I appreciate your explanation of how you decide to cut each log and the other details of sawmill operation and maintenance. I bought a sawmill last fall and God willing hope to have it rebuilt and setup by next spring. I have helped setup 2 sawmills but have never pulled the lever on one. Thank you for sharing 28 years of experience! Stay safe Mark & Eddie and keep the great videos coming!
I've started to watch the rerun's of your video's. The saw mills come along way in one year, you and Eddie have done a great job on the mill building. Take care.
I have been watching you for a couple weeks now I inherited from a neighbor up the street a Ross bandsaw mill made New Hampshire apparently back in the 70s but only have seen three videos on RUclips don't know if there would be any interest I don't do much videoing so it's not going to be as professional as you guys but I like watching your videos and others like yours if you think there might be a few people that are interested in seeing a video or two of me sawing small Spruce and pine on my Ross bandsaw mill and have a few minutes to read this long message and want to get back to me I will keep an eye out for a response thank you snow is coming soon and I live in Maine so I won't be sawing in the winter but if there's any interest I would pick it up again in the spring thank you for your time
I tried watching someone else's video cutting logs and it was boring. I left, I enjoy your videos, you do explain what you are doing. Thank you for uploading your videos, stay safe 🙏
HEY, Mark and YES, you know how I am with my bus motors! I know people cuss those things but the need to drive an old Mack if they wanted to sleep. With an operating range f5ro 12 or 13 hundred to 21 and either 5 or 6 gears all you did was wait. With a bus motor you couldn't be scared of a gear stick because you got to be really friendly with it really fast. My first was an old slope-nosed White with a 6-71 and a 10 speed Roadranger single axle with a van box that was hauling powder to the boulder hole nd I got to drive it back to the old shop around 6 miles away. BOY was I overjoyed. And it never left through all these years. THANKS for taking time to get this so I can watch and hear it. You and T.H.E. are amazing! Happy week, Yall and GBWYall!
Did I see a little blade wobble starting around 20:21 ? It didn't come back from what I could see. You both make a great team and it's wonderful to see your mind work as you figure out the best way to maximize the usable lumber from a log. Yes, video and sawing at the same time is an effort, but we really do appreciate it, Mark. Thank you for all that you and THE Eddie Horvath do for us viewers! 👍
Love the way you have this mill set up . Saw is true to the carriage . More people should spend the time ( and money ) to set up their mills the correct way . Oh! Thank you for having a B.C. flag lol
what eddie said was tooo funny, lol. i remember thinking when i was 14, how stupid my parents were. 10 years later i was impressed with how much smarter my parents had gotten in 10 years. the same scenario happened with me and my youngest daughter, who is now 35. we had a good chuckle about that. thanks guys and cheers.
It’s so funny how we thought our parents were clueless to our shenanigans (sneaking out at night, etc.) when they did the same thing as kids. They knew exactly what we were up to, and now my kids will go through the same but nothing they do will get past me! They are so screwed 😂
Not a machinist the man controlling the saw is referred to as the sawyer. A machinist works on mechanical things. Just to get your terminology correct.
@@jamesshanks2614 actually a machinist is someone who operates metal lathes, milling machines and other metal cutting tools. A mechanic repairs autos and heavy equipment, then you have fabricators, they build using steel and they combine the skills of welders,machinists mechanics, mill rights, and draftsmen.finally there is millrights who combine skills of welders,mechanics, and some fabricators skills. There are many overlapping skills between all of these trades. Hope that clears things up. Mel from quesnel
Mark, we had a old 25 ton low boy we bought used that need a new deck and a few cross members. So after some welding. WE had a local guy Amish guy cut is new deck boards out of BLACK ELM. I know we cussed pre drilling those holes to attach the boards to the cross members in that trailer. We did the job in late summer of 1998. And the last I knew there was still some of those same Black Elm boards still on it today. And that trailer still moves it fair share of equipment every yr. Another guy that just redecked his 53' 50 ton last winter for the 3rd time went 3" thick and 8"10" wide. Talk about a 3 men a boy job moving those boards. After about the 3rd board, I said enough of this crap, and we went and got the forks on my tractor and used it to on to the trailer and spud bars to slide them into there final mounting location. A good driver and equipment operator can save the deck of these low boys if they just learn to pay a little more attention at times. But the guy with the 50 ton trailer moves a lot of big crawlers with those track pads with teeth on them. But so fare that 3" oak he had cut is still standing tall. I asked him was he worried about his light weight. He just laughed, and said NOPE. "I'm running either 8 or 10 axles now. Weight is just a number, we let the cops worry about. Not me" (With a big smile) Keep the lumber order videos coming. It's good to see people spending $$, And buying MADE in AMERICA Products.
Hey mark, when you have a tall cant like the first log, try lifting the dogs, back up the knee, drop the dogs then extend the dogs to push over your cant, and presto push it back onto the carriage and cut. Just a thought from an armchair sawyer. Lol!! Mel from quesnel
I was born near sighted, your video has incredible visual detail, I can only imagine what it would be like to see in this detail every day. what camera's are you using?
A couple of things. Eddie please keep wearing your glove as all time, for protection because you never know when you will get a splinter when you are doing sawing. Secondly, could you show me a quick video of the dust bin at the back when it is in full operational.
Hi Mark. Where do you get the logs? Do you harvest them or buy them from someone? Do you sell the lumber? I know what you do with the saw dust. I watched you build that nice bin. How about scrap pieces? Do you cut them up for for firewood and sell them? Sorry if you have already answered these questions before. I really like your operation, keep it up!
You mention it being luck getting that last board off at 2" without having a computer. I don't have one either, but I use a cheat sheet on the 2nd face.....if I want an 8" cant the sheet will tell me where to make my face cut so I can cut even boards down to the cant width. Same thing on the 4th face. If I'm cutting 2x I know where to make the opening cuts to end up with the last board at 2" I realize mixing board thicknesses will mess up the settings. Works for me, but you know what works for you.
Am enjoying and have been enjoying your vids. Maybe it's me but the Jimmy makes too much noise that I have trouble hearing your comments. Don't know how you would reduce the Jimmy noise without sound proofing the operators cab or putting up an insulated partition between the Jimmy and the cab.
That Detroit sure has the power .. also wondering why you have to make shim cuts on the last turn at the end, When I used to saw on an old Lane lever set mill that last turn was planed to come out perfect on the last board every time by using the notches in the set wheel . anyway keep up the great vidios.
That last log should of stayed in the woods for the termites as they need food too I guess, the second log really fooled me as it looked okay but the most of that tree was wasted seed.
at the end, The Eddie was not wantin to take a water break, he looked at the other face of that log and thought to himself.... mark, what were you thinkin ?
Now I understand your comment of " here comes the truck with mostly firewood and a couple of good pieces of lumber " Nice to see a couple of wood workers that don't agree that all wood from the junk pile is junk. Dumn question, have you ever considered building basic log cabins to a basic plan? Just thinking out loud here as I'm thinking there must be some carpenters that would like the work setting them up properly. You simply need the correct number of logs cut to an a simple design. Watch how the Amish do it on RUclips and it will become quite clear.
Always enjoy your videos, but I can't understand anything you're saying while sawing. What happened to all that soundproofing? All we can hear is background noise. The visual is great.
At approximately 13 minutes I noticed the second flag from the left seemed to have a mind of it’ own. I wonder if it is the West Virginia state flag? If it is I can better understand its actions, seein’ as how against the grain us hill people sometimes get.
Some people would say watching this is like watching paint dry. Don’t know why but I love it , it’s an art
to these people i say move on. i like watching this, no b.s. and once in a while i learn something. quiet and relaxing.
L@@denisjl100
don't know why, but i find this mesmerizing and relaxing
yes it is.
It is therapeutic
I appreciate your explanation of how you decide to cut each log and the other details of sawmill operation and maintenance. I bought a sawmill last fall and God willing hope to have it rebuilt and setup by next spring. I have helped setup 2 sawmills but have never pulled the lever on one. Thank you for sharing 28 years of experience! Stay safe Mark & Eddie and keep the great videos coming!
that's great , what kind of mill do you have.
@@markgalicic7788 It's a Crabb model E, with a 48" blade. They were built here in Iowa.
I've started to watch the rerun's of your video's. The saw mills come along way in one year, you and Eddie have done a great job on the mill building. Take care.
I'm liking the long sawing videos. Keep em comin!
yes sir.
Thank you for the video.I really enjoy the sawing videos.
glad you liked.
Always enjoy your work, and those beautiful logs!
Good down to earth understandable explanation of what's going on. Thanks.👍
I have been watching you for a couple weeks now I inherited from a neighbor up the street a Ross bandsaw mill made New Hampshire apparently back in the 70s but only have seen three videos on RUclips don't know if there would be any interest I don't do much videoing so it's not going to be as professional as you guys but I like watching your videos and others like yours if you think there might be a few people that are interested in seeing a video or two of me sawing small Spruce and pine on my Ross bandsaw mill and have a few minutes to read this long message and want to get back to me I will keep an eye out for a response thank you snow is coming soon and I live in Maine so I won't be sawing in the winter but if there's any interest I would pick it up again in the spring thank you for your time
A heck of a lot nicer than you would get from Home Depot. And a lot cheaper! Nice video and Happy Father's Day to you and Eddie!
thanks pastor Michael.
I so look forward to this channel posting, thanks mark and thanks eddie....
thanks Jakob.
Beautiful Oak, you have your Saw Rig set up nicely, good job.
Hello to all from Alaska.
Hello there!
looking good sounding good, doing a great job.
thanks.
mark and eddie i'm so glad i ran across you two.i thoroughly enjoy your videos.
thanks Danny.
I tried watching someone else's video cutting logs and it was boring. I left, I enjoy your videos, you do explain what you are doing. Thank you for uploading your videos, stay safe 🙏
I really like the camera setup you got going on. It's clear and has a good view of the saw and we can still hear you.
thank you.
HEY, Mark and YES, you know how I am with my bus motors! I know people cuss those things but the need to drive an old Mack if they wanted to sleep. With an operating range f5ro 12 or 13 hundred to 21 and either 5 or 6 gears all you did was wait. With a bus motor you couldn't be scared of a gear stick because you got to be really friendly with it really fast. My first was an old slope-nosed White with a 6-71 and a 10 speed Roadranger single axle with a van box that was hauling powder to the boulder hole nd I got to drive it back to the old shop around 6 miles away. BOY was I overjoyed. And it never left through all these years. THANKS for taking time to get this so I can watch and hear it. You and T.H.E. are amazing!
Happy week, Yall and GBWYall!
we did name the bus motor after you Lewie.
@@markgalicic7788 I thought so so maybe I'll run a little better or it won't blow up, one or the two!
Great video good team works that blade does throw the odd wobble,all stay safe. thanks
thanks John.
Watching this 3 year old video brought to my attention of the intro music, I really liked that music.
Totally efing addictive to watch.
yes it is.
I love the sound of The Bus Motor when she sawing hardwoods!!!
a great sound.
great video mark..... first two logs turned out some nice lumber
thanks Bob
I really appreciate the way you save less than perfect logs from becoming firewood
thanks
Great job guys!!!
thanks
Did I see a little blade wobble starting around 20:21 ? It didn't come back from what I could see. You both make a great team and it's wonderful to see your mind work as you figure out the best way to maximize the usable lumber from a log. Yes, video and sawing at the same time is an effort, but we really do appreciate it, Mark. Thank you for all that you and THE Eddie Horvath do for us viewers! 👍
thanks Sam , hope to get the blade hammered soon.
Love the way you have this mill set up . Saw is true to the carriage . More people should spend the time ( and money ) to set up their mills the correct way . Oh! Thank you for having a B.C. flag lol
thanks Neil.
Someone is getting a beautiful oak floor, that is just astounding figuring in those logs
yes sir Andrew.
Great work thanks for sharing
yes sir.
Strangely wonderful looking grain on that log. It would look great on a house floor.
Y’all work like a well oiled machine!!!
It was fun watching you handle the 3rd log.
yes it was fun.
what eddie said was tooo funny, lol. i remember thinking when i was 14, how stupid my parents were. 10 years later i was impressed with how much smarter my parents had gotten in 10 years. the same scenario happened with me and my youngest daughter, who is now 35. we had a good chuckle about that. thanks guys and cheers.
that is funny.
It’s so funny how we thought our parents were clueless to our shenanigans (sneaking out at night, etc.) when they did the same thing as kids. They knew exactly what we were up to, and now my kids will go through the same but nothing they do will get past me! They are so screwed 😂
That 3rd one was a nightmare! 😳
yes very knotty & hard to saw.
I love how the yellow dial indicator gives the machinist an idea of where the blade is, ingenious!
Not a machinist the man controlling the saw is referred to as the sawyer.
A machinist works on mechanical things.
Just to get your terminology correct.
@@jamesshanks2614 saw mills are mechanical
@@jamesshanks2614 actually a machinist is someone who operates metal lathes, milling machines and other metal cutting tools. A mechanic repairs autos and heavy equipment, then you have fabricators, they build using steel and they combine the skills of welders,machinists mechanics, mill rights, and draftsmen.finally there is millrights who combine skills of welders,mechanics, and some fabricators skills. There are many overlapping skills between all of these trades. Hope that clears things up.
Mel from quesnel
Good job Mark nice video on cut the oak
thanks Edward.
Great stuff again Mark, the blade got a good wobble at 27.55 as it came off the burrs, but straightened soon after.
yes it needs to be hammered .
Mark, we had a old 25 ton low boy we bought used that need a new deck and a few cross members. So after some welding. WE had a local guy Amish guy cut is new deck boards out of BLACK ELM. I know we cussed pre drilling those holes to attach the boards to the cross members in that trailer. We did the job in late summer of 1998. And the last I knew there was still some of those same Black Elm boards still on it today. And that trailer still moves it fair share of equipment every yr. Another guy that just redecked his 53' 50 ton last winter for the 3rd time went 3" thick and 8"10" wide. Talk about a 3 men a boy job moving those boards. After about the 3rd board, I said enough of this crap, and we went and got the forks on my tractor and used it to on to the trailer and spud bars to slide them into there final mounting location. A good driver and equipment operator can save the deck of these low boys if they just learn to pay a little more attention at times. But the guy with the 50 ton trailer moves a lot of big crawlers with those track pads with teeth on them. But so fare that 3" oak he had cut is still standing tall. I asked him was he worried about his light weight. He just laughed, and said NOPE. "I'm running either 8 or 10 axles now. Weight is just a number, we let the cops worry about. Not me" (With a big smile) Keep the lumber order videos coming. It's good to see people spending $$, And buying MADE in AMERICA Products.
Hey mark, when you have a tall cant like the first log, try lifting the dogs, back up the knee, drop the dogs then extend the dogs to push over your cant, and presto push it back onto the carriage and cut. Just a thought from an armchair sawyer. Lol!!
Mel from quesnel
Present buddy,join listening🙏👍
Wish we had smell a video i love the smell of oak. Thanks for your time. Also those ribs looked really good.
a great smell.
I was born near sighted, your video has incredible visual detail, I can only imagine what it would be like to see in this detail every day. what camera's are you using?
Some big ole logs!
yes sir.
What percentage of waste do you get from a 16” log before you start getting any useful lumber out of it.
A couple of things. Eddie please keep wearing your glove as all time, for protection because you never know when you will get a splinter when you are doing sawing. Secondly, could you show me a quick video of the dust bin at the back when it is in full operational.
yes sir.
Hey Mark. How about part two of the process and seeing the slabs finished into planks.
one day we will.
Would love a mill like that
Hi Mark. Where do you get the logs? Do you harvest them or buy them from someone? Do you sell the lumber? I know what you do with the saw dust. I watched you build that nice bin. How about scrap pieces? Do you cut them up for for firewood and sell them? Sorry if you have already answered these questions before. I really like your operation, keep it up!
we get logs from a tree cutter & split them . slabs for firewood and sawdust for bedding.
Mark Are these rough or dimensional 2x8" ?
full 2x8.
Is the Laser adjusted right? Because you always have to recorrect.
👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
thanks Dave.
Hi where are you located at I am in western pa near Youngstown OH border
After seeing the pieces of bark flying, now it makes sense to me why the commercial operations take the bark off teh logs, before they saw them.
I have only ever used a small band mill that on is six times faster
The heavy equipment will be riding on some nice lumber!
yes it will .
You mention it being luck getting that last board off at 2" without having a computer. I don't have one either, but I use a cheat sheet on the 2nd face.....if I want an 8" cant the sheet will tell me where to make my face cut so I can cut even boards down to the cant width. Same thing on the 4th face. If I'm cutting 2x I know where to make the opening cuts to end up with the last board at 2"
I realize mixing board thicknesses will mess up the settings. Works for me, but you know what works for you.
yes I had one for my meadows that worked good , I just need to make a new one for this mill.
What do you do with your Slab wood and saw dust
we sell both of them.
Am enjoying and have been enjoying your vids. Maybe it's me but the Jimmy makes too much noise that I have trouble hearing your comments. Don't know how you would reduce the Jimmy noise without sound proofing the operators cab or putting up an insulated partition between the Jimmy and the cab.
That Detroit sure has the power .. also wondering why you have to make shim cuts on the last turn at the end, When I used to saw on an old Lane lever set mill that last turn was planed to come out perfect on the last board every time by using the notches in the set wheel . anyway keep up the great vidios.
these logs were bending on the carriage and needed to be trued up.
@@markgalicic7788 Got it..
Did the Log Turner come with the Sawmill
yes it did.
when you say your cutting a 2X8. do you mean your cutting 1.5X7.5 ? a typical home improvement warehouse lumber ?
That 3rd Log would have been good for fire wood
yes it would have.
What is the diameter of the blade
That log flipper thingy is sure boogering up that wood
the log turner can be rough but this is trailer decking not grade lumber.
Hey Mark, the next thing you'll have to invest in is " Smellavision"
Ha HaHa
sounds good Kenny.
@@markgalicic7788 mark I just mailed the flag, they said it would arrive in 3 to 5 days to you
What is the sawmill value?
46000.00 and change I thought
You spit roasting the log again.
sawing oak decking
Beautiful timber shame you are in America and I'm in Australia
that's a long haul.
Looks like Eddie should be wearing a back brace.
yes very heavy.
That last log should of stayed in the woods for the termites as they need food too I guess, the second log really fooled me as it looked okay but the most of that tree was wasted seed.
a good firewood log.
hang some flags or do what you done with the fabric in th sawdust shed, made some see through screen. it would help to keep some light out
we need to finish the building.
What's the name and or of you're Sawmill?
it is a Edmiston.
That second log looked like a Bur Oak.
it may have , we have over 24 species of oak .
The older I get, the smarter my parents get!
that's true.
parsons585 I’m having the opposite problem, I thought he was a genius when I was a kid, now....
@@shanek6582 I agree with you.
Good afternoon guys
hello John.
at the end, The Eddie was not wantin to take a water break, he looked at the other face of that log and thought to himself.... mark, what were you thinkin ?
he needed a smoke break.
And dah
yes sir Marvin.
Heavy wood.
"Box the heart" a wise man once told me.
good grade sawing.
Now I understand your comment of " here comes the truck with mostly firewood and a couple of good pieces of lumber " Nice to see a couple of wood workers that don't agree that all wood from the junk pile is junk.
Dumn question, have you ever considered building basic log cabins to a basic plan? Just thinking out loud here as I'm thinking there must be some carpenters that would like the work setting them up properly.
You simply need the correct number of logs cut to an a simple design.
Watch how the Amish do it on RUclips and it will become quite clear.
yes if we could find someone to cut the parts out & we can't saw over 20' logs.
Why isn't T.H.E. not wearing any work gloves? His hands must be tough as catchers mitts.😮
Always enjoy your videos, but I can't understand anything you're saying while sawing. What happened to all that soundproofing? All we can hear is background noise. The visual is great.
I can hear him ok
I can hear Mark just fine.
I had the cab door opened for air.
At approximately 13 minutes I noticed the second flag from the left seemed to have a mind of it’ own.
I wonder if it is the West Virginia state flag?
If it is I can better understand its actions, seein’ as how against the grain us hill people sometimes get.
wild & wonderful
Mark can I get an address to send you a flag
Too much back ground noise.
it is a sawmill.
Too much yapping folks.
turn the sound off.