Addressing many of the comments here, y'all realize it's Pine right? Not applicable for many of your suggestions. But we appreciate your efforts😊

This log should have been given to you. It took more time than you could make from it. Love the way you are trying to get what you can!

The girls are doing a great job working together with the machine and the camera work. Good video.

There is nothing better then a informative talk from such a knowledgeable person! Em is a keeper! She was not only taught well, but listened and learned. Then her 10 billion brain cells took over and you see the results! Her sisters and brothers are her equal. We are all given gifts in life , and she is ours!

This type of log is the reason we use a 56" circle headsaw to open the logs. Then send it to one of two band resaws. Saying that, and with 30 plus years of sawyer experience. I've always opted for putting the highest pat of the crown at about 22 deg. off top dead center, taking a few cut, and going to face 3. I understand your dogs may not have the holding power for this. I cut a 1face to 3face, then 2face and end up on the 4th face. This consistently gives higher yield than the 1,2,3,4 cutting solution. I've done yield studies on both methods, and with an industrial circle mill and pneumatic dogs, this method proved best. I'm not saying that is the safest method for your situation, but I'm glad to see that you've recognized and addressed the issue. Smooth sawing. Nd

That's a great firewood log.

Congratulations on 70 plus! Hoping for double that for you!

They typically become firewood in my yard.

Looks like a prime specimen for firewood.

Hi emerald you were amazing today you really understand your work correct a log is not easy. Love it

Em, you do have a real good eye for woodworking. Straight line every time.

Nice job, Emerald. My grandfather had his mill back in the day when the blade was "round" and the teeth replaceable. It was amazing to watch him work with bad logs and end up with some pretty spectacular lumber.

Hahaha. I started watching this shit because I cut firewood. Then I'm in to wood processors. Now I'm here. Love it.

Nice to see Emerald's presentation technique improve with time. You give great and clear information. There are no pauzes that don't need to be there in the flow of the video. Very professional editing. Keep going!

Whoever put this young lady in this presentation knows what they’re doing. As she matures, with more wisdom, she will be a fantastic spokesperson for the logging industry. Reco - gloves, goggles, protection footwear.

Enjoy your content. Thanks for mixing things up so we not only learn your daily life but learn about you and your personal life a little. Keep it up... some channels are doing good in a watchers life and yours is one of them.

"It is what it is" - I can't stop saying that phrase my self now!!!!! Emerald - you are changing the world!

Something to think about, if the “bump” is severe enough you can take it down an inch or 3/4 at a time and get one or two live edge slabs that are live edge the whole way around, and then continue just as you did, they might make good live edge cutting boards and it’s just a product of milling a log like that!

This is one of your best videos so far! You provided a great explanation about how you deal with something out of the ordinary and maximise value. Well done!

Perfectly straight for the home centre

Emerald, “Bain of our existence!” Wow, not many people your age understand that expression! How smart you are in addition to your other talents! Nice job today!

Great job explaining the process used to work through a banana shaped log. Today, I worked through one banana log 20 footer, with a twisting action at the small end. Relieving the tension and compression inside the log was a challenge while working toward a stable cant. Your camera and sound person earned an A+.

So nice to see an ACTUAL 2 x 4👍

🇨🇦 Great job as always girls! Love the camera angles and the sound of the saw.

randomly got recommended this. what an experience

Thank you Emerald. I've a new found respect of the furniture builders. Of the woods in Arizona of Ironwood and Mesquite for both trees that extreme warped twisted and bent limbs. Bowing of the limbs is normal. Yet they still manage very beautiful pieces of furniture. I suppose I never really thought about it. Since in mining beams of Oak, Ironwood and Mesquite are treasured. Although rare these days. I thank you for enlightening my understanding of the difficulties you face. Excellent video.

This young lady knows what she is talking about and to speak off the cuff and with out a script this show your true knowledge of milling

Great info for this guy. I always learn something from this channel.

I think you would get more board feet cutting it with the banana flat then sawing only 4/4 boards. Once cut saw the flitches 15:07 where the straight run changes direction. In your case three stacks of boards. Then edge each stack and sell to people who want short pieces.

The boards from these logs also bow a lot because the grain is not straight. I lay these logs flat as possible on the mill bed and cut 2" thick live edge slabs and make benches from them. The more "bananaed" the more customers like the bench. Otherwise I just make firewood out of them. I would have gotten four basic, rustic benches from that log at $200 a piece. $800 log ain't too bad. : / Logs with a big swale in them (usually from trees on a steep hillside where snow laid them out away from the hill when they were young, and then they survived and grew up), I take two facing slabs (butterflied) and make matching curved benches that can be used in a circular setting such as around a tree or circular garden ring. I can get $500-$600 a set for those.

Thank you Boss man. You have a talented family. Two thumbs up.

Well, sometimes on logs like that, you get better firewood production. Great video as always.

You seem to have done that before. Impressive. I am glad to see you wearing hearing protection. I am 74 and have had tinnitus for years from working around loud machines without hearing protection at your age. We did not know any better back then.

Fascinating process. I'm a computer guy - not hands on - but I really enjoy seeing the practical process of turning raw logs into lumber. Of course having Emerald as host explaining it all helps. 🙃

Thank you for your kindness also goes well with feedback thank you

Great video. We have a debarker at our mill. Those banana logs are no fun to debark either. They jump around and sometimes they even end up sideways.

You have the Best Explanative SPEECH Pattern on social media I have ever seen. Very educated woman you are. Thank you for the video.

I have finally figured out what the words are on Emeralds arm. Its in Latin and its meaning is death before defeat. Right above the star of David. She is kick.ass bad girl. I knew it

I don't care much about lumber and I don't work with wood at all. Somehow I just enjoyed watching her explain this issue in great detail. I DO like watching videos like Blacktail Studio and other great makers, but this one I started watching because she is easy on the eyes and stayed because she got me curious about these things.

Lovely to have knowledgeable commentary. Your getting so much more confident talking to us all,great job Emerald. Hello from across the pond 🇬🇧

Enjoy watching your channel I was a sawyer and had a LT 40 manual for twenty years I miss it but still get to have the sawyer I sold my mill to come and cut for me .I’m waiting for winter to cut some logs and then get it cut next spring. Keep posting I’m a fan.

Great milling. One thing you might consider is that some wood workers would love to have curved slabs. They wold pay top dollar. I look for unique material that can bring a desirable curve. Where as getting that same curve out dimensional lumber would not be possible with out glueing. I let the curve dictate the the overall shape of the project. Just putting that out there. Good job on your milling.

Thanks Emerald, I learned something new.

Art and science. God bless and stay safe. TFS

Happy to see the hearing protection in use.

Every little bit helps! Good luck. 👍

We need more skilled young people like you and your sisters in America.

Very good tutorial Emerald. That's the way I do it pretty much except I use a tape measure to visualize what I can get from the log after the two first cuts. But usualy, I only mill them if the custumer really want it. Then I explain them how to harvest trees to avoid getting those types of logs. and avoid wasting time (money) to mill them. Again, great video! Bonne semaine à toute la famille!

Thanks for showing. From a guy I would have accepted the comments straight away. With you I had to think twice. I did and it was a very good lesson. We're equal bar from my barriers and you brought those down. Appreciated

Good to see the approach. I struggled for a while with this and now I just lay them flat and cut them 5/4 for shelf boards rather than try to get dimensional lumber. Shelves are generally going to be shorter and they are not cheap to buy like a 2x4. Another use I have seen is stairs. While oak is great a lot of fir and pine is used for this purpose and will last a long time.

That saw mill is really efficient and seems user friendly. Great job on the log sawing tutorial. Awesome job on the video angles. Good work.

Hi, Great explanation! Amazing to see you and your family working together, and show us all your skills in your lumber yard. Great work😊!

Great to see your subscriber list continue to climb. Congrats to all of you. Great vids.

Great job 👏 👍

Very informative GREAT job Have a great day ladies ☕️👍

Good job, Em. Take the rest of the week off... With pay! BTW, you and I both pronounce "probably" as "proly". I'm from Indiana. Lived here all my life.

Wow, somebody was looking mighty good, the hair, the eye makeup, the jewelry.

When we get a "banana" log we turn it on its side and make live edge planks out of it, usually 1.5" thick. The local craftspeople love to work with them to make furniture.

Not only do you give more info, you have a badass sawmill as well.

Really good explanation and came across with authority. Woodmiser Professor at work.

At least you can get some firewood from it. Great video.👍❤️

You guys are amazing. I absolutely love everything regarding this channel. Respect Respect Respect you are literally living the dream of billions of people around the world. Keep at it and never give up!

Love this. Thank you Emerald and the Lumber Capital Log Yard team.👌😊

So the weird shaped parts you guys are cutting off would make a few great charcuterie boards. Something you may consider ….thanks for the great videos I really love learning how you guys figure out the different uses of your logs! Very interesting…..

Thank you KZfaq for recomending this channel.

Great Work Emerald! You have a beautiful family and does my heart good to see y’all working together towards a mutual goal. Keep it up! I love the content and look forward to your videos every time one drops.

I am very impressed how you managed this banana lumber. I never thought of such problems, so it is very interesting to hear about. Thanks and I wish furthermore an accident-free work.

Addressing many of the comments here, y’all realize it’s Pine right? Not applicable for many of your suggestions. But we appreciate your efforts 😊

Those first two cuts make really nice rustic table boards for a small coffee table, bar table, or shelf.

Showing some skills , three inches of sweep and making it right !

I love how with each video you are trying to increase ur production level, and trying to improve ur techniques (moving while talking, controlled hand gestures and presentation). Not too many people on KZfaq putting in this much effort! Good job

What a smart young lady. Enjoyable to see her talents. I don't like tattoos but I like hers and its meaning also.

Great video Em. So…just a wild estimate…you got 6 2x4’s at say $3.00 bucks a piece….so 18 bucks plus firewood sales out of that banana log?? I don’t have a mill…I just do a small amount of firewood and was always curious about how you pros deal with curved logs. Even for firewood…banana logs can be a pain to cut and split. 👍👍

I think this is one of the best videos you've done. Assured, interesting, well shot.

I guess it all depends on what length boards you're looking to get out of it. I'd consider cutting the log in half and try to maximize what could be cut out of 2 shorter length logs. If the goal is long beams, this doesn't work well. If you're cutting 1" boards then maybe you get more BF from 2 shorter logs. Just another opinion.

I milled all my straight cedar for a floating dock and used the nanners for a super-curvy deck. They make interesting trellis and railings. Of course you have to start off with the crookedest log in the forest for a beam...but I hear the crooked ones are cheap eh.

There aren't any bad logs, some simply yield firewood...🤣

There waa a small mill that I would pass years ago near Irasburg VT. They milled hockey sticks. This log would be perfect for them. ;)

Do you have a market for wood turners? I'm just asking as there is a market out there for 'banana' logs and burls if they were cut on the y-axis vs. the x-axis? It might be were people say they would buy it but it winds up not being the case. Either way, I'm glad all of the wood will eventually get used for something, if even keeping the shop warm.

Good job. The hardest part about cutting a banana log is cutting all the waste wood off, but a lot of satisfaction for the wood you do get out of a banana log. Even if it’s small.

Em, thanks for the insight on your thought process! Did the Boss Man suggest this? He liked my comment about this a while back.

Love the way you explain it all. I've cut a few of these in the past and not fun. But your thinking process is spot on. I just want to thank the Boss Man and the crew for being environmentally conscience and for using just about the whole log to create a product. Keep the coffee going!!!

If the banana log doesn't yield much from milling why not cut it for fire wood? Seems like that would be more profitable.

That machine is so cool. Nice effects slowing down the video like that when you were showing the cutting process. Had me dreaming of owning one. 😃

Gonna give you guys another revenue stream....Pen makers love your cutoffs...cut them to 1"x1"x6". These are now sized for pen blanks. These sell for $2.00 to $5.00 depending on the species of the tree. Sell in bulk for $1.50 @ for a box of blanks.

71.1 thousand subscribers outstanding to the whole family

How about the stress in a bowed log? When it dries will it warp more than a log with straight grain?

I did sawyer work out at building supply chain in my neighborhood and I loved that kinda work ( even tho different to what you do ) trying to find me a saw mill close.

Great job. Do you cut 1 3/4 x 3 3/4 or true 2 x 4 ?

Where I live there are a lot of oaks and steep grades. That makes for some very interestingly shaped logs.

Why not cut it in chunks for shingles or firewood.

Nice to see you all again

Just wondering what keeps a banana log from going straight to the firewood pile? Do you mill all of your oddball logs or only certain ones? Another awesome video otherwise 👍🏾

I guess it all depends on the market for which you are sawing. As a furniture maker, I'm looking at that banana log and thinking, use a two cross-cuts to eliminate that cup in the middle. You would end up with two straight sections of log from which you would get two thicker cants. They would be shorter, but the boards would still be plenty long for making furniture.... I appreciate these informative videos from LCLY. I live in Central Pa. Going to have to pay this mill a visit.

Question about your LT15: what is the shortest piece you can mount?

Nice job. Growing up a carpenter, I had always wondered about warped boards. I just never dug into that. Now that I'm older, I come across some bad boards, and I see your video. I appreciate your explanation.

Do you have a place you could sell your junk logs such as a pulp mill or osb mill?

Smart, beautiful, and a great Sawyer, MERCY! Thanks for sharing and God bless!

Great job Emerald!!! Are there opportunities to market a suboptimal log such as the banana shaped one, to those custom table makers who use those odd shaped pieces to creat “lazy river style” epoxy resin tables? Some of these bring a significant return. Thank you. Trent

I like the photo of you holding the banana at the beginning of the video 😎 lols Ain't it just ain't it. Love you guys. thanks