I saw this and thought, "I'm not watching this now, I don't have half an hour to spare at the moment." So of course I got sucked in and watched the whole thing. Your production, timing, narration, et cetera are all top-notch and the time just flies by. Thank you for your videos!
I know its a video about nothing in particular, but this is one of the best Frank videos I've seen in a while. Its got arborists, milling, metal work, turning, some of the best Frank-off-topic tangents, and your modification of the chainsaw mill with the winch was so fun to watch.
By the time the turned pieces dry out and are ready for finishing, Frank's back shouldn't be sore any more. I'm seeing many red oak projects in Frank's future. This is the way it goes though. Suddenly you get a literal wind fall, and have way more wood than you can use.
I love your ready & friendly laugh! I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for taking the time to make it and for describing your process so thoroughly. Well done, sir!
Awesome job, Frank. Former sayer here - it’s really important to have the stickers line up vertically, that will help prevent the boards from bowing. Also if you can find a strapping machine to bind them together, that helps, too.
I literally EAT UP Frank's videos. Even if they're 30 minutes long, they bring so much calm and peace to my day, they're priceless. I wish I had equipment like this expertise like Frank's to do this sort of wood work :(
That was a crazy storm, we were without power for 3 days at first and then 2 days. A lot of trees down but luckily none on my place. I was thankful for my fireplace or it would've been a scramble to get down the hill to a hotel to stay warm. As far as the crane lifting the last piece high, it may have been with the wind and weight, needing to shorten the length so it doesn't swing as much. Keep up the great work! Always like seeing what you make.
Bonjour Frank Vraiment content de voir une nouvelle vidéo de vous Super la récupération de tout ce bois et la préparation de tous ces futurs projets Bravo 😊
In about two or three years you will either have some nice slabs or more firewood. I hope it's the former because of all the work you put into the project. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Frank, I’ve done a lot of chainsaw milling. The two best mods I did to my chainsaw milling were to always find a way to lift one end of the log and let gravity help push the mill and building a custom exhaust manifold that I put a small motorcycle exhaust pipe on to, this made the saw quieter (didn’t piss off the neighbors as much😅) and it directed the sound up away from me operating the saw, which makes the job less tiring. Looks like you got some great wood there, I look forward to seeing the future projects! Cheers from Tokyo!
@@frankmakesFrank, one other mod you might make is to remove the crank handle and use a socket in a battery-powered drill to save wear and tear on your arm. I seem to recall Izzy Swan making a milling sled that incorporated something similar.
18:35: The reason they lifted that piece so high in the air is because they wanted to get it up past the house as quickly as possible so that it didn't rotate into the house. When they lift something fast like that it has a lot of inertia and stopping it quickly will make the lines slack and could cause a bunch of issues so instead they just continue lifting it and slow the rate until they can drop it back down safely without the slack. If they had raised it slowly they wouldn't have had to lift it so high but it would be near the house for longer potentially causing issues.
Have you ever thought about making that cup attachment for your lathe from something like delrin instead of wood? That way you wouldn't have to true it up every time you want to use it. Thanks for the content!
Hello Frank, I have to tell you how much I enjoy watching your videos. You’re a lot like me in the way you do your projects and how you go about figuring out how to make things work. I really wish I had a shop like yours but I’ve come to the realization that getting older and tired of arguing with the wife about what kind of mess it will make I’m down sizing and selling off a lot of my equipment. Please keep up the great job. I always look forward to your videos
I'm glad you didn't have much storm damage. I had two big erosion gullies, 3 to 4 feet deep and wide, across my backyard this year. Both times the rain water went into a gopher hole on my neighbors property and out a gopher hole on my property. No risk of major damage but it was a real pain hauling the dirt back up the hillside to fill in the gullies. P.S. The gopher population has seriously declined on my property! 😬 Jim Y
Just happened across this video. I haven't seen you before. Enjoyed the video and looking forward to seeing more of your content. Thanks for taking time to make them.
Nice video for better results. Paint 1" down both sides where you painted the end grain, you protect the corner of timber and get better results like how you should get timber from timber mill. Cheers
Suggestion. Change the rope to a smaller diameter, like a Kevlar kite string or 550 cord. Add a small boating pulley to the end and run it straight back to the center of your mill crank from your clamp jig thing you fabricated.
Love the winch attachment on the chainsaw mill. I don't know if it would be beneficial but might be able to adapt a drill or something like that to winch to get rid of the need to hand crank it. It might almost be hands free at that point and kind of like a band saw mill
What a lot of work. And how satisfying. Congrats! One safety suggestion: please be oh so careful using a spindle roughing gouge (SRG) on faceplate (bowl) grain orientation. A SRG attaches to its handle with a tang. This is a weak point in the metal. Unlike a bowl gouge that is milled from a solid shaft of HSS inserted into the handle. If you get a catch with a SRG turning a bowl the tang can break off and the gouge becomes a blood-seeking missle. Thanks for your very detailed content.
When it comes to longer material I used a buck-block, (it's about a two foot tall sturdy platform, in my case a 3X10 on-end and braced) as a pivot point. By lifting up one end of the board and putting it on the buck-block you can boom the board right where you want it. At ten inches wide and two feet high and long it's quite portable and takes up little storage space when not in use. I only bring this up because I don't see you using one and it could be beneficial to your lower back, as well as making stacking easier.
Always enjoy watching & listening to your creativity & spectacular video skills...like that 'twin' making..( ya know when you clone yourself= 2 of you making stuff at t same time !!😊) & then the enlarged bowl in top right of t screen while you are at the Lathe making another copy. .just super impressive computer graphic/image manipulatons ..just great to watch! Stay safe handling those heavy slabs & rounds..carry on Frank! A+👍✅️🤠😊
Just came across your channel. So much beautiful wood and I’ve never seen how such large pieces are cut down for slab. Thank you for sharing I find this very interesting and informative. Just wondering have you been woodworking for a long time?
Frank, I watched your winch installation onto your mill with great interest. I’ve been experimenting with a winch scenario which I got out of my late buddy, Will Malloff’s seminal work, “Chainsaw Lumbermaking,” (which is the veritable Bible of all things chainsaw milling. ) Will operated his winch from the far end of the log, which requires a throttle control gizmo, and I think from watching other peoples winch systems, I think the mill mounted system seems to work the best. So I followed your idea and tried mounting my winch onto the mill base the same way you did, -with the winch on the rail opposite the cross tube. However, there’s a problem, -which I think you’ll discover the next time you use your mill. The scales which are embossed on the vertical riser posts will be reversed, so they won’t index to the top of your crossbars, so you’ll need to use a measuring tape to adjust the depth of your cuts. I was able to mount my winch onto the cross-tube side, no problem, which allows for the regular depth indexing. If you have a closer look at your mill, I think you’ll see what I mean! My son Zephyr (age 13) are huge fans of your excellent videos! (You can see some of my chainsaw milling adventures by searching “Ingmar Lee” on RUclips..)
For sealing green wood, Titebond makes an all-purpose white glue that sells for about $16 a gallon ... does a great job of sealing green wood. I apply two coats ... been using it for a couple of years with no problems.
12:49 Reminds me of a time I had to drop my truck off for repairs that would take a while. I RV full time so my truck is an important part of my home. But I also have a motorcycle. I had a friend give me a ride back from the shop after dropping off the truck that's about and hour and a half away and I was in my camper off of my truck until the truck was finished where I store it. I rode the motorcycle to go pick up the truck. They had a lift that I was able to load the bike into the back of the truck and bring the bike back. What I hadn't worked out was how to get the bike, at 1100CCs and almost 600lbs, out of the truck. Very near where I had my camper stored, there's a Home Depot quick walking distance away. So I pulled in back of the Home Depot where all the pallets are stored and made a ramp of about 26 of them and rolled my bike out of the pickup. Put all the pallets back where I found them then drove the truck to my camper, put the camper back on my truck, then walked to my bike and rode it back. Those are my favorite days, when I figure things out on the fly.
One of these days you should invest in an appliance hand-truck. It'll save your back in the future! You could even splurge for an integrated scissor lift to help move bigger pieces up and down to your truck bed/benches!
Spindle roughing gouges are know for snapping at the shank when they used for anything but roughing a cylinder. And a gallan of cheap PVA while glue from is less expensive than wax for sealing ends.
@@rorywallace7335 Elmers white glue works great. Some think it does better than anchorseal. All know it doesn't make your floor slippy when you finish turn.
Fenômeno. Não dou conta de nenhuma dessas Imagina filmar, editar, narrar e ganhar dinheiro com isso, sem deixar de dar atenção pra família. Pensa numa realidade paralela. É isso. 😮
The very first video of yours I watched was of you cutting up a tree in a friend's or neighbor's yard. I found the chainsaw mill to be just a neat way to get the slabs without taking the whole log to a big mill.
The view of the bowl at 15:45 had me thinking you should try making a giant acorn - removable walnut lid textured with the CNC, turned middle section, could be a good combo project
When you turn green wood bowls, have you thought of putting the hose clamps round them and leave them to try and keep some of the internal stresses and strains out of the wood in an attempt to stave off cracking? They are pretty inexpensive and unobtrusive..
Those short y-shaped oak slabs -- I could see a mosaic turned center section with three of these y-shapes (cnc'd out of one edge to fit the round center mosaic) slabs pegged into a larger assembly. Very fancy living room table perhaps or very heavy wall art? Think a giant oversized flat flower for the basic idea. Glad you had no damage to the house after that storm! Lived through a lot of northwest storms in my lifetime (fall trees and ice damage)! [And why I reside in Arizona now]
I saw this and thought, "I'm not watching this now, I don't have half an hour to spare at the moment." So of course I got sucked in and watched the whole thing. Your production, timing, narration, et cetera are all top-notch and the time just flies by. Thank you for your videos!
I really appreciate the long game you play with future projects. The fear of running out of projects is real!
No long game like that here. Stacked outside. The termites would find the pile after the first year😢
@@ronjones9373 Termites in Portland?
I know its a video about nothing in particular, but this is one of the best Frank videos I've seen in a while. Its got arborists, milling, metal work, turning, some of the best Frank-off-topic tangents, and your modification of the chainsaw mill with the winch was so fun to watch.
Hey frank, love seeing a random video with the tree company I work for show up on RUclips 😂😂 very glad all was taken care of 😁 we love our job.
You guys are the ones doing all the hard work and luckily you have someone respectful like Frank to show that
I appreciate that you use the smart YYYY-MM-DD date format when labeling your pieces.
Its so the blanks sort in order automatically
@@AdamEarl2 Yes, exactly!
There doesn't always have to be a big project. This video was thoroughly enjoyable to watch, Frank.
I was just thinking to myself how much I’ve been missing your videos. Thank you for them, they really are wonderful!
Holly molly,, that's a lot of work by Yourself.😮
By the time the turned pieces dry out and are ready for finishing, Frank's back shouldn't be sore any more.
I'm seeing many red oak projects in Frank's future. This is the way it goes though. Suddenly you get a literal wind fall, and have way more wood than you can use.
@@jfan4reva the hard part is saying “no” to all the wood you find after you fill up your storage spaces
You were given plenty of lemons. The winch is like a second man. Kudos to you Frank. Thank you.
I love your ready & friendly laugh! I really enjoyed watching this. Thanks for taking the time to make it and for describing your process so thoroughly. Well done, sir!
Awesome job, Frank. Former sayer here - it’s really important to have the stickers line up vertically, that will help prevent the boards from bowing. Also if you can find a strapping machine to bind them together, that helps, too.
I literally EAT UP Frank's videos. Even if they're 30 minutes long, they bring so much calm and peace to my day, they're priceless. I wish I had equipment like this expertise like Frank's to do this sort of wood work :(
Oh boy, that spark plug story. I'm glad you were able to get the saw fixed quickly rather than wait weeks!
We'll be here in years to come to watch what you do with all the timber. Thanks Frank
"Bought the winch a few years ago and has been sitting there" Nice to hear I'm not the only one who buys stuff of projects years in the future😅
Yeah, we are not alone!
I believe all of us in the Frank clan suffer from TAS- tool acquisition syndrome
always such a treat when one of your videos come out, thanks as always frank!
A very comforting episode...the storm news was worrying, even without the home forest. You really went to town on all that bad news!
You are in a very good shape, Frank. Those logs are heavy!
Thanks Frank, I much prefer videos like this over too many CNC videos .
Plenty of blanks for future bowls, table tops erc, Frank. They'll keep you busy.
Frank epic line, it'll probably take 10 years to dry... gave me a huge LOL to close out my evening.Thank you my friend
That was a crazy storm, we were without power for 3 days at first and then 2 days. A lot of trees down but luckily none on my place. I was thankful for my fireplace or it would've been a scramble to get down the hill to a hotel to stay warm. As far as the crane lifting the last piece high, it may have been with the wind and weight, needing to shorten the length so it doesn't swing as much. Keep up the great work! Always like seeing what you make.
I feel sorry that you had such destruction through your neighborhood, but you made the best of it with a great stockpile of future material.
Bill
Haven't watched any of old mates content in an age. This was a great one to come back to.
Frank, this is so cool! Hope you get some nice, use-able wood out of this!
the winch is a absolute game game changer!
Wau, bei dem vielen Holz könnte man Neidisch werden. Der Wahnsinn, davon träume ich 🫣🤗🤭👍
Frank, I was amazed at the amount of prep you did alone here. Keep safe.
Frank, your videos are like a fine wine.
First time here. Likely will not be the last. Your deliberation and perseverance is admirable. Thank you
That shit is so heavy man, I watch you moving it in all your videos and you still have a back. Good job!!!
These milling videos are the most satisfying thing ever. Keep it up Frank!
Love your pickup...especially parked next to the Tesla. Two different worlds.
Bonjour Frank
Vraiment content de voir une nouvelle vidéo de vous
Super la récupération de tout ce bois et la préparation de tous ces futurs projets
Bravo 😊
Nice!
Should be able to make some nice bank .... Selling the slabs as they dry.
Love your ingenuity and that you take us along for the whole process. Great to have another of your videos pop up.
“ a video about the work before doing a project” so would that be the prelog then ?
Another great vid Frank, thank you from all of us aspirants.
Brilliant. Also, we share the same date format. Thanks for sharing.
In about two or three years you will either have some nice slabs or more firewood. I hope it's the former because of all the work you put into the project. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂
Frank, I’ve done a lot of chainsaw milling. The two best mods I did to my chainsaw milling were to always find a way to lift one end of the log and let gravity help push the mill and building a custom exhaust manifold that I put a small motorcycle exhaust pipe on to, this made the saw quieter (didn’t piss off the neighbors as much😅) and it directed the sound up away from me operating the saw, which makes the job less tiring.
Looks like you got some great wood there, I look forward to seeing the future projects!
Cheers from Tokyo!
I was wondering about a way to make it quieter. Also maybe direct the exhaust away from going directly into my face.
@@frankmakesFrank, one other mod you might make is to remove the crank handle and use a socket in a battery-powered drill to save wear and tear on your arm. I seem to recall Izzy Swan making a milling sled that incorporated something similar.
18:35: The reason they lifted that piece so high in the air is because they wanted to get it up past the house as quickly as possible so that it didn't rotate into the house. When they lift something fast like that it has a lot of inertia and stopping it quickly will make the lines slack and could cause a bunch of issues so instead they just continue lifting it and slow the rate until they can drop it back down safely without the slack. If they had raised it slowly they wouldn't have had to lift it so high but it would be near the house for longer potentially causing issues.
Thanks for the information.
Have you ever thought about making that cup attachment for your lathe from something like delrin instead of wood? That way you wouldn't have to true it up every time you want to use it. Thanks for the content!
Good work mate.Lot of great wood for future projects
I love that that is the first time that I've ever seen a pair of bolt cutters used for what they're called
The storm was super lucky. No damage to your house and thousands of dollars of "free" wood.
That was so nice of the shop not to charge the $50.00
I love that you have the opportunity to experiment and play. It will be fun to see what unexpected things we learn as well. Love the video.
Hello Frank, I have to tell you how much I enjoy watching your videos. You’re a lot like me in the way you do your projects and how you go about figuring out how to make things work. I really wish I had a shop like yours but I’ve come to the realization that getting older and tired of arguing with the wife about what kind of mess it will make I’m down sizing and selling off a lot of my equipment. Please keep up the great job. I always look forward to your videos
I'm glad you didn't have much storm damage.
I had two big erosion gullies, 3 to 4 feet deep and wide, across my backyard this year. Both times the rain water went into a gopher hole on my neighbors property and out a gopher hole on my property.
No risk of major damage but it was a real pain hauling the dirt back up the hillside to fill in the gullies.
P.S. The gopher population has seriously declined on my property! 😬
Jim Y
Good video it’s a lot of work but now you have a good supply of material on hand. Thanks Frank
Portland sure had a bumper crop of firewood this winter!
Would love to see a house tour. Architecturally it looks very interesting. Love your videos.
A good woodworker knows the trees from which he fabricates his wares
This video showcases the limits of Frank's strength, it touched on some milling but mostly strength limits.
Watching from Vancouver Island 🏝️ 🇨🇦👍
Just happened across this video. I haven't seen you before. Enjoyed the video and looking forward to seeing more of your content. Thanks for taking time to make them.
Go thru his back videos! Truly worth it.
Well done and Thank you for sharing. Keep the chips flying 👍👍
I enjoy the milling videos. Turning what would be fire wood into woodshop gold.
Nice video for better results. Paint 1" down both sides where you painted the end grain, you protect the corner of timber and get better results like how you should get timber from timber mill. Cheers
Gorgeous work you have lost inventory good red oak
We got lucky here in KF. Even Bend got an inch or thicker of ice. We got 40F and light rain
Not lucky - blessed. Big difference.
Much love ...
When chucking on a thread, wrap a wire around the thread and the jaws will bite into that, keeping your thread clean
With the amount of green wood you use, have you ever considered making a DIY kiln to speed up your drying?
very interesting Frank thank you
I always enjoy your videos. Hopefully we'll see you at the AAW symposium in Portland next month.
Hope you gave the dudes at the shop a tip.
Suggestion.
Change the rope to a smaller diameter, like a Kevlar kite string or 550 cord. Add a small boating pulley to the end and run it straight back to the center of your mill crank from your clamp jig thing you fabricated.
Hope someone sponsors you a mini electric tractor loader soon!
Love the winch attachment on the chainsaw mill. I don't know if it would be beneficial but might be able to adapt a drill or something like that to winch to get rid of the need to hand crank it. It might almost be hands free at that point and kind of like a band saw mill
What a lot of work. And how satisfying. Congrats! One safety suggestion: please be oh so careful using a spindle roughing gouge (SRG) on faceplate (bowl) grain orientation. A SRG attaches to its handle with a tang. This is a weak point in the metal. Unlike a bowl gouge that is milled from a solid shaft of HSS inserted into the handle. If you get a catch with a SRG turning a bowl the tang can break off and the gouge becomes a blood-seeking missle. Thanks for your very detailed content.
You can also try adding a drill to the winch
When it comes to longer material I used a buck-block, (it's about a two foot tall sturdy platform, in my case a 3X10 on-end and braced) as a pivot point. By lifting up one end of the board and putting it on the buck-block you can boom the board right where you want it. At ten inches wide and two feet high and long it's quite portable and takes up little storage space when not in use. I only bring this up because I don't see you using one and it could be beneficial to your lower back, as well as making stacking easier.
Excellent video, very well edited and narrated. Thank you.
I am going to put the winch on my mill, it seems to work great.
You really need a good two wheeler trolly Frank, love your work.
Always enjoy watching & listening to your creativity & spectacular video skills...like that 'twin' making..( ya know when you clone yourself= 2 of you making stuff at t same time !!😊) & then the enlarged bowl in top right of t screen while you are at the Lathe making another copy. .just super impressive computer graphic/image manipulatons
..just great to watch! Stay safe handling those heavy slabs & rounds..carry on Frank! A+👍✅️🤠😊
Although, I don't think I will ever mill a log, it was one of more interesting videos for me. I enjoyed it more than bowl and sphere making videos.
Great effort Frank. Love the winch.
It’d be kind of cool to see a side by side experiment of multiple bowls carved from the same wood at various thicknesses to see how they dry out
Just came across your channel. So much beautiful wood and I’ve never seen how such large pieces are cut down for slab. Thank you for sharing I find this very interesting and informative.
Just wondering have you been woodworking for a long time?
Where are your chaps frank?? Only takes one mistake 😬😬 love the content 👊🏻
Yes, agree 100%
Frank, I watched your winch installation onto your mill with great interest. I’ve been experimenting with a winch scenario which I got out of my late buddy, Will Malloff’s seminal work, “Chainsaw Lumbermaking,” (which is the veritable Bible of all things chainsaw milling. ) Will operated his winch from the far end of the log, which requires a throttle control gizmo, and I think from watching other peoples winch systems, I think the mill mounted system seems to work the best. So I followed your idea and tried mounting my winch onto the mill base the same way you did, -with the winch on the rail opposite the cross tube. However, there’s a problem, -which I think you’ll discover the next time you use your mill. The scales which are embossed on the vertical riser posts will be reversed, so they won’t index to the top of your crossbars, so you’ll need to use a measuring tape to adjust the depth of your cuts. I was able to mount my winch onto the cross-tube side, no problem, which allows for the regular depth indexing. If you have a closer look at your mill, I think you’ll see what I mean! My son Zephyr (age 13) are huge fans of your excellent videos! (You can see some of my chainsaw milling adventures by searching “Ingmar Lee” on RUclips..)
For sealing green wood, Titebond makes an all-purpose white glue that sells for about $16 a gallon ... does a great job of sealing green wood. I apply two coats ... been using it for a couple of years with no problems.
Pop some wedges in the kerf behind your saw as you mill, keeps everything parallel 👍
Also use winding sticks and a string line to set your ladder
That first cut sets the tone for the rest of the log
Good work. Good story telling.
Thank you for the winch demo. I’ve had one sitting next to my mill for a year now wondering how I could set it up.
Good morning Frank!!
12:49 Reminds me of a time I had to drop my truck off for repairs that would take a while. I RV full time so my truck is an important part of my home. But I also have a motorcycle. I had a friend give me a ride back from the shop after dropping off the truck that's about and hour and a half away and I was in my camper off of my truck until the truck was finished where I store it. I rode the motorcycle to go pick up the truck. They had a lift that I was able to load the bike into the back of the truck and bring the bike back. What I hadn't worked out was how to get the bike, at 1100CCs and almost 600lbs, out of the truck. Very near where I had my camper stored, there's a Home Depot quick walking distance away. So I pulled in back of the Home Depot where all the pallets are stored and made a ramp of about 26 of them and rolled my bike out of the pickup. Put all the pallets back where I found them then drove the truck to my camper, put the camper back on my truck, then walked to my bike and rode it back. Those are my favorite days, when I figure things out on the fly.
Ha, you can move anything with the right problem-solving skills.
One of these days you should invest in an appliance hand-truck. It'll save your back in the future!
You could even splurge for an integrated scissor lift to help move bigger pieces up and down to your truck bed/benches!
Spindle roughing gouges are know for snapping at the shank when they used for anything but roughing a cylinder. And a gallan of cheap PVA while glue from is less expensive than wax for sealing ends.
Could you be a little more specific on the glue? I would love to try this out!
@@rorywallace7335 Elmers white glue works great. Some think it does better than anchorseal. All know it doesn't make your floor slippy when you finish turn.
Fenômeno. Não dou conta de nenhuma dessas Imagina filmar, editar, narrar e ganhar dinheiro com isso, sem deixar de dar atenção pra família. Pensa numa realidade paralela. É isso. 😮
The very first video of yours I watched was of you cutting up a tree in a friend's or neighbor's yard. I found the chainsaw mill to be just a neat way to get the slabs without taking the whole log to a big mill.
The view of the bowl at 15:45 had me thinking you should try making a giant acorn - removable walnut lid textured with the CNC, turned middle section, could be a good combo project
Truly inspiring
When you turn green wood bowls, have you thought of putting the hose clamps round them and leave them to try and keep some of the internal stresses and strains out of the wood in an attempt to stave off cracking?
They are pretty inexpensive and unobtrusive..
Those short y-shaped oak slabs -- I could see a mosaic turned center section with three of these y-shapes (cnc'd out of one edge to fit the round center mosaic) slabs pegged into a larger assembly. Very fancy living room table perhaps or very heavy wall art? Think a giant oversized flat flower for the basic idea.
Glad you had no damage to the house after that storm! Lived through a lot of northwest storms in my lifetime (fall trees and ice damage)! [And why I reside in Arizona now]
Have you turned the clam shell before?, I think thats what they call it . where its kinda clam shaped then when it dries it close in on its self.
I've been wondering since the storm when this video would show up!
Frank, a Sundial would be a nice piece to design...
Классная работа!!!!