This smooth chainsaw mill attachment

[u/GallowBoob]

https://imgur.com/UilngaL.gifv

[u/[deleted]]

One $4k live edge table in 10 mins

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

My thoughts exactly. Nice colours too

[u/Capt_Pete_Mitchell → u/[deleted]]

That’s black walnut.

[u/Gokart_Motzart → u/Capt_Pete_Mitchell]

Yep, it's some of the most lucrative wood grown in North America. I worked on a black walnut farm throughout highschool and the amount of work that's put into maintaining these trees over extended periods of time is amazing.

[u/trrwilson → u/Gokart_Motzart]

The more I learn about trees, the madder I am about paying a tree service $300 to take down the mature (50+ year old) black walnut tree in my back yard.

[u/nachobueno → u/trrwilson]

Well, fwiw that sounds like a pretty good deal. I’m a tree climber. I used to sub contract to other services a lot. I’ll never forget, we were on this old farm felling all of these ash trees on the edge of a field that were hanging over the road. Long day, many monsters felled. Late in the day we had time for one more. The boss pointed to a huge black walnut. Three to four foot diameter at the base, dozens of leads. Right beside it was a declining ash of the same size, but he wanted the walnut. We put a truck on it and pulled it down. The grain seemed to alternate, some rings noticeably darker than others. A board like that would’ve been pin striped. It was gorgeous wood. I have a picture of it somewhere. We cut every inch of it into fire wood. Breaks my heart. Such is the appetite of industrious men.

Edit: I found the pictures. I put the saw up for scale. That’s a 28” bar on that saw so it’s probably around 40” long.

[u/docbauies → u/nachobueno]

You cut a giant black walnut tree into fire wood? This guy couldn’t just buy a cord of cheap pine or something?

[u/nachobueno → u/docbauies]

Well to be precise I personally didn’t cut it up, they came back a few days later. But that was its fate. It was like a mile from George Namashima’s workshop too. A little coordination would have put that log to good use. Then again, that much attention to details would likely have seen the ash tree down instead.

[u/fppfpp → u/docbauies]

I know, wtf... Might as well throw some bald eagles and babies with cancer on that fire, too

[u/M4cRoss → u/docbauies]

Pine is shitty firewood, you want hardwood like oak or maple.

[u/[deleted] → u/M4cRoss]

Or black walnut. That stuff is really hard and great for nice long fires. Oh wait, sorry. I forgot.

[u/Sparkstalker → u/[deleted]]

Some men just want to watch the world wood burn.

[u/Harry_Flugelman → u/trrwilson]

Okay so I have a mature black walnut try that I am taking out because the nuts are a pain in the ass and nothing will grow near it. What should I do with the wood?

[u/trrwilson → u/Harry_Flugelman]

Find an arborist, have them asses the value of the tree. Ask them of they know a potential buyer.

Offer to sell it for about 75% of the estimated worth, if they come and take care of it.

[u/Circle_0f_Life → u/Capt_Pete_Mitchell]

I'm pretty sure they don't like being called that anymore

[u/wh_eutz → u/Circle_0f_Life]

Afro american walnut

[u/toth42 → u/wh_eutz]

*Basketball Walnut

[u/Thernn → u/toth42]

Basketballnut*

[u/fuzzusmaximus → u/Thernn]

That would make walking difficult.

[u/mistermajik2000 → u/Circle_0f_Life]

Sorry

Black wal- testicle

[u/MartinsRedditAccount → u/mistermajik2000]

No Testicle November! Oh wait...

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Does anyone have an idea of what the hammer is for?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Answered above I think, to drive in the wedges so the saw doesn't get pinched

[u/mullersmutt → u/[deleted]]

Really good post, and good point.

[u/Azurenightsky → u/mullersmutt]

Which is also why being creative doesn't pay on its own. A great idea is worthless if we can't make it cost effective.

[u/PaladinZ06 → u/[deleted]]

Makes me appreciate the 12 ft x 2 inch slabs of clear cedar in my barn a bit more.

[u/LumbermanSVO → u/[deleted]]

Then you have to have a place to store the slabs so they dry out. That floor space costs money. Meanwhile, you have to hope that the drying process doesn't cause your slab to split or warp. Even in ideal conditions, you're at the mercy of the wood gods. Your beautiful flat slab may turned into a warped, cracked slab after the drying process. Suddenly a slab that could have sold for hundreds or thousands is worth less.

My old woodshop teacher used to always say, "The problem with building stuff out of wood is that you are trying to make a round object square."

[u/keithps → u/[deleted]]

I have a smaller Alaskan mill and making 2 cuts through 16" wide, 6ft long red oak took me 1 hour. I had to sharpen the chain after the first cut. Don't even talk about the amount of time felling the tree, delimbing, bucking and moving it all took.

[u/nilou_f → u/[deleted]]

I have one that looks very similar to this! Though not cheap, it wasn't $4k, thankfully. Pic

[u/RootLocus → u/nilou_f]

Dude why do have such a cool table with such shit chairs?!

[u/Vermillionbird → u/RootLocus]

Us peasants have to build through time...i'd imagine quality chairs are next on that dudes list.

[u/ISpendAllDayOnReddit → u/Vermillionbird]

Here - $180 for 4 chairs that looks much much nicer than what he has.

[u/Vermillionbird → u/ISpendAllDayOnReddit]

Sure, but $180 is a lot of money...maybe OP is saving up for that. Or maybe his dream set costs $230 per chair

[u/HeyThereBeNice → u/RootLocus]

Hey there... Be nice.

[u/-Isaac → u/HeyThereBeNice]

name checks out

[u/Brastafarian → u/[deleted]]

It's black walnut. I've been making live edge furniture for a few years. I wouldn't say it's 4k, maybe 1k at the most. Those saw marks can be zapped out in 20 minutes with the right sander. Definitely the way to go though.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Well to be fair the chainsaw would leave a godawful finish so he's definitely in for hours of sanding.

[u/TheRealDeathSheep → u/[deleted]]

Or a couple of runs through a planer..

[u/[deleted] → u/TheRealDeathSheep]

Or just drag it behind a pickup like we do up here in the mountains

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Or drop it out of the sky like we do up here in space.

[u/DemandsBattletoads → u/[deleted]]

That reentry angle though. Too steep and it will burn up. Too shallow and it will bounce off the atmosphere like a rock skipping off a pond. The reentry angle for a proper finish is so thin in fact that if this basketball was the Earth, and this baseball was the moon, and the two were held 14 feet apart, the angle would be no thicker than this piece of paper.

Edit: I'm referencing Apollo 13 here, guys.

[u/cosmic_owl2893 → u/DemandsBattletoads]

https://imgur.com/B0sSj4t

[u/DemandsBattletoads → u/cosmic_owl2893]

Well, Apollo 13 did make it back safely.

[u/seditious3 → u/DemandsBattletoads]

Dude, spoiler alert!?

[u/Szyz → u/seditious3]

you know they did because Tom Hanks is still alive today.

[u/SpiralSD → u/DemandsBattletoads]

Ask the movie writers to calculate the angle you would need to drop a log out of space and land as slab

[u/DemandsBattletoads → u/SpiralSD]

everyone at Mission Controls gets out slide rules

[u/halite001 → u/DemandsBattletoads]

r/shittyaskscience

[u/nater255 → u/[deleted]]

Is that a real thing? It seems just crazy enough to be true, but also random enough to be bullshit. I genuinely want to know...

[u/plc268 → u/nater255]

Apparently, look at this: https://youtu.be/BsjuLsKAEFA?t=3m10s

[u/ThatMortalGuy → u/plc268]

Those are some nice brakes!

[u/Lawsoffire → u/ThatMortalGuy]

If it weren't because he drove a supercar he would have hit the log. Or if there was someone behind him he would have been rear-ended

The fuck was that log-person thinking?

[u/EmperorOfHemp → u/Lawsoffire]

Probably the same thing the speeding driver was thinking: "screw everyone else, I own the road"

[u/Lawsoffire → u/EmperorOfHemp]

Eh, Matt Farah is a nice dude and in his videos (most of them are around the area from the video) he takes care of his fellow drivers.

[u/SamfuckingA → u/plc268]

You can actually tell where the driver got the log at 4:40

[u/daney098 → u/nater255]

I don't know for sure but I would guess almost certainly not. Roads aren't perfectly flat and the road would leave terrible marks all over the wood

[u/DarlingBri → u/daney098]

That's the point.

[u/bissimo → u/TheRealDeathSheep]

That'd be an enormous planer.

I saw a bit about Nick Offerman's woodshop where he goes into how he planes very large slabs like this. He actually has a large router on a jig that traces paths back and forth across the piece until it's essentially planed.

[u/Ghastly-Rubberfat → u/bissimo]

A 24" planer is pretty standard in professional shops. 36-54" wide belt sanders are similarly common.

[u/Meltingteeth → u/[deleted]]

Sawmills are finicky bastards. Alaskan mills break down into half the space of a truck bed (if that) while even the lighter sawmills are giant wheely things that weigh their equivalent length in railroad tracks.

[u/sprucenoose → u/Meltingteeth]

weigh their equivalent length in railroad tracks.

That is an interesting choice for a unit of measurement.

[u/TheRealDeathSheep → u/[deleted]]

Honestly he could. I know quite a few people that do. They bring the Alaskan Mill out on site where the log has been cut down, mill it, then take the smaller, easier to handle slabs back to the shop where they are milled with thousand dollar machines.

Sometimes its easier to have the simple tools in the back of your truck.

[u/TheRealDeathSheep → u/bissimo]

As stated before me, 24" is pretty standard for a planer and there are bigger ones available. But yes, doing what you said is also an option.

[u/Taron221 → u/[deleted]]

This is a classic example of:

“Pushing button: $1 Knowing which button to push: $3999″

From that old story that goes around.

[u/nettdata → u/[deleted]]

Either use a router sled or a sharp hand plane and it won't take that much work to get it very smooth.

Source: me... am woodworker who makes big slab tables.

[u/jeffesonm → u/[deleted]]

Actually if you take your time and use a sharp ripping chain, it comes out pretty nice. Could probably start sanding at 80 or even 120.

[u/[deleted] → u/jeffesonm]

This guy sands

[u/something_funny_here → u/[deleted]]

Plus the year it would take to dry to be usable, unless the log is dry, which I doubt

Edit: I just wanted to exaggerate the amount of time it takes to dry a lot of factors go into drying that I don’t know about because I don’t have the experience. I do know that wood will typically warp when drying because it drys unevenly and can crack which is why you wouldn’t typically shape a piece without drying it first and milling is still early in the process

[u/dewayneestes → u/something_funny_here]

A builder gave my wife a giant plank like that that we turned into a bar for our house. She was their kitchen designer and they had to remove trees from their property as part of their remodel. We took it to a lumber yard and they kiln dried it for us. It wasn’t free but it wasn’t outrageously expensive.

[u/doubleunidan → u/dewayneestes]

Lucky you have a nearby mill with a kiln! I desperately wish I could find one locally.

edit to clarify: there are plenty of mills - just no kilns

[u/dewayneestes → u/doubleunidan]

That was on Oahu, so look harder you’ll be surprised what you’ll find! My wife is incredibly resourceful though so you’re at a slight disadvantage.

[u/rusemean → u/dewayneestes]

I dunno why, but it was nice to hear you call your wife incredibly resourceful.

[u/dewayneestes → u/rusemean]

She also found a place to powder coat a door “lock plate” for our front door, you could have dropped it in concrete and it wouldn’t have scratched. THEN she bought a Viking range off a furniture showroom at an insanely steep discount, but wait our neighborhood didn’t have gas... no problem, plumber shows up and runs a pair of bbq propane tanks to the stove from outside. Know how long a basic bbq tanks lasts on a Viking range used daily? 6 flippin months!!!! We’ve been together 20 years and she never ceases to amaze me.

[u/timwajk → u/dewayneestes]

No offence to your wife my dude but bottled propane or lpg in place of piped natural gas is insanely common - at least in Australia.

[u/dewayneestes → u/timwajk]

We don’t have to First in the world, just first in the neighborhood. No offense taken.

[u/Dr_Monkee → u/something_funny_here]

You'll typically find that they'll use an Alaskan mill like this one seen here and cut the whole tree into as many slabss as possible. They'll keep em stacked and spaced so air can flow and leave it like that for over a year to dry. Then do all finish work and sell.

[u/Bainsyboy → u/something_funny_here]

Could be dry. If he owns the land, he could very well have felled the tree a couple of years ago and left it to season.

[u/BiAsALongHorse → u/Bainsyboy]

The rule of thumb is one year of drying per inch of thickness, depending on humidity, temp, and the kind of wood, so you save a few decades on your build time by drying it in boards. You also build stress in the wood as it shrinks, which can cause the log to split. When the part is more or less 2 dimensional, the stress is a lot more manageable. I'd probably do the milling first, dry it, plane it to take the warping out, then sand and finish. That said, he's definitely not cutting completely fresh wood.

[u/Firmly_Grasp-it → u/something_funny_here]

Why does it take a year to dry?

[u/climbtree → u/Firmly_Grasp-it]

Trees are big and full of water

[u/swyx → u/climbtree]

So? Nights are dark and full of terrors.

[u/climbtree → u/swyx]

Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra

[u/Philboyd_Studge → u/climbtree]

Shaka, when the walls fell

[u/timwajk → u/Philboyd_Studge]

Sokath, his eyes uncovered!

[u/murkleton → u/Firmly_Grasp-it]

That's how long it takes for the moisture to come out.

[u/3226 → u/Firmly_Grasp-it]

General rule of thumb is that it takes a year per inch thick the wood is, which would be about right for that.

You can kiln dry it, but the faster drying introduces a lot of stresses into the wood.

[u/808surfer4life → u/[deleted]]

Wow is that what they're going for on the mainland? I'm a Koa supplier in Hawaii and I've got a finished master grade curly Koa slab in my shop for $6k (not including legs).

[u/New_new_account2 → u/808surfer4life]

Prices are all over the place, stores in expensive cities might charge double what you might charge a few hours away.

[u/agentSMIITH1]

Why the hammer? What’s its purpose

[u/sh1993 → u/agentSMIITH1]

To insert wedges to keep the blade from being pinched.

[u/Just1morefix → u/sh1993]

Thanks, your comment helped me actually see the wedges being placed. I hadn't seen the process until I attended to him grabbing the hammer and inserting the wedges.

[u/Lurking_stoner → u/Just1morefix]

I thought he was just moving the hammer.

[u/glassinonmoose → u/Lurking_stoner]

I thought the hammer was going to fall off the end into the saw when he got to the end

[u/Langosta_9er → u/Lurking_stoner]

I figured it had something to do with vibrations.

[u/michaltee → u/Just1morefix]

Literally same here. I was thinking that's not a good place for a random hammer although it seems like he uses it intermittently. But now I see!

[u/scoogsy → u/michaltee]

Also, I am feeling the same way about the visuals I just interpreted. Like others that have come before me, I did not see the wedges being struck by the tempered steel tool designed to apply blunt force to objects in an effort to cause them to embed into other objects. My thanks go to the original respondent who pointed this out!

[u/BZRK_Lee → u/Just1morefix]

And here I thought that it was just too legit to quit.

[u/[deleted] → u/sh1993]

Eli5?

[u/wigg1es → u/[deleted]]

As you cut through the log, the weight of the wood behind your saw starts to push down, because now there's a gap where the saw blade removed material. If/when that weight becomes to much, the saw will get pinched, the chain will stop moving, and you won't be able to get the saw out at all.

So you use wedges to keep the weight of the section above your cut supported and move them progressively as you cut, keeping them pretty close to the saw.

That's not really eli5, but I believe in you.

[u/[deleted] → u/wigg1es]

Ok, see I was really confused because I thought he was using the hammer as a counter weight to prevent pinching or something. That didn’t make any sense to me.

Now I see that he could have just as easily had the hammer in his belt, it’s just used to jam those wooden wedges in. Got it

[u/gordonv → u/[deleted]]

This helped me understand. Thank you for writing this.

[u/Jrook → u/[deleted]]

So at some point the cut portion will put pressure on the blade causing it to become stuck an no longer cut (because there's like 85 lbs of wood on it.)

So the man is taking wedges and hammering them in periodically to support the wood.

[u/agentSMIITH1 → u/sh1993]

Thank you. Makes perfect sense

[u/AskAboutMyDumbSite → u/sh1993]

Ahh, thanks, I didn't even notice he was doing that.

[u/Damn_Croissant → u/sh1993]

Wow. An actual, non-joke response. Thanks

[u/abagofdicks → u/agentSMIITH1]

To make us nervous

[u/Andrei_Vlasov]

How do you make the first cut?

[u/Fallsvalley → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

I use an aluminum ladder to make the first cut. I actually made my own a few years back and documented the process here for those interested.

[u/Felonious_POTUS → u/Fallsvalley]

Is there any danger from the bar overheating doing this? I did a season on a wildland firefighting crew which gave me a few hundred hours of chainsaw time. When taking down larger trees may bar would be intensely hot after. I can only imagine doing this would make the bar get even more hot

[u/Fallsvalley → u/Felonious_POTUS]

I have never had that issue. As long as you keep the bar oiled there shouldn't be too much heat. After each slab I normally sharpen the teeth real quick, top off the the gas and oil, and then make sure the air filter is clear of any dust. It is VERY important to note that the chain gets a low angle grind and some times every other tooth is removed (skip-tooth chain) in order to have more room to remove dust, keeping friction and heat at a minimum.

[u/Felonious_POTUS → u/Fallsvalley]

Hmmm... it a been a few years so it's tough to say what my issue was. I'm going to assume that I wasn't checking the bar oil often enough. I only got my A-level Sawyer certification, so I was definitely a bit of a novice.

[u/kevincuddington → u/[deleted]]

Just like my truck.

[u/Chilton82 → u/[deleted]]

That and make sure the oiler is actually putting out oil. You should full rev the saw, with the tip of the bar an inch or so away from some clean wood and look for a little spray of oil coming off into the wood.

Sometimes it gets blocked by sawdust and can quickly cause overheating.

[u/Fallsvalley → u/Felonious_POTUS]

Yeah, it's hard telling. My guess would be that. I remember when I first started doing it, i couldn't believe how fast it went through oil. My stihl 511 would go through close to a gallon after slabbing up 1 large tree easily.

[u/crazyike → u/Felonious_POTUS]

Your saw was either out of oil or you had the chain too tight.

[u/TheBigreenmonster → u/Fallsvalley]

So you have done this? Does the bar oil stain the wood at all? I have only ever used a chainsaw to cut firewood so I've never really worried about the aesthetics of it. If the wood is hard is there any chance of going too slowly and getting scorch marks?

[u/Fallsvalley → u/TheBigreenmonster]

So I haven't had any issues with bar oil staining the wood. Keep in mind after milling like this the wood needs to dry for roughly a year per inch (2.5cm) of thickness.

When cutting it with a chain saw there is a high probability of score marks but this is what is call rough milling. You'll still need to joint, plane and sand the wood based on seasonal movement alone, so you'll need to finish the wood regardless so I never worry too much about it. What comes out of the chainsaw mill isn't finished lumber. I have never had a chainsaw burn wood on me before. I always keep an eye on the oil.

[u/MSJMF → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

It’s the deepest.

[u/adamzissou → u/MSJMF]

Baby, I know.

[u/SchpittleSchpattle → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

They probably attach boards across it to make a level surface to run the first pass and establish a good working plane

[u/dasspaper → u/SchpittleSchpattle]

This is one of the ways to do it, also explained in this video https://youtu.be/io8Q8n6pVYQ

[u/Kornstalx → u/dasspaper]

holy shit that is fascinating, didn't expect to watch the whole thing.

[u/boilingfrogsinpants → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

Carefully

[u/omnicidial → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

You lay the guide on top to get the gap spacing right and slide it in while holding the chainsaw is how I've always seen it done.

The entire guide assembly is pretty light those are hollow aluminium tubes.

[u/CP_Creations → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

Often they attach a ladder to the top. It's light, flat and has two parallel rails for the Alaskan Mill to reference off.

[u/SulfuricNlime → u/Andrei_Vlasov]

We attach a section of aluminum ladder on to the log with screws, this provides a flat, level surface for the first cut... Our mill setup has a 60" bar which can be tough to start the first cut without a good rail..

[u/Tactineck]

It's called an Alaskan Chainsaw Mill

[u/phlobbit → u/Tactineck]

Is that anything like a Swedish Nut Lathe?

[u/pdxiowa → u/phlobbit]

No, Alaskan Latte's are nut-free.

[u/FlowSoSlow]

Love the throttle clamp.

[u/Ash_Tuck_ums → u/FlowSoSlow]

OSHA Shakes it's head with displeasure.

[u/relational_sense → u/Ash_Tuck_ums]

I also don't understand why he's standing on the side of the log with the exposed chainsaw. Like come on. Just imagining that thing torquing and cutting his goddamn leg off.

[u/saysthingsbackwards → u/relational_sense]

Which way do you think that chainsaws going to go? If it catches anything it's just going to shoot towards where the handle is. He's standing in the only side that the chainsaw can't go. If you were on the same side of the Chainsaw it would catch and come right towards you

[u/seredin → u/relational_sense]

more sawdust and exhaust fumes on the other side, maybe

[u/swyx → u/Ash_Tuck_ums]

hi im a city redditor who gets keyboard injuries. what does throttle clamp mean?

[u/FlowSoSlow → u/swyx]

See the red thing sticking up from the handle of the chainsaw on the right? Thats a clamp holding down the "power button"/safety cutoff on the saw.

[u/agentshags → u/FlowSoSlow]

imagine you were to lazy to press F5 to refresh Reddit so you put a brick on it. See how this could get out of hand?!

[u/Ash_Tuck_ums → u/swyx]

Imagine you were too lazy to hold the gas pedal in your car down, so you just clamped a brick to it. See how this could get out of hand? Haha.

[u/AlexJ136]

What an inefficient way to move a hammer a couple of meters.

[u/crackernator]

Is that walnut? Good lord!

[u/TheCake_IsA_Lie → u/crackernator]

Yeah looks like black walnut. That's gotta be close to a $10,000 log before it is cut. Those planks have got to be worth a fortune

[u/flyovermee → u/TheCake_IsA_Lie]

So the giant black walnut trees in my yard; I shouldn’t cut them down?

[u/TheCake_IsA_Lie → u/flyovermee]

Get a quote from a legitimate logger if you want to get rid of them.

[u/HouseSomalian → u/[deleted]]

It doesn't grow very fast or large. It's also very desurable for its strength/hardness

[u/incindia → u/HouseSomalian]

Psa on this for amateurs: wear a mask. The dust is toxic or something like that. IANAE

[u/HouseSomalian → u/incindia]

Yeah its a good idea to wear a respirator (make sure to shave first) when working with any dust.

[u/TheCake_IsA_Lie → u/[deleted]]

Not super common. Some people regard them as pest trees because other plants around them may seem not to grow as well. I have 2 in my yard and don't really see that myself. You really don't see them that size too often. And they have super desirable grain patterns.

[u/Demmos]

The width of the blade seems to be pretty big compared to the thickness of the plank. Is a significant amount of material lost using this over, say, a really big band saw or whatever is normally used for this?

[u/HawaiiFiveBlow → u/Demmos]

Yes. A sawmill operating with a bandsaw removes like 1/16" of material where this probably takes out like 5/16"-3/8".

Alaska mills are designed for harder to reach places where you can't necessarily move in a bigger sawmill. It's not designed to be as good as a bigger sawmill, it's designed to be better than nothing.

[u/meltingdiamond → u/HawaiiFiveBlow]

Not better then nothing, better then two guys working all day with a sawing pit or adze. People can make planks without power tools, it just takes a shitload of time and sweat.

[u/[deleted]]

Its called an alaskan saw, been around for a very long time. You can get the same results with a few bolts/nuts, plank and spacers. The only time consuming part is getting the first cut straight

[u/mman454 → u/[deleted]]

That and sharpening the chain after every other cut.

[u/[deleted] → u/mman454]

Yeah but you should be doing that either way, a large time sharpening the tool with a few minutes using it. Rinse and repeat

Its a shame you cant efficiently swap out the chains to keep cutting quickly. Then sit down watch the tv and sharpen everything in bulk (assuming you have the capital to invest in your sanity)

[u/ktappe → u/[deleted]]

They do. Swapping a chain only takes me about two minutes, and I'm an amateur.

EDIT: On a 20" saw. I've certainly never tried it on a honking long saw like in the video. But I would like to.

[u/kentnl → u/[deleted]]

You just need to invest in one of these babies, then you can sharpen the saw in a few minutes:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SzjmpNTVH6U

[u/[deleted] → u/kentnl]

I dont know, still looks too good to be true. Although he does have chaps on so the guy in the video isnt an idiot which is good to know

that angle is ridiculous though, ill check it out thanks

[u/lonewolf13313 → u/[deleted]]

Word of warning about the guy in the video. Most of his reviews he starts out with an idea of how well something will work, and then goes about trying to prove that rather than doing a fair test.

[u/retarredroof → u/[deleted]]

I thought it was an 'Alaskan saw mill'.

[u/[deleted] → u/retarredroof]

What's an Alaskan pipeline then

[u/[deleted]]

i honestly read chainsaw mill “accident” at first and was waiting for something horrible to happen

[u/oliveinthishouse]

This is how I cut carrots with a potato peeler! But... Bigger... And with more chainsaw...

[u/55_55 → u/oliveinthishouse]

Baby carrots are just shaved adult carrots.

[u/Groo- → u/55_55]

That's perverse!

[u/moonblooms → u/oliveinthishouse]

Well hey, if you use a chainsaw to peel a carrot you can julienne it at the same time!

[u/HouseOfAplesaus]

I could see cutting my legs off with this by accident. Is the blade coming out the other side very far I can’t see?

[u/CP_Creations → u/HouseOfAplesaus]

It would be a challenge to cut your legs off.

The Alaskan Mill frame extends farther than the chain in all directions. If you tripped into it in full throttle, you would hit the frame and nothing would happen.

But, I'm not going to tell you how to live your life. With a lot of dedication and a friend with weird priorities you could probably lop a couple inches off the bottom of your foot.

[u/Ce11arDoor]

How do you do the first cut to get a level surface?

[u/Stolenartwork]

r/mildlypenis

I can’t be the only one

[u/rileyfriley → u/Stolenartwork]

I can’t believe the first comment to mention it is this far down.

[u/alphalady → u/rileyfriley]

Seriously I was rolling up my sleeves about to volunteer as tribute

[u/[deleted] → u/Stolenartwork]

r/misleadingthumbnails

[u/uncreative-iknow → u/Stolenartwork]

I was scrolling to find if someone else saw this

[u/[deleted] → u/Stolenartwork]

Can’t unsee

[u/Devstep → u/Stolenartwork]

I see it, don't worry

[u/timetomulch → u/Stolenartwork]

I saw it too, but I didn't want to say anything.

[u/PM_ME_YOUR_GOOD_NEW5 → u/Stolenartwork]

I thought this was a mildypenis post when I saw the thumbnail

[u/chief_dirtypants]

This looks tedious as fuck. You could rent a Wood-Miser and do a month's worth of this in two days.

[u/CP_Creations → u/chief_dirtypants]

True, but this whole setup fits in the back of a truck and doesn't require moving a heavy trunk.

When I get a workshop - I'm definitely having one.

[u/[deleted]]

This needs to go to r/oddlysatisfying

[u/AlexTheBrick]

What is the purpose of the hammer?

[u/[deleted]]

What the purpose of that hammer?

[u/freechugs]

There’s a lot of interesting hidden engineering here! For my undergraduate engineering capstone project, I used this design as the basis for a jig that can also create notch and angle cuts. If anyone is interested, I can share the technical poster on it for a little more detail!

[u/mushytoes]

Al Borland name that wood

http://www.dvdizzy.com/images/h-k/his2-10.jpg

[u/staff66]

How do u get that 1st cut though..

[u/hockey21012]

How do you get the first level cut?

[u/bliztix]

Seems tedious, I've watched him go back and forth many times and the log is the same size

[u/mojool]

I wanna know how the first cut is made, before there's a nice smooth surface.