Slabbing BIG ELM with a Chainsaw and Bandsaw Mill

[@WilliamAlanPhoto]

*clicks on link to a new vid by Matt Gasps: "No way am I sitting here for 21 plus minutes... *21 plus minutes later ---> Clicks "Like".

[@mcremona]

:D

[@MrPoppadog1955]

yep!

[@ThePapabear2012]

William Alan Photo, Pretty much lol

[@smicksmookety]

Lol, your neighbors must love you. Seriously, you're a real nice guy.

[@ma10coll]

your neighbors must love you setting up a sawmill operation 30 yards from their houses

[@theodoranorton4779]

To think of that gorgeous log being burnt up or mulching someone's garden is just horrifying. You gents are heroes.

[@LindsayWilson-vj1wc]

Watching out of sequence but really impressed at the evolution of your process and equipment. Great Videos.

[@tedfelsberg5322]

What BEAUTIFUL figuring ! Thank you, so much, for sharing.

[@ralphlivingston894]

I haven’t seen every video but I’ve seen a lot of them… I think those are the prettiest slabs. They were beautiful.

[@charlotteskiftun753]

I love watching all Cremo episodes....great teacher

[@mcremona]

Thanks!

[@maryannrurup353]

Fun guys and laughs were worth it to me. Thanks.

[@ringerson4x4]

I'm glad you didn't have to cut the whole log with the chainsaw mill, it took forever.

[@philipedocarmo]

This log is absolutely beautiful!

[@ernestreichardt3942]

I like this guy because he tells you what’s going on ! May GOD Bless Him even More Than he clearly Already Has !

[@arkansas1336]

The length of the broom handle is just about right for using , now! I like watching the sawmill, thanks. ....13

[@TheRedhawke]

Most beautiful Elm I have ever seen.

[@techedfireman4981]

Donovan has some great choice in pants...Love my Duluth's only pants I buy now. Lovely slabs amazing figuring in everyone of them.

[@larrykinder5353]

That Big Al is a gorgeous piece of wood

[@M13asan]

In the process of engineering a bandsaw mill right now, just gotta say Matt your an inspiration

[@mcremona]

Thanks! Good luck with your build!

[@ClimptonDiddlehopper]

04 WRB STI throw that build on you tube man. lots of us are really considering a build ourselves.

[@seephor]

Donavan must be a good friend. That was a lot of work

[@mcremona]

He's as determined as I am

[@tool2man]

Great video again, beautiful elm. Gonna be some nice tables around there.

[@SteveP-vm1uc]

Man, that is some gorgeous table material there..... A few chunks of stump and one of these slabs on top in the back yard would make a fantastic family picnic table.. You know, so the kids aren't messing up the superior one in the dining room!! ;)

[@MichaelGallinger]

That bandsaw mill sure made short work of those cuts...so cool to watch!

[@dananelson3534]

Great video Matt and Donovan. What a difference the band saw mill makes, well worth the effort. Like the figure in those slabs. There you go, bring a log, slab a log, and take the log home. Thanks for posting. Now that I have my milling video fix, I can relax. :P

[@judithfairchild8620]

Now I have seen something entirely new freckled wood. Super cool

[@IronOakSawmill]

The elm is amazing. I have some red elm here, that I cant wait to work with.

[@bufford14]

Hey, Matt, the next thing you need to make is a gantry crane, that would eliminate a lot of back breaking work. The way you going about your work, you may end up messing up your back for good. I know by experience what that entails, and it's not what I want you to end up doing. Always protect your back young man, that way you can enjoy your life. mark '

[@tubelife70]

What a thing of beauty.You're living the woodworkers dream Matt. I'd give my left arm for a slab of that!

[@mcremona]

+Cameron MacDonald thanks :)

[@airwolf61970]

At 12:13 I love that round area. I think that could be a vanity sink. Grind out the basin. Such beauty.

[@waynenocton]

Fueling during the cut, love it!

[@ZrubekFamily]

Yeah, some safety Nazi just pissed all over himself :>)

[@mcremona]

:D

[@carlkrebs1]

That is a huge elm , nice work !

[@Lee-qp6gf]

Amazing mill. Can't wait to see the paint it will get.

[@BushImports]

I wondered which worked the best. What I have read in the past was that the chainsaw mill was better because the bandsaw teeth loaded up and dulled too fast. Thanks for sharing that with us.

[@rajendrakumar8419]

oh my god the slab looks so beautiful

[@charlotteskiftun753]

Those coffee table tops...perfect for a funky cafe

[@Camboge]

Elm looks great slabbed up!

[@kevinostberg1729]

I ran an 090 Stihl with a 60" bar (sometimes not big enough) falling big wood in Oregon back in the 80's. We ran Husqvarna 2100's with 42" and 36" bars for bucking and for falling the not-so-giant stuff. That 090's a beast! Properly tuned you can really lean on it and it just keeps eatin' wood. Tons of torque but NO rubber mounts. I remember my arms would continue to vibrate after the end of the day and would sometimes fall asleep at night due to all the vibration from that monster. Watching this, I recall how much of a Cadillac the 084 was by comparison. It was true timber-fallin' luxury. (0:]

[@superlazyorg]

Thanks for sharing this video. I've never seen this process before and it was fun to watch. The slabs look amazing!

[@tarz9386]

GREAT looking wood.

[@robertpongallo4079]

that log was beautiful

[@janekokoszko7525]

I thought it was stunning, both the colour and the figuring.

[@sarapulford5957]

Wo ! That elm grain is beautiful.

[@ernestreichardt3942]

What a beautiful piece of wood !

[@SilverBack.]

I am envious of ALL THAT LOVLY TIMBER

[@mmgross144]

Great work! What an amazing tree!

[@dufftime]

i can see both of those saws as a focus in a horror movie. those slabs are beautiful. nice work... here i thought you were just a fancy woodworking, but here you are, cutting gigantic slabs with your own sawmills. so cool. :-)

[@jaimieboy999]

That's some of the nicest logs I've seen 😍

[@nordyfamily]

Great work Matt!.

[@zackdrotos59]

Hey Matt, another great video!

[@Withplaneandsaw]

amazing looking lumber! I just cut up some small amounts of apple ! now i want a sawmill haha!

[@willemkossen]

If only i had a Cremona living close by to get me some slab....

[@bobleeswoodshop7919]

That's log is beautiful!!👍👍👍

[@massmanute]

What a beautiful elm log!

[@Shoerona]

Love the grain. I'm planning to order the Panther Mill next week so I can start having some fun too👍

[@mcremona]

Careful you don't have too much fun :)

[@09conrado]

19:21 He looks really happy with his boards

[@cashcarter7013]

Nice wood for a beautiful coffin

[@orelygarcia]

Great video Matt. Thumbs up.

[@mcremona]

thanks!

[@rusedorange]

Nice work Matt, you inspire me.

[@mcremona]

awesome to hear!

[@mcremona]

+Grant Lister yes, you'd need a double ended bar and a second saw of the same size

[@SaltyVibrations]

A tractor will change your life and prevent later back surgeries. Awesome stuff as always

[@mcremona]

it certainly would. thanks!

[@popahh615]

That is some beautiful wood!

[@FredMcIntyre]

Awesome slabs Matt!

[@mcremona]

thanks Fred!

[@62ronrod]

got some beautiful slabs out of that.

[@donfinch862]

Your mill is just the ducks nuts. You must be bloody pleased with yerself

[@jonthogmartin]

Stunningly beautiful

[@dannysulyma6273]

I just spent my weekend with my Alaska mill doing the same thing, lightening up a pair of 20 foot 40in dia fir logs that where too heavy to lift with the equipment we had. I wish I had a helper or gravity working with me but it was just me on my knees taking a 14 inch cut and gasping for air as I'm stuck holding onto the throttle. It was a happy morning this am when they made it to my mill.

[@mcremona]

oh yeah I can totally relate to that

[@thomasklink3766]

Beautiful slabs.

[@Tracks777]

I enjoyed the video! Keep it up!

[@mcremona]

+MisterBassBoost thanks!

[@mjc26250]

Matt, you keep going on about coffee tables...but I see a couple of dozen or so electric guitars/basses in that stack of elm slabs.

[@JDKempton]

Beautiful grain in the wood.

[@jeffreyhansen2419]

Matt, I always learn something from you! Jeff Hansen

[@mcremona]

awesome! Thanks Jeff!

[@mitchellgiebler3396]

Also make every 5th tooth 1 to 2 degrees with the same raker depth, Every 5th tooth that is flat will act as a planing tooth and will clean the kerf as you mill. Try it it works.

[@cando9609]

Jeez, Matt. What was it? A year ago that everyone said, "You're gonna build a WHAT???" I get it now. Man! That is some beautifully figured wood. A lot of work but a gazillion coffee tables for sure. LoL. Very cool vid. Thanks. :)

[@mcremona]

Almost. August will be a year already. Went by really quickly :) Thanks!!

[@mikearmstrong7830]

Not a bad slab in the entire log.

[@cheesegrater2018]

Can we see a comparison including you doing it all by hand? ... for a similar sized log? ..thanks Matt

[@ScottHaun]

best 22 minutes all day!

[@andrewbowers970]

For the metric amongst us, 2000 board feet is around 4.7 cubic meters, which at say $2000 per cubic meter retail here in New Zealand, that's a very valuable stack of wood!

[@989blake]

Have you ever tried Cedar shield to stabilize and dry the wood quicker ?

[@genechambers7532]

nice slabs matt

[@walterrider9600]

thank you Matthew

[@lengray44]

I wonder where there are even dead elms anymore? I used to use it for firewood in the Adirondack are in the early 80s, and it was a race against rot then. Damn the Dutch Elm disease. They were once stately large trees. They weren't really good firewood, but it was better than just letting them rot. They were very hard to split. That is why I believe they used to make shipping crates and baskets with them. I understand it a very tough durable wood. It didn't burn that hot and left lots of ash that would fill your stove.

[@pirateman1966]

Love your channel and your work. +1

[@befmx31]

So Matt, when you got down to where you were slabbing those thin "slabs", (19:20) how were they held in place?

[@mcremona]

By their own weight. They’re just laying on the bed

[@befmx31]

@@mcremona wow, I would have thought that the blade would maybe make them move.

[@mcremona]

@@befmx31 there's stops on the side. All the cut force is across the bed.

[@TinShackVideos]

No wonder you love your new mill. lol

[@ronaldjohnson7905]

The ripping chain is well worth it. Sometimes the chainsaw mill is the only thing that will work.

[@krtwood]

Aww, I was hoping for a really good load test for Donovan's deck.

[@mcremona]

+krtwood hahaha I don't think that deck would have taken much more

[@Gaitchecker]

You must have great neighbors. They don’t give you a hard time with the noise and dusts?

[@coryherweck7863]

is this Siberian Elm? gorgeous!!!

[@ScottHaun]

I thought it went something like "once you go bandsaw mill, you don't go back" lol

[@mcremona]

haha exactly like that

[@wdfwgagyfgagyga]

always love your videos!!!

[@mcremona]

thanks!!

[@anthonyferrin5785]

alright Matt I think I have the right question for you now: I am building a mill and want to know how long of spacers to weld in between the long tubes of the mill yours looks to be about 12". so not the length or depth of the mill but how wide? For the chainsaw mill.

[@mcremona]

+Anthony ferrin 9.5"

[@anthonyferrin5785]

Cool bud!Thanks for your patience!

[@mcremona]

no problem

[@phooesnax]

Nice looking slabs. How do you keep pests out of the stacks?

[@salmonhunter7414]

That would make a great table.

[@brothyr]

if you didn't already have a chainsaw mill attachment, would you weld one?

[@mcremona]

I'd probably just buy it. It's not much money

[@thomastieffenbacherdocsava1549]

It now seems like it's all downhill. YOU ONLY SAID "CROTCH" ONCE. lol!

[@mcremona]

lol!!

[@littleshopintheshed]

But there was also a reference to a hairy crotch!!

[@hristoatanasov808]

this will be great for a table

[@MrBAchompBAchomp]

How far do you take your depth gauges down to on a ripping chain?

[@cityguyusa]

What are you lubing the blade with and why?

[@hinduspl]

+Matthew Cremona where do you get all those BIG logs!

[@mcremona]

Most are on craigslist as free firewood.

[@danielrichmond3019]

Seriously?

[@TheJunkyardgenius]

How much warping happens on pieces that wide while its drying and how much can you reduce that in any one particular stacking method?

[@agustin1736]

Cuántos.cc es esa motosierra?

[@thomaslindgren4602]

Great video as usual. When someone take a log to a mill or has the mill guy come and pick up the log is the cost determined by the output, the time or??? Do mills normally get paid but how many board feet they produce. I guess the same question is about if a mill bought a log is the price also based on board foot? It is amazing to see the wood as you uncover the beauty of each slab. Thank you for sharing.

[@mcremona]

Depends on the mill operator. Some charge hourly and some charge by board feet. Some will also charge extras like set up or blades. Logs are scaled by the board foot. There are calculators that will tell you the board feet based on the log's size. Thanks!

[@Justinofalltrades1]

do you ever have problems with the bar overheating? my ms 880 heats up the bar and chain hot enough that its not pleasant to touch. maybe the higher rpms are a factor...