where's the machine that twists the 2x4s for Lowes or Home Depots?

Am I the only one who knows nothing about logging or lumber who still finds this interesting and fascinating AF? 🤔

Mark you truly are a master Sawyer with your mill. I've watched you and others for quite a while and you're the best. I always admire the relationship and communication you and Eddie have. God bless you guys.

Great video Mark, turning a big fugly log into usual lumber, thanks for sharing

I quit school and took a job at a lumber mill, being not a large guy I failed the green chain and was put in the planer and molding mills, best decision of my life I was able to buy a fancy car etc at only 18 years old, of course school is good but a guy working hard is also good i have great respect for the people who saw the wood we all use, its hard work no matter what department you work in.

I've said it before, Mark. But your thorough experience really shows up big time when you saw a large log like this. Cut by cut, you make the best decisions on the best way to process the logs. You get the most out of them, with little waste. Good job!

You made that look way to easy. Wouldn't it be nice if every log went that smooth? Nice sawing Mark.

Smooth operation, but I saw a lot of nice beams turned into 2x4's. Guess that was wat the customer wanted. 🌲🌲🌲🌲

Hi there, Buzzsaw! Thanks for making an appearance! It was good to see you.

Those big logs are a lot easier to cut and turn on y'all's mill than it is on my mill for sure. Enjoyed the video guys!

I’m home with Covid and have had your videos playing on my television since 5 this morning. Watch them everyday of life. Need to make a trip and check everything out

Amazing how many experts there are in the field of sawmilling !

You guys are living ✨️ the life! God bless you! ❤😊

My great granddaddy ran a sawmill in my home town of Sharon, Tennessee. It was gone before I was born in 1952. I really enjoy these videos. Keep it up! God bless!

Mark L'm glad I built a custom band mill that I can saw a 36 inch log by 21.5 feet + long! Some times I thought I wish I had made it for 48 inch; until I think about turning that size log at 74 years old and 130 pounds! Of course I did get a 4500 hundred winch and made it so it mounts on mill to turn bigger stuff! Have fun and keep making sawdust!

Thanks for bringing me along.. Love these videos.

A very enjoyable video, thanks for sharing.

Wow!! That's log I can watch all weekend. That will definitely get the bus motor all warmed up. Also, those items you were showing in the beginning all looked like craftsman workmanship. Very nice.

That was some fancy whittling on that big log Mark. Thanks for sharing. Hope the eye is healing.

Great job cutting them logs, and great job showing and telling. Keep up the good work cutting,love to see that wood getting cut in to lumber. Thanks for showing the great video,have a great day see y’all next time see ya bye.

love those big logs, nice job mark.

I grew up working at my father's sawmill in early 60's until 1970 when he got a town job. We lived in West Central Indiana in Parke County Indiana. The county still has 31 covered bridges. The sawmill was a four head block Sinker Davis Sawmill made in Indianapolis. With some maneuvering, it was possible to saw a 26' log. It was amazing to see the amount of automation at this mill, especially the log turner and automatic log dogs. My first job at the mill was skidding logs and positioning them on the mill skids. I used a big Massey Harris tractor with a front loader. I also used a small Oliver dozer. The little dozer could push a lot more than it could pull. The mill also had an edger where we could length wise trim slabs and bigger pieces into different board widths.

Great clip Mark and crew, that was a monster of a log Watched all the way Happy weekend guys Tony

Nice job of whittling down that huge pine logs into usable lumber.

i can watch this all day long -- it sooths the soul and gladdens the heart : )

Mark let Mr Eddie know to never put his hands anywere there is a moving saw blade. what could of happened if his sleve of his shirt got caught on the blade and pulled him into the blade. I dont want any of you guys getting hurt I enjoy your videos you guys put out. Please always be careful because we need all of you going home the same you came. God Bless you all and keep keeping me entertained love what your doing.

I am 65 years old now, but when I was 17, I worked at a sawmill for the summer, it was hard work for sure. It was interesting to watch your video and remember things. I would have liked a quick view of the lumber that came out of the mill in this video though.

👍👌👏 That was definitely better than quarter sawing this big log. Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.

Send those boards with the bark to Lowes!

I'm 70, but as I watch this, completely transfixed, I'm back to being 9 yrs old, watching powerful machinery do what it's designed to do. Making huge wood cuts like a hot knife going through butter. I've never seen wood go through a saw at, like, 5 mph. This, of course, is no longer new technology, but it sure the hell is impressive, nonetheless!

Hi Mark, Ed, ZZ, & everyone. Great video. Beautiful lumber. I didn't see any defects either. Love the gnomes. 👏👏👏😆😆😆😁😁😁 Have a good remainder of the week everyone. 😍😊😉👍❤️💜🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🌲

Interesting log. Fun to watch!

I am from west Virginia. Love hearing the booms from the turning of the big logs.

I worked at a mill like that. Some of the best years of my life

I remember some of the big ones. Good for a cold sweat if you need one. Thanks, Mark and crew. Doing the deal all the time!

As someone of Maltese descent, I was thrilled to see the flag of Malta (white & red) on the wall above the saw blade.

Hi from Oz! Nice Bush mill Content! Enjoy! Large Corp. Mills in the modern age, may just Chip the Whole log. as is. For Chip Export. See as Pine.? or else Throw thru a Large Quad Saw, Computer control To size what slabs of the log they want!. to suit timbers they require.with further size milling. high speed!. Yeah probably Debark the whole log, for pine bark beforehand, for value add, for Horticulture sales etc. Enjoyed this Video! Thanks!

That Garbage looked like perfect live edge "BOOM" plaque material.

Love to watch this mill running. I also love the saw marks on a board. Band saw doesn't leave that circular mark. When I make anything, I make sure that I don't sand or plane them off. Looks older that way. Any old lumber almost always have these marks on them. Just a fun time watching this mill.

I love this I was a head sawer 30 years this man is as good as it gets ,takes pride in his work,thank you for this awesome job

Just awesome Mark.

That was a big one. I'm glad that you were up for the challenge. Good to see you. You sure have good fans.

Absolutely fascinating. Thank you.😊

Happy worker happy shop.

I understand your blade wasn't tall enough to to quarter saw, but I am curious why you cut that down into such little sticks? Surely you could slab out some X12's, X10's, X8's, and X6's. Wider wood brings the prettier penny afterall. Unless maybe this was a custom order cutlist. Anyway thanks for sharing, it was fun to watch.

Anyone besides me see the foot long slip of wood wedged up against the saw blade starting at 21:55 ??? Very surprised Mark or T.H.E. Eddie never saw it !

Thanks for sharing. It’s nice to see the process with a wheel instead of a band.

Thanks for the video mark,nice size log good job whittling it down. Good to see ZZ back with no restraints on 😅

What percentage of that log was waste I wonder? What percentage typically is waste?

Awesome work

very very nice job! you know this mill better every time i watch

Living the dream ! Nice profession !

Wow!!! That's a big log. You guys are amazing!

Fabulous job. I'm stunned at how well you guys work together to get the job done. Greetings from Australia.

That was enjoyable to watch. But it would have been nice if you showed all the lumber created at the end

Amazing process! Quite fascinating! Thoroughly enjoyed the process! 😀

That was a beautiful pine log.

This video show that you are an artist.. definitely one of my favorites so far.. great watching you at the helm.

Loved the video. The large logs that create a challenge are awesome. Thanks.

I knew a guy who worked at a saw mill. He had a bad accident and cut off the whole left side of his body. He's all right now.

Nice work, love from Scandinavia.

excellent work gentlemen, spent all day weds getting caught back up after spending 2 weeks in the hospital, was nice to watch you guys again

I love it 😊

I bet that smells really good!

Good job guys! Lots of lumber with that one! Don’t forget the batteries for that temp scanner! I have one like it for my Bullet casting. Take care and stay safe! God bless!✝️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Can you imagine those boards dried then put on a interior wall with a stain. The knots and the saw kerfs showing! Beautiful.

That was an incredible video. Wow, the amount of knowledge to get outta bunch of 2x4's.

Awesome show. Thanks for sharing education videos with nature woodworking.

Great video guys

Nine o’clock in the morning having a brew and watching you guys that’s nice timber coming off the mill, this retirement isn’t all it’s cracked up to be you never know when your finished because you never know when you started , todays job getting the counter sunk set screws out of a twenty four inch planer shaft there all chewed up and there’s three blades and there’s nine in each blade , I’ve got the shaft out on the bench few have snapped off some are easy there’s no rush so it could be a two day job , you guys have nice day

I always wondered. Thank you for my beautiful deck and all the trips to home depot, with the lumber pushing through my CUV window on the highway. Good times

I really enjoyed the sound of that 2 stroke jimmy singing away there, very soothing. G great to see the Australian flag to mate.

Holy! my home made gauge adds the width of the blade and the lumber size and accounts for every cut, and I always get 1 inch strapping first, and after I square it up i get exactly what I planned with my home made gauge. You can make your own easy. And the only waste I have is saw dust. Also I start by canting the small end over, and that is my first cut and everything after is exactly 90 degrees to it. As long as your having a good time and as a rule. I like to have a totty as well to warm me up on them fall days when the bugs are gone. I also noticed how many friends like to bring their logs to my house and buy me a beer lol.

Fascinating - always wondered how this was done. Cool stuff guys!

Yessir!🤗🤠👍this is beautiful! Gotta love! Imagine some of that stained and in your house!!!! Man!!!🤗🤠👍

I used to watch my local sawmmill as a child around 1968. They ground off the bark first, and then just tore it up with the saw. Your method takes a lot more prep !

Your video is very good sir, inspiring. I really like disc type saw blades like that

I was a sawyer from the time I was 18 years old until I was 29. My boss would have my kick my butt if I took that many shims to get to the cant that I needed to cut multiple dimensional lumber.

Another thought about the light. Mark. If there is a power supply out there, maybe a small light mounted on the pointer so it doesn't throw a shadow on the dial.

Very cool!

I could watch this stuff for HOURS!!!

Nice work

fun to watch! i'm 60 now but back in the 70's and early 80's i worked at a saw mill in minnesota. looks like some really nice machinery you have!!!!

I loved watching The Real McCoy. Mike and Mother could get some wood out of that little sawmill. Glad I found you'll. Dan 🇺🇸

The comment about twisted lumber pulled my heart strings and gave me goosebumples! Ive only seen you have twisty springy problems but a few times. Its hiw you run your carriage load huh!

Really liked the video as usual. TY for bringing me along. :) May have to rename the town to "Nome Village" lol Lots of lumber from that ole log., from SE Texas Bear

I grew up watching my grandfather and dad run a head rig with a circular saw like this. After that mill closed I worked in a big mill with 2 band saws on head rigs and a third band saw cutting the cants into usable lumber. We never cut pine into 8 quarter only 4 quarter. Brings back fun memories.

very amazing crew and lumber mill

Brings back memories from the 70's. I used to live in a small-town, Bunbury, which in those days had a few mills in the area. A couple of the young fellas that worked there had muscles on their muscles. You'll be able to get some 2x1's out of some of the off cuts, maybe even a couple of pieces of siding. 😁😁

Makes me proud to see that Oklahoma flag. We’ve had a very tough few days, since hearing one of r Oklahoma Legends has died from cancer. RIP Toby Keith & boomer Sooner baby. God bless y’all. Love ur videos

Sawing up a big ass Hemlock up into boards with your buddies. Sounds like fun, I'm jealous

Really like the edger videos, ran one for two years,it had foot controls with the lazer sights, but it was a big conpany,,yours does a great job,,tell everyone hello, and keep-on keeping-on,,love the videos,,

I worked in a sawmill as a young feller and loved every minute of it, wish I could back even if only for a few days. I'm sure you older guys know what I'm talking about.

You make this look easy.

Awesome job 👏 👍...the bigger the log the better the video 😊

Amazing!

I really like this one 🎉

At the end you make a tooth pick . Just kidding . This is very interesting . Good vid .

Goodb to stop by once in a while Mark. My sawing days ended when my R leg was amputated.

These videos are very popular with baby termites. They usually watch them on Saturday mornings, to see where their food comes from. It's very educational, so when they are adults, they know exactly how to chew boards from the inside, leaving no trace of their destruction under several coats of paint.