Amish Sawing a big Maple log!! Sawing logs is what they do and this log is a little bit bigger than what they usually cut...that’s what makes the video a little more interesting!! Finally got a video of Amish sawing up the log that Mike cut a little while back!! Sawing up this huge maple was not an easy task!! The boys did an Awesome job of turning it into fine boards! This mill is run by a 150 HP Perkins Diesel! Seeing this mill was a blast for me, especially with this mighty big log!! I did have to cut it twice with the Husqvarna 576 XP G!! After that the boys were able to saw it up!! This isn't no wood mizer!! This big log can't stop the guys from getting the job done. Sawing timber is there specialty. Man can these boys work!! The wood looks beautiful comping off the saw!! They got about 500ft off this maple log!! Logs to lumber!! These boys are extreme! Snow, rain, hail, they just keep sawing logs! Extreme Sawmill! it took us a little while to get things rolling because they don't usually saw logs this big. If you look at the other logs at the mill they are much smaller. This was a special saw log for us because they wanted to saw the beast!
Lookie, Lookie, all the keyboard experts on here criticizing the people that are doing the work!! Rotflmao. The middle of that but log had some rot, and bad wood in it.. They are cutting the best wood out of it... Unless You have done this kind of work,,,, then Shut you pie hole....
Been there, done that, got the t shirt. Had an old saw on the farm, older then the one they are using. The term we would use is tree butcher. Just because your Amish doesn't mean your good at everything, just means your blessed.
the thing is, we don't know what this log was cut for. We can't tell exactly where any of the bad wood sits. We don't know what the sawyer's limitations are - though it's clear this is a big log for the saw. We don't know what the owner of the log wanted. We don't know much about this particular log and cut... Not knowing much doesn't stop some of us from spouting off though.
These guys are operating modernized machinery and do not pay any taxes for their enterprise. So where do you draw the distinction between Amish and everyone else? When I was growing up in Ohio in the seventies my dad sold JD construction equipment to an Amish clan in northern Ohio who had 220 volt wired to their saw mill, but prided themselves on not using modern conveniences in their home! Go figure!
yep had a pipe up the guts , good job
some nice slabs ,, miss the smell of it.
Been living most their lives, living in an Amish paradise.
Wondering how many of this audience will understand this reference lo
@@jayden_rico at least 9.
Hitchin up the buggy, churning lots of butter, raise the barn on Monday, soon I’ll raise a nutter!
Anytime I see Amish people I think abt that cover 😂
They turn butter once or twice, living in an Amish paradise.
People can say or think what they want about the Amish people but, in my opinion, they are a group of very fine folks.
That,right there,will make a man out of you real quick. Nothing like cutting open a hardwood and seeing all the beautiful patterns straight from the earth.
I have Amish friends in Tennessee. They don't stop working to visit. You start working to visit. I love it up there. No phones, tv, internet, sense of time. The buggy ride to the store is always interesting. The "English" as they call us get a lot of looks when you pull up at the grocery store in a one horsepower 4-wheeler. Some of the nicest, down to earth and funniest people you will ever meet.
I do as well in Huntingdon tn
Why can they operate this saw but not drive a car?
I worked at an Amish sawmill that made hard wood hand nailed pallets when I was a teen. Told my friends at school I was a "Pilot". The wood came off the mill and I would "Pile it". The Amish teen I worked with looked like Night crawlers were living in his arms! Piling green slab wood and lumber plus swinging a 24oz hammer all day. We were absolute beasts!
Same here worked my first job as a young man from 14-16 at the sawmill at the end of my road. We also had to stack them 25 pallets high so after they were built you’d walk them over to the loading site and stack them neatly one on top of the other until you were having to throw them up into the air over your head to get on top of the stack. Great experience and made some muscle lol
Good old school lumber cutting...love the smell of fresh cut lumber...
These guys are tough as an old oak tree. Imagine doing that all day. I think I'm tough but I'd probably crawl home and cry after one day. God bless 'em
Hard working young men right there doing a dangerous job. Today's video game and netflixing kids can learn a lot about work ethic here.
My dad has been a Sawyer for 42 years and this takes a lot of hard work. Bravo fellas!
I live in Amish country and when I was real little, we’d go to the saw mill for anything we needed lumber for, much higher quality than store bought lumber and it was just amazing to watch them work and being real young, you think it’s so cool, once you realize how hard it is to do this all day you really appreciate how this is all done.
Did they offer you a plate of mushed rhubarb and glass of goat milk?
@LLNONO and you are a brainwashed idiot who can't see why "taxes" should never exist....
@LLNONO HK BABY they pay more taxes then you brainwashed jobless dork ever will
The Amish are hard-working people whom I have a lot of respect
The Amish are hard-working people whom I have a lot of respect
These men work harder in one day then some guys will in their whole life!!
These fellas sure have a lot of team spirit with their uniforms.
There are all kinds of Amish that practice their own way of life. I have worked at a sawmill very similar to this one and believe me it is hard work when you do the way this family does it. The mill I worked in was built in 1924 steam powered and the cutter was unhappy with the fireman who couldn't keep up steam. I was interested in steam and got selected by the cutter by simply asking me can you keep up steam? Yes I replied and started firing the boiler, the fellow I replaced told me I was firing too heavy to which I replied you need to build up your fire so that power is available when needed and I did. I only lifted the safety a couple of times an hour. In between firing I would refill the oil cups on the engine and jack shafts to keep them properly oiled. The cutter told me I had a job for the summer as I wasn't family but took a liking to me and my appreciation of the old ways of doing things. I had a blast that summer in 1965. This brings back a lot of memories. I was 15. Cheers
Your fun summer would kill most kids today.
thanks for sharing your story
@@allenferry1268 most kids wouldn’t even go near work like that these days!!!!
Awesome story!!
Fluid motion, everyone has a job to do and are keeping pace. This is how its done people. Respect for the Amish.
PPL THAT DON'T BUILD FOR THEMSELVES.
What a work ethic! The rest of us could learn a lot.
Boy, talk about manual labor. Have to hand it to them. Much admired.
I am an Amish Taxi driver and I haul different crews all over the place. Some of the hardest working folks I ever met. Also hired them to do a select harvest of my hardwoods. They came in did the job and did not trash my woods like I seen other logging crews do to other properties.
Yep the Amish are the true caretakers of the land, no-doubt-about-it...
As a forester and someone who sells standing timber you should not have had to hire them. They should have bought your timber from you. I have sold timber to Amish and have never given them a penny. They have always bought the timber.
@@nathanthomas5461 Did you ever stop and think that maybe he wanted to keep the harvested wood?
@@AureliusR no he didn't because he's another amish hating douche bag.
These people still have a fear of GOD. and it shows I happen to have up most respect for them!! May GOD continue to bless them!.
if only i were raised with even half of their ethics, honor and hard work from a young age....... these folks are living the good life :-)
I you know better then do it. Sounds like you were raised that way.
"Living the good life"? Lololol yea sure
This is one hard working crew manhandling this log around to make it usable on their mill.
@@lunapetunia3778 - When you are old, assuming you make it to old age, will you regret your life? Will you judge others?
The way they just man handle it…wow
These dudes are machines. They will sling that wood all day long with a big fat smile the whole time.
Thanks for this typical Amish music intro at the very beginning which was extremely pleasant, mellow and not at all deafening.
Wow, these young men are showing this 69 yr old man how hard work can be made to look easy. I salute them!
Real MEN doing REAL Work. Thanks for posting this. Very Enjoyable.
Hats off to these guys! My uncle bought a sawmill and that was the hardest and toughest job I've ever done.
This a great video! The men working that mill deserve a lot of respect? Hard working , diligent , honest workers! My hat is off to them! Thank you so much for an eye opening lesson! 👍 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
I worked in a sawmill for years and all I saw was some hard working men doing the best they could with what they had... I would gladly work with these guys.. they knew what to do and when to do it ....
When you hear the sound of this saw cutting you know that it is very sharp and the blade well taken care of. No burn marks, no jamming in the cut and only a little slow down. This is a sweet running saw mill cutting a particularly difficult log. Very impressive.
Look, I read some of the comments here and we better watch what we say about them. I stand proud to say they completely framed in my Great nephew's house in Ohio without a flaw and did a beautiful job. These folks are living the life as close to the Lord as they can and others better keep their mouth off of them.
Give them the same respect and consideration we expect.
You tell them! Get that log out of their eyes they were born with
Amen
Amen!
I like to watch people which know what to do in right follow handgrip! I Don't care that they more or less believers...
The Amish are impressive with their skills and work ethic. This was very interesting!
You can tell when people are really good at a job - they make it look easy and straightforward ,
That is very hard work those men are very strong. My dad worked in a saw mill for years. He was hard as a rock.
There are a few good Amish sawmills in Lancaster county A furniture makers blessing
Future tables, desks, beds, chairs, dressers, flooring and many other things in the beginning stages right here. Amish made is the best.
I've been cutting down trees for nearly 25 years, but I've never done this part. Respect to the hardworking men in this video, and shame on the keyboard experts that show everyone how ignorant that they truly are.
It's not free.
Do you think this saw setup is best for this size log?
Been there and done that. Yep, I grew up amish and my dad got a sawmill when I was 5 years old and he kept it for probably 15 years. Then after that I worked at 2 different sawmills owned by my brothers and guess what ... today I am working at a sawmill!!! (I am 48 years old now)
I work with the Amish at times. And the communities here don't like to be filmed or their pictures taken. They believe it captures their soul. I'm pretty sure that's how they explained it. But they are hard workers and very humble.
THE WORLD NEEDS MORE PEOPLE LIKE THESE MEN THEY PUT HOPE IN MY HEART AND REMOVE PAIN FROM MY SOUL
A group of hard working young men who all knew what to do and when to do it. Can't ask for anything better.
These men may not be acclimated to the modern world but have a work ethic many can’t and will never know. They may do things the hard way and have their reasons for doing so. Those who criticize take a long hard look these are real men and they have my respect and admiration!
Working with wood for 40 years The fragrance of fresh cut lumber I miss it so
Nothing like a little hard days work. Hats off.
Skillfully done, even down to taking out the rot and getting everything usable out of that maple. I admire the skill and work ethic of these people, .
Work ethics but no morals for cutting down a tree this big, unless it was dead then it’s sort of alright
Those Amish boys sure can work, no mucking around there at all. One of the best vids I have seen in a long time. 👍👍
Youngsters today would be on the side caught on up their cell phones worrying about who posted what on Instagram or FB. These young men come from a totally different culture. Much to learn from this whole team. Awesome just watching
@@seanwright8786 great thoughts there mate, totally agree.
Always loved the sound of a sawmill it reminds me of growing up. There were 6 mills in our town and at times you could hear it everywhere in town.
Amish people are good people I envy the way they live and work
There's a guy in my town that has an old sawmill just like this and I always loved watching it in action. It's amazing how fast that blade can saw a whole tree into boards when there is an experienced Sawyer behind the controls
Kudos to anyone who knows what a Sawyer is anymore! And this gentleman is the real deal.
@@kentmarsh6442 aren't Sawyers usually named "Tom?" 😝 Sorry…. I couldn’t resist that…
if you visit them again, tell them there is a guy on the other side of the world who can recognize good work. And that he sends them greetings from Poland :)
😳👍🏼WOW!! These men are strong! Funny thing is, they don’t consider this “Hard work”. It’s normal for them. Thanks for the video post and best of luck to you and your families. God bless you and all the men in this video.
Amish. They work with a smile on their face.
That was good to watch they are strong hard workers.
Hard, honorable, and dangerous work!
Team work, that’s what it is all about. Good job fellas, another day at the saw mill and no wood wasted. I tip my hat to the Amish.
The rest of the village is out back on the giant treadmill powering this sucker!!!!
What an amazing job ya'll did!! I jus love that remarkable machine you've got👍👍👍 boy, that's jus AWESOME, AWESOME!!! WITH ALL FELLAS WORKN TOGETHER, THE JOB GETS DONE, SMOOTHER, SAFER, AND QUICKER!!👍👍😉
Nice cutting gentlemen..always loved these older type of saw mill works. Unbelievable what can be done by one of these sharp blades in the hands of great woodworkers. Always something to do and loving the work. To bad a body wears out and these still so much more to do. Some real clean work being done by a good team. I'm impressed by the Amish all the time
shifting that log,four Scotsmen one playing the bagpipes job done .
Thoroughly enjoyed your video. Thanks for posting.
Fascinating they know what they're doing. Working hard and keeping their bodies fit.
Thanks to the Amish folks for letting you video them. Some would not have allowed that. GREAT job all...from Mike all way around.. Blessings to Lacy.
bobfidy Schorfheide Thanks!!
2nd this, naturally!
Kjeld Schouten yep. those are the ones that are not in tge wood business at all.
Doubtful they’re Amish. More likely they are Mennonite. That’s just a guess though. Amish not only don’t let you film but also don’t use power tools. These fellows had the mill and also the crane and that’s just what I picked up in the video.
Cockroach: That is TOTAL BS! These ARE Amish. Most contemporary Amish are allowed to use power tools, computers, cell phones, at their work. When they go home, it's a different story. It really all depends upon what the local "Bishop" says. I live in PA among many "plain" sects, including Amish. I deal with them at times. They cut ornamental lumber for my house. They sided my house. They built my shed. They cut trees for me. In turn, I allow them to hunt on my land, fish in my pond, and pick berries for themselves. I DO get some of the best jam, and apple butter, and baked goods from them. You just have to know how to deal with them and have some respect for their traditions. Such as; always ask if you want to give their kids some candy or something. Mostly it's "Tsure, he likes that, nah", or "Machts nichts" (it doesn't matter).
They built my garage. Did a awesome job. One of the workers actually talked to me. Real nice people.
gotta give it to the Amish they know how to work smart and hard.
I don't know much about this but I'm thinking these guys have been doing this type of milling for a minute. If this is how they are happy doing it, who gives a crap how others would do it. It's still an interesting video for the rest of us.
Worked saw mills and i still have all my fingers somehow! . That tree made them work for there meal and work that was. Them circular saws are like having a pet tyranasause one day it will crush you or eat you or both if you don't keep your mind on the job. That younglings is hard skilled work
It brings back memories! My Grandpa had a sawmill identical to this one in 1965.
You have to be heads up in that environment. Maneuvering those logs by hand and that giant open sawblade... hats off to those guys. They move and work as a team.
That Man knows how to saw a log for grade while minimizing production time. Very impressed. I would work in their shed for free just for the knowledge.
Manliest comment on youtube. ^^^^^^^
They worked efficiently without saying a word.'
Nope. This guy does not saw for a living.
Me too!
They are the happiest workers smiling all the time and team effort always great video
I was expecting multiple cants or some quarterswn blanks.Fooled me.Great work.You are welcome to my farm anytime.
Some hard work there, a job really well done. My man allways talks warm about how amish work together, that the rest of the world should embrase that kind of living and allways help each other out. This type of work needs both skills and some people used to cooperate. Also, my Swedish hart melts, seeing that Husqvarna saw! Having 2 of my own. 😍 Sending some love from Sweden! Keep up the good work and spirit! Just keep on doing what you do, not letting anything stop you.
you guys talking about this guy making firewood and ruining this log, and making all this waste, obviously buy your lumber strictly from home depot and do not understand how hardwood is milled. It gets milled in stages from rough cut (this video) to S4S (surfaced four sides), like what you get at Depot. And if you watched to the end, all those off cuts were brought back so the sawyer could get every inch of material out of it. This guy did a phenomenal job. The only waste I saw was the pith and where the log was squared up. Awesome video, and thank you.
That log is enormous. Look at the skill to get that milled down. A lot of man power.
A lot of "power man!" 👍😁🇺🇸
they seem to operate with a single mind - that is awesome team work.
Hard working guys...Looks like they needed a bigger saw blade for that log...was huge !!
Brings back some good ole memories. I still have an old 01 Frick that I ran for 20 years or so with 40", 48', & 52" blades. Powered by a very old unkillable MM power unit. It's been sitting for close to 15 years now. These were and still are fast mills. They have become very unpopular due to the blade's kerf. I was throwing away a 1x in sawdust every two passes. These guys in video are definitely production guys, hence the fact they're not so conservative with this log. Judging by their saw yard stock, they may just cut railroad crossties for a living.
A circular saw throws chips not dust like a bandsaw and these mills will put a woodmizer or any bandsaw similar to it to shame because of how much and how fast you can cut in one day. That's why sawdust piles are much bigger.
8:00 Amish man pulls britches up. Real working men. Getting it done. Amen.
Good old fashioned Hard Work that one can be very proud of. Something about watching workers really work. Thanks for the great video!
Hard work is a powerful thing. See the smile on the elder foremans face in just about every frame? That just about makes me jealous.
Unfortunately, i won't be seeing any of this maple when install my next basketball court. :(
I know nothing about wood milling but I enjoyed watching this.
The other way sawing the big log.... kzhead.info/sun/e6awZNaorIyfg3A/bejne.html
Skilled sawmen and real men! Amish men! May their kind endure forever.! They are not fakes or mindlese fanatics
Now these guys know what a hard days work is.
mighty fine work separating the slight rot in the log and milling it well
We had a mill a bit bigger than this when I was a kid on our farm. Our carriage was reversed to this one so the sawyer would stand on the right of the saw not the left. I love seeing how a nasty old log can turn into a beautiful pile of wood!
The amount of skill that guy has... wow!! Everyone knows the job and nobody has to be told what's next they just know... very awesome.
Every time I see films or videos of this type of work I have to say what must it have been like in the past when all this work had been done by hand.
Proud, hard working folks.
i used to run a sawmill the same as this 1,i loved it,being outside in nature,i had the mill all to my self,nobody except the wood puller on the other end,it was heaven :) thankyou for bringing me back some memories,if you can,please post more...i can almost smell the wood :)
+mikey thedoomsdayprepper dragon Thats great!! Thanks for Watching
You ran a mill yet you called an off bearer a wood puller?
my famiky comes from a line of amish people. known as hutterites. they fallow the same values but live in modern times. i love watching them work. my family left the colony when i was young but we go visit lots.hope your wife is doing well we keep your family in our prayers. keep up the videos i love watching them.
Elias maendel: Yes the Hutterites are the most modern Anabaptists. The 3 kinds of Hutterites are the only Anabaptists that live communally, with very minimal personal property. Others in the Anabaptist general grouping are several kinds of Amish, River Brethren, Mennonite & a few others. There are liberal varieties of some of these. They may as well be Lutherans. The others are varying degrees of conservative, which is closer to what the faith was supposed to be, with strong biblical guidelines.
Michael Dougfir yes I am an Amish too but I got to know the Lord & have found that the Bible tells us not to add or take away from the word in Rev.22 verse 18 & 19 or the plagues will be added unto them &take away their part out of the book of life. I am just trying to show them what the Bible tells us.
Hutterites are not Amish.
Owen Major: You are right. Hutterites are definitely not Amish. This was spelled out already. These two groups ARE both under the Anabaptist umbrella. So are several other churches.
I know, I'm Mennonite. I didn't read your fist comment, sorry.
That saw is a lumber slayer. That looks like hard rock maple. It slices like butter
I want that guys laugh as my ring tone
That saw dust clearing trench looks pretty interesting. Would love to see more how that works.
Manure gutter cleaners, just like in any traditional dairy barn. Hauls the manure/sawdust outside into a pile. We've had them in our barn for 70 years.
Thanks! Didn't realize that's what it was
The Amish are some amazing craftsmen. They will turn the lumber into some incredible furniture.
They turn that poor tree into sawdust no two pieces of lumber of the same thickness and even some triangular pieces wtf was that about
These dudes are gonna get hammed AF and ride their buggy later. America baby!
Amish guys cut that like a boss. Looks like the guy brought the biggest log he could find to have it cut into boards to maybe make a table out of it.
Awesome!!! They work hard and get the job done!!! Excellent vid!!!💝
At first I'm scratching my head on how they are ripping it down thinking it is wasteful but as they progress it all makes sense as they end up with a lot of good lumber out of that log for their needs. They know what they are doing with the tools are their disposal, thanks for the vid!
Almshouses are great people me being a logger they have bought many truckloads of logs from me it surely helps finances. And another thing many years ago farms were paid to put them in soil bank the government program paid farms to do that. Now years later when the farm is run down the brush has growled up all over the Amish are buying them building new houses barns sheds and working the land again for farming I thank God for the Amish
They gotta love that electricity. Hardest workers ever!
Been using a Lucas mill for the past few weeks and love watching all these saw mill vids. Just did a bunch of slabs and milled a bunch of 1x 2x 4x and 6x. Not much waste. If you have a lot of trees to mill that have a fair amount of good wood, you arent so picky about the waste. But if your hard up for trees like where I am then we try and get every bit out of the tree. So if the Amish went thru the trouble to build that saw mill and saw mill bldg., then chances are they have a lot of wood supply to choose from. No one builds a mill like that to let it sit there and collect dust.
I have no clue why I’m watching this. But it’s just so intriguing. 😳
my husband has two saw mills......a circular and a bandsaw.............he always, ALWAYS uses protective goggles and ear plugs when using them!