Tips Season 3 - Episode 3: Sawing up our lumber

[@terrulian]

I keep watching these and thinking that, well, Lou has shown so much, what more is there? And every single time I learn something new.

[@CaptainBeerman1098]

I've been watching these videos consistently for several years, and it's definitely given me an absolute obsession with lumber.

[@jakemoore7912]

Oh man, Lou and Leo in one day.. I feel spoiled. Great episode!

[@chrismaines1285]

Glad to see you still have that beautiful Harley. Long time follower of your video series and have learned so much. Thank you.

[@friendlypiranha774]

Lou, nice to see you still doing well. Best wishes from South Africa.

[@talltimm]

nice 58 waiting patiently in the sunshine.. glad to see a new project coming up. all the best..

[@offgridsweden]

Awesome video man. Nothing like milling your own lumber. Have an amazing Sunday, Andreas 🇸🇪

[@TheBubagrunt]

Thanks for sharing your knowledge. I appreciate it when people pass their knowledge and passions instead of being proprietary. Gods blessings 😊

[@arkansas1336]

Lou you did a great job explaining about the wood and the "how to" cutting, thanks. I've cut required curves in lumber with a circular saw and the saw works quite well. I place my boards on edge with each end being level with each other and then marked the max curve needed with a pencil. I then attached a string at each end and let it sag to the low point at center and then marked along the string 'a pencil line' for my saw cut line and then proceeded with my "freehand cut". Works good if the arc is long and not too acute. The same methods can be used on a shorter radius and longer arcs with a band saw. I've also nailed my guide board (aka your "batten")to the string line and used it for the saw guide. All of this was non engineered and not accepted by engineers/inspectors until it was shown to them it's simple ease of use and accuracy.

[@panzershrek7930]

You are a true craftsman Lou. You can be proud of yourself ;) Greetings from The Netherlands

[@richardjacques6370]

nice to have you back . I missed having you around you have a wealth of information and thank you for sharing it with us

[@StemtoSternSailing]

It's nice to have you back lou, I've missed your videos alot.

[@mabsalom1]

Glad to see you back making sawdust, using the tools at-hand.

[@fredthornes5087]

First Leo now Lou. What a great day!

[@bizim_eller]

Frwd thornes🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@bizim_eller]

All we need is a Leah now🙂

[@daviddickmeyer5231]

Me too! Yay!

[@ChefS.Keller]

This and Engles coach shop.....the best channels on KZbin

[@kramerdesign9443]

A) It’s so good to finally see Lou cutting something again! B) Holy shit Lou take it easy cutting that sapwood!

[@kentblairl]

Trailer work space, efficient. We just did the same with some 2x6x12 lumber that became a deck. Take the tool to the lumber or the lumber to the tool. Might use that rip guide trick on the catboat build vs the table saw, we have a little cypress to butcher. Thanks for all of the tips Lou!

[@tompedersen6564]

As usual, very educational. You've got a head full of practical experience, and you're very good at conveying it. Thanks.

[@tednottodd]

I think a great take away is that you don't need a million tools to build a great project. Lou demonstrates time after time that with some simple tools that you are proficient with, you can accomplish a lot.

[@davidh7268]

Great video, I have a bunch of poplar and sweet gum I chain saw milled and wondered what the best method to rip them into usable planks, thanks for the great tips!

[@montyswoodworkscrafts2232]

Love your videos, have learned so much from you. Thanks for taking the time to make, edit and share them

[@中川徳-h8y]

Thank you for showing us the tips that you used to rip the oak lumber. I am interested in a red colored saw blade located on the opposite lumber if there is any special feature or not.

[@AquaMarine1000]

Those red saw blades are also available here in Australia. Thanks Lou, cheers

[@robinhodgkinson]

I made a small removable hook to hold back the guard. I recycled the thin metal rib out of an old car wiper blade, which was the perfect material. Strong, high tensile, and doesn’t rust. Works perfectly on those occasions when the guard is a pain in the butt.

[@micssticksnpipes]

Nice one lou, looking forward to more.

[@rogerbayzand4455]

$683 for that 33 foot flitch! Wow timber has become really expensive, real Burma teak bought in the flitch was 18 British pounds a cubic foot when I started boatbuilding, that was just over $50 US in those days. Great to see you making the new series Lou.

[@HuckBowlt]

Very practical and useful info for anyone who works with lumber

[@bulletproofpepper2]

Thanks Lou. I finally learned how to sharpen a chisel scary sharp. Thank for the wood fever. Thanks for sharing.

[@alohathaxted]

I remember an article about flat iron skiffs being built with boat boards, which you could no longer get from the lumber yard. It seems you could buy them from the mill though. Wonder what the skiff would cost? They were slapped together with a spanish windless, transom and you knocked the bottoms together cross hull so the boards wedged each other tight. I’d like to see louis show this old time construction method. They have one for rowing at Mystic.

[@benchbuilder]

So happy your back , please don't leave us again. The withdraw of watching you is too much!!!

[@JenkinsBoatWorks]

I learn something every time! Thanks Lou

[@arkyhomesteader1791]

Thank You Sir for sharing your knowledge I cant get enough! You are a very skilled craftsman!

[@thomasarussellsr]

Well explained on the guide and not marking a line since it won't cut straight anyway. That board definitely had some tension in it, no doubt.

[@Nomadboatbuilding]

Man after my own heart Lou. For brute strength and resistance to abuse, you can’t beat corded Milwaukee tools. For my board foot calculations I always go with width in inches x thickness in inches x length in feet divided by 12. Same result as yours of course but I find just a little easier on the brain and length is usually measured nominally anyway.

[@TheSalMaris]

I've always multiplied thickness time width in inches, then multiplied length in feet, divided by12 to get board foot-- it keeps the numbers smaller and is easier to compute on the fly in your head. There's never a need for a calculator. Nice looking quercus alba.

[@bobcaligiuri]

Hello Lou. Great channel. Could it be that the tree with tighter growth rings grew at a higher altitude, possibly in colder weather?

[@andvil01]

It's a fun fact that oak becomes more dense when growing fast. In softwood like spruce and pine it is opposite. Fastgrowing giving lighter and weaker wood.

[@Stillnapie]

I have that same hammer.. Craftsman 16 oz with the green fiberglass and black rubber handle. The first hammer I ever bought in about 1975.

[@UselessDuckCompany]

That intro is so trippy

[@white_truck3820]

Hey Lou what kind of project truck is under that tarp!?

[@fredflintstone8048]

Beautiful pan head.

[@mikestillwell5566]

Love that pan!

[@yopage]

You're not using a rip blade but a cross-cut blade on the saw, right? Really good video!!

[@kareno8634]

*NICE Everything!* info i never knew - fast growth is "dense"? _hmm_ Did you not plan for that Breeze? lol reminds me of raking leaves. Cheers!

[@rbc5878]

Thanks Lou, very informative.

[@halbritt]

First time I ever heard that quartered oak wasn't good for something. Today I learned.

[@tomtruesdale6901]

Nice class on sawing. That beginning had me wondering about stuff. LOL Whats the story on your Panhead?

[@memyselfandkev]

Just a little thing I'm sure you know, in^3 to ft^3 you have to divide it by 12^3 in order to properly convert and cross out units. 1ft = 12in, 1ft^3 = 1728in^3. I think it was just a miscommunication :) where you are going from board ft to cu ft. Tricky for some when you use conversion factors without units, cheers! And thanks for the videos

[@gun1536]

Best teacher...

[@swubben1]

The price of that lumber gives a whole new meaning to, measure twice cut once.

[@williamensign1408]

Yea, expensive

[@thomasarussellsr]

Location, location, location! Same as in RealEstate, where you are dictates price.

[@Casket-Man]

The last kiln dried white oak I bought was only $2 a foot but that was by the 1000 bf.

[@hitied1]

KD white oak sourced in Mass this year for furniture builder 18$ bf

[@yucel_torun]

Thank you 👏 Stay safe 👍

[@Traveling_with_FIVE_Cats]

Amazing!! Thank you.. Stay safe!

[@jonathanguerra3663]

I love how he cut out a notch in his saw

[@je-fq7ve]

Also the back of the saw is cut off so it dumps wood chips better. lol

[@mackasack]

Hey Lou, I love your Panhead :)

[@rickrudd]

Wow. $685 - didn't think it would be that much direct from mill.

[@barkebaat]

Yeah, seems very expensive... only reason I can think of is those 33 feet of length; might be paying a premium for clear, quartersawn lumber of that length. I can buy kiln-dried, furniture grade American white oak (12 foot) for a fraction of that price even here in Norway.

[@lynnlard5531]

I guess it depends on where you are. And apparently the NE U.S. is not a good place for buying white oak. My son-in-law just recently bought some directly from a saw mill for considerably less that $1.00/BF. Don't recall the exact numbers, but it included 6 or 8 10ft 8"X8"s and probably 20 or so 1 by's and 6-quarter stuff in mostly 8" to 12" widths; total was somewhere between $300 and $400. (SEastern U.S.) This was all really good looking lumber. Of course he had not specified any particular milling instructions.

[@martinbyrne6643]

Came close to the tire of that motobike there young Lou 🤪

[@nigelsmith4732]

When are you coming down under

[@richardhoffman9729]

What year on that beautiful Panhead?

[@sergioleyva1311]

Saludos 👋👋👋 from Florida 👍

[@shanek6582]

$685 for that one board? Man you need to drive down here to the smoky mountains and buy some of our hardwood lumber. I’m cutting nice white oak up for firewood right now, my local sawmill charges 30 cents a foot to cut up anything I bring him.

[@MrPotatochips4]

Loved the opening, high sided me right out of my rut! I bet if you go for a ride, most of that sawdust will blow right off ..... if you see a biker with a tinfoil covered helmet, that's me :D

[@robertsimmons1264]

I frequently lock the guard open on my saw.

[@tonybutcher4762]

I want to know about that Panhead, Lou?

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

1:50 To convert from cubic inches to cubic feet, you must divide the cubic inches by 1728. That is 12"×12"×12"=1728 cubic inches per cubic foot.

[@Logjam5]

Incorrect. 144 cu in = 1 fbm (foot board measure)

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

@@Logjam5 Lou wanted to get cubic feet, so he could multiply the density of material (pounds per cubic foot) by the number of cubic feet in his plank to obtain the weight. And with all due respect, Google how many cubic inches are in a cubic foot.

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

@@Logjam5 A "board foot" is absolutely not the same as a "cubic foot".

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

@@Logjam5 At 2:00 Lou states that it is "57 pounds per CUBIC foot". Do you believe that a board foot of oak (1"×12"×12") weighs 57 pounds?

[@TheSalMaris]

@@WhatAboutTheBee Green maybe, but I thought white oak was closer to 45 #/ft3--Wood Data here I come. at 57 # it almost wouldn't float in water.

[@ChristianWilliamsYachting]

Whoa! Lou, did you approve that opening transition? Arrggghhh.

[@swubben1]

That is a sweet pan head. 👍👍

[@forthwithtx5852]

Thought I was having an LSD trip at the beginning.

[@unclespongehead]

It was just a medullary ray tracing :-) Leo has a really good videographer/editor.

[@jblack1854]

I was gonna say the same thing!! Ahhh the 60s

[@straylightc4b]

over too soon, thanks for a great video.

[@thewatchman6074]

Is that some Milwaukee pig iron I see?

[@DBacaMaker]

WHOAAAAAAAAAAH Trippy opening!

[@GibClark]

Thanks👍👍👍👍

[@myopicthunder]

Wait so if your baton is curved the remaining edge isnt square?

[@expeditionworld3787]

Super knowledge please do more movies.

[@johnboleyjr.1698]

I wonder if Lou ever once realized how many people he would reach when he was conceiving the channel?

[@stoutlager6325]

I found Lou's channel some years ago because I wanted to learn how to tie a bowline knot. I chose Lou's video as I figured he, being a shipwright, would have the best information about it. That turned out to be correct and I stayed put upon finding the rest of the videos to be great as well.

[@johnboleyjr.1698]

@@stoutlager6325 the Bowline video was what got me watching the channel as well.

[@arlisswirtanen7794]

Pretty sure that’s how o found him too

[@jimcooney9019]

thanks for sharing the video

[@KennedyFrota]

Você vai fazer outro barco esse anos e nos mostrar nos seus vídeos!

[@banmadabon]

Jeez! That Hog is money...

[@Stillnapie]

I keep looking at the panhead....

[@cerndo]

that's one tough mother of a 8 1/4" Milwaukee saw

[@marty2872]

definitely hide it if osha shows up.

[@1958johndeere620]

Holy crap. If someone had a stand of oak, and wanted to make a buck or two, they could pay for a saw mill real quick. We are under a infestation of Brown Tail Moths in Maine, and the oak foliage is getting eaten bare. 3rd year in a row we have been having issues. I suspect we will loose a lot of oak.

[@terrulian]

Woah, that's a creepy start!

[@marklawrence6679]

The rings on the side facing the sun will be considerably wider than the side away from the sun I know that they aren't from the same tree but could almost be.

[@thomasarussellsr]

No. Both of these flitches have the pith somewhat centered. Both are a cross-section of their own tree from one side completely through to the other, not a half-width section.

[@marklawrence6679]

As I wrote I know they are not from the same tree. But almost all trees have a side with tight rings and a side with wider rings

[@bugnfront]

The "piss away"....lol

[@garycade4755]

That's "pith"

[@christopherpeterson1400]

Diamond file, keep that blade sharp

[@terrynorton3182]

No riving knife! Interesting?

[@billbubnis3128]

The cost is high for the wood but remember, you arent building something that will last a week, you are building something that can be passed on to your children.

[@hansslob6749]

I let the saw stop because there’s no guard on it, he says, after cutting the sapwood and almost cutting his leg!

[@brutusbarnabus8098]

List the time stamp. I didn't at any time see him even get close to his leg. Is your name Sally? Say yes.

[@thomasarussellsr]

@@brutusbarnabus8098 Last name Sally, first name Safety?

[@bizim_eller]

👍👍👍🙂

[@richardhoffman9729]

I lost my right leg on a '48 Panhead

[@brianmckibben2300]

hard to see any part of a $700.00 board getting cut up for firewood.

[@Cadwaladr]

Well, like he said, you don't pay for the sapwood. The value is all in the heartwood. I had a white oak in my back yard that died and we left it standing for 15 years. All the bark fell off and the sapwood rotted away, then when I finally cut it down the heartwood was still rock solid and nicely seasoned.

[@thomasarussellsr]

@@Cadwaladr naturally cured and hardened hardwood, you could build just about anything you wanted out of that without much spring-back in the boards, I'd bet. Standing there drying that long should fairly well lock everything in place.

[@lanesteele240]

Ill cut the sap wood up into fire wood. It is pretty much useless. Lowes- that sap wood could have made some of our prime no1 lumber.

[@nmoran2046]

Am I the only one that hasn’t seen a guard on any of lose tools

[@jamescampbell9533]

99 % of professional woodworks take them off before using.

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

Lose tools OR Lou's tools. Damn you autocorrect!!!

[@Mineirovsky]

@@jamescampbell9533 Where did you take that percentage number from?

[@xmocotommy4718]

He keeps them in the same drawer as "Mister Nasty" - the RA grinder with a skill saw blade.....

[@WhatAboutTheBee]

@@Mineirovsky 78.6% of statistics on the internet are pulled directly out of one's anus.

[@stumphole8217]

like that pan head

[@luclatinette]

I know you've been doing it forever and you haven't hurt yourself yet, but I'd be lying if I said I didn't pucker up at 8:15

[@MichaelColombo]

This guy maths.

[@aserta]

As fast as that tree is grown, still doesn't match the Paulownia. Which will grow to maturity in 10 to 15 years and then you have to actually let it mature, another 20 before you're in the good lumber harvesting scene. Trees are weird.

[@thomasarussellsr]

I just wish we still had sequoia cir. 1200 years old to build with. I'd bet a boat built from that would last several hundred years. Heck, with some skill a crewe could carve a cargo ship out of a section of log in one piece. Some of those big trees were big enough to tunnel through and run a road right through them, and not even kill the tree, in old photographs. Whole lumber-jack crews would pile up side by side and take a picture in front of those massive giants. Insect, fire, and rot resistant, would have been great boat wood. A fishing town could have a whole fleet out of one tree (35-60 feet wide by 300-750 feet tall). Wish I could have seen them in person.

[@BokorRider]

that was scary stuff cross cutting the waste sap without a guard.....dont recommend anyone does that!...

[@timtelfer7978]

I hate the camera trick at the beginning.

[@OldBullRanch]

Sorry man but sawmill grade white oak does not cost 6.50 a board foot... the entire trunk of that 33' foot tree wouldnt cost you 600.00

[@Stillnapie]

Price on the stump is a lot different than the price after milling.

[@bmandrakeeee8378]

so you know how much HE paid for the wood

[@thomasarussellsr]

Depends on supply and demand in a given geographical area and what part of the tree you want. Quarter sawn is usually more expensive when excluded from the rest of the tree pretty much everywhere. It is considered furniture grade lumber and therefore draws a premium price. I am sure in an area where boat building is much more common, it boosts up the price even more, due to demand being higher.

[@cholulahotsauce6166]

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