Sorry the audio on this one was a little rough...might be time for some new mics! Don't forget to grab your 10 year anniversary shirt...link to shirts above☝

Back saving tip - prop the log up for gravity assisted (i.e. downhill) sawing 👍 Congrats on 10 years! 🎉

thank you Andy . Good for you on the finger count . I spent 10 yrs as a machinists and still had all 10 of mine too!

For what it's worth, even you're cutting slabs, try taping a wedge into the cut behind you so as to maintain clearance and eliminate binding. Congrats on 10 years!

Andy, Congrats on Ten Years of woodworking & looking forward to seeing what is still to come

I can see you are getting the bug in more ways than one. It is addicting sawing logs to see what is inside. That is the thing about Texas, logs can not lay as long as they do up north.

Hi Andy, congrats on 10 years ... and ten fingers! I really the enjoy the wood harvesting content. I'm thinking of investing in the chainsaw mill like yours. It looks like you got some nice pecan out of the pile. There's lots of pickings around the Austin area, especially after the ice storm last winter. Great stuff! Take care.

Andy, Hugh congrats upon the ten years of being a woodworker who also still has your original 👋🤚 that alone is one heck of an achievement plus the fact that you still love your work is an awesome achievement within it's self. As for the bug you put with your chickens I couldn't believe the white chicken actually tried to swallow that thing whole, forget the sharing, then it looks like it brings it back up and spits it out 😅 at which point I thought it was going to attack the chicken and try eat it😢. As always guy's 💯% 👍 🇬🇧.

Congrats on 10 years!

Andy congrats on 10 year

I've thought about getting into milling, but hardly anyone shows what hard work it is and like you said, not everything's a win. I've got my tickets to the Texas Woodworking Festival and looking forward to seeing you guys there. - Chris

Really interesting video, Andy. Something completely different than what you normally show us. I love it!

The hardest thing about being in business is STAYING in business. The combined efforts of Google and Covid put the final touches on my business and we closed down at the end of 2022 after 50 years.

Wishing you next many 10s of years to come, with all 10 fngrs still in place :) . That rotten wood might be a nice start for an epoxy pour river-like tabletop. just a thought.

Definitely, Chinaberry love the grain pattern

could you stabilize the cutoffs with resin and make knife scales?

It’s too far to drive to Minnesota to have Cremona run that through his sawmill

Do yourself a favour and get the winch attachment. Makes life way easier. Good video!

thanks

Congratulations on 10 years, just wondering if you were using a ripping chain to cut those slabs? If not you should get one makes cutting much easier

Conroe, Montgomery County checking in! Sadly after 45 years of working with wood, I don't qualify for your shirt design. I got 9 7/8 left to work with due to a inverted chicago electric hand planer clamped in a vice. Yes I will never do that again. The feeling still hasn't fully returned and it's been two years. You know how folks talk about everything was in slow motion as the board kicked out and I watched my finger get pinched between the blade and the body of the planer, I could swear it went even slower while watching the tip of my left index finger disappear, just missed the bone , how, I have no idea. Felt like I smashed it with a hammer. Grabbed some peroxide and soaked it for a bit then wrapped it up with some antibiotic ointment. Wasn't much reason to go to hospital, there wasn't anything to sew back, the tip was gone, no meat, no skin, amputated to the bone.

All the ol guys at the cafe , were telling me that I must be the best carpenter in town ,because i was the only one that still had all 10.

Interesting, Andy. Are you going to let it air dry or are you taking it to a kiln for processing? Bill

What does your drying process look like?

Why don’t you make yourself a band saw mill all buy one, your got the room to have one.😊

Time for a malecki mill

Hi!!!!

time for you to look for a mill

Been in business 9 year, unfortunately just have 9 fingers left.

👀 *Promosm*