How to Dry Lumber Without a Kiln | Making Trim with Woodland Mills Portable Sawmill

hey folks welcome back back out here one of my favorite spots as you can see behind me back out of my sawmill I was just in my shop up at the house a few minutes ago I was making some more of these and you guys probably know this can be a bit of a chore at times these are stickers these go between the between the lumber that I mill so good thing is I ran out of them and usually that's a good thing because that means I've been making lots of lumber in my case I made a whole pile of them here and so I'm gonna take those in in just a minute but what I'm out here doing today and why I brought you guys along is I'm going to talk about one of the benefits of owning a sawmill like this now I used to be a regular at the lumberyard and to be honest with you I probably still am but for other reasons I don't go there to buy lumber i buy all kinds of other building equipment building materials there anyways back to my story why owning a sawmill is great is because I am renovating parts of my house right now and all the little trim pieces like I'm putting down some new flooring here shortly I'm gonna need baseboard trim I'm also gonna need casing to go around some doors and I'm gonna need some trim to go under some cabinets well up until this point I would have had to go to the lumberyard and buy all that that's great and all but as you can imagine that adds up and so when you're trying to justify the purchase of a sawmill like this one this is my Woodland Mills my hm 130 think about all the savings you're gonna have and not having to go and buy lumber in my case I basically need two things well three things I need a source of wood and as you guys can see around me I don't have a shortage of that so I got that the second thing I need is this green thing behind me the sawmill and the third thing I need is a planer and I've got a little Dewalt what is it a 12 or 13 inch planer does a job just fine having those three things really allows me to put the hurtin on the savings or at least in other words allows me to save some money what's great about that is it allows me to justify that purchase a lot more easily I can't exactly remember how much I paid for that but it was a few thousand dollars a few years ago and to be honest at the time I was thinking to myself gee that's an awful lot of lumber or at the at the lumberyard well I can tell you I've paid for that thing probably uh I couldn't even tell you about ten times over probably more and so if you're justifying purchasing one of those think about the projects you got coming up and think about all the times you're gonna have to say nope no lumberyard for me today that's the case for me today what I got ahead of me is I've got a few logs and these are logs you probably saw me put up here they're fresh ones right here I've got a few fresh logs here that I'm going to make some baseboard trim out of I'll put them up against today I think I'm gonna cut it about 3/4 3/4 of an inch by probably about four inches and then that'll allow for a little bit of shrinkage once I allow this to dry air dry what I do is then I run it on the planer once I run it on the planer that'll take all these little marks out of it you guys can probably see that right there I see that my hands are just some little chatter there the chatter is probably because of my blade if you've seen other videos of mine you know that I don't exactly throw out a blade when one of the teeth break off Irish arpan it and use it until its life is over so if that was a fresh blade maybe I wouldn't get that chatter but regardless I'm gonna plane it and that's after I let it air-dry I'll plane it down to the finished thickness about a half inch or so probably put some sort of a bevel on it to make it look nice and there we go saved a few bucks so if you're up for it you take pride in your work and you really like going through the whole process of going from tree to tree to finish work well this might be the purchase for you anyways I'm gonna stop talking before I bore you guys to tears let's get down to it we got logs we got a sawmill and we got a few minutes so let's do it now hold on just one sec I did see a comment come up and I can't remember how long ago it is my memories good but short but the comment came up and it was more or less a question bugs interrupted my little talk here okay it's a question about the scale and let's go and have a look at it here here's the scale on my woodland Mills HM 130 and you guys can see it's quite dirty and that's because it's never moved in all honesty I have never moved this scale since I put it there when I bought the mill probably I moved it within the first week when I was learning this thing but in all honesty the only thing you're probably ever going to a and to be honest I've only ever adjusted it one other time was this right here this knob this probably due to vibration and loosened off one time and the scale drop this right here is what you're going to adjust this knob and ultimately this redline to reflect whatever height your blade is cutting at so if you're unsure what you can do set it at a given board size and let's just say I said to that well I don't know what that is but let's say I'd set it at five inches what I'm reading off of is the left hand side see that number on the left there at the five that means that five when I cut the board I should be able to take my tape measure over to it and measure a four or a five inch profile should be five inches across if for whatever reason it's five and a quarter or four and three quarters four and seven eighths whatever if it's not exactly five I'm gonna come over loosen that knob off and adjust it accordingly if for whatever reason my blade just cut this can't hear and it was four and three-quarters I would come back up here loosen off this knob and move it to the four and three-quarter inch mark next I would cut again double check is it now accurate if it is bingo you're on the money that's how you do it now if for whatever reason you're still struggling because you're trying to cut I don't know three and three sixteenths well let's have a look at the scale there is no sixteenths of an inch here there is no eighths of an inch here there is quarter inches one one and a quarter one and a half one and three-quarter two therefore make your life easy do what I do cut it down so you're having a minimum quarter inch gap or quarter inch difference between pieces so if you're gonna cut inch and a quarter make the next piece inch and a half go up by a quarter is what I'm trying to say go up by a half go up by an inch don't don't try to make your life too complicated by trying to read between the lines and cut an eighth of an inch off a board you're probably not going to have good results you don't know what just happened I nearly forgot to lower the log stop these things right here I've hit them but I haven't hit them four she's probably a year nearly and so I just about cleaned them off there because I made my first cut my second cut in this cut I was gonna lower them but then I got thinking of something else and yeah anyways that was almost a disaster some of you guys have commented in the past and some of my other sawmill videos mentioning that I should make those log stops that have solid oak or some sort of solid hardwood I think I got it because I came very close to the end of that blade so that Mook would have made good video but wouldn't it made me very happy anyways back to it now before I go ahead and cut one of these other ones you'll notice this one right here now I don't know the exact diameter across there it's probably 8 or 9 inches I tend to keep the nice straight the bigger diameter logs that I have here and keep in mind this is probably one of the bigger ones I tend to keep those and I leave them in case I need bigger dimensional lumber I can't make a big piece of lumber out of a small piece of lumber and thus I hold on to these guys so what I'm probably gonna do with this one because I don't have any need for like a 2 by 8 or let's say even a 1 by 8 or 2 by 6 I don't have any need for that at this point I'm just gonna cut this into a can't the biggest can't I can get and all that means is I'm going to take the bark off and make it four sided flat on four sides I'm gonna probably make that into a can't and when the need does arrive I will go ahead and cut that into some bigger material I keep all the small stuff and cut that into the smaller material like the baseboard trim I'm making today and that that just allows me to maximize my my big trees I have here because they're they're a limited resource I don't have a ton of them as you guys can see around you my bush is kind of on the younger side it probably could be thinned and thus maximize the diameter but you know that's how it is so I made some base boards today you guys can see them down here big pile here another pile here I'm gonna go ahead and get this thicker just like you can see some of the other ones I'm not too particular in terms of the the sizing I tend to cut it on my table saw these scrap pieces I cut them out about an inch so I usually have about a one inch gap there and when I'm stacking them up I also try to leave a bit of a gap here as well in between subsequent pieces so I'm gonna get those stacked up with the new stickers I made today and then that'll probably do it for now it is incredibly hot out today I'm a Canadian and for those of you who are from other countries and not Canada you probably say to yourself those guys are dealing with snow eight months out of the year and we're like six months out of the year but in the other months like this one July the humidity it kicks in and it doesn't go away sometimes and we've been in a high-pressure system for a while now and this Canadian you're looking at right now is definitely struggling so either need to go back down to Florida for a little bit of a vacation and really feel humidity or I need to I don't know get into better shape or acclimatize myself anywho let's get down to it here for me because much of this wood is going to be used for trim and it's relatively thin I'm gonna be able to bend it and that's okay I want a little bit of flexibility there that's why the material is the thickness it is if I'm making dimensional lumber like 2x4 or 2x6 you know 2 by 8 and I want to build a wall with it or make some sort of a beam or joist with it yes I want it to be perfectly straight and thus I need to make this a little more flat than it is right now so just keep that in mind that's the reason why not all of these are stacked perfectly flat it's just because I'm not going to be using them for anything structural it's gonna be requiring a little bit of flexibility to contour around my drywall which I can guarantee is not perfectly perfectly straight so I need a little bit of flexibility in my boards hence I don't need it to be perfectly flat you will probably get some drying here you will probably get a little bit of bowing and that's okay for me as I mentioned I would take it a bit more seriously if I were using this for structural material if that's the case I would make sure everything's nice and flat so it dries as straight as possible thank you drywall there excuse me thank your lumber maker when you get straight lumber because that means they took the time to make sure it was flat anyways guys that's gonna do it for me here today it's a beautiful day out as I mentioned in other videos I like to poke away of things throughout the day I'll do this for a few hours and I'll go I don't know split wood for a few hours and I'll go drive the tractor for a few hours I like to do it all in a day keeps it a bit more entertaining or at least a little more a little more fun for me if I were doing this day in and day out although I really enjoy it it probably would transition from that fun factor to you know sort of a chore and I don't want that to happen anyways I'm gonna take it easy here guys go get a drink and I hope all you guys come back next time because I'm sure I'll be back out here splitting wood or driving the tractor actually I have no idea what I'll be doing but I'll be doing something and I hope you guys are there to enjoy it guys thanks for watching take care

Channel: Sawing with Sandy

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Id: 2FTPTZu0XX0

Length: 16min 38sec (998 seconds)

Published: Thu Jul 30 2020