 Oh sunny day. Oh man. Look at my papayas. Those things are doing great. All right Good that it's sunny day today because I've got something I've been doing so much grunt labor lately just dirty stuff and dig in and standing in the mud and I really want to cut some wood today on my lumber mill and yesterday I went and found this White mangrove tree that had fallen down and I cut it up into some pieces and Brought these up. I don't think termites got to any of it. Oh Nope, they did a little bit. Maybe Yeah, we got a soft spot in there. That's a that's the skinniest part though Man, there's a soft spot in here, too And that explains why it came down. All right, this is the biggest log All right No soft spots there And let's check this end this end looks Seems to be all solid. Well, at least this one is solid all the way through. That's good And this is the second one ah Yeah, maybe this is just garbage. I don't know. Maybe I'll maybe I'll cut it back a little bit and See how far this Nonsense goes Whatever though. I've got the biggest piece Looks like it's in great shape and I cut it to just over eight feet long like two and a half meters ish I'm gonna get it in here and see if I can cut some nice boards. I don't know. I don't even know what I'm cutting yet Okay, I cleared my kids toys out of here I've been thinking about how I'm gonna move bigger logs All right, I think that's lined up I think I'll try cutting the top off first Yes, try that. Oh, no, I don't want to cut that much at once. All right, let's work our way into it Good Cloud issues since this runs directly off solar panels With no batteries anytime a little cloud comes by it slows me down right now. I'm got patchy clouds, but I Haven't had to stop yet. Just slow down This is a reenactment because Jamie accidentally erased the clip for this part So I'm Jamie and I was out here cutting wood with my saw But then clouds kept kept them getting in the way of my solar panels for my saw So I couldn't do any cutting. So I went and did some digging and I was like, yeah, I'm doing some digging Oh, let me flex my muscles. Oh, check them out. Check them out. Oh check out my muscles ladies frog frog What are you doing? I'm showing the ladies my muscles No, no, no women don't watch this channel. Well, maybe that's cuz you don't show enough skin, baby Can you just stick to the script? Oh, you're fired. Okay. Okay, so I was so I was digging and like I was like, why doesn't this saw work better and stuff? And I was like, yo, I got some ideas for modifications. I've been meaning to do so I did modifications I was like, yeah, let me get this part flex my muscles. Oh Frog like and subscribe Okay, first here we are over at the blade, right and The blade did have a bit of a wobble. So as it was spinning around, you know not a lot just a little bit and That's it's just because when I made it like my daughter was turning that around while I held an angle grinder here to you know Line it up. So it didn't come out perfect. So I just took the blade off and the nut Turned the saw on so it was spinning real fast and took an angle grinder and very slowly went up till it was like Oh And at that point when it was going that meant it was smooth running So now the blade The blade does not wobble it is very straight Yeah, that was looking good So that means it cuts a thinner line now because it when it wobbled it it was cutting a line Maybe twice as twice to blade thickness. So now it's cutting half as much wood. So that definitely speeds things up the downside of that is when you're cutting a thinner line it leaves more chance for the wood to bind up on that on the blade but whatever okay and the second thing I did was I reduced the number of teeth on this blade see there's missing teeth now I just kept every fourth tooth so I cut three out kept one cut three out kept three out and this was a 40 tooth blade and now it's a 10 tooth blade and to do it I just you know touch them with an angle grinder real quick and just scored them and then they snapped off pretty easily only took a few minutes to do I mean I did it in my workshop not right here and then I put it back on and you know I knew there was gonna be some some improvement in performance but wow wow so oh so much better and it was already getting pretty late in the day so this saw runs on solar panels which are right up here so the morning Sun comes in and between like nine and noon I get good Sun on these panels and I can cut pretty good right and maybe if I stretch it if I have you know a relatively soft piece of wood I can cut till maybe like one but at that point that you know the Sun's coming in angle it's not not that much of the Sun's hitting the solar panels but I was cutting with this blade on this super hard piece of wood I just made a cut at 230 it's crazy and it went through easier than than I was doing before and I can see the difference up here is a pretty fat cut well partly this is because the wood is warping because it's wet and I cut it but the you know the old cut was almost that wide but then you can see from about here down like it's a much thinner cut that's that's the new cut and when I was using all 40 teeth this is my right where is it this stuff right now I've got other stuff on top let's get the stuff under here like this this is my sawdust you know this these little bits right but then I switched teeth and well I reduced the number of teeth so each tooth is getting a lot more wood it's you know taken off it's like a little planer now instead of instead of kind of like sanding through the wood just getting little tiny bits it's like you know slicing out chunks so now it does take more force for each tooth to cut a deeper cut each time but it's not like four times the amount of force and there's only one one quarter of the number of teeth there were before right so even if it takes twice as much energy to make a little bit deeper cut that's still gonna be half the amount of energy it needs overall because there's there's a quarter of a number of teeth and then it's also making a skinnier cut so I estimate I estimate I need about a quarter as much energy as I did before to make a cut now so I should be able to cut four times as deep maybe not quite four times as deep because the deeper you get the more more binding you get on the blade but yeah I should be able to cut a lot faster and a lot deeper now which is awesome no I can't kind of anymore it's too late now the Sun's like way over there it's not don't don't play with the same I don't want any of the blade ever remember I'm also really curious to see what the cut looks like because when I had the 42th blade it would cut a really nice smooth cut like ridiculously smooth like way smoother than I need but I think it's still gonna cut a pretty smooth cut even with with the 10 teeth so anyway now I'm just excited for hopefully a sunny day tomorrow and hopefully tomorrow morning I can come out here and just whip through some of this stuff and well it's like it's like a brand new machine oh cut through so oh so excited I hope we get some tomorrow are we gonna gonna get some forecast calls for Sunday tomorrow well let's see well we'll wait and see tomorrow