Matt...it's called 'spalting', it's the fungus beginning its initial work in the rotting process. Now that you'll be creating lots and lots of sawdust, and I'm fairly sure you've already thought of this, you can find unit to turn your sawdust into pellets for a pellet stove. If you haven't thought of it so far...invest in a metal detector before you ruin an expensive blade. You may want to consider some hearing muffs. Sorry for the thoughts from my cheap seat...another great video.

Mill tips , first buy extra dogs ! Have a set for tall wood and set the other low so you don’t have to constantly change ! #2 a squirt of dish soap in a tank of water will work as lubricant fluid in the summer otherwise windshield washer fluid (-20) for fluid in the winter ! #3 make a pre staging deck to set multiple logs on with machinery and then hand roll them onto the leveled deck ! The less bouncing big logs on your cutting deck the more consistent your cuts will be ! Good luck…

Yes, Matt I love watching you saw that lumber up. It’s one of my favorite things to do is watch how the woodgrain reveals itself, which is very important especially if you’re making furniture or some kind of wooden project. Wood grain is very important. I love looking at it nice job, Philip.

"I watched half of the online tutorial, so I'm basically an expert" had me laughing! Beautiful mill you will make it work

I have a feeling one day we will see a video of fitting an electric motor on that enormous door!

Matt has the biggest toy box in the world 😂. I'm here for it!

Old Sawyer here. Gotta rag on you some but will make life easier.#1 attach your rails to the concrete ( it moved when you put the first log on it)#2 ease into the log real slow to start then speed up. Listen to the mill, it will tell you how fast to go. #3 be sure the log is on cross rails on both ends, this helps do away with warping. # 4 two back dogs and one on the front are plenty, saves time. #5 personally I would raise the rails up to about 30 inches, saves the back. #6 throw your scrap on the forklift, handle it once and be done. #7 do not put that spalted lumber on your dump truck, the local woodworkers will lynch you for sure. Keep up the good work and continue to learn and life will be great.

29:50 That discoloring in the wood from fungus is called spalting.

Honestly, the sawmill is great for time-lapse stuff. It's good filler videos to put out between projects. Whole channels are dedicated to milling so it's definitely got an audience!

15 months for equipment is insane. Great video Matt. We all need hobbies to escape reality.

You may enjoy watching the girls milling timber on Lumbar Capitol Log yard. They often show how to’s and techniques for the Woodmizers, both 15 and 40. The colour changes in the first cut showed the fungal splatting, which is nice.👍😁

Wow that log had tons of Gorgeous grain and Paterns and colors Matt 😮 33:47 @Diesel Creek

Matt you may need to get a moisture meter to how green the logs are and a metal detector to find nails in the logs so you don't dull blades.

Great to hear you've managed to make this your full-time occupation, Matt. It's incredibly rewarding to see you succeed at what you love doing, and I look forward to following your progress for years to come.

There are sooo many sawmill videos online. I wonder why this guy didn't feel that he could use some advices. For instance: Use a pressure washer to clean the logs while having them on the forks of the skid steer or loader. It will definitely help that the saw blades last longer 2) Use a metal detector! This will also help that the sawblades last longer. 3) Use ear protection! And sometimes even a dust mask! 4) Take care of the sawdust. Don't let it sit on the ground near the sawmill and pile up. There's a lot one can do with sawdust. 5) Don't put the boards/slabs in your way. 6) Don't burn the slabs/rind boards because those can definitely at least become fire wood. It's t's useful biomass and one can sell the slabs and even the sawdust (although I would press big pellets out of the sawdust).

I don't know about the rest of the industry but in wood turning we call those black or grey lines in the wood "spalting" which is a fancy way of saying mildew, which is cuased by wood sitting for a long time in a damp climate. . I know you will get plenty of safety and operational tips from us and here is mine, from an experienced woodturner (I make round things on my lathe) wear some kind of dust mask, even if it just to use up those old covid masks when cutting wood. Those fine wood dust particles will get in your lungs and can eventually cause bad breathing problems. You can still enjoy the fragrance of the fresh cut timber, and I agree, it is great. P.S. Be sure ti keep a bottle of eye wash handy for those times a breeze comes along and blows that sawdust right in your eyes. I take many precautions for breathing and googles, face shield etc., and still occasionally get sawdust in my eyes and the eye wash is essential. Two pretty essential things in life, your lungs and your eyes.

From one Woodmizer owner to another, I can offer you a few suggestions. Firstly, try to have the ends of the logs on the bed rails (or a close as possible). Logs with more stress (i.e. poplar trees that may have grown on a slope) will bow downward when you take wood from the opposite side. This will cause for boards with unequal thickness throughout their length. Clamped properly and supported at the ends will prevent this unnecessary waste. Also, not taking a lot off of on side before turning to get an equal amount from the opposite side will also reduce bowing. This is mainly in softer woods, not so much in the oaks. Happy sawing!

Hi Matt, You struck gold with your first log, even if you don't know it yet. That's spalted wood, highly priced by furniture makers, and it makes for spectacular cabinet doors. If you slap it on this side of your dump truck, woodworkers from around the world will show up at your door with a hanging rope ready. Seriously, if you can't use it, sell it. It should bring top $.

Hey Matt, tie a small string to the feed leaver long enough to go the length you want, once it goes the length it'll pop the lever into neutral and you're good to go! (Assuming there's not too much momentum and it pops it into reverse, because that's not ideal!)

neat machine. We got bigger one at our sawmill. A lot more automated. Couple tips: The initial contact between blade and log needs to be as slow as possible. Once blade is in, you can go faster. It minimizes risk of snapping the blades and causing wavy cut. Run it with plenty of water/lubricant. Once you start noticing waves on cut logs then you gotta change the blade. We run ours about 90-120min each between switching.

As far as I'm concerned the videos you create transcend "working on heavy equipment for you guys". They've always been more of a "lifestyle that I wish I had" type of content, in which this falls right in line with, in my humble opinion. You don't just pick up equipment just to get it running. You put it to use and also tour with the equipment that you have resurrected, to the vintage equipment shows and are part of a thriving community. You also provide inspiration (hopefully) to a younger generation of aspiring mechanics and JOATs to get off the gaming consoles and out there doin stuff that's real!

I am a fan. I am glad you waited for this mill, I also am a Fan of the Goonzsquad channel, they purchased the cheaper Chinese model and had nothing but problems with it. I hope you have tons of fun!

To ensure things last, use the RTFM rule. (Read the f***ing manual). You could also save yourself money by collecting the sawdust in a bucket. Less sweeping up, so less accidents and dirt tramped into your buildIngs.

it might be worth it to bring us along while you learn how to use your sawmill. It gives those of us who haven't seen one in action an idea of how planks are made. It gives your viewers who own sawmills a chance to give you tips if you run into trouble. They'll probably give the same level of satisfaction that all the power washing videos provide. And, you might inspire someone who's in a similar situation, who's not sure if it's feasible, to say I can do that, and get one of their own. For me, it reminds me of watching This Old House with my dad when I was a kid.

Keep the woodworking video's coming. Very relaxing to watch, show some of your wood projects.

You will need to get a good metal detector scanner for nails and bolts in the logs.

Spalted wood makes beautiful cabinet fronts and is also prized by woodworkers for projects.

You might want to build a landing dock to set your logs on and then roll them from the landing dock on to your mill carriage. --- Easy to make one out of a slightly modified old trailer frame, this would be easy to move later also. --- Ron & Marilyn Hansen

That strange wood grain pattern is I believe called spalting Matt! Well it is here in Europe. Operated a Wood Mizer 25 years ago in the woods in Shropshire. Awesome machines. 🤭🤔 It's definitely a long term investment that will repay you if you look after it!

Lmfao at the FarmCraft101 reference That ain't going Anywhere 🤣 😂 to Funny Matt 2:08 @Diesel Creek

You are now going to need to build a shed to house the mill and the drying timber, but you have a great start.

As others have said , its spalted. No reason to apologize for doing something that makes "You" feel good. Everybody needs something that makes you feel happy and good and to relax. Anytime you want to throw in a saw mill episode I think you will find More people who approve than those who say no. Keep up the fantastic work making content. I do not know how the U Tube system works but I am glad i found a few channels I like. Keep it up.

Lumber capital log yard on KZfaq has the Lt15 saw mill they would be happy to talk you through it. Great episode Matt.

In 3000+ comments someone had to have said it, spalting is what gives the random patters you were admiring in the wood.

My father in law has this saw model, it's been a great mill, very durable, it even survived the building it was in coming down on it from snowload without a scratch! Enjoy it they come in handy.

Also, power feed is nice, but every wood type has a different speed at which it cuts best. As a beginner you would benefit by using hand feed to get a feel for which wood wants what speed.

Hey Matt, loved the video! Just a tip to help make sure your logs are nice and square, when you take your first slab off flip the log over so the flat side is sitting on the rails that way the top and bottom are square to each other, then when you go to cut the 3rd side of the log, take a framing square and set the long side down on the rail of the mill and slide the short side up to the already cut side,that way your log will be as close to square as you can get, it will save time trying to eyeball it and down the road when you go to make a finished product the board will already be square, hope this helps!

My dad actually had the very first Woodmizer ever made. Just recently sold it because he was getting a little to old to use it.

Clean your wood, use a pressure washer if needed. The less sand and dirt the better for your mill. Saves a lot of work changing and sharpening blades.

I need to reconsider my decision to build a mill using a chain saw. This looks like a sweet setup. Now I need to go take a nap. Watching your endless supply of energy, while fun, is exhausting.

Good show and tell today! Unless your goal is to make lumbermill cuts, you can just make a primary cut and flip it 180 degrees and slab cut the log leaving the other edges rustic. A good table saw can finish the rest. Nice to see the Made In America label. Also good you brought up the boogered bolt threads publicly!

Milling lumber is one of my favorite KZfaq genres. I definitely want to see more Diesel Creek milling vids. Like that big pine log, you teased us with at the end here. I want to see it opened up and milled. It will be quite interesting to see your trees felled and milled for use on your property. Don't be hesitant, people will watch.

Keep the wood dust in a bag to dry the oil that falls on the workshop floor, it's much better than a rag. 😁

We have a old circular mill and it originally was a kit and has a willys transmission for the carriage to run the cables and my dad had it converted to a shaft drive instead of pulleys and we have it behind the 60 horse Kubota tractor and it makes that thing work!

It's going to be awesome to turn standing dead logs into dimensional lumber for the house you're going to build. There's something great about milling lumber from trees cut on your own land. Very cool, Matt. Looking forward to seeing this machine pay for itself!

Milling lumber isn’t boring to watch at all. If you do more we will Watch! Keep up the good work, you inspired me to go out on my own and build my own auto repair shop! Thanks again for the awesome content

Matt working on a new machine, not one older than him? What kind of heresy is this? But it's always great to see your joy at getting into something, you're like a kid at Christmas. Its great to see this lumber you cut so long finally becoming timber (I think that's right in American speak) it's been a long time coming. Appreciate your honesty and humility, few would admit to their mistakes the way you do. Also credit for putting that thing together without reading the instructions. Can the saw go on the other side so it ejects waste away from the shop rather than into it? Seems a shame to mess up your beatiful new shop is all.

Thank you Matt for sharing this! The inaugural edition of Lumber Creek. If you want to make more like this I will watch them for sure.

I really appreciate your time and effort in sharing these videos Matt, thank you. My only complaint is that this video could have been two hours long....I enjoyed the hell out of watching that! Please make more of those.

Matt I started watching your channel for the cool old Iron you save/start/use. I stick around because I love to see what you are up to next. The shop build, although outside of your channels purpose, is one of my favorites. So please just keep making videos of your day to day stuff. I think most of us just love to see what you are up to. ✌

21:41 When is a cliché not just a cliché? When Matt owns a machine that spawned the cliché originally, that's when!

Matt I am new to your channel and really enjoying it. I just watched this sawmill video and you commented on the grain in the wood. I am an old woodworker and have known about this for a long time, this process of wood getting aged and wet is called "spalting", woodturners especially like it. As a matter of fact I intentionally spllt wood in a lot of cases before I turn it. You never know what you will get when you cut it or turn into it. Keep up your good work...

I love it! And I'd love to see you harvest all the wood you have been storing as logs on your property! It's not boring at all. Love to see the results. Keep it up!

Congrats on finally getting your saw mill. One suggestion, I know you are enjoying the automatic feed, but in future you should keep your hands near the controls. You will invariably run into things like spikes and such that you will want to shut down immediately. Also, be mindful of the amount of sawdust you will be walking through. Looking forward to your adventures with this machine. I assume when you watched your video, you saw you knocked the base when loading the log, so may have loss your level.

Nice , relax but let's get the terms right. Slabs are first cuts to square log. May be all that comes if making timbers. Planks is what you cut after squared off. May not be mobile as chainsaw mill, but should give you good service.

It was good and different….. but I’m thinking to myself, he has time for another project?! Glad you explained why you got it…. Now have some fun!!

Matt doesn’t matter if you show the sawmill every time you use it or anything else you do it all entertaining. And I for one look forward to watching your post every week. It gives me a chance to see what a friend who always has a contagiously great attitude is up to. Keep up the great work and stay safe.

I would like more mill content! I know you figure things out quickly. Once you feel like you have a handle on this milling, please do a how to video. I know there are others, but I'd like to see yours.

Tip on work-tactics: Place the skidsteer so you can toss the waste products on the forks and the products against the workshop wall. This way, you'll facilitate work by making it easier to remove waste products, no need to place the actual products to a better drying place, and you also increase safety so you won't fall on the waste. I would also consider moving the engine control switch (ignition switch) to the operator's panel for safety and convenience. Nice mill, Matt.

Advice: buy a 12" or 14" drywall taping knife to clean the saw dust off the log after you cut it. It will save you from getting slivers in your hands. Watch Mike on Outdoors with the Morgans. He has the same mill and has a LOT of cutting videos.

Hey Matt. Congrats on the new mill. I've had mine for a couple decades. Your log was spalted, which is early decay caused by fungus, makes for some really interesting grain. If you really want to show off the grain, wet the slab and scrape the excess water off with a 12" drywall knife. Wood is much easier to mill when it's wet, go slower when the logs are dry. Not sure if you got a sharpener with it, but you may want one. You really can't cut very much per blade otherwise. Have fun! -Jon

It would be really cool to see you make something (even a workbench or storage shelves) going from log to finished product, I love your channel and always look forward to the next video!!

Rig a 5 gallon bucket on the saw dust output and you can eliminate a lot of the walking area mess while creating filler for a compost pile TN 🤠🤠🤠

Good video I for 1 could watch you cutting all day for me it so relaxing with what I am going through at this moment hope you do put more wood cutting video on . And thanks for all the videos you have help me out

No better way to start a weekend off. Matt I love what you do keep up the excellent work.

You got a love todays world😂 15 months is insane! Great video Matt!

Matt I enjoyed watch you christen your new Mill. I for one would like to watch you cut planks and store them in your 53’ Van. You could use your Mill to cut 4x4 posts for strength and build drying racks in the Van. It would be enjoyable to watch you set this up. You could cut posts and build a loft in your Garage for Storage for Zparts and Supplies to get still off the floor. I love your Series.

I milled on a dimensional mill for years. For every new job, I start with the worst logs that are easy to get at and cut some bolsters and stickers. 2nd make cribbing for the slash to easily trim it into firewood. When stickering place a sticker on each end to help prevent splitting from the end drying too fast. The width of your piles dictates the sticker length most mills have 4ft and my equipment 3ft wide piles worked best. Making these dimensions standard makes your piles neet and loading trucks and trailers easier. Placing your stickers on 2ft centers allows for stacks 8ft high because bolsters can be placed over stickers and make taller piles and straighter lumber when dry. I have seen so many get in a rush and not stack their lumber correctly and have a pile of kindling in 2 years when it has dried. Have fun!

That was a beautifully spalted log to do your first cut on Matt. Folks pay top dollar for planks off logs like that 🙂

Out of the woods KZfaq channel is the channel you kneed to watch he has a wood mixer 70 and is very informative. Also has a saw blade that he recommends

I see others have recommended a metal detector. A necessity especially when using the auto feed. You of course, are the one with the purse and know what you want with the sawmill. You may even consider investing in a jig to sharpen blade teeth at the right depth and angle. Your call, but let it remain a pleasurable side-line to your usual business.

Do shorts of making the planks for.... The trailer decks, Etc. you are right, filming every single second would be wierd, but a little of it is Diesel Creek. 🎯 Now to find suitable hardwood for the deck planks, and then load up the Kobelco and take it out behind the tractot with the new engine and transmission. And fresh tires.

Hey Matt I'm pretty sure most of your subscribers would enjoy you doing just about anything always a thumbs-up from me thanks for such a great Channel looking forward to see what you do next congratulations on your new sawmill truly hope to see more videos on it

Yes, I enjoyed that! There are many channels that mill for their homestead, but I think that they're a different genre than you, Matt. It's okay to film according to your projects, not every video is specific to the single piece of equipment , but instead to the individual project. Do as you see fit as you know we'll all watch you expand your shop and properties. Have fun and be careful! William

Matt You a hard working man. Like everything you do in your farm with the big toys. Lol. Be safe.

You should cut those sample pieces into 10 inch long squares and brand them with the diesel creek logo and give them away to your viewers, they would make a nice bookshelf piece.

Good to see you Matt, Sawmill sounds like a good investment with the Price of a Filleted Tree these Days! You are living the good life Brother, God Bless You . I have been watching since the Early Days from the Garage and knew you had a good thing. I’ll catch you on the next one, Keep it Safe Out There Sir

Hey Matt, big fan of the lumber cutting. I would love to see at least one more video especially of you learning to use it. I'm hoping to get a mill in the next few years and I'd love to see the rest of your journey.

Glad you filmed it, thanks 👍

Hi Matt , Just FYI invest in a hand held metal detector comes in handy to look for nails, hooks wire and steel that may be embedded within the log saves on blades....... you can scan the log before cutting.. cheers shouting out from Canada...

Matt, I had a cousin that built a saw mill. The bearings for the blade guide came from scrap from a local hospital after they stripped it down. He used car tires for blade pulleys, and it didn't do bad, but he just wasn't completely happy with it, so he sold it. I was in a Home Depot when I met a guy that was looking for parts to finish it up. It turns out that this was the guy that bought my cousin's saw.

I have watched quite a few YT videos of people using various Woodmizer mills, but this is the first time I have seen what a neat job they make of packing them up for transport, and someone assembling the mill. Thanks Matt for that. One thing that always strikes me as strange with Woodmizer mills is that they are designed so that the sawdust comes out the side that the operator stands. Some other mills on the market have the blade running the other way so that the sawdust is on the opposite side to the operator.😀🇬🇧

Beautiful peices from your first log and cuts!

You can use that Saw dust for tons of things also Matt 32:23 @Diesel Creek

That is EXACTLY the brand and model mill I’ve been drooling over for a while now. I REALLY hope that you do more videos of using it showing the learning process of using it!

You can always add a few of these vids in the mix, there is something very satisfying about watching wood being milled, your wife is going to see all the wonderful wood grains as you work the machine to the point of you having other projects or even better her. Always fun to watch Matt, it's been a blessing to watch you grow and to see things come to fruition, just wait until you get that wood boiler, nothing will ever go to waste. You'll be investing in a few good chainsaws but man they are worth it, go check out Joe on "Northern Seclusion" he's had his new wood burning boiler for a few months now in Minnisota running it 24/7 in 30 below weather, that'll give you a glimpse of how much energy they can produce.

Really nice acquishion!!!That sawmill can be the ultimate power tool!

I'm more into model railroading than sawmilling, but I can really relate to the excitement of unpacking and setting up a big new toy. You can use a soft household brush -- like the ones that come with dustpans -- to dust off the freshly-cut surface, then use the same brush to just smoosh on some clean water to really bring up whatever grain you have. Then you'll know what stain or varnish you need. If your slabs are stored properly that water will dry off in no time. And you are definitely going to need a sawdust-collecting system -- any old open-weave bag should work -- or your beautiful new dream shop will start getting sawdust tracked in and blown in before you know it. The collected dust can be dumnped or recycled or even composted. Great stuff.

There's a lot to learn about milling lumber, I'm sure you can make a good series of this and take us along as you learn.

Matt it’s your laid back presentation of your videos that shine through, i enjoyed the wood sawing as much as anything so keep keep on doing your thing and subscribe everyone a great channel to relax and unwind

Spalting, that unique fungal coloring is called spalting or now Spalted Ash. Spalted maple and Hickory look rather good, have not seen it in oak, pine is normally ruined if you see it.

Nice looking pattern in that wood 30:16 @Diesel Creek

Congrats! I have always wanted one of these. You have the woodlot to make good use of it.

Love seeing all the equipment helping the homestead come together. And Matt Cremora makes the wood reveal entertaining so…

Great video as always matt look forward to seeing what you build with the wood and the mill down the road 39:10 @Diesel Creek

That is the exact model i was looking at purchasing! What a coincidence. Just showed the wife this video to lobby for purchase of one soon! I better hurry if 15 month wait. My logs are stacking up. Love ALL YOUR VIDEOS!

Heck yeah Matt. Can't go wrong with a Wood Mizzer. Went to the Indy plant and got one with a buddy years ago. They pay for themselves. You can also use your outside wood stove and create a kiln. That also works well.

Nice Matt, my friend has the same one . He is always cutting for me in CT. Fyi : set up micro switches on either side of the track that will shut down the power feed.

The camera angle where the saw travels down the log to the camera would make an awesome opening shot for one of your videos !

The late great Herman Munster had the same crazy arms celebration. Love it. Yes I am that old.