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blowing the tracks off and wiping them down with a good oil makes this thing uh cut a lot smoother for a portable sawmill this thing cuts pretty good i still think i'm going to upgrade the motor to about 14 horsepower i really enjoy this sawmill but if i had it to do over again i would go with a bigger sawmill i just don't think seven and a half horsepower on a sawmill is really enough to be effective it will cut through anything that it's rated at but you just have to really take your time even with the sharpest of blades i got an opportunity to see some of the other sawmills uh that are running a bigger motor uh cutting basically the same thing i'm cutting and it's night and day different to how fast they'll go through i can't change how wide this sawmill will saw but i can change the motor on it and that will change how fast it will solve so this log is not that big so the best i can do is just square it off and then cut down through the pith of the log and then cut it into six two by fours so now that i'm i'm doing this i'm learning to study the log better and you can still get some really stable lumber out of a small log like this you just gotta think it through as i do this more and more i would imagine this would just become instinct but right now i do have to just stop stand back and look at the log and kind of visualize the cuts and how the end of the board is going to come out looking if you're really new to sawmills i i recommend you watching a video i put out a couple months ago it's things you need to know about lumber and uh this is stuff that i learned through the school of hard knocks and and one of my good buddies just being uh very patient with me and teaching me so you can take this knowledge that i've already learned by beating my head against a bunch of trees and start out a little bit better off than i did hey i'll leave the link to that video also at the end of this video so here we are starting our second cut and and this is a good example of a lesson learned what i would do when i first started out i would just take little skin cuts and try to get down to that sweet spot and i was worrying so much about not wasting any of the log that i ended up wasting a lot of sharp blade on cuts that just didn't matter i recommend now just go ahead and take that cut you know a pretty good cut that you know that's going to get it all the way down to a good square can you can really put a lot of wear on your on your saw and your saw blades by you know trying to cut down one little cut at a time you end up cutting three four cuts where you could have just made one cut it's just better to go ahead and take that big bite and if you cut a little too much you'll learn you'll learn as you go this is an ideal situation where the pith of the log is pretty much even on both ends so uh it's gonna be a pretty stable log anyway you can see here though that i did take an aggressive cut i wanted it to be an eight inch by eight inch can i possibly may have wasted some one by uh but in reality is it just wasn't worth the blade wear and the wear on the sawmill to me in addition to that if you see at the top the wood grain would be horizontal on those one by's and it's going to be completely unstable anyway so here's another example nothing's perfect you can see i'm gonna have a little wayne down the side of this one log just roll with it cut your 8 by 8 can and then what doesn't turn out doesn't turn out so now that leaves me a nice eight inch by eight inch can that i can split in half and then cut two by fours out of this is what i was talking about earlier where i'm really studying the log so i'm cutting down the center of this log as close to the pith as possible so if you were like me i'm just a new sawyer myself i didn't know what a pith was it's the heart of the law of the the very center of the log these pines the pith runs pretty pretty concurrently centered all the way through the log you'll get into some species of uh trees that the the pith wanders through it i will have to say that cutting this southern yellow pine is it's been a real joy it's hard to tell by the look on my face i was just deep in the thaw and also this was at the end of the day we had ran chainsaws all morning long went home take a sh you know take a shower come back over to the farm here and and was gonna work for quite a while but ended up uh just cutting this one log up and we run out of gas still this one uh one log yielded six of the you know prettiest two by fours that uh that you know you just won't see this kind of quality at a box store so i went through a local box store the other day and was just checking out some two by fours and i was looking which way the grain pattern was and a huge portion of the grain patterns were running from a uh you know running horizontal which you know that's going to be more likely to be unstable again if you're not sure what i'm talking about refer back to the video i'll link at the end of this video and it talks about the things you should know about lumber hey i'll quiet down real quick and let you take a few seconds here and you watch how quality how these quality two by fours come off this one little log the throat is just a little bit too shallow for this and you can see that this is just about the maximum that this uh this this saw can handle i'll probably not go four two by fours deep anymore it's really hard to believe how satisfying he is just to see this done after you know i did this after i take each board off or as i'm taking each board off i'm sitting there thinking of my mind where am i going to use this at you know how is this going to play out just uh all kind of projects are flowing through my brain now don't leave yet i got a little bit more to show you after i get through with the cutting the lumber i try to always clean my sawmill up i think it's really important to do these steps blow it out release the tension off of the bandsaw wheel and then lower the head of the bandsaw all the way down so this turned out to be mostly rift cut and this is probably the most stable cut you can make so this is one of the most important things i can tell you stack your lumber after it's done properly sticker it and stack your lumber because otherwise you just wasted your whole day's work

Channel: Tony's Tractor Adventure Homestead

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Length: 8min 52sec (532 seconds)

Published: Mon Jul 05 2021