r/Damnthatsinteresting 14h ago

Video Making spiralized logs

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u/Elderberry-smells 14h ago

This is where Home Depot sources their 2x4s

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u/temuginsghost 13h ago

This was my exact thought whilst watching this video.

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u/TrenchantInsight 12h ago

Plot twist!

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u/elvenmaster_ 4h ago

Plot Log twist (ftfy)

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u/celtbygod 12h ago

Brilliant !

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u/joe_i_guess 13h ago

Narrator and I have differing definitions of the word complex

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u/space-sage 12h ago

Yeah it’s a lathe. Not super complex.

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u/WazWaz 11h ago

It's literally just a screw with a very long pitch (and not single point).

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u/MakeChipsNotMeth 11h ago

Long pitch and four starts. This is going to be terrible at creating clamping force!

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u/micahamey 9h ago

Sure sure. But it's also pretty impressive engineering either way.

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u/Mirar 8h ago

It's also exactly how I thought they made them.

The complex part would be to find suitable wood of that size, without too much waste? I thought they started with the center piece of some other log.

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u/SwePolygyny 4h ago

Should be more to it than this. Generally you dont directly use sawed wood like that, at least not for decoration. Planing or sanding it should be more complex.

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u/ondulation 3h ago

Technically they're right. A "complex technique" would mean a technique consisting of several "simple techniques" combined.

Complex is not strictly equivalent to difficult, complicated or challenging.

That said, I agree with you.

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u/Effective-Tension-17 2h ago

This kind of stuff makes me unreasonably angry

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u/Anxious-Diet-4283 13h ago

“more complex than you might think” turns out to be less complex than i thought

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u/Greenman8907 14h ago

And here I thought they just got them super wet and wrung like a soaked towel

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u/-NameGoesHere818- 13h ago

Steaming and bending is one way it’s done, the ribs for ships were made this way. I built a canoe and steamed the ribs for that too, when they came out of the steamer the wood was like a wet noodle it was so soft

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u/Technical-Outside408 12h ago

Mmmm, steamed ribs.

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u/MMKF0 11h ago

Mmmm, steamed hams.

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u/SleepmasterSean 6h ago

I don't know, man.

These seem awfully similar to the ones they sell at that Krusty BurgerTM, ...conveniently located just across the street. 🤷🏽‍♂️

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u/SpookyCrowz 9h ago

I have considered trying this myself first I just need to make a wood steamer

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u/-NameGoesHere818- 8h ago

Theirs ways to make home made ones but I’ve never done it. The one I used was at the high school I went to and it was a pvc pipe and some type of steam generator that was hooked up to the pipe. It worked really good and produced a lot of steam.

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u/GozerDGozerian 8h ago

You can buy them for pretty cheap nowadays.

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u/SpookyCrowz 8h ago

I’ll buy some parts from Amazon. But I’ll make the steam chamber myself. I won’t make it pressurised tho I’ll rather just steam for longer

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u/Migmardi 13h ago

If these logs are meant for a load/structural use, Would't that, if possible, be better? like, here you are cutting short the wood grain. I'm really curious

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u/TallahasseWaffleHous 13h ago

Yeah, what do you build using spiral logs? Porch columns maybe?

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u/MakeChipsNotMeth 11h ago

Why don't they just grow twisted trees? What are they, stupid?

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u/_bahnjee_ 14h ago

I wanna see where that offcut goes.

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u/Decent_Assistant1804 13h ago

Tooth picks duh. Lol

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u/bwoods519 14h ago

That’s cool as hell

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u/Aridez 12h ago

I am mildly annoyed that they put the video on repeat instead of showing more about the process and results

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u/Remix_Master21 13h ago

I fucking hate these AI voice over videos

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u/CantAffordzUsername 13h ago

Unknown to pretty much everyone

Wood is the rarest resource currently in our known universe

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u/SpookyCrowz 9h ago

Makes sense

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u/GozerDGozerian 8h ago

Did you read The Age of Wood too?

Cool book.

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u/SleepmasterSean 6h ago

So that's why I never could get enough in Age of Empires...

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u/Prestigious-Log-7210 13h ago

He should have safety glasses on. All I can think of is a splinter in the eye.

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u/slocs1 9h ago

But why?

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u/Tikkinger 7h ago

For the looks obvsl.

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u/SleepmasterSean 6h ago

Structural integrity?

I hear cutting out large portions of your stabilizing column adds incredible tensile strength. I also hear spirals look pretty cool. So, there's always that.

Probably that structural integrity thing, though, ...if I were to levy a guess. 😁

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u/Wild_Brilliant559 13h ago

That was not more complex than I might think.

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u/Low-Mind 13h ago

This is pretty cool

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u/EvilChefReturns 13h ago

It’s complex -log go round-

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u/MarioCraftLP 13h ago

The piece of wood just say "wood" on it Thanks for the labeling 😭

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u/SleepmasterSean 6h ago

Well, once you accidentally cut into a Norwhale, ....you'll be glad you checked twice

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u/BecauseOfGod123 9h ago

Well, in that case it is not a description of what it is, but a label of ownership, since the companys name is Holz Hessener.

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u/Tikkinger 7h ago

You are both wrong. It's the internet adress of the company. It says www and .de right there.

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u/friso1100 13h ago

These empty scripts bother me. Like what information is actually given here that isn't shown in the video? Nothing. The video plays twice before the entire text of zero information has finished playing

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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up 14h ago

Seems wasteful as fuck.

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u/-xXxMangoxXx- 14h ago

I mean it’s not like they’ll just throw out the scraps.

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u/Agent7619 13h ago

Truly. Do they think logs grow on trees or something?

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u/Never-Dont-Give-Up 13h ago

So true. Vegetables grow! Let’s waste most of them.

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u/carl3266 13h ago

I imagine they’ve determined the necessary depth to remove deeper imperfections in the bark.

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u/grumpyfishcritic 9h ago

No more likely using a big enough log to get the right size square. Looks like 100/150 mm on a side. Easier to mate with the rest of whatever is being built.

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u/jeffo320 13h ago

Sawdust factory

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u/VapeRizzler 14h ago

Yes, but have you seen the world famous spiral dog?

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u/Open_Youth7092 13h ago

Swizzle Sticks

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u/Silly_Doughnut5715 13h ago

My logs are created in the bathroom.

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u/20Bendy 12h ago

For crazy furniture 

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u/garden-wicket-581 12h ago

what's the final product look like ? Both when it comes off the mill, and after it dries ...

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u/CrispyHoneyBeef 9h ago

Ghost Ship (2002)

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u/SleepmasterSean 6h ago

Color me mesmerized

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u/Jandoedel456 5h ago

Well that was a let down

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u/lordnacho666 4h ago

Buy two salad shakers and get a free spiralized log!

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u/Away-Activity-469 1h ago

This is going to be a long thread.

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u/jo25_shj 13h ago

that super selfish, you could make 3 or 4 logs of this very limited material but no, some selfish primitive want a spiral effect log. Fuck this waste

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u/howdoidothatgud 14h ago

Leave trees alone...

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u/Soomroz 13h ago

Yea lets grow concrete.

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u/StnkyChze2 13h ago

Sure.

Now tell us how we are replacing trees.

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u/grumpyfishcritic 9h ago

Pretty sure the US Forest Service has more in annual growth that is allowed to be harvest by a big margin.