Recycling felled trees into valuable, usable lumber is always a big priority here at my Bedford, New York farm.
Over the years, I’ve planted thousands and thousands of trees. Unfortunately, I’ve also lost many trees – they’ve fallen during storms, or had to be cut down because of damage or disease. I always save the logs and have them milled into usable boards. Some time ago, I decided to gift myself with a portable sawmill, so I could cut the lumber right here at the farm when needed. Last week, my property manager, Doug White, and Pete Sherpa from my crew, got a lesson on how to use it – our new Hud-Son H360 Hydraulic Portable Sawmill.
Martha has always recycled fallen trees into valuable, usable lumber having them milled into usable boards. But recently she decided to gift herself with a portable sawmill, so her team could cut the lumber right at her Bedford, New York farm. Her property manager, and another from her crew, got a lesson on how to use the new Hud-Son H360 Hydraulic Portable Sawmill.
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Today Tim’s putting a brand-new blade on his sawmill.
We are entering Tim in “The Sawmill Olympics” as we finish up this order.
He is going to be the Sawyer in charge making all the decisions.
We’ll see how he does.
There’ll be points deducted for screw-ups and there will be points added for extra boards/extra time.
Are you ready for “The Sawmill Olympics”?
Alrighty, let’s get started ladies and gentlemen.
Are you ready?
“LET’S GET READY TO RUMBLE!”
Okay, folks’ contestants will get one practice log to warm up their sawmills.
Okay everybody, as Tim is cutting up that practice log.
I am going to run over and pick out two perfect logs to not only finish this order, but to give him an edge in “The Sawmill Olympics”.
Folks Tim is trying to decide the best plan of action here.
We need silence from the crowd while he thinks.
Decision, the crowd he made the proper decision!
He came out with a nice flip before he actually gets down to a final cut.
Folks, he remembered to put his toe board down.
Oh, you got a slim cut, not only is that not good for the blade, but we’re going to have to do that.
Points, they’re just skimming the log.
A wasted cut folks.
All righty he’s seriously working fast trying to make up for lost time on the slim cut.
All right folks, that slim cut has thrown him off balance.
He is losing points right and left as it’s taking more time to cut this log than expected.
All right, you cut another half inch off this log, but by cutting the half inch off his log is taking the shallow part of the log where the bark was dropped down.
It was kind of narrow at that spot and we will gain two more boards on that move.
We should make up the points with the boards just in time he’s making up for an extra board.
I figure we’re going to gain another two extra boards out of this log cutting a half inch not slowing the mill down when he backs up.
He’s keeping it revved up and he’s on board.
Very quickly make it up for lost time to make up time.
I’m going to pull the boards off every two boards he makes.
That way he doesn’t have to come up as high to mill to go back again.
We are making up time and we are working like a well-oiled machine!
The time it takes me to take two boards and put them on the pile he’s already cutting his second board.
He is flying folks!! Unbelievable!!!!
He has 12 nine-inch boards out of that log and that’s not even cutting up the flitches.
Please be quiet as we saw in the last log in “The Sawmill Olympics”.
This will be the last chance he has to make up for lost time for miscut and we need complete silence so that he can do his figuring.
No mistakes at this point.
One mistake will throw him back into second place.
It’s marking his line for the final cut on this side of the log so that he doesn’t make a mistake and end up with less boards than is possible.
He wants to get the most out of this log.
All right folks he’s standing, he’s putting his rulers away, he’s checking the tension on the blade.
Unbelievable!!!
The pressure’s on and you can tell it’s taking his toll.
He’s tired.
“The Sawmill Olympics” are a grueling, grueling, grueling, competition.
You can see he’s got this milling that way that’s so he can get more boards out of this log.
He’s going to squeeze more boards out of this log than feasible.
At least he’s trying to the adjustments made and here we go folks.
Final cut of “The Sawmill Olympics”!!!
It is a beautiful, beautiful first cut.
It is going to get a nice wide flitch out of that.
He’s going to get an eight-inch board, I’m sure out of that folks and the cap is very, very thin.
Nice cut let’s hear it for Tim!!
Okay he’s lowered the toe board and he’s getting ready to roll the log.
So far it looks really, really good.
Remember folks, he’s making up for lost time, so he’s rolling this log very quickly.
Please be quiet, he’s getting ready to make the calculations on the second face of this log.
One mess up in this cut and he could end up with narrower board than he intended and here we go!!
As we can see on his first cut, he ended up with a nice wide board.
We’re going to get eight inches out of that glitch, and he is doing an excellent job on this wall.
Okay folks, he’s going for a 10-inch-wide board to board up going for as many boards as he can get on this log.
Got 12 on the last one even with the miscut which is a phenomenal number of boards out of that log.
On his first cut here, he comes right down the log, just under the edge of the park it looks like it’s going to be a perfect cut.
Rolling that big log, oh no, it almost fell off the mill.
His legs up, that’s the problem.
He just grabbed on into that log and man held it right over.
What a recovery!
His third cut on this kit was perfect.
All right folks, he ended up a little wobble on that first cut, but it’s not enough to disqualify the board.
As I can say, is a good board.
I’ve removed the boards on top, so the mill does not have to go up as high to go backwards.
and we’re trying to save time to become first place in “The Sawmill Olympics’.”
Now cutting board number six.
All right folks this is board number 8!
He is flying through this cut never seen anything like this on live TV.
He has set the record at 14 boards off of this log!
All right, big round of applause for Tim as he comes in first place in “The Sawmill Olympics!”
They tallied up the board feet and you have gained first place in “The Sawmill Olympics!”
As the first prize winner, you win all these flitches that have to be sewn up come on.
A full firewood rack.
Let’s show the firewood rack that he won.
Come over here.
You must see this rack.
There’s the rack.
I just cleaned that.
Come on, that is the first place prize!
Flitches to be cut and a firewood rack to be sawed up and as a constellation prize we will throw in this sawdust pile.
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This video means a lot to us at Hud-Son Forest Equipment as we near the 76th Annual NYS Woodsmen’s Field Days. Our founder, Dan Hudon SR, attended almost every Woodsmen’s Field Days while he was alive. Almost 70 times he attended the field days. The Woodsmen’s Field Days was started by a dear friend of Dan Hudon SR, Reverend Frank Reed. Reverend Reed hosted the first Woodsmen’s Field Days in Old Forge, NY in 1948. The first year brought nearly 1300 spectators together and showed a $600 dollar profit. 1948 was the only year that the Woodsmen’s Field Days was hosted in Old Forge. In 1949 Woodmen’s was hosted in Tupper Lake and remained there until 1962. A large, carved statue of Paul Bunyan still stands near where the events were held. In 1962, the field days moved to Boonville, with the understanding that it would be hosted every other year by the two north country communities. Boonville was chosen because of the facilities available at the Boonville-Oneida County Fairgrounds off Route 294. Through 1971, the event was hosted in alternate years by Tupper Lake and Boonville. However, in 1972, the Tupper Lake Chamber of Commerce found it impossible to sponsor the field days. The Boonville Chamber of Commerce decided to host the event on an annual basis. It has become a traditional weekend assembly for many in upstate, NY. The third weekend in August has become common to most in the area as “Woodmen’s Weekend” automatically in their summer planning. Activities include: numerous contests like log rolling, chain sawing, axe throw, crosscut, bow sawing, horizontal log chop, speed chopping, tree felling and fire building; as well as wood carving, tours of wood businesses, wood crafts, beards contest, parade, horse skidding competition, greased pole climb, foot race, exhibits, seminars and more.
Today we are driving to North Carolina to get a sawmill for the farm.
We looked at buying a like a carport style barn and it was going to be like seven thousand dollars since metal is so expensive now.
We were talking about it and we’re like there’s a lot of things that we need to build.
There’s a lot of expense at finishing the inside of the shed to house, so we decided that instead of spending seven thousand dollars on the
carport/barn situation, we’re going to spend it on a sawmill and be able to build a lot more buildings than having one building.
I’m very excited so Austin learned early on in our dating relationship that if we’re going take a car ride and there’s an opportunity for
an adventure on said car ride then we also have to take the adventure!
So, on the way to get this sawmill we saw a sign for a Historic Landmark which was a covered bridge and I’ve only ever seen one covered bridge before.
So how are we not going to stop, and it was only like 30 minutes out of the way.
Well, this is not the way I wanted to get this thing off I had gone and bought these chain links that are rated for over a thousand pounds.
I know this thing doesn’t weigh but a couple hundred pounds and the Yanmar 221 with the bucket will pick up five to six hundred pounds, so it could
easily pick this up off the trailer at max height.
The teeth are right here now. I can curl and it’ll lift up another foot or two, but I just don’t see that working and not having the whole thing swing off.
So, what we’re going to try and do is I’m going to have to spin it the other way and we’re going to lay it in to the bucket with the track at the bottom facing into
that not the band blade not the blade.
We’re going to turn it you know 90 degrees and I’m going to have to set it in there strap it down and then I can gently take it over to this new spot and set it down. Thank you!
We’re going to use some cement blocks and some treated four by sixes to make the base that the track will sit on for the mill so that we can level it out.
So, we don’t really have a frost line to worry about, but we also are not 100 sure this is the forever site for the sawmill, so we didn’t want to do something more
permanent and then want to move it in a year or something when we have more land cleared.
So, this is where we’re going to get it started and we’re going to set up the foundation.
Now we got zero, three, six, nine, right? I’m really kind of just letting the tool do the weight.
We’ll put the wedges between the block and not the track. All right you want to tap it on that. How about the other way?
You’re sitting I haven’t done this one yet. I got you yeah, she said you want to add a little bit under the butt of it so don’t slip right there? Got them.
Let me come up. It’ll come up a lot yeah you want to try a two-inch block in there is it that looks like it’s going to switch down some too, there we go.
I drive to that but hang on to it, I need it either way. All right and then we’ll uh maybe squish it down a little bit. Wow!
How are you doing, Chip (our goat buddy coming over to say hello)?
Thank you. A lot of room I figured it’ll stretch a little bit after using it.
See every time before you cut you make sure it’s 35 pounds of pressure and then when you’re done cutting you take the pressure off the head of the mill.
All right choked got a pine tree. I’m going to get some nice, amazing lumber out of a tree.
Well that one will be great for the greenhouse base. It’s like the right Dutch you know. It’s got to be dipped in here somewhere.
All right so this is the Oscar 428 and we have a lot to learn obviously with sawmilling because it’s a brand new tool for us,
but I could not be more proud of having boards cut today. Like I’m super proud of you. That sawmill is intimidating!
I think it is but oh it’s intimidating to me. The sawmill works fine but we got to revisit this track system we built it and then it rained like three times before we got the head on it
and I think it’s just gotten it all out of level. I’ve tried to level it yesterday and today. I’m only on my third pine log and it seems like it’s already out of alignmen again because it keeps binding halfway down. This is 13 feet log that I’m cutting so it’s a big log though. I know it shouldn’t be binding but I’m just saying it definitely you shouldn’t be binding for us.
I’m brand new at this and actually got to cut lumber today. Obviously every tree you cut you’ll learn from so for sure. There’s only one way to go.
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So, our sale was supposed to go on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. The sale went so well, and we have a few people coming out tonight
and we’re getting real low on wood in the box. So, we have one more garbage log right here. I’m going to saw this log up it’s a 12-footer.
It is Ash and it is a dead tree. It’s pretty ratty but we can make a few bucks off of it so be it. All right so we’re going to saw this up
tonight and get it on the trailer. Get it out to the Box and we should have customers start rolling in here pretty quick.
They’re starting to come in and Tim’s going to handle that. I want to try to get this log slapped up on our next video.
I found a formula out that’s really cool and it may cut down on the flitches on the logs.
Have to solve a bunch of flitches when you’re done, so the next log. We to mill now. It is probably going to be a hemlock.
I’m going to apply this formula to it and we’ll see how it works out.
Of course, we’re going to bring you guys along with us to do it and hopefully we can all learn something.
She wants to lay right there so I think we’re going to accommodate it and let it lay right there.
This is out of that dead ash tree that we cut down in earlier videos.
Two base logs on this they were pretty solid because I wanted to make a table and matching countertops.
We took the two base logs off this dead tree and I think we got 440 dollars for a total.
You can go back on our videos, and you can watch us. We saw this tree and it didn’t start to fall.
It didn’t fall so we let it go through the winter to hopefully it would fall with the wind.
Of course, it did not so we ended up cutting a hole with a cant and putting a bottle jack in there.
Jacking it up if it fell the wrong way it was going to take out one of our deer stands.
I really want that to happen all right so we’re going to get this cut up then see how it goes.
I’m going to take the microphone off because the sawmill affects the microphone but I’ll be able to talk throughout.
All right so this blade is dull. Not real, real dull but I’m going to finish out with this blade.
I’d like to point out up here at the top of this building right there there’s a nest on top of the come along and the baby birds are sitting in there.
They have been watching me mill for the last couple of days.
Just doesn’t seem to bother them. All right that log is pretty straight.
The center is really solid. The trailer just came loose from the four-wheeler and stuck itself a little ride.
I don’t know why I didn’t finish it out if it went that way. Tt could have gone 100 yards before it gets to the creek.
Alright let’s try to get this finished up with this blade. Its becoming extremely difficult still cutting flat.
Only the band wheel tires there start to overheat. I’m really running the coolant tank right now.
So I hope it will stay cool enough. We have one more customer. Yeah, that blade is pretty hot. even though I got the coolant running on it.
It’s hot thats what happened. It is dull and I should have changed before I started but I had to get one more cut out of it because the blades go in the dumpster.
So you got that left. All done and it’s all cut. All that wood’s gone. Well folks damn the forester here. Just got one question.
Does my new helmet look dorky? Leave me a comment in the comments below. Let me know do I need to wear it or put the hard hat back on?
Can I answer the question bubble head? Let’s get this wood loaded up, quit screwing around with a damn helmet!
Do you wear that when you go bowling? Either right one those birds sat right there through the whole operation.
The baby birds got their feathers. Well, they’re probably going to die from dust inhalation.
They probably are. Came over there’s a cloud. Hey nice language. These are 13-foot long trying to get through one video without a cuss word.
I’m making a blooper. Son of a *****. There’s another cuss word. Yeah, he’s pissed. What is it, a hornet?
It wasn’t intentional you’ve got these or not we’ll cut them we’ll get them up there.
All right I got those off the mill. We got a hornet’s nest started right up in there.
The guys building the horn is nest decided to chase him just a minute ago.
I’ll fix that tonight. Okay guys we are putting the middle to bed. I take these Boards out there and cut them up put them in the box we got.
Quite a haul off of that those are 13 foot long. We’ll get three boards for out of each one. Three slabs out of each one and we should
make our slabs about four foot long. They are wide, they’re nice! That stupid hornet chased me! Guess what, he ain’t gonna chase me no more.
I squashed him in his nest! All right guys, we got all those boards cut up. Did you cut them as you put them in here?
Let’s count see how much we made off that 12-foot rotten log. All right so how many did you have in there? Answer 32.
So we’re gonna make a hundred dollars off that routing log. Not bad and that came out some of that really came out nice.
I mean where the pitch is it split but people don’t care. They fill it up with epoxy rosin and put colors in it but look at some of these boards.
They’re 17 inches wide. That really came out nice. I’m really shocked that dull blade didn’t go wavy through it.
All right guys that’s going to conclude this video. Tonight question. Are you going to throw that blade away finally?
I can’t go in the dumpster tomorrow. Baby was smoking maybehard to let him go. Don’t put it on my sharpener!!
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When one Hud-Son Forest Equipment portable sawmill just isn’t enough!
Let us introduce you to Hud-Son customer, Dave Gray.
Dave borrowed the Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 328 portable sawmill from a friend. He loved how the mill handled so decided to purchase his own. Dave was pleasantly surprised when we called to tell him that his Oscar428 was ready for pickup!
