Saw-milling a 32 Inch Sycamore Butt Log!! #91

[@JamesSimmons-pz7wn]

Good video Ian. I enjoy watching your videos and I like your sawmill setup.

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Thank you buddy I appreciate that! My journey is to get these videos dialed in

[@dougsmith548]

A class, a, number one, video. Your explanation of what you were cutting, what the wood was like meaning, the log, impress the hell out of me. As far as myself, I’m an armchair Sawyer, so I don’t get a lot of work, so I live my life through you guys. Please keep up the same type of videos. Stay safe God bless.✌️🇨🇦

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I appreciate what you just said sir!! And the way I see it your commenting helps improve the channel:) thank you and keep sawing! God Bless❤️

[@dougsmith548]

@@Helmsburgsawmill 👍🤪

[@mr.lynnrosaasen8218]

I live in east central Alberta, Canada. Lots of soft woods here.we have spruce, pine hemlock, fir, tamarack ,popular, Willow. There could be more, can't think of any more! I really enjoy your channel. You sound like a kind man! God bless you from Alberta!

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I very much appreciate this sir!! I’m glad you find my channel entertaining and these comments make me want to do it more:) God bless!!

[@samson1200]

I enjoy watching you saw the logs so masterfully. I like how you explain what you are doing in the beginning of each film. Keep up the good work Ian.

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Thank you sir:) more will be in coming!

[@beyondmiddleagedman7240]

So cool to see the heating oil tank and fuel tank outside the building. They were background to my life as a kid and I haven't lived anywhere with them in 50 years.

[@DanielParadis-sr5nh]

Thank you for sharing your video!

[@theprof_001]

Cool video!!!👍

[@andyloebrown8250]

Very satisfying to watch your mill slice logs.

[@lawrencetirrell8414]

Hi Ian. I've no experience w/ sycamore trees. I NEVER encountered a dead sycamore tree. These cants reminded me of black oak & popular logs. A lot of sawyers do stop thier sawmills for slivers of wood. One " unmentioned " U--Tube sawyer showed. What happens to a loose piece of wood in that saw blade. Fortunately. Everyone was out the way. 😅😅😅😅 Dangerous " missle!" WHISTLE! I know the early U.S.colonial sawyers made flooring & furniture out of sycamore. Beautiful lumber. Thanks Ian. Have a good Thrusday evening the 12th. 🥰🙂🙂👍❤️💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌳

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Yes!!! Those shake rings make those slivers!! I bet you saw the one didn’t you? But yes! Those will sometimes explode if run through the saw incorrectly. There is a right way. Or they fall down and make the saw heat up so fast🤦‍♂️

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

It is beautiful!

[@RichardKuivila1947]

WOW ! . . Look Maw, FOUR blades !

[@chrisd3884]

That's cool Ian!

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Thank you sir!:)

[@jimharbison7589]

I like the look of the lumber that you make,here in Montana we don't have alot of the species you have ,thanks for the video

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I’d love to visit Montana! I’ve driven through it for about an hour. And they’re a lot of species I still need to get in the channel!

[@arkansas1336]

Nice!

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Thank you!:)

[@richardbritton5280]

Nice sawing Ian ty

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

You’re welcome sir!:)

[@jamestjomsland948]

Nice to see a Young Man at knowledge work. jimmy

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I appreciate that:) I’m doing it till I’m old

[@welbygleebertram6651]

I made my first million working at a sawmill. We moved the mill onto the boundary and probably produced between one and two thousand board feet per day. Oh, yeah, I almost forgot my daily pay was four dollars! This was in the 1950s!

[@thomasland-cg3jo]

Sycamore has unique grain that makes an interesting table top slab finished with epoxy but be ready to fill lots of cracks and be patient. It’s difficult to work with.

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

It’s so beautiful and you’re 100% correct! It dries out light

[@danvanhoose6783]

Quartersawn sycamore is a beautiful wood.made lots of Turkey box calls from it.

[@sharonromer6606]

👍🙋‍♀️

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

👍👍

[@braddobson2060]

Interesting but man iam glad I had a fast forward button today

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

@@braddobson2060 so honestly if I could convince people to not unsubscribe😂 I would love to put speed up videos on. My first video to do well, and has done the best so far, was speed up!! I think they would reach more people

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

If you’re reading my comment section for the first time, click subscribe!

[@SkenderZyka]

That really is pretty

[@buggsy5]

I was wondering why you weren't concerned about the wain on the cants. Thanks for the explanation.

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

You’re welcome!! I’m sure you’ve seen pallets slats that have some of those wainy edges. They would come from the outside piece of one of those cants:)

[@TheWildWestMill]

@@Helmsburgsawmill with our pallet mill we get rid of most everything with wane on it customers get upset or reject or return bundles when there’s too much wane on the pallet stock .. some customers don’t mind but most don’t want it on there pallets

[@johns8771]

What company built your carriage and saw rig?

[@charlietanner6211]

my dad had a mill he sawed down big ol syc on creek bank got 34 ft log he waanted it o bad for barn truses but we couldnt get it out of creek in one piece oh what memories my uncle dad had a mill in holland in south of you

[@redeemedone90]

Very efficient sawmill setup - I'm curious to know, what diameter has your main sawblade, and who manufactures them?

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

56 inches! Simonds saw blades!

[@redeemedone90]

@@Helmsburgsawmill Thank you, and happy milling!

[@redeemedone90]

@@Helmsburgsawmill I have another question - with that big blade, how much horsepower does your motor have? - I think I saw that it's an electric motor. Also, what company distributes(d) or installed those kinds of mills?

[@bigwoodtree]

¡Qué habilidad para manejar esos troncos!

[@DustySplinters]

what size are those outer cants? Anything 3" thick or thicker would make great Woodturning Bowl Blanks.

[@karencary3312]

"Zacchaeus was a wee little man and a wee little man was he. He climbed up in a sycamore tree, for the Lord he wanted to see."

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Thank you:)

[@chrisd3884]

Mount vacuum ducts beneath the carrage to clear the excess material in process. 🤔

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

We have blowers, and believe it or not, the get 95% of the dust

[@chrisd3884]

Finesse

[@chrisd3884]

Is that a new discharge belt? 👍

[@robertgreen8695]

Safety first as usual. Speed isn't worth someone getting hurt or killed. No amount of product is worth a human life.

[@ralphiraia3077]

need to add a cab view so we can see what you see

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I plan on adding a lot of stuff like this eventually! Once it’s about the channel, and not being productive at work, I’ll make the videos as cool as I can

[@Stan_in_Shelton_WA]

What is the reason for cutting cants? I prefer videos with dialogue. Tough to learn much without information

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

They get re-sawn in pallets! We use wood that we don’t want to saw into anything else

[@Stan_in_Shelton_WA]

@@Helmsburgsawmill Thanks for the reply.

[@mysock351C]

He actually provided a good explanation in the video, which is handy to have. At first blush pallets seem like a waste but in reality it’s actually good use of waste wood. Also make for nice kindling once the nails/staples are removed.

[@rogerhodges7656]

Lotsa kants!

[@DustySplinters]

so sad that could not be quarter sawn

[@johnmcgarvie4061]

U did an awesome job on sawing that butt ugly sycamore stick. U took care of things right smart like especially the carriage. Me being a softwood lumber guy what does sycamore smell like?

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Like wet hay!

[@art1muz13]

what is a shake ring?

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

It’s a place within the grain where the wood separates. Call it, a log within a log, if that makes sense

[@woodnewf3847]

Ring shake is when the wood fiber separates along the plane of the growth rings. It's caused by external stresses on the tree. I have zero experience with sycamore but I know it is quite common in eastern hemlock.

[@alexjohnson2488]

We don't have sycamore trees here in NC

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

North Carolina?!

[@alexjohnson2488]

@@Helmsburgsawmill well we don't really have any in the area I live in

[@joshuawilliams8555]

We only have one saw mill that will buy sycamore they cut mining blocks out of it or something like that

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

It’s not a profitable wood! However, then cants be adding up quick. Production in size!! I cut a few blocks for ourselves too

[@samuelpete]

Pallet material larger size pallets hmm

[@DrewSawyerMayor]

It is said “ All sawyers go to heaven, because they’ve lived through hell on earth “

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

A lot of people think my job is like anybody else’s. They don’t understand what my version of a bad day is. But hey, the road to heaven feels like Hell The road to Hell, feels like Heaven!

[@cobraspits1]

In your opinion should someone work in a sawmill by themselves

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

Absolutely not. Hell to the no. Fire whoever is doing this if they refuse to stop. Some maintenance is okay. But actually turning stuff on… no!!!!

[@Helmsburgsawmill]

I might put fresh teeth I have on the bracket if I’m needing to get it done and know one is around, but that’s about it