 Okay, you guys we are back at it. We are at the mill. Donnie and I had a really nice trip up north dropped off a Good chunk of lumber up there. They call it a Jag Jag a good jag a lumber We got a jag on the mill right now this one. We're kind of taking over Greg had started this and he's almost got it to a block Donnie measured it They were getting some 16-inch boards off it already, but Yeah, this It's already 14 so we'll we'll continue with 14 and what's he got for a measurement this way just out of curiosity What does a high point 21 there? Yeah, so that log was probably 25 26 when they started at least yeah So he's got it squared down so we could just run it run it run it and then we'll put some stacks over there for him It's quite a chunk of wood Yeah, I'm figuring maybe we'll take off Two or three boards and then we'll set these off and trim them because that You know that that's way too way too much stuff So all at one time. Yeah, I mean that's a 24 horsepower motor that's over 45 years old So we don't want to push it any harder than that. Yeah, it's like pushing an 81 year old around out there Yeah, that's right. That's a Him to do anything But if we put those up we'll get 16s out of those and yeah 16 inch boards pretty good They're pretty pretty clear. They got a couple knots They're real good. There's no red hide. I don't know anything So, you know 15 there We can get a 16 back here But you know, we might want to trim those to 14 too, you know, so I'll be all clear I would build them wise. Yeah, but I don't know what Greg's looking for and he's already got a few 16 All right, we take over all right So if you guys think about it at home, three 16 inch boards next to each other is as wide as a sheet of plywood And how long is this 12? 12 so every three of these you're getting Is it one and a half sheet and a half? Yeah, right? Yeah, so every Every three of these is a sheet and a half of plywood. So that's pretty darn good So if you guys are looking to save money buy yourselves a $30,000 mil Get a get a $30,000 $40,000 machine to love it. Plus a woodlock. Yeah, get by a couple hundred acres And you'll be able to save some money on your plywood All right, we're gonna see how the mill's running today. It's always a little finicky over here But we're gonna give her help. Thanks for tuning in guys Donnie and I absolutely love doing this stuff. We love building We love saving trees, you know, that might might go to the dump or just rot And like this tree has been down for a while. The back was all coming off it So it had been sitting down, you know, it'd been cut probably two or three years ago And luckily the worms hadn't gotten into it. Oh, yeah, there's uh, there's a pine bug in main that that'll bore into the Logs and put holes in there. I was gonna say there's one over here. Yeah, we could show you guys They're pretty awful. I mean, it's not for sheathen. It doesn't matter But if you're trying to do projects and and show the wood it's a different story. Oh, yeah, they're in there This is a good example. Yeah, you can see all the borings here that they You know made in these holes and they drill these holes and lay their eggs for the next year and uh They were an ugly looking thing. Yeah, and uh, I think they could probably bite you pretty good, too If I had a had a tendency to do that, but they get through that log pretty easy. Yeah. Yeah, so they You know, you can't keep your logs down very long and I notice in uh Some saw yards sawmills that in the summertime is when the bugs hatch and stop boring They water down they keep water constantly on the logs until they're sought And that keeps the bugs away Show the folks at home what we got over here donnie. I i'm pretty impressed with those two We've got two logs here a hackmatack which is a great log use for cells uh, it really likes to twist and turn and and it's uh, uh, really fairly hard softwood Oh, I guess it's yeah, it's the only softwood that sheds its needles. Yeah, the only deciduous one in main And uh, they use it in cells. They also use it as plankings in host stalls and cow stalls because it holds up well with all the urine and and uh manure that animals produce and uh, so it's it's a good product for that for for um, you know two before The tuba tins that you're framing with You know if if the log looks fairly straight and good, maybe you can get away with it, but I would say worse. Yeah. Yeah, but that's a pretty good example pretty clear I mean, I mean that's a pretty big hack We call them hackmatack in Maine some places call them tamarack. Um, I've heard them called a couple different things But yeah, this one had some serious good growth rings Usually, I mean usually an eight inch hackmatack is a big hackmatack in Maine. Yeah, I miss things close to 18 I'd say are better. Usually they don't grow real straight, you know or tall Yep, so we might be milling those up. We don't really have a need for it right now to be honest with you after we get this Pine off Donny and I are back to dimensional stuff. So we got a 16 foot hemlock here That it's got a little crook to it little I think we can get a six by six out of it We need sills for our foundation For our wilderness camp. We're going to be building. So stay tuned for that And we're going to try to mill a six by six out of this and then Donny's gonna Um cut them up nicely fit together. So we have to join two of them together so I have to make a splice and uh, and put them together either with long screws or Or long nails. Yeah But here in Maine, I mean you could pretty much find white pine Just about everywhere in Maine. There's some red pine mixed in Norway pine mixed in here and there Yellow pine mixed in here and there but white pine is the tree of Maine Hemlocks pretty well scattered across Maine And where we live we have white pine hemlock maple oak ash What am I missing about beach? Yeah And popple are real strong where we live. We don't have any spruce around us You got to go to the coast which is 20 miles away and we don't have any cedar around us Which is kind of a bummer because we love working with cedar. I think the nearest cedar is about 20 miles north of us, right? Up in moral, moral, well fast area that seems to be some cedar Yeah, but we'll get some hackmatack mixed in we'll get some ironwood mixed in we'll get some We'll get some various other trees mixed in We do have pretty strong elm around us too. You know, there's some elm left Yeah, I slowly slowly disappearing because of the Dutch elm disease, but and then we're real strong on black cherry too We got some wicked nice cherry trees that grew along, you know, a couple hundred year old stone walls They like to run those boundaries. Yeah, and on the birches. We got white yellow and gray. Yeah Yeah There's quite a bit of yellow on my law here mixed in There's a bunch of yellow birch and white birch. Yeah And a few grays We'll get we'll get some brown ash too, but for the most part It's all white ash, which is nice and we haven't seen much of that boring beetle yet. That's Supposed to decimate the entire yeah Brown ash kind of like swampy areas and wet areas and I I don't know of any I've seen on this wood lot But I know you've got some near your I got a lot place. Yeah Uh, yeah, they don't get big either, but she's donny and I milled one last year. Jamie cut for us a couple years ago That thing was the biggest brown ash. I think I've ever seen it was 24 inches maybe at the bottom Yeah, we were surprised huge. It was huge Yeah, made some beautiful axe handles out of it, but but that's what we're mostly after is the big tall on there those white pine Donny's fortunate enough. He's got some beautiful pine and hemlock on his wood lot And that's honestly for to for building the wilderness camp. Yeah, what else do you need? Yeah, right? You could actually you could You know cut all your framing material out of it, you know, yeah, it isn't as hard as Is a hemlock But uh, you know, there's nothing wrong. You could frame with it. Yep board with it board in is the preference, you know to use but I have a friend that Does a lot of my cutting for me and I have him do selective cutting and a lot of my tall pine We're finding has a pencil rod in it and it's it should have been harvested probably You know half dozen years ago, you know As it gets gets older it kind of gets Sent a rot and they they call it pencil rot and the mills don't like that They really cut you on scale So I I use it here and for my own use and And cut out the good logs and he leaves me the junk Yeah, and then we save the junk and turn it into houses But yeah, here's the other thing we do here is this is all that firewood I was talking about so strong on maple in this area. So this is a lot of maple We got ash we got beech yellow birch. I see in there. There's some oak in there both red and uh And what do we got red maple mostly a little bit of rock maple mixed in Yep, and then you know that that all makes for good firewood darning. I will mill some ash We'll actually probably mill that ash log. That's a pretty good button log and makes excellent axe handles Good straight grain. So I think that we can get some good pieces out of that if we quarter saw it Which is a little different method of siren You know to get the grain to come right on axe handles and so forth We have to keep turning it taking a slab off turning it taking a slab off and keep doing that process That's quarter saw but on boards and stuff that we do we just Go right through it and and uh We don't care about the grain so much. You know, what do you got over there an oak or something? Yeah, that's like You picked up an oak somewhere So donny donny and I we don't mill a lot of hardwood because we just don't have a lot of need for it Other than axe handles, but if if we're milling hardwood for Projects and for pretty stuff. We love ash. I both of us just absolutely love dealing working with ash It's such a pretty wood when you finish it. He does not like working with oak. So so I don't like working with oak then But uh, is that okay? I mean that's really clear. Yeah, but you can see all this junk pine and my son Greg has an outside furnace and he has a really big house And he goes about through about 30 cards and he burns nothing but this old junk pine and You know you get some heat out of it Of course, you don't get as much heat out of it as you would out of hardwood, but it gets rid of it and And he doesn't mind working with it. So That's good. Yeah, there's pretty much no waste on the woodlock You know and if we if we get into a log that we don't like Or if there's big slabs it doesn't bother us because it's going to get used up and and utilized for for greg's wood furnace. So That's what we're doing out here. I just figured I'd give you guys a Little heads up let you let you in on what we're doing and see if it might interest you guys enough to hit that subscribe button This is the lumber right here that we've been milling the last couple weeks to bring up and build a wilderness cabin right here So we got two by tens two by eight six by sixes and two by fours And and we need a lot of them. So stay tuned We're going to be milling a lot of them after we get this giant pine off. We're Diving back into the hemlock right Donnie. Sure. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, we need we need to get going on that because Time is getting shorter, you know, it's soon going to be september and that's when we want to start building so A lot of this isn't going to have much time to dry, but Uh, it'll work just fine. And in fact a lot of hemlock Uh people prefer to use it green because It nails easier and once it gets dry. It's a really hard material and splits a lot if you You know drive big nails through it. So it's going to work out great. So That's what are we going to do Working yeah Well, we're going to get that covered up case it rains It's done every day this summer and then we'll come back to you guys tomorrow. We're gonna tomorrow We're going to try for two by tens. I believe right Donnie Yeah, we need about 20 more two by tens we need about 40 more two by eights Rafters 14 footers for rafters 10 pitch. What are those got to be about 14 14 footers? Yeah, so Going to come off the main yeah Those are going to be 16 Six oh that porch is going to be oh because you're going up into the roof Oh nice, I didn't know that that's awesome Sweet we need a bunch. Okay. So we got some serious melon to do Tune in tomorrow guys. 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