This Log Made me Nervous - Rare Walnut on the Sawmill

No mistakes allowed with this Black Walnut - making mantles.

[@falllineridge]

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[@gregorybathurst7171]

Couldn't you have gone and bought a new hard wood saw blade rather than use a new blade you use on pine .?

[@chrisbudesa9355]

Can the blades be resharpened?

[@gerardedgar5961]

You only see two sides of a mantel.

[@jewellloding3728]

Wes, You need to ask him for pictures of the mantles on the wall so we can see the finished product. You did a wonderful job cutting it.

[@kenrussell1093]

The best part of the video was when your little boy stepped in to help get the strap loose. There is nothing better than seeing a little boy helping his dad on a project ❤😊

[@stevie8763]

And nothing worse tan seeing kids climbing on logs. If it rolls !!!!

[@ScoutSniper3124]

"I taught myself using KZbin videos." That really is the best of what KZbin offers, showing you ways to do things that might not be available to you otherwise.

[@andrewjackson9698]

Great video... beautiful log, and you did an outstanding job with it. As a grandfather, it makes me smile to see you involving your son in this.... it's too easy to just tell them to stay out of the way, I'm working.... you are giving him memories to hold and cherish... love it.

[@OfficialCandor]

My granddad used let me help build the dog house and his workbench as a kid and now that im 31 I’m finally getting into woodwork myself

[@HusaCreature]

True, but I have to say something - when the strap comes off, the boy needs to be away from the sides of the logs, not on the wagon next to them. When he took the first log off and the middle one shifted, it was clear that the one on the right was ready to roll.

[@rad7965]

Looks like you did a great job on that log. Have to give your helper a raise, see how fast he handle that tie-down problem.

[@ralphnorman4636]

A rare case the kid actually helped. Everything my son "helped" with NEEDED redone

[@tinydancer7426]

@@ralphnorman4636 I remember when my mom had a friend helping in the back yard to dig out some bushes (deep, deep root systems) in prep for putting in a parking area. My 6 year old son was hanging out with the friend, ostensibly to "help" him. After a while, we heard from the yard, "Don't help me so much!" 🤣

[@falllineridge]

I was pretty impressed when he got that tie down off so fast.

[@danielb5400]

Need a raise?.. gets a ladder for Christmas 😁

[@madsciencegary3830]

"I taught myself how to mill by watching youtube videos." Me Too! I watched you, Nathan, and Mike Morgan, and now I'm having a ball on my own mill and knew a lot of what to do before I got mine. Thanks for the education.

[@ABetterLifeInc]

Very few wood species look as beautiful as black walnut. That log you got came out literally perfect. It doesn’t get much better than that.

[@yeagerxp]

"Log stretcher" cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣 Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

[@davidallen9526]

2:20 "aww, its hooked on...... Oh, there it went." Made tgis 60 year old man smile.

[@jimwilloughby]

Damn, Wes. That grain is as straight as a die. That quarter round is going to make an awesome mantle. All in all, this is one of your best videos, with some fantastic results. It was wonderful to see the foreman actually doing something to help by unhooking that strap so you could get the logs off the trailer.

[@dirtydancer8]

Where you live? The elusive Black Walnut grows like weeds where I live. Squirrel's bury the nuts all over my yard and sprout them everywhere

[@jimwilloughby]

@@dirtydancer8 Outside Cody, Wy.

[@dcsensui]

Whatever they're paying you to do this, you are worth every dime. It's not common to see someone take the time, thought and effort to make the most out of such a valuable resource.

[@davidmcentyre3068]

As a wood turner, my heart cried when you threw that water across the grain -- all I saw a bowls and plates.

[@ronicard]

"And my log stretcher is still in the shop." :) Ha. Great line.

[@fredford7642]

It is great to see a good woodsman at work, getting the most out of an impossible log. Thank you for sharing this video with us. Educational and informative.

[@billrobbins5874]

Beautiful wood. 👍

[@susanholsinger6470]

The wood grain in that Walnut is just gorgeous!

[@maryloutetreault1650]

Loved seeing your little boy helping and how awesome he was at unhooking that strap all on his own !

[@therealpropst6252]

You did a great job on that log. I love Black Walnut. That grain pattern is just beautiful.

[@aceelectriccompany1181]

Great video as usual. Made me remember that I have a piece of walnut that I have been carting around for over 40 years. I guess that it is cured by now. It has been kept indoors all the time. It is 95x4x11 3/4 inches.

[@woodworkingandepoxy0221]

Send it to me I'll get it right 😂

[@ianstools4929]

Amazing video!! Absolutely love the way it all turned out. Both mantles are exceptional. Well done !

[@realworldwildlifeproducts5512]

Very cool project. I can’t believe the stress in that trunk on the first cut. Gorgeous piece of wood.

[@bjeweled21]

Great job sir. The black walnut is gorgeous! It lights up my soul.

[@waynejones736]

Always enjoy your work. I’ve been watching you for quite a while now and you are one of 3 KZbinrs that inspired me to join the sawyer fraternity. I did think you were getting pretty uppity when you bought the tractor with a grapple. That was until bought one for myself and now recognize you as a hillbilly genius. Keep up the good work

[@falllineridge]

If I had to throw everything away and keep one tool, that grapple would be the one I keep. As you've discovered, they're just amazing. Thanks for watching!

[@sean-kellymckitrick8267]

Great job up on the mountain mr.walton with the walnut.gorgous wood.night john boy.

[@normareed9007]

That grain is exquisite. No wonder it's so expensive. What a treat to be able to work with it.

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

I've always loved black walnut. I'm still grieving over 4 beautiful antique furniture pieces including a huge armoire, that a woman I worked for had " refinished " witha heavy cream enamel with 3 other colors spattered on that. I burst into tears when I saw it, and she was so amused. She just didn't understand.

[@jamesdaves7680]

You did a great job of maximizing that log from the customers request.

[@quadsquadracingable]

Absolutely gorgeous piece of wood!!! I love that you truly try to meet customers expectations!! I absolutely love your setup!!!!! I would love to get something similar someday!!

[@DDL2728]

Great job!! That's beautiful wood God created!! Your little boy is such a big helper!! God bless y'all! ❤️🙏❤️

[@robalexander7348]

A nice video, and those beautiful lengths of Rare Walnut, what a wonderful mantle piece it will make. I enjoyed watching this video in Australia, and your amazing young son running around helping Dad. Thank You 👍

[@kirkking6601]

Great job explaining this work. Glad the customer understood the deal.

[@mikewatson4644]

It is tough to work on something that is unreplaceable. I would have tried to have the customer present while cutting so that he could see for himself. Having this video for him to watch is probably the next best choice. Thank you. Have a great holiday with your family.

[@houndsmanone4563]

Nice looking black walnut. Great milling, FLR. They are going to be some excellent mantel pieces. Beautiful wood. Full-watch. 👍🏽🤠 1/7/23

[@lydiaflatt9859]

So pretty! I love watching these sawmills work. This walnut was amazing.

[@leecowell8165]

Beautiful. Black walnut has such a distinctive look.

[@topgazza]

Its wonderful to watch a log turn into a beautiful smooth patterned piece of wood like that

[@ron.v]

It's great to be able to watch this. We miss you Wes but I understand that you have to follow where the spirit leads you.

[@beniciomoldenado2315]

Very interesting and well done video. It would be great to see a picture of the finished mantel.

[@goldenacres3269]

I like your channel because, like you, I have a manual mill. Seeing you solve problems is an inspiration.

[@singleshot2218]

Good job Wes! That’s a beautiful pice of Walnut! Hope he likes it, I would! Take care and stay safe! Hello to all! God bless!✝️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@gord2358]

I really enjoyed seeing what we used to call a portable sawmill in operation. Looking forward to the next video. Gord from British Columbia., Canada.

[@RXRSawdustStation]

Great sawing, Wes! Great hook man you've got there! 😉 That blade was going through there easily, it looked like from my end. Beautiful cuts! Beautiful wood! Thanks!

[@HermanWoodworks]

We get a good bit of black walnut in Northeast Ohio. Everytime i have milled it there is always alot of tension in it. I have had pieces start checking and cracking while I'm milling up the rest of a log....hahah. Great job!

[@victorjeffers1993]

Your young helper reminds me of my oldest son when he was that age he was always out where i was helping or wanting to help me in whatever i was doing around tge house and today is still a great help when i need him ! Great job with that walnut log ! Great job ! By the way jus subscribed to your channel ! 👍👍

[@falllineridge]

Cool, thanks!

[@joeysawdust]

Great Video! Beautiful wood! So thoughtful about the customer and wood - great planning leads to great successes!

[@adrianburrell6217]

My grandfather made all of the Mission style furniture in his house, tables, chairs, rockers, chests, from black walnut. Each year a supplier came through town and knew to stop by my grandfather's shop first because he would buy all of the black walnut. Those trees are so very slow growing, and messy that most people don't want to wait for the cash crop that the lumber can bring, especially if you have the land to do a staggered planting so there are trees of different ages at all times. If people want a permanent dark brown to black dye, there's nothing better than the husk of black walnuts. You got some absolutely stunning slabs and even the waste pieces will be good for small projects or inlay work on blonde wood projects.

[@servraghgiorsal7382]

Yesindeedy! Black walnut really stained our hands when picking the. Nuts from those thick husks. We used to put cardboard down in the driveway and, Nuts, then more cardboard and run over them with the car, multiple times2. Then use a big heavy darning needle to pick the Nuts. One Christmas my friend gave me a little baggie of Nuts, an ice cream recipe, and 2 joints, wrapped in red and green papers. That was 40 some years ago and I still remember it. As the best v present I ever got.

[@Global7774]

A man who loves what he does!! Great job, great technique!

[@rogarmadz]

Just now found your channel WES: you did a fantastic job on that black walnut!! My Grandad had a small saw mill, had to use his old tractor and a long belt to turn the blade!! I was 4 years old in 1954. The blade was 4 foot tall. Had to sharpen it alot kept hitting bullets in the logs. "Customer brought in from Arkansas & Oklahoma" HE wouldn't let us kids get close enough to watch him cut those logs!! Loved hearing the blade sing after a cut!! I hit the thumb up for ya. And subscribed!! Catch you later.

[@falllineridge]

Cool! Thanks for stopping by!

[@pdmanfarm3520]

I love the smell of the black walnut. one of my favorite aromas.

[@falllineridge]

It reminded me of oak.

[@nigelkavanagh2048]

Great job sir! You went above and beyond 👏

[@Carolina12GA]

Excellent job! I love learning from your channel!

[@jimmowers7675]

That’s some beautiful black walnut. It’s great looking wood. Thanks for sharing.

[@helenrosetipper3200]

Love the way your son is sitting on your lap while you're lifting off the tree trunk :)

[@RissaFirecat]

This is a beautiful slab! The black walnut has such an amazingly straight grain. Just gorgeous!

[@gulliver3644]

Excellent job. We have lots of Black Walnut in central Kentucky. In northern PA where I grew up dad and I would burn the dead walnut leaners with the oak in the winter. Some of the walnut on our property were 3-4 ft in diameter. The hickory was 12-18”d. Ah, the good ol days.

[@jstewart627]

In an area that is low income I saw someone has a sawmill. What should I pay them to process boards out of an 8 foot long by 20 inch diameter walnut trunk?

[@BenedictSawmilling]

Sapwood is tough with black walnut! I live in NY, where there is quite a bit of walnut. Still premium! Sometimes it's tough to explain to a customer that a big, all-heartwood piece is not going to be even close to the log diameter. You did what you could. It sounds like you had a flexible customer, which is the best kind!

[@mikeadkins1854]

That's some beautiful lumber he should be very happy with it good job cutting it!👌👍

[@robertrobert7924]

Black Walnut is my favorite hardwood. This was an amazing video.

[@specialksspeciallife5170]

Found this completely by accident, despite being a rapidly-increasing wood addict: really human and love how you said “bell-end” without missing a beat. And yes, I’m British. You rock mano!

[@falllineridge]

Thanks for watching!

[@hollywinsman9464]

When you did the first cut, cut the log in half, what beautiful wood.

[@larrymccullough339]

You made a great video and you very good on that mill When I was younger I done wood work for hobby my walnut products always sold easily

[@falllineridge]

Thanks 👍

[@SoFloMom]

What a gorgeous piece of walnut! I hope your customer doesn’t stain it, but leaves it’s true color.

[@doylerabjohn3435]

That walnut looks good. Great job on cutting that mantle. I love to see that "log stretcher" 😂😂😂, in action when you get it back😂.

[@AlpacaRenee]

Beautiful work! I love watching your videos. Merry Christmas

[@patriots1needed]

Well done. Not often those of us in Georgia get the chance to do the “water on black walnut” shot! Looks great.

[@ms.farmgirl]

[1] I would have turned this nice piece into a dining room table. [2] Also, I would have made a huge amount of Charcuterie Boards out of it and sold them for a mega profit! [3] It just seems too good to just use it as a mantle on a fireplace. Men just don't get the value of these kinds of woods. You just don't CHUNK UP Black Walnut! We have 15-20 of these trees [black walnut] on our farm, but they are still in nutting use. And they are HUGE. Over 125+ years that I know of. My Grandparents planted them on the farm when they first bought it,, and 5 generations have lived on this 388 acre farm. Grandparents planted all kinds of Oaks, Maple [Birdseye Maple] and other trees.

[@kenjett2434]

Love sawing black walnut but it can be tricky though I must say Wes you did excellent job for what you had. That will make some beautiful woodwork.

[@sharpshorts]

Great job -- getting a good usable product out of that absolutely beautiful wood is an art!

[@garyadams4467]

That black walnut is beautiful, I would love to get a few logs that size, you and your helper keep up the good work ✅

[@MessyTimes]

Excellent demonstration of a sound process to get to the desired result. Well done. Merry Christmas.

[@dannydocekal8870]

Really enjoyed this…Thank you for sharing!

[@WilliamMihelich1949]

I always enjoy your videos! Thanks!!

[@Mityob67]

Smart milling. Cool to watch your thought process. Nice vid sir.

[@karinchaney101]

I hope the guy who ordered this watches this video, you did a great job.

[@ocotillodavid2296]

i don’t mill wood. I restore antique furniture, but if a customer asks for something that diminishes the beauty of the piece I refuse, and return the piece if the customer insists on ruining the piece. You/I are the artists not the money.

[@charlessessions7293]

Nice milling ! Very beautiful Black Walnut wood 🪵 👌 !! Look forward to the Pine milling ......

[@casimirkotarba5186]

As a Carpenter,,,That was a great looking mantle piece,,, I would love to have some of that

[@clivemossmoon3611]

Some of the most gorgeous walnut I've ever seen.

[@KPVFarmer]

Thank you for sharing. I have some black walnut to mill and was looking for ideas.

[@graemewoodruff9988]

Great job, enjoyed your thought process.

[@davidconaway2830]

Black gold! Walnut is my favorite species and although that log was ugly as sin, you exposed the beauty and gained confidence in the process.

[@robertgsands3521]

Your son is so much fun for me to watch, a pure BOY.

[@falllineridge]

He's a blast.

[@jdollar5852]

We had a hay farm outside Rome GA that was covered up with black walnut. My father was a wood turner and he used it to make bowls and other decorative pieces. I have 4 of them at my house in Columbus that are about 20 years old. Our farm in Alex City AL has a few with one being "ancient". We have a giant oak that died this summer about 25 feet from the walnut. I plan to take it down this winter and hope it falls where I want it.

[@falllineridge]

They seem to grow pretty well in North Ga and higher, I have a few on my property but they are small, except for one that's pretty big but in rough shape. Wish they grew better here. Such nice wood.

[@michaelmosley254]

Nice job but how do you level a worped up log

[@apveening]

With a couple of good ropes you can at least make sure it won't fall where you don't want it.

[@charlesvaughn5055]

that was two very beautiful pieces of wood for mantles. Great job. have a great day, and thanks for the video.

[@falllineridge]

Thanks for watching, Charles.

[@shakeradio]

great video + presentation + explanation! well done mate 🙏🏻

[@teddie_schaefer1963]

Beautiful wood I am so jealous! You did a beautiful job on it!

[@steveogle3679]

Stunning. Would have made incredible wall panels given it's extreme vertical figure and the sap wood contrast. Art.

[@alfa_romeo55yush82]

Well Done Boss. That mantle turned out decent.

[@ronlheureux7623]

Thank you for this interesting and entertaining video. I really enjoyed it.

[@randyboisclair9086]

I don't know what else to say but the fact that this wood is majestic

[@anniecrawford5911]

Beautiful! Excellent cuts. So fascinating. Nice job!🌳

[@KODArunner]

From my point of view, you did a right fine job on a beautiful tree! God should be proud of your work!

[@sallybuskey952]

I have never seen a Walnut log before. It's gorgeous. Especially after you poured the water on it. The grain is gorgeous. You did awesome. Congrats to you. Thank you for sharing.🙂

[@167curly]

Glad to see Junior on your knee when you were shifting those logs. They made into two beautiful mantleshelves. I'd be fascinated to see how heavy logs like that are attached to a wall.

[@falllineridge]

I'm kind of interested to know that too.

[@arlynsmith9196]

New subscriber here and I am really thankful I found your channel! You did a masterful job on making something beautiful out of that gorgeous piece of tree. I know a lot of guys who would see only firewood but you saw the beauty that was inside and managed to get it out. Thank you!

[@dfirky1021]

Yes, the beauty is awsome.

[@alwayscensored6871]

Even the smallest offcuts and a CNC router for some carved images will be worth something.

[@praetorxian]

@@alwayscensored6871 I was gonna ask about the off-cuts. Art pieces? Cutting boards? Smoker chips? I don’t woodwork but I hunt and fish and use every part of the animal I cam, both economically and out of respect.

[@59Alaskan]

​@@praetorxian I wish all would be that way..Respect 💖

[@wiredperformance6130]

I used to work at a mill. I built a 10x12 shed out of throw away. About half was black walnut. Maple and ash was the rest. 3 years later it now has a metal roof and is my wood shop!

[@kevin-sawmill-lx25]

That walnut sure is nice! Nice colors. I hope to get to saw some one day. I’m same as you! Nothing but pine except for one elm tree.Enjoy videos keep them coming!

[@falllineridge]

Good thing pine is so useful.

[@bradjohnstone2068]

love the video, makes me wish i recorded the spruce log i had on the mill last month. 40" on the big end , was 36" on the other end small end, 18' long. ended up slicing it in half for two 9 foots and got around 1000 bf that day from those two logs

[@markflajsner9944]

That black walnut, absolutely stunning, not jealous at all...!😉 Anyways the guy has got a bit of woodworking to do to make his mantle piece. Even if you don't own it, it's such a pleasure to have it between your fingers, albeit momentarily.

[@thomaschandler4831]

I like the sap wood dressing the outside … so beautiful

[@catxnc]

Despite your obvious skills as a sawyer, more impressive to me is your vision and commitment as a father. Your son will follow you sir, because you embody the true American entrepreneur. (Since you are too busy for golf, I would say guitar.) 🙂 P.S. Would love to see that finished mantle on your customer's wall.