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- Harvesting and Sawing Lumber on a Small Scale Sawmill with Greg Pennington
One of the major motivating factors in moving to Tennessee was the "built in" community I already had here. One of the main pillars of that community is my good friend Greg Pennington. A few weeks ago, Greg and I were able to take part in an urban lumber salvage project for some truly massive oak trees where the city was clearing for a waterway. We cut the trees to length with chainsaws then brought the trees back to Greg's to saw them into lumber on his Timber King lumber mill for future use. Greg showed me his lumber storage and how to stack and sticker wood to dry it. Take a tour of Greg Pennington's windsor chair shop, tour his sawmill tour and check out his lumber storage as we share some plans and project ideas for the future. If you're interested in learning where your lumber comes from, how to turn logs into lumber, how to mill your own wood, how lumber is dried, and what the heck we are gonna do with all this wood, this is a great place to start.
Video by Justin Wylie www.jtwylie.com
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We had a vacation cabin near Lake Arrowhead for years. It was on Burnt Mill road. It was built in the 1920s. Evidently it was built by someone that worked at the mill, before it burned! The cabin was made from the first cut of the tree (with the bark still on). The timbers stood vertical with the barkside out. The flat side was the inside of the cabin and was finished with ceder shingles.
Thanks for the memories!
Hey Anne, great videos & amazing work! You're probably gonna luv living in TN but these people are wonderfully different & much kinder than us outsiders (although you clearly have a very kind heart). I've been in the south since '83 (I'm a northern boy) & I see a lot of differences among these selfless people. These people are easy to love & they are truly very accepting & super helpful. If I may, I noticed at the end of the video Greg said something like we're gonna like having you around here & you softly replied, we'll see about that. These people want to accept you, believe in you & like you just as you are. You don't have to prove yourself, be everyones buddy or question their motives, intents or words. As a 55 year old, I've lived all over the world, born & raised in MA but wouldn't trade TN or her people for the world. Learn to accept them for who they are & enjoy your new life! Worst case scenario, if you decide TN isn't for you, you can always pack up the truck & go elsewhere. But I hope you learn to love & listen to these hospitable & kindhearted people because they are the salt of the earth & very earthy... Enjoy your new life & thanks for listening to my banter. Hope you have 5 minutes to check out my latest house remodel & 1st house flip. Thanks for your amazingly exceptional videos! You're awesome!!!
Does anyone else think that hanging out with Greg and Anne in his woodshed, smelling the drying wood and listening to the rain fall on the tin roof is about as close to heaven as you could get here on this earth?
Yes , as long as there is a Cat or 2 & maybe a nice Dog there also ;-)
Ha! I always tell Greg he's built heaven on earth over there.
Steve Mahr Yes!!!
You are living the dream like no one else!!!
It's all about finding the right friends and investing in those relationships :)
Oh thank you so much for sharing this! My daddy was a master woodworker and he is no longer here with us. One of the things I miss the most is the precious smell of sawdust in his shop😢. Running my hands through that sawdust and feeling the different types of wood. Hearing him explain with pride all the characteristics of that beautiful lumber. Oh and the tools from a lifetime of creating. Your video brought a tear and a smile. Thank you so much and God bless y’all❤️❤️
What wonderful memories! When my grandfather passed, even though I was only 11 or 12 at the time, I somehow had the foresight to take a vile of wood shavings from his shop. Even now, 20 years later, the vile still smells faintly like his shop when I open it.
Anne of All Trades what a cherished treasure! ❤️
What a nice video. Thank you.
Glad to see being cleared by the city finding a good home.
I grew up in a home where we would get together and make 109 lbs of sausage, year supply pesto, etc. I prefer that kind if gathering like you where you work and chat. My father in law it ends up being the grape harvest to make wine. Good stuff.
That's the best kind of gathering in my book! Especially when it ends in a delicious meal :)
At least this timber doesn't end up in land fill like so much does. Such a great video. Thanks for sharing.
So glad you enjoyed it!
I loved watching the mill. Really cool!
Greg is my faaaav!
He’s the bestest
Got it on video! The heiress to Greg’s wood fortune.
moohahaha
Greg has quite a nice setup there and you are fortunate to be able to hang out with him. Learning from each other, like they did long ago.
The best way. Thank you.
Couldn't agree more!
I love your spirit Anne and Greg’s as well- stay safe and hope your new journey in TN is going very well!
Thank you! We've weathered some interesting things since being here, the tornado, now the virus, but we are so very thankful to be here nonetheless.
Your content is so pure and wholesome. Your persona earned a sub and bell notification... been bingeing on your videos.
Wow, thank you!
You're welcome.
thank you Anne
U may bring ALL tha extra boards down here
thank you very much
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He seems like a great person. Good to have friends like that. Thanks for sharing.
Greg is one of the best humans I’ve had the privilege of meeting on this planet. I feel very fortunate our paths crossed.
He is right it is fun taking a log and turning it into lumber. Every log has a surprise inside. I have been cutting my own wood for eight years it is very satisfying. Now with time off I will use the lumber in the barn to make some furniture.
I love using wood I've sawn. When we moved I left Darryl with an enormous stash of wood I'd sawn with wood misers over the years. It was always so rewarding to pull a slab off the pile and remember the day it was cut.
I really enjoy seeing such great wood being processed to make great things. Can't wait to see more. Peace Be With You ☮️
Stick around long enough and you'll see exactly what it gets turned into!
Awesome stuff Anne, thanks for sharing! 😃👍🏻👊🏻
Thanks Fred!
I love the smell of lumber. Watching your video I really feel it.
It's so good!
Cheers Anne👍
cheers!
That is so neat, being able to produce boards for yourself.
I wish I either had room for a saw mill. Of know someone who had one..
Blessings to you and your family
I love seeing all the different "trades" that you find yourself exploring. I hope you have settled in to the new place just fine. Keep up the good work!
Haha woodwork was the OG trade, I'm excited to get my new shop built so I can get back to regular furniture production. Settling in at the new place is going really well though, and aside from being impatient to get things set up to the level I had them in Seattle (which took five years), I'm so so so thankful to be here.
Glad to see you're getting settled in. Cant wait for you to start gardening.
Oh heck yeah! It’s coming very very soon ;)
It's interesting to learn about how our materials are sourced and prepared before they end up in our shops. Thanks for sharing!
So glad you enjoyed it!
Thank you both for sharing.
Thanks for watching!
One question that I have for all the amazing woodworkers on youtube.
Do you plant a tree back ?
Considering your lives revolve around deforestation, how do you contribute or do you contribute to restoring the environment that you utilise ?
It should be noted that Greg, like most other sawyers I’ve met, is using trees that are either cut for proper forest management or come down naturally in storms. So wood that we are using has nothing whatsoever to do with deforestation. Proper forest management is crucial, however. I have planted a whoooooooole lot more trees than wood I could ever use in many lifetimes, and will continue to do so. I’d like my grandkids to be able to do woodwork as well.
@@AnneofAllTrades Glad to know that you and Greg are taking care of the environment alongside pursuing what you like. I hope other sawyers and woodworkers do the same.
One request would be if you could highlight this more across the content that you make.
This way, viewers who are getting inspired by you to take up woodworking, also get inspired to take care of the environment along side it.
Nice video Anne! Thanks for sharing it with us!💖👌👍😎JP
WOW! That must have been amazing to watch the logs go through a mill. I do think that you should open a 'school', now the decision would it be chairs or something else? Amazing to watch this video, thanks for sharing!
This is so awesome! I love Greg’s operation - seems pretty simple!
He’s definitely got a good thing going!
👍👍😊good stuff
"always welcome here".. "we'll see about that"... hahaha
Nice great content .
Gregg has more timber as his stickers than is in my entire stash.
Hahahaha isn’t that the truth!
Sympa la video bravo et à bientôt salut Jeannot 🛠😉
You two look fun and interesting to work together and the nature is so beautiful so your video gives peace of mind and healing.
Happy to share a bit of joy in this trying time! Keep your chin up!
@@AnneofAllTrades 👍👍
Should try to use the root ball !!!!!!!!!
great video as usual anne you are a badass love your content and authenticity
Thanks so much! So glad you liked it
@@AnneofAllTrades no problem, can you make a pair of nunchucks? it would be very different and cool , thanks and stay safe
i had a guy come last fall and mill up some really big white pines (2 @ 36" plus diameter) and 8 or so small red and white pines. It was awesome to see it turned into something useful. Some will be board and batten on my chicken coop and cabin.
That's awesome!
Ugh. So much fun. I’m in the wrong business.
I hope this is done in a sustainable manner, seeing its only one person doing the work it seems sustainble
The English Pennliner is inspired, thank you!
So glad to hear it!
Yea! Your theme song is back!!
About to dig into the dry oak pile today!
Heck yeah!!
Thanks for sharing
You bet!
Have you thought about perhaps building a solar kiln to dry some wood more quickly to reduce your delayed gratification? It’s not nearly as fast as high-pressure kiln drying but also far less difficult to make happen on a small scale with little investment.
Totally, a kiln of some kind will likely be included in the shop build.
Was sitting down with the morning tea about to watch Al Lumnah, your video popped up first. That's not delayed gratification, that's I'll get to that when my grandson is ready to make something ;)
Love that! :)
Great video Anna
Thank you!
What an absolutely amazing set up, and how's that stash of wood! 👌🏽
Cheers for sharing, Anne. 👍🏽
Thanks Bill!
Kia ora (hello) Anne of all trades
YESSSSSS you have brought back your singing intro... wohoo :-)
Another great video and do keep safe from the virus.... remember 2 metre distance between others :-)
Love your mahi (work) :-)
Thanks Andrea! We have been in isolation for a few weeks now, this video was shot long before all this started. Do stay safe out there!
So cool you are in TN now. What part of the state are you in. My wife and I live in Jacksboro. Neither one of us are from here originally. I am from St Louis and my wife is from Indiana. We love doing things together. She helps me do just about everything. Love you channel and all of your adventures you share.
Thanks so much for the support! TN is a wonderful place.
Other than the intro, there were insufficient animals in this otherwise pleasant video. The sea otter pose at 5:29 doesn't count. Almost a year later and the Dayton region is still cutting trees from our tornados. Great to use them for something other than burning.
Lots of wonderful folks in your neck of the woods.
Hahaha I need to get Howdy and Bella a trailer to take to Greg's when I visit :)
Anne , your friends Timber King mill looks like a really solid ! piece of equipment , might be the first one I've seen ? I always enjoy watching a
big Ol tree get turned into usable lumber .
It's a pretty cool piece of kit, but he's told me a few times he misses his wood miser. If I ever end up getting one of my own, I'm pretty certain I'll go with a wood miser.
@@AnneofAllTrades They do seem to be popular at the moment ? and may be much less costly ? I did bounce over to the timberking website just to look and your friends mill is in the starting range of 42K !! US funds . if you're curious check out -- outdoors with the Morgans -- Mike & Melissa got a Woodmizer LX ? 150 a couple of months back and he really likes it , good capacity etc and he's done a couple of videos of review and work with it , so you can get some ideas and info on it , I think his is the more basic version ? and there is a " Mercedes " version but obviously with a higher price tag . Stay safe all of you ;-)
Like it! Especially the music that Adam (@Abom79) uses with his outtro :-)
Thank you! Haha that's funny he has good taste :)
@@AnneofAllTrades Collaboration! Anne and Abom!
Thank you Anne. I love what you share because the things you do were my dream since my teen years, but my progressive mental illness made it not work. It didn't happen. Nonetheless, I experience such joy seeing you do it, seeing your hard work, seeing the communities you form. It's really important to me to still care about the things I've always cared about and if I can not manage to do them myself, see you doing it. Thank you very much. I think I managed to DM you about the channel "My Self Reliance" and how they just carved a big spoon in the woods when they needed one while sugaring. Did that get to you? Did you see it? He reminds me of you in that when something needs doing he just does it without concern for whether he previously knew how.
Thank you Patrick, I'm so happy to hear that even facing hardship at least I can share a smile or a pleasant memory of a dream. Shawn and I chat from time to time, he's a great guy and I hope to make it up to Canada to see his spot with my own two eyes someday!
@@AnneofAllTrades that's amazing! Two of my favorites humans know each other:)
That was funny video Ann , too bad you have to wait about 3 years for the wood to dry . How about buliding or turning a barn into a giant heater room to speed up the process to dry the wood using natural gas or propane depending which is cheaper to use.
Patience is a virtue my friend! Thankfully we've got plenty of dry wood to use till then.
i feel i need a saw mill now ,got no wood to mill ,but still :-) ,nice video
You and me both!
Good stuff Anne 👍 so is Greg close to you and how did you meet him?
We’ve known each other for several years! Check out some of my older chairmaking videos ;)
That's awesome. Not sure how 'small scale' a TK2000 is. haha Very curious if Greg kiln dries the wood?
Haha that’s probably true. He doesn’t, it’s all air dried.
Bet it smelled great that day of cutting and drying in barn Ann...???
When are you going to build a kiln to reduce the gratification?
To reduce the gratification? I’m not sure what you mean by that. But I’ve got plans to build a kiln this winter
Great video Annie, amish ewe! When you coming back and visiting?
I miss you too Stewie! Well I was supposed to come last week but we've been on lockdown here for over two weeks already and alas, we are probably grounded for a while yet to help flatten the curve. Give your kiddos a hug from me!
Anne's next video= just bought a sawmill, haha
haha I wish, I've got to build a shop and set up the farm, will be a while before I have spare cash ;)
How long can the trees lay on the ground? Assuming they're oak, not a soft wood. We cut some in December for an electric line and just left them laying for now.
depends on the species and your climate really
@@AnneofAllTrades ok, we're in Cookeville, not far from Nashville
Anne build you a solar kiln. Check out of the woods channel i think he is in Tennessee he built one to dry his live edge slabs.
I would like to get a vacuum kiln eventually, but there are a lot of merits when it comes to being patient and letting wood air dry. Air dried walnut, in particular, is pretty wonderful to work with handtools and it retains a lot more of it's natural color.
Constantly wondering whether I forgot to close an Abom79 video tab somewhere...
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How do you meet all these wonderful people?!
My mom always told me "Be the friend you want to have."
I love that!
Dunno why but I love the music in the first half. Anyone know what it is?
The song is called plastic or paper and is available on youtube creator studio for creators to use in their videos ;)
Why didn't we get to see the baby goats ?
Hahaha we filmed this in January. There are more baby videos coming soon!
Anne greatest woodworking among women world
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Fun I'm sure, but do you re-plant.
I am always planting trees, far more than I'm using, because I'd like there to be wood for my grandkids too ;)
@@AnneofAllTrades 👍🏻
Does he have any burls for sale? Plus if you send me a couple small dry pieces Ill make a couple pens for you guys.
Greg doesn't deal with many burls, we are always looking for the straightest grained trees possible for chair making.
Who doesn't like a little sas... afras
Just so you know you don't have to let fresh sawed wood sit and dry that long. My neighbor and I have built alot of wood footlocker trunks out of ceder and pine that was fresh cut and sawed. Just wanted to say!
For furniture, you definitely do ;) for outside, and rougher projects, it’s much less dangerous to risk it and use freshly cut wood. Heck, most of the big box store 2x4’s are barely dry at this point.
@@AnneofAllTrades The crazy thing all lumber sold in big box store are kiln-dried to 4% moister but treated wood after drying is put into vacuum chambers to soak up the weather treatment solution. I get what your saying I do.
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Three years! Well, I won't be seeing those chairs.
You know, in retrospect, I hesitate to criticize anyone's postings, seeing that we are all dealing with this new thing. Sorry.
I’d say it’s a very reasonable thing to be concerned about. This video was filmed in January. It take a very long time to film, edit, and produce these videos, and we thankfully had quite a backlog before this all started. We have been in total isolation for two weeks now. Social distancing is extremely important, and is the least selfish thing any of us can do right now.
Thank you. I am doing the same.
So, since it's March 28, do you think you should be exhibiting social distancing, even if you don't yet need it? Just stand apart.
This video was filmed in January. It takes a very long time to film, edit, and produce these videos, and we thankfully had quite a backlog before this all started. We have been in total isolation for two weeks now. Social distancing is extremely important, and is the least selfish thing any of us can do right now.