One trick we often did with our LT 15 was to make boards at 3/4 inch instead of an inch. It is a wonder how that increasrs your board count and cuts down on the number of logs consumed. We found the thinner boards worked just as well.

Funny how our focuses change. I have 4 kids and so far blessed with 3 grandkids. I own 100 acres of mixed bush in the Kawarthas area of Ontario. I bought a mill in December to start taking a different advantage of my resources. Once I finish milling all I need for my new 30 x 15 mill shed and wood working shop my next project is a cabin/ playhouse for the next generation. Spent time this winter clearing the area I picked out. It will be a labour of love where they can create some memories at Grandpa's and learn to love the outdoors as much as I do

So Cool to be able to saw so many different lengths widths so convenient!!👍👊

I am so into the daily videos, this is part of my morning routine! Thank you both for taking the time and effort to make these and post them..... I am sure many people besides myself find this healing!🙏👏

Its 1.50 PM Tuesday 3 24 20 . INSTEAD OF COFFEE WITH YOU GREAT PEOPLE,,! I'm HAVING a Beer on My DECK ,,! This Is my place to hang out and Enjoy these Days When U Are Stranded At The Ranch! Love your Vids! Keep them Coming!

Ha! This is joe s from sandstone mn. I was watching your program with the slabs and you were wondering what to do with them I have a idea up here people love to burn them for fire wood. What you need is a big C tubing on rollers stack the slabs in the C,bundle it and role it back over so it will be accessible to your tractor. People pay big bucks for those bundles . Thanks we love your program it has been my life fun to watch in cuarentine.

Mike & Melissa - Catching up today. Am a day behind. Great video. Thanks for sharing. Good logic on the boards versus slabs for siding. Blessings to you both and your family. Hi to Hunter.

Woodshed is coming along nice and neat Better now than in the summer heat Thanks Mike for the chat about things Love hearing about the joy you bring To each and every thing that you do Melissa pitches in she loves it too Everyone's home it's kind of tough Better times coming, can't stay this rough Positive thought's will get us through These kinds of times who ever knew Thanks to The Morgans for helping us along Smile for yourself, sing out a song!! Have a day!!

Just another night watching Outdoors with the Morgans Self isolation ain't to bad when you got these awesome videos

Melissa, when you smile, you lite up the screen. It makes my day! Thanks

The quality of your videos are getting amazing!

i love all of you videos, i’m only 11 and i just love building things and splitting firewood, i can’t wait for tomorrow’s video! have a good one mike and melissa.

Hi Mike and Melissa. Keep the faith. I agree the symmetrical boards are the best. Might as well start with consistent lumber and then it will hopefully react all the same after weathering some. I also wonder how you decide where to cut the logs for the squaring part. You always do a good job and rarely have to make an extra cut. Hi to Hunter and the girls. Oh yes, and Ruger an Piper. Have a day!

Good day, Morgans. Love the videos and I’ve been a subscriber and watcher for a few months now. I did go back to watch #1, #6, and #28 tonight. It’s a nice break from all the breaking news. I saw a Phantom 2 drone in #28 but haven’t seen that used lately. It really showcased the beautiful area where you guys live. Thank you for sharing your world with us. All the best!

Hello to all the Morgan's love all the videos and the walks with the dogs and facebook

Love watching you guys stay busy, it really does help and inspire. Very nice looking mug. Thanks for explaining the de-barker, my friend's Woodmizer doesn't have that accessory. God bless

Thanks guys for helping to keep me sane in this time of self isolation, give your mum a little rest Hunter, LOL stay safe.

Putting playhouse on forkliftable platform is great idea. As he gets older, it could go from being a ground level (safe) play house for small child, to an elevate tree house for older more adventurous child. PS: Might be time to do a rehab on the old playset in your yard. :) PPS: HI Hunter, hope you are having a good time with the family around so much!

Morning The Morgans, it's 6:25am. As of midnight our whole country goes into lockdown, isolation. The only traveling to do is to the supermarket. As we say in New Zealand "Kia Kaha" be strong. Thank you for the videos. Haha, true Melissa hope the internet doesn't crash

I like the idea of putting the playhouse on a skid (pallet), so you can move it around.

Melissa I speak for all of us OWTM fans that we always enjoy seeing your mug!!

@georgecharokee4570

4 жыл бұрын

Absolutely, Lol !!!👍👍👍

I just wanted to say a big THANK YOU for showing the debarker and how it works and what it does.

Thanks for answering my question about the saw dust...........Lonnie...... Eagle Point, Oregon

I like the thing for the grand kid!!!

Good morning Morgans. I think dumping the saw dust over the hill is the smart thing to do with it. Why would you spend your valuable time messing with it. The bark will fall off the slabs in a few years from bugs living between bark & sap wood. They eat the sap wood and it becomes powdered and is not pretty. You did a great job schooling on the mill. Thanks for another wonderful video. Take care my friends and carry on.

In this day of lockdown I enjoy the Morgans when I used to go to town. Hey Melissa I am a poet. Hey I am on my second cup of coffee what else can I say. Love your videos and all the work to prepare and upload them. Hunter you listen to mom and dad they are trying to keep you safe and healthy.

Peel the bark, otherwise the insects will have a field day with that pine. You can also stand them on edge and stack them side by side on the sawmill and cut them all to the same width. What a friend of mine does with the saw dust is he makes starter bricks out of it. He built a welded steel mold and presses the saw dust in his manual 30 ton "H" frame hydraulic press

Good morning to the Morgans. You’re doing a great job with keeping everything under control. Hang in there Hunter, things should get back to normal soon we pray. Thanks for sharing with us, Fred.

I’ve found the cut off ends at my place to be very useful to build raised garden beds around the property !

I am sure that the better angles that show the de barker at work, will help the understanding of many.

Morning, Morgans! My mill doesn’t have a debarked but I am hoping they make one someday. Right now I have a messy alternate way that is relatively quick and I only need to do it 4 times most of the time, so it isn’t horrible. A lot of the time, I cut those down and send them through the chipper for mulch. Now that you have that fantastic one, it wouldn’t be that difficult. If you guys are like me and my “no leaf is wasted” thought process maybe consider that. I know you have a LOT of limb fall and stuff, but it is a very quick pile because you are extremely organized. Keep up all the good work and thanks for taking the time to put these videos together!

Thank you Morgan's! Thank you for the soothing music and the oh so satisfying woodmilling! Thumbs up friends!

Another great video - thank you... Regarding that 'fine saw dust', just attach a 5 gallon pail to the saw dust chute and collect it. Then spread it between the rows of your garden. It will 1; keep the weeds down, 2; give you a mud free compacted walking path between your rows; add humus/texture/organic matter to your soil. At the end of the season just rototill the garden and it disappears. All of creation is happy - this might be a good job for Hunter - quick visible results with each bucket... Michael from Canada

@markpashia7067

4 жыл бұрын

Michael, you really have to be careful doing that. You must know the scecies and your local soil. In our area using western red cedar sawdust will acidify your soil to the point that nothing will grow and walnut sawdust will kill plants and poison the produce. I think it is the tannin in the walnut wood that is so deadly. In other areas it is different, but alwsys consult your local forester and agriculture departments for advice. And all of this leads to another consideration - keeping the saw dust separate by species. Nathan at OTW cleans up before and after his walnut logs to burn the sawdust and then takes all other species and composts the dust from those. This subject is a lot more complicated than most people realize. We actually had a massive underground burn when a large commercial sawmill used it's sawdust as landfill in a ravine years ago. They buried so much saw dust that it failed to breakdown fully and the heat generated caused the sawdust to ignite under the dirt cap they had installed. It actually smoldered for months and nothing the fire department tried would stop it. It finally ran out of fuel. So a lot to consider.

@markpashia7067

4 жыл бұрын

PS composting is not an issue for small one man operations and is usually the best option, but you still should check for what species can ruin your compost before doing it.

@johncware66

4 жыл бұрын

@@markpashia7067 Sounds like you live in southern Oregon. We have a lot of western red cedar and black oak. Thanks for the write up, sharing with the gardener/landscaper in our household.

@markpashia7067

4 жыл бұрын

@@johncware66 Actually no, I live in south central Missouri. The Missouri River flood plain as it approaches the foothills of the Ozark Mountains is covered with these plus many varieties of oak and hickory. We got clear cut for railroad ties in the 1800s.

@michaelbradley8508

4 жыл бұрын

@@markpashia7067 Mark - Thank you for your opinion. We in the gardening world, regardless of scale are well aware of the need to verify soil pH and the species of trees the sawdust comes from. Many forest species as well as agricultural species depend on acidic soil, but the reality is that the acidity created by any Arbor species disseminates quickly through precipitation and oxidation - the process is easily measured on acidic species like western red cedar. What is left is organic wood fibre, a gold mine for beneficial soil organisms needed for healthy soils like those found on forest floors. I'm not suggesting nor is the sawmill operation in question capable of producing the volume of sawdust that would fill ravines. Let's keep comments within reality. I too speak from a perspective of personal experience in both the agricultural as well as the sawmill industries. I am speaking of 'mixing' sawdust with soil as a top dressing where it has continuous and constant contact with oxygen and precipitation - not situations of soil contamination through dumping tons of sawdust in concentrated spots.

love your video's, sawdust is great garden compost. the slabs make a great rough fence! hugs around, blessings

So here's the plan just ordered a green mug, that will be the morning mug and my Louder with Crowder mug for the evenings!

@augustreil

4 жыл бұрын

Crowder is the man !

Hunter does he go for walks with you , maybe leave treats along the trails for him to find or somewhere he can get a treat drive in the woods to pick up a daily treat .. love to the family .

There's an idea, strap bags to the sawdust output and sell it as chicken bedding ? Or as oil super sponges for garages ? It's a big thing now and a serious money maker.

3:02 “I’m just not that guy”. Me either mike. That’s why I enjoy your channel.

Self isolating in Nova Scotia !!! Loved the video . Hello to Hunter !!!

Thanks for the feedback on the saw dust - grandfather's saw blade was "thick", so the saw dust was much heavier than yours. The teeth to his saw were removable, and we would sharpen them with a file and then reinsert them into the huge circular saw blade. Your right about the fine stuff, it does make great garden composting. p.r.morehouse

determination .. love of life no matter what .. patience is so important [one of my negatives ] .. and much more ... thanks again

Love the cups, but Michigan just shut down, I’m not working. So I’ll have to wait on the cups. I’m staying positive. I enjoy the videos!

i like the new coffee cup. i want one so when i watch i can be drinking my coffee with you.Great channel makes every day a little better seeing your lifes full of love and passion for life. though i am near the end of my lifes journey; I enjoy so much watching your entire family deal with life from a Christian perspective and balanced approach to sharing your joys and challenges with every member even the furry ones. I have lived my last 10 years in a wheelchair after having been very active in my life. I am down to my last days due to renal failure and everyday i try to enjoy and share with everyone that i know or meet. Thank you again sharing your way of life. Its beautiful- how wonderful life can be.. i am

@michaelparcus3625

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you for being here.

@Herman815

4 жыл бұрын

My your blessing be abundant!

@angelsspirit335

4 жыл бұрын

@@Herman815 thank you

Save some sawdust and keep it in your shop to help clean up any oil, hydraulic fluid and other liquids that spill on your shop floor, works great for that.

You have the cleanest equipment that I have ever seen.

Well done guys! Those debarkers are pretty handy to have on the WoodMizer and sure do help get the crudd off the logs before the blade gets to it, making them stay sharper longer! We use one om our LT40’s quite a bit 👍🏼 Just thought I would mention to the folks asking about why they are not inclueded on alot of mills is because of the added cost... They do work very well for cleaning a path for the blade, to help keep them sharp so you are not sawing thru dirt and debris, but they are expensive and an added cost... They can be added to most WoodMizers pretty easily as an option, except for the very entry level mills... Very useful tho especially with dirty logs 👍🏼 Keep up the great vieos guy’s, we always look forward to them! 👍🏼 Stay safe out there! Charles!

For those who do not know, be sure to remove the bark off those trimmings, or bugs will be attracted to it, becoming a major headache, plus bark holds in moisture & accelerates rot, so that is why the wise pioneers removed the bark from their logs.

Have only discovered your channel one month ago. Have binged watch all your videos since. Great channel. From Miramichi New Brunswick Canada. Keep the videos coming.

Melissa is a saint. I hope you got your bathroom shelves at least for holding down the homefront while Mike plays outdoors.

I knew a guy who built his house out of slab wood from my grandfather's mill, cause they were free. Later, grandfather ended up selling them and the saw dust from the mill. I love your show, it is nice to clearly hear what your saying as opposed to some shows that play music and try to talk over it. For us old folks, we can't hear what your saying. p.r.morehouse

Thanks for explaining what the de-barker is on the Wood-Mizer. I'd been wondering about that for quite awhile. Also, thanks for telling us about your intentions for the wood slabs.

Mike, I think it would be easier to get the sawdust out of the rocks by the mill if you built a box to catch it in. Then you could take the forks and dump it.

Great perspective on the de-barker. Great looking mug !

I was one of the one that asked about the slabs for siding good call on the play house wood shed coming along great job

I was reminded of a question / suggestion that I've had for you regarding the sawdust from the woodmizer at the 9:45 mark. I actually first found your channel because I found myself in a deep search hole for sawmill video channels, and in a few other channels, they hang a big plastic bin under the sawdust exit point. That way you can keep the area around the sawmill neat(er), and you can still just dump it wherever you've been doing it.

I have to buy pine shavings from Tractor Supply for Kitty Litter. It has so many benefits for disposal.

Glad you're going to use the slabs! A playhouse is a great idea!

My friend has a Lucas sawmill he gives me all his sawdust. I use it around my garden boxes as a foot path.can use to mix in compost or use as bedding for worm bins. Great show

i saw my slabs up as i cut the off the log. Into firewood to burn it my shop. I have wooden stackable boxes that go on a pallet. the shop needs good hot fire to keep it warm. I have plenty of slabs to do that with. just and idea. I like to cut them as I sawmill then don't have to mess with them afterwards. love watching your channel happy holidays Robert from South Carolina

I love the smell of fresh cut wood. I bet your renewable energy processing center smells great with all that pine sawdust!!

Piper is feeling her oats;) Hello Hunter. Please stay healthy and have a blessed and safe week.

Lemon water in the morning, kinda puts a sour taste in my mouth lol... Morning coffee is a must here... my gogo juice. Been social distancing here at the farm for a week now, about to hook up the trailer and head back home to Pa for a rest. Have a great day :)

I mix sawdust and wood glue together to fill in any nail holes or any kind of holes

Good morning Morgan's. Finally, a sunny and beautiful day to have my BRCC coffee with Mike and Melissa. I was thinking...I'd love to see Buckin' do a opening for the channel, simular to what Nathan from 'Out of the Woods' did. Now that would be hilarious!! Love the coffee mugs! Gotta order me one.

@levimorgan18

4 жыл бұрын

S. Michael DeHart aka WVUmounties8 Always love seeing your comments on every video. I actually think buckin did an intro before. I’ll try to find the video for you and add a link

@levimorgan18

4 жыл бұрын

S. Michael DeHart aka WVUmounties8 I found it! kzread.info/dash/bejne/kZxmmtiomduunco.html

@SMichaelDeHart

4 жыл бұрын

@@levimorgan18 thanks. I completely forgot about that.

Red pine slab off cuts make good kindling. Get yourself a kindling splitter, bag it up and sell along with the logs. Something for Hunter to get involved with ???

Mike it looks like the groove for the de-barker (thought that was to quiet the dogs) is just catching the saw blade, it almost looks like the top set of teeth are biting into the bark at the top of the groove. Great video guys, thumbs up.

I incurage you to use water on all pine. It will save blades from getting stretched and worn prematurely.

I have always wanted to use sawmill slabs for siding on a ground blind. It would be a very natural look. Also, an update on the rk arrangement. Im pretty sure the original agreement has expired and was wandering if yall extended it or what. Say hey to the family and yall HAVE A DAY 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Another awesome video Mike. I am now considering a WoodMizer LX 150 Sawmill after watching your videos. I absolutely don't need one but I've got 100 acres of timber and trees are constantly dying and falling! Mostly Popular, Red & White Oak and Hickory.

You guys should bag the saw dust and sell it to folks with composting toilets (maybe on line and send it to them?). People use sawdust to throw into the composting toilets to alleviate everything that comes with a compositing toilet lol. Just a thought...

Was hoping for you to use them as fax roofing after metal slabs installed. but your thought better. That wood will colour nice with time I bet to a great gray or silver. Time will tell though. Melissa, had to grab a mug, now will have three fav's. One from the Marine Corps Marine Bks. Bermuda. The other - Well! Waiting on shirt to re-stock. Sweet Stuff. Oh ya, nature with the pups and quit blushing....[is cute though]. Have a day y'all up there Be safe.

Mike, just watched Buckin Billy drop two huge cedar trees against the wind! What a character he is. Like what ur doing with the wood shed and I'll ask again because I never got an answer about what's the garbage can for by the Wood mizer? Looking good keep it going, have a day and tell Milessa Hunter wants his clothes folded! Ha!

One thing that you didn't mention was that the outer layer is going to rot and be attacked by bugs much faster than the rest and for the wood shed I'm sure you want it to last as long as possible.

I like to see your beautiful dogs. I don't have any dogs. We had one when our children were still at home. We had to have her put down. She was about 17 years old and could not hear.

You are doing a very good job and a pure gift, you are very much a housewife, and I see you have very nice sawmill i am happy !!!!🇬🇷👍🐓

Dairy farmers might take the saw dust off your hands but you probably knew that. You might use the raw edged planks if you make it board and batten. Might not look that good on your nice project but it worked great on the one we did.

Mechanic and machine shops used to take my sawdust for sopping up oil and fluids. There is no mic. When you were asleep, M implanted a multifunctional chip under your skin where you can't see it. That way she can sit in on your voice overs and track location without you knowing it.The dogs vet may have had something to do with it.

Oh darn, I need me one of those nice mugs

Here what I do with my slabs, I cut them up in 16 inches and but them in steel bin like you have, then put them at the end of my driveway close to the road for sale. They sell like Hot Cake, ( Minus the bin ) people pick them up for camp wood, fire wood starter, I just can cut them fast enough for the demand. People will paid me in advance so to have some. Moe

Those log sidings would make great dog kennels after all dogs love plenty of BARK....👍🇬🇧........😁

Hey Mike and Melissa, Love your videos! Been watching y'all since trying to figure out what is the best tractor for me to buy. You had a Kubota tractor then. Then the RK tractors showed up, great comparison. Would have bought the RK37 but too far away. Decided on Kioti CK3510S. It's been a great tractor for me. Thank you for sharing your information and loving family.

Thanks for the great videos

Sweet video!!!! Great info... 👍👊

Our TV and internet went out the other night and I yelled out that's it, the end is near!

Hi I am a city slicker from Ontario . Canada ... you guys have shown me so much ... this is one thing I asked about .. what to do with begining cuts and off cuts ... THANKS

Another enjoyable video!

We run a 1984 LT40 in Washington State, Buckin Billy has no time to mention Biochar on his channel. You could do a demonstration w/your slab wood once dried. It is too labor intensive, my kids just go to indoctrination camp every day and play with the tech, we get all our food from the store, I have heard it all.This mandatory shelter in place is a perfect opportunity to implement the key to growing your own nutrient dense food. Skillcult is a impressive channel on Biochar and it's worth

John Hardin 1st. A disclaimer, retired from telecommunications and my only knowledge about sawmilling I have learned by watching OWTMs. Would it be feasible to edge cut the slabs down to a size that could be fed into the chipper, this would produce some very clean mulch without all the trash,sticks and stems that you normally get. Sheltering in place love your channel. )

The bark cutoffs are great to make a ground blind, just screw a board or branch to a couple of trees horizontally and cut them to the right hight and screw them bark side out to give you a natural concealment.

I don’t know if the water/lubricant is getting to your blade. Just noticed. Awesome mill! Thanks for sharing

Wow I need one of these mugs for my coffee.

it only takes one rock to take a blade out of sharp. I found that a thick layer of dust (Soil dust) on the end of a log dulled the blade quickly.

Tried to order a hat but they were sold out. I did order the black T-shirt. Just a thought but you may want to add a pre-order option for the hat so you have a good idea of demand. This would also keep you from holding a lot of inventory. Regardless I'll order a hat when available again.

@OutdoorsWithTheMorgans

4 жыл бұрын

Thank You

Hey Mike. As a kid, I used to go to my small town pool room, and sometimes I would see the man in charge spreading oil-based floor sweeping compound. I can still smell it. That dust was red and slightly oily. It had a pleasant scent. After spreading, he would sweep the concrete floor. Just one manner of using sawdust. Perhaps you could sell it.

Nice video! Greetings from Norway

My understanding is that bark is a problem in log construction: It retains moisture, can not be treated (ie Anchorseal ) and provides a haven for insects. That is why log dwellings are usually debarked which is a time consuming process with a draw knife by hand. It would be a pain in a building as large as the wood shed but a "play house" might be doable.

The idea of building a little log cabin for your grandson using the log slabs is a great idea. Putting on concrete not so much. Why don't you use your chipper and make a bed of wood chips and build/place the cabin on them. Much safer for the little one..

The dogs are telling you it is springtime. YeeHaw!

My dad always used his sawdust to dry up muddy spots in the driveway. I served as a good bed for the 3/4 - that we put down later.

I had not asked for saw close ups yet but I was going to so ty. I would like more close up shots if possible of other tools in operation and other stuff. have a day tell Hunter hello