hey guys my name is Jason with Mount Baker Mining and metals and I've got some big plans
for my underground gold mine next year and one of the things I need to get ready for it is some
timbering so I'm down here at some property I own got this big pile logged behind me today's
video is going to be a little bit different I'm going to work on getting some of these logs up
to the Sawmill and we're cutting some Timbers for the mine well here's a quick look at our pile I'm
primarily going to be working on this big log here and I figure most of the timmers I'm going
to need are between four and six feet so what I'm going to do is I'm going to cut this into 12 foot
lengths put on the back of the truck get it to The Sawmill and then we can cut it down into Timbers
good morning
foreign
well I guess my better judgment I got the whole 40 foot log up on the truck bed I got two 12s and I
ended up with two eight Footers out of it so I'll cut some nice beams and lagging out of that stuff
and if you guys are interested I've got another Channel started it's called s j Forest Products
I've got a whole Trailer Load worth of stuff here that I'm going to take up and on that
channel I do some logging Sawmill stuff so if you're interested to check that out and you can
figure out what happens to all of these logs in a video on that channel I'll put a link up here in
one of these corners and also in the description so you can check it out so Fred's out back getting
the logs and he's going to bring them over and load them on this Baker Sawmill here behind us
and I'm going to cut them into true Dimension six by six four by fours and then two by for
lagging and so we can get them up to the mine and do some timbering up the raises and help
hold up the hanging wall so let's see what Fred can make out of these screws I brought up to them
well here's how Fred likes to unload locks right here in the middle of the road
he says don't worry I've done it before
oh geez full on a china shop foreign
what do you think of the logs it's dirty it's dirty is that a good log or a bad log
it's fine it's a fine log we want me to get the wire brush and brush it a little bit or what
something something do something he says
I don't have a tape on me but that's 24 inches anyway diameter 12 footer
or changing the blade already
all right well I guess I gotta I got to get this log clean for Fred
you could figure out how many board feet is in the log yeah let's scale this log Sony board Feet's in
here all right so I'm going to scale this log and that's just a way that I could measure the log on
the small end which I think it's actually this end I think it's that one and that's going to tell us
how many board feet is in this log before we cut it and this is when you sell logs to The Sawmill
or something that's how they pay you is by the board footage so we're going to measure across
the diameter 20 26 inches so now I can put it into a log scale calculator and figure out how
many board feet the log scale says and then we can compare with what we can actually get out
of it and see how accurate the scale is so I just scaled our log here it's 26 inches across
on the small end 12 feet long and my log scale calculator says there's 360 board feet in this
one log which is actually quite a bit it's no matter what Fred says it's a pretty nice log
so we're going to cut it up into that six by six four by fours and two by and then I can calculate
how many board feet we actually got out of the log and we'll compare but a board foot is a one
inch thick 12 inch square of wood that's one board foot so there should be 360 of those in this log
foreign
yeah what do we got here how does it look no cracks in it it's not all cracked
it dulled already huh the dirt boy somebody brought dirty logs dirt is bad
so what are we gonna do a new blade brand new out of the barn brand new
now we got all that dirty junk off our cans here we want dull as fast
well this thing's pretty cool it's run by a big diesel motor on the back there
it's got a clutch right there and then just runs that bandsaw real fast around those two flywheels
6 000 feet a minute six thousand feet a minute
is that 100 feet a second something YouTube Will Tell Us
so this is a brand new one out of the box
so no excuses all right back in business five minutes change the blade or less
well we've whittled our log down to this we've got a bunch of two by here we're gonna Edge a
little later cut down to a little more manageable size those are way too wide to handle Underground
but this what we have left over we can get six six by sixes out of so one two three four five
six so we're gonna Whittle this down into our six by sixes and then we'll grab another log
foreign
thank you
foreign
well here's what we got out of that first log we got our six true six by sixes
two two by twelves two two by sixes and four two by eights and I just did the the math on that and
we got 356 board feet and the log scaled at 360. so that is pretty much bang on log scale to what
we actually got produced out of it this stuff over here is the waste there's not a whole lot of it
it's great firewood but here are the four jackets those are called flitches
a couple little pieces we took off to True up the beam for the six pies and then all the
weighing that we cut off those true two bites so not a whole lot of waste there
but we sure to get some really nice wood out of that so we'll keep going cut up some more logs and
I'll show you the pile when we're all done well here's a significantly smaller log this is only
14 inches across the small end and eight feet long it scales at 60 board feet so we're going to try
and Fred doesn't like this idea but we're going to try and cut it into a 12 by 12 and then into a
bunch of four by fours there's going to be a bunch of Weighing on the edges of the four by fours but
we'll see how many we can get out of it and if it's a bad plan Fred's going to tell me all about
it all right so we're just talking about that big log what's the problem with pulling out the
exact scale and that big 12 foot long log the log is too short to scale the Mills won't buy
them that short you need to buy them at 32 feet long right which on a real log the small end is
small and the big end is big and there's more wood in it but less scale so a 32 inch or 32 foot log
will scale at 200 board feet but there's actually 400 in it yes yeah because it's a tapered pencil
whereas when you cut them short like this and scale them they're just a big cylinder essentially
correct okay but the small logs the smaller the diameter
the more board footage there is in them no no the less they give you for the less they
give you four was only worth 18 bucks at the Mill yeah and there's what if you went to the
store and bought that it'd be 150 for the wood yes even though it's spruce there's a
lot of wood there a lot of good wood put it underground it'll hold up the world
here's what we got out of that small log six true four by fours and two by Eights all eight
feet long and that would is about 85 board feet a log scaled at 60. so we got almost 50 percent more
wood and that small log that we did on a big log which was pretty much on track with scale
well here's a quick rundown of what we cut today a bunch of lag in there
nice two by sixes two by Eights two by twelves got some six by some four by
over here this is our last log with a bunch of six and four by
so we'll get these loaded in the truck and back in the shop and get them stickered up and drying all
right got our wood all stacked up here behind me so you guys stay tuned for a future video
where I'm going to take this wood up to the mine and get it all timbered up so we can get working
in there so I hope you guys enjoyed the video thanks for watching and we'll see on the next one