Ripping Logs with a Chainsaw - Free Handing Straight Cuts

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3 жыл бұрын

Ripping our bigger logs with a chainsaw - free handing straight cuts to size down logs for further processing. We are looking for new subs if you want to sign up:
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Quite a few logs needed to be sized down. Enjoy the time lapsed work. Matching up cuts enough to open a log is always satisfying.
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@Maddog2020RH 6 ай бұрын

That was really good! I'm going to give this a shot on a couple of big oak logs I have

@kimstocks4485 3 жыл бұрын

i was disabled at 45 years of age because i put too much weight on my back over the years. all my disks are gone, more surgeries in my future, i'm 5% of what i used to be. nobody ever told me to take care of my back...my life is a total disaster now days, lost all my wealth too... TAKE CARE OF YOUR BACK!!! YOU ONLY GET 1 ...

@MountainVoiceInc 3 жыл бұрын

Heard. I am sorry to hear about your injury. I try to stay within my comfort zone with lifting, it has just gradually gotten quite high, but it's true I could very well find myself with a similar injury.

@BissellMapleFarm Жыл бұрын

I'm impressed with how well you can free hand a straight cut.

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

Thanks! Quite a few hours of my life spent holding a chainsaw I guess, but this seems to be the method that I have settled on.

@MortifiedU Жыл бұрын

@@MountainVoiceIncI am heading the same way, Alaskan mill 10 minutes and halfway through, flipped the log and freehand and less than 2 minutes to finish ( small warp as still learning (didn’t chalk it 🙄) and rushed in the dark wearing a blindfold but still very usable).

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

@@MortifiedU it takes a little more focus and practice, but long term it has saved me many hours to use this method. Depends a bit on how nice of a finish you need, but I find free hand cuts can be acceptable for sure.

@MortifiedU Жыл бұрын

@@MountainVoiceIncdefinitely helps when you want that rustic colonial look, takes the pressure off and makes it extremely enjoyable and rewarding.

@potteryjoe 7 ай бұрын

That opening music is really cool at 1.5X speed

@elizabethmclaughlin2216 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing your skills. Amazing!

@MountainVoiceInc 2 жыл бұрын

My pleasure!

@nodnostrebor4300 Жыл бұрын

This is really inspiring.

@cmosphoto1 3 жыл бұрын

You've gotta love mud season.

@MountainVoiceInc 3 жыл бұрын

love it or not, it's happening. Every year like clockwork.

@justinterbasket4565 3 ай бұрын

Start dumping ur sawdust in those mud holes should help a bit

@MountainVoiceInc 3 ай бұрын

It’s a good short term solution for sure.

@scottcrowley2061 Жыл бұрын

Nice skills.....

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

Thanks ✌️

@vinimarshall7301 7 ай бұрын

I have an 8 mtr box channel that i fix on the log , and on my bar is a piece of c channel that tilts back or forward its sits on the long channel this gives me a perfect straight cut full length its foolproof , but i can see your more skilled than me 😂😂 well done young man 👍

@MountainVoiceInc 7 ай бұрын

Ha well thanks, I used to use a straight edge aka a board, but then I had too many logs to rip and not enough time. It’s all relative anyway. Nothing short of a giant mill will make a perfectly straight cut because you can still have a bit of twist in your cut if you use a straight edge on one side, (uneven filling or saw pressure pulling it to one side) but as long as it’s smaller and I know where the loss will be it’s all manageable.

@ZingaraJoe 2 жыл бұрын

That is some fine straight grain spruce. Have you ever considered getting the cut part way in from the top and just use a series of wedges to split the log the rest of the way, sort of how a stone mason slabs. Not sure it would work but I'd give it a try.

@MountainVoiceInc 2 жыл бұрын

I would try anything once. Well maybe not anything. I have a few steel wedges, they are called splitting wedges. Basically a splitting maul without a handle. What you are describing is a very legitimate way of splitting logs, it’s how it used to be done I hear… however I also hear that the wedges would sometimes spit projectiles when they were struck. Essentially small steel bullets. But like I say, I’ll try anything once.

@thespian200 Жыл бұрын

I cannot appreciate it any more on your amazing and hard work! We recently bought a late 90's Steinway grand piano that had a beautiful bell-like tones. Now I see that the birth of a great instrument all begins from here! B.t.w., is this Alaska Sitka spruce?

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

Thank you very much. Happy to hear you are enjoying your piano, the tone on a grand piano is something else. Many North American grand soundboards start right here. Our Spruce is Engelmann, slightly lighter than Sitka and in my probably biased opinion a slightly better tone.

@thespian200 Жыл бұрын

@@MountainVoiceInc Thank you very much! I read that Steinway has been using Sitka spruce (and also Adirondack a long time ago) for its soundboards. Perhaps it needs its slightly more hardness to keep the compressed crown lasting longer.

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

@@thespian200 Sitka is the most common spruce used in North America for some soundboards, pianos and guitars come to mind. Sitka is widely available and tree sizes are typically bigger than other spruce trees. Often availability is the heavy weight when it comes to tree selection decisions. However, I will still vouch for Engelmann even if Steinway haven't tried it in their grands yet. Engelmann doesn't grow everywhere and not many people get to try it as a tonewood, but its top notch. Some would say all the spruce are only marginally different, but in my experience even from tree to tree in the same species the tone can be extremely different so maybe species isn't really the most important metric.

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

@@thespian200 Im fairly sure Steinway is now using our Engelmann spruce for their soundboards, I'm not sure they necessarily know its its Engelmann, but i just followed the chain of companies and can draw a line from them back to us. Pretty Cool.

@thespian200 Жыл бұрын

@@MountainVoiceInc Congratulations that your cuts of the spruce make their to Steinway! It is really cool! I just checked the Steinway website - Sitka spruce is no longer mentioned anymore. Instead, it has the following: "...Today, our soundboard spruce is sourced entirely from one singular island in Alaska...". Although it does not say if it is the Engelmann spruce, I'd have to think that Steinway has started a different spruce (or perhaps added along with Sitka) for their soundboards, and it should be the Engelmann spruce like you said. This is so interesting as when I read about the Steinway soundboard a few months ago, it was still Alaska Sitka which they had listed for decades... I now wonder how the sound would differ (if any) on a new grand, and down the road 20+ years from now!

@borealwhisperer6044 2 жыл бұрын

What's an instrument log if I may ask??

@MountainVoiceInc 2 жыл бұрын

I guess it's what I call logs that are good enough to be turned into instruments. violins, cellos, guitars that sort of thing. Rare big beautiful spruce.

@shaneclark207 Жыл бұрын

You said a couple of Logs a day…….is it taking a few hours per log?

@MountainVoiceInc Жыл бұрын

It usually takes 30-50 min per log start to in half, but then it takes the rest of the day to cut those half’s up on the mill. Sawmill can only manage 2 logs worth per day.

@t_4178 3 жыл бұрын

You need a bigger mill

@MountainVoiceInc 3 жыл бұрын

Yes I do. Although, it's one of those things where it would clearly be easier to have a bigger mill but then I got so good at ripping logs that it's almost not that bad anymore. My band mill isn't small either its cuts 36" easily but then I have all these 4 and 5 foot trees to deal with for a couple months. How many logs are too many to rip? because there is always going to be a bigger tree.