All About Quarter Sawing: Sycamore Lumber For Flooring!

foreign what's up everyone welcome back to another video on Lumber Capital log yard today I have some Sycamore on the deck and the Sycamore is really good for furniture making especially good for carving uh so it's it's great for a lot of things these are pretty big logs especially this first one here I mean this is just a beast part of the reason why they're so big is because we're going to quarter saw them and the thing about quarter sawing is this might look like a giant well it might look like a big log now but once we get it all cut up and quarter sun it's it's really just tiny pieces that you can get out of it so the bigger the better for cortisoling even though those first few cuts are just going to be insane once we get this rolled up onto the mill the first thing that we're going to do is cut it right through the center and then we're going to turn it and cut it the other way through the center so there there you get it that's why it's called quarter sawing because this is such a big log and Sycamore is a very strong hard wood it's going to be hard to cut through those first two cuts because of how just how big this lug is but you can see once we get it quarter Saun or quartered into four pieces that it's really only half the width of that is going to be your wide widest board out of each piece so you know a lot of them are only going to be small so even with a log this big so you see how a smaller log wouldn't really work to quarter saw that is a downfall to doing it this way but it's worth it in the end because quartersawn Lumber is some of the nicest most beautiful strongest boards that you'll ever come across all right let's roll this onto the mill here and get to quarter sawing [Music] that is a lot heavier than Hemlock sheesh [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so now I have one quarter left on the mill the other pieces are waiting on the arm and we're ready to start cutting our lumber now the idea with quarter stalling is that the grain is going like that on the board going vertical I don't know if you can see my little markings but you want the grain to go that way it's like if the board's like that and you want the grain to be going vertical like that and that's what's going to make your board really nice and sturdy and strong what I did last time at quartersod was I actually did it exactly like you you see I drew it out I actually took off the bottom board so I literally cut off the bottom board first which is super wonky and just backwards in my mind but it worked out fine it did take a lot of time and the other thing that I didn't like about taking the bottom board off every time was that then you were so close to the mill bed and your little dogs and clamp and everything and there's no safety thing installed at the Mill to prevent you from hitting those with the blade so I mean for me it's just a lot safer if we try and figure out a different way to do this so now I have my log turned so that the core is on this side you can actually see that because you can actually see how it's a little bit different color there that's all kind of helpful actually especially when you're the one running the mill here but you can see that those pieces are the pieces that are going to be quartersawn maybe probably four boards actually in there and then the rest is going to be what's called Rift because a rift is when it's like a 45 degree angle instead of completely vertical and that's technically it's not really possible to cut Quarters on without also getting ripped and you just have to separate them out uh this is going for flooring and it's going to be resawn anyhow so it's not really that big of a deal because they're they're going to sort through it and find what they want so what I'm going to do is I'm actually just going to uh just plain saw it basically all the way down from here and the first few pieces aren't really going to be plain sod they're going to be what's called Rift you can see my marks there if the board's like that it's going to be at an angle so those boards are going to be ripped and then once I get about halfway down that's when it starts being Quarters on stuff and I'm going to be cutting this at 1 and 1 8 thickness I think that that will leave plenty of room for them to work with with their planers or whatever they do for their flooring so let's get to cutting this and we'll see how it turns out here foreign foreign [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] foreign so we are finally done with that log it took us forever because you're technically cutting four logs here I mean you're cutting one giant log into four pieces and then treating each piece like its own log so technically it would make sense that it takes significantly longer which says something for why it is so expensive but oh my gosh damn we got a lot of lumber out of that I mean hardly anything came off as a waste we got a few very small slabs off no flidges so this is what you see here this is all we got out of the log and also leaving that one side on prevents you from having to take another slab off of each piece so that really that really saves with the waist as well but we got a lot of lumber I mean we Jade and I were sitting here thinking was the log even that big I mean looks bigger than the log well thanks for watching everyone I hope that you enjoyed today's video if you did please remember to like And subscribe other than that I'll see you guys next time

Channel: Lumber Capital Log Yard

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Length: 10min 16sec (616 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 26 2022