You have a great channel. I just found you 2 days ago. Great mixing. I feel like I am right there. I'm going on 78 years, a veteran of Korean War. Handicap legs using crutches. I am working on using solar. Built my Alaskan chainsaw mill, when I cut the first log my dreams will be answered. (Oh,I have put in for 134 years before I rest.) I love YT!

Non-propane Coleman stoves use Coleman fuel or Amoco white gas. These stoves are great for camping or cooking during power outages.

Morels on your property is a true score. I'd be hiking your woods for sure with a plastic bag in my back pocket.

Much better, I didn’t even nod off once. 😅great job Meg, on replacing the valve stem.

You kids are for sure the high lite of my night... LOL... I love you kids so much. For some odd reason when I've had a physically UGLY day, After watching y'all's videos I feel better.... I guess it's all the laughter medicine y'all pump out... Thanks for my weekly dose... LOL!!!!

Fantastic job on the Arduino controller for your sawmill. Plus you showed other sawmill owners how to do the conversion step by step. You even provided a wiring diagram as well as the Arduino code. It is a joy to watch it work so smoothly. With the Arduino one can very cheaply computerize almost any task. I bought several of the bare Atmel 328-P chips and usually build my own boards. I do not really save money but I have made some tiny custom boards for my own use. You two continue to amaze me. I know you want to start working on your house as soon as possible and I look forward to watching as it is being built.

I think your turtle is on a pack trip.

White gas is what Dad used in his Coleman stove. Pour in the white gas pump up to pressurize the tank and cook away

Greetings from the BIG SKY, again.

Really enjoying the diy tech on this. Looking forward to you putting a roof over the sawmill. Meg will make sure it looks classy, from an architecture perspective. The big win is getting out of that VA sun, it'll kill ya.

Also, ask people for their opinions and suggestions this will your your KZfaq analytics and I want to see you do good I’m watching love love love you channel Way to go Paul from Southern Connecticut

Greetings from the BIG SKY.

I'd imagine a lot of pride driving a load of wood I'd cut up to a house site I'm building.

love all the old tools and whatnots we had one of those Coleman stoves I still might have it in storage somewhere 😂 great episode y'all can't wait until y'all start on the office and yalls home but I enjoy seeing all the prep work that y'all are doing... I knew what kind of shrooms they were as soon as I saw em 😂 that's really cool that they are growing on yalls land~ I can smell em already getting all sauteed in some butter 🤣

Awesome! Keep it up.

Love the Bluebird

That Coleman stove uses something called White gas. My dad had one when I was growing up and we went camping. At one time you could buy it at a gasoline station. Now they sell coleman fuel at Home Depot and Lowes.

Thanks again for the videos, I really enjoy watching you guys. One concern I would have about removing all of the stickers from the finished wood; when the Lumber is all stacked together - I think there's a chance of mold or mildew growing on the surfaces of your finished wood.

Nice morels yum

My dad had a coleman camp stove. He rigged it to run off a propane tank. We canned outside so it didn't heat up the house. And fried lots of fish outside too. Hope you make good memories with it!

The reason you have a variation in MC is that you should try and direct the circulating (all of it if poss) through the stickers- viewing your kiln the air has ample opportunity to take the path of least resistance so this can result in uneven drying- you can purchase an air velocity meter to measure. Ideal is 300 to 600 feet per minute. Another reason may be that the kiln temperature may have been too high initially and you "case-hardened" the material actually locking the moisture in the piece of wood.

One of the problems with your tree looks like the same problem we had with one in my youth. My grandfather came by one day and took a look at it. He didn't say anything but walked to his pickup and pulled out about five feet of rusty chain and laid it on the ground around the trunk. He told us to leave the chain (wrapped twice around the tree on the ground not touching the trunk) and wait till next year for our fruit. He died later that winter but the very next year we had a large crop of fruit. It has had the best crop ever since. When I see fruit, but it dies before getting ripe or even having the flower but no fruit, I do like my grandfather and lay some rusty metal or chain around the plant, and I always have good fruit the next year. Your problem could be lack of the right minerals. I think you found the pollination problem.

having dried a lot of lumber, measure a board not on the edges, measure a number of places not super near the edge. The edge will dry out faster than the middle. Also, lumber curling/checking/ etc is due to the board drying or taking on water UNEVENLY not heating and cooling as I have heard on other channels. the best circumstance is to keep the stickers so you get airflow on all sides of the boards until you use them.

Good Vid Guys. Thanks very much. Yum morels

I like old tools and hope you can have a display some day with what they are. Watch out for breathing in that sawdust!

Jon, you can move the push handle on your sawmill up about six inches, giving you that much more cutting height. Just take the two bolts out, move up to the bottom of the top frame & drill two new holes to bolt it to. With my 420 engine the exhaust does rub when I go that high, but it seems to just be a slight contact and does no harm. Plus, you're never at maximum height for long anyhow. Now, I need to look deeper at your Arduino idea...

I got one of those Coleman stoves in the front porch. Mine uses coleman fuel. Great for paddlefishing on the Missouri River in spring.

Awesome excellent and exciting

Hi guys, I bet you are just itching to get cracking on the house site. Getting the "office" up and running first is a great idea. Thinking about the log stops on your mill. If you weld additional receiver tubes inboard of the existing tubes, you could use them to situate the cant on the mill to miss the triangular pulley belt obstruction under the saw.. That way you could cut more boards before having to reset your "zero". Cheers, EJ

The wire clips on the wind deflectors on the Coleman stove slip into slots on each side of the stove. The slots are near the front corners on the left side and right side. I have a stove just like that one. They work great.

Garbage is a good idea for those pawpaw fruits to get pollinated.

You did an extremely good job giving us an idea. Hope you have at least bought a level system for your house pad. It is an item you will always use. There are cheap ones out there. I have a spirit level on an adjustable level stand with a water bubble and that works fine. I have had that for 30 years and it does the job just like a posh one. It has a laser eye on it to give you the height. Nice set of Dado blades you got from wherever. Want to seal them away from moisture and can be useful.

I agree with the linear encoder idea. The encoder could also be used to E-stop in the case there is height travel when there should not be ( drift while cutting) or no travel when there should be as in the case the brake is inadvertently left on.

Regular unleaded gas works in the Coleman stove. They used to call it white gas back when regular gas had lead added. I remember my parents had a stove like that.

I have a stove like yours, too.

I have that specific model of coleman's stove in my front porch from Paddlefishing camp.

I've seen a good 60 years of tire changes and I never thought to cut the air nozzle off either.

I think my late dog would be about as useful as Matty at finding morels.

Hey John and Meg, i have been enjoying your videos very much! **** your paw paw tree, i have never seen them (I am from Northern Ontario Canada). A bunch of episodes prior you were digging your spring area. You mentioned it was full of cloves……i think its paw paw stems to the flower, not cloves. ;)

Hey John the little Coleman stove you found is pretty old I have a few of them it's a kerosene stove from 1954 to 1965 replace the 0 rings in it and you can still use it I use mine still my grandfather bought it for the camping trip he took my dad on very collectable piece

Think the way you have the kiln set up. You bring the air in at the top and circulate it around the pile, in at top around the stack and out at the bottom. The inside of the stack gets less of the moving warm air so it is going to dry slower.

That funny shaped tool with the tear drop end is a foot pedal from a piano. The thing before the piano foot pedal is used to grab a cable to pull it through conduit and the thing that Meg called a ratchet thingey is a chain load binder used to tie down heavy loads and are rated for 10,000 lbs.

If you lossesn the nuts before you take the vehicle off the ground the tire won't spin on you. The lift it up. & finish lifting.. put a small block under the valve handle for more leverage. 😊

You can fill the tank up with air & use it for an emergency tire air up thing on the mountain when you don't have electricity. Air it up from your shed. If the motor doesn't work I mean 😅.

I think I have one of your 'old time' ratchet sets in my Craftsman. I use white gas for my Coleman stuff.

I've always gone under the premise that 150 nanoseconds would maybe be possible, but rarely.

Jon and Meg. If you want to get the flies to pollinate the pawpaw, perhaps hanging several trash cans up in the tree would improve your chances. Just a passing thought to ponder. Regards Robin.

We'd pick that mushroom in Montana.

I am jealous of your neighbors gifts to you, love old iron

Really nice solution on that sawmill!! Perhaps autofeed/return is a thing in the future??

Always cut the old valve stems from the inside of the tire. It keeps the blade away from the operator.

Hi Jon LOVE YOUR Video’s ! …just curious, how come you have not built a structure over the wood mill ? So you can mill in semi bad weather and protect the mill, especially the head end, that you have put so much time & money into.

Coleman fuel is branded white gas. You can use unleaded gas in place of it but I wouldn't use the fuel with ethanol. Just use the Rec90 that you would use in your chain saw.

They still sell the Coleman, white gas in liquid form for camping stoves, and the mantle lights

Hi Jon and Meg when we do our Stacking we leave the stickers in, it help for the air flow and also help dry the board faster then we ratchet strap them together. Also if you don't have stickers in the board might mold. IRON AND OAK SAWMILL DEB

Most boys I've seen around here call those 'tracks' morel mushroom hunting alerts.

That stove takes a gas called White gas. It's pretty sensitive. Will exploded if not handled properly. When I was a scout leader we would not even let's the kids work with those. It's a pressurized system is why it can be a problem.

We all need a Meg. Jon 3D print one.

hey there you go, lay two skids apart screw down your first cuts making one large pallet stack your wood and now you can move the whole bundle at once. get a plastic pallet bander and strap it down.

Jon amaco auto gas use to have a grade that was called white gas that worked in the camp stove

I went crawling thru the willows of Slippery Anne collecting morrells. Poundage. The spores of mushrooms travel in the wind.

Hi guys. Love your channel. Hope all is well. i have the HF sawmill too, but haven't set it up yet :) Question: would there be an easy way cut a roof angle slab off of a log ... if I wanted to cut the roof angle on my ridge pole, in order to lay flat trusses on the ridge pole beam, would that be a relatively easy thing to do or not? would you need to build some type of jig? or would you be able to easily achieve it on your mill? Thanks.

That clamp looking like c clamp but has cross bars is part of inner tube hot patch kit one would prep tube caning area to be patches the hot patch would held in place by clamp the patch had metal pice that held the material that would be lite with match or other ignition source when it burn/heating complete and cooled remove clamp abd the metal piece hold heating material would also come off leaving the red real rubber patch on tube

Moisture meter was used in WW2 As a torture device.

The highlights of the videos are to watch the dogs chewing on each other.

I agree that cutting more stickers seems to be a waste of time but, the lumber will continue to dry in the air. And, you might develop mold between the not-quite-dry boards. Not so important for the form wood but you don’t want the start of mold in your new home.

What happened to the sawdust bucket and the retractable power cord?

White gas is what you're thinking of sir. As always good luck and God bless and stay safe out there

Naphta for the stove and that air compressor i be weary about the air tank. After so many year they rust inside and can burst. Do a search on the tube and there's a few people that had incidents with old compressor.

once it sits outside wont it be wet again quickly ?

The "ratcheting thing" is a "Chain type, Load Binder called a Cargo Tie Down.

Weather guard for the control box?

Adopt the winch to the sawmill so you won't have to push😊

You should look into bees and honey. My uncle in Red Lodge turned me on to bees that he had. 6 columns as I remember.

I hope you use live edge siding.

Ya know what, it would be a wonderful thing if Ms. Meg would show her lovely face more in these videos. Even if your lovely wife sets up a tripod to film herself editing the videos. WOW, and I haven't eve posted this comment yet, THANK YOU! Here is a thought for you, search to find out "How to transplant and grow Morel Mushrooms" so that when you finish your home you can grow them right outside your back door, or front door! And who knows, maybe your girls can set up a stand and sell a few hundred as a side business.

I've always called Coleman fuel 'white gas'.

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Methylated spirits is what it's called in Australia

It might be better if you put long boards on bottom short boards on top!

When she starts wearin a hat with a fish hook in it, I'd start worryin.

Hi Jon, I'm trying to copy your arduino sawmill. I've got your code but I'm experiencing some difficulty working out the button debounce code to add to your existing code. I'm sure it's easy but I'm finding it challenging. Been watching lots of your videos and my wife and I love the content. Kind regards, Rohan

You get the girls used to fixing stuff and you'll be in tall cotton.

Its called whie gas long before propane

Jon, I wish you would wear gloves when handling all that raw lumber. Protect your hands always.

colman uses naphtha ...... gas or diesel ......three fuel stove ....... have one ..........great white north ......S

Tire air smells great. It is like the country. Tires are made of different rubber substitutes or even actual rubber. Now, stay with me here. You are a tech so you should have had molecular science at sometime. Atoms have components, such as neutrons, protons, positrons, and electrons. The individuals are just atoms, molecules are formed when you have a group of atoms that stick together. Without going into a week long lecture, molecules use ionic charge similar to magnetic attraction to hold atoms together to form the molecules. Think of the atoms as different size round beach balls. Some balls have lots of electrons in orbits around the nucleus, sort of like the solar system. The nucleus is in the center like the sun and the electron orbits (called valence bands) are around it like the orbits of the planets. The more electrons (planets) that are in the atom the bigger the radius from the nucleus to the outside of the atom, Hey don't leave yet I am almost done. So think of the rubber tire as one big molecule that is solid but not impermeable (Permeation: Tire rubber is not entirely impermeable, meaning air molecules can escape through the tire’s sidewalls over time. This gradual air loss, known as permeation, is a natural occurrence and can lead to a slow drop in tire pressure, even without visible damage or punctures). That is it in a nut shell but more detailed description of the process follows. The "air" inside are random non-connected molecules with very weak or no attraction to each other. I put quotes around "air" as it is a combination of Oxygen and Nitrogen and other stuff but about 78% nitrogen and 21% oxygen so total about 99% . These air molecules have loose atoms of a size that is very small nitrogen has a weight of about 14 amu with 7 electrons and oxygen weighs about 16 amu and hold 8 electrons. Now, this will seem a little bit backwards but, bear with me here. The atomic bonds (gravity, electron pull ionic pull, magnetic pull basically the strength of the bond) between atoms in the molecules of the air are different. Just as the tires are solid but not impermeable, the air is loose and randomly dispersed so the attraction between the elements in the various molecules are different causing the molecular bonds to expand or contract according to the individual characteristics of the basic elements. OK, here it is. The oxygen molecules bind two oxygen atoms to form the basic molecule and the nitrogen molecule is larger because of the number of atoms in the molecule. The "solid" tire is not really solid. Remember the beach balls. Think of the rubber tire a made up of very large beach balls, if you drop a golf ball (oxygen molecule only made up of two Ox atoms) on top of a pile of beach balls, it drops gradually through as it finds the gaps between the round surfaces of the larger beach balls. However, if you drop a soccer ball (nitrogen molecule) on the pile it just stays because it is to big to move through the gaps. Thus over time the Ox is leaked through the rubber and the nitrogen stays. If you fill your tires with a very high concentration of nitrogen the tires will not deflate over time as there is very little Ox to leak out through the impermeable rubber of the tire. 🤓

Too bad you can't use 'fast forward' with stacking for real.

So I'm not the only one who has an issue with packaging stickers.😠

I would not trust the integrity of an old rusty air tank. A failure is a dangerous explosion....possibly fatal. Please be careful. New air compressors are relatively inexpensive.

it still looks better john deere green

I believe the Coleman stove runs off of kerosene.

White gas

You will come to regret doing away with stickers....asking for fungus growth in the timber.

white gas

In today's culture you are flying in the face of duplicating your 'stickers' just to save time?

Just a fact that you take the stickers off and a few other things that you do and you have a beautiful better half it makes me really really think that we have a lot in common. Yeah we couldn’t have been who we are without our wives I think really wish that, her and I had done more like this but we have a beautiful home and you know the horse in the yard but definitely take advantage of having the wife in the shots. I hate the same butt man it’ll it’ll crank up your numbers 73’s from southern. cT