we've learned that dripping diesel fuel all over our lumber and the ground is counter productive my friend....soap and water is much cheaper and better overall for everything....don't believe everything you see on folks videos ....I personally know someone that screwed up their mill using diesel ....5 gallons of soapy water costs 25 cents my brotha

cool brotha

yeppers...me and Mike talk and I actually reached out to him about this a few years ago. He's a good friend

soon we'll get ourselves a shed built around the mill....soon!! I hope!

I saw what you did there!

It really is a pet-peavy of mine... LOL Happy New Year everybody.

I think I'll just call it a wash my brotha...I enjoyed it...and helping the county get up a bit of the mess was my pleasure...I don't live in a ME ME ME world anymore.....what goes around comes around in my opinion and I helped my county save tax revenue....win win in my opinion

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer well said

thanks!

Same to you!

yessir that's me

beware the front yard tree....typically they'll have something metal in them

take a couple little sticks and lay them where you'd like to cut...always twigs laying around a log my friend..no crayon needed ...that's what I did

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer I somehow always lose the dang stick between laying it and grabbing the saw. I'm typically processing a requested length firewood when I need to measure, so I'll mark up a few logs at once.

not sure about "success story" because I've clearly demonstrated how the farm isn't making money. Let me ask you...what do you think I do for a living? Do you think I spend 80 hours a week farming 33 cows? You work a job in town...I've built a successful social media business. You're watching the most popular first generation farming and rural lifestyle youtube channel on the planet brotha...built from the ground up with over 2000 videos. Open your eyes to a new diversified farm income.....that's what pays the bills here brotha....you can do it too but it takes countless hours with no income what so ever!

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Thank you for the informative answer. Much appreciated! We too have spent many many hours making our acres by improving the pastures , the timber areas, ponds and fencing in many pastures to keep cows out of the streams and to do rotation grazing. I do hay because I like it and I help our neighbors “save” their small field from red cedars even though it’s lot and lots of hours….(I could spend “fishing “) It’s not that I don’t work hard, to make our place GREAT, but rather that the economic of it ARE VERY NEGATIVE. I got the impression from the intro title to the videos the your farm produced the revenue to fund the activities. If you tell me that BEAUTIFUL stuff you have is because of your success from OFF THE FARM……THAN WE ARE ON THE SAME PAGE. We too put $20 to $50,000 a year to make a great FIRST GENERATION FARMER. AND , it is still a lot of work. I like your videos and congrats on your success, yet I still think a video on the ECONOMICs ( ie an rough annual income / expense overview of the farm ) would be welcome by your many, many viewers. HAVE A GREAT 2023, BROTHA.

Out of debt, maybe?

lol.....Wood splitter! bhahahha wooo!

man...my brotha...I wonder why this seems so out of reach for folks...set your mind to what you love and make it happen my friend

With all that equipment you need a truck and trailer to make money out all of your equipment.

@@charlesbentley2934 I have no debts!

I'll have to look into that for sure!

Spent 2 hours on this....made a video..video pays farm payments...justified my friend. If I were doing this as a production mill...I would stockpile logs and mill 10-20 v/s 2 logs. To me having my sawmill is priceless. Maybe you forget what I do for a living to support the farm my friend.....what makes sense in everyday life sometimes doesn't make sense on "TV"

Yes! Thank you!

Oh I've got one my friend...and you are right!

typical rule of thumb for air dry is 1 year per inch of lumber

we typically don't burn southern yellow pine around here....it burns up too quick and is prone to causing chimney fires

putting diesel fuel all over my lumber and the mill and the ground isn't appealing to me my brotha

green stickers of the same species are just fine my brotha

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer Respectfully disagree.

create content my friend....4 videos a week or more! Get some editing software and start growing!

you see the amount of soapy water that flows here ....can you imagine the damage that would do to the soil and the mess it would make on the mill? I've heard of it...but I've also talked with Mike in person....good dude!

coming soon my friend...the whole process

1/2 hour ish

Pine is light and easy to work. Nails and screws go in easily. You are right they should be using the hard wood. It. Is about production rate. Takes much less time to build with soft wood. If building it yourself use oak. Use screws and drill first and then put the screws in. Get lots of help or mechanical advantage lifting wall sections into place. FAA has great information on wood properties by species and how to connect it (from when people made wooden aircraft).

can't drive a nail into an oak 2x4

@@StoneyRidgeFarmer fair assessment, peg it like they did back in the 1700s?

can't expect them to clear a tree that just fell a few days ago during the holiday season. They'll be out soon enough. I have nothing but good things to say about the DOT here...they keep our road up very nicely. Fire dept clears the road...DOT cleans it up right?

seriously message me or something we make it happen

just looked at it...man...I have no idea brotha. Most vids auto caption but this one didn't for some reason. I'm sorry, it's a yt thing I guess

Plus expensive fuel ⛽️

Feel free to keep going to the big box stores for all you’re supplies, the whole point of what Josh is doing is to invest in equipment that can over time pay for itself and eventually even pull in profits. This is the point of a self sufficient and sustaining homestead! Atta Boy Josh!!!!!

@@petermavus4131 I love how more people are getting into farming and "homesteading" but damn do they have a lot of expensive shit, this one lady I follow has a freeze drier in her house 😬

$35-$40k for that mill. 😬

@@johngannigan8353 I'm not saying it's not cool but his video title says free...