Sawing Slabs - Turning a Log into Lumber Part 2
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 16 ก.ย. 2024
- There are many ways to turn a log into usable lumber. This time we’ll take a look at the process of making live edge slabs.
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0:35, 0:47, 1:36, 1:54, 1:57, 1:58, 2:55, 4:28, 10:26, 10:42, 10:48, 10:55, 11:28, 11:38, 11:57, 13:10, 13:38, 13:43, 13:52, 14:11, 17:39, 17:47, 18:06, 18:11, 19:01, 19:06, 19:10, 19:13, 20:03, 20:10, 20:17, 21:04, 21:14, 21:17, 21:23. Crotch
thank you for this.
truly doing the Lord's work
Missed 1:28
Chris Martin dag- nabbit!
Exposed crotch
NOTHING LIKE SLABBING......................LOOKS GREAT!!!!
Tonight's "Matt says crotch" drinking game was harder than anticipated.
I heard "crotchless" too. 🤣
Indeed
I would be on the floor after just a few minutes..
I liked it when we were looking for "the crotchiest one".
Lightweights!🙄
0:60 N-i-c-e Sideboard, Matt!
Digging the new cut duration animation!
Thank God! I was about to die from withdrawal..
Ditto!
Thanks for adding the comments about how you measure your cuts around the 7:30 mark. I like having your thought process explained.
Seeing that bacon covered turkey and not even noticing the cabinet made me question myself as a woodworker. 😂😂😂
Hahahaha
Maybe you were just hungry at the time.
Nice Work Matt
If you ever had to make a peninsula table or counter top, the second or third cut would be perfect for that with the rounded end and grain. Love your videos
Matt if you put a roller out in front of that side blade guide you keep moving and have it set to keep the guide a couple of inches away from the log you would only have to move it once when you start the cut! Make it like a 6 inch roller so that it is less likely to hang up on the undulations of a log.
Love your saw mill and slabing. You should look for the highly desired mango wood with closed grain as it has great grain, birds eye, and crotch grain. Made our kitchen countertops and Island out of Mango wood (150year old tree from the Big Island in 2014 - now spot is under lava).
Gorgeous! The wood that is!
I haven't much time in making lumber but for a while I cut ties and cants. You don't run across much stuff like that in fir trees but then the stuff was for the railroad mostly. When I say that you don't I should clarify but just once in blue moon... out of the blue.. a hardened pitch that looks like glass and yet is workable comes. It will make your day. Well mom had me cut down a cherry tree by the house, it was a very old tree of some size and since she wanted it out I cut it into eight foot long and the limbs into whatever I thought may look good. I toted it into the back of my pu and when dad wasn't around, worked it up in any and all different sizes thick slabs like you were doing and the went to the wood shop for the high school and before I could say much, he made me a very generous offer, a work in process sorta. All the big limbs I cut into two inch stuff by that school teachers recommending, words are not coming easy for me right now cause my brother just past away about thirty minutes ago and I need to keep myself busy so this is how I'm doing it but back to... I took the thick limb slabs to a luber outlet, the scaled the wood best way possible for usable cuts and I made good on that as well. I never told dad, just put the money in the bank and when time was right gave him a cut on it. I made enough to get me a lot newer truck to drive... paid for and healthy pay on my place that I was making out of wood that would not make ties for dad and got out of his house a lot quicker. I was fifteen then and I turned seventy two last friday. My brother turned seventy in march so thanks for listening. Very nice video. I kinda follow but just not steady as should but I did subscribe a long time ago. I don't put much time on computer but like I said enjoyed your video... brought back some memories... good ones
Really sorry to hear about your brother, Morgan. My condolences.
Cherry is a beautiful wood.
Nice slabs, they'll make some nice cabinets/furniture!
arkansas13 - Unfortunately, that was not furniture-grade Cherry.😥
Can see where the orientation of the log would be both important to the cut you get as well as stability and safety.
Love the slabbing. Beautifull stuff hidden inside.
matt - you should setup a garden hose attached to a hot-water faucet... much easier than a bucket.
Enjoy England. Be safe.
good stuff - glad you're back to cutting inventory and looking forward to what you'll build with it all down the line.
More great slabs. I don't see you do much turning but I'm guessing that some woodturners would love to have some of those big chunks from your initial cuts.
awesome color in those boards, i love the stains
Well done video and beautiful looking lumber, Matt.
That is some nice cherry. Do not get much of that in Texas. We have some choke cherry but a sixteen inch tree would be on the large size. Like the electric motor on your mill a lot quieter than my gasoline motor. Keep sawing and discovering.
Very cool Matt stunning wood grain
The square grain pattern would be a great top to a waterfall table.
I'm jealous of your cut times. I use an old delta with a 10" re-saw to mill small logs on a sled. The 3/4 HP motor slows me to about 30 minutes to cut a 3' log with a 1/2" blade.
woof!
That wood is Lookin Nice !!!
I always enjoy watching your videos.
Thanks Mike!
The second and third cut I was thinking grandfather clock. Awesome stuff keep it up!
Any more 'day in the woods' videos planned? Those were the best.
At 10:00 the board you pull off and the one after it, my first thought was those would make very cool live edge legs for a live edge table.
Awesome work Matt! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
Great video series. Thank you for sharing.
Thanks Jared!
From crotchless boards to the crotchiest board, that's 2 new crotch words. My favorite is still the episode with the 3 way crotch
Hey Super Matt!
Tearing into crotch, one of your favorite things. ROFDWL
I noticed in all my years of logging Cherry trees seemed to be the ones that were always fallen. Never saw a standing dead cherry.
They do make good firewood.
Cherry trees also had a lot of gum resin.
That's interesting. I'm in Ohio and we have a lot of standing dead cherry trees. Even spoke to an arborist about having a couple removed from our property and he took a look at them and basically told us that it wasn't necessary because the trees were stable as is, and said that was typical for cherry. Might be a different subspecies I guess.
I watch you crank the handle to move the saw and it drives me crazy. Have you considered a VFD and a gear motor? You could use the torque to control the speed. At least it would be a consistent speed.
I have and will some day. For now I enjoy it and also enjoy driving people crazy
Cheery slabs are beautiful..
OK we have a new concept now. I just heard Matt talking about milling some "crotchless" boards from the top of that log. Yep, you heard it here; "crotchless boards"! LOL
From now on regular boards and all general lumber will be known as crotchless.
😀☺😀
thank you Matt
I hope I'm the crotchiest of them all one day lmao. I was feeling pretty bloody ordinary before I watched this, something about watching you saw timber sooths me. Im not sure if its your calm friendly manner, your chuckle or the beautiful timber you end up with, or maybe it makes me happy when you get the perfect splash lol. Thanks for sharing Matt
Thumbs up for the perfect water splash!
That's some beautiful wood. I think you need a hose instead of a bucket. lol
MAN!!.....That first cherry cut was intense! ...and that rectangular-looking figure...hell, the whole log..was pretty amazing! BTW, my wife walked into the room just in time to hear you commenting on '...some pretty nice crotch feathers...'!! She now knows exactly what that means! LMAO :-)
Hahahaha perfect!!
Welcome back to the crotch channel! All crotches, all the time! Just the way I like it... wait... what... that sounds wrong... and yet so right...
Any Idea when you will start installing hydraulics on the Mill?
I see you have added the automatic feed ........lol oh! and a hose to wet them ...
That's not rot , that is character !
Drinking game every time he says "crotch " anyone?
Paul Booth can you say “alcohol poisoning”?
Three questions:
What’s the purpose of all that water after cut? Seems like extra water on a fresh cut wood would prone it to crack as it dries.
Why aren’t you using wedges between boards following the blade? All that weight of wood onto the blade creates a bit of binding and tension on motor, no?
I wonder if Matt wakes up his wife with a bucket of water. “Just checking the crotch”
With all the sawdust I surprised you don’t make wood pellet fuel!
There is a product called Grit Rot it is used to fix old wood boats
Great video with a fast overview of slabing with some incredible figure. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
It looks like that operators side blade guide wants to drift. Do you have any ideas on how to handle that?
I need to reinstall the adjuster arm that holds it. Thanks!
WOW! Your hair grew back quick. lol
Magic hair!
All that mill needs is a reversible variable speed electric motor to drive the carriage.
Beautiful logs! I really like the walnut. You need to come up with some T-shirts with a picture of some beautiful "crotch-figure" along with a catchy phrase. They'd fly off the shelves!
Enjoy your vids and I’ve a question.... do you prefer to manually advance the blade when cutting or is there a reason for not automating? :-)
Greg Fox - Heads, I win. Tails, you lose.
Do you take pictures and log them when you slab?
Let’s get into some cuttin !!!
Matt how thick of a slab do you normally take out of the middle of log since middle ends up cracking.. also what advantages or disadvantages would u say sawing log with ears on top and bottom instead of side to side.. just wondering thanks...
Matt - wondering if you'd recommend thicker than 3/4" stickers for 'Euro' Style slab stacking outdoors...? I am in reach of slabbing a huge oak and want to get prepped before saw day. Thanks and thank you for covering this topic multiple times and in different ways to hit all the details! Cheers.
Just wondering if you photograph and mark the slabs for cataloging before you stack them. I visited the Nakashima property in PA a while back and his daughter has done that with his inventory. More work but perhaps easier to recall the properties of each.
not sure if its in the comments but are we just going to ignore the fact that the trailer he uses could more than likely haul the Titanic if needed???? WHAT AN ABSOLUTE UNIT OF A TRAILER
I love these Videos so much. Was waiting for a new one for a long long time. You are a very big inspiration for me. I want to do this too, if i have my own garden. Keep it up. One question that i have. I dont know if you explained it already but how much did your bandsaw costed?
Did you ever consider adding a spring at the top and a small wheel at the blade idler wheel so that it followed in and out automatically the curve of the log?
@21:17 'about 18" of crotch'
Years ago I discovered that from my elbow to the tip of my finger is 18".
And if I hold my fingertips together in front of my chest, then from elbow to elbow is 36"
I have used these measuring sticks all my life, especially the 36" one.
Do you plan to motorize the travel of the blade eventually?
Hey Beavis, he said crotch. Huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu huhuhuhuhuhuhuhu. 😆
as a horticulturist, i enjoy listening to woodworkers describe tree growth 🤔
Doki Doki - 😪
Nice to see the "badest" sawmill on youtube at it again....Matt you are the James Bond of the sawmills, "nobody does it better"... I agree that cherry is very nice, but for me nothing comes close to walnut....
Your a bit rusty with the water... You need too cut more so you can practice your water throwing ;) Nice video mate!
I recognize the music at around the 15 minute mark. Are ya'll doing a collab with Nathan?? That would be awesome
There’s plenty of crossover from the royalty free music TH-cam provides us with
Noticed this as well and though i was on Out of the Woods channel for a second.
@@mcremona Could you link to the track?
@@mattmiller4778 th-cam.com/video/H-xIVVfe7Q8/w-d-xo.html
Hey Matt I'm curious. Why you don't have a water hose ready instead of breaking your back with the bucket?
Hahaha how heavy do you think a bucket of water is? 😄 tossing water out of a bucket is more dramatic and enjoyable
@@mcremona 😜
Guitar bodies? The walnut works for fretboards too
Are you going to automate the bandsaw mill any further?
He said in earlier videos that he was going to.
I wish he would, every time I watch him use that mill I get a backache ... ... ;-)
@@infoanorexic perhaps he's uncertain how to proceed? So weighing up the options
@@iainf6 may be. something to take the brute force of moving/stacking of those slabs should probably take priority, though
@@infoanorexic very true he may just be able to do it but he will injure himself if he carries on..... I'm living proof now in a wheelchair
That black spot and line in the grain looks as if the tree was struck by lightning at some point
What do your neighbors say when your outside talking about crotchs all day 😂
Matt could you use an electric winch on the saw ?
What some gorgeous cherry slabs. Cherry is so great to work with... Any thoughts on what this will become? One of those crotches would make an awsome flying V...
That’s a possibility after this guitar class for sure
I lost count on how many times you said "crotch"..but safe to say over 100...lol...have a great trip..
What is the difference between cutting boards versus slabs?
I hope you have a project for that rectangular figure. Don’t see that everyday.
Not yet but when I do I’ll know what board to grab
I wonder, what is a back yard garden called in the UK? 🤔A back garden garden...😋
I swear I'm going to use "beautiful crotch figure" as a pick up line. Lmfao
Needs to be on a T-Shirt!!! Hay Matt sounds like a good Merch. Idea!!!!!!
What do you do with all the lumber? Are you keeping it for future projects or selling some? Inquiring minds want to know. Not for me. I'm in Tx.😁
Martin Rugroden he does market his lumber
@@Tehcarp where can i buy it?
From matt
I guess your 090 is hanging out in the shop being bored?
Pretty much
Do you mind sharing how much you invested in your mill, I'm retired but would love to build one of these devices!
James Mitchell over 10k, I believe 12k but check out his website.
Do u have a kiln?
🤫😁
how do you stabilize the dry rot? looks really nice
Epoxy I guess
Can’t you put the date on your video thanks.?
Share 👍
hi Matt, why don't you mount an engine (step by step) on the track ?, 👍👏👏👏👏👏👏💓
giovanni petitti he talked about it when building the mill. I haven’t been keeping up to give you his justification
@@Tehcarp ,thank
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Love you're channel, who are the two idiots that gave a thumb down jealous much .
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Oh yes I too have a bulge in my crotch area when I see some good wood.
I feel you just like saying crotch... :)
First "crotch," about 35 seconds in.
First "crotch Figure?"
1 min 55 sec.
Everyone gets a shot at 35 seconds,
and a "boilermaker" at 1 min 55.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boilermaker_(beer_cocktail)
steve