They Say It's The Worlds Most Popular Mobile Sawmill
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ม.ค. 2017
- Meet our sawmill. The Woodmizer LT40. Woodmizer claims this to be the worlds most popular mobile band sawmill and it is there original sawmill that started it all over 30 years ago. This is how it looks after 14 years and over 5.000 hours of heavy use.
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I'm in my 60s so it makes my heart happy to see you and your dad spending time together. Thank you for sharing!
We bought our LT 40HD in 1991. It has built a lot of homes and barns over the years. Over a million BFT. Still original engine and running strong.
Same here.....1991 model, original 18hp Briggs engine. I'm guessing close to million feet sawed, but I quit keeping up years ago.
I hope you do a series on the tiny house build. Glad your dad is well.
I hope we will be able to do that.
My Dad got a Woodmizer when I was a kid. Its serial number was in the 70s. He loved it!
As an American of Swedish extraction I really enjoyed watching you Swedes cut wood in the homeland. My Swedish cousin still owns the farm my Great Grandfather was born on in January 1850. It is in Sterte, near Österfärnebo, south of Sandviken. He himself is a forester with Mellanskog. I just found your TH-cam Channel and will be watching your videos in the future.
Love seeing you working with your dad!
This seems much more genuine then the "watch a rich guy play with his toys" channel
dan Gleeballs That guy's channel started out much more humble. With sponsorship in the mix and real money on the line it changes most channels for the worse. You see it in the gun community channels and even a popular young mans welding channel.
I watch the same channel and yes I've noticed a change and would have preferred it to stay the way it was but if he's a 'rich guy' he got that way through hard work (prior to TH-cam) and creativity.
In all honesty if I was offered equipment on loan or free of charge, perhaps a Kinetic 8x8 mini forwarder or a Kelfri atv log trailer and a quad to go with it or any number of cool items that I couldn't afford to buy would I refuse? the honest answer is no I wouldn't and in saying that I can't fault anyone else from doing it. He probably gets the offer of lots of stuff that he doesn't accept and I still believe that if he gets something that turns out to be a poor product he'll definitely say so. If he can afford to indulge his interests on his homestead with the 'toys' he has fair play to him, I'd do the same if I could.
With that said it's pushing credibility to the limit to class it as a 'homesteading' channel, but it's still informative and entertaining and vastly better than the stuff that gets shown on regular television channels. It is possible to watch and enjoy the other guy and Swedish homestead without needing to form up in opposing ranks in an internet based Mexican Stand off.
I have been watching the same channel for a long time, yes it's changed and not for the better either.In my opinion there's a certain arrogance that has crept into his programmes commensurate with the increased popularity and funding of his channel and a cavalier attitude that if you don't like it then go.In other words "It's my way or the highway" I will still watch his channel, arrogance and all.
The arrogance is what has kept me away, too, plus an over dependency on doodads and seemingly little attention to sustainable forestry or farming.
Are you guys talking about Wranglerstar Channel ?
Embrace working with your father, it's a real treasure.
my grandfather had the same machine, brings back alot of memories. wish we still had it for our new "homestead"
congrats on the 15K+ subs, i remember a couple months ago when it was just a few hundred of us haha.
Haha. Yeah I know. I remember someone telling me he was my 9th subscriber and he was from the U.K. ;)
I can only imagine the knowledge your father has acquired throughout his life. You are lucky to beable to learn from him, keep up the videos they are great.
Thanks. I know. He is a walking library.
Wonderful video. I learned from my dad, chainsaw use with an old Stihl, and making lumber on a Belsaw circular mill. He always said he wished he had bought a woodmizer, and I eventually did buy one, though he had died by then. As with you, I deeply appreciated what my dad could pass on to me. Enjoy your time together, you have a great place and lifestyle!
I am from western Canada and I agree with you that it’s better to have it a little bit colder than the freezing and melting weather.
Dad looks great and confident of what he is doing. Have a wonderful weekend. You do a great job.
I bought a brand new LT-35 hydraulic this summer. I'm amazed at how little the frame has changed over the years. I look forward to the next 15 years of saw milling! Thanks for sharing!
With a tractor and a saw mill and a few hand tool you can build anything needed for a homestead. Love watching these type of videos.
I know. Very practical.
what an amazing yet extremely exspesive machine. it's a commercial unit that not many home steaders could afford. I just bought a mill and look forward to making some vids of how it changes our homesteading life.
Hi guys...!
Another great video, thanks for sharing with us.
These types of informative videos help out people like me who are new to all of this and not certain what tools and equipment we should get...!
I wish that my father would have had the foresight and dreams that your Dad did and still has...
Purchasing a beautiful piece of land, the needed equipment, learning how to use all of it and to do everything that it takes to live a homesteading life style, and then teaching his son to develop a love for those ways and passing along all of his knowledge so that one day you'll be able to carry on in his footsteps and continue the tradition with your own children...!
Your Dad Rocks...!
Thanks again and be blessed...
Troy in America
it's always great to see family's working together.
Yes it is.
nice sawmill, lucky to have your dad, lost mine in 1992. we have a small harbor freight sawmill on our farm, works great for the small projects.
Awesome with the sawmill. Sorry that you lost your father. I am blessed to still have him. We are blessed to be 3 families and 3 generations on the homestead.
Cherish the time you get to work with your dad! I wish I would have had more time to spend with mine. I'm sure that machine will be around for a long time yet :) Thank you Simeon for sharing :)
Thanks.
Enjoyed the video. Its always good to see a well cared for piece of equipment in operation. Your father shows a lot of experience in using it. I'm sure the Wood Miser has paid for itself many times over.
Yes. He has gained a lot of experience. The saw has been worth the money for sure. My dads plan is to pretty much only use it at home now though.
Hi Simeon,
I enjoy watching your adventurous lifestyle and providing for your family. The love and care you express is shown through your hard work. Your wife and family are do blessed. I pray God continues to bless you with great health and guidance as all your efforts and dreams for your homestead becomes a reality. God Bless you, greetings from Texas USA
Thank you so much.
The Wood-Mizer sawmill is the best and their support staff is unequalled. I speak from 15 hears of LT40HD and 5 years of LT35HD ownership.
Hi, Simeon,
I'm thankful you seem to have recovered quickly. I was worried you might be sick longer. God has blessed you with a healthy body. I am a very follower and enjoy experiencing lifestyle by watching you. I told my children you are my Swedish son. Greetings from Texas USA
It is obvious that yours is a wonderful hard working and Loving family, one which enjoys working together and honors their parents. May it always be that way for you and your family members. Happy 2018 Holidays to each of you... Scott / The Shadow
As an owner operator of another Woodmizer LT40, I feel your pride. Great choice.
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I have now watched several of your videos and I am very impressed with your camera angles and closeups. It makes it very easy to see and understand exactly what is going on. Keep up the good work.
That was an awesome intro video to the Wood-Mizer. Looks like a great mill to have on the homestead.
Great to see your LT40, I am looking at a LT35 or a Lucas. Like you said pros and cons to both. Thank your father for being on your videos. I wish my father was around to enjoy your videos.
Thanks. Hope you get what you need.
I have had the gasoline-engined version of this mill for 19 years now. It is a very nice machine. Looks as if your drive chain is about shot. It's hanging way too low. "That's what she said!"
I would also like to point out that the Lucas mill versus the Wood-Mizer is sort of an apples/oranges comparison. Believe me, when I have a mammoth log to saw up and I have to split it with a chainsaw to get it on my mill I wish I had a Lucas mill then.
Thanks for posting this vid.
Väldigt högt produktionsnivå på era video, helt i klass med den danska serien " 100% bonde". Känner mig glad att jag hittat er kanal!
How interesting, with all the projects your family is into, I would never have thought a tiny house would be in the running! I hope eventually we'll get a peak once it's finished. The wood mizer looks well maintained & used a lot by the looks of all that stacked wood. A good purchase.
Beautiful backdrop.
It looks like your father is carrying a Morakniv Pro S. I have the red handled Pro C. I collect Scandinavian knives! LOVE MORA KNIVES!!!
I love seeing more of your father and brothers
I bought the very same mill used. It works beautifully and is gong o help in our restoration of a large Craftsman style farmhouse and an enormous (15,000 sq meter dairy barn that was timber frame constructed and needs work. There are several silage and feed bldgs but they will com later.
My old back couldn't do this without the hydraulics!
That's a nice sawmill! I have a Norwood which is smaller and cheaper, but doesn't have all the fancy hydraulic controls. Yeah, I might have a little sawmill envy... Thanks for sharing.
Glad to see you up and about again! That sawmill looks very handy, the hydraulic log lift probably makes things a little easier too. The first thing I thought of when I saw the trailer height was how hard it would be to lift a log up there by hand! haha glad to see it's not needed.
Yes. The hydraulic log lift can lift 2 tons. We have maxed it out before.
Mine is 29yrs old and still runs great. Have no idea how many hours are on it, since the meter broke twice and I didn't bother for a 3rd one. I just grease it regular and change the engine oil sorta frequently, and that's about it.
love watching the sawmill videos.
Very good video production well done on the opening scenes with the towing of the mill
here in New Hampshire USA.the weather has been flip flopping also . it is -2 and snowy today,by Friday it will be in the 50s
Yeah. I hate that kind of weather. It usually brings a lot of wind storms over here.
Cool, in more ways than one. Thanks for sharing.
Nice to see the Wood-Mizer, it has certainly earned it's keep over the past 14 years. I've seen the Lucas Mill on TH-cam and it looks like both mills have advantages/disadvantages depending on the owners needs, the Wood-Mizer looks very strong, the Lucas very portable.
Yes. They both have pro and cons. I don't know much about the Lucas though. The woodmizer fits our needs well.
What a beast of a saw. Great piece of equipment. Please tell Dad Thank You. Building a Tiny House sounds like a lot of fun!! Stay Safe, Vinny
I will tell him. Thanks.
Tuesday evening, I just happened to see that you now have 17.382 members on your channel. THAT IS GREAT !! Congrats!! /Mats in Trelleborg
Thanks. I know. It is crazy.
You guys are cool! Id like to sit down a drink a beer with you brothers.
Looking forward to the up coming bandsaw videos and the tiny house projects, you are round a great job with your videos.
Thanks.
that was cool! I've always wanted to work with wood but because of my physical condition it would be to much for me. I do admire the ability to do this. thank you for sharing.
Can you work in a workshop and do wood work?
ooh we would love to watch you construct a tiny house...so enjoyable thank you...
That looks great. Nice to see it in action. Recently purchased one generation earlier LT-40HD. Needs some work so haven't cut anything yet.
Awesome. Hope you get it going.
Nice bit of kit.
It is a great experience to work with one's father,
This mill looks much more usable than the Wranglstar Mill. I dropped 17 big trees on my small lot and hope to find someone to bring a mil over and cut some big lumber for my new shop and some cover over storage next to barn.
Enjoying your videos. Thank you
Awesome. My dad has driven to customers for 14 years and milled their lumber.
Swedish Homestead; Well my GreatGrandFather as a child left Sweden for Northern Minnesota over 100 years ago. I live even further away in Northern WA State now for the last 3 years after being a TV producer in Hollywood ( I just purchased my first chain saw & have learned a lot from your channel) So, I think you dad may want to think twice before loading up the saw mil on a boat and making the drive to my Tiny Treed Lake Lot/1 Acre ""Homestead" 😄
Nice to see you include your dad in another video.
I don't really have anything to say, but since TH-cam somehow gives your channel more preference based on the number of comments your videos receive, I'm just trying to help.
Greetings from Canada once again.
Haha. Thank you. That is awesome.
I have a feeling those tiny houses will be a success.
I am sure they might be booked out before they are done if we decide to use them as summer homes.
cool and icy weather but no mosquitoes!
Simeon -- I think your channel is going to be very good -- I see great growth coming. Enjoyed seeing a Ford pickup probably made where I live. :)
Thanks. The Ford is a workhorse.
Who needs a table saw when you have one of those? I'm one of those people who found your channel linked from the Wranglerstar video back when you had 1.5k subscribers. Keep up the good work and don't sell your soul to advertisers or product placement.
Glad you are still with us. That wasn't so long ago but a lot of subs less.
fantastic! and great camera work and final editing, too!.
Beauty of a sawmill. Definitely looks like a workhorse with its proven hours of work. :)
I would have figured it was just regular petrol. Bet it cuts costs even more with diesel.
Stay warm.
It has been through a lot but held up well.
Sim, Thanks for the milling video and please keep us updated on the development of the tiny house, that would also be very interesting! Phil
I will try to.
Looking forward to the tiny house builds!
Very nice machine
I hate it to when winters get cold too.
I like this,, how wide are the saw blades? thickness and width ? or rather the wheel diameter, doesn't fatigue the blade ?
I totally respect your sharing your lives with us. Thank you. How do you keep the fluids from freezing in your Woodmizer?
Thats a really nice sawmill. I got an electric chainsaw mill from Logosol. Im going to do a video in the near future about that one. But your Wood-Mizer sawmill rocks! Really nice results.
Please don't take this as criticism @ 3:16 your fan belt is pretty loose...
one question, and one question only: how much does it cost you to replace the saw blades, and how often vs usage?
Loved it thanks. I am considering the Wood Mizer!
Great video Simeon! I really hope to go to Sweden someday, its the country I wanted to my visit my whole life!
Best of luck in 2017, your goals and ambitions are very admirable
Thanks
Hello Simeon,
I enjoy watching you videos, Sweden is a lovely country and the landscape is very similar to Scotland I like to watch you videos as most youtube videos I see are from America and you can only relate so far where as with yours there are lots of things that are common being in Europe. I just thought I would drop you a comment as a hello and also I noticed that the fan belt on your woodmizer seemed very slack and I wouldn't want you having any downtime with it being a homestead I'm sure it's a simple fix with adjustment screws on the alternator pulley anyway I won't bore you any longer.
Cheers and happy New Year
Sean
Thanks Sean. I appreciate it.
Greetings to Scotland.
Great video
My Great Grand Father (Swedish), I told that he had a lot of wooden ships. I have a mobile hand carved by him with a plaque, but I can't read Swedish. If I send you a picture can you tanslate it for me?
your videos are getting better and better! pleasure to watch!
if I may - good music will add alit to the videos.
Thanks.
I like the bandsaw mills over the Lucas mill.
Tighten up the drive chain guys good video
That's quite a slick rig 👍
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Brian Philbroo
Brian Philbrook )
if you had only an axe to work with, what method would you use to cut down a big tree - and in a specific direction?
cheers
First thing I noticed when you started that engine: That fan belt is way way too loose. Tighten it up correctly if you want it to live longer and work better.
I would love to see the tiny house build!
where did you guys get the sharping the blade tools from or did you make them yourselves? is there some kind of link to either the tools to buy them or a blue print on how to make them? thanks!!!
Seems as if the Wood-Mizer is much easier to set up and operate. Would choose it above the Lucas
We like it a lot. I don't have any experience with the Lucas and have only seen it on Wranglerstars videos. To me it seemed to have a couple advantages but also seemed more complicated to build up. I love how little sawdust you get with band sawmills.
Comparing a Woodmizer LT40 to a Lucas mill is a bit pointless. They are both sawmills and that is where the similarities end. A diesel-powered hydraulic Woodmizer - like the one in this video - will produce lumber much faster under certain circumstances. However you will not be able to saw logs much larger than 36" (90cm) in diameter on a portable Woodmizer. The Lucas was designed to be a light, portable mill that can be set up over massive logs, up to 72" (200cm) in diameter. Without going into much technical detail let's just say they were designed to saw lumber from very different size raw material. And no... I do not have a Lucas mill. I own a diesel-powered Woodmizer LT40 and love it.
+Gabor D - Thanks for the info. It makes sense.
Super helpful!
Jeremy Briggs 9
Awesome piece of machinery, wish I could justify the cost!
Enjoy watching your videos. Friend has the same mill here in Texas and he mills Mesquite mostly. Do you have to change the blade a lot?
It really depends on what wood we are milling. Oak is harder than spruce. If the bark is dirty you have to change more often too... I don't have the exact stats though.
Neat! Hi, Dad!
Terrific video; keep up the great work! Would you happen to know the brand and where to procure the logger/saw pants that your dad is wearing in this video? They appear to have chainsaw protection on the front and lower legs and to be exceptionally functional. Thank you.
Did you change your camera setup? it seems more HD then normal? looks super nice! (or what is your current setup?)
Nice!
We've had the same weather here in Vermont. I'd rather have cold and snow.
I love the lumber videos. What mechanical issues do you have with the woodmizer?
vad fick ni betala för den? Funderar på att köpa en wood-mizer lt15start. 45000kr just nu kostar den
I hope the FORD does you well. I have had several of them and they SUCK in the US. Maybe quality control is better on the exports. I have a RAM Dodge 2500 Diesel now and it is the Best truck I have owned to date.
Hi! How much cost used a sawmill? in Sweden, the in the Euro?
Man, that is fast!!!
Hi. Your father has a lot of experiance and I have one question for him (and you). I see, that you are sawing a lot of spruce. I am wondering how are you dealing with waves around the knots? As I see it, narrow blades have some problems around knots, regardles that sawmill is set up perfect, new rolers, new belts, new blades ...
I saw 90% of spruce and with the new blades I notice a difference when blades goes over a knot and there is a wave which I see it. When I put the 1 meter aluminium water level meter, I am seeing about 1 mm or difference (usually there is 1 mm or 1.5 mm bump over knots) and if I go over those boards with hand, than I can fill the difference. I have the problem with that and it makes me very unhappy.
Thank you for any replay
dklancar hi..i am hoping you read this as i see you posted this over a month ago but i hope i can help... I am a sawmill service tech covering many bandsawmills but mainly wood-mizers. I truly love helping /trouble shooting band mill issues and have done so for many years here on Canada's west coast. the problem of the blade following the grain structure up and over knots is a strain issue which is extremely common keeping in mind you have a good sharp blade. The strain gauge is rarely accurate due to a number of reasons mainly when a blade breaks, the needle on the gauge shock loads and moves a few degrees giving you an incorrect reading when you tighten up your blade. simply increase your strain value you currently use by 500lbs and try cutting again. i test the strain gauge with a stretch gauge ( measures the actual stretch of the blade when tightening) to a specific value and for 90 % of most service calls, this is the biggest problem. alot of people think tighten the blade too much will harm the mill or blade but this isnt necessarily true. too little strain is harmful to the blade and causes many other cutting issues.. even on new mills i test with the stretch gauge i tighten up to the correct value and the gauge in the mill is almost at the 6 o'clock position. so increase straine by 500 lbs try cutting and this should help with this particular problem and dont be afraid to bump it up a bit more than that. Sorry for the long post but i try to explain things as best I can. Best of luck!
Tell your dad I said high nice video. How often do you have to sharpen the blade? Glad you are feeling better.
It depends on how dirty the bark is, what type of wood we are milling, if it is frozen... A lot of factors. Don't ave any exact stats though.
Must be the best too. Not just because I have one. But because it cuts the shit out of any hardwood at almost the same tempo as cutting softer woods like pine etc..