Sawing a big Maple on the Woodmizer LT40 hydraulic sawmill
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- Опубликовано: 28 ноя 2017
- This video shows how to handle a big 46" maple crotch log that is much bigger than the capacity of the Woodmizer LT40 hydraulic sawmill. I show the slabs harvested at the end of the video, including all the beautiful crotch wood in the bookmatched slabs.
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87,000 views! Thanks everyone! Check out my channel for more sawmilling video's, including another maple log that produced some beautiful coffee table sized slabs that are loaded with crotch figure. Thanks again!
Good work....treating the slabs with care, maximum yield!
You got some very nice slabs out of piece of tree.
Yes, that was a very productive log. Thanks for watching.
Jeff and Sue
Its good to see you both even if its on the tube, good job on the sawmill
Thanks, Mike. Happy holidays to you, Kelly, and the family.
Glad to see your back to making videos. thanks for sharing
JJ, thanks. Glad to be back. Thanks for watching.
Welcome back, Jeff! Looks great!
Thanks, Eric. It was fun making a video again. Lots more to come. The Snowflake Y30 is next.
Very nice slabs!
Beautiful flat grain Jeff, hope they’ll dry nicely en end up as a beautiful creation.
I'm ordering a LT40 hydraulic in a few days for my Christmas present. I am so excited I can't hardly wait. Nice job on that maple slabs
Diversified Acres Homestead That's a great present!
Jeff Heath The Vintage Workshop I thought so.
Love the mud jacking truck! I was a mud jacker for many years up here in Michigan. Beautiful wood also! 😁
Thanks for watching, Tim. I've been a mudjacker for 28 years and counting....
Those kind of logs make a man wish he had a 40” chainsaw mill.
Or a 60" bandmill!
@@JeffHeathTheVintageWorkshop haha 😂 right. I was thinking about that watching your video. A guy could buy one of those real cheap mills and stretch it just for those big ones. Slow and easy would be the trick.
Thanks for filming this!!!
Hey, thanks for watching!!! You are welcome. ;)
Another great video Jeff !
Thanks Tom. Our 16" jointers are too small for these slabs...
Just found your channel, good work, I will follow you from England
Thanks for watching.
Very nice video. Those are some beautiful slabs. R
Thanks for watching!
Nice wood. The first 2 pieces would make nice live edge small table.
Yes, I think they will. They're both in the shop now.
Was thinking the same thing myself.
I bet the inspector is going to skin you when she sees this video. I mean you told her you'd edit her out. Hey Jeff, it's great to have you back on wood in RUclips. Great slabs, too! Greg
Thanks Greg. She's got a good sense of humor. She watched the video and yelled at me for not taking that out......lol. She's a good sport.
you seem to be one easy going .. tough old man .. way to go ..
Thanks. I'll take that as a compliment. Thanks for watching.
Hi Jeff,thank you for the nice video. Im getting myself a LT40 hydraulic aswell. I hope to make slabs as beautiful as these. I am curious though, how do you plane these? Do you have a very wide planer of is there an other way? Thanks again for the videos!
Thanks for watching. You need to flatten the slab, one side first, and then you can run it through a wide planer. I currently have a 16" jointer and a 20" planer. Some of these will fit, but most won't. I do them by hand with hand planes. Thinking about building a router jig to use a power router.....plenty of video's for you to watch on that subject. Good luck with your mill. They're great to have.
Good Looking Maple,
Thank you. It's going to be dramatic when it's dry, and I get to make tables.
"Uh oh inspector" 😂 I know that feelin
Thanks for watching.
Nice boards.alot of work but nice.
Thank you!
Great wood. Hope you still plan on doing the Hollows & Rounds series ? . . . Please ?
I will, but I am having surgery on my hand soon, so that needs to heal first. Thanks for watching.
Great stuff love it gijjer more more
Thanks for watching.
Lookin' good, my friend! That maple is going to be beautiful! Even the spalted areas can be used more than you might think. It makes an amazing accent wood....
By the way, your new friends in Streator just took home a couple huge white oak logs.... ;)
Hey buddy! Yep, some stabilizer should work well. The crotch figure is awesome. You'll have to take a ride...😁😁
Someday.... :)
So just out of curiosity how much will those slabs would bring you? Another question is how long have you had it and how long do you think it took you to pay that off
I don't sell slabs. I sell furniture, and the tables that are built with the slabs. Lumber prices, especially slabs, vary around the country, and around the world. I don't know what you mean by "pay it off"???? I didn't finance the sawmill, I paid for it in full when I purchased it.
Seems like your drive belt needs to be tightened a bit?
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Jeff have been looking at those Woodmizer saws I like the LT40 like you have. Do you ever move yours around? Do you sell the lumber you mill? Thx
It is a mobile sawmill, but I don't move it much. I do sell lumber from time to time. I have a lot of nice bookmatched slabs, and a bunch of ash sawn for workbenches right now.
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Where've you been? Good work, good to see you at it.
Ha ha.....WORKING! Busy year, but now it's shop time. I've been watching your vids....looking good.
I've been curious where you went. I'm still plugging away, still chipping at the frame. Summer was too busy to get much done on the new shop but once fall hit it has been game on until it this thing is done.
You might want to move your fork lift back away from the mill, so that you don’t shin yourself on the forks and make it easier walking around the mill. Just a thought.
My shins thank you! :)
Yikes! When that things just sitting there at idle it sounds like it's about to come apart ,is that Mill okay?
The motor is in perfect running condition. It must be the audio you heard. No other explanation. Runs like a top. I know my way around motors.
Wow, you mentioned "crotch wood" and I figured Matt Cremona would have been in the top comments ;-). But, at the moment, nary a peep!
Ha ha...I thought of that too. Thanks for watching.
If you was close by I would give you a wild cherry log about 30" x8'
And I would gladly mill it!
Some nice wood , what happens when I dry it? Curls up?
All freshly sawn wood needs to be stacked and stickered so that proper airflow can get to the entire stack. Adding a fan at the correct time can aid in the process, as long as it's not too soon, causing the wood to dry too fast. Hope this helps, and thanks for watching.
What do you do with all the sawdust
It's good mulch for the land. I live in the country, and I'm not running a production sawmill. When I do cut a lot, and it starts to build up, I'll shovel it into a wheel barrow, and take it to my burn pile. That is rarely needed, though.
Enjoyed the video had to smile at the inspector....my inspector won't set foot in the sawmill she says it's not safe too dangerous! My father put me to work at the mill sweeping and cleaning up dust at a young age by the time I was a teenager I ran the mill by myself. I am 49 now and still have all fingers but all these years of sawmill labor give me some soar mornings. Very very few people will work like this anymore and Evan less young people. All I build is pallets I wish I made nice stuff like you ! You would probably she'd some tears to see walnut Pallets! I am in Iowa what part of the country are you in?
Lots of sore mornings here, too. Pallet's of walnut? Yes, I'd like to get my hands on that walnut! I'm in Northern Illinois. What kind of mill do you have?
I have a cooks ac36 and Morgan scragg but again I only do pallets it is like a mind set I look at lumber all I see is pallets your vision is better than mine or at least pays allot better I am not to far from cedar Rapids my email is palletguy@imonmail.com
We all do our thing! I'm a furniture and cabinetmaker, so all I see is that when I look at logs. I drool over walnut, especially now. I can't even get walnut logs here.
Contact me with email I will send you some pics of walnut you can rescue from pallets just remember I don't start with good stuff to begin with it will give you some free 8 quarter that has sat for a year if you will send me the pics of something nice you created with it
It would be a good idea to put those forks on the forklift level with the ground so you don’t trip over on
Those are some really nice slabs... sell them for less than $200 a piece, and you'd be committing a crime... ☺
I'll be making furniture out of them, when they are dry. Thanks for watching.
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Log would have been fire wood to me. Way to much rot in the wood. Maple does not keep long before the wood stains and starts to rot.
Ha ha ha. Well, you would have missed out on all the spectacular live edge slabs that I got from it. Plenty of really great figured wood, with spalting and crotch figure, left when I was done cutting it. Most of it has been used already. Thanks for watching.
Those kind of logs make a man wish he had a 40” chainsaw mill.