A LOG THAT HAS BEEN OVERLOOKED FOR YEARS, HARVESTING AN ELEPHANT TREE ON THE SAWMILL
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2024
- In this video I start the process of quarter sawing a nice American Beech log on the sawmill.
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Looks like your long plane (joiner?) is rift sawn, not quarter sawn.
not my planes, just a photo example for people to see what tools I was referring too,
Those are from The English Woodworker. He has free videos and plans at his web site as a teaser for his premium videos. I happen to be nearing completion of his English Workbench now.
yes that is it, member here also, very good videos he makes,
@@OutoftheWoods0623 Are you really Yoda?
Try taking off your rubber boot on saw dust chute and hang a 5 gal bucket from metal chute. Them have a wheelbarrow sitting at the back. You can dump bucket every few passes and then don’t have to clean floor. It helps some. Nice video.
I'm commenting to you as part of a community outreach. We are trying to help people or family members that may be struggling with sawmill addiction,croch figure,quartersawn lumber addiction,and fascination of medulary rays,including but not limited to walnut. Lol love the rant.
When do you find time to rest? Between being a father, all the work with the sawmill and your exceptional filming and editing; there’s still just 24 hours in the day. Thank you for the videos.
" this is a community outreach program, do you know anyone with an addiction ?"
Yes me with these videos of a guy who saws wood for a living. 🇬🇧
haha good response,
Lol
the first vid I watched, I stopped about 1/4 the way through and subscribed, I knew I had found a great channel, it never gets old, to see the wonders he uncovers in a log, beside he knows what he is talking about.
Thanks buddy
@@benscoles5085 I did the same thing. This man is great at what he does.
Like your videos. You make the viewer feel like they are actually there.
one of the most underrated of the hardwoods right there. Pretty stuff!
Beautiful log and grain. Keep up the good work and unique lumber
thanks Bruce,
Your filming and editing are outstanding! Beautiful videos!
thanks, appreciate that a lot,
Oh my what pretty wood! I don’t know why I find a sawmill so relaxing….but I do. Thanks!
Glad you enjoy it!
I have never commented about content ect. of any site but, I accidentally found your site and I have to say its one I really enjoy watching. Very calming when you speak. I don't know a thing about sawing wood and do not need to learn but I thoroughly enjoy watching your channel. Thanks a bunch
I love Quarter sawn Beach! so pretty! so many posible uses!
Yes! Beech tree. I’ve never heard the term “Elephant tree” at least in south east NY. I use it for firewood. The Beeches here have been suffering from root rot. Two have come down in last 5 years and another doesn’t look good 😌
Never been there.🤔
But quarter sawn beech is nice.
Beech is mostly used for furniture here in England. They are handsome trees.
@Brad Viviviyal A waste of good wood
raymond weaver
I totally agree with you. (Undrinkable bilge!)
In the town where I grew up in South Central Kentucky, National Brush had a "brush handle" manufacturing plant. They only made wooden brush handles using BEECH exclusively. My dad was an electrical contractor and we did all of the electrical work. They made patterns for use on duplicating moulders. The moulders used high speed, high frequency motors driven by high frequency generators. All that kept us busy. Beech has very short dense grain & is super hard making it perfect for wooden brush handles. They had a on site ~10acre roofed stack yard and a dry kiln fired by scrap cuts, rejects, the dry shavings & sawdust. The factory is closed now. Brush handles are now made of PLASTIC. Over the years I witnessed ~Millions of BF of beech run through that factory. Blessed be the Beautiful Majestic BEECH. It bought a lot of groceries for our table.
Really like the way you explain what you are doing on the cuts.
I love Beech nuts. Got my initials carved in a tree 60 years ago. The tree is still there, I think. Usually, in our neck of the woods, Beech trees grow on reasonably rich soils. Lots of difficulty with rotten cores. Many Beech in our area grow as Wolf trees - alone an bushed out vs long, straight trunks. Yours is a sweet specimen. Thank you.
Thanks for watching
The red tones in beech are amazing. One of my favorites.
me too, thanks for watching,
Great channel. We used straight sawn beech for wooden drawers in our cabinet shop before 2008. It machined and finished beautifully. It was kiln dried and a cheaper b.f. cost that soft maple, our previous choice. I'd love to see how they have held up over the years, they were prettier than maple drawers; so much color and character. Thanks for the great videos. JC
I am in Northeastern Ohio & we have a lot of beech grows naturally . It gets huge ! Loggers pass it up & I never heard why . This is first I ever seen it cut . Pretty Wood . Thank You .
Thanks for sharing!
Here in Northern Germany beech is the most popular wood. The trunk is used for high quality furniture and the branches feed our stoves in winter time. And yes, we also carve love hearts in the soft bark :-)
Amazing........... That wood was showing some great grain when you scrapped the dust of of it. But when you added the water, that's when the true beauty came out. Always a surprise how beautiful the lumber comes out.
Thanks 👍
We use beech as fire wood - fantastic heat producer because it’s so dense. Not just full of water, it’s a dense wood like oak. Black bear love the beech nuts that the tree grows each year so it’s not uncommon to find years worth of bear claw marks “carved” into the bark of the tree. You’re not alone with the insurance calls lmao. Keep up the good work Nathan 💪🏼
Beech is a very hard wood...l have worked whit it in my shop making kitchen cabinets...That very shop that was struck by lighten and burned to the ground on a Sunday back in the 1970's....Thanks very much....Nice going...!
Living in Pennsylvania I have the great pleasure of visiting Cook Forest in the Allegheny Forest region. It has some of the oldest virgin growth trees in that forest. Especially hardwoods like American Beech.
_Love that smooth gray bark!_
Wood and Trees are so majestic and marvellous
agreed
It seems like anything you put on the mill turns out awesome
I love Beech. I cuts, sands, machines well. Edge grain cutting boards or workbench tops look amazing. Face grain is often pretty plain.
Beautiful wood. Thank you for showing the reward of these steps in making lumber.
"Why are you calling me on this number when my office at the Police Federation is where I take all business calls? Hello, hello? Oh, they rang off."
Oooh look at that beech. We use beech a lot in Europe, it makes great furniture. Beech shelves are the bee's knees, that wood glows when sunlight strikes it and it looks like honey, lovely stuff.
By "great furniture" you mean "cheap furniture" - beech is commonly used in the UK for school desks and other institutional furniture., otherwise I often saw it sawn and split for firewood in the UK.
LtCol Pulaski you ever see the end of WW2 Mausers with the square beech stocks. Ugly af but worth about 10 grand a piece now
Man I relate to this so much. My pap bought a LT40 in the late 90s. I grew up around the mill. Every summer. We'd go from farm and saw out a barn or to a log yard and charge them by the foot or saw it on half's. When I was 18 we sawed out the house pattern of the home I live in today. The first 16 floor joist we cut were literal 2x8s beech. I was bendin them 20 penny nails like they were made out of butter. That beech gets rock hard when it seasons out. Makes damn good safety blocks for workin on equipment. You won't see alot of big beech. Beech is notorious for rottin out holler. I've only heard it called elephant trees a couple times. I've heard people call them money trees though because the back of the leaves feel like paper money. Brings back memories. Packin them chains up the mountains. Them jar flies in the trees and it'd come a little rain and the sub come out and it'd get so hot and you'd be sweaty and sun burnt and the oil and saw dust stick to ya. Damn horse flies. Freeze jugs of water the night before and they'd thaw by noon. I still hear them cane hooks and that ol diesel turn over. Pap in that big straw hat. As hard as it was what I wouldn't give to go back to those days again. Great vid bud.
thanks buddy,
@@OutoftheWoods0623 by the way I'm not sure where you get your blades from but woodmizers blades were pretty expensive best I recall. There's a company out of Pennsylvania called timberwolf that makes pretty good quality blades. Hardwood blades have a longer life span but softwood blades are easier to resharpen. If you're into knife making your old blades make awesome fillet and skinnin knives.
Beech is one of my favorite turning woods. Have a bunch in my truck right now! Great video...
7.4K+👍's up thanks for sharing this great video with us all
Heck of s good video Nathan. There was some excellent looking timber too. Cheers, Don from South Australia.
Nate, you sure do know your wood and saw cuts. Love that drone footage of your farm, AWESOME!👍👍
Very interesting grain. I will say you have incredible patience to wait up to 2 years for the lumber to be able to be workable 👍
This video depicts a very intelligent man who combines real quantitative logic, rational thinking of science physics mathematics and engineering and the qualitative, virtual, irrational emotions of artistic functions emanating from the color and texture of the sawn wood, while his vociferous power and diction in using the spoken symbols of the chosen language dialect and chosen words are to be admired. Sir, my congratulations. The different engineering functions on that machine in how they perform to ease one's energy requirement, it has a beauty of its own.
In the UK beech was used a lot for utility furniture, like school desks etc in the 50s and later. It is very prone to shedding boughs and my father in law's car was skewered through and through by one a few years ago. There are massive specimens around where I live in SE England of 3 ft and over in diameter and very tall.
Brother, I feel your pain! I just stopped answering the phone entirely if I don't recognize the number.
I agree. There's one problem with that. My niece's phone number was spoofed. When I saw her number come up of course I answered. It was a robocall. Of course I couldn't block her number like I did the others.
You got it.
I was surprised to see a beech that size, when I first bought my property( before I had the mill ) there were some beech well over 30" but within 5 years the blight took over , now a 10" is maximum and it won't make 11" before the blight kills it. Years ago the Marlin company used beech for their rifle stocks, I think the blight is why they don't. Excellent video
This is a beautiful piece of wood... I would love a table made out that. Thanks for sharing
Thank you very much!
“I’m gonna take a hostage!” I was rolling. I’m using that one from now on.
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Video production is so well done! Love the music, details, etc. Interesting channel, keep up the excellent content!
I loved that center cut it'd make an awesome table
Looks just like English beech wood by the look of the bark, finest wood for chisel handles, screwdriver handles rulers etc. very solid wood
yes sir, good stuff,
Love the look of Beach, and yes it does look like Pine in the Grain
music in this video, and all of your videos, is fantastic...
thanks!
Looks great for making both indoor & outdoor dining tables with.
Around where I live. Which is in the upper peninsula of Michigan. I absolutely love beechwood. It’s a super hardwood and throws off a lot of heat.
We're paneling our house interior with home milled beech. We have to take out a few trees where the septic is going anyway and my wife likes the look better than the other woods we have available.
I wish I could insert a pic of a heavily spalted, yet not punky live edge beech slab. Just amazing colors. Looks like marble, and I could have sold as much as I wanted. People went crazy for it. Loved working with it also. Nothing stands out that I could think of that I would mention about how it is to work with. Sold me on beech, spalted or not. Strong, nice color and easy to work with. And yes a slow drying wood. There are beech yard trees in New England, that are ridiculously large. I got my slabs from a very generous sawmill in WV. Great video
It sure is heavy stuff Nathan, even dry it ain't light. I have over hundred molding planes and most made of beech. Good tough wood and can be very pretty as well. Thanks for showing us this elephant tree. DaveyJO in Pa.
You've got some really nice slabs sir! Kind of a cooljob! I like learning this americana about our trees! Fascinating ! Good for fine furniture and artisan homebuilders etc! Cool accent! Good splaining southernstyle!
Thanks 👍
Pretty! Reminds me a little of quarter sawn maple. It's being used for gun stocks more and more as walnut becomes scarce. I hope Wood Mizer starts making bonsai saw mills, then maybe I can afford one.
I like it very good looking log
me too, was better than expected,
Nice, straight and uniform
My Modern Carpentry book from the mid 70's says of Beech- heavy, hard, strong- used for flooring, furniture, brush handles, food containers, boxes and crates.
In Britain Beech was always the wood of choice for the seats of wooden chairs, because it is not prone to splitting. British beech has a crazy zig-zag grain.
Amazing straight grain. Here in NY State, the heavy snowfalls weight down young Beech and they don't grow straight very well.
Here, it's an excellent firewood.
Beech is a superb wood for runners in furniture.
Yes 👍👍
That quarter sawn beech also makes for excellent woodworker's benches...the stability when dry and it's density can't be surpassed.
Gorgeous!! We have beech everywhere here in DE..and where I grew up in VA.
the high moisture content makes sense , beech will check really bad as it dries. Some people will coat the ends with wax to slow it down , the checking
Good evening Nathan, when I used Baltic beech plywood for cabinets. Beech is a beautiful wood.
No, you didn't. You used Birch.
@@Elitiest_Hitman Where you ever in the millwork business!
Your channel is pretty intriguing. Im not a woodworker by any means.i was just searching wood to use for an aquarium stand and came across one of your videos. Good stuff and makes me want to get one of those machines and start milling some wood up, lol.
Quarter sawn beech is one of my favorites. Did over 3000 board feet of beech trim in a house.
When I was a youngster the old sawyers always said Beech was full of sand and would ruin your milling blades so no one around us would cut it. I strongly suspect it was due to the interlocking grain and density of the wood dulling their blades. Nice looking wood, looks like it would finish out like glass.
I dont think I could wait 18 months or longer........maybe 4-6 months.....but no choice....darn it !!!!!!! love that wood grain, beautiful
Well, at least the addiction robocall wasn't about insurance... :D
I've never heard of American Beech being referred to as 'Elephant Tree' before, but when you mentioned it I can totally see it. Seems I wasn't careful and actually learned something today!
Nathan, if you want some truly beautiful grain in a light colored wood, quarter saw some sycamore.
Old school sawyers call it ‘boxing the heart’. Smart way to produce high quality lumber.
Nice to see a Beech with its core. They are highly prone to being hollow and/or rotten in the middle. They can be mostly dead, and still somehow completely alive.
Interesting. Thnx for sharing about the grain
Perfect for dresser, bedside table, bed bench or trunk!!!!!!!
Nathan! Since I discovered your channel like a year ago, I decided to start with your oldest content and work my way up while simultaneously watching new videos aa they post. This is the first video I think I’ve heard you use light profanity!!!! Those telemarketers really got to you 😂😂😂
lol yes they do, thanks for watching my videos
Nathan, if you decide you don't want to use it for table tops, you should reach out to craftsmen who repair pianos, harpsichords, and pipe organs. Beech is one of the preferred woods for constructing the frames of these instruments and restorers are willing to pay top dollar for large straight grained (especially quarter sawn) beech lumber whether seasoned or green.
thanks, good idea,
Perfect for making cutting boards with.. Beautiful !
Beech hollows out bigly. I've got a primordial American Beech I'm my front yard, my hundred year old house was built around it but it's now topped out and most of the tree sized branches it's dropped ARE hollow. Wonderful 'sunburned caucasian' coloring. My wife has me cut branches into 18" lengths n uses them for planters. . .
I've never seen Beech milled before, really beautiful wood.
Beech is my favorite gunstock wood. Hell, it's one of my favorite woods, period.
I'd love to see an electric guitar or bass made from that beech log.
Have you ever tried sweetgum as a gunstock wood? You should! Challenging stuff really! But worth it in the end..
@@johnwalker7592 No, but I always thought it would be good, due to its interlocking grain.
@@johnwalker7592 Perhaps Gibson should make their guitar necks from sweetgum, to prevent broken headstocks.
All the beech I come across in Maine has a blight. Makes for very interesting wood, but more for turning. I use it for firewood.
Just found your channel last week. I thought you sounded like you were from my area of the world. Then I found out you live I Kingsport. My ather was raised in Ford town specifically Prophet Lane. I grew up in Grundy, VA. Now I live just south of ATL. I love seeing the beautiful wood you discover in many of those logs.
I lived in Johnson city for a year or so, taking care of an estate. Nice country.
Oh my god what a sweet saw mill!
Prefer beech here on our property (in Maine) for firewood over all others. BTU equivalent to red oak but dries much faster to burnable levels. We have a beech bark disease that winds up effecting virtually all trees. Heavy and also prone to splitting.
Beech is perfect for children's toys as it doesn't splinter.
Beech here in central Indiana growing up hollowed out by the time it was 10" in diameter. We cut some for firewood. It was a real booger to split by hand, maybe even worse than Osage Orange aka Hedge Apple. That is pretty Beech!
There used to be a company near here that used beech for things like paintbrush and dustpan brush handles. Wooden spoons and spatulas too if I remember correctly. I used to buy a truckload of slabs from them real cheep, it was nice firewood but did take forever to season.
So beautiful - that beech.
Nice stuff. Looking to purchase mill. Been learning lots from you a Mike. Thanks brother 🙏
Lovely superb Nice sawing
High Quality wood if you treat it right and have patience. A furniture company near us has around 8 hectares of natural drying area. They slab logs and stack them for 2 years, then they have a steam pressure chamber to cook it and after that all the tension in the wood is gone and it doesn't crack anymore. Only after cooking, they kiln dry and use the wood for some really expensive but incredibly beautiful furniture.
They also bend steam cooked wood to shape and make some amazing one piece curves and shapes from quite massive pieces of wood.
That is really beautiful wood. It's a shame that it is not used more frequently for something other than pulpwood!
It’s amazing what a good feeling you get when the water is pored on the final cut
Good looking wood!
In maine I have friends that use this wood (beech) as a furniture wood. It takes a wonderful patina when aged with potassium permanganate in a water solution. 1 Table spoon PP crystals to 1 Gt. warm water. apply until desired color is made.
Dang, that's one sweet mill you got there.
Beautiful wood. Beech's are some of my very favorite to climb.
I've worked a lot with quarter sawn European beach, very nice.
In Nova Scotia, beech was used for school desks. I have a round beech kitchen table that is quite old. Looks somewhat like oak.
what ever the tree is made into they are going to be ever so pretty.
Wow that’s beautiful wood
Apparently there was a time when beech was used because I have a 1940's chest of drawers that has maple and beech in it. In the thirteen years I worked as a cabinetmaker I never saw any beech. The only beech I have seen is in Opinel knives and a saw handle.