Cutting a Huge Birch Burl With an Alaskan Mill

This video shows how to mill odd shaped pieces or burls with an alaskan sawmill. Enjoy the beauty of these thick yellow birch burl wood slabs.
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Website: www.burlmaster.com

[@laurielambert4269]

Fantastic setup. Thank you for posting this! Incredible skill!

[@danielsheets463]

thanks!

[@welcometothewoodshedwithtr7680]

Nice chunk of wood and I'm digging the pallet rack setup. Thanks for posting.

[@danielsheets463]

Thanks!

[@jeffreyharrington5057]

Wow! Those are beautiful slabs I love it and I'm slowly working on an Alaskan mill.

[@danielsheets463]

Its a lot of fun

[@beancreekwoodworks]

What a clever idea ! May have to give it a try. Looking to Mill stumps. This came up in my suggested videos neet !

[@stuartlock2255]

Beautiful slab mate !!

[@David-fv7zg]

This is a fantastic pallet rack jig for cutting these short pieces, I have a few myself and this will help. Thanks!

[@danielsheets463]

Great! Glad I could help

[@harddriverecordingandfilmsNY]

I'm watching a ton of vids to learn as I wait for my first mill like this. I think this is my fav frame for the mill so far. I see the "Granberg" sticker

[@danielsheets463]

granberg is just the mill on the saw. the rack is pallet racking. should be able to find some on marketplace of craigslist. basically industrial shelving

[@harddriverecordingandfilmsNY]

@@danielsheets463 that's what I was thinking until I saw the sticker, but thanks man, I'm on it!

[@johnohagan8228]

Wow. Just wow. The skill on this guy is remarkable. The quality of his work is undoubtedly the best I’ve seen thus far. Makes me want to go chop down a tree myself. No wonder why they call him the Burlmaster.

[@johngrace199]

Beautiful wood Daniel...though I admit, the 'woodturner' in me cringed that all of the burl was slabbed and none appeared to be saved for turning. Great work as always...

[@danielsheets463]

Haha yeah. That's what the smaller ones are for. I have a whole pile of them!

[@georgewilmore7599]

I can see why your called burl master absolutely beautiful slabs.

[@danielsheets463]

Thank you!

[@billherrick3569]

How long did you dry the burl before cutting it? How did you store the slabs to prevent splitting & cracking?

[@adrianluica6960]

Amazing. I wish for a slab. What tipe of Stihl did you use?

[@manuelmartin8890]

Perfect heart shape should make some awesome art pieces .like a simple wall mount or a Valentine's day gift

[@danielsheets463]

Yes!

[@scor440]

Nice!I was online and found a product for wedges its called pockets?

[@springcopsespaniels2189]

I am just looking in to sorting this style pallet racking setup for milling. May I ask how you find the stability, ease of sliding on the rails ( see you have winch as well) and what is the width of the racking? I am thinking of getting the 1200mm wide version as it should give better stability overall. Do you take this and set it up out in the field, much like the Lucas mill, just build the frame around the log.

[@danielsheets463]

It slides just fine. Its pretty stable I don't think mine is that wide but it would still work. I would only use this to mill odd pieces because it takes a bit to setup

[@springcopsespaniels2189]

@@danielsheets463 the dolly wheels, do you find them easier? I had though about making use of the internal lip and running some dolly wheels in that.

[@springcopsespaniels2189]

@@danielsheets463 if you were to do it again, or make changes what would they be?

[@danielsheets463]

@@springcopsespaniels2189 i modified it so the dolly wheels ride on the orange part if you look up my Alaskan mill cherry burl cutting its in there.

[@springcopsespaniels2189]

@@danielsheets463 I finally got around to this type of setup, though have installed a few new upgrades since this video so I may do another. kzbin.info/www/bejne/rp2qfYJjjteMgM0

[@liviusuto579]

Hey Daniel, very nice work. Could you please share with us what device did you use? The scafold is customised or could we buy from specific dealer? The model of the mill and chainsaw ( what blad did you use ).

[@danielsheets463]

The scaffold is just pallet racking. Its a stihl 880 with 59" bar, granberg mark IV chainsaw mill and oregon hypertooth ripping chain

[@kevmcdin2003]

That's a nice burl

[@maisonwaldroup9560]

Hey Sir, are you by any chance selling that last slab at 11:08?

[@Regdiggs]

What model saw do you use?

[@MrThenry1988]

Wow. What's that worth?

[@BlaiseBrogan]

Nice mate 👊🏽

[@danielsheets463]

I love me some burl

[@arnilazarev1771]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@kennethperian4370]

Like to have one, tell me the cost I may buy one just so I can park my good old big truck and other things. Keep sending messages on them have y’all a great day.

[@casperscuts2627]

How deep into the rest of the stump did the burl extend?

[@danielsheets463]

There was basically one more that had burl. The slabs with straight grain were incredible though

[@MimosaFormosa]

How thick are these slabs cut?

[@danielsheets463]

3 inches

[@beebob1279]

Why didn’t you leave the burl whole?

[@danielsheets463]

You have to see what's inside!

[@yspark5930]

물은붓는 이유가 무엇일까요? 안전제일?

[@danielsheets463]

Awesome

[@AndrewAHayes]

How do you dry these burl cuts, do you have to seal them whilst drying?

[@danielsheets463]

I dont. I put them in the first floor of a barn that's pretty cool temperature and not too dry. Eventually I will take them to a kiln

[@marklaviii]

Thank you for the way to mike a chainsaw mill frame.

[@danielsheets463]

No problem

[@Chrisbreezy1979]

I've only seen two of those Burl's in my life, one was about that size and one was probably four times that. I have no way of getting them or cutting

[@danielsheets463]

I have heard of yellow birch burls being the size of vw bugs! they can get quite large

[@catmandont100]

Dern Show-Off.

[@danielsheets463]

Haha the show off is the burl

[@hennings627]

That is not birch

[@danielsheets463]

wrong its yellow birch

[@romeliapolly2519]

I will try to do it with Stodoys plans.