Repurposing old POWER POLES!!! Sawing on a Corley CIRCLE SAWMILL!

In this video you will see us taking old power poles that were taken out for various reasons, and sawing them into posts for a new barn! Giving them a new life as another structure! #sawmill #sawmillbusiness #polebarn

[terrystory]

Now that’s a sawmill the kind I have worked with years ago sure brought back memories.
Good job lady 😁

[Jackie-it]

I'm waaaay late to this one, since I just found y'all a while back! I hope them ol green poles ain't as hard on the circle saw blade as they are on chain saw chains....lol. I was a lineman my whole adult life and worked changing out a many of those poles. When you set the new pole next to the old one, and transfer the wire up onto the new pole, you get the chainsaw and cut the old pole down below everything you have transferred so it will be easier and safer to pull the old pole outta the ground. Old creosote poles were hard enough on saw chains, but when we had to cut off one of those green CCA poles....man, them things would murder a saw chain. After you made 2 or 3 cuts, you were burning more than you were cutting! 🤣

[fricknjeep]

hi there, saw a lot of then, they saw nice, my new sawmill building is all them, the boards make real pretty siding also . i ware a respirator when i saw a lot of them . good sawing john

[douglasholdenjr.]

Brought back great memories of working at a sawmill when I was 18 and 19(59 now). Loved it!!! Good, hard, honest work!!! The water coming out of the cypress logs on me as we mill cut them felt good in that July Florida sun!!!! Cut pine and built pallets too. Very satisfying work!!!🙂❤

[venchip]

Nice video. I would drive be bonkers having to step over that loading ramp all the time.

[barryhunt]

Looking good! I'm your 1000 like on this one! Happy Easter!

[blueyes]

A few years back, I had a Corley 54" saw, powered by a 671 Detroit. It was a great cant mill, way faster than any band mill I've seen. They can be a little more dangerous. If you ever have a log shift at the end of the cut and ride up on your splitter on the return, it'll chuck it right over your head when it hits the blade!

[edbeard]

I never really gave much thought about milling these up. But after seeing this is definitely have changed my mind. Electric company went through our area last ya replacing poles all over the place. Most farmers around here have left them laying where they are, a few use them for corner post when fencing. Im gonna be laying my hands on as many as I can get now. Thanks for the video an idea

[garyhuffman]

power poles are quite dirty and full of creosote. I hope you cleaned and power washed them good.

[jerryedmonds]

New sub here. Love your channel!

I wonder if there would be room on the back side of the carriage to mount a box or rack to store your wedges, instead of having to step away from the controls/carriage to grab them? Just a thought...

[bluestarindustrialarts]

I often wonder while you are sawing away on a big log, tree, or pole with either the band saw or the circular, did ya ever hit a hidden large nail, spike, cannon ball or other foreign object? Does it trash the blade? I have seen trees with all kinds of stuff in them. I was cutting some firewood from a felled oak at my parents house, and in the middle was a slab of steel 3" wide by 7 or 8" long. After some investigation it turned out to be a section of a car leaf spring driven into the standing tree during a collision. The exposed outside portion rusted away and the tree just grew around it. I later found out that crash took place before I was born and the driver was a local kid who became an English teacher in my high school.

**LATE EDIT** I watched your sawing 1x6 out of a 38" log video and it answered my question. Yes and yes. Must suck if it happens with the circular

[dannysulyma]

I've cut a bunch of them, mainly creosote red cedar poles, and they vary greatly from beautiful tight grain old growth to useless, stress fractured (being a pole can be hard work) wood. Disposal of the waste is the downside.

[rogerstepp]

I have a woodmizer. I do great to cut eight logs a day. Your working me to death. LOL.

[jonviol]

Without a shadow of a doubt Britney knows how to use those legs of her's to wonderfull effect. Long may the hot days remain hot days ! x

[AndrewConary-sl]

What I like to know is how Brittany works wearing shorts without getting cuts and scratches on her legs

[GeorgeLittle-sp]

you know about the stamp code on a light pole/take note some poles have arsenic/cooper/ and other kinds of chemicals that are deadly/i no longer have the wind to blow out a candle/ just to let you know gk

[calvinkalmon]

Looks like you had plenty of room for those 20 footers, how long is your track?

[jbbrown]

We need for the microphone to be closer to you.

[jimmyfishburn]

Quick. Got Instagram Britt? Got you on youtube and want to add (maybe) on here. Thanks!