How I Store My Tractor Parts & Senior Sawmilling Super Heavy Boards - Viewer Request Episode!

[@AngieWhitehurst-q8j]

Come on squatch I need more frequent uploads and I don't care if it's how you organize your sock drawer 😂 this is one of the only channels that I find worth watching, it's both wholesome, historical, educational, and entertaining!

[@squatch253]

Thanks and stay tuned, a new Farmall H episode is coming next! 👍

[@danielbutler578]

​@@squatch253, when you finish Preparation H, can we get something for us X231 addicts? I've lost track of how many times I've watched the playlist to get relief from the withdrawal shakes.

[@dwjr5129]

@@AngieWhitehurst-q8j yeah! No kidding! Don’t you have anything to do besides make videos to keep all us armchair quarterbacks entertained…😂… Great stuff Squatch, really enjoy your channel. One of the best on the web for sure.

[@wackowacko8931]

Depending on how involved you want to be in harvesting lumber, you can sink higher value logs in a pond on your property for a year or two before pulling them up to run through the mill. After running them through the sawmill you still sticker them for the normal drying time. Sinking them changes the sugars inside the wood, leaches resins out of it, makes logs more dense and resistant to decay and (depending on who you believe) it is supposed to make the wood more resistant to warping. It's a trick that old sawmills used to do for logs used for furniture. Most people don't have the time or patience to do this step anymore.

[@larrydavidson3402]

You have a skill for having things organized. Senior at the end had some interesting information on the lumber.

[@timot7746]

The container looks good, everything organized and on its own place, those birch planks look good, it would be nice to see the end product, a table or something, thanks for the show.

[@lwhobrey]

Hey, Nephew, I've just moved my office from a commercial space downtown to my home, which has necessitated some work in the basement cleaning and organizing. Sure could use someone with a healthy streak of OCD that appears to have flourished in your branch of the family. It missed myself and my offspring by a mile. Looking good, man.

[@rickharper6320]

Great to see lumber actually saved & stickered. Here in north Texas, they are putting in housing editions anywhere they can find a flat spot. Lots of woods cleared with a bull dozer and piled up & chipped up to haul away.. Must not be economical to harvest them for lumber or too time consuming for them. Great to see logs slabbed !!!

[@KennyKizzleRustyNutzRanch]

Just good, wholesome content. Parts storage and cataloguing, followed by some father/son discussion of what the fruits of their labor could be. The potential in the slabs. Connecting earth, machinery, and quite frankly... Art.

[@garymeador6750]

I'm sure you're not plagued with humidity problems there that we are in the south, that being said, nice job organizing of the container as well as the new red building! Always good content to watch Squath!

[@squatch253]

We do get some fairly humid days here in the summer, but not as bad as the southern states. I do know several other people around here that always had a lot of condensation buildup inside their shipping containers, but they had them placed directly on the ground which caused the floors to always be cool and when all the walls heated up, that temperature difference caused everything inside to sweat with moisture. We have both of our containers placed up on 12”x12” Timbers which keeps the floors at the same temp as the rest of the can, which solved the condensation problem completely. We’ve stored raw steel inside them and after 5 years it hasn’t even flash rusted 👍

[@ronw59]

@@squatch253 Good to know. Thank you.

[@davewebb5737]

I live in England when I was growing up there was a man called Jack Hargreaves he was such a knowledgeable man your dad reminds of him

[@rickyjessome4359]

Thanks for the video Toby. You have the homestead looking great. Those birch logs Sr was milling were beautiful and would make some nice tables or counters. Cheers

[@RobertBrothersJr-dc7nr]

Great job on the organization of your parts. That will be nice when you need a part you will be able to put your hands on it right away. Senior does a nice job sawing and has a great eye for unique features in the logs. Very enjoyable video Squatch.,Thanks

[@machinistbytrade]

Some nice spallting on the birch boards after water was poured on !

[@seastacker8582]

Love the organization. It also really goes to show the sort of parts and inventory it takes to work on and own these old machines.

[@squatch253]

Thanks! Most of these parts are already earmarked for future restoration projects, I’ve been slowly accumulating things as opportunities have presented themselves. If I only restore the No.9 Auto Patrol grader and the narrow RD-6, probably two-thirds of those parts would no longer be in there 👍

[@dwjr5129]

Being from a southern climate, I can see how you northern guys would put a priority on keeping things under roof.

[@bobpaterson1845]

Squatch your spare parts dept would put a lot of parts distributors to shame 👌 also thanks to Senior for taking the time to go through his procedure of cutting timber, and what has always amazed me is that as you cut into a tree you are the first people to ever see inside that tree and its history 👌👌

[@MichaelHelinsky-ws1nt]

now that those conex boxes are readily available , they make for excellent storeage , excellent content on your channel , 👍

[@lowrollins1076]

Great Saturday morning video for us snowed in folk!!! I did have a question regarding senior. If you would like to divulge any information or he wouldnt mind, what is his background? Not necessarily personal business, but he seems to have knowledge and almost everything that exist. What did he do before he retired? I find interesting to hear the stories of people with so much knowledge and abilities. Thanks from Colorado !

[@SuperMAZ007]

Senior in his element. These planks look awesome for doing a custom made table. Storage space looks very fancy at least your stuff is not sitting in the dirt.

[@anthonyhoult152]

Brilliant video and great work you have both been doing. That timber looks beautiful, Senior has processed

[@angrybobking5083]

Absolutely steller Commando suit by senior!!

[@RHarris42]

You bet those slabs will make a beauty table.

[@rawbsworld6604]

Wow!!! 🤦‍♂️ was really surprised to see them cranks not slathered in cosmoline for storage 😲 🤭😆 ✌️🤙

[@tomwichman77]

When I saw that old cast iron stash, I thought to myself that would make a really good display in The Red Shed.

[@mattdnewman]

Does Senior sell any of the wood he cuts? I'm a hobby woodworker also in Minnesota and always got my eye open to possible sources... though I can understand you not wanting random viewers showing up

[@squatch253]

Firstly, nobody in the Channel Member community we’ve built here is a “random viewer” so no worries there 👍 And yes, Senior makes this lumber to sell to anybody who may have a use for it, so if interested you can contact him or me via the e-mail link I included in the “Behind the Scenes #201” episode.

[@stevea9604]

Adding the water is adding the money shot to some magical wood patterns 👍🏻🤩😁

[@Jethrosgarage]

Nice organization! I use those little ammo boxes as well, and use a paint marker to Mark things. Where I'm at in Todd county, we had some tornadoes come through and I've got some big Birch and popple down. Down. I need to find if anybody is interested in doing some salvage logging.

[@ZigZagMarquis]

Squatch, Senior, thanks for the video tour of y'all's Tractor Parts Store and Sawmill. Cheers.

[@cindyrapp402]

This old farm wife saw our old billy goat Zues in the oak log. I'm sure the smell of the saw mill i remember is much more pleasant than the smell of the old Billy goat.

[@ericvogel1126]

You are two of the most organized people that I have ever seen. Kudos to you both!

[@stevea9604]

Opening logs like that is like an early Christmas present once it’s opened up 👍🏻🤩😁😊

[@albertalt4542]

Now I know why it's so hard to find ammo cans, you have them in every shape and size. They are gold I'd have that container guarded like Ft. Knox.

[@stevea9604]

Cat called..They want to open the Squatch style Cat supply storage system for themselves 👍🏻🤩😁🤣

[@jmailbell]

I can’t believe what you and Senior have accomplished this season, great Job!

[@alanharney5278]

I told Santa that I want that air dried oak slab glitch. Thanks for the video.

[@johngibson3837]

Hey up great video thanks, on your dad's birch milling we call that a waney edge ie bark on makes super good boards for stuff like pubs restaurants, giving people a chance to see real wood and its beauty

[@waltermattson5566]

It is always fun to see what you guys are doing.

[@michelbrodeur6055]

All the other viewers said it all. Nothing more to add other than stay safe and warm.

[@allanrichards3752]

You are surely an organised family. Sorting and labelling that stock is essential really. How many YT videos have you seen where pickers are going into barns and out buildings where some poor guy has passed away and the family are desperate to clean out his stash of stuff. It is so much work and effort if stuff is not kept under control Also potential value is lost if it is not stored right.

[@gatersb1]

Great job man. Everything has a place. No eye twitching.

[@wilmamcdermott3065]

I get some nice looking boards from tamrack logs

[@robertmailhos8159]

Nice looking part's storage area that you have

[@AB-nu5we]

Nice parts reorg. Also liked slab tour. Very nice. From your list of trees, consider adding back some DED resistant elm. They grow well in Minnesota. Your U of Minnesota extension discusses elms as a good variety to grow. One of my lumber sources farms a larger variety of hardwoods that include DED resistant elm, as well as some good ol' hickory. I also replaced an ash borer attacked ash with a DED resistent elm in my front yard. Planting for the future.

[@clydeschwartz]

Excellent video the parts organization looks really nice 👍

[@rogerallen6644]

Glad to see you back!! The red shed already pays big dividends.

[@guifrakss]

Thanks for the update

[@dwightuhl3360]

Sr. needs a Milwaukee M18 leaf blower for clearing dust off boards on the mill. Way faster and easier than a hand brush.

[@squatch253]

He had his M18 leaf blower with him, it was on the 4-wheeler. He prefers to hand-sweep the logs because it gives him more time to look it all over. But when it comes time to clean up the mill at the end of each day, he uses the leaf blower 👍

[@northwoodsguy1538]

Nice. Wish I was as organized. 😎

[@paulbrooks2024]

Squash you got it together, I'm inspired to do my I H part on storage

[@jenniferwhitewolf3784]

Some of us watch other channels and saw your big grin riding on that Rumley.. So the NEW question is... When in the addition to the Red Shed starting to home a prairie giant! We know you want one now... just think of the programs that would make👍

[@n8tater]

My inner child really thought you were going to make a joke after picking up that first piece of wood, good restraint 😂

[@mfreund15448]

I was thinking the same thing. Guess I will never grow up.

[@guifrakss]

All really interesting stuff

[@philipharr4595]

Those boards would look nice as a paneling on the wall slice each board into about three different boards and just make a forest wall

[@joemontz592]

Senior in his element cutting logs

[@johnnymorrow63]

Another great episode!

[@bombardier3qtrlbpsi]

Nice and neat great job 👍

[@petelangdell6452]

Great organization! I wished I was so neat! Do I sense a RD6 hint? Perhaps wishful thinking!

[@robertmcconnell3788]

There is no such thing as surplus storage. Some how it always fills up! I think it's the garden gnomes.

[@timmieclark9976]

Nice slabs for a bar top.

[@JeffPeickert]

Nice job organizing. Would senior ever build a roof over the mill ?

[@squatch253]

I’ve been encouraging him to put something up, but he’s been pretty busy with other projects the last couple of years. Maybe someday soon 👍

[@0xFEEDC0DE]

Using a rubber tie strap to hang rubber tie straps to is GENIUS. Sure, it's obvious once you see it. PAUSED so I can DO THIS RIGHT NOW.

[@jeremycherny2041]

Looks great 👍

[@Thomasgarrick113]

Looking good now you should have lots of space in the shop and things can be found easily when you need them plus you still have loft storage for larger items Do yal check logs with a metal detector before sawing people have been known to staple wire to them as you know

[@squatch253]

We don’t typically check them for metal, but Senior also tries to avoid sawing any tree that was taken from a yard or along a roadway due to what you mentioned, which is metal having been driven into it at some point. He did find an old bullet inside the maple log he sawed this fall though, likely from a hunter. As luck would have it, his saw blade went right through the middle of it lol 😂

[@Thomasgarrick113]

@@squatch253 I ran a woodmizer mill about 25 years back it belonged to a friend of a friend haha Hit an insulator in a large pine log not good for the blade at all Also milled a very large pine log that made 70 2x4 s and several 1 bys

[@cndream1]

Where I am at, those ammo boxes are getting way to exspensive to buy for the heck of it. Small ones are $15. Large ones, wow, $$$$. Sad, used to be $3-$5 not too long back

[@squatch253]

I’m seeing the same thing here, I buy these in big batches at a time on surplus, but only if I can get them cheap enough to mark each can up a couple bucks to resell at the swap meets. I only keep the dented or slightly rusty ones for myself, which are what you see being used here. Fortunately by reselling the nicer ones I’m able to cover the cost of the cans that I use for my own storage, so it works out well 👍

[@lukemeisenbach1964]

Florin Tractor North reborn.

[@squatch253]

Yep a considerable amount of what’s on those shelves came from there 👍

[@JeffsFreedomGarage]

@Squatch253 - @7:43 Was I the only one that laughed and said "Pork and Beans" when you grabbed the first partial cut of the milling log and dropped it back down?

[@JeffsFreedomGarage]

My bad. I've been saying it wrong all these years. It's "Frank and Beans" from the movie There's Something About Mary. The Mandela Effect got me.

[@dustyfarmer]

I think I just got a clue as to the mystery grade of final drive oil in the CAT D2.

[@ericcorse]

Great job on the organization, it should eliminate any eye twitching.

[@richardwalters1803]

Nice show

[@brycewiborg8095]

Bork has you beat. Takk Skal du ha !

[@erik_dk842]

Could you show us some finished products from the wood slabs?

[@squatch253]

Senior actually doesn’t use any of the wood he saws on the mill, he just sells it to other woodworkers and we lose track of it after that 👍

[@manuelmaseda4875]

Enjoyed 😊

[@charlesward8196]

That 40-foot box would stay put in an F-5 tornado!

[@philipharr4595]

Thatlook like a rocket ship

[@Aviatorinc]

All good storage! Do you have cataloged in digital format by shelf?

[@wagon9082]

Good Video

[@ZaphodBeeblebrox-ry5zs]

👍👍👍

[@barryhorne7052]

How do you like the woodland sawmill .

[@robertwinton2649]

😊❤

[@jefflormans5441]

That boring grey parts store needs a CAT, IH or MM exterior treatment. I would worry about sweating in that sealed container but it looks very dry and what would I know anyway.

[@squatch253]

A couple people I know had these containers and always had sweating/condensation problems inside them but they had them placed directly on the ground. That kept the floors cool, and when the steel exteriors warmed up during the day, that temperature swing created the moisture. So we placed both of ours on 12”x12” timbers which solved that problem, plus it keeps critters from trying to live under them. We can store raw steel in them here and after 5 years it hasn’t even flash rusted 👍

[@seniorelectrician6831]

Have you had any issues with the blade wandering (diving or climbing)?

[@frankblack1481]

I’m sure Sr has watched Matt Cremona’s channel. Fellow Minnesotan I think. Ive seen some guys paint the ends of the boards while drying….. I’d be interested to hear if Sr considered that too?

[@squatch253]

Yes, Senior painted the ends of these logs right after they were cut down to protect them while they were waiting to be made into lumber, it happened to be some leftover beige paint so it’s hard to tell it’s even on there 👍

[@DKTractors]

Does your stuff rust from condensation?

[@squatch253]

Not in these containers, because we placed both of ours up on 12"x12" timbers to keep the floors from staying cool from being in direct contact with the ground - if the floor is cooler than the rest of the shell when the sun is out, the temperature difference causes condensation buildup on everything inside. By placing them up on the timbers, we eliminated that problem and we can store raw steel inside them for years and it doesn't even flash rust.

[@1murder99]

How are you going to top all this next year?

[@squatch253]

Hopefully all I’ll need to do next year is continue on with the restoration projects and keep the video feed rolling like normal, instead of having months-long distractions like getting the Red Shed built and filled 👍

[@rolliekelly6783]

Have you started to think about a way to put a CAT engine on the saw mill? (-;)

[@briancook4065]

Lifting that slab bought sdomething to mind any guesses?

[@neilshep50]

If you mean at 7:40 , usually see it as painted graffiti. Did Rick Bork provide the log?

[@briancook4065]

@@neilshep50 nailed it

[@hiluxmad]

Comment

[@redmorphius]

Why store everything in ammo cans?

[@squatch253]

I buy them rather cheap as surplus, and they’re heavy duty enough to stack several tiers high fully loaded. That saves me a lot of time not having to build wooden crates to do the same job 👍

[@robinlowe3990]

how much do all those parts way total

[@squatch253]

All I can say is A LOT!!! I don’t think an F5 tornado could tip that container now.

[@paulmanson253]

Holy crow. If you purchased your ammo cans at a surplus outfit,that dollar investment alone is not trivial. Good way to store anything that will fit in such,but availability is not what it used to be. Thus price went up.

[@squatch253]

What I do is shop around and only buy surplus cans if I can get them cheap enough to resell at swap meets and make a few dollars on each one - typically around 100 cans at a time. I inspect each batch for good seals and no rust - sometimes a can was last used out in the rain and was closed back up with water inside, in which case there’s usually rust by the time I get it. I keep anything that isn’t in good condition for my own use, because most of what I’m storing is rusty stuff anyway lol 😂 I sell all of the good condition cans to recoup the investment, and repeat. But like you said, the prices for surplus cans have gone up a good 20-30% the last few years.

[@paulmanson253]

@squatch253 Son of a gun. I never thought of that. Well worth the extra effort. I am too old and beat up to rinse and repeat,but some younger guy should pick up on the concept. And not just for ammo cans. Basically any such item that can be resold at a swap meet. Government assets disposal items would also serve. Great idea you passed on.

[@paulmanson253]

It occurs to me. Your rusred cans. If they are not too bad, make up a solution of citric acid. It is a sequestering agent and found inexpensively in oriental groceries.which you probably don't have,so online. Works better if you heat can and solution. I leave proportions of mix up to you. It replaced the traditional mix of sulfuric/hydrochloric, but it actually works. Something you could do on a cold winter night. Cheers.

[@larrywalker7759]

Calling off your inventory like a very sedate auctioneer.

[@lastguy8613]

Im really surprised youre storing oil and hydraulic fluid in there with all those parts that are virtually irreplaceable, let alone the prototype Moline! I know its almost inconceivable how a fire could start in there but it seems a unecessary risk given how meticulous you are with your projects

[@squatch253]

There are no batteries, no gasoline (prototype crawler is completely drained) and no other ignition source in the vicinity.

[@lastguy8613]

@squatch253 Still seems like a unnecessary risk to me, you must have other places where the fluids could go? Could be anything that sets it off, like lightening strikes, vandals, some hunter next door with a bad aim, Rick Bork after a 6 pack of Busch lights... Yeah anything

[@allenkuester781]

So ! The eye looks better ,,, how’s that progressing ?

[@squatch253]

At my last retina scan this past July, I was given the “all clear” for my right eye that I had the two surgeries on. I’m now up to once-yearly scans to monitor its condition as well as to see if anything is developing in the left eye. All physical activity restrictions were lifted at that time as well 👍

[@allenkuester781]

@ good to hear !