Milling West Bridgewater Walnut
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Milling a large walnut tree that Paul Lelito harvested in West Bridgewater, MA. This wood is for sale. See Paul's contact information at the end of the video.
For more information, visit www.CloseGrain.com.
I have nothing but respect for Wood. Its such a valuable and beautiful resource.
Incredibly beautiful planks
That slab at the 52 second mark would make a jaw dropping table top.
Enduro
Nice work.
That is a long slow grind on one log.
I used to watch a mill run cedar logs that size all day.
Usually over a thousand in 8 hours.
this is so fun we just did a similar project with a smaller walnut , beauty wood
bring back lots memories when I worked in a saw mill
Great stuff, Thanks for the upload
Great vid. Just beautiful.
Beautiful wood for sure.......
Great video, great voice
Beautiful wood.
While the wood is fascinating to look at its patterns so is the machinery. With a band saw not much wood is wasted and from the looks of it that machinery is being pusched to its limits. At 3:00 the bandsaw blade is being pushed such that the bend in it is something that I dare not use myself, The video is clear in that the blade is not exactly a straight line along its width and the blade emerges from the sides ahead of its central part, I am amaized that such a small blade can takethat punishment but after all that is what it is meant to do, Good material all around in such videos including the men that man these machines. Well done boys. This is where beauty in our homes start to be beautiful.
+Carmel Pule' The butt was a cone shape.
+Carmel Pule' the ends of the logs aren't square is why it looks like that.
+Carmel Pule'
The trick is that a saw has to clear its own path.
I wish I could play a guitar like that.
I saw a couple of pieces that would have made a beautiful gun stock. In the limb,crotch area. Gorgeous piece of walnut
ehhh ehh ehhhh he said crotch..... ehhh ehh ehhhh
Those heart pieces look particularly good, i suggest slugging up a sample with the right spit and polish, i bet it looks a million bucks under the right lighting, i'd love to see it!
Impressive
Very nice video! You can not read the information at the end as that type over the yello color is completely lost... Might want to stick with the white type on black... I have watched this video six times and still can't make out all the info correctly. Did I see that mill adjust in width as it was cutting???? Most impressive....indeed!
Beautiful rain on that tree. Was it taken down roadside or was it cut to sell? It looks a healthy tree. No rot.
I don't see any videos on bulb cutting the base of the butt log. Is there a youtube video you know of that demonstrates the bulb cutting technique?
Interesting video, good camera work about a superb cut of timber - pity about the added music, although inoffensive in itself, detracts from rather than enhances the effect. Maybe OK if a couple of clicks quieter so as not to compete with your voice.
It appears to be part of the unwritten TH-cam code that any woodworking, sawmilling or related videos have to be accompanied by banjo/guitar picking. This includes anything related to homesteading, cabin building or related activities. I don't know why.
Great video. Beautiful walnut. Looks like 12/4 cuts?
What a beautiful slab of walnut. Just think of the awesome table you could make with that. If you dont mind, whats a slab like that worth approx? Mark
There is something about wood,has to be one of the only things that looks beautiful dead or alive...preferably alive :)
YoYO Semite
I prefer some dead wood holding this house up, and me dry and away front his damn storm we got going
Why did they not cut that tree base into nice round cross section table tops? That seemed like a missed opportunity?
Beautiful. What does a WM 1000 set up like yours cost
What are you using for blades? Thickness, degree, pitch, and make is what I'm curious about. Just seems like going too slow but could be the video makes it look slower.
Steve, when the slabs are cut to that size, do they still have a tendency to want to warp or cup?
+Sig Guy Yes, that's just the nature of wood. The size of the slab may affect how quickly the moisture changes affect the wood, but that's all. Warping and cupping are the result of two things: releasing stresses in the wood, and differential moisture.
The stresses you can't do anything about, but at least once it's been relieved it shouldn't affect the shape any more.
Moisture on the other hand is constantly changing. Wood is forever like a sponge, always absorbing or releasing moisture to reach equilibrium with the surrounding environment. That's why you sticker freshly cut wood when you stack it, to ensure that air circulates all around and both sides dry at the same rate. Meanwhile, the unexposed wood at the center of the boards dries more slowly.
Drying shrinks the wood, like a sponge drying and shriveling up, so if one side dries while the other maintains its moisture level, that will cause it to cup. Even dry wood may cup if you resaw it, since now the slightly-more-moist interior layers of the board are exposed to the air.
All of this is the reason you should stack and sticker boards in your shop for a few days when you first get them, to allow them to equalize to it. Even thickness planing can affect it, because it's exposing interior layers that weren't previously exposed to the air.
+Steve Branam
I bet it is pretty tricky with hardwoods..
+Steve Branam I know just what you're talking about. I made a beautiful box out of walnut...a month later, the lid warped on it. Bugged the heck out of me. I was almost ready to burn it. Around a year later, it straightened out perfectly. Like a miracle.
timber goes in. money comes out. damn a log like that milled up would cost around 20k in australia. depending on boards.
What thickness where they cut at? looks way to thin.... I cut 3-4" and sometimes thats to thin!
+Reduxwood I believe they were cutting for 4/4 and 8/4. But I can see that if you wanted to make full slab tables, the 3-4" would be good.
Do you leave the logs to dry out for a few month before you cut?
They milled this immediately after cutting it down. You can find my blog post about it by googling Close Grain West Bridgewater Walnut.
How much is a slab ?
Need slice for my kitchen
damn .. i saw that fucking log twitch to that fucking .. music ..
What is the type of saw you are using? I tried to get a gander at the brand of the saw but didn't see any.
Woodmiser
You are in west bridgewater? holy cow, I need to contact you. I do Historical restorations, timber framing and timber craft based in Canton Ma. Sending mail now!
Hi Andrew, I'm actually in Ayer. Just the tree was in West Bridgewater, but the guy who got the lumber is Paul Lelito in Marion, not far from you. He had the Maltby tree service from Stoughton cut it down and haul it out to Berkshire Products in Sheffield, MA, where they had a big enough mill to handle it. Paul does custom milling with a Wood-Mizer, but this was too big for it.
Argh, stoughton is right next store! and yeah that looks waaay too big for a mizer. I do all my milling by hand ;)
Thanks for the response!
Everybody wants the over rated over priced Walnut but, my solid Birch cabinets look GREAT!
But why have the obnoxious music volume going way up when your not talking, then way down when you speak?
It makes watching the video a real pain because I have to be constantly adjusting my speaker volume up when you are talking and down when you are not talking to avoid blowing the windows out of my house.
What do you mean by "bowl-cut method"?
+Brian Hackett Bowl-cut means that when they cut the base at the ground line, they actually ran the end of the chain saw down below ground level, plunging it in from the sides.
That cuts a "bowl" in the ground and doesn't leave an above-ground stump, harvesting the maximum possible wood at the base. You can see that in the rounded end. Also in the photos in my west-bridgewater-walnut post on my blog CloseGrain dot com.
I assume that's a pretty risky procedure, you have to be careful to check for rocks etc. so you can be sure the saw won't hit anything.
+Steve Branam that prosess would be very interesting to see.
do you guys buy them black walnut trees?
+Coty Murphy This was harvested in eastern Massachusetts, was going to be cleared and discarded to put up a building.
Why on earth would you cut that into one inch slabs!?!?
to make one piece table top
Song name???
Chimpy got Trix Google the name of the musician which is CLEARLY stated at the end of the video.
The music is WAY too loud.
02:48
03:08
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Hmm, old growth with no metal. Fortunate for the saw operators indeed.
So much as a bullet and that band is going to be very unhappy.
+George Campbell Never worked on a log deck at a sawmill I see. Most large operations have magnetic metal detectors for this purpose. An x ray machine big enough to penetrate that much wood would fry nearby workers.
They are doing nothing in the vid to ensure no metal is present. Band mills will kill everyone around if they find fence wire, or even a bullet. The band will come off the rollers and whip around like a giant snake.
+777fuzzypeach I've had a blade break before and nothing happened. The Woodmizer they are using has the blade and wheels completely encased all the way around. If it were to snap, part just gets stuck in the log and the rest is stopped by the metal case. If the wheels did not have casing around them then what you're talking about could happen, but it wouldn't on his mill.
+Joey Kochlacs And I was present when a Kockums Chip-N-Saw bandmill found fence wire in a cant. Threw one of the bands and the cant nearly 80 feet into a second floor hallway after smashing the door in.
Blade breakage is not the same as finding metal in the stem.
+777fuzzypeach You're talking about a big mill prolly with a 60' band. Sounds like the cant wasn't clamped down well. These small mills just aren't like that. I've sawed right through steel spikes, nails, barbed wire, etc.. Usually the worst thing that happens is the blade dives and ruins some lumber.
+4x4American On a CNS the cant isn't clamped down at all. The spiked rollers are the only thing holding it. The optimizer program will move the bands and chipping heads according the size of the infeed log.
This problem because so serious at one mill I worked at that they built a very large steel cage over the mill to stop flying bands and cants. The employee breakroom had steel screens over the windows for the same reason. You learned to sit facing the window at all times while eating lunch.
That is sawing not milling
I have Giant Oak trees on my land in FL. way bigger than this, I am looking to sell some of them to Veneer Mills if anyone knows someone looking hollar at me pls. thanks
Thumbs down on this one for the stupid unnecessary music.
geesh when they speed up the video there work almost seems worth 400$ an hour. Everything about this place is over priced. Do your homework and find a different place to buy your wood and get your stuff milled. The Amish can do anything up to 26inches for about 20 bucks an hour and there are several people with Lucas mills that can cut even wider than the woodmizer 1000 for around 100 an hour. And you don't have to worry about blade dives.
With a 3/8" kerf you failed to mention.
Forest murderer!!!!!