Hey there is the Kid!!! Obviously Dad has taught him how to work!!! Hey Kid! Good Job helping Dad! Have you been making Hay this year too with Grandpa?
Looking forward to seeing you build the solar kiln. Have always wanted to but never got around to doing it. The “boy” is certainly sprouting up. Like father like son. Thanks Jim
I bought a General moisture meter, I never had one and it is amazing the extreme variation there is in air dried wood I have always used. I hope you can get enough stuff done by winter.
I want to cut walnut and oak slabs but don't know where or how to market them. Also how to price them. Do they have to kiln dried or will some people buy them as air dried for a lesser price? Do you have any advice to pass on?
the lumber buyers will bid on a standing black walnut tree if its suitable for panling knot free firstt 8 ft they put that big trunk on a machine at the lumber yard and unroll it lke a window shade to make black walnut panling you county agent usually can tell you the buyers
we live in an 90 yr old Juglans Hindsii (Northern Calif Black Walnut) orchard/ Real "Claro" walnut. So I bought a 22" woodmill. I have milled 4 trees and have around 2000 bdft. I show the wood on my channel. Soon I'm milling up a 21"dia , 12ft long tree. Milled 200bdft of limbs, it's dark chocalatey color. Orther tree is orangey an other is cappacino, browns, reds. Another has olive greens and browns.... it's all forsale if the reader wants some. Sutter Creek Ca.
Jim I was just thinking about it before you said it. You young man is getting big. I was thinking back to last time he was really in the video out working with the cattle. That is a very nice pile of wood your resting on. One way to get a bit more hear. some black poly pipe laid out on some black painted wood and a small pump to move water and let the sun heat it up and blow air through a small radiator into the kiln. Just use a thermostat ytoo turn the pump off when the water has cooler down in the evening. That should add some heat to what ever you get from the building/
So, just under $20/Bft. That's a respectable price range. Glad to see the final value was highly worth the risks you took. I'd love to see a solar kiln built. Can't wait. Oh, Morning Jim and "The Boy".
Nice to see you and your lad working together Jim. Some great looking wood you have there. Will you forge your own metal legs for the tables or will you make them out of wood? Looking forward to seeing what you make out of them. All the best Jim. Graham 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I need help! my sister has property in the sierra Nevada’s her and her husband have a lot of Claro walnut and some redwood. They have it milled into slabs 3 inches thick 8to 9feet long a few feet wide he’ll sell it to me kiln dried both sides surfaced for $15 a board foot, I’m thinking I can get a lot more for it in the Tampa Bay Miami area? so I see $20 a foot up there in the northern country is what people are commenting on your video. Do you think around 40 a foot maybe even 50 if I were to finish some of it up really nice in my workshop Would be possible I can’t find much online about this.
Hi I have (12) 71inch base and around 70 to 100ft tall black walnut trees nice straight shooters very clean and 40 or more read oak trees twice the size I have tried finding someone that would be able to point me in the direction of someone with a mill and a little bit of money to take the trees off my hands one tree on my tree calculator of the black walnuts says 14'000 I'll take 600 to 1000 for each as long as they cut and mill it there selves any ideas on where to look for someone that might want them.
By the way I love free stuff, when I started school every garbage day I pick all the way home for lunch and my grandfathermwould always be waiting for me. Great times.
Dude where you been..... I need to know what can I do with English wallnut .. native California wallnut trees ...is that good projects wood or just for fire wood...???
So I'm sure you know already the 120° has to be maintained for 48 hrs as I understand. If you're having issues holding the heat because of sun light fading you may want to heat it overnight. I would wait until you get below 30 percent moisture for that. But that's just me. Always great videos, it will be interesting to watch your kids thoughts change about them the older they get. Enjoy it. Thanks for sharing
It has to heat through the entire mass to kill larvae and eggs. That's also the magic number for setting pitch in wood. As you can't dry it out too fast and the wood needs to rest in between drying sessions then the normal sunlight hours hopefully will work just fine until the last phase of drying.
@@TheTradesmanChannel yes I agree. I'm sure you're a good study on it. Lotta guys don't realize the length of time and total penetration of the heat is critical. 1 cool spell in the middle can leave live bugs even though it gets down in moisture. 1 or 2 nights with a salmander or other heat source can make the difference sometimes. I'm curious to see how you set up the kiln. Thanks for sharing
Morning Jim and son.... great pile of top notch wood! Look up "Josaljo won" on youtube and check out his solar kiln. I've been watching him also and his kiln dries wood really fast, I think only a month.
Nice stuff, congrats! Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but it is very easy to absolutely ruin beautiful lumber in a kiln if you're not careful. There's quite an art to it and even commercial operators get it wrong now and then. Can't wait to see your kiln project, I'll be doing something similar before too long.
@@shanek6582 There's a real balance to be found between drying too slowly (risking mould development) and drying too quickly which can cause case hardening which makes it a bit of a nightmare to work with in the shop. Each species behaves a little differently, and depending on how sophisticated your kiln is, it can work differently depending on the weather etc. It's an art unto itself!
@@shanek6582 It's my understanding that it's still very possible to dry too quickly with a solar system mated with DH. The wood usually has some time to "relax" over night, but you still need to do your homework and make sure things don't happen too quickly. If you're looking to kill bugs, you don't necessarily have to kill them on your first day in the kiln. You can wait a while till the lumber is ready to take a big hit of heat.
Been busy as all get out. Started cutting some trees on the property. Was thinking on getting a longer bar on my 455 husqvarna I have a 20 inch bar. What would you recomend the biggest I can go on that 55cc ?
Hope you make a few bucks from this venture as your video shows a lot of hard work and expense involved in milling the black walnut tree.......watching
@@TheTradesmanChannel "It never ends" applies not only to RUclipsrs who produce daily/weekly videos, but ALSO to us every day "Do it yourselfers" who find less desirable projects (reseating a toilet, replacing gutters and such) one after the other.
When did you trade "The Boy" in for a bigger version? ....... He does not seem to have your gift of the gab though ;0) Your channel is looking good now. Plenty of viable branches for you to explore for quite a while yet!
You need more than 120 degrees to kill the bugs. 160 degrees will do it, but that is internal temperature. 24 hours of 160 degrees should get the internal temp high enough. There is lots of information on the web about it. I am surprised you haven't checked it out.
Dear Jim, I think you've had a result there. I suspect this is the first of many trips here ,there & everywhere. Who knows maybe some of your viewers might ask you to remove a dangerous tree or one that is either diseased or about to die. I am pleased for you. Very well done. Kind regards.
@@TheTradesmanChannel Dear Jim, Thank you very much for your courteous & hearted reply. In all likelihood it will happen again when you least expect it as is often the case. Now with that lovely material, I dare say projects are going to pile up a bit!!! At leats you're assured of video content that's for sure. All the very best, kind regards.
@@TheTradesmanChannel excellent wish I could afford a piece of it to have a stock made but the powers that be have deemed my bank account be held at zero dollars every month at this time
If you can get that great. In the real world commercial walnut business 400 bd feet of kiln dried 1common 4/4 would bring about 2.50/bd foot..8/4 would be in the 3.5-4.00 range.
@logman80 I like to let them dry first awhile. Once I list them they are gone within a few days. That's only for slabs wide enough to male tables with a live edge. What's crazy is, people will pay even more for slabs with the centers rotted out for their epoxy pours.
Couldn't read everything you wrote at the end of the video. Other video captions blocked what you wrote. No need to repeat it; just figured you would like to know.
@@TheTradesmanChannel Low and slow. Like a cruising Low-Rider car. Low temp and long time. I've even seen wood dried in a microwave, but just a minute or two at a time, or it can and will catch fire. Search RUclips for wood drying. I'm sure some videos will pop up that will really get the old noggin gears turning.
You need the good prices for that walnut because growing boys need lots of groceries and new shoes to keep up. Wont be justified calling him your non rent paying midget anymore!
@@TheTradesmanChannel where do you see these numbers? Kiln dried 8/4 fas use to go for $5.00/ft. At what your saying it is worth I can saw up veneer logs.
Jim,i been watching your vids for awhile,guess I have a couple sugestion,hope I don't piss u off,no.1 call around find out how much those guys charge for a finished walnut table,the kind that have the epoxy in all the voids no.2 do some research on legs and legs design,best way to fasten, with your backround on wooden joints,hey man u just built an entire building using only OLD SCHOOL joinery,you aint no dummy,,do some homework,cost of epoxy,how to make and design legs,how to attach legs,time u spend making(guess be like an hourly rate),then find customers,alot of people would like to have a table like that,if u need help on weekends im in ohio,let me know. U AINT NO DUMMY,WITH YOUR BACKROUND AND ABILITIES,at least think about it and do aliitle research and homework,like your vids
Looking forward to seeing more milling. Glad your son is helping you...nothing better.
He is a good kid, always good to have him along.
Hi Jim, Your son is growing like a tree! Good to see him helping out! Take care and God bless!
Like one of the other comments said, I really enjoy your choice of music. You’re one busy man. 👍👍👍
Good to see that young man helping you out. Love these milling vids! Sending good vibes from northern Kentucky.
Bullitt County KY here, howdy neighbor.
@@thomasarussellsr LOL I am also in Bullitt County KY, haha.
@@joegilbert9729 I'm half way between Shepherdsville and Lebanon Jct. , just off Belmont Rd.
Walnut & Cherry worth a lot of $$$.Jim im delighted for you i hope you make a ton of $ ,you deserve it man.
Hey there is the Kid!!!
Obviously Dad has taught him how to work!!!
Hey Kid!
Good Job helping Dad!
Have you been making Hay this year too with Grandpa?
He's a good boy
A nice chunk 'o change for your scary labor, Jim! Hope you have time to video the solar kiln build. 👍🏻
Looking forward to seeing you build the solar kiln. Have always wanted to but never got around to doing it. The “boy” is certainly sprouting up. Like father like son. Thanks Jim
Can't wait to see the solar kiln you build.
Sounds like a plan very nice and almost every peace of wood is beautiful and a surprise thank you Mr. Jim very awesome and yes hes getting big .
Hello Shawn
I bought a General moisture meter, I never had one and it is amazing the extreme variation there is in air dried wood I have always used. I hope you can get enough stuff done by winter.
Will look forward to your kiln. I need to build one also so looking for more idea's.
I want to cut walnut and oak slabs but don't know where or how to market them. Also how to price them. Do they have to kiln dried or will some people buy them as air dried for a lesser price? Do you have any advice to pass on?
the lumber buyers will bid on a standing black walnut tree if its suitable for panling knot free firstt 8 ft they put that big trunk on a machine at the lumber yard and unroll it lke a window shade to make black walnut panling you county agent usually can tell you the buyers
Awesome!
Keep up the good work looking forward to seeing your kiln 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
a standing black walnut tree 24in knot free for first 8 ft will avg $15--18- hundered they take it down
Prof I know it would make the lumber wet but could you jet wash the bad slabs to remove as many /much of the rot and bugs
Fantastic wood! Yep well worth it!
we live in an 90 yr old Juglans Hindsii (Northern Calif Black Walnut) orchard/ Real "Claro" walnut. So I bought a 22" woodmill. I have milled 4 trees and have around 2000 bdft. I show the wood on my channel. Soon I'm milling up a 21"dia , 12ft long tree. Milled 200bdft of limbs, it's dark chocalatey color. Orther tree is orangey an other is cappacino, browns, reds. Another has olive greens and browns.... it's all forsale if the reader wants some. Sutter Creek Ca.
Love that opening music choice!
Good morning.
Really nice wood💚💚
Jim I was just thinking about it before you said it. You young man is getting big. I was thinking back to last time he was really in the video out working with the cattle.
That is a very nice pile of wood your resting on.
One way to get a bit more hear. some black poly pipe laid out on some black painted wood and a small pump to move water and let the sun heat it up and blow air
through a small radiator into the kiln. Just use a thermostat ytoo turn the pump off when the water has cooler down in the evening. That should add some heat to what ever you get from the building/
Great idea, I was thinking of something similar.
@@TheTradesmanChannel I do hope you give us a tour and info on the workings.. Later you could use it as a hothouse or a sauna.
So, just under $20/Bft. That's a respectable price range. Glad to see the final value was highly worth the risks you took.
I'd love to see a solar kiln built. Can't wait.
Oh, Morning Jim and "The Boy".
Nice to see you and your lad working together Jim. Some great looking wood you have there. Will you forge your own metal legs for the tables or will you make them out of wood? Looking forward to seeing what you make out of them. All the best Jim. Graham 🇬🇧🇬🇧
I need help! my sister has property in the sierra Nevada’s her and her husband have a lot of Claro walnut and some redwood. They have it milled into slabs 3 inches thick 8to 9feet long a few feet wide he’ll sell it to me kiln dried both sides surfaced for $15 a board foot, I’m thinking I can get a lot more for it in the Tampa Bay Miami area? so I see $20 a foot up there in the northern country is what people are commenting on your video. Do you think around 40 a foot maybe even 50 if I were to finish some of it up really nice in my workshop Would be possible I can’t find much online about this.
Nice wood. Looking forward to the solo kiln.
Hello Jeff
Love the show, see ya when I'm older
Hi long time no see i see that the 100 year barn is coming along nicely i have a lot to catch up
It has been awhile, how you been?
@@TheTradesmanChannel all well on this side jim and you how is life treating you?
Hi I have (12) 71inch base and around 70 to 100ft tall black walnut trees nice straight shooters very clean and 40 or more read oak trees twice the size I have tried finding someone that would be able to point me in the direction of someone with a mill and a little bit of money to take the trees off my hands one tree on my tree calculator of the black walnuts says 14'000 I'll take 600 to 1000 for each as long as they cut and mill it there selves any ideas on where to look for someone that might want them.
All depends on where you live
@@TheTradesmanChannel in Oklahoma
By the way I love free stuff, when I started school every garbage day I pick all the way home for lunch and my grandfathermwould always be waiting for me. Great times.
Holy crap! I had no idea you were getting that kind of money for walnut...I hope you do well with it.
We will see what happens.
Dude where you been..... I need to know what can I do with English wallnut .. native California wallnut trees ...is that good projects wood or just for fire wood...???
Good project wood for sure. Just about every species is usable for something. Sometimes the oddball trees make your projects more valuable.
Awesome
That was well worth the effort
Sure was
Worth the Effort, another great channel.
So I'm sure you know already the 120° has to be maintained for 48 hrs as I understand. If you're having issues holding the heat because of sun light fading you may want to heat it overnight. I would wait until you get below 30 percent moisture for that. But that's just me. Always great videos, it will be interesting to watch your kids thoughts change about them the older they get. Enjoy it. Thanks for sharing
It has to heat through the entire mass to kill larvae and eggs. That's also the magic number for setting pitch in wood. As you can't dry it out too fast and the wood needs to rest in between drying sessions then the normal sunlight hours hopefully will work just fine until the last phase of drying.
@@TheTradesmanChannel yes I agree. I'm sure you're a good study on it. Lotta guys don't realize the length of time and total penetration of the heat is critical. 1 cool spell in the middle can leave live bugs even though it gets down in moisture. 1 or 2 nights with a salmander or other heat source can make the difference sometimes. I'm curious to see how you set up the kiln. Thanks for sharing
I have an entire shed of that stuff. I would love to sell it
@@skatevids7683 South dakota
never knew that tree was worth money like that
Mmmm beautiful walnut! Who played that song in the intro?
Morning Jim and son.... great pile of top notch wood! Look up "Josaljo won" on youtube and check out his solar kiln. I've been watching him also and his kiln dries wood really fast, I think only a month.
Nice stuff, congrats! Sorry if I'm telling you stuff you already know, but it is very easy to absolutely ruin beautiful lumber in a kiln if you're not careful. There's quite an art to it and even commercial operators get it wrong now and then. Can't wait to see your kiln project, I'll be doing something similar before too long.
Dovetail Timberworks how can you ruin it in a kiln?
@@shanek6582 There's a real balance to be found between drying too slowly (risking mould development) and drying too quickly which can cause case hardening which makes it a bit of a nightmare to work with in the shop. Each species behaves a little differently, and depending on how sophisticated your kiln is, it can work differently depending on the weather etc. It's an art unto itself!
Dovetail Timberworks, I’ve been thinking about building a solar kiln with the dehumidifier, that probably couldn’t dry too fast could it?
@@shanek6582 It's my understanding that it's still very possible to dry too quickly with a solar system mated with DH. The wood usually has some time to "relax" over night, but you still need to do your homework and make sure things don't happen too quickly. If you're looking to kill bugs, you don't necessarily have to kill them on your first day in the kiln. You can wait a while till the lumber is ready to take a big hit of heat.
Wow, that's a lot of wood.
Hey buddy
Been busy as all get out. Started cutting some trees on the property. Was thinking on getting a longer bar on my 455 husqvarna I have a 20 inch bar. What would you recomend the biggest I can go on that 55cc ?
Hope you make a few bucks from this venture as your video shows a lot of hard work and expense involved in milling the black walnut tree.......watching
I hope so.
New project, it never ends. Just when you think you're done. lol!
If it ever ended then my channel would too, that would be no good.
@@TheTradesmanChannel "It never ends" applies not only to RUclipsrs who produce daily/weekly videos, but ALSO to us every day "Do it yourselfers" who find less desirable projects (reseating a toilet, replacing gutters and such) one after the other.
pecan panling lists for $90.00 a sheet black walnut will brimg lots more not shure what cuting up for lumber effects the worth
Wide slabs 2-1/2" or thicker and 24" and wider bring upwards of $18.00 or more a board foot here.
When did you trade "The Boy" in for a bigger version? ....... He does not seem to have your gift of the gab though ;0)
Your channel is looking good now. Plenty of viable branches for you to explore for quite a while yet!
That's the beauty of being into many different things.
Nah .... You are into one thing really, Making Cool Stuff! many different types of cool stuff though ;0)
You need more than 120 degrees to kill the bugs. 160 degrees will do it, but that is internal temperature. 24 hours of 160 degrees should get the internal temp high enough. There is lots of information on the web about it. I am surprised you haven't checked it out.
I have checked it out many times. Lot of places that say 120, although 160 makes more sense.
Good luck in whatever you decide. Thanks for the response.
Thank you sir.
Dear Jim,
I think you've had a result there. I suspect this is the first of many trips here ,there & everywhere. Who knows maybe some of your viewers might ask you to remove a dangerous tree or one that is either diseased or about to die. I am pleased for you. Very well done. Kind regards.
I can only hope, you never know when an opportunity will knock on your door.
@@TheTradesmanChannel Dear Jim,
Thank you very much for your courteous & hearted reply. In all likelihood it will happen again when you least expect it as is often the case. Now with that lovely material, I dare say projects are going to pile up a bit!!! At leats you're assured of video content that's for sure. All the very best, kind regards.
Nive haul, feels good now that the work is done doesnt it.
It sure does
If you had some of that lumber that was clear of bugs and had a branch grow out of it , may have made a good gun stock
Most of it is clear of bugs, and there is some excellent gun stock material.
@@TheTradesmanChannel excellent wish I could afford a piece of it to have a stock made but the powers that be have deemed my bank account be held at zero dollars every month at this time
If you can get that great. In the real world commercial walnut business 400 bd feet of kiln dried 1common 4/4 would bring about 2.50/bd foot..8/4 would be in the 3.5-4.00 range.
It's the slab crowd on this stuff. They pay insane amounts for live edge stuff.
@@TheTradesmanChannel how fast do they move at that price? Hope you sell them all. Thanks for the reply
@logman80 I like to let them dry first awhile. Once I list them they are gone within a few days. That's only for slabs wide enough to male tables with a live edge. What's crazy is, people will pay even more for slabs with the centers rotted out for their epoxy pours.
Couldn't read everything you wrote at the end of the video. Other video captions blocked what you wrote. No need to repeat it; just figured you would like to know.
I know from my own experience that you will get much money if you sell it to a cabinet maker or someone who make tables
Wondering if I could get away with drying small pieces of blackwalnut in my oven?
Don't see why not, just have to go slow.
@@TheTradesmanChannel
Low and slow. Like a cruising Low-Rider car.
Low temp and long time. I've even seen wood dried in a microwave, but just a minute or two at a time, or it can and will catch fire. Search RUclips for wood drying. I'm sure some videos will pop up that will really get the old noggin gears turning.
9000$? money really grow on trees
$20 a board foot?
It depends on the slabs, the thicker and wider they are, the higher the price.
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You need the good prices for that walnut because growing boys need lots of groceries and new shoes to keep up. Wont be justified calling him your non rent paying midget anymore!
If I was your son I’d say hi and am I getting a thousand of those eight dad? Haha
Don't tell him that...geez.
$20.00 bdft????? As raw lumber or as a finished product?
Raw lumber. Anything over 15" wide usually goes for over $20 a board foot.
@@TheTradesmanChannel where do you see these numbers? Kiln dried 8/4 fas use to go for $5.00/ft. At what your saying it is worth I can saw up veneer logs.
Jim,i been watching your vids for awhile,guess I have a couple sugestion,hope I don't piss u off,no.1 call around find out how much those guys charge for a finished walnut table,the kind that have the epoxy in all the voids no.2 do some research on legs and legs design,best way to fasten, with your backround on wooden joints,hey man u just built an entire building using only OLD SCHOOL joinery,you aint no dummy,,do some homework,cost of epoxy,how to make and design legs,how to attach legs,time u spend making(guess be like an hourly rate),then find customers,alot of people would like to have a table like that,if u need help on weekends im in ohio,let me know. U AINT NO DUMMY,WITH YOUR BACKROUND AND ABILITIES,at least think about it and do aliitle research and homework,like your vids
I would much rather make the tables. They go for 2k up to 11k, the more epoxy the better. Legs would have to be wood, mortise and tenon.
Lmao...I call them black diamonds