Cutting lumber from firewood

Cutting some usable lumber out of firewood using my jointer and my home made bandsaw

[@vnvet2282]

If you do any amount of this, you might consider using an inexpensive froe for splitting off slabs, and if you can get your piece secured into a vice, using a drawknife for initial flattening before proceeding to work them on the machines. I'm just getting into green woodworking and doing the same thing with 16-in firewood. My intent is to make small boxes with dovetail joints. My skills kind of suck but it's fun and hardwood lumber is very expensive even here in New England where oak, maple and cherry are plentiful. The idea of sawing off a tree limb and turning a chunk into wood art appeals to me. You seem very clever and creative. Thanks for uploading. Love your home made band saw. I'm 73 and due to some glitch in the cosmic machinery, was born in the wrong century.

[@CirclesWoodshop]

Over the past couple of months I have made many trips to the local firewood lot which has a large quantity of walnut. I have found some really decent wood the saw up as workable boards. Recently I got into some nicely figured pieces. After some sawing an sanding this limber is well worth the $10 cost, not to mention the looks I get from the guys splitting the wood. I get really excited when I find a burl that they are unable to split. Pretty pretty wood. Thanks again for the inspiration.

[@matthiaswandel]

Firewood gets burned. Lumber for woodworking gets woodworked. Usually, the firewood lumber isn't that good a lumber, but some parts of it often are quite nice.

[@gratefuldude941]

That's nothing. I can cut firewood from lumber.

[@Seralious]

Am I strange because I love watching wood being cut? :D

[@leedoughty7484]

Thats what the transexual said too :D but no seriously, no your not strange at all, im sure we all enjoy it. As long as its good workmanship

[@courtneesdad]

I admire your work and drive. You were born 100 years too late. You would have been a master back in the depression.

[@matthiaswandel]

that IS my home made bandsaw. I just painted it.

[@ianduaga]

So.... 10 years later youtube algorithm decides for me to watch this... SURE!. i love matthias content

[@ianduaga]

almost 11 :P

[@PineappleOranges]

It is so strange, to me, seeing power tools after watching Mr. Sellers for so long. Thanks for the video though. :0

[@beartenon888]

Your ears? I'm a possessor of tinnitus and wouldn't wish it on anyone. I use a taller fence, myself, because it provides more resistance to the firewood twisting and flopping. Otherwise, I admire the work you do.

[@Dunlands]

@scuffle People call it firewood because how it's been processed. To burn wood in a stove or a boiler it's roughly cut to the length of a fire box. Additionally it's usually been split into smaller more manageable pieces. So, when someone refers to it as firewood that's a reference to how it was processed rather than what kind of wood it is.

[@matthiaswandel]

Use a hand plane.

[@G19Fanatic]

@molinobeer again... you miss the point... he took a piece of wood that USED to be firewood, and will be using it for WOODWORKING projects... He didn't just take wood, put some square edges on it and STILL had the intention of burning it...

[@RDJim]

You're right... I didn't notice with the green paint job. Good observation.

[@ryandonian]

oh. i didnt recognize it. it looks really sweet. nice job on it.

[@56TonyT]

Your right, If only it had accrued to me I believe it would have been a cool video too. I made sure that all the old weathered parts of the table showed so as to make it look as rustic as possible and I left as much of the edges of it as irregular as I could too for the ole pastoral look and to make it look as pioneer made as I could. It came out very sturdy and strong and sits very level. My friend I made it for gets compliments all the time. Maybe next time I can get a picture of it to share.

[@landersjr]

I admire your skill and ingenuity in the machines that you have built. You have inspired me to build your 14" bandmill so I can try milling my own lumber. How do you deal with drift angle when you resaw on the bandsaw?

[@joshl90]

james landers how did it turn out?

[@edhondo4447]

a storm brought down a big walnut tree ..my father was going to make fire wood out of it ,,so i did this to about 1/3 of it for small projects. that was 33 years ago i still have some of it..I made about 50 bird houses and 20 or more hanging baskets for flowers..my father always cringed when taking old wood to the planner ..it seems he never had sharp planner blades when he needed it

[@stephenagaertner]

Nice "small" pieces of lumber! I make big pieces of lumber with an axe and or chainsaw!

[@cavedude80]

he will probably make a vacuum out of the firewood that he just made into lumber because he is just that good

[@gonephishing]

I wouldn't have thought of firewood as a good building material. is this done out of necessity?

[@exexangler]

A lot of people in my area take down trees on their property, have the trunks/branches cut to firewood length sizes, and give away the wood for free. what do you think is the best way to rip the logs, split or saw? And with which tool? (I don't have a jointer, planer, or a band saw, so I'm hoping just to use a jointer jig on my DIY table saw in order to square the wood.) Also, have you ever thought about building a small solar kiln in order to dry the wood faster? i would love to see a video of that since i'm thinking about building one just for firewood size logs.

[@workshoponwheels4936]

exexangler you can try splitting with an axe, that's how I did it, but it was a fairly small block of firewood. Flattening is what I did with a plane (as seen in my upload). If you have a jointer or planer, that will go much faster. I didn't make planks out of it, but if you don't have a bad say than you can always use a hand saw. A table saw can also be used. If you know how to work with a circular saw, than can also be used to cut the planks, but than you should make sure to flatten one side as good as possible. And another tricky thing would be clamping of the log. But it is possible if you have a creative mind

[@marcoschwanenberger3127]

10 Years old and still viable!

[@56TonyT]

I just finished making a rustic table for a friend of mine and I used some beautiful old red oak wood from his firewood pile in his back yard to do it. I did it all, old school too and used no modern metal fasteners or glue. I did all the wood cuts and everything with all hand tools too. Maybe I should have made a video of it for KZbin too. I didnt think of it at the time...

[@apatientspider]

@RDJim Maybe. I saw a shop heater once, made from a 50 gallon drum to burn a charge of packed sawdust.

[@MrHarborFreight]

Hi Matthias. Quick question. What brand band saw blade and cost? Thanks in Advance!.....Gus

[@hoseynkhamissi]

my cousin lost his middle finger working with this machine .. but he was very lucky not loosing 4 .. :)) very bad day in factory ..

[@killercanofcola]

sure but do you think the fire will last as long?

[@RDJim]

could you mix the sawdust in with some pellets and let it feed into a pellet stove?

[@molinobeer]

@Darganeor what I mean was that he is wasting electricity and wood by turning it in chips.. he could have just used an ax. there is no need to be that perfect to be burned...

[@onthemound]

how are you going to clean the wood chips up??!

[@ryandonian]

why didnt u use ur home-made bandsaw?

[@gonephishing]

@rroge5 what do you think the fire logs you buy from the grocery store are made from? sawdust and glue ;)

[@deezynar]

Good information, thanks.

[@mabeco1974]

I like you videos

[@Tenosyn]

Hmm Always wondered how they made the actual tree into wood used to make things.

[@godsmwc65]

What tooth is the blade you just used ?

[@Dunlands]

@Matthiaswandel In northern Vermont hardwood trees are fairly common. All of my firewood is hardwood. A notable portion of it is rock maple and some cherry.

[@remyboisse9249]

Hi Matthias how can i plane it without a planer?

[@Perhapsody]

how many splinters do you get?

[@FWtravels]

Where is the guard on your jointer!!???!!??

[@sandiegomitch]

seems like you should have a larger fence

[@krcarpentry2610]

Be careful on the jointer I had a co worker at a joinery he was placing wood on top of the blade to carve out a notch it shot it out and he fisted them blade taking off all his skin and flesh of 1 winger and the skin of his hand up to his forearm with a chunk of skin on the floor the size of a baseball

[@CosmasBauer]

you don't want to see more videos?

[@Darganeor]

@molinobeer get with the plot IT was going to be firewood but it has been given a new lease of use.

[@georgiowee]

You are n°1 Best Regards

[@love4knex]

you look like lewis off of ghost busters well somewhat.

[@yoelvisgonzales7865]

I laik dis carpinter

[@cabbagesftw]

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[@poja82]

mathias rules!

[@Teddy-zz6kp]

Wow people just have way too mutch time on their hands

[@onthemound]

nice jeans

[@heatherroseisrflyer]

Beautiful smile. :-)

[@molinobeer]

@G19Fanatic Ok, i get it.

[@killercanofcola]

well, you could make paper out of it.

[@robocop62]

Blade guards???

[@matthiaswandel]

+robocop62 yes

[@vadipp]

+robocop62 blade police :)

[@robocop62]

+Vadim Ippolitov It was prob a late night comment! He has built all of his own tools and still has his fingers so I'm sure he knows what he's doing!

[@molinobeer]

@DefinitelyNotNoah wasting electricity to cut a piece of wood that is going to burn... so weird...

[@ryandonian]

you should have. would have been a cool one.

[@MrLeonard55]

Buy a cheap metal detector to. Might find some bullets, nails, etc.

[@ryandonian]

from my comment? it was supposed to be.

[@JacobX89]

Because that's not how things work.

[@iAMsoBEAST1]

@awesomeSkins well then your not allowed to watch them. If your going to watch him build a bandsaw u have to build a bandsaw. there is no other choice. lllolol

[@Luminadaphine]

Is the label " safety rules" an ironic joke ?

[@georgiowee]

I cannot understand... oh : cutting lumber from firewood

[@samiryuoosf8433]

تسام الايدى

[@onthemound]

@cavedude80 i just subed u

[@TheRocketbob22]

You are just bad to the floor.

[@RetrotechCNC]

You should quit your day job.