The most steel I've ever cut through - Slabbing a Big Silver Maple
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- Опубликовано: 8 июл 2019
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A man who's really happy in his work.. not that common. Compulsive viewing!
This guys is the biggest dork about wood and I love it! Be you man I love this channel!
I just fully watched a 39 minute video on a guy that loves wood patterns and log cutting. No hate though, was super interesting.
Suppose your into counting brown rings aswell..!!
@@marshallsimmons56 did someone say brown rings? 😯😯
@@NewtonVieira yes I'm the comedic log connasuir , ...!
Nice self designed mill and your innovative trailer with cantilevered A frame lift! Good Engineering.
I know what you mean Matt. I love lumber too. I worked in a wood mill/container factory in the '80s. Loved the smell walking into the mill in the morning. Lumber has a spirit. It was alive, and you don't know what you could make out of it. It's really a gift from God.
so absolutely true!
I love the smell of pine, fir, and cedar. I took down a building a couple of years ago that the wood was cut in 1934. The trusses were 2 X 6 straight off the saw(never went through a planer) old growth pine and 28 feet long. Many of them still had a rich pine scent and were very hard as removing nails was tough.
@@royreynolds108 We worked with black oak too. That stuff smelled terrible when you milled it down. It smelled like barf. Lol! You have to take the good with the bad sometimes.
Elm here in Colorado has to be some of the worst smelling wood ever. Can’t even describe it just nasty AF.
Given the orientation of all the "little surprises" with respect to the crotches, I would say that you definitely choose the correct position for the slabbing.
I enjoyed watching this, as a guitar maker It's nice to see where it comes from on the big mills!
Mathew even with the bad saw blades, your enthusiasm is contagious. Congratulations on the wood.
Thanks!
Glad to see you use leverage and gravity to help you move your lumber.
Dang it.. Now I want a really big freakin band saw......That's cool stuff man!
he built it himself!
Matt. This the 1st video I saw when I first started woodworking. I found watching saw milling to be so peaceful and relaxing. I really like to see your videos. Thank you
"I enjoy the struggle" That is just an awesome quote. I have to remember that!
there's probably no one in the world that can back a trailer as good as Matt cremona. I love the videos thanks
I know I'd totally love to hire him for trailer backing lessons!
My girlfriend is good at backing up too...
Laura Thomas There’s actually some good videos about it. The rest is practice.
Laura Thomas check out Wanderinng Wagners “How to back up a RV/ trailer swing”. It changed my trailer skills from newbie to semi-skilled overnight.
Some more beautiful slabs there. As always, I enjoy your demeanor and positive attitude. Thanks for another great video.
Thanks Matt!
quit saying beautiful price will go up and he will work on sundays
running a chainsaw for 12 years taught me I absolutely despise anybody who puts metal in a tree.
There was a tactic that some environmental extremists did to protect trees, and that was to imbed nails into trees that were gonna be cut down, so that the chainsaw would catch them and possibly harm the worker in one way or another
this fella loves it whoop... lol something we will never understand.
Dr. Gray if they did it and it worked I would be kinda sorry for them but also screw them (the tree cutters)
Nathan W no joke! Back in the 80's I did a bit of forestry, and especially during fire season, a couple guys would saw into some left over rail spike, sometimes leading to some brutal injuries.
AstralpemHyten trees are pretty renewable if you're responsible enough to keep the cycle going. Unfortunately, I don't have much stock in the ethics of others.
It's a real wakeup when you find out the guitar neck you last bought came from a nearly deforested region of Cambodia, where people kill each other over trees.
This is relaxing and interesting to watch ... I must love wood too ... Who would have thought this process would be so mesmerizing .. I really love this ❣❣❣
We've taken to using wood dowels for hanging things from the trees in our yard. Still will have inclusions, but no saw damage.
Use a good variety of hardwoods for the dowels.
When someone saws up a log, they'll find embedded bits of ipe, teak, mahogany, Spectraply, etc.
Great idea!👍👍
@@doubledarefan that would be awesome!
He said inclusions
Who else feels like they are listening to Ray Romano narrating this....
thats literally all i could think about when i was watching this
AbrahamSnow ....Everybody Loves Matthew.
With the laugh of Cody from Cody's lab
Oh no I spilled white out!
Well I do now.
RUclips home page - u want to see someone cutting a tree for 39min right?
me - I mean its 2am and I'm bored.... sureee
Damn its 2am for me to lmmfao
🇬🇧 If You're bored sod off. Nobody is making you watch.
2:14 AM here too although have skimmed through most of it for the good parts loved it
3:13 am on a friday night ... this is how i spend my life
2:14 AM while the apocalypse is going on
I want this one to be my dinner table! Great job!
About 25 years ago I used 2 metal shelf brackets to attach a bird house to a maple tree in my yard. Within a couple years the tree grew enough that it destroyed the bird house so I was going to take the shelf brackets down... NOPE, the back part of the brackets was almost totally engulfed in tree. I ended up just cutting off the protruding part of the brackets. Now you can't see any metal and there's just a little rough bark where they were. The trunk is about 5 feet in diameter until it gets about 7 feet up where it splits into 2 branches. It's a large tree and I can only hope that if it ever gets milled up the person doing it is as nonchalant about sawing steel as you are.
No doubt!👍
Man. Last time I watched a guy get this excited about “crotch figure” I was on a very different website.
Thought I was a little weird wondering about that. Still think so but at least I'm not exclusively weird. :-)
You are not alone.
a pornographic website. did you get wood.
And he mentioned loving wood quite a bit as well...
Your comment was sick, disgusting, immature, immoral, degrading, sexist, yet true. I think I was on the same website.
Thanks for the video, I enjoyed watching how each slab had something interesting to see. Beautiful wood.
my grandfather owned a lumber company for 60 years and sawed logs small time for another 20 before he passed (he was ninety eight by then). he used a metal detector to find metal in logs he would saw, digging them out beforehand. saved a lot of time and money, i have his detector, on old whites. still works like a charm. got to be 30 years old. i suggest you get one ;-)
Love your channel Matt. Wish I could visit you some day.
Hi Matthew very nice lumber ( timber ) grain very nice I bet the steel is nails that a farmer etc has nailed fencing wire etc to it many years ago 👍👍
Fascinating video Mathew, I admire your ambition, a rare find.
So awesome, Matt - love this stuff. Thank you.
"You cant start building a table before you cut down the tree"
"Watch me.." *starts hammering nails into the tree*
Two thumbs up for good attitude . . . as always.
"I love wood." That's why I watch your channel. Your endless enthusiasm. Can't wait to see some awesome tables.
Thank you!
the city lets u operate a saw mill there,think kids would be running around
What makes a professional sawyer? Time on the job ? Has a degree in Botany? Serving as an understudy for 10 years? "I don't saw trees from residential areas?" OR.. Someone who loves the work and has learned the hard way? I'd say Matthew is a professional who has learned the hard way and loves the work. If he was done learning or knew it all, he wouldn't be a professional. I don't know him but he looks like the type who may well have a degree. Enjoyed the video very much. Sure wish I had a slab!!!
Bonus accessory limb with quintuple crotches.... Livin' large my man! I gotta make the trek up to see you and see if I can't liberate one or two slabs from you for a price...
You’re such a happy person. You laugh almost every time you finish a few sentences. 😁❤️
That end piece ( 38:02) I would make a table by pouring epoxy over it. It was beautiful ( my fav slab of all of them❤️)
Man I feel your pain. I've hit so many pieces of steel in logs. Anything along a fence line or any log from in town, always full of junk.
Matt your videos are so satisfying i could watch them all day
damn I'm bored... I'm sitting here watching someone saw a log
You need to go out and find a log to saw..!!,, if you don't have a saw buy one borrow or use what you've got, a hacksaw will keep you busy.... Live it... Don't watch others living.... Or you could go find a premisqus lady to go and find a tree to lean against while you give her a good sawing until the sap comes out...!!
I'm doing the same, dude. We gotta find a life or jump off a bridge.
@@HardRockMiner if you hang on til tommorow pal, ..I'll make you a bungee out of old elastic bands and a dressing gown belt!!.. I lernt those essential skills only last night , ! ..i knew it was worth 8.55seconds of my life. !! If it breaks,.. Dont worry i also learnt back surgery for beginners last week using paper clips and grolsh bottle tops, ..cant wait til my legs get better..!!
@Spiritpoweredinternet EXACTLY THAT BROTHER EXACTLY THAT. LOL. LIVE. OUR. LIVES. !!...the laughing out loud will come, ..if it doesn't scratch your balls while your sat there... It usually makes me Chuckle. !!
@Spiritpoweredinternet don't get me started... ..we might end up having the "one dead tree conversation,... Ending with a forest. !""..or as my old teacher used to say... yes it starts out small with a little grass around the base... The girls said ohhh,.. The boys... How big dies it get miss!! Mines.... Fast forward ten years the girls are asking HOW BIG, and the boys are saying.. Well theres alot if grass love.. Looks smaller than it is... Will have to get a trimmer..!! That's life...!
Most people are very impressed with themselves if they can put together a chainsaw mill! Your setup looks no different from a pro rig. Very impressive.
Serious props to you Matt. What a rewarding job you have.
Found your channel tonight and my husband and I have been binge watching your channel. Simply Amazing
Thank you!
You'd be a great salesman. "That's a not a defect! It's a fun little rot pocket!"
missed my calling hahaha
I don't think Matt is trying to sell it with that phrase. I think that he honestly enjoys the fun little rot pocket. I admire him for seeing the positive possibilities in what others consider defects.
Why do I hear “fun little rot pocket” in the voice of Bob Ross?! :)
yikes
@@bobafetting6373 I hear it in the voice of the lady that does the ads for "Hot Pockets".
All I could think was "damn, that shit would make a dope looking coffee table"
counter tops as wide as it is
Dinner table
I can't complain it nice seeing what ray romano does on his free time
The only question I had was how they plane it or surface, and you answered it at 14.30. Thanks!!
Very interesting.
something else my question also...thanks for directing me to the answer.🤓
Me at the start of the video:"oh, a video of someone cutting a giant tree" "oh its 39 min long" "am I going to watch the whole 39 min?" "bet I am"
39mins later:"why are there so many nails on a tree?"
The last slab (second to last piece) is actually the best one. Keep bark intact and cover entirely in epoxy. Bark depth and texture and colors would be insane.
Just freeze video @37:11...unreal table/coffee table.
I enjoy your lumbering adventures. Keep up the good work.. I have been doing some slabbing using a my homemade chain saw mill using trees from my own woods. Makes the furniture projects even more special.
Thanks!
I find this wood milling site very interesting, i did wood working in high school for 4 years and loved every minute of it.
It's ingenious people like you that built the world while I waited 10 generations to come along and benefit from it.
I'm a wheel, I'm a wheel
I can roll, I can feel
And you can't stop me turning
Cause I'm the sun, I'm the sun
I can move, I can run
But you'll never stop me burning
Come down with fire
Lift my spirit higher
Someone's screaming my name
Come and make me holy again
I'm the man on the silver maple
I'm the man on the silver maple
Rainbow with Dio was hot!
Love your enthusiasm for what you do !! Can appreciate a person who sees bumps in the road as challenges to overcome, thanks & subbed sir !!
thank you!
Gotta admire Matt for perserverance. After he recounts all the work, misery, and bolts and nails that wrecked expensive blades, he answers to - "Why bother sawing these logs at all?" as "...mostly for the adventure.... I just really, really enjoy the struggle!" Wow! 13:39 Now that IS honesty! I'm wondering if he couldn't use a metal detector and then tack weld or stud weld (after side grounding), each of the steel bolts or larger nails to then twist them out, rather than ruin those huge wavy-cut blades?
This is awesome!...does it feel like finding gold Everytime you throw water at the boards??..I'd bet!
Matt I love your mill and your determination. I wonder why you havnet built a second gantry with a chainfall on it for loading
Just happened to see your milling video and loved watching it ! It is exciting to see what the different interesting grains , and other artistic looking things in the wood after you splash it with water !
Thanks Matthew !
thanks David!
As a wood worker, those slabs of wood make drool, thinking of all the projects to come from them. Love that you designed and built your mill.
Thanks Terry!
How do you keep so calm Matt!?? I'd be swearing like a cut Australian.. ps.. I am Australian..
If Matthew handles ruined blades with that much tranquility I'll bet he is a good dad when his boys do foolish kid stuff. I learned to control my spirit just about when I was through raising my kids. Maybe that's why grandparents are so mellow.
If your not willing to loose a few blades, don't cut yard trees.
Steevo- less testosterone too as you age. Natural aggression dissipates over time as we become more mellow
You should sell them for more, steel reinforced slabs, no additional hardware needed.
The reason you do explanation is the same as I like splitting firewood by hand.
I really like the work you do.
The amount of great wood we waste or throw away in NYC is sinful. Silver maple....beauty.
Matthew Cremona I just love to see you saw mill wood slabs from a log soo interesting the wood grain soo pretty . Thanks for the nice video be blessed with love care and grace.
thank you!
Nothing better than Cremona getting excited about bark inclusions.
Diggin the cut time clock - nice bonus! Is that 3 blades to sharpen? Yikes. Great vid again Matt. " I love wood"😂
To be clear: I liked this comment before the "I love wood" quote and sadly realized I cannot like it twice.
You are good for the big stuf.
I wish i have a nice place like yours.But i listen to you make me feel good.Thank you
Marcel Montréal Québec Canada
Live in the city all my life this was amazing
couldof been from old Fencing. Bullets being shot at it. Could be from Environmentals Spiking the Trees to Damage blades from Loggers. Happens alot of the time really. People will Drive Spikes and Nails into Trees trying to cause Damage to Chainsaw blades, trying to Stop logging in forests. Or try to Damage Saw mill blades in the cutting process. Around here in Virginia, I sometimes pickup wood from Saw mill, They been having problems with people Spiking the Trees with Rebars. Couple of their Saw mills actually broke down due to rebars. a Few 10 thousand dollar repair bill
WOW, what assholes.
cheaper to just invest in a metal detector but i guess they don't think of that.
Nice looking wood - you could use a fork lift!
Understatement of the year.
Or a mini loader. Would help bring the logs home too ;)
Can't believe you made it through that log without another blade. Good looking stuff and I hope it pays off for all that work
Anyone who actually appreciates wood work will appreciate this video. Awesome job, major respect on handling that machine by yourself! God bless brother, and family time is 🔑!!
You should have put a bark inclusion counter in this video
that's like $100K in wood around here... wow one piece in a store was $750
This was the first of your videos that I watched. The video and audio quality of your productions are top notch. I then binged the sawmill series over the weekend. That was a lot of work. The only two suggestions I would have had if I had been watching from the start is to get a good laser pointer and leveler. Also, I probably would have had the blade shroud powder coated, but that's just me.
You have a lot more patience and good spirit than me with all that metal! After the first 3 slabs of metal and changing of blades, I would have cut the log up for firewood! But more power to you by seeing the metal as part of the history of the tree and hopefully selling the slabs as such. I just ordered my first mill and will get it in a week, so I'm sure i'll have my share of some metal too--hopefully not THIS much though--learned a lot from your video though--thank you!
I bet with the amount of large limbs and the amount of metal that this tree once held a treehouse
I was thinking that.
Either a treehouse or some greenie activists trying to give a lumber jock a hard time.
I was thinking it was used as a fence post for a hundred years or so.
Amen on the tree house.
Possibly it was also bolted and wired to keep the limbs from splitting the trunk.
My friends were playing a drinking game where they would drink every time he said "crotch". Their funerals are this weekend. RIP. ;)
fascinating did not know all the work that goes into that thank you
thanks for your competency and great attitude! Refreshing!
Thanks!
An interesting view Andrew....Do you happen to sell these slabs? I've been thinking of making my kitchen island out of an epoxy resin/ wood slab counter. thanks.
If ever a man needed a forklift, it’s you!
YOU REALLY NAILED IT !
Stumbled onto this channel early morning on a Sunday completely randomly and watched this entire video front to back . You sir have got a follow loved the content
Thank you!
Love the randomness with each slab!
What do you do with all the slabs? Sell?
I sell whatever I don't end up using for my own projects
That is why our local mill refuses to take in any residential trees. My neighbor had a 60" black walnut blow over in a storm, roots and all. The base including the roots was about 9' tall. Biggest black walnut you'll ever see. The mill had no interest in it because it came from a residential lot.
9' biggest black walnut....Hmmmm what kind of neighborhood was this, are you sure it was a tree....LOL
Your enthusiasm shines through. Just cause it's difficult doesn't hamper the fun. Cool wood
Thanks!
Amazing that you found a little bit of wood in that hunk of steel!
I imagine ol' Mathew, is real popular with his neighbors....
Don't you mean poplar?
AuburnTigers111 Nice.
The neighbors must love this.
Riff my thoughts.
Not familiar with his location, but not everyone has neighbors close enough to care.
u see the dust flying around rofl
When I was a kid, we used to build tree houses in the woods, made a ladder up the side of the tree by hammering in pieces of wood we found with whatever nails we could find. Looks like this tree had a tree house in it at one time.
Funny! I was just thinking the samething
I think the lift you designed for the trailer is amazing
Them kids, adults now, wanted a tree house! The steps rotted off and the nails stayed behind.
RUclips tells me this video is about cooking. Now why dont you deliver?!? :)
I was just waking up when I clicked on this video so I didn't see the word "maple", plus I watch a lot of forging videos, so I thought the title was talking about someone cutting through a massive slab of steel, which sounded interesting to me, and then I saw the word silver, so I was like "what? Steel and silver? Okay."
And then I see a giant tree about to be cut, and I'm thinking "why the hell does this guy call this tree a slab of steel? Where's the steel he's cutting? So I hit play to find out what was going on, and I ended up watching the whole video and finding it super interesting.
There was one really interesting thing you said during the video that I caught, about how you "enjoy the struggle" of cutting through the steel. That concept of enjoying the struggle because of the adventure it implies and creates is something I think a lot of people could really benefit from remembering and applying to life in general. It _most definitely_ applies. "In small things, all things." Or, as Musashi said: "When you know the way broadly, you see it in all things." Learning is fractal. A simple sentence about a specific task can describe an aspect of life in general and teach you something about it. So it's worth absorbing what you said about enjoying having a bit of struggle for the sense of adventure it necessarily brings with it.
They say the comfort zone is a beautiful place, but nothing grows there. In other words, nothing profoundly worth having ever comes easy. A life without challenge is a life without growth, without improvement, without discovery or wonder. Just an interesting sentence I heard you say that was, in essence, the same concept that I know expanded my life when I came across it. I definitely think it's worth remembering.
Love this! Thanks Nick!
You don't need to explain your love of wood and sawing. I spent a good deal of my 20's making furniture out of this type cut. Tables that were the conversation piece at parties, etc. I found a fellow who had imported 4000 acres of virgin log from central Africa, including bubinga, coco-bola, and zebra wood. The tables were stunning. The craftsmanship was the wood itself. This fellow claimed to have the largest band saw east of the Mississippi. It had 5 foot between the guides. He stacked just like you do with the entire log together (with spacers) which he stacked on flat bed railroad cars to use in his kiln which held 17 flat bed cars for each fire. He then stored them in a large metal barn stacked up 20 foot high. It was like a shopping mall for exotic lumber. He also had some domestic lumber, not a lot of soft wood, mostly hards including cherry, maple, ash (one of my favorites), walnut, pecan, etc. He supplied tongue and groove paneling for the Dupont mansion in Delaware. As he described it each room was a type wood theme with raised panel walls, cabinets and doors. He sold me quite a bit of the overruns from that project which made some beautiful cabinetry. He had his saw mill just east of Waldorf Maryland and his tongue and groove milling operation at Conowingo Maryland. He eventually made a deal (back in the 70's) to swap his saw mill to Idi Amin of Uganda in exchange for the 4000 acres he cut over there. He was dismantling the entire sawmill while I was there on one trip. He retired from the business afterwards and sold what stock he had. He and his daughter then traveled the world and imported handmade wood and stone jewelry boxes. Name was Larry Hagy. I hauled many a load of lumber out of his two locations over time and had it stored anywhere I could find room. I often wish I could go back in time to then. I've had a dream of owning a saw mill and land with good timber most of my life. I'm old now and probably will never see that dream fulfilled. So I really enjoy watching your zest for your operation. And I'm a little surprised those close-in neighbors allow you to cut there. Must be real gems of people. Good luck. I just found you and subscribed. Will watch.
I’ve never heard someone say “crotch” so many times in the span of 39 minutes...ever!
And "inclusion" giving "crotch" a run for its money....Cool stuff though.
and get away with it on youtube!
How do you stop bugs from eating your stacks?
Great video ,Matthew! Love your attitude!
Thanks!
I love wood, too. You're incredible. Congrads
That log was a blade eater. Nice looking slabs though. I hit a 1/2" eye bolt the long way on a walnut log that stopped the saw in its track and buckled the blade as it popped off the tension pulley. That will get your attention especially when your travel speed is high.
That sounds like a change your underbritches kind of experience.
I wonder what the cost difference would be for a carbide toothed mill blade. I know you'd lose more wood to dust, but it might stand up to embedded materials better.
I can't remember where, but I saw a diamond bandsaw blade, for masonry, somewhere, that would be awesome for custom cutting large tiles and stones, but I don't think it would be all that great in wood, it would clog up too much.
Hey Matt, do you know of any books that describe different species of wood in North America and explain some of the characteristics of wood grain and coloration?
I’ll have to look through my books and see. I find the wood database to be decently helpful with that
National Audubon Society Field guide to trees is a good one. Great pictures!
"Understanding Wood (A Craftsman's Guide to Wood Technology); also Identifying Wood, both by Bruce Hoadley (Taunton Press) are a fairly good source.
"I love wood". We hadn't noticed..😁. I'm more of a metal worker, but this sure looks like fun.
Great work Matt!.