Why I Don’t Build a Sawmill Shed for My Woodmizer LT15
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- čas přidán 10. 12. 2023
- People are often telling me I need a sawmill shed for my Woodmizer LT15 sawmill. A shelter to keep it out of the weather, and so I can mill logs into lumber any time,no matter what the weather is doing. I could even put lights in it and mill when it is dark. In this video, I am milling some Douglas fir logs into lumber. The logs came from mostly dead trees cut down on my off grid forest property. I plan on using some of the lumber to build a small off grid cabin. While I am milling, I will tell you why I have chosen not to build a sawmill shed. And I came up with a new grade of lumber.
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You’ve got a great sense of humor and personality, that’s why you are getting more subscribers.
It also helps that you enjoy your life and what you’re doing. Plus you’ve got common sense which isn’t too common anymore.
Thank you David. Very kind of you to say. Always good to have encouragement.
Out here in Africa, the hot glowy thing in the sky is very hot and very glowy... I can't get by without the luxury of a shed.
Your woodmizer is much quieter than my Luca, I can’t hear my self think!
I just laughed at your unintended joke about the lumber graders’ board meeting. 😂
my dad used to say about questions like that, " if the dog didn't stop to shit he would have caught the rabbit..." I know I said shit, coulda said poop or scat but dad said shit and its a quote. : )
I think it’s better the way your dad said it. The other words just don’t have the same ring to them. 😁
When you start making merch for your channel you could put this on a T-shirt: "nearly almost perfect"
Conventional wisdom is that the first thing you saw with a mill is the shed for it. My excuse is always ‘well, THIS lumber is too nice to waste on the shed’. Waiting on crappy lumber for years…
You make me laugh so straight forward and smart thank you
I subscribed to your channel because of your good sense of humor. And you have great tips and tricks.
Your video and your attitude are "nearly almost perfect " my friend. Keep it up.
I love your videos. Always entertaining!
Thanks adirondackwoodman. I don’t know what it is about the Adirondacks but seems like there are a lot of cool people from there.
@@WilsonForestLands you just have my sense of humor 😂
You have nice straight wood, no bent carrot disease! :))))
---- your commentary is worth subbing: so I did
Your reason makes more sense than most! It’s all about priorities! Something my partner in the Alaska property hasn’t learned yet. He’s the wallet and I’m the labor and the guy wants to fix things that aren’t even broken yet, all while trying to build a couple more cabins and maintain the current one! lol Enjoy your channel 👍🏼👍🏼
Your doing better than me, mines been in barn for two years cause I thought I needed it under roof. I've cut about 8 logs and its very difficult getting logs loaded and uploaded with mini ex. Also can't cut anything over 26in cause 2nd story of barn hinders height. Glad I found your channel, I'm fixing to drag it out so I can cut wood to build shed. Thanks for making videos
Good video Wilson! I think it was the first time shoveling 2 feet of snow off the mill that made me think hey what if this had a roof over it...
That’s interesting, snow on the mill made you think to make a shed. It made me think to strap on a snowboard and ride sawdust mountain. 😁
Nice to be out in the air working. Those are outdoor machines. How about a little doghouse roof attached to the top of the poles, about 4' wide by 7 foot, open, so the wind wont blow it over? Some people have a roof they park it under at one end of the track, but the rest is open. Just for machinery protection.
You make me laugh! I’m interested in how you determine the layout of logs. I’m a rancher in Texas and have never been around logging. If you have time to explain. Thanks for making these videos.
Awesome to have a rancher in Texas watching. I’m not sure what you mean by layout. Do you mean how I decide where to make the cuts?
After watching this video I think the layout should be nearly almost perfect, you can't go wrong with that!
That sure was some nice-looking lumber. I bet it would look really nice in a sawmill shed. Yes sir. Oh yah, it's a going to rain.
Hardly rained at all, just a few showers overnight. Sawmill shed schmawmill shed.
@@WilsonForestLands LOL. Stay dry my friend.
Mr. Wilson. Who would have thought you would have an audience with a good sense of humor.. 🤣🤣
I am sure glad I have an audience with a good sense of humor. If not, I would be hosed. 😁
Good looking lumber. I know what you mean by cutting into dirt. I was cutting firewood and I ended up hitting my log chain and after I got the chain right. I ended up cutting into a wedge. Lol. Maybe one day you will end up building a shed for your sawmill
Oh I hate cutting into chains and wedges. That’s even worse than dirt. Logging cables are no fun either.
@@WilsonForestLands right. I've done got the best of this chain. I guess that I'm gonna have to put a new one on now
Board meeting 🤣🤣no pun intended
Ok I started watching your video then ended up in a nightmare, had to put the rest of the video off until I did a couple sessions with my counselor, Ok I’m good now…
You got some e looking lumber out of them logs.
I got a sawmill shelter use to have a sawmill shed, sometimes there nice sometimes not…😂
You mentioned a lumber organization having a "board" meeting. It would have been very clever if you'd actually realized what you said. Maybe next time Michael.
OH! Almost forgot; great video.
Would you get bored at that board meeting?
Only if they bored into my head.
Please stop guys… my brain is starting to hurt. 😫
I was lumbering through the comments and ran into this one. Thanks Dave.
It seems like it would be fun to build a sawmill shed from lumber cut by the sawmill that has no sawmill shed.
Where the heck are you?? I assume you are in S. Oregon or N. Cal.. looks like the Applegate Valley area.. Am I close? I live east of Redding CA near Mt. Lassen.... Love your videos... you got a real knack for this.. 🙂
Thank you. I am in an undisclosed location in Southern Oregon. Not Applegate, but not too far from there.
Thanks! love your humor and your professionalism. I was an OSU grad but recently settled down after years of working in the Bay Area east of Redding with a sawmill and a great love of good forestry practices..@@WilsonForestLands
That wood looks good enough to eat.
I am glad I didn’t build a shed right away. I am constantly rethinking how the material flows in and out of the mill and the best way to arrange things. Getting close to an “almost nearly perfect” plan
Yes, the " “almost nearly perfect” plan " / seeing THE PLAN that has been put in place to be seen. I started thinking with 2 cords / 1,000 board feet per day just as Mr Woodmizer was in his workshop thinking he could scale-up the shop bandsaw he made into a small sawmill. Seeing what so many different people have figured out I now foresee a 3 bay utility building for direct log trailer - to mill - to wheeled drykiln "charge carrier" stickered with sticker "mats" for rapid accurate stickering and to facilitate drying of short boards - to outside the building easily movable small wood fired high efficiency drykiln/wood storage unit.
3 saw mill head powered from outside the building via the multi-purpose hydraulic power source / log transporter (or electric option), moving across the mill base that has manual end dogging, with one moveable unit to adjust for log length, capable of minimal necessary log elevation and with 4 90 degree stop rotation for rapid log positioning in the sawing process, where applicable . 3 saw mill head combining Bandsaw with built in 2 blade "edger unit" with radial arm saw type "edger" heads rotatable 90 degrees to both debark a notch on each side of the log enabling the following bandsaw blade to cut into clean wood and to facilitate production by edging boards on the log as they are cut off especially useful for making small short boards from the under utilized slabs.
Yielding the archetypical pattern mill setup capable of efficiently, fully utilizing the logs by producing home building components for building homes designed to be built with those components. Equipment designed to be built in the garage workshop and within the vo-tec school system for reordering society via small scale New Era Home Builders building high quality, low cost, energy efficient (home building site manufactured and installed finely shredded wood fiber blown into deep bay, parallel chord truss unified building framing for simplified, tilt up, construction) New Era Homes for New Era Communities foundational for a coming GOLDEN AGE of FREEDOM in PEACE on OUR EARTH
They only told me I needed a sawmill shed. What you just describe sounds way better than that. Sign me up for that.
@@WilsonForestLands I expect you volunteered to put your name on the list a long time ago (or you "were volunteered"). You figure things out, You share what you figure out.
Im assuming with the 15 start you have the 19hp kohler. Do you find the 19hp is adequate on bigger logs like 18" and larger? New subber and Nice vid! 9h yes you need a sms!!😂
I have the 14hp. it’s adequate on the larger cuts but more would be better. Thanks for this sms suggestion, I never thought of that before. 😁
Are you kidding! Do you know how much it would cost in lumber to build a shed? Shesh!........wait i just had a thought.........if you had acess to alot of lumber and a proerty on a slope you could build a deck on the slope part and always be warking on flat surface along with a area to easy scope up sawdust and not deal with mud puddles! You could evem build it with green lumber! And do a skeleton shed roof for winter with heavy tarp and pull it off during the summer!
Found the channel recently and love the humor and content! Also in oregon!
Sounds like a great idea. If only I had a sloped property and a source of lumber. Oh well. 😁
Welcome to the channel.
First!!! You should get a de-bark-er.
A debarker would definitely be way more useful to me than a shed.
They are never right, one can only reckon what one needs himself. Real men work outdoors and like it. Video is nearly almost perfect! BTW most all weather people merely repeat what the government weather person told them, so that explains a lot. Well Dun!!
Very well said. 😁
I was wondering why I wasn’t getting notifications of your videos after my last comment…..It looks like CZcams is unsubscribing viewers again. It’s not just your channel either. Please let your viewers know and to check their subscriptions!!
Great video, I wanted to ask, how do you resharpen your sawmill blades?? I have a Woodland Mill, and I have 4 blades that need to be resharpened, I was wondering if you send them out, or sharpen at home? Take care.
I haven’t noticed any significant drop in subscriber numbers. They have been consistently increasing. But that would be obnoxious if they were doing something like that.
I just did a video about sharpening blades. I always sent them to Woodmizer resharp. But now that they ended resharp, I still am not sure what I’m going to do now.
If you plan on moving it that's the number 1 reason why you shouldn't build a shed over it right now.
I have a similar setup where I have the sawmill below grade where I drop the logs and let gravity do the rest of the work. It's been a year and I haven't built my sawmill shed yet but I am almost there. I have obtained a bunch of used utility poles for free and I have enough lumber milled for the sawmill shed...now I just need the time to do it.
Yeah that would be the number one-ish reason. And that time thing you mentioned, that thing can be a bummer.
i think i'd fabricate a bracket and mount an 8' umbrella over the carriage and keep on keepin on, i haven't melted yet
I do have an 8 foot umbrella I use for my wood splitter. That’s for shade when it’s sunny. I have thought about doing the same with the sawmill. Although I’m less concerned about rain on me, more concerned about things like rain washing the mud on the logs all over the clean wood.
lol I've moved my mill so many times...maybe that's a problem I have 😅
Yeah I’m starting to question the whole stationary mill situation in general. Been looking at that mobile conversion kit.
That's what I did. Started on the ground, put a trailer under it and then life changed and the sky's opened up...and then Wood-Mizer spoke to me and I bought a Hydraulic mill and the rest is history! ha!@@WilsonForestLands
Hey Wilson you need a sawmill shed. Just kidding. Cool video. Sawmill sheds are for girls 😁
Yeah, sawmill sheds are for girls. Unless I decide to build one. Then it won’t be for girls anymore. But for now it is. 😁
Hi one good reason not to have a shed is the noise will bounce back from the roof from the gas motor along with fume's. If you had wheels under your mill you could move it to clean under. Plus you would not have to bend over so much to do your work .If God intended people to work so close to the ground he would have made your arms longer. Western fir is a lot nicer then eastern hemlock thanks for the video from john
plus you would not have to bend over so far to pick up the boards.If God wanted you to work so close to the ground he would have made your arms longer. I think you would agree western fir is better then eastern hemlock
I hadn’t thought about the noise, that is a good point. But I have thought about exhaust and the fine sawdust in the air. I have been looking at the mobile conversion kit for this mill. For both mobility and height. I have no experience with eastern hemlock, but from what I hear, our Douglas fir is better in many ways.
You made some good points.
If you use your mill in the same spot try to decide what direction the wind blows at the time of day you are sawing so one can set the mill so the dust and fume's blow away from you happy sawing from john@@WilsonForestLands
Well, could it be that 2 cants are better than one? (I need a life, lol!)
Maybe sometimes, but two cants don’t always make a can. See, you’re not the only one who needs to get a life. 😁
"Nearly Almost Perpect" ? Man, that board is "nappy"
To Shed or not to Shed that is the dilemma ?
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the rain and snow of outrageous weather,
or to take arms against a sea of troubles with construction tools, and preventing them from getting my stuff all wet.
@@WilsonForestLands blah ha ha pretty funny !
You keep saying sawmill shed, in several videos now 🤔 I'm starting to suspect you actually want a SAWMILL SHED! 🤨😁
Well I suppose if someone was to give me one I wouldn’t turn it down.
That saw cuts logs like they’re budda.
You need a sawmill shed.
Next ..." board " meeting.Effortless humour.
Nearly almost perfect is FAS
Good at least I got one person on board. 😁
Dont build a shed if you dont need it - im not missing a shed at all... but we dont have that much snow in my area - cold and wet weather doesn't stop me at all doing what i want to do.
We don’t have much snow here either, maybe one of the reasons I haven’t been motivated to build one.
Instead of just being a “ recreational complainer” about the weather, you might want to consider becoming a full-time, professional complainer, makes it much easier to explain to people who see you shaking fists at the sky!!🇺🇸
I wanted to but my high school career guidance counselor discouraged me. He said there was no future in it. But now I can see all the possibilities. I could do Podcasts, a weather complaining channel. and yes, the shaking fist thing. If only I wouldn’t have listened to him.