I got an idea for you to collect the saw dust that comes out the collector. Build a plywood box with a door on one end that will fit in your dump trailer and whatever hardware you need to tie it down to the bed of the trailer. Cut 12x12 or a 16x16 inch whole in top of the box. You put a piece of hose hanging down from the end of the discharge pipe. You back the trailer up till the hose falls in the hole in the top of the box, when the trailer is full go dump it by opening the door and dumping the trailer. When you just need the trailer untie it and dump it out and to reinstall it set it back in with the forks on the tractor. This will also keep all of the dust from blowing around and causing a mess
Try putting a post closer to the pile of dust, run a wire cable over to the saw mill and strap more pipes to it and have it dump over by the pile and allows you to drive between the shed and pile
I think it's awesome that you got a sawdust extraction system put in 😊 Make sure you put a grounding wire to your metal piping, it's incredible how much static you'll generate, which will cause clogging. Good video 👍
Hey man I own a woodworking millwork shop. My blower system is similar just a lot larger,45 hp 40" blower. I learned that you actually reduce your suction with each 90% turn on your piping infeed or outfeed. Try turning your blower 90% to eliminate the fist turn coming off the outfeed. Then put black 4" irrigation drain pipe,no holes, on the other end it can be moved to a dump trailer or just blow out on the ground. Closer the outfeed is to the ground less dust will blow in on ya. Enjoy the videos.
we have a container with an open top with a tarpaulin over it. A hole is made on the short side. A pipe is welded around it where the hose fits. the container is picked up by a sawdust dealer. and returned a empty. the sawdust is then sold again for pets: mice, marmots, rabbits, etc.
Build a wall and add sides put a downspout on the pipe to collect the dust just be sure it's wide enough for the tractor bucket. The walls keep it in place somewhat. Maybe in the future put on a roof. But you have the right idea. Excellent job thank you for sharing.👍
Perhaps add plastic flex tubing on the end of the dust tube elbow to 3 feet above ground level. Then you can move the flex tube to create sawdust piles.
I as well was also going to suggest adding a short length of flex hose to bring the saw dust down to the height of your dump trailer and presto loaded ready to go😊
If you put a couple leinghts of pipe to drop the sawdust closer to the ground and give it less time to blow away. You. could build a wall or bunk to. collect the dust and give you backstop to scoop up the dust with. the. tractor or drive a trailer under it.
IN MY YOUNGER DAYS I DID SOME WORK SETTIN POLE BARN POSTS, WE SAT THEM IN PLACE AND TAMPED THE DRY CONCRETE MIX IN THE HOLES THEY SAID THE GROUND WATER IS ALL IT NEEDS, CLAIMED IT WAS BETTER THAN 6000 PSI MIX
Love your videos. Most fan housings are bolted onto the frame allowing the discharge to be rotated 90 degrees. This would allow you to eliminate the discharge 90 degrees which will wear out quickly. If you can build a cyclone, you can also mount the fan vertically on the top to eliminate that 90 also.
Put a big bag at the end, and it would be easier for the horsemen to come and pick up the sawdust. You could put a 2 x 4 frame to hold the bag and be able to see when it's full or keep it from clogging up. And I agree the storm the other night wasn't good. I'm in Cajun country , and the wind was bad. I stayed under a tornado watch for hours.
Bought a dust system in my wood shop. Think! from the blower it send the sawdust to a large bag system. I use the bags of sawdust to make things. You could have a easy way to collect for the horse stalls or even sell it to the guy who comes over with his pick up. Those bags hold a little more than a 55 gal drum. Just an idea. Tomorrow is New Years Eve. Have a good one. Jim
I’ve installed a dust system on my sawmill, and been down the road your going. If you install a home made cyclone , keep in mind to install a larger cyclone than you’d think you need, perhaps a 5-6’ diameter cyclone. The reason is, the air volume needs to escape the cyclone, and will escape through the top. If the cyclone is smaller, some of the more granular dust will fall out of the bottom, but the finer dust will still blow out the top and blow into your building on you. If you have a larger diameter cyclone it might(?) allow more of the smaller dust to drop out the bottom without blowing out the top as much, but you’ll still get dust in your work area. It would be much cheaper in the long run to sheet the wall to keep the dust from blowing in on you, and purchase some large concrete stack blocks from your local concrete ready-mix plant to build a concrete sawdust bin. In our Texas area they sale 2’x2’x4’ concrete stack blocks for $75 each. I’d also suggest to install a piece of drill stem pipe with a pivot arm for your flexible vacuum pipe to swing with the sawmill off the ground back and forth as you run. You’ll find, if you don’t get the flexible dust pipe off of the ground, it will roll and kink up damaging itself and its interior wire binding over a relatively short period of time. Once the wire bindings start kinking and exposing themselves interiorly inside the pipe, your flexible dust pipe will start to clog as the dust and milling strands gather on the inner pipe imperfections. Hope my learning experiences will help you.
Great job! Once you turn the 90-degree bend, gravity will take care of the dust falling to the ground. Why don’t you install a downspout to bring it closer to the ground? That way, you’ll have much less blowing of the dust.
If that is a HF dust collector you got a cyclone of sorts with it watch some youtube videos about that system . I have a 5foot x 10foot slab flattening set up and that is the dust collector I use
THANKS FOR SHARING THE DUST COLLECTION AND ALL Y'ALL DO . I LOVE PRACTICAL, FUNCTIONAL DESIGN IDEAS . LIKE MANY OTHERS, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN OPINIONS SOME ARE REALLY GOOD WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT SO GOOD. I LIKE FOLLOWING ALONG KEEPING MY OPINION TO MYSELF WHILE THINKING WHAT WOULD I DO THIS MAKES IT FUN. I DO HAVE SOME IDEAS BUT IT 'S HARD TO CONVEY THRU WORDS I'M MORE VISUAL DRAWING TYPE THAN WORDS. THANKS AGAIN FOR TAKING US ALONG. ONE LESS CRITIC, NAYSAYER AND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK THERE IS PLENTY OF THAT ALREADY IN THE WORLD.😁
I would shorten the flex pipe to where it doesn’t drag on the ground. Take the flex pipe you cut off and put it on the other end of you metal pipe hanging down so that the dust doesn’t have to fall that far to the ground.
Great video, guys. As regards dust exstractio. I just think you will end up laying it in a trench, out to your sawdust area. However youur best people to decide what works for you.
I have about the same system on my mill. I have the big plastic totes that I blow the sawdust in and then just take them and dump them when they get full, it keeps the blowing sawdust down.
I've not done that yet but I know another sawyer who did . That said , the slab company I subcontract for now won't do it because of the furniture workshop inside . The boss says only kiln dried to run through the dust collection system (which is a massive one) because the logs outside , moisture would clog it up . That's all I know about it at this time though .
This is another great video! I can't really explain it; I don't know anything about sawmilling, and I live in Minnesota, yet I have to watch each video you make. I think I appreciate your hard work and dedication along with how you figure things out to make it work for you. I've also learned a lot from watching your videos. Keep up the great work!
Nice dust collection . Those 16 ft. poles are heavy , Tyler . Being you and strong is nice. I enjoy watching folks do stuff I used to do . Thanks for sharing .
The sawmill area looks great. The new system you put in to get rid of the sawdust is going to be a game changer. Another great video guys. Happy new year.🎉
Yep bad thunderstorms came through (Texas) heard it was really bad 2 hours south of us. Just a suggestion here, route your dust blower toward the ground and park your dump trailer under it......Or not..... whatever you think just trying to help.
As a suggestion, consider attaching a long flex hose to the down spout and down to the ground into a container that can dumped with your Tractor. If you have a recycler who will accept sawdust then have plastic bags in the container to contain. It’s a good system 🇨🇦
In my woodworking shop in New Hampshire i had a dust collection system. I startedbout with a single bagging system, went to two bigger bags, but i worked in the shop mostly at night. I hated going outside to empty the saw dust bags in the datk. I put duct work up to the ridgepole of the barn, over forty feet off the ground. The saw dust and wood shavings from my planer and router table all left the shop and were seldom seen again unless we had fresh snow. By spring, the dust had rurned to soil, mostly out in our sugar bush. I put a blower off the sawbmill to replace the little bagger blower, this increased the suction greatly. I had to be careful not to suck up a hammer when i was cleaning the shop.
My thought is keep it at ground level ….trench a line out to where you want the pile of sawdust ….. bury the pipe out the distance you need then put a upright out of the buried pipe put a 90° elbow so you can rotate it
Add a T to the hose to allow for cleanup of the mill. Put a cap on the end when it is not in use. Build a box with a removable side to collect the dust.
If you put another section of pipe on the sawdust down spout it would great reduce the spread of sawdust in the wind. You could build an 8 foot wide sawdust building that catches all the sawdust and makes it easier to scoop the sawdust up.
Try adding a piece of the flex pipe to the downspout until it's a few feet off the ground so it's not dropping out way up in the air catching all the wind. Heck, you could even have a big container on a pallet to catch it and pick it up with the tractor.
Flex hose on discharge connecting to the roll dumpster that you have . Just make a lid with a 4"" flange on it . When it's full take tractor with forks and dump it wherever. You already have the roll dumpster !
Personally I would rotate the blower 90º so the output is pointing straight out the side that would give you one less elbow. Then put another piece on the downside to get it a little lower to the ground
Stack 5 gallon buckets,after you cut the bottoms off, and loosely bolt them bottom to tops 10 of them works good they have bucket Shootz for grain elevators screws , at the coop ,,BigAl California thanks
Great vids! Maybe add some flex to the outflow to take it closer to the ground... closer you are, the less blowing about. Can you sell the sawdust? Your climate temps are better there than here... but wouldn't like the tornados either. Great content. Pls keep it up and Happy New Year!
What about getting another dumping hopper like you use for the stringer cutoffs, put a drop hose to within 2'-3' above the rim, and have the dust collector empty into it? When full, use pallet forks to move to the pile, dump, and replace back under the discharge. This also keeps you from having to switch attachments on the tractor. Quick and easy!
If you can get your hands on one of these large white plastic containers that are inside those aluminum squares that you can get your forks under im not sure what the name of them is called you could cut the lid around it and install some heavy duty hinges where it can open and close and run the flex hose in the opening of the lid.and once it's filled lift it with the forks.of.your tractor 🚜 tie it of to the frame. And dump the bin.once you remove the flex pipe from it just a thought you and Brittany keep up the awesome work
Happy New Year Folks. If blower was a little bit lower and blew directly into box type trailer or dump body.. That you could use for delivery orders. You're setting up a nice operation.
You could take a section of the flexible duct, attached to the elbow and let it hang down within 4 to 6 feet of the ground. This will leave less height for the sawdust to blow around before it gets to the ground. Cheap fix, maybe!
How about setting up a large seed bag , run pipe down to bag to catch saw dust , just an idea , put bag on wood pallet , less handling saving time , enjoy !
You could get a used box truck and put a round hole in it for the tube to go in or a dump truck with a box container and put a hole in it that you can use and dump it where you want to dump it
A dumpster would be nice to collect the dust. When it gets to a tractor manageable level, dump it elsewhere to decompose for the garden. Alternatively, you could build a box which you can scoop out with the tractor. Also, I like your idea of a large barrel with swivels.
With all the helpful suggestions and advice from your fans, I'm sure you'll figure your fan out!! Have a safe and happy New Year. A big fan from Nova Scotia 👍🇨🇦🇨🇦
I agree with other comments. A section of hose down toward the ground. I don't think the cyclone would help all that much. It would let the blower air out the top but the wind would still carry the dust toward the shed. I am sure your prevailing wind are west to south west like ours in West Tn. You could fabricate a wood trough that comes down toward the ground and the sawdust would slide down it to whatever level you want to stop it from the ground. The blower air would be out of the sawdust way before it hit the end of the trough. Share information on the blower you used. Thanks.
Personally, I would not tack the one out. I would cut some Spacers to go between, bolt the tow together, and live with a small door, as England is sufficiently wide on the ends. I would blow it into a shed on the side so it can be cleaned dry and will not blow everywhere it can be handled once it is full or part-full. I'd try that for horses and compost. Ever, I would build myself a shed to catch the Sawders as you lower it in. I think it's great it needs a shed to catch the Saw dust. & the nose will go if you lag a box in your system, yes good job Les England. sell the dry sawdust for charcoal making Happy New Year.
I’d try to find some old 10 you can cut the lumber and make a little building. That’s big enough to get your bucket in there with the tractor and make the back wall strong enough when you push against it just a thought it won’t blow all around.
I work at a fiber optic plant in NC. We have hundreds of blowers big and small. I think you should hard pipe it all the way to the dump trailer. Maybe put a small piece of the flex at the bottom. The wind should stay in the dump trailer and not blow around as much. Big fan of the show.
To get saw dust to just pile up add a down pip that a lot bigger in Diameter. Like you mentioned a 55 gal barrel with one end out and hang it so it will dump into your trailer . make sure your dust pipe goes in the side of the barrel so it directs the sawdust to slide around the inside the barrel
I worry a bit of it cutting off light to see where and what your doing, not worried about safety as you've done this long enough to do it on braille system. Light to see tho is important, that said the wood is wet and thought about it compacting in the air system..... I did this also and found a old shovel handle would reach high enough to tap on the pipe and help it finish leaving. I am sure the material your going to use is transparent enough tho to let light in. I did wind up using a old grain truck to haul dust away that collected from the discharge system over that space
Tyler it looks like it is working pretty well. My first thought was you can push farther than you can pull. The suction line on a pump is always short and you can just keep adding pipe on the discharge side. so I would have put the blower on or near the ground. But like I said it seems to be working okay. the exception I have from a business perspective. Shoveling is FREE. I'm not sure what the HP is on the blower motor but it will be interesting to see how much 8 hrs. of dust collection raises your electric bill at the end of 30 days. Now that I have said all that I can NOT imagine ANY day that you and Mrs. Britt don't put in a hard day's work. I can surely tell Y'all are both from the South. We were brought up to work hard. I personally love work. It's good for the soul.
Once you have the wall there, you can build a big open top bin that it just blows down into. Make the front panel hinge out, and make it wide enough for the tractor bucket.
Spraying sawdust out at the whim of the breezes will soon make a mess. Get something like an IBC tote and drop a duct line to a hole in the top. When full, you can use the forks to take to your pile for dumping. People with automated wood splitters collect sawdust from the cut-off saw that way.
What about using an IBC tote with the bladder. Cut a whole in the top of the bladder and run duct from the downspout to the bladder. When it gets full, you can use the tractor/forks and move the IBC to empty the bladder. My 2 cents. Enjoy the vids. Take care and have a great day
Great idea. You should think about grounding the sawdust exhaust. Static electricity can ignite a fire in the vac/blower system. Check out marc Galic saw mill and his dust collecting system. Sawdust is blown into a enclosed shed and scopped out with the tractor bucket when it’s full
At the end of the pipe, add plastic tubing about 4' off ground and, at that point, build a 4'x4'x4' (saw,chip) box on a pallet Move box and dump with tractor.
Hi Brittany and Tyler, I like the way the blower system works. May I make a suggestion, if you have more of the flexible hose add about 5 or 6 feet to the end of the pipe to direct the sawdust more towards the ground before the wind scatters it. It may also make it easier to load the dump trailer without using a cyclone. Happy New Year to you both and Aiden and stay safe.
An extra length of flex pipe coming straight down out of the 90° elbow , that would drop the saw dust closer to the ground would help with the pile and you could back the dump trailer right under it and blow directly into the trailer .
Posts will last a lot longer if not in direct contact with earth. I would use Sonotubes to create concrete pedestals for the posts to sit on well above the drip and splash line.
I would think just a down pipe held 4 ft off the ground would work. you could use the pole to make a stiff arm off to hold the pipe. maybe a wall section up to the pipe (say 4 ft wide) to control the pile . strong enough to push up against to remove the pile if needed.
Maybe a 45 would work to get the sawdust away from your saw shed a bit better than a 90. But it is yours so what ever works for you tickles me to death Stay Safe. I enjoy watching you all work together.
Your system looks great but you need three more steps. Pull your dump trailer under the down spout add enough flexible pipe toset 1 ft into the trailer and put a tarp with a hole for the pipe to fit in. This should be almost dust proof. Have fun and stay safe!
Happy New Year to all at the WF&S, let’s hope it’s a prosperous one for us all! Why don’t you drop the sawdust into large plastic bags that folks can load on to their wagons (for their animals bedding etc.). You won’t have to shovel it or scoop it up then. If you install a tarpaulin to mask and protect the bag from the wind you will be able to tie it off and lift it when its full!
I got an idea for you to collect the saw dust that comes out the collector. Build a plywood box with a door on one end that will fit in your dump trailer and whatever hardware you need to tie it down to the bed of the trailer. Cut 12x12 or a 16x16 inch whole in top of the box. You put a piece of hose hanging down from the end of the discharge pipe. You back the trailer up till the hose falls in the hole in the top of the box, when the trailer is full go dump it by opening the door and dumping the trailer. When you just need the trailer untie it and dump it out and to reinstall it set it back in with the forks on the tractor. This will also keep all of the dust from blowing around and causing a mess
Try putting a post closer to the pile of dust, run a wire cable over to the saw mill and strap more pipes to it and have it dump over by the pile and allows you to drive between the shed and pile
I think it's awesome that you got a sawdust extraction system put in 😊 Make sure you put a grounding wire to your metal piping, it's incredible how much static you'll generate, which will cause clogging. Good video 👍
Hey man I own a woodworking millwork shop. My blower system is similar just a lot larger,45 hp 40" blower. I learned that you actually reduce your suction with each 90% turn on your piping infeed or outfeed. Try turning your blower 90% to eliminate the fist turn coming off the outfeed. Then put black 4" irrigation drain pipe,no holes, on the other end it can be moved to a dump trailer or just blow out on the ground. Closer the outfeed is to the ground less dust will blow in on ya. Enjoy the videos.
Thanks for the info!
Hi from Alabama love your videos and happy new year
we have a container with an open top with a tarpaulin over it.
A hole is made on the short side.
A pipe is welded around it where the hose fits.
the container is picked up by a sawdust dealer.
and returned a empty.
the sawdust is then sold again for pets:
mice, marmots, rabbits, etc.
Build a wall and add sides put a downspout on the pipe to collect the dust just be sure it's wide enough for the tractor bucket. The walls keep it in place somewhat. Maybe in the future put on a roof. But you have the right idea. Excellent job thank you for sharing.👍
Perhaps add plastic flex tubing on the end of the dust tube elbow to 3 feet above ground level. Then you can move the flex tube to create sawdust piles.
I was getting to recommend that as well, but maybe high enough to get the dump trailer under and move the hose as it piles up in the trailer
i thought the same thing 👍
Looks like you're currently just spreading dust. You will get it collected soon and have a nice system
I as well was also going to suggest adding a short length of flex hose to bring the saw dust down to the height of your dump trailer and presto loaded ready to go😊
Exactly my thoughts!
Ok, you both are having way too much fun down there.! 🙂👍
Coming along . Looks great
If you put a couple leinghts of pipe to drop
the sawdust closer to the ground and give it less time to blow away. You. could build a wall or bunk to. collect the dust and give you backstop to scoop up the dust with. the. tractor or drive a trailer under it.
I love your sawmill set up
Put a half twist in your flat tie downs to prevent them from oscillating in the wind.
Put a down spout on the out put that goes to a few feet off the ground. It will not blow as far away.
Thinking about just that!
IN MY YOUNGER DAYS I DID SOME WORK SETTIN POLE BARN POSTS, WE SAT THEM IN PLACE AND TAMPED THE DRY CONCRETE MIX IN THE HOLES THEY SAID THE GROUND WATER IS ALL IT NEEDS, CLAIMED IT WAS BETTER THAN 6000 PSI MIX
Love your videos. Most fan housings are bolted onto the frame allowing the discharge to be rotated 90 degrees. This would allow you to eliminate the discharge 90 degrees which will wear out quickly. If you can build a cyclone, you can also mount the fan vertically on the top to eliminate that 90 also.
I love watching y'all work while I sit in my recliner! Y'all are a great team! Happy New Year and much success in 2025!
Put a big bag at the end, and it would be easier for the horsemen to come and pick up the sawdust. You could put a 2 x 4 frame to hold the bag and be able to see when it's full or keep it from clogging up. And I agree the storm the other night wasn't good. I'm in Cajun country , and the wind was bad. I stayed under a tornado watch for hours.
Wishing you and your family a awsome New Year!!!! Stay safe and saw on!!!
Bought a dust system in my wood shop. Think! from the blower it send the sawdust to a large bag system. I use the bags of sawdust to make things. You could have a easy way to collect for the horse stalls or even sell it to the guy who comes over with his pick up. Those bags hold a little more than a 55 gal drum. Just an idea. Tomorrow is New Years Eve. Have a good one. Jim
I’ve installed a dust system on my sawmill, and been down the road your going. If you install a home made cyclone , keep in mind to install a larger cyclone than you’d think you need, perhaps a 5-6’ diameter cyclone. The reason is, the air volume needs to escape the cyclone, and will escape through the top. If the cyclone is smaller, some of the more granular dust will fall out of the bottom, but the finer dust will still blow out the top and blow into your building on you. If you have a larger diameter cyclone it might(?) allow more of the smaller dust to drop out the bottom without blowing out the top as much, but you’ll still get dust in your work area.
It would be much cheaper in the long run to sheet the wall to keep the dust from blowing in on you, and purchase some large concrete stack blocks from your local concrete ready-mix plant to build a concrete sawdust bin. In our Texas area they sale 2’x2’x4’ concrete stack blocks for $75 each.
I’d also suggest to install a piece of drill stem pipe with a pivot arm for your flexible vacuum pipe to swing with the sawmill off the ground back and forth as you run. You’ll find, if you don’t get the flexible dust pipe off of the ground, it will roll and kink up damaging itself and its interior wire binding over a relatively short period of time. Once the wire bindings start kinking and exposing themselves interiorly inside the pipe, your flexible dust pipe will start to clog as the dust and milling strands gather on the inner pipe imperfections.
Hope my learning experiences will help you.
Great job! Once you turn the 90-degree bend, gravity will take care of the dust falling to the ground. Why don’t you install a downspout to bring it closer to the ground? That way, you’ll have much less blowing of the dust.
If that is a HF dust collector you got a cyclone of sorts with it watch some youtube videos about that system . I have a 5foot x 10foot slab flattening set up and that is the dust collector I use
THANKS FOR SHARING THE DUST COLLECTION AND ALL Y'ALL DO . I LOVE PRACTICAL, FUNCTIONAL DESIGN IDEAS . LIKE MANY OTHERS, EVERYONE HAS THEIR OWN OPINIONS SOME ARE REALLY GOOD WHILE OTHERS ARE NOT SO GOOD. I LIKE FOLLOWING ALONG KEEPING MY OPINION TO MYSELF WHILE THINKING WHAT WOULD I DO THIS MAKES IT FUN. I DO HAVE SOME IDEAS BUT IT 'S HARD TO CONVEY THRU WORDS I'M MORE VISUAL DRAWING TYPE THAN WORDS. THANKS AGAIN FOR TAKING US ALONG. ONE LESS CRITIC, NAYSAYER AND NEGATIVE FEEDBACK THERE IS PLENTY OF THAT ALREADY IN THE WORLD.😁
I would shorten the flex pipe to where it doesn’t drag on the ground. Take the flex pipe you cut off and put it on the other end of you metal pipe hanging down so that the dust doesn’t have to fall that far to the ground.
Great video, guys. As regards dust exstractio. I just think you will end up laying it in a trench, out to your sawdust area. However youur best people to decide what works for you.
I have about the same system on my mill. I have the big plastic totes that I blow the sawdust in and then just take them and dump them when they get full, it keeps the blowing sawdust down.
I've not done that yet but I know another sawyer who did . That said , the slab company I subcontract for now won't do it because of the furniture workshop inside . The boss says only kiln dried to run through the dust collection system (which is a massive one) because the logs outside , moisture would clog it up . That's all I know about it at this time though .
This is another great video! I can't really explain it; I don't know anything about sawmilling, and I live in Minnesota, yet I have to watch each video you make. I think I appreciate your hard work and dedication along with how you figure things out to make it work for you. I've also learned a lot from watching your videos. Keep up the great work!
Keep at it you will get what you want.
Nice dust collection . Those 16 ft. poles are heavy , Tyler . Being you and strong is nice. I enjoy watching folks do stuff I used to do . Thanks for sharing .
The sawmill area looks great. The new system you put in to get rid of the sawdust is going to be a game changer. Another great video guys. Happy new year.🎉
Yep bad thunderstorms came through (Texas) heard it was really bad 2 hours south of us. Just a suggestion here, route your dust blower toward the ground and park your dump trailer under it......Or not..... whatever you think just trying to help.
That's a good idea!
add a metal downspout so it's only a couple of feet off the ground. Should stop a lot of it being blown around.
As a suggestion, consider attaching a long flex hose to the down spout and down to the ground into a container that can dumped with your Tractor. If you have a recycler who will accept sawdust then have plastic bags in the container to contain. It’s a good system 🇨🇦
In my woodworking shop in New Hampshire i had a dust collection system. I startedbout with a single bagging system, went to two bigger bags, but i worked in the shop mostly at night. I hated going outside to empty the saw dust bags in the datk.
I put duct work up to the ridgepole of the barn, over forty feet off the ground. The saw dust and wood shavings from my planer and router table all left the shop and were seldom seen again unless we had fresh snow. By spring, the dust had rurned to soil, mostly out in our sugar bush. I put a blower off the sawbmill to replace the little bagger blower, this increased the suction greatly. I had to be careful not to suck up a hammer when i was cleaning the shop.
My thought is keep it at ground level ….trench a line out to where you want the pile of sawdust ….. bury the pipe out the distance you need then put a upright out of the buried pipe put a 90° elbow so you can rotate it
Add a T to the hose to allow for cleanup of the mill. Put a cap on the end when it is not in use. Build a box with a removable side to collect the dust.
If you put another section of pipe on the sawdust down spout it would great reduce the spread of sawdust in the wind. You could build an 8 foot wide sawdust building that catches all the sawdust and makes it easier to scoop the sawdust up.
Try adding a piece of the flex pipe to the downspout until it's a few feet off the ground so it's not dropping out way up in the air catching all the wind. Heck, you could even have a big container on a pallet to catch it and pick it up with the tractor.
All will be tried and considered!
Flex hose on discharge connecting to the roll dumpster that you have . Just make a lid with a 4"" flange on it . When it's full take tractor with forks and dump it wherever. You already have the roll dumpster !
I think you need another 5 to 8 foot piece on the down spout to get the sawdust closer to the ground.
Personally I would rotate the blower 90º so the output is pointing straight out the side that would give you one less elbow. Then put another piece on the downside to get it a little lower to the ground
Stack 5 gallon buckets,after you cut the bottoms off, and loosely bolt them bottom to tops 10 of them works good they have bucket Shootz for grain elevators screws , at the coop ,,BigAl California thanks
Great vids! Maybe add some flex to the outflow to take it closer to the ground... closer you are, the less blowing about. Can you sell the sawdust? Your climate temps are better there than here... but wouldn't like the tornados either. Great content. Pls keep it up and Happy New Year!
What about getting another dumping hopper like you use for the stringer cutoffs, put a drop hose to within 2'-3' above the rim, and have the dust collector empty into it? When full, use pallet forks to move to the pile, dump, and replace back under the discharge. This also keeps you from having to switch attachments on the tractor. Quick and easy!
For the sound, I would approach it like they do with generators. Put dound panels top, bottom and sides and direct the sound outwards
If you can get your hands on one of these large white plastic containers that are inside those aluminum squares that you can get your forks under im not sure what the name of them is called you could cut the lid around it and install some heavy duty hinges where it can open and close and run the flex hose in the opening of the lid.and once it's filled lift it with the forks.of.your tractor 🚜 tie it of to the frame. And dump the bin.once you remove the flex pipe from it just a thought you and Brittany keep up the awesome work
Just put a canvas skirt on the end, as long as you like. Would stop a lot of the wind born dust.
Happy New Year Folks. If blower was a little bit lower and blew directly into box type trailer or dump body.. That you could use for delivery orders. You're setting up a nice operation.
You could take a section of the flexible duct, attached to the elbow and let it hang down within 4 to 6 feet of the ground. This will leave less height for the sawdust to blow around before it gets to the ground. Cheap fix, maybe!
Will try! Thanks
If you connect a section of the flex tubing to the down spout you could then have it blow directly on the ground to what ever place you want it to go
Great looking work , stay strong , stay safe , & enjoy !
How about setting up a large seed bag , run pipe down to bag to catch saw dust , just an idea , put bag on wood pallet , less handling saving time , enjoy !
You could get a used box truck and put a round hole in it for the tube to go in or a dump truck with a box container and put a hole in it that you can use and dump it where you want to dump it
A dumpster would be nice to collect the dust. When it gets to a tractor manageable level, dump it elsewhere to decompose for the garden. Alternatively, you could build a box which you can scoop out with the tractor. Also, I like your idea of a large barrel with swivels.
With all the helpful suggestions and advice from your fans, I'm sure you'll figure your fan out!! Have a safe and happy New Year. A big fan from Nova Scotia 👍🇨🇦🇨🇦
Thanks! We appreciate all you guys! Happy new year!
I agree with other comments. A section of hose down toward the ground. I don't think the cyclone would help all that much. It would let the blower air out the top but the wind would still carry the dust toward the shed. I am sure your prevailing wind are west to south west like ours in West Tn. You could fabricate a wood trough that comes down toward the ground and the sawdust would slide down it to whatever level you want to stop it from the ground. The blower air would be out of the sawdust way before it hit the end of the trough. Share information on the blower you used. Thanks.
Personally, I would not tack the one out. I would cut some Spacers to go between, bolt the tow together, and live with a small door, as England is sufficiently wide on the ends. I would blow it into a shed on the side so it can be cleaned dry and will not blow everywhere it can be handled once it is full or part-full. I'd try that for horses and compost. Ever, I would build myself a shed to catch the Sawders as you lower it in. I think it's great it needs a shed to catch the Saw dust. & the nose will go if you lag a box in your system, yes good job Les England. sell the dry sawdust for charcoal making Happy New Year.
I’d try to find some old 10 you can cut the lumber and make a little building. That’s big enough to get your bucket in there with the tractor and make the back wall strong enough when you push against it just a thought it won’t blow all around.
I work at a fiber optic plant in NC. We have hundreds of blowers big and small. I think you should hard pipe it all the way to the dump trailer. Maybe put a small piece of the flex at the bottom. The wind should stay in the dump trailer and not blow around as much. Big fan of the show.
To get saw dust to just pile up add a down pip that a lot bigger in Diameter. Like you mentioned a 55 gal barrel with one end out and hang it so it will dump into your trailer . make sure your dust pipe goes in the side of the barrel so it directs the sawdust to slide around the inside the barrel
Yep! That’s what I was thinking!
I worry a bit of it cutting off light to see where and what your doing, not worried about safety as you've done this long enough to do it on braille system. Light to see tho is important, that said the wood is wet and thought about it compacting in the air system..... I did this also and found a old shovel handle would reach high enough to tap on the pipe and help it finish leaving. I am sure the material your going to use is transparent enough tho to let light in. I did wind up using a old grain truck to haul dust away that collected from the discharge system over that space
Tyler it looks like it is working pretty well. My first thought was you can push farther than you can pull. The suction line on a pump is always short and you can just keep adding pipe on the discharge side. so I would have put the blower on or near the ground. But like I said it seems to be working okay. the exception I have from a business perspective. Shoveling is FREE. I'm not sure what the HP is on the blower motor but it will be interesting to see how much 8 hrs. of dust collection raises your electric bill at the end of 30 days. Now that I have said all that I can NOT imagine ANY day that you and Mrs. Britt don't put in a hard day's work. I can surely tell Y'all are both from the South. We were brought up to work hard. I personally love work. It's good for the soul.
Once you have the wall there, you can build a big open top bin that it just blows down into. Make the front panel hinge out, and make it wide enough for the tractor bucket.
Spraying sawdust out at the whim of the breezes will soon make a mess. Get something like an IBC tote and drop a duct line to a hole in the top. When full, you can use the forks to take to your pile for dumping. People with automated wood splitters collect sawdust from the cut-off saw that way.
I’ve got a sawdust pile built up from my LT40 a farmer is coming to buy soon. Love recycling.
What about using an IBC tote with the bladder. Cut a whole in the top of the bladder and run duct from the downspout to the bladder. When it gets full, you can use the tractor/forks and move the IBC to empty the bladder. My 2 cents. Enjoy the vids. Take care and have a great day
Great idea. You should think about grounding the sawdust exhaust. Static electricity can ignite a fire in the vac/blower system.
Check out marc Galic saw mill and his dust collecting system. Sawdust is blown into a enclosed shed and scopped out with the tractor bucket when it’s full
Nice and straight Brit! You mean straight off the top.
At the end of the pipe, add plastic tubing about 4' off ground and, at that point, build a 4'x4'x4' (saw,chip) box on a pallet
Move box and dump with tractor.
Hi Brittany and Tyler,
I like the way the blower system works. May I make a suggestion, if you have more of the flexible hose add about 5 or 6 feet to the end of the pipe to direct the sawdust more towards the ground before the wind scatters it. It may also make it easier to load the dump trailer without using a cyclone. Happy New Year to you both and Aiden and stay safe.
Outstanding! Ray
Heck, us northerners go out and film tornadoes!! We sit on the porch watching lightning. Have a safe and Happy New Year!!
Great video, STAY SAFE and HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!
An extra length of flex pipe coming straight down out of the 90° elbow , that would drop the saw dust closer to the ground would help with the pile and you could back the dump trailer right under it and blow directly into the trailer .
Have a very Happy New Year
Posts will last a lot longer if not in direct contact with earth. I would use Sonotubes to create concrete pedestals for the posts to sit on well above the drip and splash line.
I would think just a down pipe held 4 ft off the ground would work. you could use the pole to make a stiff arm off to hold the pipe. maybe a wall section up to the pipe (say 4 ft wide) to control the pile . strong enough to push up against to remove the pile if needed.
You can use the bag holder that came with the dust collector as a cyclone .
Maybe a 45 would work to get the sawdust away from your saw shed a bit better than a 90. But it is yours so what ever works for you tickles me to death Stay Safe. I enjoy watching you all work together.
All looks great
Way better!!!!
Love your treated wood!! And 3’ deep!!
THANKS!
You should rig a bagging system so you can sell the sawdust to horse stables.
I like the improvements, you’ll probably Finn’s a few tweaks that will even make things more efficient.
We liking pumping out the videos .....good job!
Put a bungee cord on the flex pipe hanging it up so it don't drag the ground and ware out
Make a enclosed bin with doors /6” hole on top for pipe.
When its full open doors for tractor to empty it!! Wont blow around.
Your system looks great but you need three more steps. Pull your dump trailer under the down spout add enough flexible pipe toset 1 ft into the trailer and put a tarp with a hole for the pipe to fit in. This should be almost dust proof. Have fun and stay safe!
cool video!! maybe try hanging some of the hose on the end of your elbow to get it a bit closer to the ground before it comes out
Happy New Year to all at the WF&S, let’s hope it’s a prosperous one for us all! Why don’t you drop the sawdust into large plastic bags that folks can load on to their wagons (for their animals bedding etc.). You won’t have to shovel it or scoop it up then. If you install a tarpaulin to mask and protect the bag from the wind you will be able to tie it off and lift it when its full!
Dust collector...blower looks like works great
Once the tin goes up on that sidewall, you'll have a real good grip on the sawdust.
The brace you added is called a knee brace
I like the dust collector, but like you said, it needs a few tweaks.
Another hose on the elbow will work happy new year to you both.
Going to be nice improvement
Flex pipe or maybe a dust collector bag that is open on the bottom.