Introduction to Persimmon Milling and Sawmill

it ain't hard to say that i love this meal good morning farm fans and welcome back to another sawmill sundays here on the stoney ridge farm hope you're all having a very blessed day what we're going to be doing today is running some exotic lumber so when you think exotic lumber you might think like mahogany or cherry today we're going to be running some persimmon that we cut right off the farm here hopefully i'll get you some footage of that persimmon tree dropping i didn't want to cut these trees they're about that big but they're right where my new shop building is going to go so we had to cut them we use everything on the farm nothing goes to waste so the slabs that come off of these will be used for firewood we're going to try our best to mill up and get the most value out of this persimmon wood so what we're going to do and i've never milled persimmon this will probably be the last opportunity that i ever have to do this what we're going to do is we're going to roll them up on the mill there are four persimmon logs right here they're sitting right there and we're gonna show you guys what the persimmon looks like once it's milled it could be a light color it could be a dark color it could be all sorts of stuff we're gonna explore the grain we're gonna spread some water on it and show you guys how this mill makes that persimmon shine so right down here are the persimmon logs in line is white oak back here is butternut walnut and you'll see that in a future sawmill sunday and we're also we have some wild cherry some more white oak and some red oak back here so lots of cool sawmill sundaes to come guys you guys are really going to love this what we're running here and this is by popular demand folks asked last time i did a sawmill sunday how does this work man so we're going to give you some tidbits and the basics of how this sawmill works this is the wood mizer lt40 extra wide sawmill there are a few things right here that i need to describe to you so there's a little gauge right here we need to watch that gauge and our goal is 3000 psi that's how tight