Sawing Old Logs - How long can I wait before sawing logs into lumber?
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- How long can I wait before sawing logs into lumber? How far gone is too far gone? Are there any advantages to waiting?
I have a stack of logs that have been sitting around for a few years that we can saw to see the results of letting a log age.
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I’m a few years late to the party, but my chickens get pretty excited when I saw through a log that has ants in it. They clean up termites really quick too.
I watched the videos of you building your sawmill. In spite of some troubles I believe it is proof of: "If you want it done right, do it yourself". It is the best sawmill I have seen. It's big, powerful, adjustable and doesn't eat blades. Great job!!!
I go through your sawmilling videos and love how you don't give a crap about leaving stuff on the bed and near missing it with the blade or other part of the saw or even hitting it. I'm surrounded by people who overly care of that kind of things. Like even getting rained on...
Nice mill, dream actually... :)
Never dreamed you could mill multiple logs at once. You are a great teacher as well.
Thanks!
I used to think owning a saw mill would be every woodworkers dream but now I think it would be living in Matt’s neighborhood!
A day spent doing this almost guarantees a good nights sleep. Fun to watch, too.
Not that you need another comment, but here is comment 436.
Thank you for taking the time to share this with us. Each video of yours I watch, I find something new I have learned form watching. So thank you for taking the time to make these videos and share your knowledge with us all. It is greatly appreciated.
Thank you.
Dale
Thank you so much, Dale!
Sorry i haven't commented in awhile been pretty sick. Been waiting for a mill video and this is a great one your knowledge of wood is amazing. With the invention of the bandmill so many have started sawing but so very few know how to saw. So much more to it than throwing a log on and putting a blade through it. Matt you have a real expertise few have look forward to more of your expert milling and wood knowledge.
Just love sawmill Vlogs ..maybe I need to get out more..the Ants bring a whole new meaning to Live edge..
Who needs a home gym when you have a sawmill. Wow, that is a lot of work, but it looks to be worth the trouble. Thanks for the video Matt.
best saw mill I have seen. I was wondering why people didn't do this! great IDEA, works great! good job!
You are a lucky one to cut your own lumber
Congrats. You have learned somash.tanks for yours videos.
Matt: "Cool wood though"
Ants: "IT'S THE ANTPOCOLYPSE!!! RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!!"
Great info. Watched a couple of your vids. I am 58 yrs old and consider myself fairly knowledgeable, but today after a little research learned the meaning of cant! I have, and use cant hooks inhereted from my forefathers, but never considered what a "cant" is! Lol.
Thanks Matt :) A few things I need to consider about the stuff I have sitting in the snow for another year. I simply couldn't get to it again due to the huge list of jobs I had during the warmer months. If I get a clear day, I'm going to try and get some of them cut up. I was thinking about it today :) ॐ
I'm sure I've said it before... and I know I'll say it again. I could watch you mill up lumber all day... so satisfying and a great ending... better than a Disney Movie.
Matt, redgum also likes to move.
I turned a rolling pin, out of redgum,
and the next day, felt like an ear of
corn. But, if you rough cut it, and
let it dry until it stops moving, it has
some beautiful figuring. It also makes
gaps, which can be filled with colored
epoxy. I prefer something blue/green,
because it shows up better.
steve
ironically i have found some of my best pieces in what others think is garbage wood, like you i can see what is there in a piece and not only what is wrong with it ,,,great explanation
I agree! Love that beautiful Colors and different shapes of that Wood! That's definitly no Waste!
I agree! Love that beautiful Colors and different shapes of that Wood! Definitly no Waste!
Literally using this as a time frame for my mechanical engineering project
This is so cool, thank you so much for taking the time to share this 😁
GREAT video Matt, thanks for taking the time to put it together. There is quite a bit to know about drying and slabbing. You don't just put the log onto the mill and cut away. Thanks, enjoy the family and have a wonderful year.
Thank you Mark!
Gives me the willies watching this. I feel like they’re climbing all over me now. THANKS MATT!
hahahahaa
I started to get really itchy starting at 7:18. I learned a good bit while watching this. Thanks!
Creepy crawlies
Matt, I have to say I like your shop videos, but I love your milling videos. Your earlier videos helped inspire me and make my decision to buy my mill and start doing videos on CZcams. Keep up the good work.
Thanks Ben!!
hey Ben, just watched one of your videos earlier tonight
pretty good
Matthew Cremona I’m local and I want to meet you. I have recently come into some material that could jump start me in building a mill of my own and I want to talk with you.
Very educational Matt! I really didn’t realize how much color and beauty a cut log could produce if left for awhile, but not too long. Definetly learned a lot.
Remembering I don’t do social media, I noticed a winch added to the far end of the mill. Nice touch and obviously a great help! Take care!
Wearing sorts and the sawmill still in one piece, for a minute there I thought you had travelled in time ;)
Great to see the logs as well as the dried boards in one video, really interesting!
Hi Matt, thank you very much for this instructional video. I come away from watching your milling lumber videos with knowledge I did not have before.
awesome to hear. Thanks!
Thks alot Matt I'm learning so much thks for the knowledge
Love how you explain the various things about wood: the different colors (which aren't always viewed), the curling, etc., pros and cons about when to cut and store. Overall, your videos are great. Keep them coming.
Believe I'm about 40-50 miles north of you here in MN. We have snow and 15-20F today. Looks really nice down south :-)
In the Southwestern US, African Sumac is a common decorative tree. If you have space, they're pretty but when they get overwatered, they send up sprouts everywhere and roots travel a very long distance. Which means there are lots of these trees that got put into tract homes where they really have no business going. Mesquite is a much better choice even though it grows a lot slower. African Sumac has a neat trick though, it gets a suntan. It will turn a very pretty ruddy red color when cut and exposed to air and sunlight. You can see it when you trim a good sized limb and the nub turns red. It's nice, because most African sumac trees never really get large enough to need a big mill. The last one I cut down at my old house, I milled with my chainsaw into manageable rough pieces and did the rest with a table saw. Cut those quick though and seal the ends if you can't get to it right away, because it checks something fierce, as the logs like to twist.
Great job Matt
Have yet to see any sawing with the orange colored saw mill. Looking forward to that.
Yessir. Lots larva. You have endless enjoyment in all facets of wood
I love your antics.
Ran into the same problem with wood bores, only they spread into some of my good wood! Holy cow! That pissed me off!
Hey Matt; happy holidays from Dijon, France. I’m over here visiting my wife’s family. I was given some maple that was in worse shape than what you had cut. And I used Minwax wood stabilizer on it and was I impressed(basically like the penetrating epoxy you use). The stuff that was really bad I have been using to make picture frames. It doesn’t have to be too wide or too thick and like yours the color pallet was nice. Have a great Christmas and on the 27th tip one up for me it’s my b-day. Abiento!
So glad for more sawmill videos
I really dig all the sawmill videos and hope they keep coming. Thanks for the amazing content.
Thanks Dustin! I have a few more from the summer that I need to edit
Matt, thanks for this video, following the milling thru to what it looks like after drying, and planing is great.
Nice little desks there at12:15 me ns or tops for dresser tables if you do the epoxy resin bit and stain em several hundred a piece
Matt after watching the video would it be beneficial for you to put a log cradle on the end of your mill that you could add on when you are loading logs on the deck and take off when not sawing it looks like it might help the same as it does when you are loading onto your trailer!
hmmm. what a good video with lots of good info -- not just for log cutting! good work.
That mill is insane.
Hi Matt,
Just a note to say thanks for all the video's you shared with everyone this year. Hope you and your family have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Jim
Thank you Jim! You as well!
Love your mill
I prefer flitch sawn for furniture projects, live edges are fine and leave all the options that tree provided for orienting the part to the grain direction and flow. Very nice mill! :)
Minnesota looks nice this time of year!
As an English man, with how difficult it is to get nice, affordable hard woods, I would sell my first born son for that "piece of firewood" :/ I wish lumber was as easy to get over here. You can end up spending 4 digit amounts for a white oak of unknown status, possibly Rotten through.
Most of our oak was used up making the strongest navy in the 1800's
Edit:
Change my mind after seeing those monstrous ants. At least 3 times bigger than ours
hahahaha And they're bigger down south
near the end where you were showing the results after drying the first board which was split in two would look amazing with a glow in the dark blue or green epoxy holding the two pieces together.
I was thinking that as well :)
The boards with splits would make cool epoxy/resin river/lava tables or shelves
Great stuff Matt. Open you and your family have a wonderful holiday
Hi there. My father invented a portable sawmill back in the 1950’s called Travelog. I went to several Fairs with him around MASSACHUSETTS and New Hampshire when I was just a young kid. To impress potential buyers I ran the machine myself and had a blast. The unit was a rider with the controls by the seat. I was too young to care all that much, so don’t know if they made a lot of these or not. In trying to remember my only recollection is that they were used primarily in South America. If anyone knows more please include that in your next Vid comments. Tks
Very informative. Thank You.
I am old and can't see very well, but around 10:13 in this video, It looks like Matt is using the "Force" to move logs around. Nice video.
Lol thanks Bill!
I like to rough out two sides of a log, in order to hasten/govern the drying vs. twisting, depending on species. I guess you could say this is a "hybrid" way, between clearing multiple sides of a cant, and actually slabbing it. I do one fairly large pass across the top and bottom of the log, so that it will dry quicker, but also remain nice and thick, to keep torsion in "check"(pardon the pun😌).
Q1
Great video. Looks like it would have made some great wood turning blanks if cut at 5"thick.
Great video extremely educational and comprehensive. Well Done
Thank you!
I like your old mill, really works great
Excellent video a year in the making!
Clearly a video taken a few months ago, thanks for putting this together. I found it very informative. I look forward to an upcoming one shop day. Do you think you’ll do one in the winter?
Thanks, Matt, very informative video. There is so much to learn about the movement of wood. Thanks for sharing.
I'm wondering how many Felixs (Felixii?🤔Feli? ) there are in Nebraska???
Thanks Matt,wish you could do a start to finish toot about the large cabinet with the gooseneck doors.That is beautiful...PS Sawing logs gives me WOOD
I wish I lived where it stays green and warm in December 😉😉 Nice looking maple!
where
Look outside Matt's window @ 19:13
JDWoodworks Thanks! Yes, I was joking! I live about 6 miles from Matt's house and I know exactly how cold is is there! 😂😂
Nice mantle piece
Borax and Sugar. I always have some around the Vic’s Yard near wood. Warm weather season when ants are active.
Vic
I must concede Matthew. Your mill is bigger than mine. :-) Cheers, and thanks for the great videos!
If you are cutting older wood similar to what you have there, would you ever consider trying to saw the log quarter sawn? I know some of those logs were not conducive for that but some were. Also if you haven’t, I’d like see the best use/cut of getting lumber out of a log. Flat sawn, quarter sawn and rift sawn.
Matt , very impressive, a home made mill? I've had a Timberking 1220 for 12 years many similarities except that yours is electric, would like to compare notes with you sometime. Its now very much winter here in the Adirondacks (just south of Lake Placid) so I put my mill up for the winter with all of my spoils in storage sheds or on pallets covered with multiple tarps, at age 70 my milling days are coming to a close sometime soon so I thoroughly enjoy your youth and woodworking affinity.
Merry Christmas
Mike
At age 69 I'm just starting out as a woodwork D.I.Y beginner and would love to try a bit of milling, though probably never will. Why you stopping at 70, or will I have to wait 'till the end of the year to find that out?
I've been wondering about the weather issues. Where i live we only have rain (at least supposedly) during the winter. Still a lot of the saws are under a roof? Heck, if some would built me a saw i would build them a roof. They don't get damaged?
The last maple slab that you pulled off the mill you could stabilize that and make a nice coffee table out of
Great wood for rustic furniture yay!!!.😎😎😎😎😍
That was a really interesting video, thanks for posting it. I won't be doing it (don't even have a bandsaw), but it's good to see a professional exploring the interior of old logs.
Lots of great information Professor Slab.
That's quite a work out
I’m intrigued by your saw mill. Can you do a video showing everyone your mill and how it works
How about a whole series on how I made it? Bandsaw Mill Build
czcams.com/play/PL0dX5redvVZQT-bJ-HNfrJEXlQJleCwun.html
This is so cool! I will definitely have to build one of these machines one day.
Artisanally sawn firewood.
Brian Prusa carefully curated
love the vid clips. i am also intrigued by the colors and textures of wood. cheers from Aus.
thanks!
I enjoy these logs videos much more than shop update this is unique on the youtube nobody does it
Thanks
You mentioned the possible use of sweet gum after sitting and drying as a log. What, in your opinion, would be the "best" use of sweet gum? Thanks, love your videos, keep up the great work.
Really well done with jumping through different backgrounds and the beginning. It was neat.
Thanks for posting
Let me add that you are a strong young man. Again, please take care.
Awesome sawing 👍😁
Great video Matt, thanks for all the tips. Like the colors and the grain. Merry Christmas to you, Lindsay, and the boys.
Can you please do a video about. How long do you have to wait before using lumber off your mill. Thanks Matt 😀
Air Drying Your Own Lumber
czcams.com/video/xA81Ko0qZgg/video.html
Matthew Cremona 👍
Have you ever tried making a solar kiln to speed the drying of wood? I believe it's just slow enough to not cause cracking.
I like that stuff for custom mantles but i have to stabilize them first.
When milling, (sawing), logs as shown in this video, how often do you need to change the saw blade? And, do you sharpen the blades yourself?
Have you ever used fabric softener and mixed with water ( 1/2 gallon of fabric softener dollar store kind in seven gallons of water ) to lube saw blade when milling ?
Thanks Matt, another great video. I learn so much every time I watch one of your work efforts.
Merry Christmas Matt!! A prosperous and healthy new yr to you and your growing family.
Wow, I just watched a video about sawing logs.....loved it....think I'll go saw some logs zzzz😂
Enjoy the nap :)
Thanks for your knowledge!!!!! Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to you & your family
Nice! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Matt! Looking forward to Cremona videos in 2018!
Thank you!!
Thanks for another very entertaining episode, Matt. 😃👌👌👏👏
Really like how you are going through the whole process from milling till actually having built the furniture. Do you always mill to the same thickness? Never thicker boards needed?
Looks like you had a warm front come through lol
Man, I wish the weather was still like that in Minnesota!
Talk about weather swings - by 19:12 it’s snowing!
Sweet gum has to be either ALL sapwood or ALL winter wood to dry properly. It used to be called poor mans walnut and can be quite beautiful. If you mix the two, even a small amount, the billet is supposed to warp.
This is a good video. Thank you for your efforts sir. I hope you keep up the good work.
thanks!
I just started seeing your videos. I was looking around for lumber drying proceedures. Regarding this video. You seem to be looking for standard type lumber grading. If you took a differnt view point know as " Weird Wood" you would have a new markets for the Artisian Craftsman lloking for natural (so called defects) to design around. Sometimes the weirder the better. Take care.