(Do YOU?) I KNOW What Your Lumber is Worth? Sawmill Secrets of the Pros

[@SeansWoodBarn]

The HMR info will be priceless to me in the near future. Thanks!

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

You bet!

[@kevincasey7931]

I've learned more from your channel on sawmilling and the logistics than anywhere else combined. Incredible information and teaching methods. Much thanks

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thank you very much.

[@michaelkeykey2225]

Mr. Milton. As usual your videos have info or advice we can't find anywhere else. Yes sawing is fun but watching you and learning your techniques to get the most out of our logs is an important confidence and comforting factor. You are at the top of my list and I suppose you delve deep into any thing that you pursue. To sum up my thanks to your work I guess I'll coin the phase, "Robert Milton THINKS OUTSIDE THE LOG". Thanks again for the HMR video.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

My pleasure! Thanks for the compliments, and I am glad my videos and commentary are helping you get more confident with your sawing.

[@Will-No-Co]

Glad I found your channel. I bought a sawmill, but haven’t set it up yet. I think I’ll watch some more of your videos before I start wrecking stuff. Thanks

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks for watching!

[@ronnielloyd4514]

Any wood work is fun to me. Watching people do woodwork is almost as fun.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks!

[@jasongriggs1502]

Thanks Robert...My mill gets delivered in July...I feel like I can make a go of it with all your teachin....

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

You can do it! There is a learning curve for sure, and just getting used to the noise, sawdust, things moving fast, etc takes a little but of time, but before long, you'll be making lumber as well as anybody!

[@Fnberg744]

I'm going on record as a man from Arkansas saying our(or at least my) walnut is the finest in all the land. Thank you and good day

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Now we are talking the same language! I appreciate a Sawyer who is making the best of the best, and damn proud of it! Good for you!

[@Peter-od7op]

Iam so newcan you cut thru the pith on some woods and not others. Been watching you ty

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

It's never a good idea. The wood in the pith has a different cellular structure so behaves differently, usually by cracking and twisting.

[@Z-Bart]

Congratulations to Alabama making the Final 4. My bracket got busted fairly early.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks! We almost beat the "unbeatable" but at the end, we just got outmatched. It was a good game.

[@b.ellison396]

Thanks Robert! I'll check out the HMR. Until your video i had no idea where to look for lumber market data.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks!

[@austinrehl8545]

Inspiring!

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks! I appreciate the comment.

[@Woodruffsawmill]

Mr Wilton. What is the purpose of those hangy down bars that swing around on the back of your mill

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

They guide the board back straight.

[@jimmytaylor2157]

will you do a video on insect control in the logs waiting to be milled, I have a kiln and we sterilize the lumber but I get insect holes in the lumber sometimes

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

I can, but the best way to keep insects out of logs is use fresh cut and saws them quickly, before the bugs can infest them.

[@scottfrederick8299]

Robert, do you ever quarter saw walnut or cherry? Or is there no logical reason not to? Thanks in advance for the information and all your doing to educate people.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Yes, there is reason as quartersawing reduces stress in the face plane, and since walnut and cherry are very highly stressed species, they lend themselves to the pattern.

[@stevek5988]

I have a feeling there will be a part 2.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Could be, let's see how this one does.....

[@undergroundkustomz2796]

Got a question for anyone who buys southern yellow pine. How much per 1000 board ft on average do y'all pay for logs?? Thanks!

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Pine in this area is very low and sold by the ton,, between $8 and $25 per ton.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

You don't look like him, at all😅lol Great video sir & nice looking walnut. I mill out west primarily soft woods, lots of Spruce & fir. Do you stay at 6" or more on your widths on walnut and say chery? I have buddies that like your drag back add ! Keep up the great work sir

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Good question! Yes, I always will saw to widths greater than at least 6 inches so that everything I make would quality as true FAS lumber as graded by the NHLA handbook, assuming the defects are minimal. If you cut a super clean board, basically perfect with no knots, but only for example four inches wide, then at best it will be graded as a Number 1 Common, and will have a reduced market price vs the exact same board sawn at 6+ inches.

[@customsawyer2526]

I bet even Chip reads the HMR

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Yes, and the Wall Street Journal.

[@arnoldpraesent174]

I wish i have not learned anything from you - now sawing isn't as much fun as it was before because i see things i haven't seen before - even haven't cared about! 🙂Thats the odd thing about getting better - most fun i had was directly at the beginning - standing in front of the sawmill and just going for it - now i start thinking about what im doing. In most cases thats not a good sign. Of course the results are getting "better". I dont sell lumber - i do it for myself. After 3 years of cutting down trees, turning them into lumber and stacking them - im facing now different challenges than cutting down wood. How to get it dry enought to do something with it? I dont want to invest 20k€ for a drying chamber - but i dont want to bring my wood to a commercial drying chamber (saw mill close by) eighter... so you see my delemma. Do you have any good ideas how to build a good working drying chamber for wood for less money - i dont care to invest 2-3k€ or so if the results are fine. As said - how good you are doing at sawing really manifests if wood is dry and you build something out of it AND after 3 years having is somewhere collecting dust on it. My plan is to close the circle from harvesting trees (out of own forest), sawing it, drying it and making something nice out of it in my woodworking shop - or if everything goes wrong - burning it in my stove...

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

As with most things, there is always more to it than meets the eye, but, if you fall back on basic principles on the reason for kiln dried wood vs air dried, and the advent of modern air conditioning, and to kill bugs, then a small, 50 quart room dehumidifier in a closed shed can get you your air dried wood down to 7% because the Nyle 53, small lumber kiln, is just a 5 gallon a day air dehumidifier, except it is optimized for lumber drying rather than room dehumidification.

[@GibClark]

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thanks!