Milling the World’s Largest Pine on Woodmizer LT15 Start Sawmill Sugar Pine.

Milling the world’s largest pine on a Woodmizer LT15 Sawmill. Some people think ponderosa pine is the largest pine, but sugar pines get larger. Woodmizer says the LT15 can mill up to a 28 inch log. I put this 32 inch diameter sugar pine log on the mill and see if I can mill it. I attempt to mill it into sugar pine lumber and slabs.

[@maximilianmusiker5264]

I can literally smell the lovely smell of pine wood ❤

[@BillHale-bh7fh]

Nice touch with the tractor. Can tell you got time in with it. A little time chainsaw milling work and your mill handed it just fine😊

[@ssprofirewood]

Wilson, that is very impressive you figured out a way to mill that big ole sugar pine! 👏

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks, it wasn’t as difficult as I thought it was going to be.

[@Agnesfasula]

Nic job !

[@johntillotson4254]

You have a great sense of humor

[@easttnscott7629]

I ordered a regular lt15 then next week after order I cut a log 34” in diameter. Came back to house and changed order to lt15 wide. Thanks for video.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Most of the time I don’t need the wide but sometimes I wish I had it. Thanks for the comment.

[@nigelmchugh5541]

Those Industrial Masseys are great little tractors.

[@edwinlikeshistractor8521]

You caught the can. Thank you. I am ready for the snow to be done.

[@WilsonForestLands]

It was a clumsy catch but I caught it. The snow may be done here, now it’s just turned to rain.

[@WideCutSawmill]

Great tool time quote! Lol

[@WilsonForestLands]

It’s probably been a decade or two since I heard that Tool Time quote, but it was so good I still remember it.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

Good job with that big ole log. Looks like you got some nice lumber out of it. I was watching your hand in that cant hook hoping that log didn’t turn over with you with your fingers in the loop of it. Hey with a little trimming it fit. Thanks for sharing that one.

[@WilsonForestLands]

There is a big gap in the hook so not much chance of my hand getting caught in there. I actually hadn’t thought of that. If that did happen, at least it would make some entertaining video. Maybe not so much for me but for the rest of you.

[@aaronharvey6991]

Sugar pine makes beautiful lumber on the edge of the hard wood.

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

That was a VERY nice log (at least what I saw of it). Hope to see the rest of it when it stops raining.

[@WilsonForestLands]

It stopped raining, I will look forward to you watching the rest of it.

[@ronharrington228]

Nice catch!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks, nice of you to notice. 😁

[@user-scooter1965]

Great job with that big sugar maple. Also, great catch with the can on the tractor start up. Your skills have no boundries.😂

[@WilsonForestLands]

A lot of the ones that have no boundaries also have no practical use. 😂

[@freespirit9981]

Not a sugar maple log. Good luck ever finding a 32” sugar maple log.

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

Good job! Those big ones are both fun and a pain in the butt or maybe back! 😁

[@WilsonForestLands]

Or maybe all three of the above. And for some, a pain in the dented sawmill bed. 😁

[@thekiltedsawyer]

Winter this year is neverending, getting tired of it!! Your location is beautiful. Those are great looking boards, maybe Nathan can send you a log rite with his Mahindra lol🤞🤞👍🤣

[@WilsonForestLands]

Nathan seems like a nice guy but I don’t think he’s nice enough to do that. I do like the sound of it though. 😁 It sounds like you have had worse winter than we have.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

I am a bit burnt out over there, there is always a chance 🙏 I wouldn't wait lol My wife/ editing chief went to Arizona for spring break and Left me home, but I have been busy milling & filming. Have ruffly 2' of snow in the yard!🤔🤨🤨

[@twagenknecht]

Is that sap wood recoverable or viable for building? Or is it throwaway? Looks very cool, and I would love to build something from these slabs. Awesome videos. I never thought that I'd watch these all the way through, but you have an amazing channel.

[@WilsonForestLands]

The sapwood is not something I would use for construction where you need strength. This would be more useful as decorative wood. Thank you for the comment.

[@joegrochowski669]

how fast sugar pine grows and what is use of this pine, thanks again , always enjoy

[@WilsonForestLands]

In this one’s younger years it was growing about a quarter inch in diameter and about 13 14 inches tall per year. it’s used for similar things that white pines are used for.

[@PaulHodgson-gm6lg]

I've seen 8 foot diameter White pine. Sugar pines get bigger?

[@dennisworkmansr.714]

I'm subscribed to another channel it reminds me so much of your channel, and he is in a similar area you are on the west coast. S&J Forest Products, I'm curious if you know him or maybe even affiliated with him, I do like his channel also.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I don’t know him but I have watched a few of his videos in the past. It may be our similar Northwest logging Influence that brings out the similarities. He seems like a good guy and he does have a good channel.

[@freespirit9981]

I have done a 32” white pine 16ft long on a lt15.

[@WilsonForestLands]

That’s awesome. Nicely done.

[@grizz2702]

Well...that didn't really work ...it kept on raining here...you should of taken your coat off lol ...cheers....on a side note on large logs ...I slab off what I can rotate 45 degrees slab off what I can rotate 90 degrees slab off what I can or down to the cant cut then rotate 90 degrees... but I do have variations from that depending on the log and the cuts I want

[@WilsonForestLands]

That’s probably a good way to do it. A cleaner way to do it than with the chainsaw. I took my coat off today, it’s been raining ever since not long after that. Now I don’t know whether to take it off or leave it on.

[@grizz2702]

@@WilsonForestLands do like I do in this nasty un predictable spring weather...sit in the house by the fire and watch videos lol ... cheers

[@WilsonForestLands]

@@grizz2702 I actually look forward to the nasty weather when I can spend time inside by the fire. After a while I get cabin fever and feel the need to go outside when I see a break in the weather. A lot of times the break in the weather is just a trick and it gets me. 😁

[@freespirit9981]

Log was well dried other wise would suggest not cutting like he did not keeping the log core centered on the boards as much as possible. Green log those board while drying would have cupped, warped waisted in many ways.

[@WilsonForestLands]

The log was not dry at all. Still very wet and heavy. I have been slowly cutting logs from this tree for over a year since it has been down. I dried several slabs and a lot of lumber from this tree. Most of it last summer. The wood in this tree is very stable. Even the pith pieces dried straight. The pieces from that video are getting dry now and are still straight. I am milling it based on past experience with this tree. I love when someone watching a video thinks they know more than about what’s going on in the video than the person actually doing the thing. After reading all your comments, I suggest you look up a speech by Theodore Roosevelt titled The Man In the Arena.

[@randyhorner592]

@@WilsonForestLandsmaybe you should start each video with a disclaimer “ these videos are for entertainment only, and if you have a better way of doing what I’m doing then start your own KZbin channel.”

[@freespirit9981]

Did not need to do what he did. Just roll 180 after you can not make another pass. Again repeat then roll 90. You should now have all the clearance you need. You can also do what is call a stop sign cut till you widdle it down till it clears.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I did it the way I did for a reason. As the saying goes, there is more than one way to skin a cat.

[@freespirit9981]

Title deceiving. Can tell you as a forester that sugar pine in no where near the the biggest. Sugar pine can get far bigger.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I said that in the video. This was a small one. I said in the video they get much larger. I believe I even mentioned how large the largest ones are.

[@bennichols1113]

This is why swing blade mills are popular in NZ. Thats a small log.

[@WilsonForestLands]

It’s a big one for an LT15. I have been thinking I need a swing blade because I have some real big ones to somehow deal with this summer.

[@bennichols1113]

Square it off, problem solved.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I was trying not to do too much squaring so I could keep some live edge alive.