The most steel I've ever cut through - Slabbing a Big Silver Maple
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A man who's really happy in his work.. not that common. Compulsive viewing!
TH-cam home page - u want to see someone cutting a tree for 39min right?
me - I mean its 2am and I'm bored.... sureee
Damn its 2am for me to lmmfao
🇬🇧 If You're bored sod off. Nobody is making you watch.
2:14 AM here too although have skimmed through most of it for the good parts loved it
3:13 am on a friday night ... this is how i spend my life
2:14 AM while the apocalypse is going on
This guys is the biggest dork about wood and I love it! Be you man I love this channel!
Who else feels like they are listening to Ray Romano narrating this....
thats literally all i could think about when i was watching this
AbrahamSnow ....Everybody Loves Matthew.
With the laugh of Cody from Cody's lab
Oh no I spilled white out!
Well I do now.
I know what you mean Matt. I love lumber too. I worked in a wood mill/container factory in the '80s. Loved the smell walking into the mill in the morning. Lumber has a spirit. It was alive, and you don't know what you could make out of it. It's really a gift from God.
so absolutely true!
I love the smell of pine, fir, and cedar. I took down a building a couple of years ago that the wood was cut in 1934. The trusses were 2 X 6 straight off the saw(never went through a planer) old growth pine and 28 feet long. Many of them still had a rich pine scent and were very hard as removing nails was tough.
@@royreynolds108 We worked with black oak too. That stuff smelled terrible when you milled it down. It smelled like barf. Lol! You have to take the good with the bad sometimes.
Elm here in Colorado has to be some of the worst smelling wood ever. Can’t even describe it just nasty AF.
"You cant start building a table before you cut down the tree"
"Watch me.." *starts hammering nails into the tree*
I just fully watched a 39 minute video on a guy that loves wood patterns and log cutting. No hate though, was super interesting.
Suppose your into counting brown rings aswell..!!
@@marshallsimmons56 did someone say brown rings? 😯😯
@@NewtonVieira yes I'm the comedic log connasuir , ...!
running a chainsaw for 12 years taught me I absolutely despise anybody who puts metal in a tree.
There was a tactic that some environmental extremists did to protect trees, and that was to imbed nails into trees that were gonna be cut down, so that the chainsaw would catch them and possibly harm the worker in one way or another
this fella loves it whoop... lol something we will never understand.
Dr. Gray if they did it and it worked I would be kinda sorry for them but also screw them (the tree cutters)
Nathan W no joke! Back in the 80's I did a bit of forestry, and especially during fire season, a couple guys would saw into some left over rail spike, sometimes leading to some brutal injuries.
AstralpemHyten trees are pretty renewable if you're responsible enough to keep the cycle going. Unfortunately, I don't have much stock in the ethics of others.
It's a real wakeup when you find out the guitar neck you last bought came from a nearly deforested region of Cambodia, where people kill each other over trees.
Man. Last time I watched a guy get this excited about “crotch figure” I was on a very different website.
Thought I was a little weird wondering about that. Still think so but at least I'm not exclusively weird. :-)
You are not alone.
a pornographic website. did you get wood.
And he mentioned loving wood quite a bit as well...
Your comment was sick, disgusting, immature, immoral, degrading, sexist, yet true. I think I was on the same website.
Mathew even with the bad saw blades, your enthusiasm is contagious. Congratulations on the wood.
Thanks!
Dang it.. Now I want a really big freakin band saw......That's cool stuff man!
he built it himself!
Nice self designed mill and your innovative trailer with cantilevered A frame lift! Good Engineering.
there's probably no one in the world that can back a trailer as good as Matt cremona. I love the videos thanks
I know I'd totally love to hire him for trailer backing lessons!
My girlfriend is good at backing up too...
Laura Thomas There’s actually some good videos about it. The rest is practice.
Laura Thomas check out Wanderinng Wagners “How to back up a RV/ trailer swing”. It changed my trailer skills from newbie to semi-skilled overnight.
"I enjoy the struggle" That is just an awesome quote. I have to remember that!
Glad to see you use leverage and gravity to help you move your lumber.
I enjoyed watching this, as a guitar maker It's nice to see where it comes from on the big mills!
Given the orientation of all the "little surprises" with respect to the crotches, I would say that you definitely choose the correct position for the slabbing.
All I could think was "damn, that shit would make a dope looking coffee table"
counter tops as wide as it is
Dinner table
Matt. This the 1st video I saw when I first started woodworking. I found watching saw milling to be so peaceful and relaxing. I really like to see your videos. Thank you
Fascinating video Mathew, I admire your ambition, a rare find.
Some more beautiful slabs there. As always, I enjoy your demeanor and positive attitude. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks Matt!
quit saying beautiful price will go up and he will work on sundays
Love your channel Matt. Wish I could visit you some day.
Serious props to you Matt. What a rewarding job you have.
I want this one to be my dinner table! Great job!
We've taken to using wood dowels for hanging things from the trees in our yard. Still will have inclusions, but no saw damage.
Use a good variety of hardwoods for the dowels.
When someone saws up a log, they'll find embedded bits of ipe, teak, mahogany, Spectraply, etc.
Great idea!👍👍
@@doubledarefan that would be awesome!
He said inclusions
You'd be a great salesman. "That's a not a defect! It's a fun little rot pocket!"
missed my calling hahaha
I don't think Matt is trying to sell it with that phrase. I think that he honestly enjoys the fun little rot pocket. I admire him for seeing the positive possibilities in what others consider defects.
Why do I hear “fun little rot pocket” in the voice of Bob Ross?! :)
yikes
@@bobafetting6373 I hear it in the voice of the lady that does the ads for "Hot Pockets".
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed watching how each slab had something interesting to see. Beautiful wood.
Me at the start of the video:"oh, a video of someone cutting a giant tree" "oh its 39 min long" "am I going to watch the whole 39 min?" "bet I am"
39mins later:"why are there so many nails on a tree?"
About 25 years ago I used 2 metal shelf brackets to attach a bird house to a maple tree in my yard. Within a couple years the tree grew enough that it destroyed the bird house so I was going to take the shelf brackets down... NOPE, the back part of the brackets was almost totally engulfed in tree. I ended up just cutting off the protruding part of the brackets. Now you can't see any metal and there's just a little rough bark where they were. The trunk is about 5 feet in diameter until it gets about 7 feet up where it splits into 2 branches. It's a large tree and I can only hope that if it ever gets milled up the person doing it is as nonchalant about sawing steel as you are.
No doubt!👍
It's ingenious people like you that built the world while I waited 10 generations to come along and benefit from it.
This is relaxing and interesting to watch ... I must love wood too ... Who would have thought this process would be so mesmerizing .. I really love this ❣❣❣
I can't complain it nice seeing what ray romano does on his free time
Two thumbs up for good attitude . . . as always.
Hi Matthew very nice lumber ( timber ) grain very nice I bet the steel is nails that a farmer etc has nailed fencing wire etc to it many years ago 👍👍
So awesome, Matt - love this stuff. Thank you.
my grandfather owned a lumber company for 60 years and sawed logs small time for another 20 before he passed (he was ninety eight by then). he used a metal detector to find metal in logs he would saw, digging them out beforehand. saved a lot of time and money, i have his detector, on old whites. still works like a charm. got to be 30 years old. i suggest you get one ;-)
damn I'm bored... I'm sitting here watching someone saw a log
You need to go out and find a log to saw..!!,, if you don't have a saw buy one borrow or use what you've got, a hacksaw will keep you busy.... Live it... Don't watch others living.... Or you could go find a premisqus lady to go and find a tree to lean against while you give her a good sawing until the sap comes out...!!
I'm doing the same, dude. We gotta find a life or jump off a bridge.
@@HardRockMiner if you hang on til tommorow pal, ..I'll make you a bungee out of old elastic bands and a dressing gown belt!!.. I lernt those essential skills only last night , ! ..i knew it was worth 8.55seconds of my life. !! If it breaks,.. Dont worry i also learnt back surgery for beginners last week using paper clips and grolsh bottle tops, ..cant wait til my legs get better..!!
@Spiritpoweredinternet EXACTLY THAT BROTHER EXACTLY THAT. LOL. LIVE. OUR. LIVES. !!...the laughing out loud will come, ..if it doesn't scratch your balls while your sat there... It usually makes me Chuckle. !!
@Spiritpoweredinternet don't get me started... ..we might end up having the "one dead tree conversation,... Ending with a forest. !""..or as my old teacher used to say... yes it starts out small with a little grass around the base... The girls said ohhh,.. The boys... How big dies it get miss!! Mines.... Fast forward ten years the girls are asking HOW BIG, and the boys are saying.. Well theres alot if grass love.. Looks smaller than it is... Will have to get a trimmer..!! That's life...!
Bonus accessory limb with quintuple crotches.... Livin' large my man! I gotta make the trek up to see you and see if I can't liberate one or two slabs from you for a price...
Matt your videos are so satisfying i could watch them all day
Found your channel tonight and my husband and I have been binge watching your channel. Simply Amazing
Thank you!
Matt I love your mill and your determination. I wonder why you havnet built a second gantry with a chainfall on it for loading
Nothing better than Cremona getting excited about bark inclusions.
I find this wood milling site very interesting, i did wood working in high school for 4 years and loved every minute of it.
I think the lift you designed for the trailer is amazing
Most people are very impressed with themselves if they can put together a chainsaw mill! Your setup looks no different from a pro rig. Very impressive.
You’re such a happy person. You laugh almost every time you finish a few sentences. 😁❤️
That end piece ( 38:02) I would make a table by pouring epoxy over it. It was beautiful ( my fav slab of all of them❤️)
Man I feel your pain. I've hit so many pieces of steel in logs. Anything along a fence line or any log from in town, always full of junk.
"I love wood." That's why I watch your channel. Your endless enthusiasm. Can't wait to see some awesome tables.
Thank you!
the city lets u operate a saw mill there,think kids would be running around
An interesting view Andrew....Do you happen to sell these slabs? I've been thinking of making my kitchen island out of an epoxy resin/ wood slab counter. thanks.
I’ve never heard someone say “crotch” so many times in the span of 39 minutes...ever!
And "inclusion" giving "crotch" a run for its money....Cool stuff though.
and get away with it on youtube!
Just happened to see your milling video and loved watching it ! It is exciting to see what the different interesting grains , and other artistic looking things in the wood after you splash it with water !
Thanks Matthew !
thanks David!
Can't believe you made it through that log without another blade. Good looking stuff and I hope it pays off for all that work
My friends were playing a drinking game where they would drink every time he said "crotch". Their funerals are this weekend. RIP. ;)
How do you keep so calm Matt!?? I'd be swearing like a cut Australian.. ps.. I am Australian..
If Matthew handles ruined blades with that much tranquility I'll bet he is a good dad when his boys do foolish kid stuff. I learned to control my spirit just about when I was through raising my kids. Maybe that's why grandparents are so mellow.
If your not willing to loose a few blades, don't cut yard trees.
Steevo- less testosterone too as you age. Natural aggression dissipates over time as we become more mellow
Love your enthusiasm for what you do !! Can appreciate a person who sees bumps in the road as challenges to overcome, thanks & subbed sir !!
thank you!
thanks for your competency and great attitude! Refreshing!
Thanks!
This is awesome!...does it feel like finding gold Everytime you throw water at the boards??..I'd bet!
I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel
I can roll, I can feel
And you can't stop me turning
Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun
I can move, I can run
But you'll never stop me burning
Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again
I'm the man on the silver maple
I'm the man on the silver maple
Rainbow with Dio was hot!
The reason you do explanation is the same as I like splitting firewood by hand.
I really like the work you do.
The amount of great wood we waste or throw away in NYC is sinful. Silver maple....beauty.
The only question I had was how they plane it or surface, and you answered it at 14.30. Thanks!!
Very interesting.
something else my question also...thanks for directing me to the answer.🤓
I bet with the amount of large limbs and the amount of metal that this tree once held a treehouse
I was thinking that.
Either a treehouse or some greenie activists trying to give a lumber jock a hard time.
I was thinking it was used as a fence post for a hundred years or so.
Amen on the tree house.
Possibly it was also bolted and wired to keep the limbs from splitting the trunk.
Love the randomness with each slab!
What do you do with all the slabs? Sell?
I sell whatever I don't end up using for my own projects
Live in the city all my life this was amazing
Amazing that you found a little bit of wood in that hunk of steel!
The last slab (second to last piece) is actually the best one. Keep bark intact and cover entirely in epoxy. Bark depth and texture and colors would be insane.
Just freeze video @37:11...unreal table/coffee table.
I had a sip of rum for everytime he said "inclusion"....and I'm drunk AF
I took a drink everytime he said crotch. I only got 4 minutes in
Lmfao!!👍👍
U could be drunk enough for the both of us
Why did you use rum
Lol
I enjoy your lumbering adventures. Keep up the good work.. I have been doing some slabbing using a my homemade chain saw mill using trees from my own woods. Makes the furniture projects even more special.
Thanks!
Matthew Cremona I just love to see you saw mill wood slabs from a log soo interesting the wood grain soo pretty . Thanks for the nice video be blessed with love care and grace.
thank you!
Nice looking wood - you could use a fork lift!
Understatement of the year.
Or a mini loader. Would help bring the logs home too ;)
Them kids, adults now, wanted a tree house! The steps rotted off and the nails stayed behind.
You are good for the big stuf.
I wish i have a nice place like yours.But i listen to you make me feel good.Thank you
Marcel Montréal Québec Canada
As a wood worker, those slabs of wood make drool, thinking of all the projects to come from them. Love that you designed and built your mill.
Thanks Terry!
How do you stop bugs from eating your stacks?
If ever a man needed a forklift, it’s you!
Gotta love the interlude to do some machining.
Great video ,Matthew! Love your attitude!
Thanks!
Diggin the cut time clock - nice bonus! Is that 3 blades to sharpen? Yikes. Great vid again Matt. " I love wood"😂
To be clear: I liked this comment before the "I love wood" quote and sadly realized I cannot like it twice.
I imagine ol' Mathew, is real popular with his neighbors....
Don't you mean poplar?
AuburnTigers111 Nice.
Stumbled onto this channel early morning on a Sunday completely randomly and watched this entire video front to back . You sir have got a follow loved the content
Thank you!
When I was a kid, we used to build tree houses in the woods, made a ladder up the side of the tree by hammering in pieces of wood we found with whatever nails we could find. Looks like this tree had a tree house in it at one time.
Funny! I was just thinking the samething
The neighbors must love this.
Riff my thoughts.
Not familiar with his location, but not everyone has neighbors close enough to care.
u see the dust flying around rofl
I get the same feeling watching a log get slabbed that I used to get watching lava lamps as a teenager.
BEM684 you should get a lapidary saw and cut open rocks. You just never know for sure the happiness you will slab.
Great work Matt!.
This was the first of your videos that I watched. The video and audio quality of your productions are top notch. I then binged the sawmill series over the weekend. That was a lot of work. The only two suggestions I would have had if I had been watching from the start is to get a good laser pointer and leveler. Also, I probably would have had the blade shroud powder coated, but that's just me.
Hey Matt, do you know of any books that describe different species of wood in North America and explain some of the characteristics of wood grain and coloration?
I’ll have to look through my books and see. I find the wood database to be decently helpful with that
National Audubon Society Field guide to trees is a good one. Great pictures!
"Understanding Wood (A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology); also Identifying Wood, both by Bruce Hoadley (Taunton Press) are a fairly good source.
2 questions MC, how much does one of those blades cost, and how long do you dry those slabs out before using them? Great video.
Ty Jones about 100 dollars a blade and 6 months to season a 2 inch slab. Blades are often reusable and can be sharpened again
So,can one just saw through the nails....I've got my eye on an old oak super tall,but it has been a deer stand before....I saw a video of Matt alm9st sawing his mill in half....I would like to know the name of thoose blades....it was at the new house on his first few cuts...it would save me a lot of headaches if I could have the best blades and Matt is someone who would know....thanks from nova scotia Canada..
fascinating did not know all the work that goes into that thank you
Anyone who actually appreciates wood work will appreciate this video. Awesome job, major respect on handling that machine by yourself! God bless brother, and family time is 🔑!!
You should have put a bark inclusion counter in this video
How many blades do you run through on these kinds of trees?? and how much do they cost?
well it's probably a $10k tree so a few hundred dollars in blades isn't a big deal.
20 years ago I charged $25 for each 13’ blade for the Woodmizer that was damaged by debris in log.
Plug cutter and nail puller worked well removing the metal .....usually
That aint no 10 thousand dollar tree.
Your enthusiasm shines through. Just cause it's difficult doesn't hamper the fun. Cool wood
Thanks!
I can't believe a Silver Maple got that big without being hollow in the middle. That's amazing!
You should sell them for more, steel reinforced slabs, no additional hardware needed.
Watch Matt discover UFO’s (unidentified Ferrous objects)
This silver maple must have been a tree house tree or front yard hammock/sign holder throughout its life.
Ah the fingerprints of the "Geen Warriors " of the 1970s.
I love wood, too. You're incredible. Congrads
You have a lot more patience and good spirit than me with all that metal! After the first 3 slabs of metal and changing of blades, I would have cut the log up for firewood! But more power to you by seeing the metal as part of the history of the tree and hopefully selling the slabs as such. I just ordered my first mill and will get it in a week, so I'm sure i'll have my share of some metal too--hopefully not THIS much though--learned a lot from your video though--thank you!
Everybody loves Raymond! I always wondered what he did after his show ended!
Dude.... Sell a couple of those bad boys and buy you a skid loader! Make your life easier lol
you think hes pouring that many hours of labor into hoarding slabs?
@@dirtrider88 obviously no one is doing this for shits and giggles, validating my point. A skid loader would decrease his time moving the wood tremendously, increasing his profits per board cut... It was also a joke, cause im sure the giant slabs of maple are very expensive, so he could sell a couple and buy a skid loader.
Yep and a hose to clean and reveal the surface HOWEVER throwing buckets of water and "a lot more exciting" really means more views.
Im certain the thought crossed his mind at some point.
exactly, realblakrawb. im sure theres a reason he doesnt have a skid steer or something to make it more easier.
Thank You from La Pine Oregon
YOU REALLY NAILED IT !