Nice rigging Jerry, definitely would like to sit and have a cold beverage and wet line on that deck. Stay cool buddy

I had a nerve block for 5 days and couldn’t put weight on my leg until it wore off. I couldn’t bend my knee for a week. And when my PT bent it back, I nearly passed out. I don’t know how this guy is doing it. I couldn’t stand on my leg without a walker for a week 11:49

Looks great Jerry. Nice job of getting it to the location and set up

Great addition to an already beautiful location. I bet the grandchildren are going to love it. I had the grandsons at our pond last evening. They kept me busy baiting hooks and taking bluegill and perch off the line. Then we built a campfire and sat around it till about 10:30 when we turned in for the night at what we call "Camp Bigfoot". Nothing but a storage shed but it has magical powers with them. Making memories is what it's all about at this stage of life. Good job.

I was waiting for you to jump in.

Probably about time for a hundred year flood ? Jk. Peaceful spot right there. Thanks

Very nice Jerry,

I'd be doomed if I built something like that lol. I would just sit by the river all day with a glass of iced tea and get nothing done but watch the river go by .

Just watched the build and place video ;)

Hi Jerry, I just wear the N95 mask if it gets too dusty. For cleaning off the mill I use a cordless leaf blower, with the extension you're not in the cloud of dust when blowing the saw dust off everything and no worries about the hose getting hung up on anything.

Wow, you turned out better that I did. My doctor said 4 years ago, I needed both knees replaced but the VA said I was to young at the age of 50 to have it done and we needed to wait. Now both my knees are shoot. I just had my left done in March and my right will be done in July. I have had some problems and am still having some problems with my left knee. The doctor said is was completely bone on bone and had a lot of spurs he had to clean up. I hd been in a lot of pain for the last 2 years and still have some but nothing like it was. All in all, glad as hell I had it done. They say it will get better over the next year with what I had to go thru. Glad to see you are recovering good.

13 stripe ground squirrel! Aka striped gopher. Minnesota state critter.

Thanks for sharing. I need a tka in left knee and I am very apprehensive. I'm older at 73, a retired nurse. You have given me the courage to call the surgeon and get the ball rolling ❤

Nice 6x6.

Ingenious brother-just bought a log truck load of lodgepole tamarack and red fir for $2500-logs are 35' long- 13 to 14 cords split and stacked and was wondering how in the heck am i going to do this easily as possible-i found new gravity 10' convayers for about $300 a piece with metal stands-but the roller spacing is 12"-thoughts?-thinking of setting the stands up on quickcrete sonotube footings-and then converting harbor freight pick-up cranes to electric winches to lift the logs onto the rollers-had that idea in my head-came in and utubed that idea and found you-glad your video popped up-if i didn't have wood to burn in the winter the wife would drop me off at the mission-appreciate this video.

Good wood, amazing machine

I had TKR and I no pain due to my company’s fabulous device call the H-Wave. I was sent home with 35 pain pills. Never used. Google H-Wave. I can’t wait to have my right knee replaced.

Hey Jerry. Have you considered trying Norwoods new stellicut blades. I was talking to a Norwood rep at a show, and he claims that they work great. Every 3rd tooth was a stellulite tip welded on. He claims that he's milled for 11 hours on a blade without sharpening. Hard to believe, but it might be worth getting one to try.

GOOD JOB , I DON'T KNOW WHATS UP WITH BLADES LATELY ? I'VE HAD A COUPLE BRAND NEW ONES BRAKE RIGHT AT THE WELD. LIKE FAULTY WELDING, WELDER HEAT SETTING TO HIGH, CAUSING THINNING AND SOFTENING THE METAL.

Awesome job on this video iam going to do this next step next iam almost there 😀

The girls at Lumber Capital Log Yard just released a video yesterday about breaking so many blades also!!! It's almost seems like the steel itself has changed or the heat treatment done on the teeth, has made the blades too brittle!! Now that you welded the nut to use a torque wrench for tension, I am wondering if saving blades will come at the expense of straight cuts or if there will be a sweet spot for both to exist!!!

I was thinking...he hasn't broke a blade yet...and 5 seconds later, SNAP. Did your moveable bunk come with the mill?

Good morning Jerry, wow another broken blade 😡. Have you contacted the seller? People are idiots, they have either been gaslighted by the fake green agenda or are clueless about proper forestry practices. He will have no problem going to a big box store and buying lumber that was harvested on the other side of the country and trucked 1000’s of miles. Thanks for sharing, have a great day

Those damn trolls ruin everything! Maybe more coolant is needed?

Hey Jerry, I'm healing from Chile, well I have a OS23 and in my country frontier is not popular brand for sawmills and find spare parts was really hard at the beginning. So, i do 2 things, if the blade guides are thick enough I just use a metal file to even out the blade guide insert cubes to make them flat and smooth to insert. When I cannot keep using them, well I have to send them to a turner to be made. The turner knows about materials and how to make them resistant.

Be careful Jerry! You haven't had all those surgeries to now lay yourself up again!

Im never having mine done. Im in pain but I do well most of the time I can still sit in the floor and fet up so Im good. I had a pulmonary embolism 4 years ago that almost killed me so not taking that chance again.

Geez you make it look easy ! Definitely encouraging! I need total knee replacement on left knee. I’m scared about weeks of pain. I’m 55 , I hope I recover like you did. Thanks for sharing!!!

Today has been 1 week, TKR. Nightmare everything I feared came true. Horrific on going pain. Taking meds, ice machine elevating nothing helps very very discouraged. Worst experience of my life. So swollen can barely move my leg. Go round and round with doctor and therapist. Same conversation nothing changes really don't know what else to do

Hi Jerry Do you sleep in your bed either the ice machine wrap all night? Is there any restrictions when sleeping in your bed as far as which way you should sleep

Great video Jerry! I love the property you have. I sure could drink a lot of early morning coffee staring at Bigalow creek! Hope your leg is feeling better. Love the talk👍🏻👍🏻

Just had both knees replaced Monday. You are doing amazingly well! Thanks for the you tubes.

Glad I found this video-just had Mako TKR this past Monday. The swelling is no joke! The pain has been minimal but the swelling…it’s something else.

Sucks to see ya get hurt, but it makes good content. Just dont do it on purpose for views. Enjoyed all of the video, even the sit and talk.

Bless you!!! I needed this. And I hope lots of other people facing this surgery find it.

I help to cross when ever I see one. But snappers stink like death. lol

Had my knee replacement Feb 26 2024 3 months since surgery no pain doing great

Oh boy the wife is gonna chew you out now. Sucks to be you when you get home limping along like an old man that thinks he is still in his 20s. Now that I think about it, I thought I heard an angry females voice far off to my west a few days ago. She isn't going to let you go out to play anymore if you keep that nonsense up. Best lay low and attack the honey do list for a week or so whilst you heal up. Then start out real slow. Like "honey I've got the dishes done can I go for an ATV ride out to the cabin?" Best ask real sweat and gentle like. You know, all the crap I just suggested doesn't work for me when I screw up. As the old saying goes, easier to get forgiveness than permission. I grew up running an old Super M TA. It had a belt pulley on it that we belted to an old Alice Chalmers silage blower. The silo was 60 feet tall and that M running full out would throw corn silage all day long and ask for more. We would load that AC blower till it was over flowing and hardly phase the M. Heck of a tractor for it's time. If you are still reading this long post then you need to get a life buddy 🤣😆

Hope you will be okay. FWIW, we have some steep land/driveway/roads and I am always afraid the PARK isn't going to work on my F350 and the tractor - so I always turn the wheel (of the truck) and leave the tractor in gear, with the front (and/or) rear blade down.. better to be safe than sorry.

I still have the 18hp Bolens garden tractor that my parents bought in 1975, and I still have the 16hp Bolens that I 1984 that I paid $3700 for!!! They were actually built "too good" so that they would never wear out, and therefore never need to be replaced!! Now those need an occasional engine swap and they're good for a few more years, not like new mowers that are junk and wore out in 5 years!! Hope your calf is doing better, and the lesson should be that we are getting to old to intervene, and need to let things happen because we hurt ourselves otherwise!!

Oh Dad !! I'm not laughing at you, I'm laughing with you! Darn on your calf but it made for a good laugh this morning!

Damn, Jerry!! ¡QUESO!

Hey Jerry , hate you got hurt my friend . The cabin is very nice . I thought that was your name . 👍🏻🇺🇸

I hate when I pull my calf feels like you’re someone is putting an ice pick in your leg. Luckily the JD acted as a wheel chock. Have a good weekend

No wonder u did so good during ur knee replacement surgery. Ur pain tolerance is extremely high.

You left the M in neutral just to get out of dinner? Alway thinking aren’t ya lol. Great stories , if I ever get out there Michigan way , I’d love to check out your places. Although I still haven’t made the 10 mile ride to see The Old Man and his Saw. Soon though. ….. glad it wasn’t either knee. , Terry

$6000 in 1984? WOW! lol, hang in there old man.

I go in for a knee replacement in August so I have been watching videos of people who have been going through the journey. Thanks for the videos. GO BLUE!!!

Awesome job on this, just what I was looking for

i have a tibial platea fracture some plates and screws ,the pain must be the same ,but im watching because i think the exersizes could be the same