We Ignored This Sawmill Problem for Too Long!

[00:00:07]Welcome back to the Wallace Farm and Sawmill. And as you can see, it's dark outside, but we got lights in the building now. Not sure if I showed them there, but they're up there. You can see it in here.

[00:00:19]Anyway, guys, this is uh what we've been doing. We've been dropping some beams all day. We like like three of those 15 eight baits and we're done with that order.

[00:00:30]>> So close.

[00:00:30]>> Been getting all this wonderful side lumber to dry out and put in our kiln project which is happening. We're just videoing and processing and trying to get through that. But we are actually going to catch you guys in the morning.

[00:00:43]We just wanted to start it out right here during the night showing you guys.

[00:00:47]We had to work hard and late today on these trying to finish these up because the customer is picking those up tomorrow. Look at this wonderful pack of beautiful pine. This is a 12 foot. I had a We had two layers of this short stuff like >> 9 foot.

[00:01:05]>> I made a little accident there.

[00:01:06]>> Yeah, but it don't matter. It's on the bottom of the stack. All the weight of this is going to hold that down. We just need to make sure that we support it with the blocking underneath when we set it down. But this stuff turned out really good. That's a good I have to check the footage on that. Probably about 400 board foot. 350 400 in there.

[00:01:22]>> That's a nice stack. It's a very nice stack. We like to keep them small so that we can move them around with the bulma light which the Bulma light seems to like about 350 400 board feet. So there is the sawmill back behind us all lit up. We've been running on the Woodmiser all day today. It's been running excellent. So we've been running the boardwalk the past couple of days.

[00:01:40]Then we jumped on the woodmiser and realized how really easy it is in compar because it's like you know you stand in one position. Anyway, what we are going to be doing tomorrow, guys, is we are going to do some upgrades to the Woodmiser by moving it over into position where it goes and actually bolting it down. Got some stories for you tomorrow. Stay tuned.

[00:02:02]That's going to do it for tonight. Catch you guys in the morning. It's the next morning and we are out here. I just got done sweeping all this into a pile and Britney has already started loading it over here into the hopper so we can get rid of. We had a buildup in a combination of things all the way from the ciphers cutting up into several pine logs getting to this point. So, let's get over here. Let's get all this scooped out of the building.

[00:02:37]Shed's all perfectly clean now. Now we're ready to go out here and get rid of all this debris.

[00:02:47]Anniey's sneaking a ride on here.

[00:02:53]It's her favorite thing to do is ride side by side.

[00:03:23]And back to the sawmill we go. So here's where we are on the 15 post order. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11. We got four to go.

[00:03:34]Also on this order, we got a couple 6 by sixes. Four more 6 by sixes to cut. So, I want to do something completely different before we do any more cutting cuz I'm tired of the sawmill moving around. We can fix that. Well, as you guys know, we got the wood shop behind us back here and we have a lot of work to do inside of here. And one of the things that I'm about to get into is building some cabinets, and that is where today's video sponsor comes in.

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[00:05:19]This metal on these feet right here on this floor and you get a big log, turning it over, whatever, slides over. So, how do we fix that?

[00:05:31]Bolts. I have done this in the past.

[00:05:34]Matter of fact, let me show you something over here.

[00:05:37]This right here is two old bolts. Can you see them there? I got to cut those off cuz they're kind of hanging over there in the way. But anyway, before we did the addition and added that big wide patch 10T more of concrete over there, that sawmill used to sit all the way over here. Or rather, the other LT40 that we had set over here. That's why these feet are not drilled, but those feet on that sawmill were drilled. What we had done to keep it from sliding around was we had simply drilled a hole and a hole and dropped some anchors into there to keep the sawmill from skating around. Well, Miss Brit, I think it's getting time that we get this one permanently put in place and quit letting it skate around the concrete.

[00:06:19]>> I think so, too, cuz when I see those big logs coming in, it makes me a little nervous. This thing's going to slide on off. So, let's get this bolted down.

[00:06:28]going to be hard to tell, but when we There's a bird fight right there. That was a bird fight.

[00:06:32]>> Look, they were fighting right there.

[00:06:35]>> That's funny.

[00:06:36]>> There's a bird fight.

[00:06:37]>> Anyway, so right here when we first started out, the sawmill was even from here to here, from end to end, and it's about a foot over down here now. It's just gotten shoved back over. So, we're going to do something to fix that. We're going to slide the mill back into place, take our measurements, make sure everything is where it is, make sure the head can come all the way down without the debarker touching the tin and everything cuz that can happen.

[00:07:00]>> Terrible.

[00:07:01]>> Yeah. Well, it it's happened. Uh, matter of fact, let's go ahead and show that right here. You see that little it's like a little subtle bend right there?

[00:07:10]That is because this guy right here, the debarker system, actually sticks out beyond the sawmill head and beyond this tank. See if you look at it in this orientation.

[00:07:22]So, it sticks out here another foot and a half in front of this. And if you're not paying attention, I had it set up to where it didn't happen, but then the sawmill ended up getting scooted because of big logs and stuff. So, yeah, we can't have that. We got to get this thing permanently rooted where it goes.

[00:07:41]So, we did use the bomberite to get it straight with the building. Down here, it's 76 and A2. And down there, it's 76 and A2. So, now Tyler is checking to make sure everything's still level.

[00:07:53]>> Okay, >> let's look.

[00:07:57]That's pretty dead level.

[00:08:01]would mod you actually like to run with a little bit of a can back, meaning the log doesn't want to roll off. So, you can see we're out of level here. Now, watch as I lift the inside. See how it's level there?

[00:08:12]>> Yeah, >> that is about a quarter of an inch of a dip going back. That is actually how Woodmiser Associates in the past have told me to run it. It actually is good to run a little dip back, but due to the single side mast and head system to where it uh all runs on that track, see your track system, which is this top rail and this bottom rail under here, it all runs with the bed. So even if the bed was completely level or if the bed was tilted, the head still runs on the same plane. But it is important to try to keep it level from front to back because you are asking an electric motor to run the head back and forth. And if you were asking that electric motor to run uphill, then you're asking it to do its job and then some. So I do want to make sure that it is level this direction. And it is fairly level this direction. So, I think it's time to break out the drill and let's get us a couple concrete anchors set into here and we will no longer have to fight this mill skating around.

[00:09:37]Now we are tightening down the first anchor point.

[00:09:44]Get it tight.

[00:09:46]Let's get this guy tight.

[00:09:51]Oh yeah, Britney. I don't think she's going to be on skates anymore. No more sliding around here.

[00:10:00]>> Yeah, that's nice.

[00:10:02]We just got to do this to a couple more feet now. And then well, I guess our sawmill just won't be running off on us. We're going to It takes a little minute cuz what you have to do here is kind of a multi-art process. You have to drill the feet, which I spoke with one of the guys over at Woodmiser, Georgia, and I was like, should I weld on something, make it wider, give it a bigger platform? I asked different scenarios like that and I was just recommended by one of the guys there at Woodmiser to just go ahead and drill and tap his feet because they're quarter inch plate. They're very heavy duty. They're built to do what they're doing. And he said it would be just fine. And worst case scenario, if something ever happens or whatever, I mean, just get another leg. I mean, it's not going to happen. We've done this before, not had any issue out of it whatsoever. Uh just kind of something when you're set up permanent, you know, truthfully, you could get some permanent legs instead of these adjustable legs anyway. But uh this definitely is going to make it better for our scenario. And one of the things you've seen in the past, we'll bring a log in on the front of the forks and we like to like, you know, tilt it off or some people have even asked before, why do you not do that more so often? But when you take a log off of forks and you tilt it out, it tends to roll with a lot of force. So, if you do that too many times, I mean, you're really knocking your mill around or stressing all the stuff like that.

[00:11:30]So, one of my favorite things to do now that I have the machinery for it, uh, I like to take the excavator if the log's not oversized and that excavator can handle it, I like to take the excavator and just take it and set it right in place. I think that is my personal favorite. But being that we'll have this all bolted down, probably going to bolt the four legs here in the centers. We may do. I don't know. We may go crazy with these bolts here in a minute and bolt the whole thing down. But irregardless, um, it won't skate around as much anymore. And, uh, if we do decide to occasionally the log roll or a bigger log rolls off of the log loading arms and hits those back stops with a little bit of force, we don't have to worry about it knocking everything around. So, we have also debated taking the axle out. We did remove the axle from our other sawmill that we had, our other woodmiser. And it was the walkbehind mill. So that's really why we removed it at that point because when you walk beside it, you always had to veer off and, you know, get away from that wheel there. But I'm thinking that we're going to go ahead and take this one off because let me show you. Sawdust gets so packed down in there. Big pieces of bark as well. and it's just hard to clean out from behind there. And since we will never be doing any mobile sawm milling, there's really no reason for us to have it on here anymore. So, I think the best thing for us to do is probably remove that. You can go down the comments and let us know what your ideas are on that, but we're going to think about it.

[00:13:20]This one set.

[00:13:33]So, when you were putting these together, you have to make sure you put this on first because when you start hammering on this head, you can mushroom it out and you can't get these on later.

[00:13:42]So, put them in like so.

[00:13:49]Now, when you go to tighten these up, what they do is they expand when you try to pull them the opposite direction and they lodge theirel in almost tight there.

[00:14:11]>> Well, guys, do you remember that bolt where she used to be bolted down and we probably drove over it too many times now?

[00:14:17]>> I think I've tripped over it a good bit.

[00:14:19]probably. So, I think it's time that we cut her off smooth.

[00:14:39]Now, let's talk about one very important thing. Whenever you cut something off like that, your first instinct is to pick up what you cut off. But when you do things with metal and you're grinding and cutting and there's heat involved, we're not going to grab that cuz you'll burn your hand. I'm going smooth this.

[00:14:54]>> Very hot.

[00:14:55]>> Yeah. I asked Britney how she knows.

[00:14:57]What did you do the other day?

[00:14:59]>> Tyler was welding and I was going around and picking up the little pieces that had, you know, popped off at the end.

[00:15:04]The welding rods. Yeah.

[00:15:06]>> Most of them were cooled off and I found one that was not. And I got quite the burn. But >> she did get quite the burn from that.

[00:15:15]And I'm not going to lie, I got quite the chuckle cuz it was not severe. And I was like, she was like, I was cleaning up. I was like, I just got done burning this rod. Like, you can't grab a hot rod.

[00:15:29]>> So, we got six bolts holding this mill in place. I think that's going to keep it from shifting over. What do you think?

[00:15:36]>> We only had four bolts in our previous iteration, the LT40 walkalong that we had. So being that we have six and four held it then I think we're better off than ever.

[00:15:46]>> I agree.

[00:15:47]>> But I still have one more upgrade I want to do today and it's kind of not necessarily like an upgrade but it is well let's talk about it. So even though we have a backpack blower that occasionally we sweep everything up and clean it up. We may blow the little debutage out of here and just get rid of it, you know. But what a backpack blower does not do is do what an air compressor can do. And let me show you. There are points on a sawmill like around here and here and inside of this head and on the blowout and also that air filter up there and all around that engine on those places. You cannot beat an air compressor with compressed air and a high pressure burst of air. So what we want to do, and we had it in the other shed, the new shed is not finished. We still got lots of things we want to do to it. And one of those things is putting our air compressor back over here in the corner and turning our air compressor on and putting us a little hose reel to pull us out some line whenever we need it to blow all this stuff out.

[00:16:50]>> So that leads us to our next project. We went up to the Harbor Freight and got us a hose reel.

[00:16:58]>> All we got to do is finish installing said hose reel, which means got to get all the connections made here.

[00:17:08]go on there.

[00:17:10]>> It's not want to work right.

[00:17:13]>> Is it the wrong size in?

[00:17:14]>> Uhoh. Hopefully not.

[00:17:16]>> Uh-huh.

[00:17:18]>> No. Think we finally got it figured out?

[00:17:20]>> Yeah. I had the right end over in the other part of the shop. So, I just had to put the correct end on that I needed.

[00:17:27]It's usually got to get 50 different parts to make something work right.

[00:17:32]>> Every single time.

[00:17:33]>> Always something. Another trip. Blah blah. I had some extra stuff here this time though. I'm getting better about purchasing extra stuff like bits and bobs. Little little pieces. Don't buy just one of these ends. Get you a couple of them.

[00:17:47]Put them in the tool chest. You never know.

[00:17:50]>> Especially when you're doing plumbing work.

[00:17:52]>> Oh yeah. Always want extra. You always need an extra coupler or two.

[00:17:56]>> Always.

[00:17:57]>> All right. We'll put this guy on there.

[00:18:00]Snapped in there to there. And now we have 50 ft of hose that we can take all around the shop. We do got to put an end on here.

[00:18:11]It's the next morning and guess what? We went out this morning to an estate sale.

[00:18:16]And I know you're thinking, how relevant is this? Check out what I found for the wood shop score. Found this for the wood shop out here. And got this cool dialing jig complete in the box. Seven bucks.

[00:18:32]Actually, it was seven 25% off. Then I got >> At first I thought you paid $100 for this book and I was like, >> so gonna reveal this. I did get the routing table for 100 bucks. 25% off.

[00:18:44]Paid 75 bucks for the routing table. And I got two cabinetry books or a cabinetry book and woodworking techniques. But it's got all kind of projects in the back I thought was really neat. So might be having to build ourselves a new chest of drawers or something here in the future.

[00:19:01]>> That's cool. So, I think that's going to be fun to have these plans and then right here to go with the routing table.

[00:19:07]Check this out.

[00:19:11]Bam. And you're like, "Oh, no. One's missing." Guess what?

[00:19:18]It's in the machine. So, that was a pretty neat find. Thought that was a pretty pretty good deal for the whole shebang there and two shelves to store some stuff on. I paid 140 bucks. So, felt like that was quite the deal. And the guy's son is the guy who told me the story. The house we were at, I wish I didn't think to pull my camera out, but it it was uh some woodworking tools he was using to restore the house or used to restore the house, and it was a house from 1837. So, it was it was an old one.

[00:19:46]>> It was beautiful.

[00:19:47]>> So, back over to where we ended up yesterday. Now, we got the blower system installed. So, let me show you some of the ways and reasons we use the compressed air versus just using the backpack blower.

[00:20:10]>> Well, that's nice. It reaches over halfway of the building.

[00:20:14]>> Oh, I ain't at the end.

[00:20:15]>> Oh, you're not.

[00:20:16]>> This is a 50ft hose wheel. And guess what, guys? This is a 50 foot by 24 ft building. So, this is five foot. It's mounted 5 foot off of that end. So, I can go all the way from right there all the way to the end of the building. But, this is giving me plenty of slack for what I'm about to do, which is blow this thing off. So, we're going to blow all the cracks and crevices out of our colar engine, and we're going to blow out that air filter, which probably needs changing by now, but let's get to it.

[00:21:41]nice and out of the way. So, you see how that works. Blowing this thing off is very important. And the high compressed air kind of makes it where you can really pinpoint and clean out. Now, we got some mail that came in and a couple pieces we want to show off. And the first one I want to show off was actually commented by multiple people, but this one fell, he took action. And not only did he suggest it, but he sent what we needed. So, let me show you. So, we seen a couple of people saying in the comments, could you use your dust collector system to kind of sweep up this area?

[00:22:19]>> So, with this cool tool right here, the answer is yes.

[00:22:24]>> So, I'm going to pop this on, power that thing up, and we are going to get over here. Check this out. It's so neat.

[00:22:34]>> Look at this. Like all these cracks and crevices will always be able to be cleaned because of that.

[00:22:40]>> Check that out.

[00:22:42]>> And it's just dust blowing right out of the dust situation. So >> it's actually really cool.

[00:22:49]>> It really is >> because no matter what, there's a couple spots here that have been a little hard to clean. For example, up next to that tire over there has a little place behind it or Yeah. Like right there. We'll zoom in here.

[00:23:04]They got all of that.

[00:23:08]And it is disappearing.

[00:23:15]That's really cool.

[00:23:16]>> This is the newest tool we have.

[00:23:19]>> So, while Brit's doing that, I had to undo the hose off of the sawmill to do that. We are not going to have to do that for forever because I'm going to put a splitter on here so that we can have two valves, one going one way, one the other, you know, or whatever, and we can have one line running a vacuum hose with a shut off and then one line always running the sawmill. Also, now that we got the sawmill in a permanent place where it's going to be and it's held down by being bolted to the concrete floor, probably going to put a little trolley system in here to get the one that travels with the sawmill head to where it can go back and forth and not really be on the ground ever. So, what do you think of your giant vacuum cleaner?

[00:23:59]>> I'm amazed by this thing. I was telling Tyler, I said, I think this is probably the coolest gadget that we got around here right now.

[00:24:08]Yeah, she does a really good job of just literally removing everything off of this the concrete. That's a clean floor.

[00:24:16]So, I was just down here looking at the box to this particular piece that came in the mail, and I do not have a name for who sent it. I just have that it was off Amazon and they shipped it to us.

[00:24:25]Comment down below and let us know if you sent this thing out, or you could shoot us an email, cuz we're very appreciative of this unit and it will be used very much here at the sawmill.

[00:24:36]And now for our next piece we are opening. Jeff at Barnes Woodworks sent us out these cool tape measure holders.

[00:24:46]Tape docks.

[00:24:47]>> They're really neat.

[00:24:48]>> So, so you can mount and have a place to clip your tape measure on. It's really, really neat. So, you can mount it. I'm going to figure a place over here to mount them, but they're tape measure docks. So, you can take these, put them on the wall, and then you can clip your tape measure against the wall. and we can keep one in every building. He sent us, look at this, measure two times.

[00:25:08]Always important before you cut. He sent us four of these. So, we'll have some of these set up permanent locations in both of our buildings. Thank you so much for those. And Mr. Ed sent Miss Britney this nice shirt right here. And you know what? I got I'll tell you how funny.

[00:25:23]This is a really cool shirt. And uh I got the QR code I'll tag up here so you can get uh to his storefront. But I had a comment the other day like, "Why do you call her Miss Britney?" I don't know. I don't use correct English.

[00:25:35]Technically, it's miser Britney, but putting an R in the middle of that in my southern dialect just feels weird. Mis I don't know.

[00:25:43]>> Misery.

[00:25:44]>> Yeah. I don't know. Just feels weird.

[00:25:45]Miss Britney, I go with miss. But uh yeah, >> worse.

[00:25:48]>> Yeah. We're not just being truthfully technical with the terms. I mean, look, the thing is we've been married for I think 15 years. We have been together for almost 20 at this point. So, I get to call her what I want to call her.

[00:26:05]>> Hey, why won't you?

[00:26:06]>> You know what? I think I'll just call her mine. Well, guys, we are winding down to the end. Just want to share with you some of the goodies we've gotten in our PO box lately. Thank you guys so much. You don't have to send anything, but we are very much appreciative of the things that people do send. It's very cool to read the stories and stuff like that and even just getting a letter, you know, telling us about how you watch us and everything. It's very uh it's insightful into who watches us and it is also what would I say it's just neat to learn about the people that that are interested in watching what we do here and we very much appreciate everyone watching what we got going on here cuz I mean we are just you know two old knads three if you count eight >> regular old country >> we'll count him and we're just trying to uh share the life that we live here we never thought that we would be doing this as much as we do now and it's become become such a mainstay of what we do. But very appreciative of each and every one of you guys following. If you want to see more, where can they find us at?

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