Trying to get a bit more organized at the sawmill ya right

Added: 2026-05-27

[00:00:04]What out there in YouTube land?

[00:00:07]Welcome you. Welcome here. My name's John. You're at Freaking Jeep. I guess you knew that. Don't have a whole lot going on. Um we're on our I think it's the eighth day of rain. We got two more to go and then it looks like there might be a stretch where it'll dry up a little bit. It's been on and off. Sprinkle, light sprinkle, heavy sprinkle, and stuff like that. I'm kind of in between everything. And the grass back here is kind of not too moist. I think I might be able to get the mower back here cuz some of that grass here is Oh, there's sprigs that are up probably that high.

[00:00:37]So, I need to get that up. Had a great Memorial um holiday and um had the kids come over and had a had a unexpected guest on Memorial Day. I put a short on.

[00:00:49]If you've haven't gone over and seen the shorts, if you go up to my channel and hit shorts, you'll you'll see the unexpected guest. It was It was a very pleasant surprise.

[00:00:59]So, um not really getting into anything.

[00:01:02]I have uh I was working on the stove, one of the burners at the top. The connector burned up. So, we're looking at trying to find a connector for the burner. Um did a little bit of work in the greenhouse. Not much. Um the stereo went bad. One of the speakers went bad in the stereo. And gosh only knows when you're in the greenhouse, you need stereo, not just one speaker. So, it's all junk. The the radio was a taken out of the trash and the speakers were taken out of the trash. And you know me, I don't spend a buck too much on anything unless it's something I really want and then I'll spend some bucks on it. Um, but little stuff like that that you can get and maybe repurpose. The one speaker I guess went bad. I don't know. And I found another set of speakers I found. I have a radio I have radios all over the place that are I have a radio behind the boiler that was a throwaway boom box and I don't even turn that one on anymore. The radio in the greenhouse. I got a radio down in the parts department which is just a a clock radio which when I turn when I go in there and go out of there I don't have any switches. I just have extension cords going there that were also uh OSHA went into some one of the schools one time when a contractor was in there and they had these 100 foot extension cords.

[00:02:20]Okay. And they didn't like them and they clipped the end off one end off or clipped them wherever the wire was bad.

[00:02:26]They clipped them and so they threw three or four of them away and it's all I did is put them back together and wire taped them and they've been fine for I guess it's been 15 years now. So, I just run an extension cord down to that one place. It turns on two LED lights and a radio. And then I can run that's where I run the um uh metal cutting bandsaw from time to time. So, it it doesn't really run a lot. What else is going on? That's about it. While I'm back here, I finished up the um I finished up the pavers in the green in the greenhouse. So, now I want to work in here a little bit with the leftover pavers. And here's what it is. I'm going to take you off. You're going to be on shaky arm.

[00:03:10]This place here is a mess and I don't like it. Used to have in this area used to have a uh oil tank there which was for a fuel tank and it just didn't pan out the way I wanted to. You can see it on there over there behind the kabotto.

[00:03:27]But here, when I have this stuff standing up here like this, when that engine runs, it's got enough vibration and the pulleys under there and there's enough jump and that this all shakes.

[00:03:38]It's always shook. And what happens after it shakes a little bit, all these things fall over. So, I don't like that.

[00:03:44]Number one. Number two, if you have a can hook like this that's got wood that goes down to the bottom, I think that probably goes down the bottom. Maybe not. Maybe it's got uh No, there's the wood right there. Okay.

[00:04:00]When it sits like that on the wet ground, they rot. So, you got a problem there. Then Buford, that's Buford there.

[00:04:09]It's wood sitting on wet ground, especially with all the water we've got and just everything here. It just falls over. I just saw something run out there. Anyhow, so I'm going to in between sprinkles, rain showers, and whatever we got, try to clean this out.

[00:04:27]I think this board and that board can come out. And I'm hoping that I can put those pavers in there, so it'll be sitting on the pavers. And then I got um something from an auction years and years ago that nobody bid on and they said, "If you want them, take them."

[00:04:47]And it was a bunch of these things here.

[00:04:51]Okay. If I get back, maybe you can see what it is.

[00:04:56]Well, what it was was table legs. And I got I don't know four or five boxes of them. There were four in a box. I'm going I don't know what I'm ever going to do with those things. And now if I screw them on the screw them on the wall in here in different places like so. Then I can hang stuff in here in this part of it and then the stuff won't slide up and down. So I don't know where to put them down here. Put them down here. Put them up here. I might have to put them in a couple other places. But then now I'm also thinking which I can't show you cuz I'm I'm holding the holding the uh camera. I think if I can get you in the time zone. Okay. And I I don't know if you're in here. Okay. So if I put this if I put this on the wall like so.

[00:05:50]I could put an axe down in here and it would stay there. Probably stay there.

[00:05:58]But I can't put anything in here. So, I'm thinking um to cut these off. Boom. Boom. Cuz they don't really Well, they could be that long. I really don't. But cut them cuz then I could put something in here, something in here, something in here.

[00:06:11]So, I could hold more than just one thing. I could have it have it on both sides. So, right now, I think for now, I'm just going to put them up like that and and see how they work. And um when I decide it can work better a different way, I'm going to go change it. And I do have some more of these. These were straight originally. Came down here. I don't remember how I bent that, but that was a nice bend. I don't know how I did that. And I bent them and I have uh a bunch of them in a barn. I don't know whether I've showed it before or not. I maybe I'll go take a quick shot of it.

[00:06:44]Um but I'm going to first clean all this garbage out of here. Or I'll tell you what, cuz it keeps raining. I think I'll move it back up in to that area up there. Oh, I meant to bring a meant to bring a battery for my clock up there.

[00:06:59]Now it's warmed up, I can put a put the clock in there. Anyhow, um so I'm just going to move some stuff around and I'll bring you back after I got it halfway cleared out or all the way cleared out or whatever. But that's that's about all that's going on today. So, we'll be back in a little bit. I sure do hope.

[00:07:17]Bye-bye. Well, this is kind of an update on what's going on.

[00:07:23]I got a glare. I don't know why.

[00:07:26]Anyhow, they're all all different colors because of the water on them, but they're they should dry out. Those I didn't pressure wash. Those were a little bit smaller ones, but I wanted to go up to the edge.

[00:07:37]If you're wondering how I keep the sawm the engine kind of in line from the husk mud sills, I have a plate there and a plate there with a um tractor top link.

[00:07:50]And I got another one in there. You can't see it, but there's another one in there. So that keeps it this way. So I can line it this way and it keeps that one steady, which these are all probably bolted in. Yeah, you can see the bolts in here. And then for moving the engine back and forth, I have these bolts here on each side. So I move the engine. It's not bolted down. It's just kind of sitting there. And it's so heavy it doesn't really make any difference.

[00:08:14]Anyhow, what I'm looking at doing now is changing this top board cuz it's not that thick. And if I start screwing a bunch of stuff into it, it's somewhere in my feeble little mind. I think that I need to uh make it stronger.

[00:08:31]Look at this. There's a a worn nut turtle. Look at all these guys up here.

[00:08:38]He He's kind of broke there. What What's this going on with him?

[00:08:43]Mac. Mac. Oh, yeah. There you go, Mac.

[00:08:46]And I got Jim the neighbor turtle. I got Bill. You know, I'm not sure who Bill is. Look at this. Don Holden sent that a long time ago. And I have to find another place for him.

[00:09:02]He He keeps getting kind of like up at Mark's place. He gets moving around.

[00:09:06]This was an award for having the most um OSHA violations in a single single thing somewhere. Mark's here. There's Penny.

[00:09:14]He's my neighbor up there. Old geyser.

[00:09:18]Here you go. Here's Mark. He's the big wig. He's been kind of pooped on a little bit there by the birds. There's Buzzaw Buzzy.

[00:09:26]I think that might be everybody. Oh, there's Shifty.

[00:09:30]I don't know if you can read it. Shifty.

[00:09:33]So, we got all my friends back here.

[00:09:35]They keep me company. Oh, this was the step to put them up to put them up higher. There's something that looks important. I don't know what it is.

[00:09:46]Anyhow, I'm going to take this off. Try to keep Mark from getting under this because the dag on birds up there, they just make a mess out of everything, don't they? And you don't want to get pooped on too much. So, I'm going to pull that off. So, I got a board to go on there. It's not quite as tall, but I think I'll be all right. Here's what I found down at the other sawmill. And this has been dried for years, but it's got a little bit of a see where that um canot is. It's got a little of a And then I got a little Wayne spot here, Wild Wayne. And I got this here, which I don't think that's going to make a whole lot of difference.

[00:10:30]But what I'm going to do, if I can pull Wild Wayne off.

[00:10:34]Uh there you go. Yeah, I don't think that's going to make a whole lot of difference at all. Anyhow, I'm going to put in the sawmill and make it straight just because I have the ability to do it and it really doesn't make a damn bit of difference. So, that's why you do it because it doesn't make any difference.

[00:10:50]I might cut that end off. This is about 3 foot too long. I might not even need that part, but for going in the sawmill, um I'll I'll just nick it and edge it and make it look prettier and then take this piece out. So, that's what I'm going on.

[00:11:06]It rains left me all alone for the last last little bit, but I forgot to bring all my the screws back to screw it in.

[00:11:13]And I forgot to bring the tools to take that out. So, I still got some putting around to do. And I think I'm going to take this board here and just put it in down here cuz I can and it'll make it make this stronger. So, if I want to put stuff into there, I can do that. So, I have the ability to do that.

[00:11:32]I think I have the ability to do that.

[00:11:34]So, I'll bring you back when we're ready to um is all I'm going to do is trim that board and just and that's it. So, um that's what's going on. But you got to you got to start everything up. You got to put oil in the bearings. You got to check everything. Do this, do that.

[00:11:49]So, I'll be back in a little bit when we're ready to saw. Bye-bye. Well, here we go. If we can get it a quick trim, except you guys are in the way.

[00:11:59]Oh, I'll tell you what.

[00:12:18]I had to put a had to put my bat in there cuz these belts are so full of moisture that they're running wild and the carriage is going crazy.

[00:12:31]I think it warmed up a little bit now.

[00:12:35]See if I can get through this.

[00:12:38]See, when I let go, you can't quite see it. I got to pull another little There it goes. It's going on its own.

[00:12:45]We go to 9 and a quarter. See if that gets up.

[00:12:52]They're real crappy.

[00:13:02]See, if I let go of it, just goes by itself.

[00:13:06]That's how tight these belts over here are. You can see it running wild. That's why you put this on here.

[00:13:18]Anyhow, that stops it from going anywhere. So, I think I'm ready to go now.

[00:13:28]The other edge. The other edge seems to be good. Let me go turn the noise off.

[00:13:33]All right, we'll take you over there.

[00:13:40]Put it in neutral rail.

[00:13:47]Turn it.

[00:13:51]Except for I forgot to get all the screws and everything I need to put it together. So, I got to go on a road trip again. I just went a road trip to get that. That should be that should fit in there good if I was smart enough to remember what my measurement was, which I'm not sure. I should probably recheck it.

[00:14:10]But that's where I sold it off. That'll give me a nice straight top edge. The bottom edge really doesn't make much difference where this knot was. It's a little bit there off, but not enough that I really care about.

[00:14:23]So, I'm off to get uh get some screws.

[00:14:28]Yeah, that that thing those belts of they swelled up in the in the moisture and when they swelled up and they probably got rained on close enough the way the rain's been blowing that they shrunk that they're it's self feeding right now. So, I'd recommend you if you if you got a sawmill out in the rain, an old frick or cell sawmill that runs those belts, have some kind of lock in there that you can stop that when you first start it up and engage the clutch or it might go might go bananas on you.

[00:14:56]Look at the sun's trying to get out.

[00:14:57]Holy cow. I haven't seen that in a long time. All right, be back in a little bit. Well, I never did go any screws, but I felt like taking this board out first. And some of the screws are long enough. So, I took them out of here and put them in here to hold that other board.

[00:15:14]And that wasn't too rough to take out.

[00:15:17]Once I had all the screws out, they came out pretty easy. I've been using screws on just about anything anymore cuz it's just easier to do.

[00:15:31]All right.

[00:15:43]I think I want this. Yeah, I want this turned around this way.

[00:15:54]Guess I need to do some made work first. Where's a rag?

[00:16:07]might uh half of these aren't these. Some of these are screwed in, but I left them loose because you got to get to the belts from time to time. So, I didn't want to fill a tube full of screws.

[00:16:23]All right, let's see if this thing will sit up there. Oh my goodness, it's heavy.

[00:16:36]Well, it's staying there.

[00:16:39]It's got a little bit of a bow to it. I should probably put the bow to the inside. That Yeah, I think I will flip it over anyway.

[00:16:48]Or put the not the bow, the the opposite of the bow to the inside.

[00:16:59]That looks pretty good.

[00:17:02]Damn, my measurement must be I must be all right. What do you think? Now I got to go get some long screws. I'm to the to the point where I got to do it. So, I'll be back. I got to get some short screws, too. We'll be back in a little bit.

[00:17:20]Well, it's almost dinner time, but I figured I'd bring you back. Got some 3 and 1/2 foot ones. Yeah, they're 3 and 1/2t long. Yeah, that's a ticket. See if I can get it in just so I won't drop off cuz I'm going to go eat dinner in a little bit.

[00:17:44]I don't think that's going anywhere.

[00:17:46]Yeah, it's pretty solid. That other one was a little thin to be putting all those things in. Now I got to find where a a down beam here. Here is right here.

[00:17:57]So, it goes in here.

[00:18:01]I don't know if you can see me back here.

[00:18:12]I don't know if you can see that all the way back there.

[00:18:16]Could you? Yeah, I think so. I got a whole pocket full of them. Here's another beam here. I don't know if you can see that. So, put another one in about here.

[00:18:37]It's getting pretty solid. Looks like I got a real fat beam coming up here.

[00:18:52]That's even getting more solid.

[00:18:56]I must have put one in right there. So, there's no point in There ain't nothing you're going to do. Oh, yeah. I Yeah, I can put one in here, but I don't need a I don't need one that long. I need one of these.

[00:19:11]Sounds like the range is open.

[00:19:20]That is nice and solid, but I want to make it more sol cuz this goes from here to here. It looks like I can tie into those, but I don't want to tie into those cuz I lift them off. So, if I go up a couple inches, um, and we'll go back, set it back a little bit.

[00:19:45]We'll set this one back a little bit and up a little bit.

[00:19:58]And I got a couple more in my pocket.

[00:20:00]So, we'll just keep running along.

[00:20:13]And I got another one in my pocket. I have a whole pocket full, guys.

[00:20:26]Because I got one more. I'm going to put it in down here. Oh, that 2x4 stops there. So, I'm going to put it up over here.

[00:20:42]That is solid as a brick.

[00:20:44]Oh, solid as a piece of wood.

[00:20:47]All right. All I'll be back in a minute.

[00:20:51]I'm going to turn you guys off and go get some figure out what screws I want to put in to put those things in. So, I'll be back in a minute.

[00:20:59]Well, I got one in there.

[00:21:01]I don't know how how close I want to put these together. And I don't know because if I put them put some close together, then I can put them down in here. If I cut these off, I can put it here, here, and here. If I put them real close together. So, I just don't know. But it probably ch the plan will probably change. Right now, I'm just going to put it close together.

[00:21:29]H can't hold it with my belly and run it in too. I need a I need a helper.

[00:21:37]Yeah, we'll put it in there. It'll be close enough.

[00:21:42]Put one at the top and put another one at the bottom. Like I said, these are really subject to change.

[00:21:58]See, if I put them close together, then I can set some of those things on there and unclutter that this way here.

[00:22:07]I can put in and it won't fall over.

[00:22:10]Won't fall over. But if I cut this open, I can go over. I think the shorter The reason I didn't put one in here is cuz the short the two short ones here.

[00:22:25]Oh, this is the long one. So, that that can go in like that. The short one ain't going to make it. So, I have to put one down there for that. I don't know if you can see that down there. Can you see that down there? Just barely. Uh-oh. The flashlight. The thing's light uh flashing at me. This way here. Old Buford though, ain't going nowhere.

[00:22:50]So, I think I might put more of these around. And I think I might cut these open if I if I uh also I've been thinking if I put a rod through these. I don't know how much more camera have you got.

[00:23:04]If I put a if I put a rod Okay, cut these off. Put a rod through here. So I got this thing and this thing here. Then I have the ability to get junk like this and put down in here like so. Get them out of that area. You know me, Mr. Unorganized. But that's not something that's used very often. So if I had a if I if I weld a bar across here or maybe undo this and move it down here and weld well if I open it up, I can put put things in here and things in here, things in here. So, I think I'm going to cut these open. And I think I'm going to put a bar in here. So, I have a space here and a space here just in case I want to have to think about it. It's dinner time, so I'm going to go fire the grill up and have a dinner. Um, but I'm real pleased with how this is turning out.

[00:24:01]I'm going to uh you know, if you had enough of them up there, you could just set that up there like that.

[00:24:10]That's a thought, too.

[00:24:13]Or these could set up there like that.

[00:24:15]But once again, you're going to have to have a bar across here. But then you can't have one going in there. Boy, this is mindboggling. I think I'll bring my uh router back if it's not raining after dinner and put a little bit of a roundness on here. And maybe cut this down at a 45 so it doesn't hit. Down here, I got a little bit of a step. I'm just going to fill that in with um telephone pole mulch um because that's uh won't rot, won't do anything. Uh and I might get some more of the might get some more of those. I got some of them in another barn and keep on going down.

[00:24:49]And um I think the hatchet or something would go better down here. I don't want to get in the way of my gas tank too much. Anyhow, my belly is saying it's dinner time. So, it's dinner time and the camera's saying it's flashing orange battery low on me. So, we're going to go do that. I might bring in more after dinner. Might not. Got no idea. Also got these things that I use to hold a lot of stuff up. This is off telephone pole.

[00:25:14]Telephone poles. And I guess if you put something like that up, you could hold put a screw in there. You could hold that with that.

[00:25:24]Just got to get these things. Got to get a little more organized cuz you know me, I'm the biggest mess in the world. I got a couple sledgehammers back here.

[00:25:33]Uh there's a splitting mall. There's a sledgehammer back there. Just get them a little more nicely nicely done. Anyhow, that's what's going on here at freaking Jeep today.

[00:25:48]Uh oh, that big piece there. I don't know if that I don't know if I can't pick that up with one hand. That's the That's the piece that I make that roller out of. So, I got a roller around here someplace. I don't know what I do with it. Uhoh.

[00:26:02]Where did my rollatic go?

[00:26:06]Uh-oh. Uh-oh. I got to have that, I think.

[00:26:10]It's here someplace. I'll find it after dinner. We'll see you guys after dinner.

[00:26:15]And I got to remember to bring a battery for my clock, too.

[00:26:20]All sorts of things going on. I wonder where that It kind of bothers me. that roller in back here.

[00:26:27]I don't see it over there. Could be over here, though. I'm such a mess. That's why I'm trying to get a little more organized.

[00:26:37]Look at that. I found a a soaking wet tape.

[00:26:42]I don't know where the heck that roller went.

[00:26:48]H.

[00:26:50]That's kind of Don't see it in there anywhere.

[00:26:56]I could build a little box back here for these tapes. Wonder where in the world that roller went.

[00:27:03]Uhoh. All right. Going to go eat dinner.

[00:27:06]We'll be back later. Bye.