Milling the World’s Most Beautiful Pine? On a Woodmizer LT15 Sawmill into Lumber and Slabs

Milling a large sugar pine log on a Woodmizer LT15 sawmill. Sugar Pine is the worlds largest pine, I believe it’s the most beautiful as well. I milk them into lumber and live edge slabs. This log is blue stained, mostly in the sapwood. 
You can watch the first video where we cut this log open even it though it was too big to cut open.
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[@davidsauer8072]

Beautiful lumber from that sugar pine! I vote yes to the sugar pine tour! Thanks for the always interesting as well as entertaining video!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks for the comment and I will add your vote for the sugar pine tour.

[@ronharrington228]

I would love to get a tour of your sugar pines... and while your identifying the sugar pines... it would be swell if you could tell us how to differentiate between other coniferous/ evergreen trees... ( pine vs fir vs hemlock vs spruce... you get the idea)!!! I enjoy your channel and look forward to your videos... I think you may be "blessed" with the same sense of humor as I am... I'm always chuckling at the little "Groaners" you leave behind.

[@WilsonForestLands]

If you are chuckling at them instead of groaning, we probably do have a similar sense of humor. I will put your vote in for the sugar pine tour. Good idea to include the other trees.

[@user-scooter1965]

Boy that sugar pine log sure made some beautiful boards. Would love a sugar pine forest tour.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Looks like everyone else does too so now I’m going to have to make it happen.

[@edwinlikeshistractor8521]

I would love to learn how to eat sugar pine nuts. Thanks for the video.

[@WilsonForestLands]

I will try to remember to include that in the sugar pine video.

[@nearlynormal2293]

I vote yes for the sugar pine tour.

[@100-AcreWoods]

Yes on the Sugar pine tour please. Keep up the good work.

[@JoshuaSmith-yo2gl]

I love to see some of your standing sugar pine. Green and dead standing please. Those giant pinecones are to see as well. Thanks for all the videos! Keep em coming

[@adammoggysawmilling5164]

I'd love to see the huge pinecones!!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yes I will definitely have to look for some of the pinecones. Thanks for that reminder.

[@pigeonmanof180]

I’d love to see your sugar pines. Here in Maine we only have White pine, Red, Scotch and Jack so everything you have out west is different. I’d also love to see how you harvest and process the seeds for eating. Our pines don’t produce big seeds so the whole idea is weird to me. but i love to learn things about Nature. I enjoy your videos and your humor and knowledge.

[@korodski]

Wow what a log!!

[@korodski]

Signs of beetle ?

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yes it was killed by bark beetles.

[@stormytooman1947]

When I lived in northern and central Cali, sugar pine was a favorite of mine too. The trunks are cylindrical, not fluted or irregular. That makes the five or six ft. trunk more inpressive. When I moved to Virginia I brought some big sugar pine cones.

[@beerdrinker6452]

Nice video.

[@rogerculleton2583]

I would really like to see some sugar pine trees. You do an amazing job with your videos I hope you are making money on the videos as well as your lumber.

[@lpeterman]

Hmmm, I noticed that at 6:55, no jacket. However, at 8:45, jacket... Seems tempting the weather gods played out against you... We don't have Sugar pine in Linn County, we do have Valley Ponderosa, which also gets the blue stain. I'd love to mill some of the "Cant-Can" for use in Barred owl and Western screech owl boxes. "Cant-Can" not the cheesiest, but approaching the line. Cheers and thanks for another educational video -- showing that us guys commonly defy the recommendations.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Yeah hate to admit it but I can get even cheesier than that. those pitchy pieces that came out of the middle would probably be good for bird nests since they would resist rot. I do wonder if the weather gods are amused by making me take my coat on and off.

[@lpeterman]

@@WilsonForestLands Well, the weather gods may or may not be amused, but it sure gives me a wry chuckle or two. Cheers from Linn County.

[@ejsocci2630]

Absolutely Beautiful 🤩

[@vdsgw52]

Yes lets look at all your Pine and Fir trees. Nice job and looks like great lumber.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks G W. your vote has been counted.

[@VIVA4EVER2001]

Another ace videa, many thanks. Yes please to the tour

[@joegrochowski669]

great a tour of the lands and types will be much appreciated, thanks again and happy easter

[@WilsonForestLands]

I will tally your vote. Thanks and happy two days after Easter to you.

[@WideCutSawmill]

Beautiful blued pine. Happy Easter!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you and happy two days after Easter to you.

[@TheOldManAndTheSaw]

VERY nice lumber. Fantastic video.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks Dave.

[@On_The_Farm]

Beautiful wood. Bring on the Sugar Pine!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks for the comment. Comments have been overwhelming toward the sugar pine so will be bringing it on.

[@davidritcey2323]

Generally not a big fan of “blue” pine, but that 3rd and 4th board are beautiful with the string striping. Would love to see some more Sugar Pine trees in the forest.

[@MsdMakingSawDust]

Great looking sugar pine. I was didn’t see the apples ? I’d like to see sugar pine tour. The water test sure brung out the blue stain . That’s one nice stack of boards. Are them all 4/4 boards ? Thanks for sharing

[@WilsonForestLands]

I thought the apples were there but maybe Dave’s wombat came and ate them. They are 4/4ish. On the West Coast we don’t usually measure softwood in quarters. We can get away with taking a little out for saw kerf.

[@clayoreilly4553]

That is some beautiful lumber. I prefer 2" thick boards, but perhaps you can make more cutting the 1xs in the long run. Anyway, good job!

[@WilsonForestLands]

I prefer 2 inch boards too. But as far as selling them, I find more demand for 1 inch.

[@leroyscott5917]

I'm always interested in learning about lumber. Show us your sugar pine

[@mcpiddler1135]

I may be kinda weird, but I just like to hear you talk! You seem to have a lot of common sense also.

[@charliesaul729]

Amazing boards... and such a nice job stacking... I wonder if the finished quality would benefit if you rolled some paint over the end grains?

[@WilsonForestLands]

It would probably benefit. I have never done it because most of the time I sell lumber before it has a chance to dry. The lumber I have cut from the rest of this tree over the last year has been very stable. It doesn’t crack much at all. I also cut it a little long so the ends can be trimmed off.

[@charliesaul729]

@@WilsonForestLands Thank you for all you do. Your videos are both an education and a hoot!

[@OriginalTailhunter]

Sure. Lets take a tour. Great looking lumber. Wish we had some nicer trees in our area.

[@WilsonForestLands]

The votes have been overwhelming for the tour so it looks like it will happen.

[@allenvinson]

Beautiful grain

[@bcnewfie494]

Nice boards, sure sugar pine video coming up !

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks, your vote has been counted

[@edmcnett4083]

I vote for the sugar pine tour!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Your vote is counted.

[@grizz2702]

As a kid we used to look for the sugar pine to collect to chew like gum ...it was pleasantly sweet ...yup I like the looks of sugar pine better as well...cheers

[@WilsonForestLands]

We used to do that with Ponderosa. My mom told us about it when we were kids. It was the hard glassy globs of pitch. It had a nice flavor. My dad told us sugar pine was a laxative so we didn’t try that. Apparently it is but now I know you need a lot more of it than that to have those effects.

[@glenn9989]

Love to see one of them sugar pine cones

[@patdriver5696]

Yes. I'd love to see your Sugar Pines. You probably dont have big ones there...I already told you I did a dbh measurement of over 18 ft on a sugar pine in Sierra Co @ Brandy City (USFS Land now). I bet that tree is 500 years old. My mother was born in Brandy City in 1916. The area was a hydraulic mining town. I measured that tree and others in1998/99 for my forestry class...

[@chrismarnell393]

Looking great !! And yes to the sugar pine tour but make sure we get to see some of those humongous cones !!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks and I will be sure and look for some of the cones to show.

[@brucehoffman482]

Would love to see you tour a sugar pine forest

[@johnflaim9573]

Yes I would like to see some sugar pine trees

[@TimberLineNorth]

Great video.

[@junehuffman5750]

I’m in Indiana I would love to see them.

[@maxswenson6605]

I was in the lumber business for most of my career. We used to say that if bank robbers were smart they’d be stealing truck loads of clear sugar pine (or clear cedar) instead. However, bank robbers are not smart.

[@PineInTheAshMilling]

I would like to see a tour.

[@WilsonForestLands]

Your vote has been counted.

[@edwardenglish6919]

Wow, just Wow!

[@gboz4245]

Nice Blue stain !

[@WilsonForestLands]

That it is. Thanks for the comment.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

Dude, those are some amazing looking stuff, only on a Woodmizer! Is that stuff started to turn or is that the norm? Don't get those logs around here lol. My editing chief went down to Arizona for spring break my analytics are going down lol I have been filming some milling on the Lt 50 wide, happy Easter and enjoy your weekend buddy 👍🧡🌲🌲🌲🌲

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thank you Craig and happy couple days after Easter. that log had been sitting around for about a year. The color is from blue stain and it has some bug holes in it.

[@discoverykai1547]

Very nice 😘😘😘

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks!

[@davidnapier1783]

I would love to see your Suger pine trees

[@washingtonwoodsplitter599]

How long does it take for the log to turn blue?

[@WilsonForestLands]

When the bark beetles attack the tree they introduce the spores for the fungus that turns it blue. By the time the tree is dead it can be already starting to turn blue. This one died summer before last.

[@jimdandy9671]

Sugar Pine, Yes!

[@WilsonForestLands]

Thanks, your vote for sugar pine has been counted.

[@10acresadream83]

From the East coast, show us the Sugar Pine!

[@WilsonForestLands]

The votes are unanimous for the sugar pine so looks like the tour will be happening.

[@michaelrogers9809]

SUgar pine tour please!

[@southernadirondackoutdoors]

Yes on the sugar pine tree in the wild. The clear heartwood would be my choice. I'll leave the cheesiest judgement to others. 🤣

[@WilsonForestLands]

Actually it’s probably not nearly the cheesiest thing I have ever said. My cheesy runs deep. I will put your vote in for the sugar pine in the wild.

[@HardRockVermont]

Bring on the sugar! Wait, I'm diabetic...lol

[@dgoodman1484]

Been within a stone’s throw of unhappy Grizzlies, hundreds of black bears, arms reach of bull moose and elk, rattle snakes, trapped in the middle of nowhere lightning all around being pummeled be thumb sized hail, 200 ft up in a tree and a thousand other unhealthy things, but the most scared I’ve ever been is hiking through a sugar pine forest when the squirrels are dropping green cones from a 100 ft height! lol 😁👍🏼

[@dallasfinch1100]

Show us the Sugar Pines!!’

[@Dustin_the_wind]

Some of that grain was hot enough to get loverboy all hot and bothered, and write a song about it. I'll throw my hat in the ring for that, im going to write a hot to trot piece about some suggestive sugarpine and alder grain; I hope some fellas don't get the wrong idea. I'll have to tread carefully, to avoid any unwanted association.

[@waltdelbo6445]

Shes a Beaut Clarke

[@waltdelbo6445]

Yes. Tour of many tree varieties would be swell! That view you have behind the mill is beautiful. Facing which direction?

[@WilsonForestLands]

A few others suggested a tour including other trees as well. When looking at the view we are facing south and slightly west.

[@thekiltedsawyer]

& heck yeah on the sugar pine tour, Thomas O'Briant at TC sawmills may be coming out west with his family, we should all meet up, I'll send you my address 😂 your a great guy - would love to collaborate. Send me a pm

[@WilsonForestLands]

I am not even sure how to do p.m. my email address is in my about page.

[@gboz4245]

Nice Blue stain !