Milling Scrap Lumber Into Something Useful
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2020
- Using lumber from the scrap pile to make lathing for a shed build. Howard returns.
It's always satisfying to be able to mill lumber for projects around the homestead. It's even better when scrap wood can be turned into something useful. We are working on a small shed build. This will be the subject of an upcoming video. We also mill a decent pine log for rafters.
The mill used is a Wood Mizer LT15 manual sawmill. Saw is a Husqvarna L65. Tractor is a Kubota L4701 with a Construction Attachments grapple on the front.
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Always loved the sound of a bandsaw doing it's thing. ❤
It never gets old watching you guys turn logs into lumber, I am 70 and still dream of getting a sawmill in a couple years.
Don,go ahead and get it. I'm 77,had one for awhile now...just waiting for my hand to heal after surgery . Can hardly wait!!😁👍
@@aporter701 Both you two are an inspiration. I'm 50 and haven't done a lot of woodwork yet I have similar dreams.
@@AnEvolvingApe I bought mine to go along with my woodworking shop..to go with training horses and painting in my retirement. Need to stay busy in retirement!! A body in motion stays in motion...or something like that. Good luck,my man.
Me too, Don. At 43 with a successful career, I just don't have the space nor the time to get one of these right now.
@@pnwRC. if u wait it will be to late. I did and almost missed one of the most enjoyable and satisfying seasons of my life. 68 and still going hard.
You save alot of money making your own boards. Good job
I appreciate you using every scrap that might be useful. I have a small woodworking shop, and it kills me to throw scraps and cut-offs into my scrap container for heating during the winter. Numerous times I have retrieved the small scraps to make a tool hanger or anything else that happens to come up needing a small piece of wood. This last winter I didn't use anything in my scrap container larger than 2" long to start a fire. Made me feel good, and I am still getting some small pieces from my stockpile.
Glad to see your friend back, tell him Hi from all of us!!!
Sure helps to have 2 prs of hands!👍👌
Rick, My sentiments exactly. It's always nice to see Howard.
Love your videos. I’m 72 and envious of your saw mill and tractor. Got my 94 year old dad hooked on your videos as well.
Cool! Thanks to both of you!
I found this channel about 3 days ago and its really enjoyable. Its on par with those channels and videos of pouring molten metal into ingots.
You guys work well together. Nice to see. I love how two guys can accomplish the task, be in tune with each other and the task and not have to even talk. Sawmill Poetry if you ask me.
Good to see Howard ending a hand. Nice lumber.
As the sayings go, 'waste not want not' and 'every little helps'. Looked some good timber for the job in hand, not as if it's for your house, well done. Got my 5 frame Nuc bee's moved this morning into their brand new hive, they were not happy little chappies, good thing I had my space suit on. Good thing I did as going by the amount of brood there was soon going to be an explosion of bee's in the Nuc. Now they have 11 frames to expand into.
I'll take your scraps from your scraps! A little glue and voila, the backbone of a sign! LOL Good to see Howard back. Greetings from Northern Virginia to you both!
Very exciting and suspenseful to know what you are building!
Also, it is wonderful to see Howard back in action 🙌
Always a pleasure watching your videos
Keep 'em coming, Wes. Love watching you mill logs into boards. Had some friends over in Crawford county doing this, but they have since retired and sold their mills. Almost reminds me of when I was a child visiting my grandparents in South Georgia. Was lucky enough back (mid 1950s) then to watch crews come in, cut down marked pines, and saw it all up on an on-site sawmill.
I would love to have a mill ! :) Love watching a log turn into LUMBER !!
Can't wait till the great reveal!
Good to see Howard again.
Nice one Wes! I look forward to the mystery being revealed! Hope you & yours are well - Stay safe. 👍👍
Way to go,my man!👍
Looking good bud!
I’d love to hear you talk about land management and how you work your land to still be able to harvest lumber without exhausting the ecosystem
I like the cedar on the mill shed
You have a great 2nd set of hands there..good worker!
great video keep up the good work
I love your videos buddy👍🏻
Great video Wes. Always good to see you my friend. Looks like you are living the good life. I hope you and your family are doing well 😁👍
Thanks Mike!
You should get together with This Life Outdoors(TH-cam) and build something. They built some really cool cabins recently out of pallets. It would be exciting to see what you two could build combining your resources and abilities.
I used to work at a small sawmill. In front of the lumber bed we had rails (90 degrees to the bed), where we dropped all timber with the tractor. The gap between the rails and the bed was bout 2 feet. When we needed a new log on the bed, we extended a few bars from the rails to the bed and simply rolled the log in place on the bed. If I had your mill, I would most certainly build rails likt that. It can easily be constructed with a few large logs. It helps a lot with the unloading off the tractor and on to the bed and you no longer need to be extremely careful unloading the logs from the tractor. The rails can take a lot more abuse then the mills bed.
Great idea!!
Stokkebord er mye lettere og raskere ja 👍
Good idea! Thanks.
I love everything you do, and I can’t wait for more. Thing is, watching a sawmill is like a lullaby for me! LOL , so yeah. I’m the guy that watches your vids twice.
Thanks!
Cool !!! 👍👍👍
Good morning Mr Howard
Must be nice milling in the shade.......My pole building is going up this weekend!!
It's wonderful. You'll love it!
There's a couple nice quarter sawn lumber from the log
That red cedar is gorgeous u should show how to make a counter top high polished video jut a idea u do cool STUFF!
Wes, Give Howard my best regards. I think you're going to have a shed for the Kubby, or you're going to buy a toy Wood mizer for your boy, and put him to work.
Nice work! Thanks for the video.
I'm so glad I found this channel. Learn so much watching you build stuff.
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I think the shed is for that fuel tank I saw in one of the shots. When you are placing the log on the sawmill, you might want to lower the RPMs so the hydraulics move a little slower, I think you would have better control of the grapple. Just a thought. I enjoy watching your videos and I like the music you had at the end.
Good tip!
Outstanding! Do you have any other videos about homesteading, Maybe your wife canning, or diggin' a root cellar, or fencing, and material selection? I'm fixin' to get into it jack-ass deep, and I can use all of the hard-knocks advice that I can get!. :)
I see the residue of a big bonfire from all that scrap wood you collected a few videos ago, why don't you chip it for mulch to feed the soil where your trees are?
nice stool for Paul, now something for Babe I think.
I make 3/4 in stripping out of stuff like this from the top, the save the rest for good boards
The heat is on, summer starts today and the thermostat goes up. Mid 80s in Western NC. What was the diameter of that line log?
Around 12 I think
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Great videos, may I ask what power source you choose for your LT15 ? And do you find that choice is strong enough for all your needs?
I have the 19 hp Kohler. It’s fine for what I need. I normally only deal with 12-20” logs, so I didn’t need a huge engine. Plus it’s mostly Pine so the wood is not all that hard.
I was wondering about the shrinkage of the green lumber used in the sawmill shed. Any issues with that?
Not at all.
Ok. Bellissimo atrezzo, vorrei sapere per stagionare i tronchi dove li tenete e quando tempo. Grazie a presto
I just bought 12 acres of timberland in the Ozark mountains. It is mostly cedar and hard wood, and I am looking at a huge earth-bermed cabin for my actual home-stead with free standing out buidings using basically the same construction techniques.
I am looking at buying a portable band blade saw mill for my 1st investment ($2000-$3000) Earth bag construction will provide most of the foundation and walls, but for the framing, roofing, etc... I was considering cutting hardwood lumber with cedar planking around it (screwed or nailed together as a single beam) - specifically for bug/rot resistance and as a long term building material 50-100 years+ of longevity. I would like to have your opinion on this game plan. Thank you and new sub, likes, and nothing but respect! :)
And here, I thought you were going to make bowl blanks this time.... fooled me.
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Love your videos. Is it just me or is the idle on your new tractor just a little high?
I keep it at 1500 or higher. I was instructed by the dealer that keeping it at 1500 for idle cuts down on the frequency of regeneration that the tier 4 diesels have to do. Hotter is cleaner.
Feller has to do that occasionally, waste not,want not!👍😊
If you've ever seen anything made by Norm Abram, nothing is scrap. Even I save too much material from my milling that most would say is useless.
What was causing the boards to fall off at the end of the cuts? It was strange! Also check at Josaljo Won TH-cam channel. He makes and sells items for LT15. You could use a pair of flitch holders.
I think it was because of the Cooks blade. It clears out more sawdust than the WM blade. When the blade reaches the end of the cut, there's not as much sawdust between the cant below the blade and the board on top, so the board rests down on the body of the blade and gets scooted over. At least that's my theory.
I see you make honey, that wonderful. Do you keep chickens? I ask because I see another income source, (no not selling chickens) instead of burning the waste wood product, ( I dont know what you do with sawdust) The Income source is pretty easy, Set up a compost Pile with wood chips (you'll need a chipper) and sawdust in with the chickens, the chicken poop on claw at the pile for bugs and other stuff once or every 3 months turn the pile with your claw tractor when it turns into compost you can use it or sell it.
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Why does your helper not have goggles and ear defenders on too?
When I saw the woodworker's TH-cam, he didn't wear gloves for work. I'm sure you'll do well, but I think it's
better to wear gloves as well as safety. ^O^
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Just go buy some lumber and build that shed. This is like casting your own engine block building an iron smelter to build you own car.. Support the economy, go to a lumber yard. Their lumber may be better stabilized and save you future headaches.
Great vids........ But feels like geometry, trig and calculus classes all over again..!!!!
Rather insufficient and wasteful method...I prefer to rip down each scantling clean, removing the bark etc, to get better planks.
To each his own