Saw Milling The Kentucky Coffee Tree with our Woodp-Mizer at Hobby Hardwood

Saw milling the The Kentucky Coffee Tree is considered an evolutionary anachronism, and dates back to the age of dinosaurs. Saw Milling The Kentucky Coffee Tree with our Woodp-Mizer at Hobby HardwoodThe trees are going extinct but we produce lumber from them. The seeds are toxic to today's modern mammals and so can only be spread by Mother Nature or man.
This is tour of Hobby Hardwood Alabama. This is where we sell our wood, and server hundreds of customers per week. We saw our wood with our Woodmizer LT-70, dry the wood and in our kilns, plane and process the lumber and then sell it in this building.
Welcome to Hobby Hardwood Alabama - a real, professional sawmill lumber production business, ranked by a national website as producing the highest quality wood in Alabama, of about 45 different species. We are not a video company, but we are a real lumber company, and want to show others some of our money making and business sawmill techniques. This video is another example of sawmilling for our business, Hobby Hardwood, Alabama. We show how we mill logs, dry them and other things on our outdoor farm. We use our amazing fleet of hardware and tools, such as our custom New Holland Tractor, Wood-Mizer LT-70 sawmill, as well as our Cantek planers, Baker edgers, and SLR machines in action, operation, milling and while sawing logs to lumber. The Woodmizer LT Super 70 sawmill is the the biggest, fasted and most automatic bandsaw mill Woodmizer makes, with joystick control and Diesel engine. Very few sawmills are this fast, including Baker, Morgan, Harbor Freight, Cooks, Northern, Timber King, Norwood, Woodland, chainsaw mill, and Hudson. It’s not an Amish Sawmill, but the fastest and most modern band mill Wood-Mizer makes, and produces the best lumber wood for wood working projects and our lumber business. We also showcase our Nyle Kilns and air drying lumber techniques. Lots of tips and tricks to make sawing and drying easier for beginners and professional woodworkers to keep our sawmill turning trees and logs into gold instead of firewood. My buddy, Nathan Elliot, of Out of the Woods Sawmill, OTW, convinced me I needed to start filming our operation, so here goes. Someday I want to have as many followers as other sawmill videos on KZbin, like Nathan and Outdoors With the Morgans. We show how to make money with your sawmill, and pass on our how-to tips and tricks for better sawmilling. Watch us use our sawmill, chainsaw mill, band saw, and bandsaw.
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Joe Maine [phone] makes my bands for me, using WM Turbo Silvertip stock, 0.055" x 1.5". He is in Georgia but can ship anywhere. The best I have used.
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[@gregm312]

very nice looking boards

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Glad you like them!

[@briandoyle4737]

I got a load of planks of this from an old ford 1930s flatbed truck which a friend imported into ireland to restore. He didn't want the boards so I got them. I plan to make some old timey banjos drom them, beautiful straight grain and very few imperfections

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

That is great! Kentucky Coffee is an amazing wood, prehistoric in nature, naturally becoming extinct because "modern" hardwoods are so aggressive. This load of Ky Coffee was going to a museum and they didn't pay their bill, and so I got a chance to write a check for them and the rest is history. Also called American Mahogany, it is found sporadically now, but it was so plentiful is was originally the state tree of Kentucky, but it has be come so relatively scare it isn't anymore. It is wonderful wood, and has a great look, great story, and you are very lucky too have it!

[@ericmatt2368]

Wow that is an awesome sawmill! I just cut down a coffee tree that got topped in high winds last July. I got two very straight 8 ft logs 28 inch largest diameter and a 4 ft knuckle piece that should have nice grain. I will be milling it in the next couple weeks ... Thanks for the video

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Nice! Good luck with the milling and thanks for watching.

[@bethelpierceton9837]

I cut a big one last year in northern Indiana and still have the stump. I hope they dry up nice

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Yeah, they dry easy and look great! Thanks for watching!

[@ThreePhase123]

I'm planning on buying a few slabs from a guy next week. I might we plant one of these trees soon. Thanks for the details about the teee, i live the way they look

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

Thats great, these are really nice looking.

[@gaylonreedy8915]

We recently visited the NC Arboretum in Asheville and saw a beautiful row of Kentucky Coffee trees shading the parking lot. Thankfully the trees were labeled.

[@alanblasczyk1779]

I am an old woodworker and I have never personally seen this wood before. Very beautiful

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

It is certainly rare and thank you for watching.

[@James.......]

Interesting, never heard of that kind of tree

[@dalanbronnenberg]

That is a kick ass mill. I love your business. Here in IN I have a very old KCT that i had sawn off my old farm. It was back up on a distant hill at the back of the property- fairly inaccessible. But i cut it and dragged it to the barn yard with an Old tricycle JD 70 farm tractor and a chain across 3 creeks (i was young and lucky i didnt kill myself it was the mid-80's). I thought i would make paneling out of it so we had it cut 5/8" thick. Some of the boards are 20' wide. Its stunning. Im just starting to make some things out of it now. It pairs beautifully with cherry. Thx.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

That is a great story, it sounds like was was fun and worth the effort. Thanks for watching.

[@sgtblt0506]

Last year I took a big catalpa to Nathan of Out Of The Woods. It was too big for the mill he had at the time. He texted me afew weeks ago saying it had developed some bad shake. Do you think it could be saved? Nathan still has it as far asI know. I'd kind of like to go get it an try to make something, naything out of it. That Kentucky Coffee is surprisingly pretty.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

I don't know until I see the log but Nathan knows his stuff (we've know each other for many years) so if he says it's shaky, then that's not a good sign. It all depends on how many growth rings are blowing apart and if there is any way to cut a board that will remain intact.

[@gottabighit1]

So possibly devote 10 of your acres … germinate enough seeds to cover the acreage. Baby them for a couple years, then transplant in your dedicated area. You wont live to see them in majestic form, but your downline will. Start something new for another generation. Heck, when the tree huggers find out what a wonderful thing you are doing, you will get much notoriety, and future business.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

That's a great idea!

[@michaelohalloran7381]

Beautiful wood and thanks for the detailed explanation. You may have explained this earlier, but I notice you leave the blade engaged for the duration of sawing the log. I am in the habit of disengaging the blade after nearly every cut and have often wondered if I’m putting undo strain/wear on various components in doing so. Is there any downside to simply “letting it run” the way you do? I have an LT-40 with a Yanmar diesel. Thanks for the great videos.

[@HobbyHardwoodAlabama]

There is no downside to leaving the mill throttled up and running when not cutting, except burning a little extra fuel. I had a Yanmar diesel on my previous LT-40 to this LT-70 and my sawing habits have stayed the same. Actually, there is much more "scuffing" and damage to the main drive belt and the band brake when constantly engaging and disengaging the band and throttle. These engines are set up to run at constant throttle at these full throttle ranges and are not near their red line, they are simply set at a reliable and safe high throttle position.

[@StumblingBearWoodcraft]

Very cool, learned something new today!

[@ironleatherwood1357]

Let's call it what God calls it, His creation. The world has been around for about 6 to 7 thousand years. Check out answers in Genesis and yes dinosaurs are in the bible, God's word. God bless you and thanks for the video, love milling.