The Splishy Splashy Score is great! 🤣

Hi Matt, you leave me hanging for more of your home renovation and your barn thing-a-majig. I sure envy your ambition on multi-tasking.

I’m amazed too that 2 years isn’t enough to dry it out. Just shows how dense it is. Watching Matt you have to take a moment to appreciate how dangerous his job is. I winced as he clambered out of the JCB and chained the oak log. So perilous. He has to be so aware & safety conscious. He makes it look easy, but he’s seemingly very assured. I LOVE to watch wood being cut….I’m definitely missing a tile off my roof…..❤🎉🎉🎉

Always a treat to watch a log take the first part of the journey to becomming furniture.

Love the Splishy-Splash meter! Your description of the history of the tree growth is very cool. Thank you!

BTW: LoveLoveLove the "Matt's Info" inserts. Very cool info. 🙂

You sure have a thing for crotches. I am glad that you have a big telehandler to move things around. It is cool to see that even after all this time, you still get excited over the grain in the wood.

The grain is gorgeous all the way through.

Really nice camera angles and editing. Keeps everything moving with never-before-seen shots in there.

I've watched your channel for several years and wondered what you were using for lubricant for you saw mill. Thanks for the "Matt's Info" overlay.

Appreciate the part on how wet the log still was after 2 plus years. Crazy how that wood will just hold that moisture for years until you start getting air over it.

@OldsmobileCutlass1969Va

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The old adage is wood drys 1" per year, but will rot away faster in a damp environment.

@andrewupson2987

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1” per year probably only applies to a small number of species in a few locations. I cut alder 8/4 thick and it was bone dry in under a year in the PNW. 12/4 big leaf maple (so similar to the silver maple Matt saws in terms of density and likely drying time) was bone dry in about 1.5-1.75 years of air drying. I have some English Walnut to saw. But interesting to see long that takes to dry. But the saying that’s more relevant is “lumber/split firewood dries, logs rot”. I have some birch and maple logs I’ve been purposely leaving in hopes of spalting. Need to get after them soon though. If the spalting goes too far that’s no bueno.

@ldarmstrongs

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You need to get a moisture meter to accurately determine moisture content. Logs usually don’t dry that fast.

Good to see you back to the sawmill. Excited to see your sawmill in your new barn soon

I love that David Heide gets free advertising in every video.

@mcremona

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Someday I’ll walk that sign down to the road where it’s supposed to be

Beautiful slabs Matt. I love watching you saw. All your videos are priceless.

Matt's new KZread channel theme song... 🎶I like good crotch and cannot lie! 🎶Lol! Very nice episode today! The MATT'S INFO graphics were particularly interesting and handy! Best wishes to the family!

I've milled oak that has been lying in a field for 9 years the sap wood was rotten away but the heart wood was perfect. The moisture content in it was up on 80% as I got closer to the middle of it. Love your videos all the best from Ireland.

I enjoyed the new info graphics, answered a few things I was curious about. The splash scores are funny too.

we’d love to see some furniture making with the crotch and burl wood!

I love the comments on the tree through its different stages of growth!

My wife loves oak me myself I love maple especially curly and the different figure you get in it. I keep telling her old people like oak and that she needs to take a look at different kinds of wood and the different figure you can find. So every time you make a video of the different logs you cut I'm always showing her and interrupting her watching TV. I enjoy your videos and look forward to seeing what kind of figure and different looks of the lumber

Like the "Matt's Info" pop outs = cool new feature!

That is some GORGEUS stuff. I like the splishy splashy scoring too!

Thanks for sharing interesting glimpses from Matts World.

I'd love to see something that you make out of those big slabs you cut

Now don't get it wrong I really enjoy your remodel videos and your videos of Barnzilla, but I started watching your channel for the slabbing of trees. So I really enjoyed this one. I love how you bring out the beauty of wood. I really envy you your life. By the way, I really feel a personal connection to your channel, because when you start your show you say "Hello everyone",but it sounds to me like, "Hi Ron" and my name is Ron.

You are always the best Matt.

Great video my friend. Always entertaining and educational. Thank you Matthew

the rating of the toss is funny Matt

Thanks! The Splishy Splash score is fun.

Absolutely georgeous wood.

Great looking oak Matt. Thanks for sharing your video.

Yesterday I went to Hearne Hardwoods in Oxford, PA for their open house and watched their 8' wide by 45' long saw mill in action. It's way more fun watching you slice up logs and explore the grain and figure and history.

I noticed the different sound from the blade and then within a minute , you were explaining. Thank you because your knowledge shared is why I subscribe.

Absolutely beautiful wood. You explain to us click clearly what you mean some people just don't get it

Greetings from the BIG SKY. The 1st cut seems to be an educated guess to me.

I like that your sawmill is electric. Those slabs are a job to move around - at least 2" thick white oak, heavy, yeah! Nice grain on almost all the slabs . . .

Man, I'm GLAD we aren't playing Matt's notorious Crotch Figure drinking game! Every time Matt says "crotch," a shot, Every time he says "figure," a beer. When you hear "crotch figure," a shot AND a beer! I kid because I CARE! steve

@helenalonzi473

6 күн бұрын

7m:

Loving matt's info 👌

Congratulations on 400,000 subscribers 👍🏼

Matt-- As enjoyable to watch as ever! Ever considered taking a still of each slab as it's revealed and putting together a quick video showing the changing grain from each slab to the next? If you're still occasionally cutting thin-sliced slabs for kiln drying, the time-lapse of each slice could be really interesting to watch! Loving watching what you do. Keep on keepin' on!

Love the facts. Should shut some of the recurring comments up a bit

Now that was a huge tree!

Thanks for the info and feedback facts.

I remember you were on Steve Ramsay’s podcast from WWMM and said something like you used the cheap blades bc KZread viewers loved watching ur blades break on stuff that was in the logs 😂. I remember he was shocked at how cheap the cheap blades were at the time. We’re also supposed to tell you that you have a bucket, but Malecki has a hose… love the videos on all the stuff you do my man, thanks!

Love the water-toss rating system.

Nice work with the graphics!

"Every log is like a box of chocolates..."- Forrest Trunk

That is a good bit of information on what happens to a tree that does not go to a mill.

Your so good hearted Matt...Great Vid I really love wild crazy figure also, just to look at and imagine what it could look like in a special pc of something made by hand

We use pine “shavings” as bedding for horses. It is pine and chips about the size and thickness of broken potato chips. The dust is minimal and it is very dry. We go through dozens of bags of this a week.

That log is definitely gonna make some beautiful furniture some day. I especially like the Cathederal areas myself. Yes, the crotch is beautiful as well but there's not enough in this one compared to some of your other logs.

You scare me, Matt, clambering around in your log pile under a heavy log perched on your forklift. I was in the desert area of Arizona near Meteor Crater some years ago, and there is a plant for generating electricity fueled by trees killed in a huge forest fire. That was a lovely white oak trunk which you've milled, Matt.

Great to see some new additions to your editing. I know that it's not always convenient, but it's difficult to see the grain in the mixed sun/shade. Edit: just saw your outro with you looking between the two cameras. That was a nice, interesting touch.

Perhaps taking those slabs into Cremona's Crotch Castle (the new barn) would dry them faster?

We're gonna need to see family in the driveway holding up their own splishy splashy judge's scores ;)

I'm thinking door on a Latta-style spice chest for that figured area.....or if you're ambitious, a matched drawer gallery with the door matched to the drawers with the next sheaf of the slab. Never get your money back out but it might be fun.

Good morning from Maine

Loved the video matt, and some very nice grain in it as well. Once the workshop is complete have you got any ideas about building your own oven to dry slabs similar to the one you shown in one of your other videos using a shipping container.

Hey Matt, yes like it when we get back into the log pile, I too am curious like Paul if you'll do a dry stove with the work shop but that probably depends on how much work you'll be doing or how far that last one you showed us was. Did I miss the plans on the shop 🤔 was curious how your water area will be ...oh either way happy to see the progress 🤗

thanks for the video

Matt really nice wide slabs

Going to use it for the workshop upstairs coffeehouse corner..

Imagine some of that oak in your kitchen cabinets. Beautiful wood saved from the chipper blades.

Nice work ❤👍🙂🙃

Loved it.🥰

Hi Matt! I miss you putting the time it takes to cut the slabs in the video. I know it is extra work, but I found it interesting.

Since I'm basically 14 I always giggle inside when you say crotch

@mcremona

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Working as intended

Great to see the 400k

@mcremona

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🙌🙌

Ohh, hey, 400000, 👍 congrats!

@mcremona

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Thanks!

Tungsten Carbide does great work cutting Steel.

Matt would love to see some of your bloopers in a real full of bloopers 😆🌽E👍. How goes the Big Barn? 👍

Love those OSHA approved steel toed tennis shoes

Some of those slabs would make for great tables.

The piece you dropped around the 11:45 mark would make for a nice free standing shelf or Sofa Table or maybe a mantel.

Great stuff Matt. Regarding the recoverables, maybe think outside the board-box? Guitar tops, turning blanks and other smaller for the woodworkers.

@johonfritz

Жыл бұрын

Entry doors. The perfect size piece.

Need to make MC merch with "I love crotch"

"White Oak Crotch Feather" ... sounds like a name out of a Mel Brooks movie

When you say woowa you always get better splash coverage hahaha

I heard that North America's north east used to be prevalent with white oaks before timber harvesting, now the red oaks are more numerous due to that

One day you just might get a hose to spray water…like overhead pivot at a car wash to clean them pretty logs.

I watched and was fascinated by your Bandsaw Build Series a couple years back, and I always enjoy your slabbing vids. I've recently gotten into chainsaw milling and it's so addicting! Will be slabbing a huge sycamore in a couple days. I have a question about the pith: Do you try to make a cut exactly on the pith? Or straddle the pith with two cuts? Thanks for all the great videos!

@mcremona

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Depends on the log. I'd prefer to fully capture the pith in one slab but I know the logs I saw tend to have a wavy pith so it most likely will travel between more than one cut. Most of the time I'll just cut and it ends up however it ends up.

"Today we're gonna do this crotch, caus it's big, and I like it." Right on Mathew. Be confident in your masculinity.

Oh dang I think I was the 400,000 subscriber

Bludgeoned and crotch? Matt time to change this video rating to PG13. Oh how I have missed your log milling videos but a break from it to see the huge barn going up was a nice diversion. I pick my Woodmizer mobile mill up next week so your milling videos help give me some insight on how to mill

@mcremona

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Awesome!! Have fun!

thanks

How's the house remodel going? Waiting on updates for that and enjoying the new workshop/barn build.

2 questions- when crawling around on your wood piles have you ever seen a snake? More important, have you ever thought of buying a saw that pulls the wood through instead of manually moving the logs?

Well I came here from your live feed which was nice. Are you going to put a Weathervane on your barn? You think the blade on the Mill gets damaged from cutting through nails?

Howdy Matt! Do you have any videos on constructing a headboard? I'm looking to make one out of red oak, queen size.

the saw 'chew chu chu' sound

Great job - I made quite a bit of furniture from white oak. How long does it take after the sawing before you begin working it? Does it depend on the weather?

Nice little “advert” for David Heide there Matthew. Do you know Dan Teske, an architect who used to work with David.

Matt, I'm wondering why you don't cut more slabs from a crotch log... Maybe 6/4 or 4/4? That would show more figure and ray flecks. Is it to prevent the boards from deformity when drying? I never get tired of looking at the new treasure found when seeing a slap side revealed!

Slabbing a tree. Nothing like it! :)

Could you do a tree species video? For example what does a poplar look like versus a cedar vs rosewood, etc.

i thought white oak was water proof..i heard that from someone..i guess may be once its dried..hard to find that big.wich one is heaver red oak or white oak...great wood,,looks good plained...course its hard on the blades,,i use to do a lot of it,,i went very slow,,small stuff about 4 inches wide,or better,,just to build small things,,you no tinkering around..i have a 8 inch plainer,,small,,but it really comes out nice..great work Matt once again

Hi Matt. I like how everything is coming along since you've moved. The question I have (which you've probably gotten many time) is 'Do you sell off all the, or do you keep them for future projects?'

@mcremona

Жыл бұрын

both but mostly sell them off as I can't use them fast enough

I'm interested in the buying and selling part of the slabs. Is there a video to watch that talks about that? How do you sell the slabs etc. Do you buy the logs or do people just let you take them?

How do you plan on drying that log? Will you take it to the kiln or let it air dry? I hear white oak takes even longer then the 1" per year of dry time. Or, maybe sell it green and let someone else dry it? Keep up on the great content!

2 questions for you: how long does it take to complete one pass on a log like this? And why is it you can make multiple passes before pulling slabs of the log? Doesn't their weight affect (or is it effect) the blade?