I too am a carpenter and I use a lot of small pieces in cabinetry and furniture as well. I made a beautiful heavy fireplace for an electric insert out of industrial pallets. None longer than about 40 inches but almost two inches thick red wood from probably mexico. I could make end tables, coffee tables. London Fog tables, dog houses, storage houses, shelves and cabinets and benches for wood work not to mention patterns and jigs for other uses like making legs. My suggestion, however, is not that you become handy wood workers, but find some bodark, or osage orange or black locust wood and make stobs to hold your logs in place instead of the metal ones so if you do cut through it it will not harm the blade.
Thanks for the Easter wishes, hope you had a grate Easter too. The timber that your milling is so lovely, I work with timber and I'd love the smell of it when it's freshly cut. Alyssa, Jesse your a fantastic team, Jesse it's so nice to see you gently teaching Alyssa around the BIG tools and not getting to frustrated. I applaud you. Keep up the fantastic video's. When the home is finally finished in many years you have such a good collection to look back on.
You will do it! Thanks for sharing. I am sure Alyssa confidence grows every time she conquers a new challenge. You can see Jesse's pride bust out as Alyssa confidence grows. Go TEAM Pure Living for Life.
Ok the votes have been tallied! You are Awesome. I’m enjoying these videos very much. You two work like a fine tuned machine. Great job. I love the narratives.
I finally must type that I cannot believe how many viewers will watch a very good real life video and find something disparaging to comment about. Not me. Well done! and, I agree with Joe. The leftovers are not waste if they are not wasted. Even the 'waste' firewood is not wasted. Wood is "Stored Energy."
A lot of emotion and feelings in this video. It’s so great to see how much fun you’re both having while learning and building this beautiful home. For some funny reason you always recognize and remember every piece of wood/timber you cut. At least I do! I can totally relate to all those stories and most builders can to, at least the ones who have Heart! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱,
Hey! Happy Easter! I like to watch every single video about your life. I'm carpenter and loving to see you two working everything about your homestead. Very proud when Alyssa take makita planner and doing some fine square planning. Every new day it is God-given day,so we can learn new things and skills. Keep it going guys, you are the best! God bless you!
Great to see a minor role change, the video's while having the same focus are ever so slightly different, in a good way ;-) and its great to see you both enjoying your selves again.
Your love for each other comes through loud and clear in these videos. Could you please give me (us) a progress report on your quest for bringing grid power to your property?
Happy Easter to everyone. 👍. Please pray for the firefighters fighting two wild fires in northern Arizona today. With lots of love 💝 from sunny ☀Arizona 🌵, 90/51f today and no sight of rain. Crazy!
Jesse and Alyssa glad to hear you have your Sips order now ! Alyssa your doing a great job on learning the backhoe and running the saw mill! Jesse your becoming a patient teacher for Alyssa too! Your learning to walk a mile in Alyssa's shoes!! Nice job can't wait to see your house dried in with those SIPS. Be safe on the remainder of the build!!
I love yoooooooo toooooo. Well done and hope you encourage future generations. Alas,it is too late for me to build my own home as you are doing but I am enamoured by your work.xx
I laughed when she dropped that beam on the unsecured mill bed. BOOM goes the "calibration". Sorry guys but I can't help but keep giving you grief for not anchoring that thing.
Scat - I keep thinking the same thing. They’ve said that’s not the permanent home of the sawmill but I’m screaming that they should take some of their less than perfect wood beams and make a wood base the length of the mill. They’d have all the legs attached to a common plane and there would be no constant recalibration.
Damn...Get HER dun!!!...Love YOUR vids!!!....Was There 30 yrs ago with my wife building Shangrala on the beach of the Puget Sound!!....Thanks for the "Memories"......Dr. J
Oh no! ;-) She hit the sawmill with that woodbeam so hard that they have to calibrate the whole machine again for sure (and I know they hate to do this). Maybe he should hide the backhoe keys!? ;-) Just kidding ;-) They show very good partnership again and earn my deepest respect therefore! She is a hard working woman for sure and it's always good to learn plenty. Also to learn how to do different stuff so that everyone could work independently. Because of things happening from 11.15 minutes up to 11.22, her name will change from "Dances with big planer" to "Dances with big backhoe" now!? LOL
I believe in at this point the saying which one man scrap is another man's gold very good job guys I hope these videos keeps coming for many years to come
sips ordered?!? Congrats! Jesse, watch out, your darling Alyssa is getting as good as you at everything LOL. Oil those beams now and you're ready to go!
Jesse, what are you doing? Once she learns the backhoe and the sawmill, what does she need you for? "If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
Another WoodMiser owner, channel 'JoSalJo Won' has a interesting bunk support setup I think would work for you. Also, he has delved pretty deep on blade and lubricant usage and has fabricated jigs for siding and shingles. Interesting solar kiln as well.
Jesse, are you going to go Certified or EAB when it comes to flying? With that large garage, I could see an EAB project fitting nicely in there. A nice RV-14 (or...a -10, if family is in the future) would seem to be nothing to folks who built their own house. And...you could save on shipping by driving down to pick it up yourselves.
Does anyone else find it satisfying and inspiring to see Alyssa take on all these hyper-manly tasks, and ace them? Very nice to see a woman NOT define her limits by society's norms. I hope there are lots of women watching these vids, recalibrating what their own sex is capable of.
There is a style of permaculture where you bury logs under your garden beds and let them rot and feed the soil... I was just looking at that gigantic pile of sawdust you guys made... that's organic matter ... good for the soil.
I've often wondered if you had it to do over again and you had the time if you would have poured a slab for the bandsaw mill? I mean to literally hire a crew to come in and build you a slab right at the start, like before the mill even got delivered? I know hindsight 20/20 and all of that, but I wonder if it would have saved you a bunch of time over the long haul? Love the videos Cheers from Tokyo Japan!
If you are having trouble with your leveling legs loosening up all the time, next trip to town by some extra nuts to fit your leveling legs bolts and put a double nut below the frame and a double nut above the frame once you get them all level.. that should keep them tight and level so you don’t have to be adjusted them ever time you turn a beam or a log.
Alyssa and Jesse, you two are the quintessential great team. You work so well together and easily flow back and forth between roles. I love how you continuously change and try new things so each of you becomes better. Keep up the great work and grinding on.
I don't usually chime in on your videos but I have a question. Can you use a blade with teeth on front and back with that mill so you can cut forward and back?
Band saws have a roller that keeps the blade from being pushed out the back end. If you were to have teeth on both sides of the blade, the roller would be rolling over the teeth (on both sides to prevent movement both directions) and it would dull the teeth out really fast and run really rough. No can do, unfortunately!
Wait, what was that? The sips are on order and only two to three weeks out! So these videos are running about just that far behind. Sips could be onsite right now!
Hey, guys, you're doing good, that we problem you have with the backhoe being jerky try exercising the hydraulics by extending them to there limit both ways to prime all air out the system I operated an old JCB years ago it did the same and had to do that every week or so it helped purge the system of air .
Ya'll maybe in trouble when Buddy Bug-a-boo inspects todays work. I hope you dyed some Easter eggs for Buddy. Happy Easter J&A. May God be with you everyday.
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME !!!! DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GUYS ARE SAVING ON GYM MEMBERSHIPS ?LOL ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO. GOD BLESS AND HAVE A HAPPY EASTER
if the mill bed is not perfect parallel with the blade you should fix it first. then you will only have to check square when rolling 90 as 180 will be perfect. I have been looking at sips and you could have made your own they are very simple. not crazy for a homesteader to do.
Unfortunately, their mill bed is sitting on concrete blocks and gets jostled around a lot so they are constantly re-leveling it. They considered pouring a pad just to fix the issue.
Suggestion: get a battery operated lawn blower to blow sawdust off the milled lumber. I have a cheap Black and Decker which works great, much better units out there. Milwaukee 18 volt fuel is $149. Also that extension cord to your beam planer looks awfully skinny. That Makita unit draws 15 amps and needs a 12 ga cord to keep voltage loss to a minimum.
hi guys just as a matter of interest how many blades did you go through doing your timber frame and once you remove them can they me sharpened and re set or are they throw away? enjoy the videos.
I used to own a WoodMizer and would use a blade for 2 hours before resharpening and was able to resharpen approximately 10 times before the blade would break.... so about 20 hours of sawing per blade. My best was 13 resharpening ;)
I usually go by board feet...it also depends on quality of the blade and type of timbers you are milling. I clean my logs first as they get very dirty dragging them through the bush....
I know you, and most others, may not appreciate the value of removing processed sugar from your diet. I'd suggest substituting honey for most instances where you previously used sugar. Honey has many health benefits while processed sugar doesn't.
A lot of those health benefits go out the window if the honey is heated very warm at all. That being said, not all benefits take a hike, and I agree that it is still healthier. Just thought I'd throw that out there as a word of caution when liquefying crystallized honey.
I too am a carpenter and I use a lot of small pieces in cabinetry and furniture as well. I made a beautiful heavy fireplace for an electric insert out of industrial pallets. None longer than about 40 inches but almost two inches thick red wood from probably mexico. I could make end tables, coffee tables. London Fog tables, dog houses, storage houses, shelves and cabinets and benches for wood work not to mention patterns and jigs for other uses like making legs.
My suggestion, however, is not that you become handy wood workers, but find some bodark, or osage orange or black locust wood and make stobs to hold your logs in place instead of the metal ones so if you do cut through it it will not harm the blade.
Thanks for the Easter wishes, hope you had a grate Easter too. The timber that your milling is so lovely, I work with timber and I'd love the smell of it when it's freshly cut. Alyssa, Jesse your a fantastic team, Jesse it's so nice to see you gently teaching Alyssa around the BIG tools and not getting to frustrated. I applaud you. Keep up the fantastic video's. When the home is finally finished in many years you have such a good collection to look back on.
You will do it! Thanks for sharing.
I am sure Alyssa confidence grows every time she conquers a new challenge. You can see Jesse's pride bust out as Alyssa confidence grows. Go TEAM Pure Living for Life.
Yes!
Alyssa is amazing. She never stopped learning. Good job.
Ok the votes have been tallied! You are Awesome. I’m enjoying these videos very much. You two work like a fine tuned machine. Great job. I love the narratives.
Amen!
I finally must type that I cannot believe how many viewers will watch a very good real life video and find something disparaging to comment about. Not me. Well done! and, I agree with Joe. The leftovers are not waste if they are not wasted. Even the 'waste' firewood is not wasted. Wood is "Stored Energy."
I agree! 71 plus nothing is waste! Done construction work most of my life. Nothing is "waste" until the job is totally done!
Yes, please continue to use the "waste/scraps." Well done. Thanks for also telling your story. Well done again!
A lot of emotion and feelings in this video. It’s so great to see how much fun you’re both having while learning and building this beautiful home. For some funny reason you always recognize and remember every piece of wood/timber you cut. At least I do! I can totally relate to all those stories and most builders can to, at least the ones who have Heart! 👍👍👍😎🇨🇱,
Hey! Happy Easter! I like to watch every single video about your life. I'm carpenter and loving to see you two working everything about your homestead. Very proud when Alyssa take makita planner and doing some fine square planning. Every new day it is God-given day,so we can learn new things and skills. Keep it going guys, you are the best! God bless you!
Amen! I agree!
Great to see a minor role change, the video's while having the same focus are ever so slightly different, in a good way ;-) and its great to see you both enjoying your selves again.
Sweet, one step closer! Thanks again for sharing, we love the progress, gotta try the LF now!
You guys will be building the most awesome tree house for the kids. Can't wait for the "we're going to be parents" video.
Your love for each other comes through loud and clear in these videos. Could you please give me (us) a progress report on your quest for bringing grid power to your property?
Happy Easter to everyone. 👍. Please pray for the firefighters fighting two wild fires in northern Arizona today. With lots of love 💝 from sunny ☀Arizona 🌵, 90/51f today and no sight of rain. Crazy!
I'm in Phoenix. Haven't heard about the fires yet.
Keep up the good work, I really enjoy your watching. Cant wait till you start doing the interior. :)
She’s a keeper great job guys great teamwork
Jesse and Alyssa glad to hear you have your Sips order now ! Alyssa your doing a great job on learning the backhoe and running the saw mill!
Jesse your becoming a patient teacher for Alyssa too! Your learning to walk a mile in Alyssa's shoes!! Nice job can't wait to see your house dried in with those SIPS. Be safe on the remainder of the build!!
I love yoooooooo toooooo.
Well done and hope you encourage future generations.
Alas,it is too late for me to build my own home as you are doing but I am enamoured by your work.xx
I laughed when she dropped that beam on the unsecured mill bed. BOOM goes the "calibration". Sorry guys but I can't help but keep giving you grief for not anchoring that thing.
Scat - I keep thinking the same thing. They’ve said that’s not the permanent home of the sawmill but I’m screaming that they should take some of their less than perfect wood beams and make a wood base the length of the mill. They’d have all the legs attached to a common plane and there would be no constant recalibration.
No different if it was anchored....It takes 2 minutes to level the bed, no biggie
Paused the video just long enough to make a London Fog - per your instructions. Yup, it’s as good as you guys say it is! All the best!
You guys are doing incredible can't wait to see the sips on the timeframe look more like a home.
Happy Easter you two! Have a blessed day.
Love that time laps!
Thanks for the videos. I enjoy them.
With the muscle Allysa is building up, I don't think I would want to make her mad at me. Go, girl!
I agree!
OK, Since that MACRO lens is so cool, we need a full face shot of Bug-a-boo.
Damn...Get HER dun!!!...Love YOUR vids!!!....Was There 30 yrs ago with my wife building Shangrala on the beach of the Puget Sound!!....Thanks for the "Memories"......Dr. J
Next episode Jesse will be bringing Alyssa the coffee and making her the breakfast! It's okay, I can cook for my wife too 😉
I do too!
Whoa! LLysa is running the show!! About time!!
Alyssa you are such a hard worker,and you learn so fast. ;-)
One thing is for sure and that is Alyssa doesn't need too go to the gym after a day's work. Lol. You guys keep up the good work.
It's great to see the smiles back.
Oh no! ;-) She hit the sawmill with that woodbeam so hard that they have to calibrate the whole machine again for sure (and I know they hate to do this). Maybe he should hide the backhoe keys!? ;-) Just kidding ;-)
They show very good partnership again and earn my deepest respect therefore!
She is a hard working woman for sure and it's always good to learn plenty. Also to learn how to do different stuff so that everyone could work independently. Because of things happening from 11.15 minutes up to 11.22, her name will change from "Dances with big planer" to "Dances with big backhoe" now!? LOL
I believe in at this point the saying which one man scrap is another man's gold very good job guys I hope these videos keeps coming for many years to come
sips ordered?!? Congrats! Jesse, watch out, your darling Alyssa is getting as good as you at everything LOL. Oil those beams now and you're ready to go!
Congrats on reaching new stage in this project.
Another great video can't wait till this house get started
Jesse, what are you doing? Once she learns the backhoe and the sawmill, what does she need you for?
"If they don't find you handsome, they should at least find you handy."
good old Red Green, very funny, you can find him on TH-cam for those not familiar.
Cheers from B.C.
I *love* Red Green!
Another WoodMiser owner, channel 'JoSalJo Won' has a interesting bunk support setup I think would work for you. Also, he has delved pretty deep on blade and lubricant usage and has fabricated jigs for siding and shingles.
Interesting solar kiln as well.
I THINK IT'S GREAT YOU FOLKS ENJOY YOUR MILLING MACHINE Let those creative juices flow
Love that wood planer shuffle.
Just stop by to say happy Easter
What do you do with all of the sawdust? That's been bugging me for a while.
How many sets of blades have you been through on that planer ? Do you get them sharpened or just buy a new set ?
Jesse, are you going to go Certified or EAB when it comes to flying? With that large garage, I could see an EAB project fitting nicely in there. A nice RV-14 (or...a -10, if family is in the future) would seem to be nothing to folks who built their own house. And...you could save on shipping by driving down to pick it up yourselves.
Great video!
Does anyone else find it satisfying and inspiring to see Alyssa take on all these hyper-manly tasks, and ace them? Very nice to see a woman NOT define her limits by society's norms. I hope there are lots of women watching these vids, recalibrating what their own sex is capable of.
Enjoy watching another great Vlog ! Thanks again !
There is a style of permaculture where you bury logs under your garden beds and let them rot and feed the soil... I was just looking at that gigantic pile of sawdust you guys made... that's organic matter ... good for the soil.
HOLY COW! Congrats on ordering your SIPS!
So... is the London Fog consumed warm, or cold? I may have to try it one of these days..... :)
I.M Weasel warm.
Another great video and team work good
I've often wondered if you had it to do over again and you had the time if you would have poured a slab for the bandsaw mill?
I mean to literally hire a crew to come in and build you a slab right at the start, like before the mill even got delivered?
I know hindsight 20/20 and all of that, but I wonder if it would have saved you a bunch of time over the long haul?
Love the videos
Cheers from Tokyo Japan!
I can't wait!
No matter what...I have too. lol
When ALL the building projects are finished, then & only then should you trash anything left over ! Until then, no, no, no.......
It looking great one timber at a time... enjoy your channel.
Smart thinking. Never waste wood when youre building. Youve already milled a few pieces that ended up as firewood prematurely
Great team work.
I think making all these videos is really hard and unappreciated by must. Thanks for doing it.
Is it crazy to be excited to watch your house back under construction?
She didn't just take the keys, she took over the saw mill, backhoe and the planer! Good luck editing videos! #PLFL
Woohoo Sips are acommin!
🏁 GO TEAM GO 👍 🤓..........raised the horses 👍 🐎 🐎
Glad your SIP's work be ready soon. Then the real work starts. Good luck can't wait to see the next vids. TkEZ»UK
Getting closer
Its fine to mix species, I have at least 8 different species in my home frame.
wow alot of work well done , move in and enjoy
If you are having trouble with your leveling legs loosening up all the time, next trip to town by some extra nuts to fit your leveling legs bolts and put a double nut below the frame and a double nut above the frame once you get them all level.. that should keep them tight and level so you don’t have to be adjusted them ever time you turn a beam or a log.
That would work if it was on a slab but the issue seems to be the earth vibrating out from under the legs and shifting.
Alyssa and Jesse, you two are the quintessential great team. You work so well together and easily flow back and forth between roles. I love how you continuously change and try new things so each of you becomes better. Keep up the great work and grinding on.
Women are often better operators than men! We usually have more patience. I know from experience! Lol
I don't usually chime in on your videos but I have a question. Can you use a blade with teeth on front and back with that mill so you can cut forward and back?
Band saws have a roller that keeps the blade from being pushed out the back end. If you were to have teeth on both sides of the blade, the roller would be rolling over the teeth (on both sides to prevent movement both directions) and it would dull the teeth out really fast and run really rough. No can do, unfortunately!
Wait, what was that? The sips are on order and only two to three weeks out! So these videos are running about just that far behind. Sips could be onsite right now!
I’m actually amazed at how you folks make “ planing” those timbers look interesting.
Hey, guys, you're doing good, that we problem you have with the backhoe being jerky try exercising the hydraulics by extending them to there limit both ways to prime all air out the system I operated an old JCB years ago it did the same and had to do that every week or so it helped purge the system of air .
London fog is amazing everyone must try it at least one especially when sat on London eye drinking one amazing views
Teamwork.
Je suis admirative de votre travail.
I admire your work and i'm waiting for your vidéo with impatience
Free tip........
Put some lavender in your london fog ;-)
Ya'll maybe in trouble when Buddy Bug-a-boo inspects todays work. I hope you dyed some Easter eggs for Buddy. Happy Easter J&A. May God be with you everyday.
Alyssa...you got game girl.....big thumbs up here!!!!!
Alyssa is a true badass wonder woman!
Are you leaving them snow chains on?
Great music on second half! it always seems like you take care with the music but this is really good.
If you guys don't mind me asking how many acres of land do you own and how much did it cost to guy's I'm looking to do the same
They have 5 acres...price is different everywhere.
HELLO FROM OREGON
fantastic that you are able to use the 'extra' stuff
Help him Lawd!!!! Lawd help him. Lol. Beautiful I love it !!!!!!!!!
YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME !!!!
DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH MONEY YOU GUYS ARE SAVING ON GYM MEMBERSHIPS ?LOL
ANOTHER GREAT VIDEO.
GOD BLESS AND HAVE A HAPPY EASTER
if the mill bed is not perfect parallel with the blade you should fix it first. then you will only have to check square when rolling 90 as 180 will be perfect. I have been looking at sips and you could have made your own they are very simple. not crazy for a homesteader to do.
Unfortunately, their mill bed is sitting on concrete blocks and gets jostled around a lot so they are constantly re-leveling it. They considered pouring a pad just to fix the issue.
3 sec before you explained the London Fog I was telling myself that I should Google that recipe.
I still can’t think how far you guys have come keep up the good work I no it’s hard but keep the vloges coming
Suggestion: get a battery operated lawn blower to blow sawdust off the milled lumber. I have a cheap Black and Decker which works great, much better units out there. Milwaukee 18 volt fuel is $149. Also that extension cord to your beam planer looks awfully skinny. That Makita unit draws 15 amps and needs a 12 ga cord to keep voltage loss to a minimum.
alyssa posing as " Darth vader" in the mask ---
hi guys just as a matter of interest how many blades did you go through doing your timber frame and once you remove them can they me sharpened and re set or are they throw away? enjoy the videos.
I used to own a WoodMizer and would use a blade for 2 hours before resharpening and was able to resharpen approximately 10 times before the blade would break.... so about 20 hours of sawing per blade. My best was 13 resharpening ;)
I usually go by board feet...it also depends on quality of the blade and type of timbers you are milling. I clean my logs first as they get very dirty dragging them through the bush....
I know you, and most others, may not appreciate the value of removing processed sugar from your diet. I'd suggest substituting honey for most instances where you previously used sugar. Honey has many health benefits while processed sugar doesn't.
A lot of those health benefits go out the window if the honey is heated very warm at all. That being said, not all benefits take a hike, and I agree that it is still healthier. Just thought I'd throw that out there as a word of caution when liquefying crystallized honey.
Good job.. Will be using a crane for the sips??????????
There is no such thing as waste. Every so called "scrap" is a useful product with undiscovered potential.
The 3M 2291 & 2297 P100 filters are much easier to breathe through.
Great job, as we say in New England, Yankee thriftyness
Love love love love love them good vids
good job yos to have dun there keep up the good work 👍👍