Thank you Matt for proving to me that I never want to make my own flooring. Great work.

I was holding my breath when you first turned on that machine seeing that you left one of the wrenches on the top edge . I heard a small clang not the fireworks I was expecting when the wrench vibrated onto the floor. That was a close one Matt .

Never underestimate the work of an engineer. Back in 86 the 2nd of 3 times when I first worked Ford. They sent me to school to train on the SC Continental with the turbo BMW diesel engine. They had a hydro-boost master-cylinder that had such tight tolerances that if you disassembled it you couldn't fit it together because of temp changes between parts, you had to put inside parts in the freezer to fit them together every time you had to put another part inside another. It took days to assemble 1 master cylinder. And the engine was even worse because BMW doesn't waste anything and every bearing in the motor could be a different size and took 6 months to rebuild if you didn't have a selection of different parts in stock. You even had to use a micrometer to decide which of 3 different head gaskets to use or have major compression problems when done. If you ever decide to change professions the word could use someone like you to teach in a way anyone can understand, your the Neil deGrasse Tyson of woodworking.

Nice work Matt!…As a wood floor pro, I definitely can appreciate the work that goes into this! 2 things you may want to consider… •Endmatching, We only install floor boards that have all sides milled with a tongue and groove. This will help with squeaks and height differences as the humidity in your home adds or removes moisture. If you are looking to forgo that step because lack of tooling, I would for sure look to glue assist the flooring with a silane based flooring adhesive as well as nail. It’s common nowadays to glue assist any boards over 4”. •Also with regard to the white oak dust dispersion, It may add a lot of tannic-acid to the ground sometimes not allowing things to grow or killing surrounding vegetation. Food for thought. Anyway I look forward to seeing the project come together in the coming weeks and months!

Dude. So epic. You never cease to amaze me with your audacity to take on exceedingly epic projects.

The nice thing about flooring is that once you have everything set up to mill and install at peak efficiency, it still takes forever.

Next up, Matt buys a pellet press to turn his wht oak sawdust into functional pellet grill fuel

I think 14 hours set up time is actually pretty good all things considered. New machine, you had to align everything and teach yourself, not bad at all. I'm sure if you did a dozen different set ups, you would have the time down to less than 2 hours. Good job.

Matthew demonstrates the art of reducing "big" bits of timber into loads of shavings and smaller bits of perfectly formed timber 🙂

There must be three or four of you with all the work and knowledge you demonstrate in every video! I admire your work ethic!

A lot of work but worth it. In colonial days all the flooring was room length or stopped at a chosen point and the next length butted up in a straight line. Seeing this pattern 250 years later, people mistakenly thought that a wall must have been removed at some point in the homes past. As for the joints, each board was either a tongue board or a groove board and they could flip he boards end for end to keep a relatively perpendicular pattern. They did this to maximize yield of boards that were hand planed and hand jointed so that parallelism wasn’t needed. Brilliant.

Watching this makes me appreciate the 5 head moulder I run at work. Much easier and quicker to set up and make adjustments. Good job Matt!

Well done young fella For years to come you'll look down and say to yourself "I made that" 👍 Greetings from down under. 🇦🇺

If i just lived in the back yard i could grabbed a chair and sat on the outside and stacked for you & could cut some the walking down for you plus it gave me something better to do then just laying around watching all the youtube videos ! But i'm at least 6-8 hours drive from you in indiana !

Never say never! Like that 4 wheel drive fork lift. We used to rent them for installing signs. Incredibly useful and cheap to rent back in the day.

Your knowledge of machinery never ceases to amaze me. It’s just not in my wheelhouse. But I do think you could benefit from an outfeed table.

I work in a wood mill and that moulder is a small version of our machines. Many of our machines have multible top and bottom heads and run much much faster. What took you 11 hours to run one of our moulders could have probably done in about an hour or less.

I laid 260 square feet of brick flooring last year. used stones individually cleaned by hand. I'll never do it again. looks great.

Snow blower..... flippin' genius man!!!! Thanks for showing (and telling .... 14 hour set up) that machinery is not simply plug and play. The product is only as good as the woodworker is smart. Hence the reason I own no such equipment. Keep rockin' it man!!!

Just amazing perseverance . I saw on another woodworking show where the sawdust was fed and I believed compressed into balls and sold for starter wood. Making money on waste, what a concept.

I can understand the feeling taking so long to get the work started. But once it’s done you’ll have something nobody else does. That’s cool to me

Just think, when you're almost through with your project, (your home) you will have so much pride and respect not just with your accomplishments but for the home itself. Almost anybody can build a house but you're creating a home with Dignity & Respect, Character. I am most happy for you! I had not watched your videos in a while and did not know you had children. Congratulations

An amazing amount of engineering that went into that shaper. Amazing.

I demand an edge-jointing timelapse set to the Benny Hill soundtrack. 😂 This is going to make the most gorgeous floor, Matt. Can’t wait to see the install!

You should make a hydraulic wood chip press and make your own compressed wood logs with all those dust chips. It’s been proven that pressed logs, burn cleaner and much longer than regular firewood. Especially being that you live in a very cold climate.

Wow, talk about a good argument for why flooring costs what it does. Now you’re an expert on another complicated tool and you’ve shown the tool owners what it take for proper setup. That will be appreciated I’m sure.

Hi Matt, I have a mate who has large 4 sider machines that have 5 or 6 heads for additional processes when needed, and run at something like 80 metres per minute. He has a large chip extraction unit with a 64 cu metre collection bin, and when doing a large run, has the chip removal man on standby to empty the bin, go away and dump it and come back for the next. So I am not surprised at your chip collection. To keep up with that processing speed, he has two operators, one feeding and one taking off and stacking and a facility that allows the stacks adjacent to feed in and exit and forklift access to bring in new packs of timber and remove the dressed. Doing that sort of work is hard work, timber is not light and having to move it any distance just slows the process down. I am also sure that is possibly the heaviest load your workbench has ever supported. In relation to your comment about having a small gap between the meeting faces of the T&G joint, that is also done to ensure a tight top joint, because in areas that are heated boards will shrink, and show a gap, having the top side of the joint tighter than the lower minimises that problem. If the lower side is not in a heated/dry area, it can swell and make the top potentially open up as well. The V joint doesn't really achieve what you need to counter those issues and is used more where the lower face is visible for aesthetic purposes. Look forward to seeing the finished floor installed.

Matt. Great video as always you do extreme attention to detail. Matt and Andy should be jumping for joy to have you set up and dial in their machine. For all your time I think they came out the winners for the loan of the shaper.

Matt, regardless of what you are doing in your videos, you have a way of taking the viewer along with you on the journey, through the visuals and your narration. I never want to make flooring, or put steel roofing on a roof. I never wanted to, but living vicariously through your expiriences has reinforced those thoughts while being thoroughly entertained. I love your video style, and watch everything you put out because of your delivery and consistently good production. I know it takes a lot of work. Thanks much, can't wait to see the finished house (I know you cant wait for it to be finished). PS I am almost surprised you didn't start a business making artisanal MDF with all that sawdust.

WOW! I never knew that even with this specialized machine you had to put in so much work to set, check and fiddle. You must be very proud of doing all of that yourself.

I need to watch these videos in the morning BEFORE I work all day... I'm exhausted just seeing how much work this was!!! As with anything, hard work always pays off. You're going to have a beautiful floor.

Probably the most interesting video I have seen in a long time. Pretty glad I caught a lot of your Instagram posts before watching. I like that the feed is variable on that machine. Looking forward to watching the actual floor install video.

Dude you have so much more patience than me with all that calibration. Beautiful work!

I thought I would like to be a high end wood worker in my day, but after seeing what it takes to get the quality, I will enjoy seeing you doing the hard work and produce the great work you do. Thanks I now have a new perspective in wood working.

Amazing! Can't wait to see how the floors look when installed. I laughed so hard at the snowblower sequence to spread the sawdust. Genius!

I'm absolutely amazed at what can be accomplished with having the right tools! I can't even imagine doing something like that just using a router table... At probably 3-4 times longer. I'm so happy to be back onto the remodel! It seems like forever ago since we've been in your house.

You are So Amazingly Smart! You should be making those machines instead of using them. And you make it seem so simple the way you explain it. You are by far the most extremely intelligent person on KZfaq, and my favorite channel. ❤️😍

All that sawdust is a great resource for for growing mushrooms, turn waste into food. We get sawdust from a nearby flooring mill for our mushroom blocks.

Your videos are worth watching multiple times. I would like to see another "Day in the Woods". Please make a video of just a bandsaw mill cutting wood. No speed up, please. I would use it for autohypnosis induction.

Great to see a shop being used to actually create projects. Great job Matt. Thanks for sharing!

Matt, nobody can accuse you of lacking perseverance! Although I will never make my own flooring, it was super interesting seeing you work through this for the first time. Second, it's amazing how much sawdust you collected from that effort! Finally, a question.... will you be running those through a planer again? It looks like there are some rough spots.

Hey! Matt does woodworking as well as building! Who knew? 😀

I was amazed by the way you figured out how to operate that machine, down to the finicky details! I don't feel sure that I could do that by myself, even while reading the instructions.

That is a awesome piece off kit. Great job Matt regards from N Ireland

You're a perfectionist. Which is good,!!!!!!!

41:20 Glad you had the machine off when you were reaching in here, although the sound of the vacuum in the background had me a little concerned

This makes me appreciate wood floors more. Did not realize the processes you have to go through to get to the beautiful shinning floors. Was good to watch, thank you Matt.🥰

I really like your sawdust dispersal method. Brilliant!

At 15:10 the recommendation to snug down the knife adjusters is to help prevent the knives from emulating a motorized scary-go-round launching offspring projectiles in their preferred straight line through time and space at the parent controlling the RPM sort of thing.

You have the cleanest wood shop I've ever seen. Where's all the sawdust?? 😂

Greetings from the BIG SKY. September and no frost yet.

Wow! That saw dust needs to be made into biochar ! And great job setting up the machine and running all that lumber through. BIOCHAR

Many years ago I helped my brother set up an old production planer, I think from the late 1800's. It was surprisingly similar to this one, except it was driven by flat belts and was a lot bigger. We ended up driving it with a V8 engine. I liked your creative dispersal of the planer shavings. That looks like some really nice flooring.

You have an amazing wife to be putting up with a year long remodel...and your hair is all laying down and behaving!!!!😀😄

I thought stickers were alway suppose to be stacked right on top od one another. But regardless and interesting look at that machine. Once again your issues make me feel better about my wood issues. Redoing a small dust collection system and getting frustrated with adapters that I think will fit and companies not clarifying the id and OD . DAmmn. Great job I bet someone is getting anxious to see floor down. Watching this build and your barn reminded me of when my friends and I built a camp in the Adirondacks almost 50 years a go. 3800 sq ft 2 story with full cellar. We did everything except the edxcavation.. Coukd have used the teehandler for some of that work, . Stick built our truasses one friend was an engineer. Cut the sticks on the ground passed them up two stories and put them on a template for nailing. 36-36 2 story section on one side A 24 by 36 great room on the other end. Great room all knotty pine top to bottom oak flooring. 24 high peaked catheral ceiling with 8 by 14 pine beams.Transport the beam about 100 miles with pickup. Manpower lift and walls chained to cars until we could get ties in. Front made from granite blasted out of a major highwat, Surprising most about 6 - 8 inches thick some on otside of fiireplace are 2 x 3 , Inside 12 ft fireplace with same granite but smaller pieces, and a granite wall behind a pot belly stove on the opposite wall. The structure still in great shape 50 years later. Your process reminded me of so many things. Did on weekends for two years.

38:59 You need a saw dust pellet making machine. Heating fuel for a couple winters for each room of flooring.

I'm exhausted by just watching you hustle through. This flooring undertaking of yours so far exceeds the patience level I have any longer. Just amazing!

I learned over the years to be very wary of ever saying never, don’t want to have to, please no not that, and every iteration in between.

I did about 200 sf of tongue in groove Siberian Elm flooring for a playroom with a portable DeWalt 12" planer and a Porter Cable router mounted on a 10" Delta shop saw. It wasn't the easiest way to do it but it came out nice. I let it acclimate for a year, then I French polished the floor after installation. Down to 0000 steel wool 😁. My son learned to crawl and walk on that floor.

Doing your own tongue and groove is so cool. Can't wait to see the floor installation.

How interesting was that! Fascinating as I have never seen flooring produced. Great work & thanks for sharing. I have watched many of your videos in the past but always been interrupted towards the end & never gotten around to joining up. I am a disabled former Senior Master of Art (teaching) from South Australia & enjoy watching videos involving working with wood as wood sculpture was my main field of teaching. Cheers, Don from South Aust.

Greetings from the BIG SKY. Computer took a crap this last week.

Matt, Gotta love those “thingamabobers”.

That is a magnificent and terrifying piece of equipment.

I remember you installing flooring in the old house. You've come a long way kiddo! Great to see your steady evolution.

That floor is going to be better than money can buy when it is done. Great job Matt.

Wow, that was awesome Matt. What a cool machine. Thanks for taking us along and showing us how it works.

"No cameras were harmed in the making of this video." All I could think of when I saw the inside machine pics!

You’re the Man, as usual! Thanks for the excellent video. Well done!

Matt I was wondering if you knew how much saw dust you were going to get. To keep the dust collection going you could count the boards and shut it down before it over flows. I had a nice wood shop some twenty-five years ago. I used Delta power feet on my table saw and both shaders. You were smart using a deal indicator. To increase your dust collector volume, you could add a plumium after your clucking. Hung mine from the ceiling and just 4’x8’ sheets of plywood. I hung twelve bags six feet long into twelve buckets. If I emptied my cyclone on time. I never had to bother with the buckets filling up. But it gave me twice the suction. I also had mine in a room connected to my shop. It really cut down on the noise of a 12” dust collector. Back then I had to make a lot of my machines. Because it was before Utub and Facebook market place.

It was great to see you making floorboards again!

I almost bought a mp260, so glad I didn't

Matt is the modern day Norm Abram

Your sawdust can be used for wood pellet presses can turn waste products into pellets for the stove. Pills take up less space and can be used for automatic firing. and they are also CO2 neutral

I had to do the same thing to my Ridgid planer/jointer when I moved it from Phoenix to Lewistown, Mt. I even read the 'User Manual'.

I watched every minute of it with great amazement.

Holy cow, Matt you wear me out just watching. I installed hardwood flooring in my home 30 years ago and now know what it took for me to get the lumber to do it. WOW>

Thanks for taking us on this adventure. I've done some of this building of my own house, but never made the flooring. I enjoy these greatly.

Great methodology! Love seeing a tree going to good use! And oh, the creative saw dust dispersal!

You have come a long way since I last watched one of your videos (your old shop) you have a nice set up now! I’ll start watching again!!

Great attention to detail Matt I think your floor will be sensational

You show a lot of patience on camera, How is it off camera. Old saying the patience of Job, just watching wears on my patience, I can imagine with you. I guess this is a compliment on what I'm thinking your patience is.

Nice work Matt! I've had a lot of experience with high production moulders, making flooring out of reclaimed wood. So tell me, when did you notice your tongue cutter was backwards? 😜

That’s a awesome machine! Lots of setup and trouble shooting but if you were in the business and used it all the time, it would be very useful! Thanks, epic! Your floors will be awesome!

I think you should invent a wood shaving magnet that your machine would never again. Maybe you could call it a vacuum manifold magnet.

Nice job Matt, can’t wait till the Install!

Back in my youth, we would go on a snipe hunt and take care of those pests. 😊

Looks like it worked pretty well once you got the finicky set up done and dialed in. Once step closer to installing the boards as flooring.

THANK YOU!!! - for the diagrams and explanation. I was able to follow and comprehend without difficulty.

The first thing I noticed when you started the machine, was how much the the sound of the planer sounded like Flash Gordons space ship, what a memory to have a flash back from!!!

Mat great video, I was think that the wood mizer planer/molder/shaper would have been a great addition to your business at least the future. So many new houses going up could charge a pretty penny creating their hardwood floors for what they are paying for these new houses would think it would be a viable option, if I where building I would take great pride in having a solid wood hardwood floor. Thanks for you video.

Was screaming at my screen as you had the left Cutterhead in backwards AND the cutters in there backwards too. Am reliefed you sorted that out at last.

You should also get an outfeed table to prevent from getting any snipe.

Please do a short on making "stickers". If the sides are not parallel, the slabs will be twisted. If they are not all the same thickness, the slabs will be wavey.

Another great video Matt .

Awesome stuff Matt! 😃👍🏻👊🏻

Well done. Nice job!!!

It's looking so good and getting so close!

Cool machine!

So awesome thanks for the link