So guys i wanted to stop real quick and show you
all a little trick that I do. So what i want to do here I don't want to have to take boards off. It's
a whole lot easier to keep the stack on the mill so that i can get all of them off at one time
with the tractor. So what I like to do is when I get to this point where i can't really saw any
more boards without it catching in the throat of the mill right here... these WoodMizers have got
this angled throat right here. And as you can see this board is going to hit on the mill and
it's not going to allow it to go through the cut like it should. So what I like to do so
that i can keep all the boards on the mill, and make my life a lot easier, is take maybe the
top three boards or so and just scoot them over just like that. And that gives me three or so
more inches so that I can go ahead and finish out my cuts without having to move around any
boards. It's just a lot easier that way and it doesn't put extra pressure on the blade. It's
just the best way to do it as far as I have as far as I have discovered. But,
this is a little trick I like to do. So that just makes things a whole lot easier
to shift those top three boards over. And it worked perfectly on this particular
log. Yeah, I'll be able to get all of these in one scoop with the um with
the grapple. First, of course, I'm gonna scoot these over a little more and see if we
can get an idea of what these boards look like. That log gave us, how many, one two three four
five six seven eight nine ten ten of those i think they're twelve and a half inches wide. About 12 inches wide. this is another pine log of course and it's about
17 inches around and it's not really a consistent 17 inches. It looks like it was probably towards
the top of the tree and it's not very even. You can see there's some dips and knots and so forth
in it. So I think I can still get maybe three twelve and three four inch cants out of it. And
from those four inch cans I can start cutting my 2x4s, I'm not sure. It's a little bit uneven but
let's just start cutting and see how it works out. So I was able to get the three cants that I was
wanting out of that so that's a really good thing. And I wanted to go ahead and show y'all,
show you all this before i did it. I have found that normally it's best just to
go ahead and cut your slabs off even if you waste a little bit of material. I found that
it's better just to go ahead and make one cut. One kind of an aggressive cut. Because if you
end up making two or three cuts trying to save as much material as possible you're just dulling
your blade and you're wasting time. So if you waste just a small amount of material, but you
save your blade and save time, I feel like that's worth it. What I'm going to do in this case
is I'm going to just skim a little off the top here because I believe I can get one 2x4 out
of this middle piece before I start getting 2x4s out of these two side pieces. Just because of
the arcs right here. So that's what I'm going to try to do and I believe that it will work out
we'll just see let's try it and see how it works that went pretty good. We got 16 two by fours out
of that. There's 14 on the mill, one right there, and i had to throw this other one off to the side.
So that was the one, the single one in the middle, that we were able to salvage from the very top up
there. But what I'm going to have to do here is this middle cant, this is actually the side cant
right there, this middle cant is actually 4 1/13. I'm sorry, 4 3/16. So what I'm gonna have to do
is take off all of these. This cant, and this cant over here. These 2x4s and these 2x4s and go ahead
and lay these up on edge and resaw them down to what they're supposed to be at: 4 inches. So yeah
let's go ahead and do that and we should be done. So guys that's going to do it for this video.
I made the mistake today of showing up here too late in the morning and it is just
hot. Even up under the shelter that I built. Although this shelter has really
really improved things it is just hot. So I think this is going to be the last one for
the day. It is hot and I'm going to go ahead and get these boards stacked. These 2x4s stacked and
we will start back on this another day. Sixteen? Is that what I said? Sixteen 2x4s out of that last
log. And I can't remember how many boards we got, 1x1s out of that first log. But pretty good
yield. Having the camera out and sawing at the same time makes progress pretty slow but that's
okay. I do enjoy making the videos quite a bit and i hope that you all enjoyed watching
it. And I will see y'all on the next one.
