Sawing the LEAST Valuable Hard WOOD?! (Is it even WORTH it?!)

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5 ай бұрын

LIKE the title says, today we will be sawing the least valuable hardwood! I forgot to mention but another use other than what I said in the video is of course PALLETS! Let US know in the comments what you think are some of the other good uses of GUM! Thanks for watching guys! Like, Comment, and Subscribe for future Content!!!
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@Woodruffsawmill 5 ай бұрын

We have an abundance of sweet gum in upstate SC. I mainly saw them for dunnage and pallet wood. One customer builds cradles for over seas shipping pallets. Very easy log to saw. Keep up the great work.

@nic6754 5 ай бұрын

Hey Tyler, hey Brit, Always enjoy the vids. As a cabinet maker in Melbourne, Australia we use a lot of spotted gum for flooring, kitchen bench tops and sometimes furniture style items. Keep the awesome vids coming. Someone once said to me, "this is not wood, it's timber" wood is for burning. Timber is beautiful.

@TimothyTate-tc5yk 5 ай бұрын

Here in Missouri we have the Sweet gum that grows. And the Sweet gum is used for Veneer, Plywood, Cabinet's, some Medicines, Salves, and used in Adhesive, and chewing gum and different types of Furniture. And I'm sure that all other species of Gum trees is used for Veneer, Plywood, Cabinets, and other Furniture.

@ClutteredMind-yt4gg 5 ай бұрын

Theyll have to take time to read comment replies to find this.. and even then, i hate to spoil folks potential for carving out their own life experiences by just giving all the answers that NO ONE will ever reveal.. but here.. try taking 6 blocks of it and placing them in various "natural" resting places then collect, dry and slice. Sweetgum actually lends itself very well to colorization after critter attack. Now.. spend 8 years figuring out what spores did the work best.. what length of straws they can get through, acceptable end loss for benefit of deeper penetration.. and how long to "cook" em. Besides that, something that is "not valuable" is never used.. so when its used, its rare and valuable. The black center of a 70 year old sweetgum.. um dont burn that.

@TimothyTate-tc5yk 5 ай бұрын

@@ClutteredMind-yt4gg I'm not interested in your reply. I'm not interested in what critters do with the sweet gum. However chewing gum is not made from sweet gum tree more, and sweet gum is no longer harvested here in Missouri. People here in Missouri just plants the sweet gum in their yards for ornamental tree. The main harvesting of wood here in Missouri oak, black walnut, hickory, and wild black cherry, ash, Birch, sycamore, white Elm and Red Elm. And what is known here in Missouri as being the juniper cedar.

@billyladner3062 5 ай бұрын

On the Mississippi coast we (grandparents) used bla kgum for handles on farm tools and even saw them used for runners on sleds. The main use for sweetgums was furniture and flooring. My grandfather said hollow sweetgums were used for beehives. Have fun and stay safe!

@jeffreyarthur1056 5 ай бұрын

The Difference Between Hardwood and Softwood in general, hardwood comes from deciduous trees which lose their leaves annually. Softwood comes from conifers, which usually remain evergreen. The trees from which hardwood is obtained tend to be slower growing, meaning the wood is usually denser

@markdavis9384 5 ай бұрын

Ties, frame stock, pallet wood, barn wood paneling

@charleswills7695 3 күн бұрын

Wish I lived there because it's Hotter crap. I like cool 30 40 degrees here in West Virginia.👍😀 Your guys show try to watch your show.

@robertmiller5644 Ай бұрын

Gum was used for making baskets in different sizes for farm use it is grows very fast

@MySORRELL 5 ай бұрын

THANKS!

@jeffdayman8183 5 ай бұрын

Great one! No gum wood that I know of here in Canada, so this was interesting. Keep warm, or good luck on thawin out, whichever comes first! 8^) Cheers.

@Rickimusic 5 ай бұрын

Sweet gum is useful to start fires of sweetgums. 😂

@Cotton2Ennis 5 ай бұрын

Old timers here slabbed them and nailed them to outside walls for barn, I have let them sit for a year and used them for firewood but definitely not my choice of woods. Yep get inside and get warm! It's to cold to work outside.

@morgansword 5 ай бұрын

We are very limited to different species of timber here in central alaska. Our cottonwood is similar to your gum, it is just a pain to saw, cups, twists, solid water yet seems to start the rotting process as soon as you saw it. Can't put it in sunlight or it will pull any fastener right out of the stuff its attached to. Soft and punky feeling while sawing yet in a weeks time, have to drill a nail hole. Oddly when dried out, makes a great bread board or some kind of decorative wood as it will take any kind of finish. No good for firewood, just a junk tree that where ever there is water on the land, there is cottonwood trees. Standing, they look so nice and just crazy how much it changes from standing to cut down.

@waynedavenport3919 5 ай бұрын

We use to cut Gum logs. Was use for plywood and makeing Cabinets.

@charlespeacock8360 5 ай бұрын

I have managed to dry some quartersawn flat enough to make furniture but when I leaned the other flatsawn boards against the wall they warped and cupped so bad they walked off the property.

@davidmcentyre3068 5 ай бұрын

bowl blanks for wood turners, spindle cuts for handles

@evamcdaniel9499 5 ай бұрын

Well, my dad would cut black gum into stove wood lengths and as a punishment to us kids, he would make us try to split it with a axe................i hated it!

@waynedavenport3919 5 ай бұрын

Diffently hard to bust lol

@sharynallott7332 5 ай бұрын

In Australia, gum trees are eucalypts. This log doesn't look like a eucalypt. The bark doesn't look right. We are down south near Wilson's Promontory. Love videos though

@jcamo356 5 ай бұрын

Cut into 6x6's and build, mats for backhoe when working in a wet location.

@Stlforestproducts Ай бұрын

we sell it as a poor firewood. camp firewood it is acceptable. but only if havested in the fall. As a chainsaw artist I have used it alot on carvings. great videos guys

@williamwatson5220 5 ай бұрын

those are some nice trim and molding boards.

@jeffreyarthur1056 5 ай бұрын

My old sawmill man told me that they used to cut sweet gum in to 1x4 for roofing slats/laths said they had to be nailed on green and the sheet metal nailed down real quick But he said you couldn't pull a ring shank roofing nail out with a wrecking bar after they dried

@bigt67 4 ай бұрын

They are easy on saws like poplar and surprisingly Hickory. White oak is the most popular wood around here that's hard on saws. 2nd, red oak. I've been in the sawmill industry for 15 years as a saw restorer and on the front lines at Edwards wood products. I worked as a saw filer there. Big wide double cut band saws they used in their main sawmill. You should look into a double cut but I don't know if they make one for a small sawmill.

@WalkaboutMick67 5 ай бұрын

There are hundreds of different types of gum trees in Australia the one we talk about the most is Red Gum and it looks nothing like the wood you cut, Red Gum is totally different looking wood and way harder than the wood you were cutting.

@brentjenkinsdesigns 4 ай бұрын

I dunno of uses for sweetgum... I absolutely abhor those daggum caltrops that they shed once a year! I'm quite pleased that folks have a real use for them.

@pikepike5404 5 ай бұрын

Makes beautiful floors

@michaelclinesr.436 5 ай бұрын

A mill owner once told me about logs... God didn't make any junk......you just need to find a use sometime though.

@alexmcdaniel9428 4 ай бұрын

Top board for fences an old guy told me , horses don’t like the taste so they won’t chew on them,

@ransompenny7319 5 ай бұрын

I just made a comment about sweet gum lumber on another one of your videos minutes ago. LOL I have build horse barns with it and poplar . I think you are right about the width of 6" boards. I remember building horse barns and cow barns with my Dad, brother and I when we were just kids. My Dad would use a Homelite XL12 chainsaw to do all the cutting for the build. I am glad to find the channel and it has brought back treasured memories...

@ransompenny7319 5 ай бұрын

I can still in my mind hear my Dad say, "Hit that nail, Boy". He would say it even when my brother and I were grow men using pneumatic nailers. When we got cordless nailers we thought we were in the good ground with a bumper crop. LOL

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

That’s awesome! Thanks for watching along!

@warrenmclendon4889 5 ай бұрын

We use it for dunnage mostly. Good price on 5x5x8, 2x4x8 and a few 1x4x8.

@stevengambrell7826 5 ай бұрын

My offcuts go to the pallets we build and the centers to the tie yard. The circle saw will chase the water strait out the end. A lot of old barns here in South Carolina have gum inside the stalls. Keep up the good work!

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

That’s where these 1x6’s are headed. To the barn. Stalls for a cow barn. I cut a lot of sweet gum into pallet material as well.

@TheMakersMarkTSF 5 ай бұрын

Fort Mill, SC here, what part are you from?

@85ccmaster 5 ай бұрын

I’m in Leesville, SC. Gum does have uses no doubt. Firewood it’s extra hard to split, nearly impossible with big pieces.

@stevengambrell7826 4 ай бұрын

@@TheMakersMarkTSF I’m located in Honea Path, SC Anderson County

@dannydrake7348 5 ай бұрын

I saw them for my dump truck guys, they use them for the top board on the dump bed, tough and flexible, last longer when hit by bad operators

@bennsellingit3100 5 ай бұрын

Good evening sir.. I've been wondering about using them for that application for a while they don't seem to split on the ends as bad as white oak... also make a much tougher pallet .. may I ask how long you've been selling them as dump truck boards? and what a gum 2X 12 by 16 [32 bft].. brings in your area.. Thank you for your response

@dannydrake7348 5 ай бұрын

@@bennsellingit3100 been sawing since 2019, $50 a piece

@kevinbrewer9421 5 ай бұрын

Oh yeah! When I was a kid dad sold straight nice but cuts of sweet gum to a company that made tooth picks !

@TheMakersMarkTSF 5 ай бұрын

I take a 6" - 7" sweetgum log, brace it on the mill so that I can get an angled cut, cut them 5/4" then let them dry for 6 months. Then plane them down to about 3/4" (because of cupping). Once finished they make beautiful wood that I use my laser on to make awesome signs. This Spring I want to try making siding from sweetgum, I have a bathhouse on the property that I want to use it on.

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

Just screw the siding down and I’m sure it will hold!

@josepodasdemadeira 5 ай бұрын

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@kevinronald4137 5 ай бұрын

It is surprising but balsa wood used in model making is actually classified as a hard wood.

@CarnivoreCurin 5 ай бұрын

You can use Balsa wood for home built airplanes. They knock your head off when you buy it for that reason.

@stannelson2582 5 ай бұрын

Blowing bubbles lol

@charlesmatthews9946 4 ай бұрын

Construction lumber drawer sides bottoms .I actually do the opposite I cut wide as I can. I like rift or quarter and dry then cut to width as I need them

@MissouriOldTimer 5 ай бұрын

there are some sweet gum trees around here but I think that might be different,, these have a gazillion thorny balls that makes a mess.

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

Same gum we have here!

@FeatherHorseforge 5 ай бұрын

We call it tas oak here in Tasmania Australia used to love working in the sawmills back in the day good figured wood makes awesome furniture it’s also best quarter sawn

@gradyyokeley9930 5 ай бұрын

The old home place is full of it, I think we might have used it for fire wood. The mane use was shade at tobacco barn

@pekerja27 5 ай бұрын

😮😮 mesin pembelah kayu yang sangat modern dan canggih , dan hasil kayu belahan nya sangat bagus. Mesin nya memudahkan dan mengurangi tenaga manual iya

@gradyyokeley9930 5 ай бұрын

I forgot my Great Granmaw would take me every morning and she would cut her some sweet gum twig's so she could chew them up and make brushes too use her snuff

@cabinman 5 ай бұрын

Are we talking sweetgum or black gum? That barks looks like sweet but sometimes bark can fool us on a small phone screen. Sweetgum rots so quickly I can’t understand why the tie industry would use them but they do. You know when you buy or look at used crossties and some of them look great and some of them are rotted and soft???? There you go…those rotted ones are the trash logs that were thrown in there like sweetgum! Black gum are much better for ties. Stay warm Brittany!

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

Sweet gum

@SevenOaksOutdoors 5 ай бұрын

first time I cut sweet gum I really thought I had some special kind of maple. 😆 posted it online and looked foolish when everyone corrected me. haha!!!

@joeysweet9045 5 ай бұрын

The only use for gum i know of is rail road ties and furniture thats about it! I have seen people try to split it for firewood and it was quit comical to say the lest! Lmao 🤣 🤣 🤣 🤣

@jbbrown7907 5 ай бұрын

Wouldn't you get better yield out of two 9' logs?

@markdavis9384 5 ай бұрын

I would like to have lots of nice size tie logs

@kevinbrewer9421 5 ай бұрын

The only good use that I now of is lath for a tin roof on a barn or shed. Back in the day when we used nails for tin gum would hold to the nails a lot better than any other wood and it was low acid so it would not rust the nails . Growing up dad would cut a small sweet gum to saw the lath for a barn or shed bill.

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

That’s a good idea! Well put and thanks for that info!

@CarnivoreCurin 5 ай бұрын

Do you cut grade lumber, such as FAS and 1 common hard wood. Would you show the grading process?

@user-tg6fd3sn3x 4 ай бұрын

Didn't I hear Brittany say the longer the lumber the easier to handle

@Sawmillwoodworking 5 ай бұрын

Waoww besar sekalii kayunyaa🎉🎉🎉r

@roddavisdavis208 5 ай бұрын

People used it for barn siding.

@chrisurschel6832 5 ай бұрын

If you would like to work outside in my neighborhood here in northeast Indiana. High last Sunday and Monday, it was -12 during the day and -17, then subtracted wind chill. So! Trade you temperatures .

@markvines6828 5 ай бұрын

Great wood for lathes to nail tin to want rust your tin holds nails well when dry.

@swdweeb 5 ай бұрын

Gum logs...all I could hear at 0:53 was gun laws 😂😂 Sometimes it takes me a minute 😂

@almills8802 5 ай бұрын

It's warmed up to 22 F here in BC...was -14 a week ago...🤨

@jacksanders7018 5 ай бұрын

We burned a lot in our fire place growing up.

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

So did we now that you mention it!

@user-kb6kw2me2j 4 ай бұрын

What Engine brand and horse power is on the LT 40 and is the attachment that cuts the bark before the blade not worth it to keep the band from cutting the dirty bark and dulling the band quicker?

@stewdun2426 5 ай бұрын

Black gum on our land was useless - we wouldnt use it for firewood. It grew in the swampy land - breaks during any storm. I would prefer Poplar over that crap.

@billyshumate853 5 ай бұрын

Only thing gum is used for here is firewood 😂😂

@jbbrown7907 5 ай бұрын

You have saw dust blowing everywhere.

@wallacefarmandsawmill 5 ай бұрын

1. It is a sawmill, sawdust is everywhere 2. The customer brought the log to be sawn at 18’.

@randyballew8795 5 ай бұрын

I've seen gum used as ties. Did you sell the Frick?

@TommyOmallet 5 ай бұрын

Gum? It’s good for use as a subject of a song. John Hartford wrote a song named,”Gumtree Canoe”. So what do ya think? Could it be used to build a boat or canoe? Askin’ for a friend . . .

@user-ws6ly6oe9h 5 ай бұрын

Cross Ties

@MichaelScootpowerMilstead 4 ай бұрын

Everything on a farm

@slipshankd1307 4 ай бұрын

Barn siding.

@user-tg6fd3sn3x 4 ай бұрын

I thought Brittany likes handling long lumber

@lewiemcneely9143 4 ай бұрын

Blackgum or Sourwood. Blackgum for bee gums because most were hollow. It and Sourwood made good firewood and peavey handles. No definite grain like a hickory; hard to split but burned good. Never sawed any on the mill down the road. Wasn't worth it. Blessings.

@saintaugustine1715 5 ай бұрын

Hey guys I reed a lot of the comment for the use on gumm here in Florida we sweet gum when we had a flea market I use to cut a lots of sweet gum one and half inches thick with keeping one side with the live edge and I sold a lots for shelf because of the grain and thicker pieces for mental but I told you guys I was know for artistic wood have a great day

@toddlamarr1553 3 ай бұрын

It’s similar to Cottonwood

@davidkemp9654 5 ай бұрын

I have been watching your videos for awhile now looking at buying a LX50 Start in 2 months to get milling myself any thoughts or advice?

@85ccmaster 5 ай бұрын

I’ve got a lt15 w/ the Kohler diesel. Had a lx25 before that. Hated it, so light built, flimsy, came out of adjustment constantly. Would only recommend it to someone with time on their hands, & in absolute no rush to get production made.

@davidkemp9654 5 ай бұрын

the LT15 is out of my price range and the LX50 upgraded and replaced the LX25@@85ccmaster

@Ravvin 2 ай бұрын

Ok, so I looked it up. American Sweetgum is not a Eucalypt at all. Its actually Liquidambar styraciflua, and is native to America. Its nothing like Australian eucalypt species, so you can't blame us for this one. 🤣