Saw milling cottonwood and red oak

In this video, a good friend brings out some logs he had blow over in his fields due to the recent storms. We saw mill two Cottonwood logs and two Red Oak logs into dimensional lumber. I had never milled Cottonwood before so it was interesting to try it out.
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[@SimplifiedPiano]

That is a fantastic saw mill! Always wanted to mill some of our own lumber off our property for random projects just never have done it. Well done loved watching the process.

[@josht4659]

I hated splitting cotton wood and willow. Talk about something the would suck up a splitting maul head

[@paulbriggs3072]

When you say cottonwood's "in the poplar family and I'm a big fan of poplar". I strongly suspect you are talking about a wood SOLD AS POPLAR in lumber stores which is in fact TULIP POPLAR and no relation at all to cottonwood or other woods called poplar. True Poplar species like Quaking Aspen are near identical to cottonwood in its wood characteristics. But Tulip Poplar, also called Yellow Poplar, an occasionally greenish wood sold in lumber stores is Liriodendron tulipfera. Cottonwood is Populus deltoides. Not the same genus at all. They may grow in the same eastern woods but not related at all. P.S. The bark on the tree you labeled as cottonwood looks suspiciously like basswood. Are you sure?

[@grayautumnday]

Olive oil goes rancid and oxidizes into transfats very rapidly - incredibly more rapid than the vast majority of other oils - why wouldn’t you use an oil with a super long shelf life, like rice bran oil?

[@TheWildWestMill]

Could have gotten boards out of all your slabs. That’s a lot of waste my friend. Looked like basswood not cottonwood

[@joemc111]

Great video Troy, I know you are always working with numbers. Maybe the next time you fire up the mill you could keep track of your time and how much board feet you got. Like this time I am guessing you got maybe 180 feet, so what I was looking for is BFH, Board Feet per Hour. I looked at Mark’s video, that is a crazy looking thing.

[@RedToolHouse]

I used to keep track of all of that. I will put that on the video list. That is a good idea!

[@The_Argent]

What do you normally do with your cutoffs once you square the log up?

[@RedToolHouse]

Right now I have a very large pile. Some are used for footpaths and weed control in the garden. Some will go through the chipper. SOme get used in rough building (pig shelters, etc)

[@markgunderson8858]

Good video! Thanks for the plug

[@RedToolHouse]

Sure thing! Enjoyed it.

[@mikegriffin3437]

Looks like you now have more firewood. Went to the link you gave. That was funny. Loved it. Have to say you will never see another machine like it.

[@RedToolHouse]

It is more impressive in person! Mark's ingenuity knows no limits.

[@brianboe3774]

My grandparents owned a home made from cottonwood ... Studs are so hard you can't drive a nail

[@RickMartinYouTube]

Intersting. Thx.

[@mikecox7180]

Better men than me. Way to hot to mill. Good video.

[@RedToolHouse]

Yes! It was very hot and we started at 8am!

[@kyleshores432]

up here in my area of Michigan, we'd have flipped the tailgate up and let the boards rest on top.......also, if you had a log grab at each side of the bucket, would it stabilize the logs better when lifting?

[@KreigsMarine2]

You folded up that old saw blade without gloves on.........nice, you won't see me doing that

[@dupre7416]

Makes McGuyver look like a punk? Impressive. What all can you do with those milled cottonwoods? I've got a whole bunch of them on my 11 acres that I'd love to use somehow. They're not the straightest trees in the woods.

[@nicktozie6685]

Once dry it holds paint and nails excellent but do not use outside. You can also use the thicker bark for look projects. Great tree

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

Cotton wood is a very wet almost porus wood that is not good for much, not even fire wood, takes too long to dry, too much water and it warps and twist very bad !!!

[@efvangilder2642]

Back in my construction days cotton wood was sought as scaffold boards. It was light and strong. This was back in the70s and 8os. I also worked on some old buildings along the Mississippi river. Alot of their structural beams were cut out of poplar and cott6 wood.

[@efvangilder2642]

My dad and I cut down a large cotton wood tree with a cross cut saw. My Dad was very tight. I help cut a lot of fire wood with a crosscut saw. My grandpa new how to sharpen it. He had a slot cut in a corner post that he put the saw in while he filed it.

[@wilburfinnigan2142]

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[@wilburfinnigan2142]

@@efvangilder2642 They used what was available...Popular is a good wood cotton wood not unless nothing else was available !!!

[@brianlence459]

Peach and fruit baskets are made from cotton wood. There was a basket factory in the little town I grew up in in Southern IL.

[@vernonvest9927]

Keep it dry makes good loft flooring

[@BK-oo1bl]

What degree blade do you use on cottonwood?