Matt, I can only dream about doing this kind of thing. I'm a 73 year old man that has stage four dementia and my wife has taken away all of my toys (toll's) for my own good. So she claims. I just love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 watching your videos but hope you spend enough time with your wife and family. That was my problem, I loved my job and hobbies so much that my family seemed to always fall into second or third place. Don't let this happen to you! Spend lots of quality time with your family and God will bless your life for doing so.
Matt, that green staining fungus is Chlorociboria, I studied it extensively during my internship back in the day (and published about it), it was used in marquetry here in Europe in the XVth century, before stable artificial wood stains were available. That fungus is present all over the planet, and it's quite rare in very hard woods like oak, because it's a secondary colonizer : it feeds on the sugars present in the wood, and so it needs a primary colonizer to have broken down the lignin in the wood to be able to propagate. It has a much easier time in birch and maple than in oak. Its green pigment is a little delicate and will be destroyed by heat (above 80°C, a dull blade is enough for that) and its color also depends upon the pH (green on acidic conditions, yellow on neutral to mildly acidic, and colorless beyond neutral). Sorry the only material I published so far on the subject was in french - but a proper book is on the way in english. Don't hesitate to chime in...
I do love to watch & listen to your sawing videos. These slabs would make some truly epic waterfall desks & tables. Imagine using the natural holes to run the cables thru?
You’re a Hoot… I love your passion for what you do and I actually looked because I thought I was missing some of your videos Matt… ❤ what you’re doing my friend! 🙋♀️🇨🇱
Haha Matt drops a log just missing the mill. 10:25 Everyone else: “oh bleep” Matt: “oop, hit the undo button.” Haha This is one reason I love your content 👊🏼
😂 You’ve been waiting to say “Crotch Bulge” for years haven’t you! I’m glad you mentioned about how slowly a whole log dries. I make dugout canoes and people always ask me if I season the logs first. I always say I’ll be waiting 10-20 years for a whole log to dry out. Also it’d be cool to make a large bowl from the “Bulge”.
I just enjoy watching you work. You have such passion for what the wood reveals as you mill it. Keep up the great work. Another great video with beautiful wood grain reveals. Thanks Matt!
We have a massive oak here that has a 52" trunk I'd love to have sawn. I've been cutting pieces from it to use for my keepsake boxes. Beautiful spalting all over this log.
Hi Matt. As a 50 year old who’s suffered most spinal procedures with varying success, and was forced to retire, you might want to take a look at a technique called ‘straight back lifting’ !😂
That green stain seems to be very popular around where I live. I picked up some 2x4 the other day from my local big box. It has that exact green stain but here they call it "treated" (maybe from some original Italian word from around 1400).
Matt's having way too much fun tossing water. Ha. It's kind of ironic that Matt who has master carpenter furniture building skills, yet is internationally more well known as the guy that built that massive sawmill on the internet. He's also a guy with a lovely family. I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Great looking oak log. Thanks for including the info about that green fungus coloring! Who’da thunk from a “junk” log. I’d love to see what you could get out of this massive maple by St Mary’s hospital in Rochester!
Hi Matt, I've been watching your videos for years now, glad to see you upgrading and making things easier on yourself, with all the nice equipment you have now, your back must be thanking you a lot! I used to work in a marine lumber shop and when we would need to get between nice lumber that was to heavy to get fingers under or even the tip of the fork because it's to tight, we would get a (small "wood" wedge) and tap it into a open spot, close to where the fork will go ,without getting in its way, tap it in just enough to get the tip of the fork in to lift it a inch or two so you can slide a piece between the forks and under the slab. then just slide the forks all the way through. their shouldn't be any damage as long as you keep your fork tips round and smooth. same when you drop them off to dry. if you can pull all the way in and out just make sure the pieces of wood between has more height. try it you'll like it!
Unlike most U Tubers Matt you leave your screw ups in your video. Like when the log got a way from you when you where turning it. Thanks it makes the rest of us can relate better to you. Dan H
Thanks for sharing these vids! I've been playing with my portable sawmill all year and you're motivating me to go bigger and get into the slabbing business. It's something that is not common around here and I already have a good working relationship with most tree service companies in these parts. I'll definitely buy your plans off your website as an inspiration and review April W. vids as well to see the tweakage you guys did! keep it up! thanks again!
You may want to consider a Lucas mill that gives you portability to set up on any size log, sharpen with a jig, low impact removing lumber and slabs. The head rotates so you don't have to strong-arm or use hydraulics. It takes a small fortune for the handling equipment.
@@eddeetz493 Thanks I'll look into that! I had heard of lucas mills but was under the impression that they were mostly for dimensional lumber and not so much for slabbing. I own and typically use a 6t excavator with a clam to handle logs but even that might not be enough for very large logs!
Since the mill is so close to the house now you should run a hot water spigot to shop by one of the garage doors. That way you can just hook up a 10-12ft hose and blast the slabs real quick when you want to look at grain. No more buckets needed!
I have to assume there is a method to your log pile and which logs you saw and when. You should add a short bit about that because I think it'd be interesting to hear about.
Hi Matthew I’m interested in building a band saw like yours and plan on ordering the plans from you, Any guess how much materials might cost with the crazy price increases of the past couple of years? thanks much John from down south in Winona Mn
I think the reason I don't care for red oak is the open capillaries. If you take a piece of red oak, you can stick one end in a jar of water and blow bubbles through it like a soda straw. Where air goes freely, so can water. I also think it gives off something that corrodes steel tools. (As a primarily metal worker, I find this offensive. )
Matt i see you have Triton routers could tell me if the TRA001 has the same base as the TRA002i want to use the same bolt pattern on the woodpecker slab flattening mill thanks love your videos
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a sawyer who let us know how many quarters he was cutting. But, often, now he leaves us guessing or otherwise unknowing. PLEASE, let us know how thick the slabs are so we can guess what a finished size might be. My screen and random camera angles don't tell me enough. Or, maybe, it is just me. You are like the Pied Piper, we keep following where you lead. Your videos are great.
Hey stacks and covers the slabs to air dry. He also has a friend with a vacuum kiln that he has used at times. He does sell slabs but you’d have to go to his website for details probably.
@@andrewupson2987 if you see slabs you like, make note of the video title and the slab NUMBER that he writes on them (usually)... but at least the video title of the log you are interested in .... he generally doesn't ship single slabs since the shipping is usually more than the cost of the slab....I think that he once said that people tend to buy "entire trees" ... or at least multiple slabs of the same tree for book matching and such.
@@andrewupson2987 you can also look up the WoodTalk podcast (sponsored by Rockler - family owned since ... etc etc ...for all your wood working tools and supplies (the guys on the pod do it MUCH better)) where the topic is discussed every couple of episodes in response to some lumber industry / small saw mill business type question. It's a fun podcast.
I always wonder why you don't measure from the deck to the pith when leveling a log on the sawmill. (Maybe you do, but it looks like you measure to the top of the log.)
Matt, check out haul it trailers on stans tye dirt monkeys channel. It would be great to use on tree log recovery, make an excellent catchment for sawdust you can pileup and unload with the moving belt. It also saves you a fortune in rock with spreading on all the new driveways.
*- I think this might just catch your fancy.* *- Self-propelled Chainsaw | Turning Logs into Perfect Boards* *- **ruclips.net/video/5AkXJSxOTzI/видео.html*
Slab 7's 'what ever the heck's going on here' moment, 29:16, to me is an angel with the hole as the middle of the chest and a wing out on the left, and arm to the right held high.....
Just asking….I assume these slabs are almost all for sale? They are beautiful and pricey? Have you made many things out of these crochet slabs? I can’t remember seeing any!
Hi Matt, Just curious, when you were positioning the log the first time, who was doing the camera work. I always wonder about things like that with you. When you were building "The Barn" and filming with the drone I still think that it is interesting that you are working on the roof AND running the drone as it flies around.. I am just curious. Thanks for the time and keep the videos coming. Always interesting. A lot of people are living their fantasies through you.. Thanks again.
in theory, the kerf from the blade set + the lube should make that negligible. Also consider the moisture in the log ... if sawing a fully dried log of that size then it might make an issue. But that log would have had to have been stored under cover for close to 50 years...probably 70 or 80 actually for that log to reach about 12% from edge to edge and end to end in its full unmilled size. (this is why timber framing is done wit green logs - who has 70 years to wait for a house?)
Goes back to the saying of 1 mans trash is another mans treasure . Beautiful wood!!!!
You’re probably the only site that can discuss “bulging crotch rot” without a RUclips disclaimer. 😂 Merry Christmas to you and your lovely family.
I imagine the title drew a lot of disappointed first time viewers…
You make the trees sacrifice beautiful by getting the most out of each log
i'm appreciating the extra info pop-ups during the video. thanks.
Matt, I can only dream about doing this kind of thing. I'm a 73 year old man that has stage four dementia and my wife has taken away all of my toys (toll's) for my own good. So she claims. I just love ❤️ 😍 💖 ❣️ 💕 💘 watching your videos but hope you spend enough time with your wife and family. That was my problem, I loved my job and hobbies so much that my family seemed to always fall into second or third place. Don't let this happen to you! Spend lots of quality time with your family and God will bless your life for doing so.
Matt, that green staining fungus is Chlorociboria, I studied it extensively during my internship back in the day (and published about it), it was used in marquetry here in Europe in the XVth century, before stable artificial wood stains were available. That fungus is present all over the planet, and it's quite rare in very hard woods like oak, because it's a secondary colonizer : it feeds on the sugars present in
the wood, and so it needs a primary colonizer to have broken down the lignin in the wood to be able to propagate. It has a much easier time in birch and maple than in oak. Its green pigment is a little delicate and will be destroyed by heat (above 80°C, a dull
blade is enough for that) and its color also depends upon
the pH (green on acidic conditions, yellow on neutral to mildly acidic, and colorless beyond neutral). Sorry the only material I published so far on the subject was in french - but a proper book is on the way in english. Don't hesitate to chime in...
I really enjoy the videos where you’re sawing a log that you previously did a pickup on.
It’s like checking in on a familiar friend.
Matt: You remind me of a kid opening Christmas presents. You saw the logs to find out what is inside. Excellent work.
It’s not a Saturday morning without watching Matt discuss crotches. Matt, you rock!
I love the "madness to the method" approach you take. Your channel is one of my favorites.
I always enjoy your excitement with character in different logs. Grandpa Jack
Gorgeous timber, full of character 😍
I do love to watch & listen to your sawing videos. These slabs would make some truly epic waterfall desks & tables. Imagine using the natural holes to run the cables thru?
Incidentally, while I'm not normally a fan of wood stain, I have a love for black dyed/burnt oak
More and more I'm sensing Matt starting the vacuum kiln project in the new barn thingy. 😁
That's great I like knowing that. If I were younger, I would be building one myself.
Time for another build Mat, any ideas? Maybe a dinner table with turned legs...You rock Bud!
It is amazing the time wood can spend out without rotting.
You’re a Hoot… I love your passion for what you do and I actually looked because I thought I was missing some of your videos Matt… ❤ what you’re doing my friend! 🙋♀️🇨🇱
Thanks!
Haha Matt drops a log just missing the mill. 10:25
Everyone else: “oh bleep”
Matt: “oop, hit the undo button.” Haha
This is one reason I love your content 👊🏼
Super knowledgeable commentary, Matt. We need a glossary. Good stuff.
Your camera operator got some great angles in this video.
Thanks, I love see the hidden surprises in the logs.💕
The trees are amazing thank you for making this fun to watch.
really great to see the old tree`s being opened up and used - i like guitars - every type with beautiful wood = thank you .
Nice to watch how this log was sawed. The patterns are amazing and explanation of what is interesting and what is just plain is an eye opener.
😂 You’ve been waiting to say “Crotch Bulge” for years haven’t you! I’m glad you mentioned about how slowly a whole log dries. I make dugout canoes and people always ask me if I season the logs first. I always say I’ll be waiting 10-20 years for a whole log to dry out. Also it’d be cool to make a large bowl from the “Bulge”.
I just enjoy watching you work. You have such passion for what the wood reveals as you mill it. Keep up the great work. Another great video with beautiful wood grain reveals. Thanks Matt!
That’s some great stuff you got there Matt. Looks like you’re back in the groove and having fun. Thanks for sharing that. 🎉
We have a massive oak here that has a 52" trunk I'd love to have sawn. I've been cutting pieces from it to use for my keepsake boxes. Beautiful spalting all over this log.
Tis the season for slab cutting! Happy 😃 Happy 😆
Hi Matt. As a 50 year old who’s suffered most spinal procedures with varying success, and was forced to retire, you might want to take a look at a technique called ‘straight back lifting’ !😂
So glad to see a new video, merry Christmas
Nice video Matt. Merry Christmas to you and your family 🌲💛🧡❤
Love the saw mill videos. Thanks, Matt! Merry Christmas to you and yours!
I find your slab cut interesting to watch, what's done with them would be even more intresting.
That green stain seems to be very popular around where I live. I picked up some 2x4 the other day from my local big box. It has that exact green stain but here they call it "treated" (maybe from some original Italian word from around 1400).
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year🎄👵😍
Always fun to consider use of the beauty revealed. Thx Matt
Nice to see you back to sign logs thanks for sharing looking good
Matt great camera work and content as always. Happy Holidays to you, Lindsay and family from sunny South Florida.
i come for the sawing, but learn more and more about trees. thank you for the vid
Still amazed with construction of your DIY sawmill! Love your enthusiasm for dissecting a log! How's the new barn doing?
Damn that telehandler is something else!
…then there is the log
This is beautiful! You make it fun to mill wood. MERRY CHRISTMAS TO YOU AND YOUR FAMILY!
Matt's having way too much fun tossing water. Ha. It's kind of ironic that Matt who has master carpenter furniture building skills, yet is internationally more well known as the guy that built that massive sawmill on the internet. He's also a guy with a lovely family. I hope you and yours have a wonderful Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Some times you can't plan the work, you have to work the problem. Merry Christmas
I do enjoy your sawmill videos.
Thanks Alan!
Good looking oak.
Love the sawmill vids!
One beautiful log turned into interesting planks. I thought the log would have been dryer than it was. Interesting to see how wet it was.
Great Woody Vid..sawin n stackin 🪓🪓🪓🪓👍👍👍👍🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷🍷
There are some amazing looking guitar bodies in there!!
Great looking oak log. Thanks for including the info about that green fungus coloring! Who’da thunk from a “junk” log. I’d love to see what you could get out of this massive maple by St Mary’s hospital in Rochester!
Crotch Ash must be my favorite so far 😂
Hi Matt, I've been watching your videos for years now, glad to see you upgrading and making things easier on yourself, with all the nice equipment you have now, your back must be thanking you a lot!
I used to work in a marine lumber shop and when we would need to get between nice lumber that was to heavy to get fingers under or even the tip of the fork because it's to tight, we would get a (small "wood" wedge) and tap it into a open spot, close to where the fork will go ,without getting in its way, tap it in just enough to get the tip of the fork in to lift it a inch or two so you can slide a piece between the forks and under the slab. then just slide the forks all the way through. their shouldn't be any damage as long as you keep your fork tips round and smooth. same when you drop them off to dry. if you can pull all the way in and out just make sure the pieces of wood between has more height. try it you'll like it!
Thought some viewers might be able to flatten their own slabs with this simple tool. Then they could buy your slabs 😊😊😊😊😊. Joy filled holidays
"Nice split in the crotch" and "hey a hole, it's wet". Epic. Skip McCain
Thank you Matt, great work
Unlike most U Tubers Matt you leave your screw ups in your video. Like when the log got a way from you when you where turning it. Thanks it makes the rest of us can relate better to you. Dan H
Thanks for sharing these vids! I've been playing with my portable sawmill all year and you're motivating me to go bigger and get into the slabbing business. It's something that is not common around here and I already have a good working relationship with most tree service companies in these parts. I'll definitely buy your plans off your website as an inspiration and review April W. vids as well to see the tweakage you guys did! keep it up! thanks again!
You may want to consider a Lucas mill that gives you portability to set up on any size log, sharpen with a jig, low impact removing lumber and slabs. The head rotates so you don't have to strong-arm or use hydraulics. It takes a small fortune for the handling equipment.
@@eddeetz493 Thanks I'll look into that! I had heard of lucas mills but was under the impression that they were mostly for dimensional lumber and not so much for slabbing. I own and typically use a 6t excavator with a clam to handle logs but even that might not be enough for very large logs!
Since the mill is so close to the house now you should run a hot water spigot to shop by one of the garage doors. That way you can just hook up a 10-12ft hose and blast the slabs real quick when you want to look at grain. No more buckets needed!
I enjoy the bucket
@@mcremona I relized that when we were graced by a bonus bucket and the slow mos lol. I commented before I realized the passion in the act! Stay warm!
Maybe take some cast-off chunks or something in the future and make some large V blocks for log supports.
Crotch is still your favorite word.
I have to assume there is a method to your log pile and which logs you saw and when. You should add a short bit about that because I think it'd be interesting to hear about.
Hi Matt, interesting as always. Thank You! Richards Info: Merry Christmas from Germany…
using a telehandler take the fun out of moving the logs or maybe the time , sure looks easy!!
How long will you air dry and then kiln these gorgeous slabs for?
An American poet!
It’s always promising when there’s crotch in the bulge. This never gets old.
Hi Matthew
I’m interested in building a band saw like yours and plan on ordering the plans from you,
Any guess how much materials might cost with the crazy price increases of the past couple of years?
thanks much
John from down south in Winona Mn
I think the reason I don't care for red oak is the open capillaries. If you take a piece of red oak, you can stick one end in a jar of water and blow bubbles through it like a soda straw. Where air goes freely, so can water. I also think it gives off something that corrodes steel tools. (As a primarily metal worker, I find this offensive. )
Matt i see you have Triton routers could tell me if the TRA001 has the same base as the TRA002i want to use the same bolt pattern on the woodpecker slab flattening mill thanks love your videos
Why do you flip all the slabs over??? And what do you do with the saw dust and all the small cut off bits?
Nice wood.
ONCE UPON A TIME there was a sawyer who let us know how many quarters he was cutting. But, often, now he leaves us guessing or otherwise unknowing. PLEASE, let us know how thick the slabs are so we can guess what a finished size might be. My screen and random camera angles don't tell me enough. Or, maybe, it is just me. You are like the Pied Piper, we keep following where you lead. Your videos are great.
They sure are!
What's the thickness on theses slabs and is that a usual thickness when you slab
Throwing those big logs around like matchsticks is fun I bet with your tractor.
"Hit the undo button!" Ha! I love it!
I highly recommend Toastmasters International.
Good content Matt. Always fun to watch you saw the big logs. Do you have a way to dry the oversize slabs? Do you sell the slabs?
Hey stacks and covers the slabs to air dry. He also has a friend with a vacuum kiln that he has used at times. He does sell slabs but you’d have to go to his website for details probably.
@@andrewupson2987 if you see slabs you like, make note of the video title and the slab NUMBER that he writes on them (usually)... but at least the video title of the log you are interested in .... he generally doesn't ship single slabs since the shipping is usually more than the cost of the slab....I think that he once said that people tend to buy "entire trees" ... or at least multiple slabs of the same tree for book matching and such.
@@andrewupson2987 you can also look up the WoodTalk podcast (sponsored by Rockler - family owned since ... etc etc ...for all your wood working tools and supplies (the guys on the pod do it MUCH better)) where the topic is discussed every couple of episodes in response to some lumber industry / small saw mill business type question. It's a fun podcast.
I always wonder why you don't measure from the deck to the pith when leveling a log on the sawmill. (Maybe you do, but it looks like you measure to the top of the log.)
Matt, check out haul it trailers on stans tye dirt monkeys channel. It would be great to use on tree log recovery, make an excellent catchment for sawdust you can pileup and unload with the moving belt. It also saves you a fortune in rock with spreading on all the new driveways.
Matt how far apart do you space your stickers on big slabs like this ?? THANKS Dan H
Then what do you do with them?
Is your saw blade a standard size or do you have to have to have it special made
Nice oak Matthew. I was wondering why your sawmill you haven't an electric winch with the cable used like you have now. A variable speed controller.
I like being able to feel the cut
Oak is very porous, especially red oak, I'm pretty sure that makes it slightly harder to dry. I could totally be wrong on that though.
150 lbs man pushes on 6000 lbs log, "wow, that's surprisingly not moving at all." I lost it. lol This guy is hilarious!
I have a ways to go before I hit 150 😂
*- I think this might just catch your fancy.*
*- Self-propelled Chainsaw | Turning Logs into Perfect Boards*
*- **ruclips.net/video/5AkXJSxOTzI/видео.html*
Slab 7's 'what ever the heck's going on here' moment, 29:16, to me is an angel with the hole as the middle of the chest and a wing out on the left, and arm to the right held high.....
Just asking….I assume these slabs are almost all for sale? They are beautiful and pricey? Have you made many things out of these crochet slabs? I can’t remember seeing any!
Hey, Matt..how do you decide when to hose down the blade as you're making a cut with a machine like this?
I watch for pitch buildup on the body of the blade and listen to the sound and volume the cutting noise
Hi Matt, Just curious, when you were positioning the log the first time, who was doing the camera work. I always wonder about things like that with you. When you were building "The Barn" and filming with the drone I still think that it is interesting that you are working on the roof AND running the drone as it flies around.. I am just curious. Thanks for the time and keep the videos coming. Always interesting. A lot of people are living their fantasies through you.. Thanks again.
I had Brad in town that week to shoot sawmill videos. The barn was filmed completely by me. Thanks!
Have You ever measured the temp. of the blade with the added weight when making a fourth cut?
in theory, the kerf from the blade set + the lube should make that negligible. Also consider the moisture in the log ... if sawing a fully dried log of that size then it might make an issue. But that log would have had to have been stored under cover for close to 50 years...probably 70 or 80 actually for that log to reach about 12% from edge to edge and end to end in its full unmilled size. (this is why timber framing is done wit green logs - who has 70 years to wait for a house?)
There's no weight on the blade no matter how many cut slabs are above it (until the last inch).
@@gregmislick1117 Find your way to the border and there is zero wait for free housing from Biden if you are an illegal.
If you put the logs under cover they will dry but when you leave them out in the element of weather they won't dry for a very long time
Like your work
My tape don't measure in ishes. Where did you get yours?
good job...
It looks like the JCB has hydraulics ou on the end, do they have a graple that would fit it?
Yes, they’re around 10 grand
Matt, do you know of any that are currently building your mill?
Cheers,
Lee
Yes there’s a few that I know of being built right now
Anyone that lives in South Mississippi that can cut a 60in oak log?
@@EricStockfleth1 April W. built one and it's over in TX .... if you have to move the log anyway
How long can you store logs outdoors in a pile on the ground like that before they are ruined by rot and bugs?