Milling cedar on our custom sawmill // E110

We continue to mill logs for the construction of our solar kiln. We take this opportunity to clear trees that need to come down to make room for our solar panels. Milling cedar logs can be tricky, we share what we have learned in order to get the best yield out of these logs.

[@saticharlie]

Your dedication and level of talent is amazing!

[@tennisace40]

I really like in the thumbnail I really like how Meg is looking at John. lucky guy!

[@billroberts3864]

You two work together so wonderfully and that makes it fun to watch your channel. John, you were so good to stop what you were doing and spend a few moments with Autumn. These are the times of life that will form your kids into loving adults. Blessing to all of you.

[@careyhaner]

Hay my friend John this idea is really good. You can cut the bottom out of the first bucket & add a 2nd bucket under the 1st. 5hen you can save almost 81/2 gallons.

[@davidhorton4611]

You're doing a great job!

[@joyjoy7126]

I have been watching for while I love what you are doing. Can't wait for you to start building the house.

[@bobbybaldeagle702]

John just think someday when Autumn grows up and becomes a mother one day she will be setting with her kid/kids and she will tell them the day that her daddy took time to take his boots and socks off and jumped in the sawdust with her. What a AWESOME memory you created in her little mind. How many little girls wish their daddys would take time to do something so silly but yet so wonderful with them. It's the small silly things we do with our kids that they will remember the most. It's great to be a daddy not just a father...

[@richmondshipton7079]

Great job John and Meg getting it done your videos are my favorite of the week I always like seeing your videos posted every week

[@johngersna3263]

I just wanted to say that watching your channel is one of the highlights of my week even if I do have a tractor of the green variety. Anyway I also wanted to wish you both and the girls a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. God bless you and may you have a joyous and prosperous new year. 👍👍😊

[@GaryPArmstrong]

I like the humor of you two. Keep up the good work.

[@mgtechnics1854]

Ahhh,, !! my weekly dose of John and Meg ! Love your videos. And yes, I saw that wind !! it was wild ! ;-)

[@nena4215]

Wow, your work on the mill is really good, you may be a natural, holy cow!!

[@KLUJICS]

Fun! The simplest things are the most valuable!! Priceless!!

[@ralphsullender2474]

Waiting to see your kiln build

[@rondove9473]

The small rocks you have been digging out of the road up the hill might be utilized for a sawmill pad ...just a thought and maybe if the creek below your house might yield some 10-20 gallons of gravel to smooth the rock bed... maybe's

[@craignash4736]

John. are little suggestion, scoop mud and topsoil off before adding sawdust . Love the channel. Thanks. Craig Pa

[@bobbybaldeagle702]

Meg I think you know this already. That guys are very good at making messes, and some guys are even good at cleaning up their messes with a good women like you...

[@DWilliams-ce8nb]

Beautiful cedar. Congrats.

[@robandnell4305]

Just for your information, we in the logging industry call those long stripe scars on trees. Cat faces. Hope you are watching those tops in those dead trees so they don't come down on your machine while pushing on them. Good thinking on the sawdust.

[@WalnutsandWineberries]

Darn - I was hoping "blubber" would stick - haha!

[@michelepiatek301]

You can cut a few cookies out of the bottom of the big cedar tree and make beautiful tables from them. That way you can start milling without such a big uneven bottom piece on it. People love live edge round tables.

[@rogerdudra178]

I ain't sure, but I'd have to say that EITHER 'sticker' will work.

[@rogerdudra178]

Greetings from the BIG SKY. I built a complete set of Mission/Arts & Crafts tables (5) out of redwood and cedar to get my mortise and tenon cutting defined. Now I have 5 tables out of red oak and another 5 in redwood frames with cedar top and shelfs. Cedar cuts well.

[@rondove9473]

you might even be able to utilize the cants for the sawmill approach they won't last for ever but you will have a steady supply

[@leonkaczor2405]

Great video! Need to put weight on top of stack to keep top boards from flexing. Keep up the good work!

[@careyhaner]

Thenkyou😊

[@marknunya3035]

A can't is defined as any log with 2 open faces.... The more you know 😂. As always good luck and God Bless.

[@jamesseltenreich652]

You really don’t need a chain, I have a wheel bobcat and you would be surprised what I do with it, that rock bucket would be amazing but I use a set of forks. I used to log all the beetle dead spruce 90 feet off both sides of the road or hyway, I had to take the logs too, had a 72 kenworth with log bunks and would load that thing Full and head for my mill, you’ll get the hang or it, you’ll see you really don’t need a chain, God Bless

[@thearrowheadwoodsman3811]

I put a hook on my sawdust outlet on my mill. I hang a 5 gallon bucket on it. When the bucket gets full I dump it in my loader bucket. It beats digging it up. Takes about 3 or 4 passes to fill the bucket. Cheers !!

[@thearrowheadwoodsman3811]

Ha ! I guess I should have watched the entire video before I commented. Cheers !!

[@rogerdudra178]

I guess we have fair weather more than we get bad weather here if you don't mind 10 below.

[@nookworm1]

Just think..in the old days they just did this with horses! I found myself pushing the tree down with you and was totally there. What are your requirements to join your jumping club except having bare feet? You are a DEAR DAD!!

[@rondove9473]

put a 5 gallon bucket on the sawdust output chute and virtually no more clean up.. put it in the black beauty and off to the compost pit or where ever you would like it

[@redhawk4859]

That kissing will get you in trouble Believe me I know 😎

[@manicmechanic9117]

So I guess in hind sight if the saw was setup in the opposite direction the dust would go where you need it . Hind sight is a B .

[@rogerdudra178]

I was looking at the different moisture meters available a few years back when I was building oak furniture. Cutting your own lumber will require knowing the moisture content of a given piece. The moisture meters I saw were not off the charts, then, to me.

[@careyhaner]

That is a stammered twin ×2 = 10 trees hrown together 😅❤.

[@roberttaynor5672]

hi if the wood has a nice smell to it i would put it old stockings and make air fresheners

[@chrisbartlett6022]

Ricky is a Super Hero, you can see him bend and twist a bit though, and sighs with relief when the load has gone 🙂When you decided to put your for ever mill there I did wonder about the wet mud. You guys, and your equipment ROCK. Is it worth adding to the plan to extend your solar still roof to cover the mill, or at least building the frame? Doors straight in to the Solar from the mill?

[@rogerdudra178]

I have a good chain but I'm shy on a Meg. Reminded me of fighting Bokoblins in BOTw

[@patrickwiklund2039]

👍

[@12jeeplover]

I can see you guys getting a mini excavator in the near future for its convenience of it. Also, I figured you would have gone to your "gravel pit" and put gravel in front of your sawmill.

[@allthings2allmen]

If you had enough cedar sawdust that would be great under the crawlspace.😉

[@wovenwire_4.513]

Make thin cedar planks to line inside closets with skinny logs

[@kymillingandfirewoodservic2054]

Messing up if u put it down where u use the tractor. I done the same thing and now got a mud hole.

[@rsinfelt1]

Hey JOHN: AN IDEA!......I'll bet you could come up with a black, corrugated drain pipe thingy, that attaches to the end of the sawdust "exhaust" and has a small "blower" motor or something that would go UP and OVER your head and DUMP right where you want it? What ya think? Ron

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Could make small closet and drawer scent cedar pieces maybe even use a walnut & wineberries branding iron customize them for sale online

[@rogerdudra178]

Being in Montana, I'd bet the cedar I bought came from the Northwest.

[@rogerdudra178]

It sure looks like cutting up a tree has some consequences for the cutter.

[@roberto.peterson9917]

Now that you have some time with mill would you make the pad wider for walking surface when milling lumber

[@ZapperGazer]

Cedar splits straight down the grain, doesn't it? I would like to see how peeling the butt-cracks apart, so each blubber joint gets to stand alone.

[@curtiswomack46]

mill it for live edge siding

[@thedude4632]

Even dead trees serves a purpose in nature , you need to speak to your conservationists about a healthy forest .

[@joeystidham1580]

How long would the lumber have to dry before you guys start building your house

[@CostaMesaPhotography]

"vertical beams"= columns... "horizontal beams"=beams

[@WalnutsandWineberries]

I knew someone would catch that. Lol. I'm saying the verticals are posts though.

[@CostaMesaPhotography]

Yes, post and beam...that works too!

[@michaelevans2989]

Another great video. Just an FYI letting the kids play in the sawdust. Sawdust is not safe to inhale lots of people get lung cancer from breathing it in. Not trying to be a Karen or whatever just a friendly heads up.

[@homermiers8393]

PUT THE SLABS DOWN DRIVE OVER THIM

[@raytalbot5890]

I like your content but if you’re going to clear the site & drop dead trees on your property, why waste time pushing with the skid steer? Just have confidence to cut trees with the saw & have the grapple to pick up & clear? 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧 (it’s a good time of year to walk around your land & cut down dead or part fallen trees to make it safe for your girls)

[@briankitchen6686]

So you're not a taking the pith.

[@rogerdudra178]

i'M ON YOUR SIDE WHEN IT COMES TO MUD. Adios, thanks.

[@wahidazizi7762]

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[@stevelawrence233]

Get a grapple.

[@PeaceIntheValley]

Like the one in the video?

[@stevelawrence233]

@@PeaceIntheValley commented before I saw the grapple on Ricky

[@PeaceIntheValley]

@@stevelawrence233 Jon has beat the heck out of that grapple. Honestly I don't think it's a great design, I have the same one.