For woodworkers and tree people alike. This tree had to go but I salvage the log to give it a new life in the way of beautiful furniture! I know a lot of you enjoy my milling videos--
Built a bookshelf out of Walnut with a magazine rack on top way back in high school. Finished with simple boiled linseed oil. It looks better today than 35 years ago if that's possible. I've had a soft spot for walnut ever since. Slowly gathered quite a bit of antique Walnut furniture over the years. A couple of matching bedside tables are my favorites. Beautiful wood you have there! Neat sawmill too.
If I were you I'd save all that scrap wood and make things like ;; drinking glass coasters, chess boards, cutting boards, all kinds if things that sell very good at yard sells. or flea markets. great video
BEAUTIFUL wood! Man some day I want a black walnut coffee table from a piece like that, just gorgeous! You do some very nice work, looks like milling wood is enjoyable.
excellent. Am a climber of 30 years in the Industry I always try to make use of the wood, have a couple 150 yr old Cedar logs cured up out back among a few others. I'd take a scrap if ya got one even if it's enough for a dowel I will use it. Trade ya a plank lol
nice job . I could see the walnut boards you cut before you started this small job.each board is about 100 bucks each dried from places like rocklers.thank you for sharing.
I love the intro to your videos. The milling process is very interesting to me. I thought the wood went to a mill after you cut but you do it. I would bet you have some beautiful wood furniture in your home. I am off to google what is crotch wood and feathered crotch. 😊
Thanks Shelley, I appreciate all your comments. I have a LOT of videos to work through. With Covid, I hope I can keep your attention. Shooting for 1000 ! Intros, I have about a dozen that I pull out if I’m in a hurry but I like to do original intros as well. Milling is a lot of fun and I truly enjoy building furniture from the wood I harvest.
black Walnut is very pretty. I have a Firewood Buisness and all the logs I get from a million is Black Walnut logs. they are cull logs that can't make Lumber. but it makes wonderful firewood.
This is the first time ive seen a lucas mill. took me minute to figure out what was going on, but its an interesting concept, getting dimensional boards right off the log. I think I prefer the bandsaw though, just for the fact you can get full width slabs out of it... Thanks for the video!
bishop5537 I also have the chainsaw bar attachment which allows me to take wider slabs than the Woodmizer bandmill. I do a lot of construction lumber and lumber for woodworking as well as slabs. Another attachment is the planner jig which allows me to smooth the slabs.
Aussie made mill. We had one of the 9" ones on our farm with the 5' slabbing attachment as well. They are a great mill as far as being portable. Biggest log we did was a redgum (Marri) 2.05m wide at the base and tapered up to 1.9m over 4m length. Marri is a beautiful timber.
OH MAN, THAT lS A GORGEOUS HUNK OF BLACK WALNUT YA GOT THERE. NlCE SET UP TO WORK lT TOO. LOOKlNG FORWARD TO THE NEXT VlDEO TO SEE WHAT YA WlND UP WlTH BLAlR. l GET THE FEELlNG lT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!
Your table turned out great. With some epoxy those left over piece's would make a nice project, or paint a design picture on the bark. I bought a piece of bark that somebody painted, I Love It. It's a Beautiful piece!
That piece you cut off, right before "Who wants my scraps," and the piece directly under it. I DO! Would make the edges of a free-form bookmatched shelf or table. (Along with the 2 pieces cut off just before.) steve
we live near Sutter Creek, in a small development on 1.3 acre lots that were once a black walnut orchard. I had to cut one down. 3.5 yrs later I have now bought a Woodland Mills 22" band saw. It gets here on Dec 27. I had one log, 22"x70" cut by someone but it was taking Far too long and $$ so I made a calclulation and this mill will pay for itself in just the one log aleady milled to 3" slabs. The grain in it is like the tree shown here. I am drooling a lot but soon...And I have a nice 20foot aluminum trailer to put it on. I have 5 stumps to dig up next week too. And 3 more walnut trees to mill. Nice Christmas...
I owned a Woodmizer for 20 years. Now I have the Lucas mill. Recently helped a friend build a Woodland mill so I have access to use it. Sutter Creek is a nice area. I love the Gold Country. Brother had 200 acres near Plymouth and Fiddletown.
I'm always so very jealous of people in the US. Your continent has such vast resources of excellent timber, and at pretty reasonable prices. We stupidly cut down a lot of our great timber early on and now the good stuff is quite expensive.
East coast of Australia. All of our excellent native trees- Australian cedar, coachwood, hoop pine etc, all got logged very heavily in the 19th century, now they are in relatively short supply. It is available, but too expensive for the average person to use. The lumber was wasted in many ways. As an example, the house I grew up in had absolutely clear red cedar window frames that had been painted from day one and the house was clad in ironbark, which was overkill. The cladding did last well over 100 years though, many of those years with failing paint. Plantations have been started, but they'll take many years to produce.
+Sideslip the mill (Lucas), is an Australian mill. Contact the company over there and get the names of local sawyers. You will find good deals on wood if you go to a small sawyer.
black walnuts in my area are basically extinct....and if any exist, the land owner is not going to say anything. that is my first time to see such an amazing wood, you did really well on the cuts. good job!
dysfunctional vet this tree was owned by the City of Campbell and was on a development. They asked me if I wanted it and I did the job for free (just the wood).
seeing what you got out of it, i would have jumped on it as well. i will have to post a video of stuff i moved. i don't have a bobcat...okay a 4 footed one lives here with kittens last year, not this year, so i have to move things by hand. your log was such that i could never have worked it when i lived in the city. too few anchor points and code enforcement was nazistic to people that don't fit their desires. but that has changed now
I'd keep that beautiful log the way it is and make it into a coffee table. Maybe polish the top, gloss it up. That right there would probably be like a $15,000 coffee table or more. Totally stunning? You sell them? Great video by the way.
That is real nice. I do a lot of milling my self and black walnut and black acacia is in high demand right now. You should get the slaber attachment for your Lucas mill.
I do have it. I'm more into building furniture with the wood but do cut slabs from time to time. I have the planet as well that quickly switches out from the saw blade. Big slabs have more value but you have to have buyers ready or space to dry them. Whenever I dry outdoors, the powder post beetles attack the sap wood. Guess I could treat it. Thanks for commenting.
This rookie is thirsty to learn it all... You really inspore me to look further into being an arborist and more than just climbing a tree to cut cut. Thanks a ton, Glad you decided to start your channel. One question question that will really fire me up, at what age did you start working on trees and what age did you decide to become an arborist? were you the first generation on your family? Thanks a ton sir.
I was an avid rock climber first. Lived a year in a tent in Yosemite. Worked search and rescue, climbed big walls daily. Started my business at 19 but didn't really know what I was doing. A mentor tree climber took me under his wing and hired me to do his jobs. Working alongside an old lifer tree man inspired me. Went on to study hard and became a Certified Arborist over 30 years ago when that program first started. Kept it up for 43 years. Still in good shape, (not great shape, I'm old), but miles ahead of my friends from the young years. Hope this is something you take serious.
+arboristBlairGlenn Thanks for the reply. Yes im taking it very serious only thing is I started wrking on this since i was 14 for different tree companies.... but they were all doing contemporary work of tree companies not ARBORISTS. So im starting to slowly change my climbing methods and pruning. The transition is hard specially the mentality part of doing things right to save the trees, prune correctly and stay safe. Your vids are helping a lot. I just findnmy self a bit surrounded by a comunity or Tree people or "contractors" who think more about the money or how fast they are on a tree. You probably know what i mean. Any tips on close by events to start talking to more trained or certified people on the tree industry?
Very interesting, but learn filming rule no.1: move camera slowly when panning. Once more: move camera slowly when panning. And yes, am drooling over that log.
Jonn Mero my big problem with camera work is that I'm usually working and the camera becomes an after thought. I almost always just pull out my phone when I think "this might be interesting". Your right about planing my shots but I'm a treeman first trying to explain my job
Don't get me wrong, - most is fine. Just take a bit more time when panning (panorama shot). It is a very common fault, but easily fixed by simply moving the camera much slower. That way modern cameras get time to focus as well.
What a shame you dont have a band mill to get the table slabs. I like the Lucas for the dimensional but its so limited when you have a log that has several table slabs within.
Lucas has a slabber attachment. It cuts wider than a typical bandsaw mill, and you can do dimensional lumber as well. Only the biggest band saw mills could handle this log in any case.
arboristBlairGlenn Same here except it almost had to be called a 34 1/2" mill. They should have made the bed dogs removable or at least outside the cutting zone. Love the mill but there are a few little things that leave you scratching your head.
HI Blair.....first just wanted to complement on the gorgeous Claro walnut and an amazing mill setup. Im located in Castaic CA and would love to somehow arrange a visit if OK with you as if always looking for a great source for live edge slabs...anyways, keep up the great artwork!
ive cut walnut for almost 2 decades as a high production sawyer for gunstocks, the big nastys on a 6 and 7 ft band. i like the lil circle but you lose alot of your width from what i see. nice video , thanks for sharing. check out sawmill sadness, sawing low grade black walnut for lumber, just squaring for a linebar. but i really love sawing logs for gunstocks!
There's a couple of the Maloof's in Las Vegas, Nevada, brothers who built a hotel & casino, would that be from the same clan? The reason I'm thinking of those two, I'm sure they had a few bucks and I'm thinking they inherited the mass of their wealth is because of the elder Maloof. Anyway, I just wanted to say your piece of 'art' there is quite unique, beautiful markings on that Walnut. Thank's for sharing this, I really do enjoy your videos.
The estate called FILOLI south of SF bilt 100 yrs ago has an entire room paneled with Black walnut A house in Rockridge area of Oakland bilt in 1911has a dining room paneled in black walnut I stopped in Sept this year at a rest stop along interstate in W.V. and discovered a grove of prob a dz black walnut trees. there were 100s of nuts on the ground.I piked up about 1/2 bushel, tuff little things to crack but in ice cream and homemade fudge the taste is sensational
As in a "self bow"? I played with different woods making bows. Even bought the bowers bible on how to do it. I have so much respect for native people who learned how to do this to survive! Lots of failures, a few okay bows, nothing worth showing.
John Lord black walnut can be used. I've been building selfbows for 6 or 7 years now. Mostly from osage orange wood but I've used many including black walnut. have found the heart wood to be a much better bow material than the sap wood.
I have no idea what Black Walnut sells these days for a board foot but when I was in high school I think it was around $4.00 per board foot. I would guess a lot more now, that was 46 and more years ago.
Glen, Have you considered a wide bandmill built to sit in the lucas rails to simplify taking multiple slabs without turning or removing previously cut slabs? Lucas has a wide chainsaw slabber also.
Built a bookshelf out of Walnut with a magazine rack on top way back in high school. Finished with simple boiled linseed oil. It looks better today than 35 years ago if that's possible. I've had a soft spot for walnut ever since. Slowly gathered quite a bit of antique Walnut furniture over the years. A couple of matching bedside tables are my favorites. Beautiful wood you have there! Neat sawmill too.
I too love this species. In California, it's called Claro Walnut
I'd love a couple of slabs to make a counter top or table out of those beautiful slabs. Cool video, thanks. ~Dolly
Have to admit I watch this same video more than once. Beautiful wood! Beautiful mill.
This would make an awesome kitchen countertop, beautiful cabinet, Bedroom set, or anything!
Yes it will
If I were you I'd save all that scrap wood and make things like ;; drinking glass coasters, chess boards, cutting boards, all kinds if things that sell very good at yard sells. or flea markets. great video
Only so much time in the day. Maybe when I retire, (if I retire)!
He would do the same as you, but he wants to make money.
I wish there were more walnut trees in my country. That wood is awesome!
Finishes beautiful!
That is one of the most exceptional pieces of crotch figure I've ever seen in black walnut. Absolutely magnificent piece. Congratulations Glenn !
Wish I still lived in CA. I'd take your scraps all day long. Make great wood turning projects.
BEAUTIFUL wood! Man some day I want a black walnut coffee table from a piece like that, just gorgeous! You do some very nice work, looks like milling wood is enjoyable.
Well, this slab is drying and is for sale. I'll take 900 now but it will be more when it's completely dry.
Sam Maloof made a great looking hanging Black Walnut shelf. Hope you made something similar with all the wood you have.
toben42 still sitting on it waiting for it to dry. Met Sam, he took me on a tour of his facility. Amazing man, amazing craftsman.
You could make great artwork pieces with this type of wood. Those dark rick colors lends itself to artwork!
You are right!
But i watch this over and over. it's such beautiful wood.
Ronnie Pressley here is the playlist for my woodworking videos. Enjoy!
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Go buy a horizontal band saw(ie. Woodmizer) or have someone custom cut such a great piece o wood.
Truly Awesome sharing here ! Its lovely to see the beauty in the Wood like this !
1BlueStarRising glad you enjoyed this. Are you a woodworker?
No, but I'm a wood lover ! :-)))
You got it!!! We are drooling and amazed with the wonderfulness of this wood!!! BINGO!!! :) :) :D
Beautiful grain! Awesome video as always, thank you for sharing.
Thanks for commenting
Maloof was a genius! The most beautiful furniture.
I met him. Spent a day with him at his house. He said "I am not an artist, I am just a woodworker".
He was a humble genius! lol
Glenn That is one awesome mill set up you got there!
That's a real pretty log!
Haji al Kidya
I have always loved wood and loved it in high school and in college.
me too
arboristBlairGlenn Would love to get my hands on some Walnut and work with it. Smells so good working with it.
excellent. Am a climber of 30 years in the Industry I always try to make use of the wood, have a couple 150 yr old Cedar logs cured up out back among a few others. I'd take a scrap if ya got one even if it's enough for a dowel I will use it. Trade ya a plank lol
Don't let the logs sit around too long. They degrade pretty fast
I'm not just drooling,im smacking my lips. That's some beautiful walnut.
Ronnie Pressley come and get it!
I made a cedar chest in high school with 2 inch sold black walnut. It was expensive back then. Nice work here.
Awesome gun stock material I am a furniture maker. Love your video.
Thanks Jack. I wish I had more shop time.
that sure is some beautiful wood!!! You've really been blessed with that log!!!!
Bobby Baldeagle thanks, now I need some serious shop time
beautiful piece of wood for sure and love your portable mill saw !
Milling is always fun
That is a gorgeous tree. I bet the furniture people came running for some of that stock.
Not yet
nice job . I could see the walnut boards you cut before you started this small job.each board is about 100 bucks each dried from places like rocklers.thank you for sharing.
If it's good enough for Sam Maloof is sure works for me. Beautiful walnut, lots going on in that log.
Good to see another Maloof fan
John Bare you will like these
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I love the intro to your videos. The milling process is very interesting to me. I thought the wood went to a mill after you cut but you do it. I would bet you have some beautiful wood furniture in your home. I am off to google what is crotch wood and feathered crotch. 😊
Thanks Shelley, I appreciate all your comments. I have a LOT of videos to work through. With Covid, I hope I can keep your attention. Shooting for 1000 ! Intros, I have about a dozen that I pull out if I’m in a hurry but I like to do original intros as well. Milling is a lot of fun and I truly enjoy building furniture from the wood I harvest.
arboristBlairGlenn Please do a video on all your furniture. 😊
Shelley P I have shown some of my work in a few videos but that is really going off track a bit. Building a large tool chest now.
black Walnut is very pretty. I have a Firewood Buisness and all the logs I get from a million is Black Walnut logs. they are cull logs that can't make Lumber. but it makes wonderful firewood.
I don't burn walnut much
arboristBlairGlenn makes alot of ash
Absolutely drooling.
Ahh, it's only wood (right!)
Gorgeous piece of wood!
This is the first time ive seen a lucas mill. took me minute to figure out what was going on, but its an interesting concept, getting dimensional boards right off the log. I think I prefer the bandsaw though, just for the fact you can get full width slabs out of it... Thanks for the video!
bishop5537 I also have the chainsaw bar attachment which allows me to take wider slabs than the Woodmizer bandmill. I do a lot of construction lumber and lumber for woodworking as well as slabs. Another attachment is the planner jig which allows me to smooth the slabs.
Great video! I would gladly take the scraps for pen/knife handle blanks.
Come on over
I sent you and email to the address on the STS website to set up a time. Thanks, Nate
Aussie made mill. We had one of the 9" ones on our farm with the 5' slabbing attachment as well. They are a great mill as far as being portable. Biggest log we did was a redgum (Marri) 2.05m wide at the base and tapered up to 1.9m over 4m length. Marri is a beautiful timber.
pudzta we have about a dozen varieties of Eucalyptus in California
Great video! I subscribed for the arborist videos, but this stuff is fascinating.
Woodworking, milling working in trees--still all about the trees!
Wood really is amazing, in all stages of development
OH MAN, THAT lS A GORGEOUS HUNK OF BLACK WALNUT YA GOT THERE. NlCE SET UP TO WORK lT TOO. LOOKlNG FORWARD TO THE NEXT VlDEO TO SEE WHAT YA WlND UP WlTH BLAlR. l GET THE FEELlNG lT'S GONNA BE GREAT!!!
Just taking one slab
Your table turned out great. With some epoxy those left over piece's would make a nice project, or paint a design picture on the bark. I bought a piece of bark that somebody painted, I Love It. It's a Beautiful piece!
BT aT About 11.49 he showed us a nice slab this is beautiful wood that only US older folk appreciate now days wonder what its gonna become????
amazingly beautiful piece of wood..
I have a Carvin guitar made from black walnut. This stuff fascinates me!
That piece you cut off, right before
"Who wants my scraps," and the piece directly under it.
I DO!
Would make the edges of a free-form bookmatched
shelf or table. (Along with the 2 pieces cut off just before.)
steve
I'll give it to you if you come and take it
i'll take some scraps from that log ! and your old blades nice
we live near Sutter Creek, in a small development on 1.3 acre lots that were once a black walnut orchard. I had to cut one down. 3.5 yrs later I have now bought a Woodland Mills 22" band saw. It gets here on Dec 27. I had one log, 22"x70" cut by someone but it was taking Far too long and $$ so I made a calclulation and this mill will pay for itself in just the one log aleady milled to 3" slabs. The grain in it is like the tree shown here. I am drooling a lot but soon...And I have a nice 20foot aluminum trailer to put it on. I have 5 stumps to dig up next week too. And 3 more walnut trees to mill. Nice Christmas...
I owned a Woodmizer for 20 years. Now I have the Lucas mill. Recently helped a friend build a Woodland mill so I have access to use it. Sutter Creek is a nice area. I love the Gold Country. Brother had 200 acres near Plymouth and Fiddletown.
I'm always so very jealous of people in the US. Your continent has such vast resources of excellent timber, and at pretty reasonable prices.
We stupidly cut down a lot of our great timber early on and now the good stuff is quite expensive.
I'm sorry you have a shortage of good wood. Where are you from?
East coast of Australia. All of our excellent native trees- Australian cedar, coachwood, hoop pine etc, all got logged very heavily in the 19th century, now they are in relatively short supply. It is available, but too expensive for the average person to use.
The lumber was wasted in many ways. As an example, the house I grew up in had absolutely clear red cedar window frames that had been painted from day one and the house was clad in ironbark, which was overkill. The cladding did last well over 100 years though, many of those years with failing paint.
Plantations have been started, but they'll take many years to produce.
+Sideslip the mill (Lucas), is an Australian mill. Contact the company over there and get the names of local sawyers. You will find good deals on wood if you go to a small sawyer.
have you tried cutting camphor Laurel
es hermoso el trabajo que hacen con la madera , un sueño para decorar y alegrar el ambiente del hogar.
black walnuts in my area are basically extinct....and if any exist, the land owner is not going to say anything. that is my first time to see such an amazing wood, you did really well on the cuts. good job!
dysfunctional vet this tree was owned by the City of Campbell and was on a development. They asked me if I wanted it and I did the job for free (just the wood).
seeing what you got out of it, i would have jumped on it as well. i will have to post a video of stuff i moved. i don't have a bobcat...okay a 4 footed one lives here with kittens last year, not this year, so i have to move things by hand. your log was such that i could never have worked it when i lived in the city. too few anchor points and code enforcement was nazistic to people that don't fit their desires. but that has changed now
I will take your scraps! A lot of them would make great guitar necks.
I'd keep that beautiful log the way it is and make it into a coffee table. Maybe polish the top, gloss it up. That right there would probably be like a $15,000 coffee table or more. Totally stunning? You sell them? Great video by the way.
Arturo Garza it would split
My mistake, that was a pretty big piece. Maybe half of that size. Nice work. 👍🏼 Black walnut wood is stunning.
absolutely stunning
Thanks
Very pretty wood. I'd cut some nice square lengths for table legs to go with it.
Might just do that
That is real nice. I do a lot of milling my self and black walnut and black acacia is in high demand right now. You should get the slaber attachment for your Lucas mill.
I do have it. I'm more into building furniture with the wood but do cut slabs from time to time. I have the planet as well that quickly switches out from the saw blade. Big slabs have more value but you have to have buyers ready or space to dry them. Whenever I dry outdoors, the powder post beetles attack the sap wood. Guess I could treat it. Thanks for commenting.
+arboristBlairGlenn planer
This rookie is thirsty to learn it all... You really inspore me to look further into being an arborist and more than just climbing a tree to cut cut. Thanks a ton, Glad you decided to start your channel. One question question that will really fire me up, at what age did you start working on trees and what age did you decide to become an arborist? were you the first generation on your family? Thanks a ton sir.
I was an avid rock climber first. Lived a year in a tent in Yosemite. Worked search and rescue, climbed big walls daily. Started my business at 19 but didn't really know what I was doing. A mentor tree climber took me under his wing and hired me to do his jobs. Working alongside an old lifer tree man inspired me. Went on to study hard and became a Certified Arborist over 30 years ago when that program first started. Kept it up for 43 years. Still in good shape, (not great shape, I'm old), but miles ahead of my friends from the young years. Hope this is something you take serious.
+arboristBlairGlenn Thanks for the reply. Yes im taking it very serious only thing is I started wrking on this since i was 14 for different tree companies.... but they were all doing contemporary work of tree companies not ARBORISTS. So im starting to slowly change my climbing methods and pruning. The transition is hard specially the mentality part of doing things right to save the trees, prune correctly and stay safe. Your vids are helping a lot. I just findnmy self a bit surrounded by a comunity or Tree people or "contractors" who think more about the money or how fast they are on a tree. You probably know what i mean. Any tips on close by events to start talking to more trained or certified people on the tree industry?
+Red Axe - Tree service & Landscaping - start by joining the ISA. They list events. Where do you live?
i used to do small damson and cherry , it was beautiful wood... the walnut you have there is also stunning !! cheers from uk
Not familiar with damson?
Those are just what i need for my new bookcase
yes I was drooling
Me too Brendan. Beautiful piece.
Me too! Glorious, glorious piece.
Very interesting, but learn filming rule no.1: move camera slowly when panning. Once more: move camera slowly when panning. And yes, am drooling over that log.
Jonn Mero my big problem with camera work is that I'm usually working and the camera becomes an after thought. I almost always just pull out my phone when I think "this might be interesting". Your right about planing my shots but I'm a treeman first trying to explain my job
Don't get me wrong, - most is fine. Just take a bit more time when panning (panorama shot). It is a very common fault, but easily fixed by simply moving the camera much slower. That way modern cameras get time to focus as well.
I would love to have a 16"x16"x2" piece of that, and maybe a 5x5 for a guitar body and neck....
beautiful log.
Very
yes i was drooling and I would go grab those scraps if I were closer lol
Beautiful!
You're an Artist.
Please invest in some shin-guards or prtoective equipment for your legs, this makes me nervous!
Not really an issue of safety but thanks.
What a shame you dont have a band mill to get the table slabs. I like the Lucas for the dimensional but its so limited when you have a log that has several table slabs within.
Lucas has a slabber attachment. It cuts wider than a typical bandsaw mill, and you can do dimensional lumber as well. Only the biggest band saw mills could handle this log in any case.
manoahouse I have it as well but you need lumber to build furniture
BT I now have a 36" capacity wood mizer
arboristBlairGlenn Same here except it almost had to be called a 34 1/2" mill. They should have made the bed dogs removable or at least outside the cutting zone. Love the mill but there are a few little things that leave you scratching your head.
HI Blair.....first just wanted to complement on the gorgeous Claro walnut and an amazing mill setup. Im located in Castaic CA and would love to somehow arrange a visit if OK with you as if always looking for a great source for live edge slabs...anyways, keep up the great artwork!
Thank nature for her beauty.
Jefferey Blagus it all goes back into the earth unless you can stop the process.
Now you're drooling lol.
ive cut walnut for almost 2 decades as a high production sawyer for gunstocks, the big nastys on a 6 and 7 ft band. i like the lil circle but you lose alot of your width from what i see. nice video , thanks for sharing. check out sawmill sadness, sawing low grade black walnut for lumber, just squaring for a linebar. but i really love sawing logs for gunstocks!
z lindauer you are right. A band mill saves wood. I just do small scale jobs for myself. I dont mill for production any more
z lindauer
Beautiful Black Walnut , you need to get 3000 $ for a 3 inch slab ! I'm no expert but something that Unique is worth every bit if not more . 🤑💈👏
Gorgeous wood! Those scraps can make some nice knife handles I think :)
Come and get them!
:) Thank you, but I live some 20 000 km east of California.
gorgeous bit of timber mate
Thanks Greg
enjoyed the vid and only wished I was closer to get some scarp lol
I wish I could have been there........ just to smell the fresh cut walnut....mmmmmm!
People live across the street did this also this year-their’s beautiful too.
There's a couple of the Maloof's in Las Vegas, Nevada, brothers who built a hotel & casino, would that be from the same clan? The reason I'm thinking of those two, I'm sure they had a few bucks and I'm thinking they inherited the mass of their wealth is because of the elder Maloof. Anyway, I just wanted to say your piece of 'art' there is quite unique, beautiful markings on that Walnut. Thank's for sharing this, I really do enjoy your videos.
Extremely nice. I'll be looking for the follow up videos.
I need help to move the slab when I cut it
those scraps still looked great
I have people going through my scraps. I give them away
arboristBlairGlenn I would be going through them myself
The estate called FILOLI south of SF bilt 100 yrs ago has an entire room paneled with Black walnut
A house in Rockridge area of Oakland bilt in 1911has a dining room paneled in black walnut
I stopped in Sept this year at a rest stop along interstate in W.V. and discovered a grove of prob a dz black walnut trees. there were 100s of nuts on the ground.I piked up about 1/2 bushel, tuff little things to crack but in ice cream and homemade fudge the taste is sensational
I'm speaking there next month at the annual tree failure conference. I love that place!
That looks like excellent material. Just wish Janka rating, bend and shatter index was higher for wood bow material.
As in a "self bow"? I played with different woods making bows. Even bought the bowers bible on how to do it. I have so much respect for native people who learned how to do this to survive! Lots of failures, a few okay bows, nothing worth showing.
John Lord black walnut can be used. I've been building selfbows for 6 or 7 years now. Mostly from osage orange wood but I've used many including black walnut. have found the heart wood to be a much better bow material than the sap wood.
Wonderful wood..id love to have some scraps..i have antique knives,is make handles for
thank you
thank you!
so beautiful.
Bob Vila approves of this music.
Thanks for the video really enjoyed it :)
You a woodworker?
+arboristBlairGlenn I am, just taking a woodworking technician course in Canada.
+Shane Preiss you're hooked now!
+Shane Preiss Here is a video that all woodworkers will enjoy
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I have no idea what Black Walnut sells these days for a board foot but when I was in high school I think it was around $4.00 per board foot. I would guess a lot more now, that was 46 and more years ago.
Pity I'm seeing this more than a year later, I would have LOVED to get some of those scraps =/
Incredible saw. I'm amazed that it doesn't snag on the timber causing a nasty accident.
Nope
Awesome revolver grips!
El Desgraciado that it would br
Nice wood for a rifle stock ;)
I like the intro Music.
Hahaa if you was closer to me id surely take them scraps! :p Some of it is buyable scrap! Damn :) Nice piece of wood buddy!
I LIke scraps!
You would be amazed at what gets thrown out at a small mill. Find one close by
it's beautiful wood.
Love your stuff and it is a great log. If you have many like this have you considered a band-saw mill? Thank you for sharing, Steve
I had a Wood Miser for years. I can still use it but I like how this unit works.
Got some great vids here for wood-heads like me
Mostly trees and tree care but woodworking as well
that is sheer beauty...
Shit! That "Scrap" was my favorite piece! Beautiful work!
How beautiful! what would a slab with live edge for a table cost of this type? Thanks for the great videos
BairCichlids thousands
that piece at 7:00 would make a GREAT oar for Paul Bunyan
Glen, Have you considered a wide bandmill built to sit in the lucas rails to simplify taking multiple slabs without turning or removing previously cut slabs? Lucas has a wide chainsaw slabber also.
johnnybarbar I have the chain slab cutter but an additional unit that is a bandmill is an interesting idea