I am truly honored that you would name your dog after me, and we haven't even met yet but one day soon we will. I have to meet chip, one chip to another, I'll bring moe, my chocolate lab, they'll have a blast I'm shure. I'm just learning to mill, i have a friend with an LT 40 and he let's me run it for him pretty much exclusively. I'm still pretty good at breaking blades, I discovered it's an art, well when I started he showed me the mill and said this is how you start it and I'll be back after a while. Thats the best way to learn. Im an airplane mechanic and he thinks I will make it fly. I've been watching your video's all summer so I'm getting much better milling mostly 2x for trailer decking and beams and framing material for my new shop. Sometime this summer I hope to get out to visit my mother and sister, they still live in the Huntsville area, I grew up there but left in 79 for the rocky mountian states and I've only been back a few times, it's a long way from new mexico. Any way I'm looking forward to seeing your operation and meeting the man that taught me to mill, well sorta mill, I still have a few things to learn, like how do you turn this damn thing off!!! He didn't show me that, I gotta go home someday. Sorry about the book, this is what happens when I text
Forty five second commute. That pretty much says it all. BTW...I love the sound of those sharp cutters, even if turnin' every single one of them sucks. Two thumbs up!
Very nice video, great information. At first glance, I thought this was a Canadian video. People all bundled up and staying active to stay warm. Then I heard that down South accent and realize that even Alabama gets the benefit of some 'Clearly Canadian' air. You're welcome, and Enjoy!
Another instructive and entertaining video about how great a supervisor Chip is. He has you well trained. Blessings upon the whole family, dogs included.
I sure hope that you are out enjoying the weather you are having. I know that I am. You have to think back to those three T-shirt days. These are the days I like. I don't have to break a sweat 😅 Awesome video. From Wisconsin.
You are just one happy person, it’s always entertaining and instructional to visit. I have run tens of thousands of feet of hard and soft wood through jointers, and would have had immensely less painful shoulders and hands if I were lucky enough to have used a machine half as well made as yours. You have taken the art of wood manipulation to a higher level than most artists have the ability to accomplish, and love your job, er……vocational endeavors 😊
Thanks! You might be interested to know this is our third facer. It took many sore shoulder and hands and we just kept upgrading until we got to this level.
We have barely seen above 40 degrees here in SE NC lately. I see you are getting some of the same. Chip wasn't about to move outta the sun and I don't think you could see Martha's face one time during the video because she was so bundled up! Thanks for the quality content Robert!!
You are correct, but I can't use Johnson Paste wax anymore, it was the best, but the Government has banned it;s production and I can't get it anymore. It went from $3 per can to $60 per can. I sprayed this cutter head with another rust preventative, but it apparently doesn't work well.
SCMI are great machines in all there lines. A plant I use to work in had several SCMI molders, tenoners, shapers, planer/sanders etc. in fact the operators loved the molders so much is was hard to get them to go back on a certain German built machine which supposedly was the Cadillac of the molder line. The Italians make great wood working machines.
They really do. It has was the ONLY machine I've ever bought that was set up perfectly when it was shipped. I went over every adjustment when it showed up, and all were perfect. I am very impressed with SCMI.
Love it! I do have a question for ya? I'm building a flatbed for a 1 ton dually and want to put rough cut hardwood on the bed with a metal frame of course.. Could yall give me some guidance on type of wood and size, thickness and possibly the proper way to bolt it down? Thank you kindly and keep the videos commin!!
Goodness gracious me, y'all sure be all bundled up, yet poor ole Chip sitting out there on that hard cold seat! Just how cool is the weather down there now? -Bob...
Hope it warms up some there. Interesting concept. I've used flatness planers long time and repurposed 3 blade cutter heads into making picture frame stick molding. With your mechanical thinking way outside of boxes is it possible to devise pressure rollers to hold down material as it passes over the cutter heads so you're not bending over and risking your fingers near the cutters. Also, I know there are commercial stock feeding and hold down add on equipment for this unwelcomed task. Just sayin'. Good visiting again.
Yes, there are some real nice facer stock feeder's, and we bought a real nice and expensive one years ago, designed specifically for facers, and it still didn't do as well as we could by hand. It was quite a letdown. I gave it away. I do think I could build one that would work, but this one technique is pretty easy.
It is a GPS tracker, and he keeps brandy in the backseat of his limo. He is, after all, a movie star. Cold here is anything under 60F, but I think this was in the low 20's when we filmed this, so qualified for "stupid cold, as in "I'm stupid to be out here in this cold."
You flatten the boards exactly the opposite way that I do in my wood shop. I run the concave side through the jointer until it is flat then turn it over and run it through the planer until both sides are flat and parallel. Then I alternate sides through the planer until I get the final thickness I want. If I tried to surface the convex side on the jointer first I run the risk of making it worse although as you showed, if you can hold it steady without rocking you can remove the curve and flatten the piece. Don't think you'd have,any luck with that technique on a long board.
Most people do as you describe, and it works pretty well, and we used that technique for a while. However, we have since switched because this technique I demonstrate is a one pass and done, allows much faster feeding, and produces flatter surfaces over longer boards, because the long boards don't curve over the ends of the facer bed. We routinely face boards up to 8 feet long, that's our standard selling length, especially our 8/4 slabs, but didn't on this video and this works very well.
That looks like an everyday drywall cart to me. 🤔 I certainly hope this video is loaded with sarcasm,,,,,, Air grooves? Looks like a rough mill cut that was surface ground. Not an inferior product by any means.
Sarcasm is one of my best characteristics. However, these are far from the Uline or Grainger drywall carts, those are junk tinfoil, say they are rate for 3,000 or more pounds until they are loaded and bumped with a forklift, then they collapse, and cost $400 each anyway. In addition, mist conventional carts have metal beds or painted beds,, which marks and ruins high grade hardwood. So really these are lumber carts with handles. Big difference. We even bought some $800 "lumber carts" like at the big box stores and they also never lasted long and were very expensive. So now we just fabricated our own, out of structural steel with wooded tops, and have been using them ever since. However, I will sell them for $7,000 each even though we may only have $100 bucks off material in them. So these are much stronger for 1/4 the cost.
I've been trying to figure out a cart to catch fall of my slide table saw, maybe you can figure something out for that, might be worth 7000 grand, and you are right about SCMI great tools, I'm waiting waiting for my new saw hopefully sometime this year it's an old SCMI slider that is all manually operated no electronics to break.
good video buddy,
Thanks! Roll Tide!
I am truly honored that you would name your dog after me, and we haven't even met yet but one day soon we will. I have to meet chip, one chip to another, I'll bring moe, my chocolate lab, they'll have a blast I'm shure. I'm just learning to mill, i have a friend with an LT 40 and he let's me run it for him pretty much exclusively. I'm still pretty good at breaking blades, I discovered it's an art, well when I started he showed me the mill and said this is how you start it and I'll be back after a while. Thats the best way to learn. Im an airplane mechanic and he thinks I will make it fly. I've been watching your video's all summer so I'm getting much better milling mostly 2x for trailer decking and beams and framing material for my new shop. Sometime this summer I hope to get out to visit my mother and sister, they still live in the Huntsville area, I grew up there but left in 79 for the rocky mountian states and I've only been back a few times, it's a long way from new mexico. Any way I'm looking forward to seeing your operation and meeting the man that taught me to mill, well sorta mill, I still have a few things to learn, like how do you turn this damn thing off!!! He didn't show me that, I gotta go home someday. Sorry about the book, this is what happens when I text
I love the comments! Sawmilling is a disease, and a fun one! I'm glad I can help.
Forty five second commute. That pretty much says it all.
BTW...I love the sound of those sharp cutters, even if turnin' every single one of them sucks. Two thumbs up!
Thanks!
Very nice video, great information. At first glance, I thought this was a Canadian video. People all bundled up and staying active to stay warm. Then I heard that down South accent and realize that even Alabama gets the benefit of some 'Clearly Canadian' air. You're welcome, and Enjoy!
Good to hear for you. Thanks for the compliment and the laugh!
Another instructive and entertaining video about how great a supervisor Chip is. He has you well trained. Blessings upon the whole family, dogs included.
Chip is a great dog to work for and his bark is worse than his bite! He does snore a lot....
I sure hope that you are out enjoying the weather you are having. I know that I am. You have to think back to those three T-shirt days.
These are the days I like. I don't have to break a sweat 😅
Awesome video. From Wisconsin.
Hello Wisconsin! Thanks!
You are just one happy person, it’s always entertaining and instructional to visit. I have run tens of thousands of feet of hard and soft wood through jointers, and would have had immensely less painful shoulders and hands if I were lucky enough to have used a machine half as well made as yours. You have taken the art of wood manipulation to a higher level than most artists have the ability to accomplish, and love your job, er……vocational endeavors 😊
Thanks! You might be interested to know this is our third facer. It took many sore shoulder and hands and we just kept upgrading until we got to this level.
Wish I lived closer, love to come purchase some wood from you!
Thanks!
Great content again. Good to see you and Martha!
Thanks, Martha says "Hi".
Great teamwork, you can really tell ya'll like what you do.
Thanks, it’s a lot of work, but it is fun!
Thanks Robert. Tell Martha Joy said Hi.
Thanks Joy! Martha says, "Hi" back.
Very nice video Robert nice an Flat
Thanks!
Thanks so much for sharing all your knowledge! I’ve learned so much from your videos, great channel mister. Thanks so much !!
You’re welcome, it’s why I make these videos!
Thanks, Have a Great Day 😅
Thanks!
Enjoyed it as always
Thanks for watching!
Thank you very much for the video sir
Most welcome
We have barely seen above 40 degrees here in SE NC lately. I see you are getting some of the same. Chip wasn't about to move outta the sun and I don't think you could see Martha's face one time during the video because she was so bundled up! Thanks for the quality content Robert!!
Yes, you are correct, it was cold, and we don't like cold.
Johnson's paste wax is great for keeping equipment from rusting that's not in a controlled environment. The segmented cutterheads are the cat's meow.
You are correct, but I can't use Johnson Paste wax anymore, it was the best, but the Government has banned it;s production and I can't get it anymore. It went from $3 per can to $60 per can. I sprayed this cutter head with another rust preventative, but it apparently doesn't work well.
SCMI are great machines in all there lines. A plant I use to work in had several SCMI molders, tenoners, shapers, planer/sanders etc. in fact the operators loved the molders so much is was hard to get them to go back on a certain German built machine which supposedly was the Cadillac of the molder line. The Italians make great wood working machines.
They really do. It has was the ONLY machine I've ever bought that was set up perfectly when it was shipped. I went over every adjustment when it showed up, and all were perfect. I am very impressed with SCMI.
Love it! I do have a question for ya? I'm building a flatbed for a 1 ton dually and want to put rough cut hardwood on the bed with a metal frame of course.. Could yall give me some guidance on type of wood and size, thickness and possibly the proper way to bolt it down? Thank you kindly and keep the videos commin!!
White oak is best, two inch thick, and best screwed down with purpose made hardened trailer decking screws available online and Amazon.
Goodness gracious me, y'all sure be all bundled up, yet poor ole Chip sitting out there on that hard cold seat! Just how cool is the weather down there now? -Bob...
I think it was low 20's and for us , that is too cold.
@@HobbyHardwoodAlabama Gee that is brisk down your way! No wonder Chip was just laying back wiating for daily walk time!
Hope it warms up some there. Interesting concept. I've used flatness planers long time and repurposed 3 blade cutter heads into making picture frame stick molding. With your mechanical thinking way outside of boxes is it possible to devise pressure rollers to hold down material as it passes over the cutter heads so you're not bending over and risking your fingers near the cutters. Also, I know there are commercial stock feeding and hold down add on equipment for this unwelcomed task. Just sayin'. Good visiting again.
Yes, there are some real nice facer stock feeder's, and we bought a real nice and expensive one years ago, designed specifically for facers, and it still didn't do as well as we could by hand. It was quite a letdown. I gave it away. I do think I could build one that would work, but this one technique is pretty easy.
Is Chip wearing a GPS collar or is he carrying your Brandy flask? What was the temp when you filmed this with the overalls on? What is "cold" at HHA?
It is a GPS tracker, and he keeps brandy in the backseat of his limo. He is, after all, a movie star. Cold here is anything under 60F, but I think this was in the low 20's when we filmed this, so qualified for "stupid cold, as in "I'm stupid to be out here in this cold."
You are all bundled up, what is the temperature down there?
Chip is good at telling me to not bother him and get to work....
Are your shorts a bit cheaper ?
Yes, 50 cents per bdft off regular price.
You flatten the boards exactly the opposite way that I do in my wood shop. I run the concave side through the jointer until it is flat then turn it over and run it through the planer until both sides are flat and parallel. Then I alternate sides through the planer until I get the final thickness I want. If I tried to surface the convex side on the jointer first I run the risk of making it worse although as you showed, if you can hold it steady without rocking you can remove the curve and flatten the piece. Don't think you'd have,any luck with that technique on a long board.
Most people do as you describe, and it works pretty well, and we used that technique for a while. However, we have since switched because this technique I demonstrate is a one pass and done, allows much faster feeding, and produces flatter surfaces over longer boards, because the long boards don't curve over the ends of the facer bed. We routinely face boards up to 8 feet long, that's our standard selling length, especially our 8/4 slabs, but didn't on this video and this works very well.
That looks like an everyday drywall cart to me. 🤔
I certainly hope this video is loaded with sarcasm,,,,,,
Air grooves? Looks like a rough mill cut that was surface ground. Not an inferior product by any means.
Sarcasm is one of my best characteristics. However, these are far from the Uline or Grainger drywall carts, those are junk tinfoil, say they are rate for 3,000 or more pounds until they are loaded and bumped with a forklift, then they collapse, and cost $400 each anyway. In addition, mist conventional carts have metal beds or painted beds,, which marks and ruins high grade hardwood. So really these are lumber carts with handles. Big difference. We even bought some $800 "lumber carts" like at the big box stores and they also never lasted long and were very expensive. So now we just fabricated our own, out of structural steel with wooded tops, and have been using them ever since. However, I will sell them for $7,000 each even though we may only have $100 bucks off material in them. So these are much stronger for 1/4 the cost.
I've been trying to figure out a cart to catch fall of my slide table saw, maybe you can figure something out for that, might be worth 7000 grand, and you are right about SCMI great tools, I'm waiting waiting for my new saw hopefully sometime this year it's an old SCMI slider that is all manually operated no electronics to break.
you sure are grumpy,
Yep, and really good looking, too.
You walk the dogs, or the dogs walk you?
They walk, I yell, they ignore me, and we all end up back at the house at about the same time, for dinner...