Shipping Container Bar & Grill is an Awesome Idea! Thow in some custom homemade bartops and beer taps for optimal sawmill viewing. Plus you can put your IDry Kiln up against the backside of your Container Bar, maybe tie them together with a rooftop deck across the top.

Jordan went from “dammit Jordan” to running the custom shop. They grow up so fast

@jordanheider2662

2 жыл бұрын

I’m running the custom shop…??

@BigSauceOfficial

2 жыл бұрын

@@jordanheider2662 that’s what he said!

@Zogg1281

2 жыл бұрын

Maybe he can get a raise out of his new post, instead of "dammit Jordan " it could be "dammit Sir". I think he's earned it 😂👍👍

I think an open air lean-to thingy over the saw mill would be wise. Keep some of the weather off it and provide some shade.

@mlubecke

2 жыл бұрын

Totally agree!!!

@murphyc15

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah a large camper car port would work great, or even attaching a large awning style roof to the side of the building

@villeneuvewoodworks

2 жыл бұрын

Lean tubes or old airplane hangers work great. Water source near by to clean the slabs while sawing/plus storage near by would be ideal. Working towards my own small mill, but little by little growing the business

I would love to see you guys build out a shipping container bar / bbq station. To have that all contained would be awesome. Run water/ power.. put a deck on the top of it. So many ideas to make it amazing. Thank you so much for sharing John.. looks amazing and you are killing it.

I’ve seen a lot of “Dream Shop” videos before, and suddenly they all seem to be dreaming kinda small compared to you guys. So cool to see the details behind the expansion!

@purroductscentral

2 жыл бұрын

I've noticed a bunch of the KZread shop channels have been moving locations (some out of necessity, some because they had no choice, one burned down, etc). Hopefully they're all ramping up to become Better. Stronger. Faster!

@user-st2it1kt8r

2 жыл бұрын

Big John don't dream small

@ButBigger42

2 жыл бұрын

Location makes a difference. 950k in Cali gets you a 4x8 shed. 950k in Detroit gets you a whole town.

@JacobLongActingJourney

2 жыл бұрын

Please make a video about John and his contact! Id love to hear your opinions! 😁

I love the shipping container bar idea but I also commented on your last video a timber frame pergola using timber from your mill would make for some great content

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

Yea we plan on that too

This is an awesome perspective of John the business man. Awesome to see thank you guys for the work and content!

@monsternside1509

2 жыл бұрын

Right, he's all like adult and shit.

Yes, a big deck with a shipping container bar on the second level. Then a third level, cantilevered over all four sides of the bar, with a 8 person hot tub in the middle.

There is and always will be things needing to be done! Don’t forget the wife and the little one, or two. Very excited for you.

Love the shipping container bar!! And I would LOVE to work with you guys!

@LanceMcCarthy

2 жыл бұрын

Double upvote! This would also give you some great YT content... You'll satisfy the algorithm god and not have to worry about your next 10 videos.

@greammreaper

2 жыл бұрын

Yup

@hybridmotionjunkuribayashi4913

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Would love to see this

@ericmorris9660

2 жыл бұрын

THIS!!! Happy Father’s Day John!!

@pascalgagnon2080

2 жыл бұрын

Agreed 100%

First thing i'd do would be to put a roof over that sawmill - i know they're supposed to be weather proof but they last longer with protection.

Love the front-row seat to watch this dream of yours come to fruition! You guys are all great and y’all have to take care of yourselves first! Keep going!

Very nice shop. Make it how you want. I am a big fan. Hopefully you guys get great use out of it for many years to come. Hopefully you enjoy it for many years to come my friends. Can't wait to see more videos soon. Keep up the great craftsmanship and hard work my friend. Keep making. Stay squirrely. God bless.

Congrats, John! It's looking fantastic there already! 😃 Looking forward to see what you guys do there! Stay safe there with your family! 🖖😊

Awesome tour! Love the vision casting, always forward thinking and planning will help all your businesses. Some incredible services you are providing to the Pittsburg area. Keep it up!

Yins have been such an inspiration to me.. your new shop is only about 30 min away from me! Would love to have that bandsaw! Been looking for one I can afford for a while now, being a hobbiest I'm always looking to better myself and my work. It has been amazing watching your journey over the years.

From watching a lot of sawmills in videos over the years, the one thing that I see people do a bunch is build an over hang or something to protect from weather. That includes the sun. Nice to see your business keep growing positively, given the last couple of years. Also, I was watching Abom79s new shop build. He put a crane inside his.

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

Ya we definately need a cover on the sawmill!

@thtadthtshldntbe

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Malecki you know come to think of it, given you have all that wood drying out there, a large lean to/overhang/polebarn or some other type of expansion or however you do it might be a good long term investment. It would even be a covered parking area to avoid get snowed or rained on etc.

@jeremyk.6456

2 жыл бұрын

An over headed tracked train that can go left-right & front-back to be able to access everything. Just ensure that the coding doesn’t allow the crane to go down over the epoxy emporium or other closed rooms to ensure no building damage incurs.

I had my garage (shop) built in September/October 2020. I'm STILL working on infrastructure. This weekend I finally got the drawers cut and started for under the infeed table (yup, I have a mobile outfeed AND infeed table), so that I have a place to store fasteners and other fun stuff that's been cluttering up work surfaces. But I run another business (which is in the early stages of being sold) and the busy season is upon us, so it's been a struggle. Once sold, my focus will be 100% on optimizing the shop for efficiency of workflow. And of course, creating more of my own video content.

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

Thats awesome!

We are all living vicariously thru you. This is the dream shop of literally everyone. Take the leap. If you fail then you fail but at least you can say you gave it your all.

The quick design you thru up for a bar I think is in your style and feel. DO IT!!!

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

I think i agree Ryan !

@EdwardThomasCigar

2 жыл бұрын

@@John_Malecki fyi I got a private message saying I won a prize from your channel. They told me I won 100 cutting boards and a river table...all I had to do was pay $60 in shipping. I told them to piss off. Thought you would want to know.

I really love what you guys are doing with your sawmill. I'm over in the Lehigh Valley with a section of woods where I'm trying to slab all the fallen trees as fast as I can to make this gorgeous wood into something that can be used. I would love to come out to you guys one day and trade some slabs!

I love seeing the way you are all growing. Too many people shy away from big change. Looks like y'all enjoy the ride of it. So excited to see what's next.

👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻awesome ,more shop improvements coming!!!

This shop is amazing! One day I hope to be at this point, but far from it. I’m learning a lot from your Craft to Career and appreciate you doing the course! Thanks for putting out awesome content weekly, there is not many videos of yours that I haven’t seen! For the rite price I’d drive for NC for the bandsaw just to have a iconic piece of equipment in my shop!

It is nice to see that even in PA there is an amazing wood and metal company. Im in the johnstown area and there is barely any custom wood projects getting done. Love the content and love the furniture. Keep up the amazing work🤙🏻

Very appreciative for how much y’all grind on consistently putting out quality content for us on KZread. Quite impressive how y’all don’t skip a beat. Getting home from church and watching your latest post before cooking up some lunch has become a quality routine.

Get the sliding table saw and put a permanent dato stack on the Saw Stop.

You guys are killing it. Id love to get something half of that size started up. It is a huge gamble thoough as you said and hard to justify with kids and a mortgage. Its the dream for sure.

The sawmill I get my lumber from near Huntsville, AL uses refrigerated CONEX containers for his kilns. There’s a relatively simple modification you can make to the refrigeration unit so it pumps heat

Love when people describe where they are from in western PA as X amount of time from Pittsburgh… I’m an hour north

Put a roof over the outdoor sawmill section and build the kiln there with a concrete slab to make things easier to move. It would also give you space to stack slabs for air drying prior to putting in the kiln. Build the finishing room in back left corner of the metal side and open a doorway from the wood side into it, also build a contained grinding room in the metal shop with fume/dust extraction (it will make a tremendous difference in keeping that side clean).

@kjac23

2 жыл бұрын

John you owe this man 100 bucks for his advice

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

The doorway idea is brilliant!

@aaronmcghee7902

2 жыл бұрын

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Congratulations on such a great shop John.

Shipping container bar would be sick! Thanks John, love the vision and I've learned so much from you!

So awesome to see how far you've come bro. Thats a dream workshop right thurrrrr! Keep having fun mate and keep up the awesome work and content.

I love the build out phase, you get to build things YOU want the way YOU want it. Can’t wait to build out my next trailer. I do also like the mid work flow ideas of how you should have built you build out. I’ll just sketch them out in my idea note books for the inevitable rebuild that comes in the future. I’m digging that mill, you can get big true quarter sawn pieces out that beast. Wishing you all the best.

New to woodworking here, i appreciate you so much for inspiration.

It's good to have a facility that facilitates a facilitator facilitating.

I’ve found for larger chainsaws that it is nice to either build a crate that can hold several and be picked up with a skid steer for easy loading. The other option I like is to build a large angled shelf like a store display to hold them.

I just watched your first KZread video. What a difference. Love to see the growth of your business. Very inspiring.

If you're north of Pittsburgh, I'm about an hour-ish NW of you in Ohio. I make longbows and am always looking for whole osage orange logs. Figured with your woodworking setup, you might hear things. Lol

I would go up. You seam to have a bunch of wasted verticle space. That back wall would be a great spot to put verticle storage.

We've spent the last several years here in the midwest clearing old growth ash thanks to the emerald ash borer. There's a couple of guys near me with lil' tow behind saw mills that have been fantastic help turning some of those ancient local trees into lumber and eventually furniture that will end up passed on to somebody's grandkids. Can't tell you enough how great your plans for your sawmill are man, that's awesome.

@John_Malecki

2 жыл бұрын

I love hearing that!

Double the heavies! 🤣 Shop looks great. Really cool to see the full layout and your thought process behind it.

That shipping container bar idea sounds really cool. I know the Barnwood Builders made a hang-out cabin from one and it turned out really nice. I'm sure you guys could do a great job with it.

I have family in and near Butler, even farther north. Amazing area around there.

That view? Skeet shooting station, of course!

Video length 👌 Loving the saw mill, all the best with this.

Shipping container bar/hangout area would be so sweet! Love your content. Thank all of you for the hard work.

So great - you have come so far my friend!

the deck idea is a good one. it will give a transparent feel to your operation as well as add some sense of luxury that most builders don’t offer. how many people give a customer full transparency of there operation with a bbq lunch. great idea

We will see how this fasilitates. Awesome setup and very excited for upcoming videos.

Ask for my thoughts and yin shall receive: - If you're doing a shipping container bar (sweet concept) then either a hot tub or an above ground pool behind it facing that open view because of reasons - The sawmill definitely needs an awning but a retractable one might be best so it doesn't interfere with loading - The metal shop needs more dust and fume extraction - If your roof has any amount of southern sunlight exposure SOLARIZE ALL OF TEH THINGZ because with the rising costs of electricity, and shops use a metric f&*kton of it, having a fixed loan payment on the panels all year round is so much nicer than getting surprised by a price hike on your electric bill, plus you might be able to sell surplus power for some cash in the SREC market which would let you pay off the panels even faster - At some point the entrance to the building needs a squirrel statue

That's is great.. I started out watching for projects or just how to do a table, and now you've expanded. You guys are great a little disappointed the ninja turtle didn't get any love. I can't wait for new projects. I'd def put something over the saw mill, may something temp control. I know its stupid expensive to build thing due to prices for everything but remember winter isn't too far off...

Yes put an out door sales area where you can show clients finished work and they could work out with you what they want. Also the furnishing in there would be custom built by you and the team to demonstrate your work. As for your Jointer there is a company here that makes helical heads to fit any Jointer

Add a canopy structure for the sawmill and a BBQ pit and several tables to enjoy the view. Do it all with rustic timber. You can host future business events, entertain J & J Lumber clientele while processing slabs and just have a great spot for your team to do lunch.

The shops are coming along nicely. For your chainsaw storage Matt Cremona has a great solution for this issue I made one similar and have been really happy I did. He has a video on it back when he was at his old shop.

Would love to see a forge added to the metal shop. Favorite woodworking channel. Got friend's in the burgh and hope to now buy a slab from you. I live in Ohio and always watch for new videos. Also the bar idea sounds amazing a sawmill themed bar would be insane!!

Speaking of kayaks... the wife and I used to take our yaks out at least every couple of weeks, but we have been so busy in our shop that we haven't had the time. This weekend was the first weekend we took off in months. We headed to the coast (Texas) and did some fishing. The whole time I was quoting and answering emails when the sharks weren't biting. So... even taking the weekend "off" wasn't really off.

I'm really glad you're using those urban logs! I had a black walnut tree that had to be removed from my backyard for safety issues. I spent WEEKS trying to find someone that would want to take the wood, totally for free, I just wanted to see it go to a good use. Unfortunately couldn't find anyone 😕

Been awesome watching your business grow! Taking notes!

You should look into a drywall cart for moving sheets and other wide slabs around the shop. As long as it doesn't have to stay level while moving, a drywall cart is one of the best options for moving large things around. I've used one a few times to move 14 foot and 16 foot shuffleboards around and it made it so much easier than the other options available

Shipping container bar is an amazing idea! I’d love to see it happen!

John & Jordan Saw Mill ????? I LOVE IT!!!

The outdoor shipping container bar in dope, I would also try and set up a sweet food truck spot for like party days. I bet that would make a ton of money and let the community know more about your other businesses.

Great setup. It's always crazy trying to set up a shop at the same time that you're USING the shop

You guys are amazing!!! Shipping container bar area would be amazing!!!! You'd be able to show off some more of your metal working ideas and do an outdoor epoxy table top be sweet!

Thoughts about the sawmill operation. The biggest bottleneck in lumber is the drying process. "A" kiln will get you by, but it is still a huge limit to throughput, increasing inventory, lead times, etc. It would be best to make your mid to long range plans for as much kiln capacity as possible. It may also be advantageous to have a diverse capacity (both hot room and vacuum kilns). Also, if you put the mill in a future building, consider putting a gantry crane over it. That would greatly increase material handling and safety. Expensive, yes, but those concerns will pay off huge in the long run.

Love seeing this bro. Inspiration. I live out in Jeannette and just started woodworking and when I was watching videos on stuff to get ideas, I happened to come across your videos. At first, I didn't know you were from the Burgh, but I saw the Steeler logo in the background and was saying to myself he has to be and once I heard you say Pittsburgh in one of your videos, I subscribed Haha. Your works beautiful bro and just wanted to reach out and say that and that you're an inspiration and hope to get to your level one day.

I would love to see the Shipping container/Bar/Viewing Deck. So much room for activities.

I think a shipping container would help with bandsaw parts and storage. I love the idea of putting a loft overtop of the shipping container where you can put a smoker and kegerator. You can put a lot of your seasonal equipment like the snowblowers, kayaks, and lawnmowers in the shipping container as well

Shipping container bar sounds awesome! Keep up the good work👍

Love the deck and shipping container bar idea.

The shipping container bar sounds awesome also maybe install some type of cover over the saw mill

Build the outdoor patio and put a roof to storage area for slabs after they've been cut.

Love the tour. Way to get after it. Shipping container bar would be a great addition. Any plans to cover the saw mill to protect from the elements?

@daniela2z708

2 жыл бұрын

New Drinking Game…shot every time he says facilitate! Sorry you’re all hammered on Father’s Day :) Glad to see you doing well, keep up the good work!

shipping container/ bar would be be sick!!! Top would be a great viewing space of the valley behind, and you could shoot archery off the top

It’s been awesome to see your growth 💪🏻👏🏼

I wish you the very best of luck with the new shop ;)

Love the new shop and thank you for the tour! Any chance I could get some information on that band saw?

I'm in for the ride, where ever you gonna take me. Looks exciting so far.

Great work. The best of luck 👍🏼

As some other comments stated, you should do a video on building a carport /shelter cover for the new sawmill. Protect it from the elements. And the deck using some of that lumber you saved would be great.

I'm glad you pronounced Minnesota correctly! Great looking shop!

It’s been incredible watching your journey ! Can you do a video on how you control the climate in your shop for your wood slabs/table tops/finished projects? Humidity/Air Flow vs cost ? I’ve got a 40x60 insulated barn but no AC. I am curious if adding some exhaust fans in the attic and ceiling fans would be better than installing AC unit for the summer in Cincinnati. Your shop is amazing congrats !!

Shipping container bar and meat smoking station with deck on top is a FABULOUS idea. I love that you have a vision and share it. You def to help to inspire a lot of people. Keep up the good work and SMOKE. MORE. PIGS!!

Awesome shop, every mans dream. Wish you nothing but the best.

Happy Father's Day!! Love the video.

I would include an area to lock up you cameras and stuff for content creation in the office. Also, an open face pole barn on your side lot to keep the direct rain off the stuff you're drying would be good as well.

Awesome shop and I applaud your continued commitment to the Walter Sobchak look with the glasses.

John, with all that space have you maybe considered a small addition where you can just film content? So the small content room could have a strip down or modular tool set up depending on the project your filming. Then it wouldn't matter what the guys were going in the main shop.

Growing growing. Good stuff

I would kill to have your Sawmill! With that being said your right you need a good kiln to go along with it. One state away is IDRY vacuum kilns!!!

Shipping container bar would rock. I think you would get more use of of that then just a deck.

i think one idea that might help with flow, but may reduce wall space is including an opening where the dust collection is on the wood side and where the for sale band saw is on the metal side. Not sure if that would reduce the wall space too much but it would help with flow/movement.

Awesome John, thanks for the amazing insights

@RockHardWoodDaddy

2 жыл бұрын

And please, for the sake of god, get yourself a sliding table saw as you mentioned. It'll up your game so hard.

Shipping container bar sounds really good, keep up the good work.

Well done sir. Love your work

I’m currently in the process of rebuilding a boat had to completely gut this 17ft flat bottom tunnel hull currently grinding away at fiberglass so I can put the new stringers in

Shipping container bar and grill, griddle and smoker would be awesome. I would also like to see a mobile cart for a 22 inch Webber kettle. there some out there but I would like to see your spin on it.

We have 2 power magic 72 saws on the same table. They face each other like you want to do. We have 7 guys working in our shop and it works pretty good. It’s great for if someone has a jig or custom angle on one saw and the other is always good to go. I highly recommend a vertical panel saw! Either Stirebig or Holzer. We also have a 43” time saver and absolutely love it. So I really recommend one.