Slabbing almost 8000lbs of White Oak
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- čas přidán 4. 06. 2024
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Chapters
0:00 - Introduction
3:37 - First Cuts
12:46 - Starting to Stack
19:04 - Second Cuts
25:49 - More Stacking
31:00 - Day 2
36:08 - Flipping
41:42 - Stacking the Last Slabs
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I never thought watching a log getting cut could be so much fun. Better than cutting a diamond!
After watching the video advert i was still skeptical. But when i finally downloaded the plans czcams.com/users/postUgkxZF0EMnrujZvqHhGkxiz559uIABJWR9TG i was very impressed. The whole plan was just as you said in the video. Thank you very much. I now have a large and valuable collection for my woodworks. This is great!
That slab-flipping setup is pure engineering genius. Simple and highly effective; the best kind of solution.
Why does the slab have to be rolled?
Doesn't absolutely have to be, its an artistic decision to get different grain views.
Can stack it all in order without moving it twice this way, as well.
It needs the clamps welded to it
Love the ingenuity of the slab flipper. You should market them and call 'em "Twirl a Slab 5000"- so cool and so easy for you customers (wives) to easily compare which side is best. Love it, your channel, and passion!
As an old guy I am very proud of you for the great work you do. This show was a treat. Thank you.
49 minutes of high quality A+ distraction. Nice.
The good stuff
Agree
49 minute?????!!! they feel like 10
The new camera job doesn't looks like A+ compared to the previous videos. It looks very soulless now.
@@O-.-O arguing on the internet! Even more distraction. This is bonus distraction DLC!
You are truly an inspiration to those of us who do not fear a days work. WELL DONE, Matthew!
My hubby watching this in my family room and I'm in my bedroom watching this amazing "huge" 8000lbs. of white Oak. Amazing.
Thanks Matt for the tour through cutting that oak log. Amazing the amount of staining that barb and staple did to the tree so long ago. Back in the 20's my maternal Grandpa had a portable saw mill powered by a steam engine. Sure wish I could seen his operation but I was born in '39 so didn't get to see any of his work and he passed inn '47. Before he passed though he made and gave me my most prized tool. A kids saw was made out of a short section of his band saw. At about 4 inches wide with a handle he made as well and about 16 inches long he included the scarf braze joint in my saw not far from the handle. There are two lines that are about ⅜ inches apart; that got me to thinking about the joint. A really fine modeling file and a sharpening stone revealed the very thin brass joint. Knowing how he did things I think it was put there on purpose for me. Finding it I ran outside, looked up and hollered "I found it Grandpa, I found it." What wonderful things our folks did for us. Thanks for your "tour". Jim Martin
Your conversational way of explaining as you go about your business makes it easy to follow and enjoyable to listen to. Thanks man!
...as someone who spends all day inside at a desk, thank you for sharing your work with the world. I wish I lived more like this.
A World Wide Wrestling Event. A slim guy against a four ton log. Enjoyed your videos for several years now. Very pleased to see you have all of your fingers and limbs. Keep them.
I appreciate your calmness when the blade hits metal, which is obviously going to cost time and money. It's good to see a craftsman take the negatives without getting upset!
That drive-by water toss was epic. Beautiful slabs you have there!
My father in law in the last few years had a giant white oak log like this and we took it and had it cut into lumber with a steam powered saw mill. As a wood worker, it's amazing to see what comes out of these logs. Beautiful grain patterns and the smell of fresh cut oak. I bet it smells great!
I like how Oak smells like popcorn when you cut it -- Must be the tannin in the wood. Beautiful Stuff -- Wears like iron!
Love your positive attitude, shows how much you love what you are doing and thank you for the interesting explanation of the log graining. Awesome!
Years ago while walking out of a home center I saw an older man exiting the store alongside me, and with a smile over his face. He made eye contact with me, carrying along what supplies he needed to finish whatever he was working on, smiled, and exclaimed, “making America beautiful!”
I think about that moment all the time. But that memory feels extra special to me today.
Keep making America beautiful, Matt. And congratulations on your participation in your first U.S. election.
Thank you!
The natural beauty inside trees like this leave me in awe. The sawmill you built works excellent.👊😎 Thanks for sharing Matthew 👍
I love watching how you read the story of the wood patterns. It’s fascinating and I’m learning! I adore wood and really appreciate the fascinating patterns that develop for myriad of reasons. I have to say that yellow pine, and birdseye maple are two of my favorites. I also love curly and tigerseye patterns in wood. I love wood with orange, yellow and reddish hues.
That was so educational into log Slabs cutting , the Hiw's and Why's ! Way back younger days ,Watched Live, blade sharpening and cutting of imported Mahagony Red Wood rough blocks but did not learn anything from them except it was hard wood used for furniture ! Thank You for the Enlightening !
Awesome videos , for many years my father and his 3 brothers ran a sawmill in Iowa .Before and after WW 2 ,in IOWA , so this brings back sweet memories .I would watch them work for hours .
Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
Thank you!
Matt, you are one brilliant and energetic young man! Thanks for sharing your efforts with us.
I bet the wood smells as good as it looks. fresh cut timber WOW
White oak stinks
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
I just mindlessly watch you work... it's incredible the ease you move those slabs with... I know you use the skid but even you pushing and pulling those slabs around by hand is definitely considerable weight... I've tried to move them myself a long time ago and let me tell you, it's impossible until I see you do it! Thank you for another super interesting video...
Always good to see a pro. The precise stacking says it all.
That log flipper is awesome...first time I have ever seen that. Great stuff.
That is some beautiful clear lumber. I know what you mean about the density of white oak, when I was about 12 I helped my father build a ramp to the haymow of out barn that stuff was heavy.
Matthew, Great stuff. Very inspirational. I just raised our Timber frame on our property near Flagstaff, Az. Been following along for a couple of years. I love it to see people like yourself doing it , not just talking about it. Time for talk is over. Time for people of courage to begin rebuilding our society...from the foundation up. Thanks for leading the way.
You're scarin' me w that talk. Get your facts together. Ignorance isn't bliss. It just tried to tumble this USA. Stick to wood on this channel, please!
I AM TRUELY INFORM WITH THE INFORMATION YOU GIVE USE WITH EACH VEDIO. THANK YOU AND I CAN NOT STOPPING WHICHING YOU SHOW EACH TIME I VIEW A NEW SHO.
Always enjoy watching how appreciative you are of your finished cuts. Happy holidays from Edina
WOW this reminds me so much of 15 years I spent in Lancaster Pa - working with Amish making my furniture ! A few of them had portable sawmills like yours -- one little kid maybe 12-13 could operate that kind of machine.. most of our HUGE trees/logs/stumps came out of Yards and nostalgic fields. They were White Oaks !
yes i say bring on the kids amish do it whole family joins in
Man oh man I have totally enjoyed watching you get through that huge tree getting those slabs. And I appreciate the way you explain the structure and how things make the tree what it is even the possible lightning strike/barbed wire/fence staple situation! Way to go, I learned a lot.
God bless and stay safe look forward to your future videos!
Larry Wagoner from QC Arizona, wish we had trees that size in my yard ,but the biggest thing I have is a 200 year old saguaro cactus (ha ha)!
Keep up the good work in Minnesota, You have a friend in Arizona...!
Thank you!
My man....you are an amazing person. To do what you do alone is unreal. My hat is off to you.
thanks!
Hard work!! Love the video and like to see the tables made from this tree and your hard work. I might add that your sunny personality is pretty appealing!! Thanks dude!!
Nice video and you seem to be such a cool guy to be around. I love wood including my 5 ft diameter live oaks i have on my property. Not good for table slabs but working on plans for a awesome tree house to be built in the 2 connecting trees. Of course I would use non invasive attachments. Love your work.
That's some beautiful lumber there, Matt.
Quite an impressive operation you have there from the trailer which is genius to the massive mill you have and the tractor with forklift. One man mill!
Love white oak. Underutilized wood. Great grain structure. I saved 34 pallets made of white oak. All of em came out of St Louis Missouri area.
Always enjoy your videos Matt. I like your down to earth attitude. I have been milling lumber since 1973 and really enjoy seeing the mill that you built. With the band as long as it is, I wonder how you keep the cuts from wandering.
It would be neat to find a civil war era musket ball in a tree slab !
I collected the last log when my neighbor had her white oak removed. It had over 100 rings and was about 36 inches. 10 feet long. The tree removal company was taking all of the wood to a yard to dump it. I asked them to put it on my flatbed truck instead of their dump trailer which they happily did. I paid someone to saw it for me and it also had blue stains like this one. The pieces of steel were also very very small. I don't make videos very often but I did make a timelapse of the tree removal. It's on my profile.
You should weld some wheels onto your rotisserie stands similar to how they are on driveway basketball hoops. That way they'd still hold securely in place, but could easily be moved when tipped at an angle
Jon did a great job with his filming. I literally thought to myself "Man he really stepped up his filming game.
I admire the strong will, perseverance and the highly dependancy of the machine to finish the job. A very massive job of one person. Amazed by it.
You have to be into wood to watch 45 minutes of sawing wood. I watched every minute.
Light years more entertaining than NetFlix.
Netflix
Matthew, your laugh and energy is so infectious. I completely enjoy watching your excitement and enthusiasm in doing what you do. It's an inspiration to see that your work ethic is serving you well. Keep it up. I wish you and your lovely family all the best in the new home as well!
My poos are more entertaining than Netflix and they’re not even that exciting really.
#Loveswatchingmenplaywiththeirwood
Look at all of those dynamic shots! What is this, Hollywood?
Hollywood doesn’t have anything on this!
Whoever was filming was getting some very good shots.
I think Matt mentioned a weekly live strean he had a top rated video production guy stop by the shop and shoot some sawmill videos. This is clearly one of them.
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@@mcremona To be honest, they don't. I would rather watch this than any of the crap Hollywood has put out over the last several years. The only TV show I watch anymore is Forged in Fire. I'm not even sure why I'm paying for cable still.
I think... you are a genius Matthew! What incredible videos you make and the machinery you use... stunning! Thank you for such entertaining (and a little scary) videos showing how you do these things! Wow!
Great job Math, I enjoyed watching it.
Wow, this is ultimate woodworking!I can only dream of having a spacious enough space out in the country like that to have that much fun! I could peacefully retire having joy making stuff out of wood like that. Like one man’s trash being another man’s treasure, we see wood the same way! An old piece of tree is somebody’s new spice rack, pencil holder, or something else wonderfully natural. Thanks for sharing. Subscribed! (Do get worried about you and that blade cutting the blue stain. I think I would have removed the top cuts to see what’s there. Oh, love your cutting trailer!
Haven't watched your channel in a while but your equipment has grown, you must have been growing your business nicely and reinvesting in to it
Matt ,nice job, thanks for sharing your work with all of us
you are great. you made a rather complicated hard work look very simple and easy. thanks.
Wow love the filming on this! I'm surprised This Old House hasn't wanted to film with you. They should!
Half way through, we were thinking how steady the camera was. Started wondering just who was filming. Very well done, enjoyable to watch. (We bounce our camera like tennis balls at a dog park)
When filming never look through the camera as it will shake, just look over it and hold it to you body.
It is kind of cool that you invest so much effort into cutting the logs that nobody wants to touch. You truly seem to enjoy producing slabs with wild crotch figures and defects.
Those slabs are a nightmare to work with for any woodworking project, but they look cool. It is great that they get love from you for their goofyness.
Enjoyed it. Liked both the filming and Matt running commentary. Thanks! Learned something every day!
I have about 40 white pine 60-80ft high and in GREAT form for some woodsmen to help me produce some flooring. T&G, and ship lap siding.
It's people like this that give me hope in American future which is looking so dim right now.
It's wonderful to see trees that would have ended up rotting in a landfill put into use.
Get yourself a metal detector, they work great for locating metal in logs.
I would love to see some examples of what is made form these incredible slabs of wood please.
Blacktail Studio youtube channel does a lot of slab/live edge work if you wanna see what you can turn pieces like these into
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Dude that is one mighty oak!!! Hot damn buddy that's one of if not the biggest logs I've ever seen on a mobile mill!!!
Hi Matt, thanks for adding the metric values. I can understand your measurements at a glance:)
Addition of a "camera person?" Nice look! Incredible Slabs!!
Trying it out 😊
Not real big on long videos, but Matthew is just a real genuine, hard working person that is enjoyable to watch.
Great job Jon, really enjoyed it. Love to b doing exactly that myself.
Great log, enjoyed watching it being worked on!
Great show! Some beautiful slabs too. Metal detector might be of service to you to locate and avoid messing up a blade. Hitting metal, even if it doesn't break any teeth, still bends them and then the blade tracks off sometimes ruining a very valuable slab of wood. I'm sure you know that. Anyway I enjoyed your video.
The little short piece you left at the church would have been a great piece for wood bowl turners because it had a crotch wood structure making for a nice grain presentation when turned.
Very nice wood characteristics analysis with visual explanation👌
Fantastic! I learned a few things and the video work was outstanding!
Man this is awesome. You're living my dream of owning a sawmill someday!
That trailer is sweet. I'm surprised the blade doesn't pinch on itself with the massive weight of the tree.
Thanks Zack! A characteristic of sawblades is set: how much the teeth protrude past the blade's body. This allow the teeth to clear a wider path than the thickness of the body supporting them. The blade is essentially floating in the kerf as it travels through the log.
@@mcremona Dang Today I Learned. Thank you!
Happy to help. I know I’ve learned plenty from your videos 🙂
@@mcremona aha -I wondered the same thing.
What part of the country you from.
Have you ever cut hedge also Osage orange? Love your mill.
How much was it.
Nice work
I’ve spent some time working around sawmills so I just happen to notice, I have been the guy in the skiddie setting the logs and stacking the product. What stands out to me is the simplicity of the the skid tool that you use. I think it allows you a much better view of what you are doing and how you don’t have to crawl in and out of the machine, you just step on and off. Very simple
Most people don’t get that. Thanks!
I remember my grandfather cutting a big old oak tree this was like 25 years ago. when i was like 11. He was making them into Slabs. There was like hundreds of american Revolutionary War bullets in the slabs. And 1 Bayonet that got cut in half from making the slab
Where?
Matthew I just absolutely love to see you slab a log. The beautiful wood grain and nature of the tree.Thanks for sharing Jesus loves you and so do I.
Thankyou Really enjoyed the video.I also appreciate the time you took to explain what is going on with each board.Have a great day.
Thanks Tom!
Oh that's some really pretty wood to work with. I love that... Good job! One more thing...Any iron that was in the middle of that tree...was long gone. That tree ate it and loved it!
I'm watching this, as I have many times before, just thinking "What a machine. What a MACHINE!" I can't imagine how much fun it must be to run given the entertainment we're getting from watching it.
I find it amazing the blade doesn’t burn up with all those slabs above that haven’t been removed.
It seems like it would be less strain on the saw if you remove them.
The kerf of the blade creats just enough space behind, as it progresses though the timber, for there not to be too much friction. After a couple of inches the slab will sag down onto the rest of the log, but behind the blade - so the blade is effectively making its own tiny triangular void through which it passes.
I believe he is spraying the blade as it cuts with something. Water, silicone?
@@timmayer8723 diesel, in my experience
When the blade is exiting the log that when the load causes the pinch on the band blade
I love how the tree looks cut and stacked, very beautiful
Matthew you are one interesting young man not afraid to take on anything no matter how Big, awesome video work let alone the wood knowledge involved in taking on these projects i remember when you built this Saw and the young lady from Texas who i do follow as well love your work keep on keeping on Sir
That is a big stick... in my country, the Netherlands, a tree that size would most certainly be protected. Not many trees survived the war (ww2). And nowadays they dont let trees grow big at all unfortunately...
why don't you let some grow that big? Even on private land?
It was a shame how old growth trees got youse for the war efforts. And after what was left to build homes ect. Hi from New Zealand.
@@johndethlefs6013 We do have big trees, but mostly not in the western part of the Netherlands anymore. That's where our big cities are. In the eastern and southern part we have some nice old landscapes (private and also National Parks) smaller towns and villages where you can find nice big trees. Chestnut trees have a bigger chance to grow big over here, because they were planted in cities and mark the long lanes we have.
america is huge and has only been widely populated for a couple hundred years... western europe has been ragged hard for several centuries and all the best stuff has gone, there's a fair amount of old growth still about, stuff that wasn't quite good enough to cut down and build with. willem is right they're protected now.
john trees take ages to get that big.
Americans love their trees and most likely this was not an old growth log as evidenced by the old limbs. Trees in neighborhoods can get really big very fast because they have little competition for sunlight from other trees and receive adequate water and fertilizer every single year unlike trees in a forest. There are numerous neighborhoods in my area built in the 1970s where the oaks are now easily 5+ feet in diameter←simply enormous and they are only 50 years old. Honestly, they are too big in many cases having grown too big too fast and a lot of them are being removed just like this one. But with all that said, a lot of America has reverted back to forest and in a hundred years or so, I am sure there will be many true old growth trees once again with tight grains that have withstood the sands of time.
Love that mini skid steer...just the job!
Swansea, Wales.
What is the brand of that skid steer - I think I want one
@@iainbrown4945 i wouldn't want to be anywhere near if you drove one seeing as you can't even read the name written on the machine! - vermeer.
i'm joking of course, crack on get yourself one mate
I can't wait to see what you will create
Thanks man, great delivery.
Matt, I hope the day arrives when I can purchase a slab for my home.
2 hours working from home. What have you accomplished? Idk I watched a log get cut for 49 minutes though
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
I always skip through videos this long. you get the entertainment and learning
I am glad that you are not wasting your time .Only us men can enjoy this and wish we did this for a living.
Beautiful slabs Matt! Perfect distraction for a Wednesday morning work day! Lol
All people that do this I assume they accomplish some progress even if is physically mental, that not really must to be a money maker, but self satisfactory, prove yourself that you can do it is an instant gratification, I do it because I feel good when doing it, is an expensive hobby and not apt for everyone, must have the love to do things instead of watching and doing nothing, that is what he probably accomplished with this work being done, let’s be a lovers, not haters!
Great video ...Really enjoyed . Keep up the great work.
I get that this is NOT "just a job but your trust in your saw blades amazes me. Steel on steel whizzing around at warp speed would have me using a remote on an automatic machine about a mile away! Cracking stuff and very enjoyable.
Sometimes I wish my saw cut more than 30”.... then I watch Matt dangling from a canthook and I think maybe 30” ain’t so bad. 😆
That was fascination, I always wondered how these giant logs were milled. I think everyone seeing this video would like to know the value of one of those slabs (approximately, understanding some slabs are bigger or smaller than others). Thanks
Love your work. Going to atept to build your bassinet for my first grand child. Guessing at the dimensions, but I think I can get a great final product. Going to make it, so my daughter can take it apart and stow it away. Hopefully she give me a couple of more. Keep up the good work and have fun doing it!
Great video! Look forward to seeing you slab it.
thanks!
Never thought I’d watch that long a video but your talent and knowledge and the history of the log was well worth the watch. You certainly have the equipment for the job and you really enjoy what you do. Not being nosey but what is a log that big worth dollar wise. You used quite a few blades. Is that normal?
Would be interesting to know the end result of many of these beautiful slabs. :)
My husband really enjoy watching your videos you do really nice work. My husband was a carpenter but now he's retired.
Wow! Some real beautiful slabs! 👍👍
A lot of intresting stuff here,
and the running water throw was hilarious ...
i've seen all49 minuts, thankx
Yes, the new camera guy and editing is a better. Logs/wood is just as beautiful as ever. AND, as usual, you're having tooooo much fun.
thanks for posting this process