Excellent video as usual! Thanks for sharing your layout! Great job, love any milling video even fence board! Stay safe, God bless

NW Sawyer ... this is still my favorite channel! I have actually been thinking about a Wood-Mizer mill as well for next Spring. I don’t live far from the Wood-Mizer in NC. Good stuff and thank you for making your videos.

When you get through milling fence boards, I would love to see you go dimensional and make a patio table. Looking forward to your video tomorrow.

Been running the LT35 lately here in Central Pa trying to work the bugs out and your videos have been helping me so much. You have such a great way of explaining and showing the process, my brain understands it's so much more than some others. Thank you!!

Havent seen you saw for a while. My wife and i got us a mill a 40 wide with simple set while you were out playing with big boy toys in the dirt. thats a great order you got for fenceing boards.

Very instructional for a layman like me. Learned a new term too, flitch. Really like the nomenclature of wood milling.

I just got a mill too. Like the commenter below I'm working the bugs out in mine. Also, I'm very quickly discovering why trees die. There's nearly always something wrong with them from a saw miller's POV. The amount of effort collecting logs, placing them, setting up the toeboard for taper compensation for the comparatively low yield is dawning on me. I'm learning a lot thanks to you and a few other channels. I absolutely love some of the comments more experienced people than I, make too. For example one commenter wrote a rule of thumb is multiply the small end of the log by .7 to get the cant size. It's true! As sure as night turns to day true. Another great comment was large logs for smaller lumber sizes increases productivity and decreases waste and conversely when you want say 12x12" use smaller logs to get just that size. This is great knowledge so I back worked out, multiply the cant by 1.43 to find the log size you need. I think I'm going to build a solar kiln and start using some of my good healthy and alive straight trees at some point because milling even very good looking fallen logs seems like a mug's game - it is so hit and miss with far more miss than hit like perhaps 80-20 for where I live.

Great video. It was just what I’ve been needing. I have about 6 hours on my new Mill and I a little confused still on how to size up the log, so thank you. I’m cutting cedar right now. Not as big as your cutting. It’s red cedar.

Nicely done. I've tried the 747 blades and really like them, but the Bimetal blades are still my favorite for hardwood. Expensive, ut stay sharp much longer. Can't wait for the chestnut!

Good morning. Great video. Have a great day.

You are a credit to people like myself who now understand a little of what is in your bones .. ( lumber ) The time you take to explain the importance of what you do actually unlocks what is possible as a business. I'm looking to purchase a 20ft container of live edge "wainey edge" red wood 3inch x 30 + inch x 8ft slabs shipped to the UK.... ( used for table tops ) Regards are sent from Yorkshire. Steven.

Glad to see your O K hope the change was as good as a rest nice to see the housing plot again fingers crossed i win the lottery love to live there . ;-)

Really enjoy your videos. Also we’re practically neighbors. I think I am between you and the coast. I have been haulin rock from near the rest area on 26 to green mountain road off Pihl road near the Dairy Queen on 26 at Manning.

So glad your back. You have been missed.

Hi NWS! I'm soon to be a NES. I've only milled vicariously thru you and other toobers. Okay, I've dabbled with other people's mills. But I have a lot to learn and I'm really excited to finally take delivery of my brand new LT35 hydro in a few weeks. These types of videos are helpful in shortening that learning curve that's surely coming! Thanks and best regards from Vermont 👍

Nice work ,,,,,stay cool ,,,you never know what your gonna get out of a log ,,,,wood mizer lt15 owner .....love my saw mill

Never considered converting to decimal to make those calcs. Great tip!

Hey Jason, good to see you're still at, I thought maybe you went on vacation! I see that the same Sawmill package was still sitting outside WM's door when you went to pick up your blades, I was there several days before to pick up my 48in canthook. I want to hear more about the 747 blades how you like and or dislike them. Stay safe and take care.

I just tried a 747 blade, on red oak. I haven't notice that much of a difference. I normally run 7degree double hard. I have been making a lot of fence boards also. I cut 3" x 5/8 for batten strips also. Happy milling Ron

Great video lots of info thanks.

Awesome job sir good to see one of your videos it's been awhile

Love the intro and intro music!

Moving dirt is somewhat milling trees, only difference is ,with a tree,once you take a cut,....you cant put the material back ! LOL good stuff!

CANT WAIT TO SEE HOW WELL THE 747 BLADE WORKX!

So when you suspect the center of the log is no good, can you plan your cuts from the outside in and get similar results, or will the yield always be smaller cutting like that?

Have you ever thought about adapting a Lube-Mizer to work on the lt35?

rule of thumb... if you need the max cant you can get from perfectly round log (as if those really existed), simply multiply diameter inside bark by .7...

Good video. Are those 1550 fence boards used right off the mill, or will they be put in a kiln first? I've seen several videos where things like barn siding could dry right on the structure and it was somehow accounted for. Thanks and take care.

Hi Jason, Taking you up on a question. I noticed that the Woodmizer shop had a notice up with a Re-sharp facility at the rear of the building. Do you always use new blades or do ever have your old ones sharpened? Cheers

I don't do fencing under 1" thick anymore. I did an order a few years ago of about 2500 boards @ 10' and I was done with that mess. Took way too long to get it all milled down and it was all white oak so.... yeah. I have a couple of things that will help you out. I will pretty them up and send them to you when I have some free time this week.

Glad you are back! Do you figure 1/16 for the kurf, some how I thought it was 1/8. Thanks

I would just lay it all out on the narrow side to get rid of the guess work. Nice video though!

I have the same mill and have been using the 10 degree blades for the past two years. I'd be curious how you make out with the 747 blades.

Nice little video, Jason! Seem to learn every time I watch one of your videos. I see you stopped because you ran into soft spots, but how far down does the blade go? Could you actually saw that last board of 3/4" or whatever the thickness was? Can't wait for the chestnut! Later, Dude!

I have a question. I am about to mill a ton of lumber. When the Doug Fir is still wet how much extra should you cut to account for the shrinkage? Like if I am cutting 2X6's....should I cut a full 2"X6" or closer to the 1.5"X5.5". Will that change much when cutting headers. Thanks. I will be stacking and drying this prior to use for construction.

What do you end up doing with the scrap pieces , also do you cut any live edge for yourself

You mention the chestnut log at the end, do you have American chestnut trees near you that are alive and dropping nuts?

man than green hat sure does stick out,

Thank you for this video. My milling is getting better. I milled a huge log last week I videoed. I would love for you to watch it and give any pointers. It was 20" on one end and 26" on the other. Getting ready to start milling timbers for the house build want to make sure I get the most yeild out of my logs. I can share the link here if you don't mind or pm it to you. I know you are busy and I understand if you don't have time.

How low can you get to the deck of your mill. Do you ever lay a board underneath when you get to the very bottom to keep from hitting metal?

Do you own the company you work for or just work there? and what is the best way to get into heavy machine operation in your opinion?

Was just wondering what your plan was to cut down to a 5/8" board? Does your mill cut that low?

What is the difference in the blades you are using and the 747’s? Thanks

Hmm, I am feeling a little punky. I think I am going to make a tape measure holder/pouch...to the other viewers of this video that statement may not make sense, but Jason get's it...LOL... Take care and good video...

Great video on laying out the log. However, shouldn't the head scratching and figuring be done on the small end of the log? That's the limiting factor of the lumber yield from the log.

Don't know what blade you're using but I normally see the kerf more like .10" or a little more.

Can you resharpen your blades? Thanks for sharing.

I see that Woodmizer wants $100:000 for the lt70 sawmill. I can not wait to see how many get sold. Regards, Edgar

what octane fuel do you use in your lt35?

up late editing? Thanks for the vid!

I understand if you don't want to answer my question but for the 1500 fence boards you have to cut what sort of money would you expect to get per board or board foot or whatever? As I said I understand if you'd rather not answer. Great stuff as always 👍🏼👍🏼👍🏼

How come you didn't come up from your cant lines on the flitches and cut those while still on the log?

I wasn't very impressed with the 747 maybe just me. I'm in eastern Oregon so I don't cut exactly the same tree species you do most of the time. Love the videos try to catch them as often as possible.

All that math, seams like it takes the fun out of it! Now I'll have to apologize to my High School math teacher!

I would never have imagined that you could get more than 20 boards out of the first log. 54? Clearly I’m not a sawyer.

How much do it cost for a box of blades?

Time is $. Looks like you are making the most lumber in the amount of time.

Magnetic tape on the top of that level would relieve the pain of your third hand.

Blah Blah Blah...Math...Blah Blah...Pith...Blah blah...Math... Made my brain hurt, but another great vid buddy

Nice instructional video but crikey it is easier in metric. So much less working out.

Wouldn't be cool if it cut both ways.

Do not throw the waste away.

A 12 x 18 can't will make 18 1/2 x 5 1/2 boards

x 2 = 64

Don't you dare throw that away.

Tell them at work you need time to make videos.

Sorry 36 boards , i was using hillbilly math