Great Vid! I visited my first sawmill around 1980 or so and was very fascinated by mill-cut, air-dried lumber Back in those days - cool mill's like this was barely even a dream!. The great furniture maker George Nakashima always took his logs to a band-sawmill. Had a huge trove of drying boards in the basement below his shop. Nice to see your mill in action!
My grandfather and his brothers had a sawmill in the 1930s. First, they would saw across on the butt end. Doing that, they could tell if a nail or fence wire were "buried" in the log. They could tell by looking for a discolor in the butt end. It saved them many saw teeth. (Caveat: I never asked them about cedar logs.)
I bought an LT 20 about 30 years ago for a 90 acre forested property my ex and I owned. It worked very well. I think I paid about $5,000 for it. the LT 20 was a true portable mill but we set it up as a semi-permanent mill in one location. I really enjoyed working it. A friend cut wood and made himself a small cabin on the back of that property. He built up on a hillside and had a great ocean view! Small mills are great and provide lots of potential for many projects!
Watching you struggle with the muscle part of this mill, makes me appreciate the HD30 I had 20 years ago! The hydralics were well worth the added cost of the mill, we really enjoyed running it, it had a seat on it, and we cut 2000 to 3000 bd ft a day when we had stacked logs to work with. Man, put a 2 ft piece of 4" rubber hose on the sawdust chute, and put that dust down closer to the ground, will make it a lot more pleasant when there is a breeze! Beautiful cedar lumber, I can't believe you will just use that on a shed, I made many solid cedar cedar chests out of Missouri cedar shorts I bought from a friend that lived near the Country Music town in Missouri!
Very nice. The editing was great, you showed the process well, and your attitude and proper language was appreciated. Thank you for a quality video, I subscribed and will be watching for your future videos. I have an Alaskan mill myself and have cut quite a few nice boards. Jim
