Sawmill School - Making Your First Cut on Your Sawmill

As a newbie, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. The best way to learn is to work with an experienced sawyer. Thankfully, my best buddy has been doing it for 20 years. He loves Norwood.

Nice job

Where are you gloves as you spoke about.

I was raised by folks with a work ethic. Am I the only person wishing I could give them a hand when they're working alone in these videos? lol

Thank you Dave after watching your video I purchased the hd38 love it I used your videos to help build my mill and use the video to help hone my shills thank you Dave bolt my wife says I have a man crush lol

Me encanto el vídeo, gracias por compartir su conocimiento con los demás, como nosotros los novatos, que estamos aprendiendo este rubro forestal, la nueva generación de taladores
Estoy empezando en este trabajo, mucho que aprender en el camino, saludos desde chile, america del sur

What blows my mind is how he just pulled the blade straight back after he made his 2nd cut. I’ve had cuts that’ll break the blade pulling it back when I pull my saw back.

ummm ...you left your socket wrench on the tracking adjust bolt

Thank you for creating this video. I learned a LOT, It has been very helpful.

Good Information Thanks

Dave you are a national treasure! You were the first I watched before I bought a mill and I still come back 2 years later to remind myself how to do it. Thank you so much! And yes I cut my log stops haha.

I was going to ask Dave about the motors on The Sawmill I was planning to get the hd36 V2 I was wondering if the 18 horsepower twin-engine would be enough horsepower for the meal or would I need to go up to the 23 horsepower

Great video! Thank you

i learn something every time i watch this show thanks

We had a small mill custom cutting yellow cedar for the Japanese market , some was food grade so we really had to watch the lubricants we used . Flew a Sawyer over from Japan to teach us the Japanese way of sawing up a log . He said " that tree took a very !ong time to grow , surely we can take five minutes and cut it correctly ". Yup , agreed with the guy 100% . In North America it's wham bam thank you mame and on to the next log . He also said if there is $400 worth of lumber in that log ,you better get $400 worth of lumber out of it . Take you to e guys , do it right

The tip about the last 3 cuts, I thankyou.

When I saw logs I lay in bed with my eyes closed

Bark edges are just as valuable as square edge boards

Very impressed with your work

I like the way you think, thanks for sharing.

Very informative!

What do you use the first square cut for? Firewood?

Sir how can i get to u love u

Very enjoyable video. My father began his lumber career in the Oregon mills. Thank you.

Loved the video! Very informative and easy to follow. Thanks 😊

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Hi I'm from the UK, I just want to say thank you for the video, I found it very informative and interesting keep up the good work and the video's 10/10

Great instructional video for beginners. The common sense advice from experience is valuable stuff. Thank you.

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Great idea making a wedge! I would not thought of that-

Great video Sir

Thank very much. I’m presently using an Alaskan mill learning a lot with it. The neighbor and I are looking at purchasing a bandsaw mill. I personally think there is a use for both types of mill . Appreciate you videos again thank you

Spending 20k for 1? Hell yes i want to see what it can do

Back in the seventies I made a portable mill for machining big hammer bases all over the country..need to get busy again doing wood..at 65 yrs old there's alot more to be done..thanks for the education..

I like how they subtly sped up the video when he's cutting to make it seem like it cuts significantly faster than it actually does... They even fudged the audio so that it's really hard to hear any change in engine speed/pitch. Clever!

I like your mill sir the set up is nice

Great video. Thanks 👍

If you put. A set saw horses behind you to lay your boards on you will not have to pick themupoff the ground it will save your back try it works.

Excellent Video Dave! I love the no non sense approach 👍

I'm strongly considering getting a portable mill myself, the price of lumber is unreal, wood don't grow in trees no more. Lol the guy just told to remember the clamps then he forgets to tighten the clamps 😂

Que precio tiene nesecito uno nuevo. Y liviano para remplazo. Solo el aserraderos.el riel es en concreto fijo.mobil.

So good Dave. All the fundamentals from the master!

I feel much better knowing that not only is it normal to test a few blades on your log stops, it’s healthy.

Thanks for the great video. I learned that I’ve been wasting way more than I should. Appreciate the tips!

This guy rocks. Thanks for your wisdom.

Lumber in the Philippines is sawn by eye with chain saw. It sucks. What is the cost of a machine like yours?

why do you not cut the log into a square so you will not have to recut the rough edge lumber?

Dave - is there a video on how to change the blade?

Dave- please show us what the Drying area is and more about how drying is done

Very nice and easy video to follow from the experts. Thanks