still in it. No mess and easily transferable.
Mike: long-term first responder. The key to popping glass in a vehicle is impacting the CORNER of the glass. Lots of videos of cops beating the center of a window with their baton - unsuccessfully. I carried a spring-loaded center punch in my rescue tool pouch for decades, an never had to use more than one pop and the glass was history. The trick is, lots of pounds in a very tiny area (point), in the most vulnerable spot (corner). No hammer needed. Available in any hardware store.
Happy Easter to the whole Morgan family, God Bless all 🙏
Happy Easter all! Higher sides on the chip receiving box will be needed for sure. Lots of good uses for wood chips around a homestead.
you could lay a piece of plywood on top of your trailer to stop the chips from blowing out.
Happy Easter Morgan Family, the bridge collapse is such a colossal tragedy. Nobody ever wakes up in the morning ever thinking that will be the last day on this earth. Even with the huge cranes they brought in that will be an enormous clean up. Have a great day :)
Use your plastic totes that you have for the wood chips
they can't get moldy though
Happy Easter to you and your family. I am a retired firefighter. I used spring loaded center punch for breaking car windows. They work great.
What about all your sawdust? I would look into a pellet press mill. If you sold the 40lb bags locally, they would be both a steal and a money maker at $5-$6 a bag. And you get rid of the sawdust.
Happy Easter to the Morgan family and all the followers of this channel.
Carry an automatic center punch in your vehicles. They make breaking the side windows very easy and quick. Happy Easter.
Great video! My take away!: have a flock of chickens originally purchased at TSC "chick days" need something for the outdoor run. Need: wide Bandsaw mill @ $53,000 generally to saw lumber for "a lot" of projects at my property. Kubota mini excavator @ $130,000, kubota lx4020 @ $30,000, Kubota utv @ $17,000, utility trailer @ $2600, chipper @ $3900 plastic scoop shovel @ $45.
Total $236545 or so. Hey! I'm all in on this one! Sign me up!
Great idea for the chipper. Suggestion: You mentioned about building a collection box, how about using the large bags you were looking at in the past for storing/hauling split wood before going back to the tote cages? Just add a short flex tube on the end of the chipper outlet and then into the bag. Fill that puppy up and you have a year supply of chipped wood for your chicken run and whatever.
- Chipper / Shredder - Ever since a saw the movie Jaws I’ve never wandered into the ocean over my ankles….Ever since I saw the movie Fargo I’ve feared chipper / shredders.
My question is what happened to the other chipper you had?
@@mrtime1945I think that was it. He said a couple of times that he should have been using it all these years.
I remember that he had one with a direct drive that Melissa used
As a Fargo resident....you can see that Chipper at our visitor center 🙂
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In the video he did state this is a shredder he’s had for sometime but never used. He still has the other larger unit as you mentioned but is an over kill for small size scrap.
Mike, Melissa, Hunter and all the children and grandchildren, Happy Resurrection Day!
Happy Resurrection Day!!
He is Risen!!
He has risen indeed.
Mike with that scrap you could build a three-sided long basket rails every 17 in as a chainsaw guide stack all the wood as high as you can as you run the chainsaw along the guide rails the rails will hold the wood from moving you can chainsaw write down through them do a whole pile like that in less time than it takes to load it
Burn the pine out side fire pit
He is risen indeed.
He IS Risen
Happy Easter Morgan family. Back in the late 1990s I was out in western ohio on a Saturday afternoon. I came upon what appeared to be an accident scene in the front yard of someone’s home. This home had a large pond out near the road. As I passed by you could see the rear end of a car submerged in it. An entire family lost their lives in that pond. Mom dad and four kids gone in the blink of an eye. It’s one of those moments in life you never forget. RIP. To those that lost their lives on the bridge collapse.
That's so sad!
Yes it was. It was a sight I’ll never forget.
Hi Wayne!
Good morning David. Happy Easter my friend.
Similar case a few miles from my house....except it was a car full of kids heading to school, a family lost 4 of their kids in one accident....
Now we just have to come up with a clever use for all the sawdust!!!!😂😂😂
I do still have them plastic containers for the that. You have the cages for the wood chip. Would firewood? If you have any of those plastic tanks you could take and just cut a hole in the side of it, just picking up for your chip. Uh, shoot, go out in it and then leave the top open, but put the air bag on the top. Keep chips from flying out and then you will have one made quickly and we'll have to build it on to your trailer. You can leave it on your schedule and then fill it up with wood chips and then take it over the side.Put your lid back on it and then cover the hole.With something to keep falling out, have a slide in the world or something, and that'll bee quicker than using your trailer.Cause the linux hybrid trailer and you'll have the totes plastic containers
Mike.. Good Luck with your Game Plan on the Chips.. Your Fire Starter is a Hit, Maybe Chips for a DIY Smoker , Next.. (???)
That chipper does an awesome job. You have utilized all of the wood products with very little waste. Always enjoy your videos Mike! Our Lord has risen, alleluia!
Mike: I learned this when I was a fire fighter. You hit the window in the bottom corner. The glass will not flex as much there, thus the window will break,
You could sell the slab wood for furnaces. Nice chipper you have there. Nothing like taking the waste and reusing it for something else. PS: It is cold here in Petawawa, Ontario. Supposed to get snow tonight.
Put a couple pieces of plywood against the front wall and side wall for the chips to blow against. That will make things easier and cleaner then just slide them out when your done.
You can use the sawdust in raised gardens. The worms will go crazy. Works great for weed block also. Coffee grounds are a magnet for worms. Put a gopher screen on the bottom of the raised bed. You could sell totes full of chips and sawdust. A wood chip/pellet burner with a hopper and auger feed would store in a hopper to dry and use when needed.
When showing footage of the excavator sped up, that bucket and thumb looks like it has the movements and dexterity of a human hand. You’ve got skills!
That looks like good project for when you have to let the kabota regen, chip wood. First project can be build a shed to blow chips into where you can just bucket them out with the tractor when you need them.
That’s actually a really good idea. I wonder if the tractor will let you run the PTO during Regen?
The head rests of your vehicle, remove them, they can be used to break your window ….hit your window in the corners ….👍👍
Just an idea when sawing instead of making that thick slab saw 1 in an set them aside along with ya edgings . On rainy days we bring in a load an cut them all to 12 inches long and then set a table saw up for 3/4 wide cuts . That’s how we produce literally 1000s of bundles of kindling . No more having to get rid of slabs or chipping them . We have a few videos of the process if ya interested .
Mike, God forbid any of you ever have an emergency where your lives are in pearl! I am always impressed how with your skills in equipment you make light of those chores moving lumber, logs and stumps. Your manual dexterity with hydraulic controls is amazing. Happy Easter to each of you, thanks for bring so many into your personal lives!
Good morning and watch your show all the time just watching it this morning and the chipper looks like your firewood starter
He is Risen, Happy Easter Sunday…
Almost 2000 years ago in the middle east “the holy land”?
i keep some 2-1 emergency car escape tool in all my vehicles. its a glass breaker and seat belt cutter. a tool that cost a few bucks could very well save your live
I love the fact there is a warning sticker saying-"no lumber" right on the machine! I was late for work one morning, ran back to the house to grab something, and....ya, locked my keys in the truck. I called the dealer and asked: "whats the cheapest window to break!" He laughed and said: "not the one you're looking at! If you have to, bust out the windshield, it's cheaper than that little back window. Just call a locksmith, that's cheaper still".
“Lumber” refers to dried wood, not raw wood that was a tree limb a few minutes previously. The difference being, that dry lumber is harder than a limb, or fresh cut wood. Hard wood is very hard to shred. I’ve tried to put dried, small 2-3” branches through my small shredder and it did not like those dried branches.
Mike. To break a window in your vehicle… use the head rest. They come out and the two spikes will break the window
The head rest might work. But they are a pain to adjust on my vehicles. I couldn’t imagine trying to get them out in a panic if my car were under water.
Not all head rests are removable just by the hammer
@@RichardMusgrave-eo9jhB U Y. Sorry for the correction
Be sure to instruct everyone to strike the corner of the window. Also, the rear window is probably the easiest to break out. Some manufacturers have started putting laminated glass in the side windows as opposed to tempered glass. Tempered breaks out the side of a corn kernel. Laminated will crack but not break out due to the plastic inside it (like a windshield). I am not an expert, just a retired state trooper with lots of experience with rescuing people from vehicles.
one year I came hime from TX for Christmas and went from 80 degree temps to -20 in the two days of travel. With a snow storm dumping over 2 ft of snow for the last 150 miles on I 81 to NEPA. Woke up in the morning and the passenger side door window was shattered in the driveway. from the cold to my poor ford Bronco II or at the time was the same as the rangers, and explorers, just different rear ends.
I see both the sawdust and now the chipper.
What do you use to make your fire starter product without giving away secrets?
Maybe a short video?
Love your content and politics i agree with you 100%
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Thank God he's Alive. Happy Easter to the Morgan family and community. Loved the video as always. Keepem coming. God bless
An old spark plug will work on windows. I usually keep a couple in the glove box. Cheers
As you know, Mike, risk management is based on probabilities. So, if you calculate the probability of getting trapped in your vehicle underwater I suggest it will likely be an extremely rare if not astronomical event. On the other hand, calculate the probability of having an accident that could cut an artery. Just look at what you and your family member do. The amount of time you spend on the road in a motor vehicle. High probability activities. I have personally witnessed how fast a person bleeds out and dies from blood loss. It’s a matter of minutes in some cases. So, I highly recommend getting yourself and family members tourniquets along with training on how to use it.
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Good morning to Hunter 👋👋😸and family and friends 😸 , Happy Easter Sunday everyone 😻😺🙏
Good morning and Happy Easter back!
@@johnsadler8637 / Good morning John ,🙏
Hi Mike, my advice would be to look at the 1st responder knife from Smith and Wesson. Carried one when I was an operational firefighter in the Uk. It’s a knife, window breaker and seatbelt cutter in one. Seatbelts in modern cars have a pyro charge to tighten the seatbelts when in an impact. Carried this style of knife or similar for years. Never let me down on a RTC incident.
Mike!!! Try the Harbor Freight Spring loaded center punch for glass breaking, $3.50 or so, small and works because of the hardened tip. Good show as always 👍
You could keep the hardwood staves from white oak and black locust to make stakes. Cut them in 2', 3', 4', and 6' lengths to sell. Store them in barrels or the like under cover.
yea that is about only way to get out of a submersed vehicle - bust window , for locked vehicle i use the mini airbags to pry window out the unlock the window
Spring loaded center punch is the way to go. You don’t need to swing it. Just push it against the window and it does the trick. Does not work on windshields.
Big 👍🏻. You can also sell hard wood sawdust for smokers. It actually works better than chips. Chips burn up fast. The sawdust smoulders longer. I use to get maple sawdust from a mill in Michigan. Great stuff for smokers.
Thanks for the "term" is was appreciated and my suggestion was not "exclusive" but some of the time! Enjoy the channel immensely--thanks!
If you have shaded spots where its mostly mud and impossible to grow grass. Put down 3-5 inches of those chips, then come back in a year and put down clover seed. The clover will do awesome (they don't need nitrogen, they just need a decently healthy soil - the woodchips condition the soil over a year by covering the mud / feeding soil life). works great along tree lines to suppress weeds / promote tree growth (like redbud and dogwood)
Loved your video today, Mike. You got to love the wood chipper.
That little chipper works awesome I like it 😊.
Those pine wood chips would be great landscaping mulch. Better than what you buy at big box store.
Love the show and try to watch every episode. Going into the water is a serious concern, Look up Learn to Return training. I’ve been through it several times during my offshore chopper travel days. Good stuff.
Happy Easter.
Now that you have a chipper, think of possibilities of making your own Fire Starter 😮 . Just a thought. Hello to Hunter🎉.
Mike, took delivery of my 2024 F-350 Lariet Ultimate last Thursday. Six weeks from date of order to delivery. 7.3 liter gas with 6.5 foot box. Very nice truck.
Happy Easter Morgan family!!
Really nice set up Mike. What amazes me is how the volume of wood is reduced. So many uses too!
Good advice about the glass hammer, we carry automatic center punches to do the same thing, just easier to carry
Wish I was closer , I'd take those slabs and the chips off your hands. Hopefully I'll be getting a saw mill of my own soon. I got some great ideas for that waste.
Hey Mike. Won't you lay a Torp down there? While that's all dusty is and let it come up on the edge of your underneath. Your sawmill and then lay out and come up with a couple of something on the side. It'll hold it up kind of like guitar player and keep it from getting all over your gravel. And you won't have to worry about it. When you're going to clean it up, it'll just all scoop up releasing because you're on the tarp.
HAPPY EASTER SUNDAY!!!!! THE KING OF KINGS IS RISEN!!!!! Hey Mike, you may want to think about getting a spring loaded window breaker instead of the hammer. Many new vehicle windows are being made with laminated glass and the hammer style breakers will not work on them. Stay safe, GOD BLESS and see ya on the next one.
Hi Mike make sure your glass shattering hammer incorporates a seat belt s slicer, you’d never know what angle you’d be at when you’re stuck in your vehicle. At certain angles your seatbelts lock and you can’t get them unlocked so you have to slice them and a knife might not be available.
that cold wind will cut right through you. happy easter mike
Good Sunday morning Mike, Melissa and family. Wishing you a happy and blessed Easter. Thank you for all of the great content. Have a great start to your week!
Great video. Love your chipper. Quickly makes a useable product from otherwise waste.
Try looking for a spring loaded tool for breaking your windows. We use them at the fire department for breaking glass.
Hi Mike, get a screw wedge splitter that goes on a drill or impact driver. Split the slabs lengthwise. then you have two options wrap it in shrink wrap cut to length to make into campfire bundles or chip it up.. just thinking out loud . have a day Mike.
New windows are really different, lots of those hammers won't work on them, you need a new type punch thing, kinda like a punch to make a dent in metal before you drill , spring loaded jobber. Love your equipment and the Big WM mill👍👍👍👍
Happy Easter Mike, Melissa, Hunter & family. He is risen Hallelujah.
Love the chipper, will give you a great product to use and share w friends and family. Did you check out the LT70 at Lumber Capitol Log Yard there also in Pennsylvania? The mill runs opposite yours and Nathan's. It saws coming at you. The log feeder you'd love. Just load 12 logs onto it w the excavator, then start sawing, nonstop. Or saw one, shut the mill off, take Hunter to Sheets, come back to the mill, 11 logs loaded, ready to mill!! Happy Easter. Thank you Jesus! Thank you Mike for sharing. 👍🚜❤️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸
I carry my benchmade knife with a glass breaker tip on it. Works like a charm, just hit the window in the corners and it will pop the first try every time.
Happy Easter Mike and Melissa and family great video Mike thank you
hi there trims add up fast .i cut mine in to kindling , good show , Happy Easter and best to all , john
Your chipper is a champ Mike. We hope that you and your family have a nice Easter.
Good morning Mike and family
Happy Easter to all. The glass break tool also has seat belt cutter on it that won't cut you when you fall on it after seat belt is free.. handy in a roll over.
Get you one of those thick plastic rain barrels to put the cut-offs in and when you've got enough chip them up. I know it would be extra work, but maybe stand the bark cut-offs on their side and cut them small like the others then you have more chips.
hope all are well on this holy day - i get loads of chips from local arborist - i let them set for year - flipping the piles then use them as compose onto the garden - pretty cheap organic material
Happy Easter to you and your whole family, on a sidenote, I was unsubscribed three times this month. You are my number one view channel. Apparently TH-cam has issue with that will keep subscribing. Thanks for all the great content.
Those pine slabs look perfect for your outside fires instead of burning the good stuff.
Well said Don.
SplitFire makes some great equipment! Thanks for sharing your experiences. Happy Easter!
Another great video Mike. I am sure I missed it in a past video, but have you ever thought of turning your fletches into outdoor boiler wood? I know it doesn't sell for much, but cutting it to length would be super fast with your tooling options. Also, you have about 18,000 logs to go through, so you would end up saving a ton of overall labor. Have a great day.
G' morning Mike! Happy Easter!
I took a tip from Sandy (Sawing with Sandy) and have been chipping saw waste in my 6x8 Woodmaxx chipper!
Since I don't have the Shale deposits like you do, and I have been using my chipped scraps on my wooland trails and once they get mixed in with my sticky clay, the trails get solid and stay solid!
Window breakers for you, Melissa, daughters and your Son!
On the chip box, make a hardware cloth frame in it, keeps the chips inside the trailer. Removable so you can still dump.. just a thought.. i am full of it today LOL
wish i could find that video i saw a while ago - a guy cut a plastic drain pipe in half { 24 in i think} and made a long shute that his saw blew the dust into then at end of day he just pushed all that was in it into his loader bucket- it was up off ground about 10 in i think- looked like it kept mess down-take care
You could also bundle up some slab pieces and sell them in your roadside stand for summer fires
An edger would cut way down on your waste, but they are expensive. Love the videos.
Mike we have the same chipper and the size it will eat depends on the horse power on our 40hp tractor with 32hp at the Pto I will stay at the 3.5inch in diameter but when I have the chipper on the 100hp tractor with 80hp plus on the Pto it will eat 6in in diameter No Problem just don’t force feed it and it will do what you need…..I can see it eating that slab wood plank’s you have if you take the time to half them on the saw mill. 🤘🏼🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
Far easier and a common item for breaking tempered glass is the porelain insulator that is common on sparkplugs. Just lightly flick it a a tempered glass window and it will fracture allowing one to easily push the glass out of the way. Any one who can remove the insulator from a used sparkplug, then attach it to the end of a small dowel and get a very effective low effort glass window shatterer/hammer that takes far less effort than the devices most commonly sold today. These sparkplug insulators were widely used in the eighties and nineties to break into autos silently without making much noise by persons stealing items from locked autos. Ray Stormont
For the bigger cut off slabs a tree service might come and use their chipper to grind up those for a trade in taking their stems when they need to offload them in your area…something to think about…I have a used chipper for my tops after I take trees down…for a 10 inch cost me less for a rebuilt used one from Vermeer than a new one.
We buy bags of chips from tractor supply for our chicken coupe. Get a bagger and I believe you could sell those chips. Most people don’t want a whole pile of chips dumped in their yard or need that much so a smaller bundle would have a market. Local hardware place may sell them for you.
Rick Melissa and the family I wish that you a happy Easter your families and your idea of having the Hammers in your car is a great idea for busting out windows all right this is Bob from Vero Beach Florida God bless and stay safe
The wood chips would be great on Melissa's trails.
When you are "overrun" with chips, you could place your chipper where it chips right into the burn pit! Also, the chips off of the cedar logs will be your best chip product, in my opinion. Just the smell of them is going to get you going!
Happy Easter Morgan family! Love all your channels. Mark from Minnesota
A great way to make a bit extra money and not have any waste that I’ve never heard you talk about or seen you do is to get a dust collector fan and have a little vented shed on the back of your mill have the collector fan with a flexible plastic hose on it and have is suck your dust right from the saw and shoot it in your shed have laundry vents on your shed with the door closed and a barricade to keep it from the door to the shed the collector will blow the saw dust in the shed and you can have small hobby farmers come in and bag the saw dust to put under their farm animals in the barn it’s just a bit extra money to take up for fuel costs and other costs in your production process and it won’t go to waste and keeps you from having to remove it from your work area you can cut and store it at the same time which makes less work for you to have to do with cleaning it away you could also have a farmer bring in a dump trailer and leave it on site and hook up to your dust collector and fill it for them at a discussed price and when it’s full call them and tell them to come pick it up and hook it back up to your shed to put it in storage when a trailer ain’t in place just an idea to boost your product line and make money at the same time using all of the wood you have and chips and sawdust saves you from having to burn it in the fire pit it turns it into usable products like wood chips in chicken coops to sawdust in under farm animals then it gets spread on fields to rot and fertilize crops