My Grandaddy on my Dad's side was a farm hand most of his life. He hurt his back at the last farm he worked on was once owned by Walter P. Chrysler, in Culpeper, VA. Many pieces of the farmhouse they lived in was gifted to them by the owner....which was left by Chrysler. One was a solid walnut, dropleaf table. The center was 4 feet wide, and was one solid board out of a huge tree. Sadly, one end does have a two foot crack in it. The table set 12, with 2 on each end. My cousin, who now lives near Syracuse, still has it. Nobody knows where it came from. It does appear to be handmade...but, of a very high quality. It did come out of the main house on the farm. Thought you would enjoy the story.
And thats an amazing find, I'm envious! Looking forward to seeing the rest. The bottom with the rot could make an interesting organic shaped live edge coffee table if you sealed the hole with resin.
Wow, you really got a great deal on that wood! Of course you have to work hard just to get it home. Enjoy cutting this tree and all of what you will make from it. I look forward to seeing what comes out of it.
Nice job and its good to see someone who can see the potential in dead trees, I was given a fair sized red oak tree that had been bug invaded i cleaned off the dead bark then sprayed the whole thing with diluted vinegar then covered it in plastic for a while with both ends open to let the air run through,it didnt take long for them bugs left the tree,now i am looking at some good solid lumber for my furniture projects,Thanks for the video as a hobbyist in woodwork i find it all very interesting.
Oh yes. Score !! :) Now this is the type work I'd like to see documented completely, from this video through stages of milling right up to your finished sticker pile :) Thanks for sharing, Sincerely, ............
What a great find! Man, I would love some of the figured stuff to build guitars with. Black walnut is a great tonewood, and with flamey or crotch figure it really makes a beautiful guitar. I look forward to seeing you mill the lumber. Too bad you don't live closer, as that chainsaw would get you lots of great fallen tree lumber in these parts!
I cut down a similar size Walnut , it was near a farm house in East Scotland. What we didn't know was that sometime in the distant past somebody had banged in a big 6 inch nail and the tree grew over it, well I hit the nail and I was thrown on my back, no injuries , but shocked , I was 16 then. We were using almost the same big Stihl, you could here it singing from miles away. The Walnut had some nice burrs and I still have a nice bowl with a lid made from it.
Good find, good job young man. I recently built a large buffet with hutch from Oak, the handles, pulls I made from smaller pieces of Walnut inlaid with Ebony. This thing is huge and beautiful. I marvel at myself when I pass by it. SO, that being said, save the smaller Walnut for trim and such. I understand from reading that Walnut can be noxious, don't breathe the dust and wash up after handling.
It certainly would be easier....but all logs look pretty much the same being milled up. Doing it on site, while a million times slower, harder etc with a chainsaw mill offers challenges and a change of scene.......not that I wouldn't trade all that in for a pile of slabs. In this case, it's a matter of access to the yard and the equipment to move the logs where they lay.
Wow, that’s gorgeous! Slap some paint on those ends and you’ve got some unbelievable lumber. I have some cherry that the power company took down, a local guy sawed it, it’s unlike anything you would buy at a lumber yard. Local wood is really great, it’s gnarly in some places and good for firewood and other areas of the log it’s like something you’ve never seen.
I've been seeing where they fill the voids with a colored epoxy to keep the slab together and it can look pretty awesome. Maybe cut across that void and fill it with an epoxy like that for a desk/table top. I may even look for some "wormy" cypress to do that to.
I get this request sometimes when I salvage trees. Folks have no idea what goes into making furniture, nor what goes into producing useable lumber from "free" logs. There's a reason a fine 6' table sells for $6,000-$10,000. If it's done well, there's an incredible amount of money and time in making that table. I typically have $300+ in finishing materials cost alone (sanding discs, applicators, tack cloth, gloves, dye/stain, shellac, varnish, mineral spirits, rottenstone, pumice, buffing wheels/pads, polish and haze remover). Best, @HoneyOnWales
@@drewt3210 You are absolutely right. There is some cost involved to make it the finished product. But most importantly what most people do not understand, are the costs involved to remove trees such as this "free" walnut tree. You need chainsaws, chains, chainsaw oil, truck, trailer, gas, at least 1 helper, and then the time involved to remove it. Some landfills charge money to accept trees and brush. If anyone doesn't believe me, call a landscape or tree removal company. Ask them to remove it for "free". They will probably laugh in your face.
Omega One ikr people would actually ask their insurance company if its covered because paying someone to remove a tree cost a lot of money. Its a win win actually if someone wants to remove your tree for you.
Giving back something to the donors is the right thing to do, regardless of their generosity. They just gave you several thousand dollars in old growth. Be a good person and pay it forward.
I had a black walnut that fell in the woods after the bugs had had their way with it. Once I milled it, the heartwood had some bug bores through it and it actually made the wood look better to me. It broke up that super chocolatey darkness. Ever see videos of people making a stump into a coffee table or end table; looks like you have a contender for one right there.
wow, that is a lot of work, but the money that you saved compared to just buying the ruff cut slabs is worth all of the hard work, now you can get some nice thick slabs and wide slabs. Can not wait to see what you build with that Wallnut. Nice score
Had a smaller Walnut tree fall over a couple of years ago. Didn't do anything with it until just recently and was worried that mold and rot had started .... thankfully not and managed to get a few beautiful 3" thick flitches out of it. They are now stickered and drying. Will make some table tops with them in a few years
Nice work! I'm just getting into milling and have a black walnut set aside also, excited to see how the milling goes, what kind of figure the slabs have, and how you're able to get the slabs out of there.
It's like Christmas day when I get the call for a tree fallen. ESPECIALLY WHEN no money required. Get there and poke and prod to find the gift she's given under the wrapping!
Very nice! I hope you'll do a video on milling the slabs on sight too. Also look forward to seeing some project videos out of this wood.
Walnut is my favorite wood. It is really nice how you were contacted with the opportunity to harvest the wood.
Looks like it’ll turn out to be great wood. Love the potential that you see in stuff. Can’t wait to see what you build with it.
My Grandaddy on my Dad's side was a farm hand most of his life. He hurt his back at the last farm he worked on was once owned by Walter P. Chrysler, in Culpeper, VA. Many pieces of the farmhouse they lived in was gifted to them by the owner....which was left by Chrysler. One was a solid walnut, dropleaf table. The center was 4 feet wide, and was one solid board out of a huge tree. Sadly, one end does have a two foot crack in it. The table set 12, with 2 on each end. My cousin, who now lives near Syracuse, still has it. Nobody knows where it came from. It does appear to be handmade...but, of a very high quality. It did come out of the main house on the farm.
Thought you would enjoy the story.
Very cool
That is going to be some great looking lumber. I'm looking forward to seeing some of it in future projects.
Thanks for sharing
Now that is very cool! Hope to see the milling as well!
One of my favorite woods! Love the deep rich color of walnut! This is a fabulous find and even better yet, a donation! Lucky man 🍀
It is nice stuff
Really enjoyed your analysis and process for cutting and future processing of this lumber.
That's a find of a lifetime. Super nice tree glad it's gonna get used. Would love to see how you get it out of there
And thats an amazing find, I'm envious! Looking forward to seeing the rest. The bottom with the rot could make an interesting organic shaped live edge coffee table if you sealed the hole with resin.
I can’t wait to see more of your journey with this tree. Great vid.
Wow, you really got a great deal on that wood! Of course you have to work hard just to get it home. Enjoy cutting this tree and all of what you will make from it. I look forward to seeing what comes out of it.
I love this video best you've made in a very long time thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the slabbing process
That’s an awesome find! Can’t wait to see what the slabs look like.
Congratulations! Nice Find and nice neighbours. All the best for the milling
It is great that you are making good of something most just look past. Can't wait to see what you do with it.
That tree is AWESOME, so excited to see how it opens up.
NICE...very nice. That's a small fortune in American walnut, These folks must be some good friends.
Looking forward to learning some saw milling from you and watching you work. I have always enjoyed your videos.
Please post a video of the slabs. Great video thanks for the share.
Too cool! I remember getting to watch my grandpa do similar stuff when I was a child and he hauled pulpwood!
I really enjoy your videos. This tree is going to to produce so much awesome wood for you, and you are helping a neighbor out, that's a great deal.
Nice job and its good to see someone who can see the potential in dead trees, I was given a fair sized red oak tree that had been bug invaded i cleaned off the dead bark then sprayed the whole thing with diluted vinegar then covered it in plastic for a while with both ends open to let the air run through,it didnt take long for them bugs left the tree,now i am looking at some good solid lumber for my furniture projects,Thanks for the video as a hobbyist in woodwork i find it all very interesting.
Exciting! That tree mean alot of work and alot of $$$! Congrats!
Glad I found this late. Now I get to binge watch the rest of the process 😎
Nice video. Looks like it has a lot of beautiful wood in that tree. Good luck and have fun!
Windfall! Very nice. I have been given access to a cedar that came down this past weekend that I will be checking out tomorrow.
Oh yes. Score !! :) Now this is the type work I'd like to see documented completely, from this video through stages of milling right up to your finished sticker pile :)
Thanks for sharing,
Sincerely, ............
Awesome! Can’t wait to see the resulting slabs.
Wood is absolutely beautiful!!!! Almost at 100k!
What a great find, thanks for sharing.
Great fine and looks like a lot of nice usable wood. Now that is a big chainsaw :0
Looking forward to seeing how this project progresses!
Looking forward to the milling. Very cool.
I'm always happy to find fellow tree nuts.
We had a big one in the central valley. All the walnuts we could eat and still brought home paper bags filled with them to give away. Bountiful.
Another great video. Just stopping by again to watch another great video of yours and showing our support... Have a wonderful day!
Thanks
What a great find! Man, I would love some of the figured stuff to build guitars with. Black walnut is a great tonewood, and with flamey or crotch figure it really makes a beautiful guitar. I look forward to seeing you mill the lumber. Too bad you don't live closer, as that chainsaw would get you lots of great fallen tree lumber in these parts!
I cut down a similar size Walnut , it was near a farm house in East Scotland. What we didn't know was that sometime in the distant past somebody had banged in a big 6 inch nail and the tree grew over it, well I hit the nail and I was thrown on my back, no injuries , but shocked , I was 16 then. We were using almost the same big Stihl, you could here it singing from miles away. The Walnut had some nice burrs and I still have a nice bowl with a lid made from it.
Beautiful walnut. .good stuff. Nice work .
Cant wait to see you mill this up!
Good find, good job young man. I recently built a large buffet with hutch from Oak, the handles, pulls I made from smaller pieces of Walnut inlaid with Ebony. This thing is huge and beautiful. I marvel at myself when I pass by it. SO, that being said, save the smaller Walnut for trim and such. I understand from reading that Walnut can be noxious, don't breathe the dust and wash up after handling.
Thanks for sharing. I will be watching.
Lol at the prop 65-like warning. This is one of my favorite UA-cam channels.
So looking forward to the milling video!
Nice score!! And a free workout!!!
Excellent share & find!
Nice! Would be cool to see your field-milling process too!
It's nice that although the tree died it will go on in the beautiful things you make!
Everything dies, not all of it get's used like this will, It will be fun to use it one day.
I stopped questioning the UA-cam algorithm a long time ago...
Wow, nice find.
GREAT video. Please follow up this. Very keen to see the whole process.
Awesome! I would've loved to see this behemoth on Matt Cremona's band saw mill. 👍
It certainly would be easier....but all logs look pretty much the same being milled up. Doing it on site, while a million times slower, harder etc with a chainsaw mill offers challenges and a change of scene.......not that I wouldn't trade all that in for a pile of slabs. In this case, it's a matter of access to the yard and the equipment to move the logs where they lay.
pretty huge and really nice one mr.hope you made some cool stuff from it
What an excellent possibility for beautiful furniture!
You handled that root ball like a boss!
FYI: The teeth of pointed rack at the front of the saw is meant to be engaged with the log especially at the start.
That's a sweet find!
Man what I would give to have at a tree like that! Great vid
Salut!nice work!!!👍
Nice one again! :)
GOOD FOR YOU ENJOY
Wow, that’s gorgeous! Slap some paint on those ends and you’ve got some unbelievable lumber. I have some cherry that the power company took down, a local guy sawed it, it’s unlike anything you would buy at a lumber yard. Local wood is really great, it’s gnarly in some places and good for firewood and other areas of the log it’s like something you’ve never seen.
Nice, that's awesome.
Frank Howarth would be drooling over that tree. :-)
I've been seeing where they fill the voids with a colored epoxy to keep the slab together and it can look pretty awesome. Maybe cut across that void and fill it with an epoxy like that for a desk/table top. I may even look for some "wormy" cypress to do that to.
Nice people. I would have told you that you could have it but I want a 6' table out of the deal, Ha, HA!
prob take like 2-4 years to get it , has to dry
I get this request sometimes when I salvage trees. Folks have no idea what goes into making furniture, nor what goes into producing useable lumber from "free" logs. There's a reason a fine 6' table sells for $6,000-$10,000. If it's done well, there's an incredible amount of money and time in making that table. I typically have $300+ in finishing materials cost alone (sanding discs, applicators, tack cloth, gloves, dye/stain, shellac, varnish, mineral spirits, rottenstone, pumice, buffing wheels/pads, polish and haze remover). Best, @HoneyOnWales
@@drewt3210 You are absolutely right. There is some cost involved to make it the finished product. But most importantly what most people do not understand, are the costs involved to remove trees such as this "free" walnut tree. You need chainsaws, chains, chainsaw oil, truck, trailer, gas, at least 1 helper, and then the time involved to remove it. Some landfills charge money to accept trees and brush.
If anyone doesn't believe me, call a landscape or tree removal company. Ask them to remove it for "free". They will probably laugh in your face.
Omega One ikr people would actually ask their insurance company if its covered because paying someone to remove a tree cost a lot of money. Its a win win actually if someone wants to remove your tree for you.
Giving back something to the donors is the right thing to do, regardless of their generosity. They just gave you several thousand dollars in old growth. Be a good person and pay it forward.
Nice find! And nice haircut.
👍Very Nicely Done and Informative. Thank You and Gods Speed🇺🇸
Might be some spalted stuff in there, awesome score!
I just noticed. You're closing in on your 100K subscription. Awesome!
Nice video! Thanks for sharing.😎👍JP
I can't wait to see the milling video! (New subscriber here)
Just posted a video with milling if you haven't seen it yet.
Nice video can't wait to see some milled lumber . And I'm sure he makes great furniture. But he sure as shit ain't no logger
dreams and many, many beautiful things
See, I'd open up that hollow part a little and use them as nesting logs for my birds.
I didn't watched the show "24", you are my Jack Bower!! You can handle anything.
that's great .
I had a black walnut that fell in the woods after the bugs had had their way with it. Once I milled it, the heartwood had some bug bores through it and it actually made the wood look better to me. It broke up that super chocolatey darkness. Ever see videos of people making a stump into a coffee table or end table; looks like you have a contender for one right there.
I see a lot of awesome furniture in your future.
Can’t wait to see the walnut after you get it milled.
Wow good thin it didn't break anything on its way down!
Nice tree!
wow, that is a lot of work, but the money that you saved compared to just buying the ruff cut slabs is worth all of the hard work, now you can get some nice thick slabs and wide slabs. Can not wait to see what you build with that Wallnut. Nice score
Nice haul. It's not every day you come across one of those!
Now... getting it out of there! ;-)
I appreciate you PPE
please, show us the milled lumber
Had a smaller Walnut tree fall over a couple of years ago. Didn't do anything with it until just recently and was worried that mold and rot had started .... thankfully not and managed to get a few beautiful 3" thick flitches out of it. They are now stickered and drying. Will make some table tops with them in a few years
Great job
nice salvage on the log.
Nice work! I'm just getting into milling and have a black walnut set aside also, excited to see how the milling goes, what kind of figure the slabs have, and how you're able to get the slabs out of there.
Wow! Can't wait to watch you mill this son of a gun!
I love a person who has a craft. Such a gift.
The UA-cam algorithm made me see it. I love it
hemant kumar, me too. But interesting and enjoyable
It's like Christmas day when I get the call for a tree fallen. ESPECIALLY WHEN no money required. Get there and poke and prod to find the gift she's given under the wrapping!
Cool vid, you've earned a subscriber.
Score! And a friend to help you get it to where you can mill it? Lovely.
I'm going to mill it right where it lays.
Still....if you end up with a 380-pound piece, it will be nice to have a friend..😂
That was some tree !
I hope you show the process of milling it further.