Power pole milling is SHOCKING!

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Жыл бұрын

Day two of milling these cedar power poles. The yield we are getting is great and I can't wait to start surface planing it all and see what we can make from these beautiful boards.
#Woodmizer #sawmill #powerpoles #cedar

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@Sinarglondong Жыл бұрын

very entertained to see and happy

@chrismayes2149 9 күн бұрын

I would love to mill all of these in a shop.

@gregwitkamp5583 Жыл бұрын

I had a bunch of poles like them sawed froom a power line that runs through our farm and built my front porch. 8x8 post full dem. 2x8 rafters. Spoke date tags went back to 1942

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Yeah, I’m looking forward to using this stuff. Also looking forward to sawing more of it!

@herbertramsey6611 Жыл бұрын

I love that sawmill

@wilmamcdermott3065 Жыл бұрын

I did 1 power pole. With a carbide blade. Made beautiful lumber

@dubya2514 Жыл бұрын

Best money I ever made with my mill was cutting those into tapered lap siding.👍

@johnsmith-xr6qy Жыл бұрын

GREAT! I see yu are wearing a respirator or fancy dust mask. That dust will make life difficult for a young man not to mention a "mature" man. Great video work. Lots of good views of what is happening. I think I smell the wood being sawn! love it!

@peterwill3699 Жыл бұрын

I imagine that the injected creosote would raise heck with saw blades with the poles we have in Massachusetts.

@Synthesetic23 Жыл бұрын

Moving in a couple weeks to 80 acres of Western Red Cedar in NE WA. Really looking forward to getting started doing some milling!

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Sweet! Do you have a mill already?

@johnlaw8760 Жыл бұрын

You speculated they don’t use western red cedar for poles anymore, to the contrary, here in north Idaho, there are multiple pole yards that manufacture almost exclusive cedar poles.

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

I did not know that!

@PineInTheAshMilling Жыл бұрын

I got a load of red cedar poles,some are 38 inch diameter ,nice video.

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m just starting to use two cameras and trying to get better at editing. My next video is of planing some of these boards and I think it’s better, we’ll see!

@WideCutSawmill Жыл бұрын

Nice title. 😂👍🏼

@TheWhitetailrancher Жыл бұрын

Either you forgot to mention it or I missed it but utility poles are not only FREE they will deliver them to you at no cost as well. I cut all of the siding for my entire farm using old itility poles! not a small task house and 5 out buildings!

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

I haven’t even inquired about that yet, but I’m sure going to!

@truereality620 Жыл бұрын

By all means, let us know the process by which to aquire these poles!

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

@@truereality620 I believe that a lot of the utility companies and the municipalities often just have them stacked up in their yards. Costs money to have them ground up or hauled to a landfill. I’m going to investigate next week.

@drobidoux69 Жыл бұрын

did you check how much moister was still in the wood? or do you think because of the age that it could be dry enough to use right away?

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Yes I did. The pieces that were above ground were about 8-10% and the but ends that had been buried were nearly 20%.

@fricknjeep Жыл бұрын

hi there i saw a lot of utility poles . they are the best . poles are graded . they are in the public and hold up high voltage wires , , and do make great looking boards . i show them being sawed from time to time on my channel , been doing a lot of chipping of the slabs , they also make nice mulch in some spots . well done john

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Thank you. Yeah, I’ll take all these big ones I can get. I did try a couple standard poles from the city but they were just too treated and of course a lot of nails and staples.

@piratecat5649 Жыл бұрын

Have you come across all the small alum tubes all through them with poison skull and cross bone tags where they pump the anti insect stuff in them?

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Yes, we did. There were plastic plugs in the bases and when we pulled them out we found the aluminum tubes. They'd been there for a long time and were empty. Another reason why we only use the bases for posts and outdoor type projects!

@rayboucher479 Жыл бұрын

I think clear means no nots not tight nots !

@skookumsawmilling7653 Жыл бұрын

Yes, it does. Some were clear and the majority were tight knot.

@woodcuttingmaster Жыл бұрын

Showing my video

@herbertramsey6611 Жыл бұрын

It looks like u saw dow buy prosper Washington

@ShowCat1 Жыл бұрын

I don't know what state you are in, but When I was in Texas it was against the law to mill old power poles due to the EPA's problem with creosote. We did it anyway.

@VR-mm4ys Жыл бұрын

Don't like the cantilevered setup on wood mixer mill it torques and the stability sucks, the old ones with seats even worse, guy shots on it makes a clapboard. Dual station bandsaw will cut truer. Had one, stooped hiring the woo d mixer guy.