Milling a GIANT Sugar Maple Log on Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 52 SLABBER SAWMILL

Milling a GIANT Sugar Maple Log on Hud-Son Forest Equipment Oscar 52 SLABBER SAWMILL

How’s it going guys Jake here for Dude Ranch DYI welcome back to the channel today we have a special video for you. I’m joined by my friend, Andre, here if you remember a couple videos back. We dropped a big sugar maple log using the dump trailer and the log arch here at the sawmill. I said that we might get a little update on it or some pictures but I’m doing you one even better. We’re gonna have a full video of processing this log down into some slabs isn’t that right, Andre! You know welcome to our site here where we are fortunate to have over 25 different species of hardwood.

Andre here has a sawmill and a full lumber and furniture business OF custom slabs all sorts of exotic hardwoods. So we’re gonna see the sugar maple log here get all cut up and process down

from the raw form that I brought it down to. I think it’s a living room project not quite sure but the idea is that the main meat of the tree sits across this crotch right here where the sort of main wood value divided in its growth. We’ll want to go ahead and try and maximize. Think of this box being our our main value and then trimming everything off of that. Go ahead and capture which will mean that we’ll end up making our first cut across the top right here. Somewhere our second cut across the bottom right here probably our third cut somewhere right about in here so that would be basically squaring the log up. So this is the log guys if you remember it’s got quite a few knots in it. I think it’s going to have some awesome characteristics or character just from all the grain pattern going in all different directions.

So we’re going to fire up the bobcat and the chainsaw we’re gonna trim it up a little bit and get it on the mill top cut right here. So the idea is that is going to be where the second place the log sits on the track gotcha so that flat spot will basically give it a spot to lay exactly on the track right here. WOW, is that a nail! Right out of the game! Wow first cut!

So normally I like to go ahead and cut into the even or most even side of the log because that allows the blade to enter most level so there isn’t any sort of inequality. Then sort of gyrates throughout the saw as it goes on its cut because things moving at whatever it is 90 or 110 miles an hour and if it picks up any sort of uh momentum uh that you know deviates from the straight cut it’ll it’ll actually increase uh sort of over time and it can cause fluctuations in each cut. So we got this flushed up somewhat and just the remaining piece there is the nail but that’s why they call it hard meat. That’s why they call it hard maple.

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