Milling Small Douglas Fir Logs

Check out the MASSIVE Olight sale HERE!! Don’t forget to use my checkout code “NS10”. Thank you for your support!! olight.idevaff... Howdy strangers! Today I mill some smaller Douglas Fir logs into 1x6s for my friend, Dustin.

[@jeffmosher433]

Great job little man with the camera!

[@warrenjohnknight.9831]

Definitely missed you, great to see your mill working again, 👍👍👍.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!

[@jimp.4531]

he looks very happy.

[@gregm312]

good that your keeing busy . nice work

[@davidbee8793]

Good to see you guys back!

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you! I’ll try not to be a stranger.

[@jimmowers7675]

Great seeing you again. Love your videos. Thanks again for sharing. God Bless.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Jim!

[@tadfranklin3618]

Nice to see you again

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!

[@robertlivingstone5759]

Great to see you back good video

[@robertlivingstone5759]

Great job chase

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!!!

[@barryhansen6854]

Awesome job done by Chase on the camera.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Barry! I may have to hire him full-time😬

[@barryhansen6854]

@@NorthwestSawyer that you might once you cure the finger in the lens mistake which happens with anyone that uses GoPros.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

@@barryhansen6854 you know I had to leave that in😬

[@fprt-jsch471]

Look forward to your videos!

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!

[@thomasfriedmann8522]

Nice job Chase doing the camera work. Followed the subject and had good framing.

[@craigsudman4556]

Chase has got a steady hand, nice job Chase. Did you make that sawdust for that buck? He thought you did. I've missed seeing your videos, but ya gotta make hay when the sun shines, eh. Great video, thumbs up.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you! We’re making lots of hay right now😬

[@gregwitkamp5583]

Good job son have a great day

[@brucemcmillan8750]

Nice to see you back sawing, your son did a great job help his Dad film🇨🇦

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Bruce!

[@robertlivingstone5759]

Great job chase

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!

[@nwpioneer2551]

THAT'S A LOT OF MATERIAL

[@rkeround2itindustries892]

Chase - You did a great job filming.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

He says thank you!😀

[@marknunya3035]

Nice too see dinner likes the Mill too 😂😂😂😂😂😂. I see you got a new cameraman Good to see you are you doing ok long time no see 🙈. .

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Mark! I wonder which blade I’d need to process a buck?🤓

[@marknunya3035]

@@NorthwestSawyer 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😆😆😆😆😆 me too but I figured you would have one already..

[@exotictones1054]

Good job on the camera chase.you did a great job.good to see you back at it boss.i was hoping to see the neighbors new house.hope there doing ok.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you’ the neighbor’s house is coming up soon!

[@jmonsted]

"I see what you do to my trees. You better watch yourself." -- That buck :)

[@NorthwestSawyer]

His home has probably been logged since the fires. He found a soft, shady spot next to my mill🙂

[@johncollins500]

Greetings from S. E. Ohio. Good to see you back at the mill!!!

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, John!

[@toddkratzer7953]

Never leave forks up in the air, always lower them to the ground. Your boy did a great job with the camera. I was worried he was going to walk into those forks.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I doubt he would’ve damaged them😬

[@robertbamford8266]

@@NorthwestSawyer I’m pretty sure I would have walked into them at least twice.

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

It ain't going to hurt just walking into them. Your subject to get hurt worse tripping over them when on the ground..lol

[@robertbamford8266]

@@jimmieburleigh9549 Well , maybe. But knee-height … .

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@@robertbamford8266 no not really because you bang knees and shins and that hurts worse than walking into waist or chest high plus if your walking into it that means your not paying attention which means you stand a good chance of going @$$ over tea kettle...

[@ronhaefner7833]

Buck a log? Great to see you back at the mill.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I see what you did there😬

[@michaelc5369]

Chase is such a great name. I like it so much I put it right after my first name and made it my last name. 👍🏼

[@NorthwestSawyer]

😀

[@chriskythreotis4686]

It was worth the wait to see yet another excellent video on milling timber………👍🇬🇧

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I appreciate that, Chris!

[@petedavis4097]

I wondered where you’d been, glad your beck up and logging

[@NorthwestSawyer]

It’s been a busy summer but I’m hoping for some big changes this winter.

[@MrGeroth]

I bought the Achlichainsaw, the 14” model. It is great. I just needed a saw to retake my backyard back, and this is the saw. Thanks for the info.

[@richardromano4086]

Funny about the rain not happening when you want it to, But you know that's part of living here in Oregon , But I know how you feel , Where I am in Oregon we usually have a lot of Power outages, so I put in my Generac whole house generator, even went over to your neck of the woods (Sandy) and got my 1000 gallon propane tank from Bull Run Electric, got everything up a running , yeah you guessed it we haven't had any power outages , but when we do I am ready..lol

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Ha! I do need to do that too.

[@richardromano4086]

@@NorthwestSawyer I had to put off buying my mill and do the generator 1st , glad I did ,, an I am very happy that I ordered mine back in Feb cause I am set got the coming winter and thinking this year with all the fires , high temps and the ice storms we had this last season, winter is going to hit Oregon like a brick .. So if your thinking about a Generator you should get one ordered cause with the covid and everything it could take 6 months or more to get it, and propane tanks are going up in price , I got the 1000 gal, but Bull Run Elec there in Sandy had 1000's and 500's but they go fast

[@chrismcconnell6163]

I was hoping that, that boy didn't walk into those forks.

[@jeffkatzer]

Team Chase all the way. Nice work buddy.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Jeff!

[@jerrylittle8922]

Been waiting for a video. 👍

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Me too!😬

[@johnwilson3924]

Great to see you again. It doesn’t appear that the current fires are effecting you - thank God! Good video - especially those moving shots (Thanks Chase!). Question: why to you take 2 or sometimes 3 waste cuts to get your cant? It seems like with a little planning you could save a number of cuts per log if you took off the bark + what ever you need to get to your cant on one cut. I’m sure that’s easier said then done!

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, John! I edited it out but those other cuts are set aside and then I mill the edges later to maximize the yield.

[@wymershandymanservice9965]

Great content Life comes first 👍 🇺🇸🦅🌏⚓️🇺🇸

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you!

[@americanrambler4972]

What do you do with all the sawdust and the scrap pieces you trim of the logs while making the lumber? Is there a market for all that material?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

If I had larger quantities there would be. I cut the scraps up for firewood and usually burn the sawdust on burn piles.

[@skogsmats]

Oh dear.....😊😂🤗

[@rkeround2itindustries892]

No. Oh Deer. Or Oh Deerner.

[@williamellis8993]

It's good to see you again, Jason. Great job, Chase. I hope this round of wild fires hasn't caused any problems for you. When is Woodmizer going to start selling those high speed mills that can cut the length of a log in 3 seconds (lol)? Take care. Bill

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you, Bill. No fires close but it’s going to be a long summer.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

Chase Spielberg did fine with the camera.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I’ll have to explain that one to him🤓

[@connorsmith1963]

How much life you get out of those blades. Are you using 747 or bi metal?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

These blades are 10 degree Double-Hard. I couldn’t get the 747s on my last visit to Wood-Mizer. These 10s cut really smooth so far.

[@andrewswanston9756]

Another grand video thank you 😁 The pen light looks awesome do Olight have a UK stockist?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Thank you! I believe they do but they also ship worldwide. The pen is great!

[@robertbamford8266]

Wondered where the daisy cross section went after the first few minutes of the video. Question: were all the logs you unloaded turned into the lumber you loaded? Thanks for the video!

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I’ll be doing some work with those Juniper cookies in an upcoming video. We did make as many 1x6s as we could with everything he brought over.

[@zachdeere4141]

Nice vid any chance of some more equipment in action videos?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I’m working on one right now.

[@JohnSmith-tv5ep]

JASON, workin all the company hours, think you'll get your 'pavilion ' finished for the company outing?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Not a chance😀 our party is less than two weeks and there’s just no way.

[@waynecurrie9017]

From the looks of it that's going to be a 3 point

[@NorthwestSawyer]

Indeed! His brother is a four-point and also enjoys the sawdust.

[@ryanwilliams6283]

What's the dimensions of your saw shed?

[@NorthwestSawyer]

32’x13.5’

[@PeriodWoodworker]

I am curious - when you have a pay job, do you charge by board foot or square foot sawn?

[@danietkissenle]

i dont know about him but i think i would go by the hour on a mobile job

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I charge by the hour on mobile jobs. When sawing at my place, I typically figure out how much the lumber would cost to buy and reduce the price around 40% depending on what it is.

[@danietkissenle]

@@NorthwestSawyer what do you charge hourly I'm getting a mill in the fall and I'm looking to hire it out to help it pay for its self

[@NorthwestSawyer]

@@danietkissenle I’m at $80 per hour for soft wood and $100 for hard. I got lucky right after buying my mill with a couple commercial jobs and paid for my mill in less than a year.

[@danietkissenle]

Ok, I'm getting a slower manual mill than what you have, should I charge less? We have almost exclusively Doug fur up here

[@kennethhudson8013]

Captions! Please!

[@johnburgess5534]

Not keen on the advert mid video. I and hundreds of subs fast forward through them.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

I feel your pain. It’s like when you spend hours and hours filming, editing and posting videos that people get to watch for free and then they complain about the three seconds it took them to FF through a part they didn’t like. I hope you’ll be okay.

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

Never film the evidence because now you can't claim you picked it up as road kill. Lol

[@NorthwestSawyer]

It was a sawmill accident 🤣

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@@NorthwestSawyer there you go. He charged the mill while it was running and liked to took his head off. Lol.

[@NorthwestSawyer]

@@jimmieburleigh9549 you saw it too, right???🤣

[@jimmieburleigh9549]

@@NorthwestSawyer yeah it was the dangest thing iv ever seen. Then of course you had to do the humane thing and finish it off with a 22 to the head. Lol.