This Log Pile Was MASSIVE!

Milling pine logs with a Wood Mizer LT15 sawmill.
Today I tackle the monster pile of pine logs again. The Wood Mizer LT15 ended up cutting about 30 logs over the course of 2 days. The Kubota L4701 with the Construction Attachments grapple on the front made the work much easier. These logs are mostly on the small side, but still have valuable lumber inside of them.
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[@gwshelor4129]

Thank you so much for showing the set up and maintenance. This is helpful in the real world. Details matter after all a small detail can derail anything.

[@falllineridge]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@marcelw223]

Just think about how many logs could you have done without a tractor! That tractor was the best purchase for you in my opinion, I bet you agree! With a tractor that is a lot of work. Thanks for another great video!

[@bwpenoyer]

Watching you mill these logs is a THING OF PURE BEAUTY!

[@singleshot2218]

A large undertaking..but I’ll enjoy watching your progress through your endeavor. Thanks for sharing your videos!

[@milfordlowie1467]

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[@JoeFlation]

I thoroughly enjoy watching you turn those logs into a useful and profitable resource

[@gurvinderkau1e5w18]

30 logs in 2 days well done.so much fun doing your favourite job out in nature birds singing.keep going njoyed the video👍👍👍👍👍

[@granthartley394]

Some great looking logs you have there. Great work

[@Zeke-yv3nw]

Man you did awesome. So glad you got that tractor cant wait to see what comes!

[@jimmowers7675]

Great video as always. Keep up the great work. God bless.

[@pboulware1737]

Love the LOG rake! Nice GA boy thinking, watch out for them ole Rattling snakes in them there log piles. Nice Job

[@IronOakSawmill]

Nice to see the logs being used rather than burned. Yielding some nice lumber. Bartering is a good thing. Nice video work as well.

[@falllineridge]

Thanks! Appreciate you stopping by.

[@yeagerxp]

Excellent work👍👍👍 . Thanks for sharing

[@richarddunn341]

I could sit here and watch you saw logs are they being tied to a bed it's so enjoyable to watch somebody else do something that you would like to do

[@patriots1needed]

Well done Wes.

[@kiawandajr1097]

nice haul! Your lucky to have such a great resource. here in pnw were know for our trees but i am scratching to get trees to mill.

[@Melicoy]

Nice Work. thanks for sharing !

[@craigsudman4556]

I am so glad you upgraded to a tractor with a grapple, those hydraulic muscles are hard to beat. Always enjoy when you saw a lot of lumber, Wes. Great video, thumbs up.

[@meehd01]

I bought a new grapple but after using it for a while I decided using a set of pallet forks actually work better.

[@craigsudman4556]

@@meehd01 We like to watch Outdoors with the Morgans and he uses both. It is amazing what Wes accomplished with his Ford, but the new set up is so much easier.

[@MrFHLH]

I think you can say after sawing all those logs, that your sawmill is totally had it running in period since new lololol. What a wonderful arrangement, one for him and one for you, perfect. Ever calculated how many miles you walk in a day when running the saw?. Who cares lovely way to spend a few hours.

[@MrHarleythedevil]

If that log pile was here in Australia, the only thing I would be thinking would be, "How many bloody snakes are hiding in there".

[@rossinnz]

It's peaceful. Cheers Man.

[@TimLukeAnderson]

Will we get to see the home remodel too ? Have you ever done a video on drying/curing your lumber ? Also have you ever treated your lumber yourself would you ever make a video on that ? Have you done a review on different sawmills best things to look for pros and cons etc thank you

[@erniemays41]

You have a sweet deal worked out there, one for one.Great.

[@iain1969]

I love your videos! Thank you.

[@falllineridge]

Glad you like them!

[@iamruseriousnow516]

Just wondering if you could attatch some sort of pipe, pvc or stove pipe wlbow to the saw dust so it would blow a foot or two out. At least to move it away from your walking space. Give it some thought. Love your videos.

[@bwillan]

Would it be worth it to build a log deck the height of your sawmill such that you could load 8 or 10 logs on it at a time? Would likely be more efficient in the log handling department. Sounds like you will have a long term saw milling arrangement with your friend there. Of course having an extra person to help would go a long way too.

[@tectalabyss]

Great job. And has always I Liked,shared. All my best.

[@erikleorga]

I envy you the piles of logs you get to mill.

[@sydneymcconnaughhay5947]

Wow by yourself, just think if you had some help.You are awesome, Blessings to you and your beautiful family.

[@ML-lg4ky]

That’s a nice unit man.

[@kurtmcminn8380]

love the work your doing just wish I could get some of the wood from you.

[@trickydicky78s3]

Your video came up in suggestions, watched 5 minutes and subbed. Impressed and relieved that somebody working with a saw mill uses a mask, the amount of folk i see working with saw mills or in general cutting timber with no mask astonishes me, they will be the very people in 10 to 20 years wondering why they cant breath or have lung diseases. The job looks big and you look to be doing a great job of it, all the best

[@falllineridge]

Appreciate you stopping by!

[@stedder8436]

Nice work man

[@tommyadams1897]

Great work. Have you ever thought about getting a shipping container to keep your wood in for drying?

[@zell9058]

They are a little pricey especially when you have access to plentiful low cost lumber... that being said the quick install and weather proof quality of a container is hard to beat. Just add dehumidifiers and fans and it’s set.

[@tkishkapesilurian4281]

I am using a rented storage building to secure/dry the nicer oak, hickory and other well-figured lumber I cut. It is secure, dry and very hot to dry the wood faster.

[@edmorin2780]

great shot at 14:13 into the video. Just a thought, since you mill a log for your 1 inch boards and then the 2 inch boards for your friend, would it save time to load "your log" onto the mill then just to grab the other log since you are on the tractor already? Then position the tractor so all you have to do is start the tractor, move a few feet forward and load your friends log onto the mill once your boards are done.

[@jamesd4013]

Nice work

[@BackwoodsGourmetChannel]

Great video as always. Dang.. fixin' to hit 200K subs.

[@henryzoch1505]

Thanks!

[@wallacebrown5207]

The background music is great.

[@tammymann6292]

All I can say is, "Wow!"

[@madampolo]

I think you should invest in a wood chipper and turn those bark boards into wood chips to sell. Also, bag up that sawdust and sell it also. I think you'll find buyers for both chips and sawdust.

[@Noonespecial237]

I agree waste nothing, all sales can be pure profit..

[@gregbrown1083]

You might consider slabbing 2 sides of some smaller logs for dunnage to stack your drying stack, makes it easier to keep flat. Good luck.

[@aday1637]

May I suggest you construct a chute to lengthen the sawdust output so as to dump beyond where you walk?

[@gerryspang5917]

Ike the way you look after your equipment, was wondering how graphite powder would work, it’s not sticky so the sawdust wouldn’t stick to it. Like the way you barter for your lumber. Keeps out the middle man. Like the grease fitting as well, in the old days we put a thin rag over the grease nipple then would use the regular fitting it would seem to tighten up. I always seem to find these things now that I don’t need them any more. Stay safe my friend and keep the videos coming.

[@canalolenhadorvaldir]

Dude you work really hard...👏👏👏 I'm fron BRAZIL😀 Work with eucalypitus

[@specwar64]

Gee Wes,you should mill yourself some 6x6s and build yourself a nice pole barn for a nice equipment storage/repair building. Theres certainly enough lumber there,i'd guess.

[@falllineridge]

Trying to save up lumber for our house remodel right now. Although a pole barn would be nice.

[@usapatriot4513]

No criticism here you have a good thing going there and I liked your ideal of using that short log with your tractor too smooth down that sawdust pile. Thanks for sharing your videos with us and God Bless!

[@falllineridge]

Thanks! Always appreciate you watching!

[@terryclouse6390]

good see your cat again just for second great video the comment robert made makes a since it ain,t me or robert doing the work do it the way you want great video keep up the good work

[@jayschafer1760]

For the slabs with the bark on them, try building some U-shaped cradles on 4x4s or 6x6s so that they are off the ground. Build a few of a those ~18" long, with gaps for a few pieces of twine, then line up the cradles, drop the slabs directly from the mill into the cradles, tie it all up with twine, and cut into ~2' lengths with a chain saw. Wouldn't take a ton of time, and would leave you with bundles of scrap wood to dry and use for campfires (either your own campfires, or to sell to others). A lot of the bundles of wood I see for sale at gas stations and grocery stores in areas with campgrounds and lake houses look like they are offcut slabs from trees that were cut into boards.

[@kenjett2434]

Not trying to be a troll but Georgia pine makes crappy firewood. It's a softwood that is full of pitch makes good kindling to start a fire but burns quickly and doesn't create a charcoal bed just turns to ash.

[@jayschafer1760]

@@kenjett2434 Ah, thanks for the information. I knew that pine isn't the best firewood, but didn't realize that it was quite that bad. Still, even just for personal use for outdoor fires, it would be almost free and not much work, just keep feeding wood into the fire pit and stay upwind.

[@kenjett2434]

@@jayschafer1760 for fire and quick heat yeah you could easily do that but wouldn't advise cooking over it. Not sure those resins would be harmful or not but certainly wouldn't taste to good.

[@andycobbcobbbroslogging7125]

Hydraulics have changed the world as much as the internet or any other invention. I am a contract logger and production oriented in pay by the ton. Since I helped my pop in the 70s to starting my own biz in the 80’s to present day, I have seen cutting down go from chainsaws to track sawhead feller butchers that can cut up to 35 loads a day. And limboing go from chain saws and axes to track excavators with delimbers that cut the logs to measured lengths in a few seconds. We cut 25 loads a day average, about 800 tons. When daddy and his helper and I were doing it we usually did about 30 tons working hard from Can’t to Can’t. Truelly changing the industry. AC

[@falllineridge]

Amazing how useful a hydraulic cylinder is.

[@wileycoyotesr8623]

Nice intro. Shows us what you do each time the saw in used.

[@davidkirkman2223]

On my lm29 the sawdust discharge hole is on the other side from control side. This eliminates walking through it as your sawing

[@rossinnz]

Make an ad-hoc blade with your boards, wire it on. Great Vids

[@newandoldtech5634]

20:00 One tip from experience: put two rows of logs parallell to each other to stack the rest of the logs off the ground. the dirt make the blade dull and if the logs are stored for a long period of time, they will rot or be damaged by other means

[@TreeManMS]

Keep going.

[@dennistaylor4171]

Hey Wes, great video. I really enjoy them. My question has nothing to do cutting logs. I love the background music on this particular video. What artist is it? Do you do all of your editing? Very impressive!

[@FLPhotoCatcher]

Martin Carlberg - Don't Be Late

[@falllineridge]

Hey Dennis, it's Don't Be Late by Jayden Talley. Yes, I do the filming and editing. Thanks for watching!

[@deborahbergey3659]

I love watching your videos. I'm very curious to know how much one of your blades for your sawmill cost. And keep making these videos for our enjoyment.

[@stephaniewilson3955]

In an earlier video they were $40 but since supply problems you can probably double that.

[@johnaneufeld5442]

when i see you struggling getting the bark slabs off the rig you might want to invest in a roller at the throw off end

[@audiemccall7611]

Those little mills aren’t really big or fast enough to take on a big job like that people say they save a lot of wood with the thinner kerf but usually the sawyers waste the gains in a thick slab cut. We can saw about 16 logs that size in less than an hour with 3 people on my Edmiston circle mill.

[@jimp.4531]

fun in the forest.

[@slamsshenanigans2296]

Smart use of the log with the sawdust, but a box blade would give you ballast and doesn't add too much to trailering length, and if you weld a ball on the back of the box blade you can hook up easy and move your mill around with your tractor, lot easier than the truck.

[@falllineridge]

I have a box blade with ballast and a hitch on it. I was trying to save trailer weight for the trip.

[@dewaynenix2025]

Been watching your channel and wondering if you will do an update on the solar kiln? Would love to know how productive it is in drying the wood. Thanks.

[@falllineridge]

The kiln was a learning experience. It does a great job drying wood, but it's not easy to load and unload. So, I just air dry now.

[@thebradleysoncatbirdhill6849]

Outstanding job as always! Even though you call it a hobby, you look like a true professional doing that work! I don't recall from early videos, but did you ever consider other brands besides Wood-Mizer for your Mill?

[@falllineridge]

Thanks, John! Always learning though. I don't think I ever considered anything except Wood Mizer. Not because there aren't a lot of good brands out there...but ever since I first saw one of these orange machines with the wobbly head I just had to have one.

[@brucewelty7684]

Here is another totally unrequested suggestion: If you are doing one and one, how about loading 2 logs on the grapple? Save one run time??

[@f150bc]

Suggest you can use saw dust to make fire 🔥 pellets and sell it to people who have stoves.It is popular here on LINY .

[@congtrinhxuanhphbo-xuancon1541]

It's woderful ! Can you supply your pine logs to Vietnam ?

[@thepoolmaster6821]

Time for a Solar Kiln!!!

[@henryjones6173]

Another great video. Quick question, where did you get the hat? I would like to get one myself. Keep up the great work.

[@falllineridge]

I got it through a friend years ago. It's Colombia brand. Unfortunately this particular model has been discontinued. They have a similar one still, it's not exactly the same though. It's a wonderful hat.

[@brianterrill9587]

There are guys going into former eastern block USSR Countries going after 1,000yr old bog wood that just looks incredible after cutting.

[@lylestatzer7112]

Your on your way to operating like the big dogs now. With that log in your grapple it reminded me of "Letsdig18". He moves a lot of mud like that with his excavator.

[@lialos]

Lyle Statzer - Letsdig18 is a damn magician with the big machines!

[@karlriley1314]

Looks like FUN...............For someone else that is, not me. hehe

[@jimwilliamson7598]

If you don’t put a few separator strips between rows of cut lumber don’t the boards twist and split?

[@newandoldtech5634]

Why not use a big tarp to collect the saw dust? Works well with fire wood macines

[@lazarmavrenovic2283]

Is it possible to put two logs on the mill at the same time? Have you tried it? It would speed things up if possible

[@arth.4196]

Do you have the used blades sharpened or discard them.

[@jimwilloughby]

Wes, You really got to workin', using a short log to backdrag that sawdust out the way.

[@tomherfel2916]

Yep, that's a great idea. I wouldn't have thought of it. But you might improve it if you used a longer log, about 3 times as long, so as to keep your tractor further away from your mill.

[@tkishkapesilurian4281]

I use my tractor and its box blade to keep my litter gathered and mixed with horse manure for composting.

[@danriley9155]

That's what I was afraid of, please get some hard toe either steel or composite. They may save a toe.

[@annettmccullough4193]

Do you ever use your saw dust for anything else?

[@WilliamWBG]

Could you not saw two similar size logs at the same time?

[@doctormaddix2143]

Will you build a shed for wood drying in the future?

[@falllineridge]

Not sure, it would sure be handy though.

[@sharonromer6606]

👍

[@aday1637]

That 'blue stain' is spaulding...and is highly desirable to some lumber smiths.

[@tonygrimes13]

*Spalting* not spaulding.

[@SgtGiggs]

1:20 Show off! 🤣

[@falllineridge]

Ha! I was proud when I learned that trick.

[@carlgustafson213]

Y'all need a snow blower for that sawdust.

[@kthwkr]

A leaf blower would do. Snow blowers are illegal in middle Georgia :)

[@arlielamas-wj5xo]

Theres no need to strip that stack. The bark is already slipped on those logs, they're plenty dry. Some are probably too dry.

[@netdog713]

A landscaping rake would make quick work of spreading out that sawdust- just sayin' :)

[@stevennihipali3607]

what do you do with that scrap pile? I'm looking to get into woodworking with that kinda stuff and my son wants to jump in there and take it all, lol... where do we getthat kinda scrap wood to work with?

[@falllineridge]

It all goes to waste. You might try looking at Wood Mizer's website. They have a list of local pro sawyers. They generate plenty of off cuts. Maybe even search Craigs list for local sawyers.

[@stevennihipali3607]

@@falllineridge much appreciated

[@watchthe1369]

Every DIY channel i see love lock n lube.

[@Bassmaster1256]

Looks like you need a new gas can! lol

[@David-fv7zg]

For pine I cut 2:1 for service, for hardwoods ill do 1:1. The pine just isn't enough of a value for me to cut considering gas, wear and tear, time, etc. Not saying it is for you just my perspective.

[@kenjett2434]

David if he had to cut and skid the logs yeah I would agree with that. But these are all precut and stacked only work is loading on the mill and sawing 50/50 isn't a bad deal very little handling.

[@allanpeters4403]

Is there a log sawing machine that cuts both ways - would save tons of time and effort

[@falllineridge]

Yes, those do exist.

[@___PK__]

Here's one on steroids 😂: kzbin.info/www/bejne/amOUo62ZepKXjMU

[@mk-jf1ux]

is there a saw that ejects dust to non operator side? (under 30k)

[@falllineridge]

Yes, many brands do. Just not WM.

[@kthwkr]

What was the song at the end?

[@David-fv7zg]

I had been under the understanding that you weren't supposed to oil the working rail?

[@kiawandajr1097]

not sure about actually oiling the rail itself but there are felt pads the mill head rides on that need to be cleaned and oiled regularly. i am sure a little extra on the rail wont hurt anything

[@falllineridge]

The rollers on the mill have felt pads (wipes) in front of them that are soaked with ATF. Oiling the rail helps keep ATF on the pads and lessens wear and tear. Doesn't hurt a thing.

[@Bamaman14k]

Man that's a lot of wood for free, well relatively speaking anyway.

[@meehd01]

Actually for the labor, wear and tear, fuel, and blades he's not coming out very well.

[@kthwkr]

After kicking that saw dust I bet your shoes are full of sawdust and you ain't got socks on. Very nice ending. I love that song.

[@michaelc.3812]

7:50.... double cut?

[@woodbutcher6719]

What do you do with the cut offs

[@falllineridge]

I don't have a use for them. They end up going to waste.

[@cptechno]

How much does a blade cost?

[@jayschafer1760]

$20 or so on Wood Mizer's web site.

[@oldtrio1]

this log pile

[@heartofd1x1e91]

What is in that red spray bottle?? @fall line ridge

[@falllineridge]

ATF for rail lubrication.

[@heartofd1x1e91]

Thank you so much thinking of getting into the wood mizer business