Lumber Harvesting and Chainsaw Milling Free Hand.

Chris and I found a standing dead tree and started milling it into lumber. It will take some practice to perfect this, but it was a fun day out in the woods!

I hope you enjoy the video.
Thanks for watching!

[petrkafka]

A big compliment to the boys that you didn't dispose of the wood for fuel, but created something useful from it.

[chancellor]

There's another video on YouTube where somebody affixed a small bubble level to the top of their saw so they had a reference point to keep the saw consistently level. I've never tried this, but thought that might help! Cool vid, thanks for sharing.

[goldentroutprospecting]

Cool beans. That rough lumber will work good for my rough work. :)

[jdouglas]

I know this is an old video but several years ago I visited Jamaica and I went hiking in the woods and came across two carpenters that were willing 2X4s freehand with a chainsaw. I asked if I could look at their 2X4s and I sighted one down and it was straighter than anything I’ve ever seen at Lowe’s or Home Depot. I’m sure that it didn’t vary even a 16th of an inch and it was 20 feet long so with practice it can be done well, you guys are the only ones I’ve ever seen free handing it on YouTube

[mazuj]

Very cool! Would love to see more with you guys milling lumber!

[jacobfowler]

Liked how you did this with multiple angled cuts, I've only seen videos where people "saw" or go straight perpendicular to the log. Looks great

[jakewonderly]

That guide tool is slick! Just ran straight to Amazon to buy one

[speeddhiman]

Thanks guys, great work and patience! Practice, practice and practice! With enough time, you won't be able to tell the difference between the lumber you cut and the lumber you buy at Home Depot.

[eitantal]

I have and use such an attachment. I call it Vertical alaskan mill. I struggle to get a 90 degree angle with it, but that's just a skill issue. Rock on!

[PuskwaskaOutdoors]

Don’t waste your money on a ripping chain just buy a decent file guide and sharpen a full chisel at 5*, I paid almost $100 for an Oregon rip chain for my 30” bar and my hand file regular chain cut better.

You’ll want to make sure the rakers or “depth gauges” as some call em are all bang on perfectly set to each individual tooth as well or you’ll forever be milling crooked boards….

There really is no substitution for an Alaskan mill and a section of extension ladder for a guide…. Well ok, the substitution for the granburg Alaskan mill it the Amazon knockoffs, I have one, love it, I’ve also got that same beam cutter you are using and it’s handy but the Alaskan mill just takes it to the next level of awesomeness 👍

[tomkelly]

I have an alaskan mill and a beam guide but after milling a few dozen boards, I found that it was more work than it was worth and that I would kill my chainsaw so fast from using it that way. The cuts are too long and constant, one after the other and along the grain. The engines are too small for this.
Now I rent my buddy's bandsaw lumbermill and it is so fast, so many more boards and so much easier on my chainsaws!

I mean go ahead and do it, you will anyways but after a few days of that, go look at a portable bandsaw cutting in real time. You will be amazed! So little gas, so little sawdust, so many more boards that way!

[pacbdnabcde]

I remember way back in Europe my grandfather was in construction and there was no lumber to even buy back then. People would just bring logs and he would shape them into a lumber all by hand there was no power tools back then not even a table saw? Everything was done by hand like axe, chisel and wood planes/ The end result was good but it took long time to do it? Even now after 80 and some years if you go back this houses are still standing and if you look you can't tell the lumber was not cut from sawmill? I remember in one case it took my grandfather 8 hours to do just one 2x6 about 12' long ? When you think back then people was working very hard?

[BillyBlaze]

I envy you guys with straight timber, Im in Texas we have oaks that are in no way straight

[jakewayrewa]

How's your Echo held up over the years? I've got an Echo Timberwolf and a couple Stihls and I love the Timberwolf. I've used it for felling, bucking, and chainsaw milling for about 5 years. Pine, Cedar, Walnut, Hickory, Cherry...it don't matter. If it can be cut with a24" bar I use the Echo. If it needs a 36" bar I use the 92cc Stihl.

[davidcantrell]

It’s Hail out in the woods sometimes 😂

[garyallen]

Great video. Where did you get your guide? Do you have a link?

[Jprid]

All fun and games for good times. I had to support my family skidding in logs in the 70s. Be out there at first light no matter the weather, rain, snow, hail, wind. All alone miles from nowhere. Kept chokers, drum line, saws, fuel, oil, thermos, and dead tired every day. Those times I wished I was back in the sawmill under a roof. All Sthil for me. Then Reagan trickle down economics nearly starved my family. You kids don’t have a clue about killing yourself trying to survive in all weather and economic hardships.

[speeddhiman]

1 more thing, do you guys recommend that chainsaw mill that attaches to the sabre?

[playdiscgolf]

You kinda look like Nikolaj Coster-Waldau from Game of Thrones

[rexhavoc]

You never really appreciate the value of chainsaw chaps until you're bleeding out a severed femoral artery 50 miles from nowhere.