The author does like to from scratch, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
So enjoy watching you mill lumber 👍pretty much convinced me to get a sawmill lol. You put out good clean family oriented homestead type material and my family and I love it! Thank you
Wes, Your videos are genuine and I really appreciate the time and hard work that you put into them. I am just beginning to saw with my LT15 and you are helping me learn the protocols for moving the logs and sawing. Thanks!
It's been decades since I've been around fresh cut lumber or cutting wood but just watching this I can smell it just like I was there. Love that smell.
Same, but with cut logs on a trailer-hitched splitter. I was only around a skidder once when young, and man this all looks so peaceful and relaxing, even if it is literally physical labor. It's the good kind, for sure. Total art.
Great video! On a side note, I use a bucket and a cheep painbrush to lube the rails. Just pour the ATF into the bucket and brush it on everything that's needed. That little bucket and brush have lasted me 5 years so far :D
I enjoyed watching that. It helps inspire those of us who have yet to invest in a mill. The irony of not having a wood structure over your mill is not lost on me 🙂
Great video thanks Wes! Those 2 logs produced some lovely timber, and the tarpaulin shade is sure helping to keep the sun off! Regards from the UK - stay safe & well. 👍👍
Young man you are certainly saving money bye cutting your own lumber especially these days lumber prices are thru the roof! Thanks for sharing your videos with us and God bless
It seems that's a one man business, this gentleman works at easy, no hustle and with the tractor he does very well, i wish the best sir in what you trying to achieved, all your videos are amazing,
That's a really handy portable sawmill setup that you have there my friend , it doesn't look like you'll never have too buy lumber anymore when you can make your own , thanks for showing us !
great video. thank you for the time and effort. I'm looking at different mills to buy but I am a green horn so I'm trying to learn as much as I can. Your content helps me. cheers, Chuck
Love working with a sawmill. Enjoy the process of making lumber. I would agree to some extent on saving the sharpness of the blade but board feet is money too. Great job and thanks for sharing!
Hey Buddy, You know there are felt pads on the legs of the saw head that you take off and saturate with oil that will keep those rails oiled. I can only imagine the oily mess you have with all that oil and sawdust on the side of your mill. I must compliment you on how far you have come as a sawyer. I remember that first mill on the ground. Love the videos.
I run the mill head down and back once after I oil to let those felt pads soak in some of the oil. It's ATF so it really doesn't make a huge mess. Plain motor oil probably would make a mess. Always appreciate your comments, Mac!
Amazing! I was truly impressed by the detail in this video. It's fascinating to watch the entire sawmilling process. The video quality is superb. Looking forward to your upcoming videos. Keep up the fantastic work!
Whelp, you've inspired me to do some of my own cutting of natural materials. We have 6 dead old-growth cedars on my son's property, and rather than letting him just burn the "brush", I've been making cedar "cookies" (rounds) by cutting branches crosswise on my band saw. I can cut them about 1/4" to 3/16" thick, and up to 4" across. I'll be doing that with some sycamore, and possibly some maple and red oak in the near future, as that tropical storm that went over brought down some sizable limbs. My favorite so far is crepe myrtle cookies, which are very white wood. Thank you for your videos, your tips and the inspiration! :)
Love your videos, you always try to explain what you are doing and why. Suggestion: Save your liquid dish washing detergent bottles, put your oil for your saw in them, they have a leak proof top and dispense a nice fine stream, no muss no fuss no waste or extra oil around.
I must say you have came along ways since you first started. By listening to good advice and learning from those occasional mistakes you have become quite the pro Sawyer. I am also impressed with that LT15 Go Woodmiser mill. Although the wide version on occasion I am sure could be useful. I am grateful we have a platform like you tube to enjoy content like yours Wes and only wish it could have been around 35/40 years ago. That I could have did something like this myself all my experience in so many fields over years. At least I have been able to pass some of the knowledge forward.
Dear kin iam vary happy to find someone like you Iam realy need your exepeience in wood I want to know how to make lamp from tress please call me back dear
A hard day's work....sawyer, offbearer, camera man. Oh yeah.....tractor driver. Carry off the trash today too? Always enjoy your videos. Nice to be young.
¡Qué video tan increíble! Realmente me sorprendió ver cómo puedes convertir la madera en algo tan hermoso y útil. ¡Es inspirador ver tu habilidad y creatividad en acción!
Man you really hit the jackpot on interest in milling your own wood with this lumber market craziness. Here I am almost a year into watching you mill logs as city slicker..................
Indeed! I am an urban dweller as well - I get my vicarious enjoyment out of watching videos such as these and it helps to make it seem like I too am there with the author milling wood!
The cover tarp seems to be holding up well. I know it's rained a lot this summer there. Can you show how the saw blade is set down for each cut? Also how you set depth of a cut. This was another well made video.
I do this - I'll cut a chunk off the top, but then make 1" thick boards with live edges - I can put a bunch on and rip them into stickers later if I need to - and if I want to give them away it's easy!
Bottom boards were damaged by grappler. I'll be using my 48" forks on my tractor to pick up my boards. My tractor doesn't have a third controller of which I'm thankful for because instead of purchasing an $1800 grappler I bought a hook and pin set of forks for my john deere tractor. Most my trees are less than 20" in diameter so picking up a 12' black walnut log is no problem.
Nice work sawing those 2 by 4's Wes. Looks like the tarp is doing it's job, now all you need to do is to get a little steady five mile per hour breeze and your golden! It's hot alright mostly 92 degrees with 100% humidity; then it rains but the humidity stays at 100% and there is no relief. Lookin forward to the fall and some cooler dryer weather. Great video, thumbs up.
Having shade makes all the difference. Like the covering, looks like awning material. In my teens, friends and I cut walking trails and always wanted a mill for treehouses!! Instead, built baby log cabins. 👍
Incredible! I was truly fascinated by the sawmilling process shown here. Seeing such huge logs being expertly processed is amazing. The quality of the video is superb. I can't wait to see more of your content. Keep producing such excellent content!
By leaving them on, the weight of the boards on top of the cant also helps to prevent the cant from bowing up and creating thickness variation in the boards.
The weight of the boards does help a little but it has a downside of putting more pinch pressure on your blade as you drop lower on the cant. I always found it necessary to flip the cant over 180 degrees after a few boards were cut off. How many cuts you can make depends on several factors; species of wood, how much tension is in it, how thick the boards you're cutting are, how large a cant you're starting with, etc. Sometimes i had to flip it a couple of times.
OMG dude if i lived in your area i would love to get all the off cuts from your pile. So much good stable wood there. 1x2 and 1x3 stock i saw in there.
Would you explain why you oiled a surface that has a roller rolling over it? Seems like this would just collect sawdust and make the wheels jump over thus causing non flat cuts.
When you see the lumber being cut, it is satisfying. What you don't see in these videos is all the other work that is required to get to that moment. Getting the logs to the mill is a big job if you do it yourself, or a big expense if you buy them. Stacking and storing the lumber takes time and space as well as dealing with the sawdust and slash wood. If you expect a profit, the lumber needs to be sold and that eats up your time. A loader like you see here costs a fortune but without it there's a ton of grunt work. When you figure in maintenance, especially on older equipment, blades, gas for 3 engines and your time, you work like a dog for barely minimum wage. There's more money in making videos about sawing than there is in sawing itself. I guess that's why so many people make them.
Wes, If you move the whole can't over 2-3 inches you will get the same result, and your boards are still in line. That's how i do it. I put a 1" x 2 or 3 in. board on the rail so the cant don't slide back
I can't tell the moisture content of the lumber you create from these logs, so I will ask this: assuming you have to dry the lumber, how long does it take? How do you avoid warping or bending?
So a portable Band Saw sawmill requires more operator setup and management of the logs but to cut your board to your dimension it is a single cut. Whereas a Swing Blade sawmill not as much preparation to manage the log but it requires two cuts two cuts to make your board. So are band saw blades less expensive then a swing blade? Is there more maintenance associated with one type of sawmill then the other? I would think a person who has sizeable land and tree resources a sawmill is a good investment. I understand Big Box lumber prices are falling but can you trust the Big Companies, etc. Weyerhaeuser or Georgia-Pacific to not jack up the prices again or supposedly lumber shortages! Reminds me of the Petroleum industry.
One more thought , by designing the cutting assembly the way j suggest it would olso eases the force needed to push the assembly it will became self feeding ( partially) REGARDS enjoying your recording much Ziggy Good LUCK and good time
Prices at Lowes: 1x12x12 are $37. 10 of them would be $370. Along with the 2x4's you probably just produced about $500 worth of lumber at Store prices. Not bad for a morning's work.
Another sawyer I know was once told by a customer " you just ruined a perfectly good slab to make a crappy board". I always remember that when I try to make a small slab.
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The author does like to from scratch, th-cam.com/users/postUgkxbnOKZBE4evMO5V2vroHeCjq6d_MV6wJO shaping and trimming wood from large blocks into fine finished products. As another reviewer mentioned, most projects require a lot of high-dollar equipment that most of us don’t have the room or budget for. But, knowing how to do these things, even if we won’t be able to practise the full stack project, is still great.
So enjoy watching you mill lumber 👍pretty much convinced me to get a sawmill lol. You put out good clean family oriented homestead type material and my family and I love it! Thank you
Thanks!
You make your kids watch this stuff ? You're a monster.
Wes, Your videos are genuine and I really appreciate the time and hard work that you put into them. I am just beginning to saw with my LT15 and you are helping me learn the protocols for moving the logs and sawing. Thanks!
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It's been decades since I've been around fresh cut lumber or cutting wood but just watching this I can smell it just like I was there. Love that smell.
Same here!🌈
Same, but with cut logs on a trailer-hitched splitter. I was only around a skidder once when young, and man this all looks so peaceful and relaxing, even if it is literally physical labor. It's the good kind, for sure. Total art.
All that lovely timber, just makes my mouth water.
Great video! On a side note, I use a bucket and a cheep painbrush to lube the rails. Just pour the ATF into the bucket and brush it on everything that's needed. That little bucket and brush have lasted me 5 years so far :D
I enjoyed watching that. It helps inspire those of us who have yet to invest in a mill. The irony of not having a wood structure over your mill is not lost on me 🙂
Great video thanks Wes! Those 2 logs produced some lovely timber, and the tarpaulin shade is sure helping to keep the sun off! Regards from the UK - stay safe & well. 👍👍
me too
A great idea. Currently, my channel also has videos about this job. You can refer to them
Leave the cap on the bottle of oil and drill a small hole, 3/16 or so and it works well for oiling the tracks.
Young man you are certainly saving money bye cutting your own lumber especially these days lumber prices are thru the roof! Thanks for sharing your videos with us and God bless
It seems that's a one man business, this gentleman works at easy, no hustle and with the tractor he does very well, i wish the best sir in what you trying to achieved, all your videos are amazing,
That's a really handy portable sawmill setup that you have there my friend , it doesn't look like you'll never have too buy lumber anymore when you can make your own , thanks for showing us !
great video. thank you for the time and effort. I'm looking at different mills to buy but I am a green horn so I'm trying to learn as much as I can. Your content helps me. cheers, Chuck
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Hey Wes, missed seeing your son today !! Always enjoy seeing him from time-to-time !! Good looking boy - PTL !!
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Love working with a sawmill. Enjoy the process of making lumber. I would agree to some extent on saving the sharpness of the blade but board feet is money too. Great job and thanks for sharing!
My back is killing me, LOL, it's true my back is a mess. Watching you guys I truly feel for you. Awesome job, can't wait to see the end result!!
Hey Buddy, You know there are felt pads on the legs of the saw head that you take off and saturate with oil that will keep those rails oiled. I can only imagine the oily mess you have with all that oil and sawdust on the side of your mill. I must compliment you on how far you have come as a sawyer. I remember that first mill on the ground. Love the videos.
I run the mill head down and back once after I oil to let those felt pads soak in some of the oil. It's ATF so it really doesn't make a huge mess. Plain motor oil probably would make a mess. Always appreciate your comments, Mac!
You know they make this stuff called grease that lubricates and lasts alot longer dont you? Lol
Thanks for sharing this video. You have your own sawmill lumber production🤗👌
Sawing videos are always relaxing. Great camera angles
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Thank you!
What do u do with ur bark slabs?
@@garywilliams7734 I'm guessing firewood, once the piles dried come early autumn, just whack em with a chainsaw to length and stack for winter.
I enjoyed watching. I even could feel the smell of fresh cut pine.
Thanks from California
Amazing! I was truly impressed by the detail in this video. It's fascinating to watch the entire sawmilling process. The video quality is superb. Looking forward to your upcoming videos. Keep up the fantastic work!
You are a person of work. You can do anything if you are good at it
Whelp, you've inspired me to do some of my own cutting of natural materials. We have 6 dead old-growth cedars on my son's property, and rather than letting him just burn the "brush", I've been making cedar "cookies" (rounds) by cutting branches crosswise on my band saw. I can cut them about 1/4" to 3/16" thick, and up to 4" across. I'll be doing that with some sycamore, and possibly some maple and red oak in the near future, as that tropical storm that went over brought down some sizable limbs. My favorite so far is crepe myrtle cookies, which are very white wood. Thank you for your videos, your tips and the inspiration! :)
Love your videos, you always try to explain what you are doing and why. Suggestion: Save your liquid dish washing detergent bottles, put your oil for your saw in them, they have a leak proof top and dispense a nice fine stream, no muss no fuss no waste or extra oil around.
Thanks, Ernie.
@@falllineridge 🙋🤝👍🇧🇷
I must say you have came along ways since you first started. By listening to good advice and learning from those occasional mistakes you have become quite the pro Sawyer. I am also impressed with that LT15 Go Woodmiser mill. Although the wide version on occasion I am sure could be useful. I am grateful we have a platform like you tube to enjoy content like yours Wes and only wish it could have been around 35/40 years ago. That I could have did something like this myself all my experience in so many fields over years. At least I have been able to pass some of the knowledge forward.
Dear kin iam vary happy to find someone like you
Iam realy need your exepeience in wood
I want to know how to make lamp from tress please call me back dear
A hard day's work....sawyer, offbearer, camera man. Oh yeah.....tractor driver. Carry off the trash today too?
Always enjoy your videos. Nice to be young.
¡Qué video tan increíble! Realmente me sorprendió ver cómo puedes convertir la madera en algo tan hermoso y útil. ¡Es inspirador ver tu habilidad y creatividad en acción!
That grapple bucket is the bomb. It sure has made a difference for you in this summer heat I am sure. Super job!
Learned something from you today thanks👍
It is fascinating to see how you get the lumber Yeil to improve by the way you cut what you cut and when you cut good job.
Love watching that cutting away! Your experience is helpful an interesting!
Hebat kerja sendiri mampu selesaikan semuanya.... Sungguh istimewa. Salam sukses selalu saudara...
Loved watching you cut the wood . 👏👏👏
Man you really hit the jackpot on interest in milling your own wood with this lumber market craziness. Here I am almost a year into watching you mill logs as city slicker..................
Indeed! I am an urban dweller as well - I get my vicarious enjoyment out of watching videos such as these and it helps to make it seem like I too am there with the author milling wood!
Oui! You're back 👏🏽👍🏽
Besides the milling expertise, excellent camera work.
I love the sent of fresh wood milling! My first job for 18 years was working at the lumberyard near my home!
Love your work!😀
Cheer's from Montréal!!🌈
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The cover tarp seems to be holding up well. I know it's rained a lot this summer there. Can you show how the saw blade is set down for each cut? Also how you set depth of a cut. This was another well made video.
I sometimes take thin cuts when taking off slabs, not to save boards. To save my back. I'm not as young as I once was.
I do this - I'll cut a chunk off the top, but then make 1" thick boards with live edges - I can put a bunch on and rip them into stickers later if I need to - and if I want to give them away it's easy!
Пилорама толковая .Рамщик мастер своего дела ,руки на месте ,приятно смотреть.
древесина рыхлая- молодая......класс пилорама
Тяжелый труд,отличная установка ,великолепная работа .
I enjoyed watching this video, you are doing good job man.
Greetings from Indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
well made video w/lots of angel shots to keep us interested.
Bottom boards were damaged by grappler. I'll be using my 48" forks on my tractor to pick up my boards. My tractor doesn't have a third controller of which I'm thankful for because instead of purchasing an $1800 grappler I bought a hook and pin set of forks for my john deere tractor. Most my trees are less than 20" in diameter so picking up a 12' black walnut log is no problem.
Nice work sawing those 2 by 4's Wes. Looks like the tarp is doing it's job, now all you need to do is to get a little steady five mile per hour breeze and your golden! It's hot alright mostly 92 degrees with 100% humidity; then it rains but the humidity stays at 100% and there is no relief. Lookin forward to the fall and some cooler dryer weather. Great video, thumbs up.
Definitely looking forward to fall! Thanks for watching, Craig.
Been watching sawing videos alot while my mill is on order, watching manual mills makes me sooooo glad I ordered fully hydraulic
Which saw mill did you get?
@@GBud999 It’s been a while but I think is LT 450
Wow ! That's a very nice Piece . 👍👍👍
I wish I lived close enough to get a load of the laps from you to build a shed with.
Awesome work and very nice lumber, take care stay safe and cool god bless
Good work and great machines. Greetings from Portugal 🇵🇹
Great looking lumber. Thanks for sharing. God Bless.
I like your trick keeping all the boards on .I learn something new
Beautiful natural design of the wood!
Btw, you look like Brad Pitt!👍
Great job I have the same Mill great tips we work a lot alike 👍
Really worth it buying such a machine that capable of turning a log into our desired sizes planks
The wood cutter is awesome. Thanks for sharing 5:12
loved your video love to watch sawing lumber
Having shade makes all the difference. Like the covering, looks like awning material. In my teens, friends and I cut walking trails and always wanted a mill for treehouses!! Instead, built baby log cabins. 👍
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Incredible! I was truly fascinated by the sawmilling process shown here. Seeing such huge logs being expertly processed is amazing. The quality of the video is superb. I can't wait to see more of your content. Keep producing such excellent content!
By leaving them on, the weight of the boards on top of the cant also helps to prevent the cant from bowing up and creating thickness variation in the boards.
Never thought of that, but you're right. Thanks for the comment.
The weight of the boards does help a little but it has a downside of putting more pinch pressure on your blade as you drop lower on the cant. I always found it necessary to flip the cant over 180 degrees after a few boards were cut off. How many cuts you can make depends on several factors; species of wood, how much tension is in it, how thick the boards you're cutting are, how large a cant you're starting with, etc. Sometimes i had to flip it a couple of times.
You're doing it much better than my first like vedeo 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍😎
You are an amazing woodmillsaw worker! Like your footage very much! Skilled!
Oh Lord I need this machine, so good.
Really satisfying to watch. Thanks for the video.
OMG dude if i lived in your area i would love to get all the off cuts from your pile. So much good stable wood there. 1x2 and 1x3 stock i saw in there.
The old pioneers would have loved to have had that machine....
Would you explain why you oiled a surface that has a roller rolling over it? Seems like this would just collect sawdust and make the wheels jump over thus causing non flat cuts.
I believe a dry lube would be better than oil.
It’s for the roller wheels on the saw
The wheel bearings are sealed no lube needed. They should have a sweeper that pushes debris off the track as well. That oil did nothing
Rust prevention paint wore off from wheels
Because obviously he hadn’t thought of all the angles regarding lumber milling like TH-cam experts 🙄
This kind of video is so satisfying.
🤤.. Fresh pine plank I can smell it...Really satisfying video 👍
something so satisfying about this. Thanks for the awesome video, please be careful out there. Thee saw is very sharp and dangerous. Be safe!
When you see the lumber being cut, it is satisfying. What you don't see in these videos is all the other work that is required to get to that moment. Getting the logs to the mill is a big job if you do it yourself, or a big expense if you buy them. Stacking and storing the lumber takes time and space as well as dealing with the sawdust and slash wood. If you expect a profit, the lumber needs to be sold and that eats up your time. A loader like you see here costs a fortune but without it there's a ton of grunt work. When you figure in maintenance, especially on older equipment, blades, gas for 3 engines and your time, you work like a dog for barely minimum wage. There's more money in making videos about sawing than there is in sawing itself. I guess that's why so many people make them.
That tree was about 27 years old. Very nice love from Kenya.
Truly fine looking material.
I love the way he says “two by four” like it’s one world “ to-ba-for
I used to operate circular saw in a machining company... miss doing this..
Se tivesse como eu compraria e traria pro Brasil essa serra fita é topp de mais . Parabéns pelo pelissimo trabalho.
Wes, If you move the whole can't over 2-3 inches you will get the same result, and your boards are still in line. That's how i do it. I put a 1" x 2 or 3 in. board on the rail so the cant don't slide back
Enjoyed your sawing video today !!
I can't tell the moisture content of the lumber you create from these logs, so I will ask this: assuming you have to dry the lumber, how long does it take? How do you avoid warping or bending?
It seems to me that the bark comes off very easily, which mean they have been dry for quite some time. But im not an expert
It depends on the thickness. To avoid warping you nail them to the wall.
So a portable Band Saw sawmill requires more operator setup and management of the logs but to cut your board to your dimension it is a single cut. Whereas a Swing Blade sawmill not as much preparation to manage the log but it requires two cuts two cuts to make your board. So are band saw blades less expensive then a swing blade? Is there more maintenance associated with one type of sawmill then the other? I would think a person who has sizeable land and tree resources a sawmill is a good investment. I understand Big Box lumber prices are falling but can you trust the Big Companies, etc. Weyerhaeuser or Georgia-Pacific to not jack up the prices again or supposedly
lumber shortages! Reminds me of the Petroleum industry.
Thank you for sharing this video. It is very informative.
One more thought , by designing the cutting assembly the way j suggest it would olso eases the force needed to push the assembly it will became self feeding ( partially) REGARDS enjoying your recording much Ziggy Good LUCK and good time
Lovely superb Nice sawing of pine timber.
Prices at Lowes:
1x12x12 are $37. 10 of them would be $370. Along with the 2x4's you probably just produced about $500 worth of lumber at Store prices. Not bad for a morning's work.
S4S, price...this stuff worth 1 dollar a foot
Wow calidad de trabajo mi amigo congratulations excellent work
Very nice job and u do it along.
HELLO ITS IS RANDY AND I LIKE U IS COOL VIDEO THANKS FRIENDS RANDY
Wahooooo!! Where have you been? Your fans are having withdrawal problems!! 😉😍🤩
Sorry about that! Thanks for watching as always.
That's a good bunch of lumber!!
You got it down pat. Great video as always!
That's great work, congratulations
I really want to have this machine, very interesting video too.
Brilliant is all I can say.
Very nice work. Thank you for sharing.
The weight from the top boards doesn't make it harder for the cut? Can watch this all day! Great investment!
Another sawyer I know was once told by a customer " you just ruined a perfectly good slab to make a crappy board". I always remember that when I try to make a small slab.
Awesome, watching from Elk Grove,California
8:43 😂😂😂 Frederick Winslow Taylor , вы просто его продолжатель. Отлично настроен агрегат и отличный организатор.🎉
looks like very soft wood. I do the same job as you
Nice work and great video.