Once in a lifetime opportunity to saw these chestnut logs It’s great your getting video of it so everyone can see it. Because most will never know what it is 👍🌲
Mark.. you had mentioned that some are in a hurry.. what I love about watching you is that you are not.. you take time to tell us what you are doing.. make adjustments accordingly... That is why do many of us enjoy your channel I've said this before.. you are a true artist and entertaining.. thanks.. love you guys
I found an American Chestnut tree living on my farm last spring. Sent in leaf and twig samples and had it tested at the American Chestnut foundation. It was like finding a dinosaur. Enjoyed the video.
I saw a UA-cam video of a saw that has two horizontal blades and two vertical blades. It was so cool because this set up done the edging as it was cutting the thickness. I am glad that you had the chance to process this tree. Looks real nice. Good to see that you got as wet as the wood was.
Mark. That's pretty cool of you to say that you'd like to build something for Pete out of that chestnut! You're definitely an upstanding person! One of the main reasons why I love your channel. You and Eddie are very cool people, and you're very knowledgeable! I have much respect for the entire logging industry!!
As an old school radio DJ I remember listening for "we now pause for station identification" during baseball games we covered! Usually a five second pause by the announcers calling the baseball game! Good memories!! I love watching you guys! Just wish I could smell the aromas coming off the wood sawing!
Thanks for taking us along, Mark. That’s some beautiful wood you got to cut, quite a privilege. My dad is a carpenter/cabinet maker that does custom work. He built a kitchen out of “wormy chestnut” that was absolutely gorgeous. He let me help out around the shop, but I wasn’t allowed to handle that wood 😂
Chestnut is such a beautiful wood. Our house has the original Chestnut trim and mill work on the first floor. So great that it had never been painted. Only finished with shellac and varnish. I was able to recover a whole houseful of trim that was being removed from a home in our area, and cleaned it all. Then I made a couple hope chests for my nieces with it. What a joy to use and work with. It could easily be mistaken for oak, other than its light weight. Nice job of cutting those logs.
Mr. Galicic. Thanks for the videos. There is one thing that you could do for your audience.This video offers "American Chestnut" and that would can be particularly beautiful. I certainly would like to see the grain of that American Chestnut. Please, when you mention how good, pretty, or wonderful a particular board is, take a close-up video of it or take a photo with your phone and post it at the end of your video so we can see for our selves what you are describing. Thanks for your talk when the mill is running; we like to know the what and why of milling.
Could you show us what you make out of the American chestnut? Please , and can you show us some items that you've made out of wood that you have sawn up
Very beautiful wood. So much potential. My Grandfathers barn had Chestnut beams, flooring and was built in the late 1800's, It was all pinned with pegs. Sadly the people who bought it back in the early 90's didn't take care of it and it is rotting away. Thank you for sharing and doing the right thing with this very rare wood.
I'm glad I watched the explaination. I was about to give you a hard time on the Chectnut. Good news...they're actually finding and breeding natural blight resistant American Chestnut. Let's keep our fingers crossed. In the mean time, cut away Mark.
I have five of them up at the cottage, but I’m not to impressed with them. Planted them in 2013/14 and still no nuts for the deer. They are never going to become lumber, too bushy.
There are plantations of them and they keep cross breading to try and get blight resistant they kill off the ones that get blight so they cannot cross bread
That is my first time seeing chestnut milled and it certainly is a beautiful would kinda like black oak but not quite and thank you, Ed and Pete for giving some of us American Chestnut virgins our first look it is beautiful!
Seems like the medium to smaller logs give the best quality wood. Whereas the big logs often have rot or cracking. Awesome video thanks for the once-in-a-lifetime chestnut logs.😊😊
We inherited a house in Eastern Ontario which is 2 stories of brick over chestnut sheeting and framing, with chestnut trim from soffits right down the the stair frames and treads. I tore down a granary on the farm and recovered a quantity of 14" clear chestnut boards which had been bevelled by the carpenter to hold oats. These became baseboards for the lower floor of the renovated stone house. The stuff looks like ash, cuts like cedar, planes and sands very well, and in the words of one old timer, lasts a year longer than rock. It's interesting wood and very weather resistant.
I remember old guys in the 60s selling chestnuts in the fall from crappy hand carts with pans covered in aluminum foil. They cooked them while walking. The smell was amazing. Every once in a while my parents would buy some as a treat. The wood looks amazing. I've never seen any raw wood cut.
new subscriber here, from Newfoundland, Canada. Love the videos. Them bus motors were MADEEEEEEEEE for a log mill. Great set up, perfect log sawing and AWEESOME content
Hi Mark , Happy New Year to you and your team who crack me up with their stories and dedication to your company. Im Phil and live in the UK im in the construction industry mainly first fix i,e studwork and cut roofing . any chance i get i watch your videos which i find very interesting , so from a 76 year old still working site chippie i wish you all the best for the future .PHIL
It's nice to see what American chestnut looks like. I had read about it and saw pictures of it. Nice timber for cabinetry. Have a good new year from a cold Glasgow, Scotland. 😊
Excellent job Gentlemen! I had been looking forward to the historic sawing of American Chestnut ever since you posted it. I wood love to have an "Ironing board' made from one of the pieces to go with my antique flat irons that would be so neat. That was a "Great Saw" now I'm off to watch THE Eddie video, Have a Happy New Year! John Toccoa GA
it was estimated that pre-blight, 1 in 4 trees in the appalachian canopy was american chestnut. My dad was born in 1930 and he could still remember the grey ghosts of the dead chestnuts still standing. supposedly they stood taller than any other tree in the canopy.
That'd be nice to have a little 1x1x5 inch piece to make a pen out of since it's obviously pretty rare! Beautiful wood. Enjoyed watching the video as always. Happy New Year!
Half past eight at night been a long day clearing up storm damage with neighbours , supper was Chinese beef curry with boiled rice while watching you guys, that chestnut would make a very nice table , any way you guys have a nice day
We used a lot of Spanish chestnut instead of oak..it's very similar except no medullary rays. It has tanin, and lasts as long as oak outside... doesn't warp at all...a much underestimated timber though no.one sells it now.. nice videos ❤
Mark, been enjoying seeing some of your older videos from 3 to 4 years ago on the shed and saw dust bin build. Do you get credit for likes and comments from that far back? Love going back and seeing how the mill has grown.
I feel for you it’s so cold in Alberta that you feel as though the cataracts ( mine were done 5 years ago ) are returning when you’re getting warm. Lol 😂
Chestnut makes beautiful cabinets and chests. It tends toward moderate expansion/contraction so it is particularly useful for units,,, chests, sideboards, furniture. Less good but still wonderful for flooring,, seasonal expansion contraction can leave gaps between floor boards. Sands, finishes, accepts shellac, varnish, lacquer gorgeously. Nice warm brown tone.
If you make something out of that would you should make a video on using it on your project wouldn't be neat to see it finished into some kind of furniture very beautiful looking wood
I’m respectful of your operation and explaining of the milling of the wood, to me it’s scary to see chippers that eat those logs into chips and I’ve watched it! Prayers and Love to Everyone! 👍👌
New subscriber from South Carolina! Just found your channel about a week ago and I've already watched all of your videos from the past year. I absolutely love your videos. Keep them coming. I know I'm a new fan but I'm already a really BIG fan!
Mark, Wish you had cut 2 slabs with one flat edge and one live edge from the last log. This would have given you 2 book matched slabs which table makes would pay A LOT for.
This was great Mark. I remember the two chestnut trees in our side yard when I was a kid. We would throw the spiky seed pods at each other and there was a pretty strong stink off those trees in the spring was they began to warm up and bloom.
I have a bunch of old chestnut lumber. Some is full of worm holes and some is not. The lumber without holes were benches from an old church in North Carolina. What a beautiful wood.
Love the videos and the flag with the red devils on green and white ? As your having bother with condensation try rubbing half a fresh cut potato on the glass ? It will help to stop the fog build-up 👍👍
I live in NW Arkansas where we had Ozark Chinqipin. As a kid I remember a few large remnant specimen. I can still remember how they taste. Point is, I inherited a 40 acre property that had a log house on it. The house was too far gone to salvage. But the floor was hand split Chinquapin which we salvaged and put in a new house as trim. It is beautiful. The cabin was built in the late 1800's but the floor was added later. Love your chestnut. I have been studying the chestnut so this vid fit right in for me. The Ozark Chinquapin is a subspecies, I think.
I made the baseboards for our stone house reno out of chestnut recovered from a barn we took down. It looks like ash, but cuts like cedar. Water based urethane works well, but oil based darkens the wood too much.
My ears can feel the odd ease your blade rips through that wide ringed species. I was gifted a standing decaying shakey english walnut buttlog 5 ft high and 4 ft at th3 base. It took me a year to decide how to start cutting it. 4 years later i still have every single offcut and even saved bark.
It is said that before the blight hit the Chestnut that it was so plentiful that a squirrel go from Maine to Georgia jumping from branch to branch of only Chestnut trees.
At one point it was, And practically over night it was gone. My Mother In-law has the Gun Cabinet that her German Immigrant Father made from Chestnut when he was a 13 yr old young man. The only thing thats not original on it today is the front glass that got broken some time in the early 80's. When he hit it with the barrel of his 218 Bee rifle, he used on the Egg Farm to keep the Raccoons, Fox And stray dogs out of the hen house. They had the largest Egg Farm in Portage Co. Ohio from the late 1940's till 1985 when he finally retired from farming. At this point I don't know whats worth more. That antique Chestnut 6 Gun Cabinet. Or the Winchester model 65 Lever Action in 218 Bee. We've dated the Gun Cabinet to 1911 or 1912. Her Father (my wife's grandfather) bought that rifle new in 1939. According to his explanation The Fox's got smart and stayed out of the effective distance of the 22 long Rifle he had. And the 218-Bee was the hottest thing going at that time. I've even got a few old boxes of Winchester 50 rounds of 218-Bee with the cost of $1.23 written in hand on them.
please go check out Pete's video when he brought us these logs , ua-cam.com/video/YLGc6G03L4I/v-deo.htmlsi=STh_OIwRCBfy-6fs
Beautiful wood
Once in a lifetime opportunity to saw these chestnut logs It’s great your getting video of it so everyone can see it. Because most will never know what it is 👍🌲
Mark.. you had mentioned that some are in a hurry.. what I love about watching you is that you are not.. you take time to tell us what you are doing.. make adjustments accordingly... That is why do many of us enjoy your channel
I've said this before.. you are a true artist and entertaining.. thanks.. love you guys
thank you Tim , great comment!
I found an American Chestnut tree living on my farm last spring. Sent in leaf and twig samples and had it tested at the American Chestnut foundation. It was like finding a dinosaur. Enjoyed the video.
I saw a UA-cam video of a saw that has two horizontal blades and two vertical blades. It was so cool because this set up done the edging as it was cutting the thickness. I am glad that you had the chance to process this tree. Looks real nice. Good to see that you got as wet as the wood was.
thanks Alan , yes a vertical edger would be nice.
Mark. That's pretty cool of you to say that you'd like to build something for Pete out of that chestnut! You're definitely an upstanding person! One of the main reasons why I love your channel. You and Eddie are very cool people, and you're very knowledgeable! I have much respect for the entire logging industry!!
That's some really beautiful wood. Truly an American treasure.
As an old school radio DJ I remember listening for "we now pause for station identification" during baseball games we covered! Usually a five second pause by the announcers calling the baseball game! Good memories!! I love watching you guys! Just wish I could smell the aromas coming off the wood sawing!
Thanks for taking us along, Mark. That’s some beautiful wood you got to cut, quite a privilege.
My dad is a carpenter/cabinet maker that does custom work. He built a kitchen out of “wormy chestnut” that was absolutely gorgeous. He let me help out around the shop, but I wasn’t allowed to handle that wood 😂
thank you for watching , I bet that kitchen looked great!
Great video, just saw something that we will not see again probably . You will make something very special out of that Mark.
thanks Murray , I hope to make a few nice things out of this.
Out of that log and the Honey Locust I’d like a wooden hammer. Really enjoy the log sawing, workshop and other stuff.
Richard Bullard
Taylors SC
What a joy to see this kind of wood getting sawn. Thanks guys.
thanks Doug , it did make some nice lumber.
Beautiful wood, that American Chestnut. Thank you to Pete, you, and Eddie for sharing!
thank you , glad you liked it.
Chestnut is such a beautiful wood. Our house has the original Chestnut trim and mill work on the first floor. So great that it had never been painted. Only finished with shellac and varnish. I was able to recover a whole houseful of trim that was being removed from a home in our area, and cleaned it all. Then I made a couple hope chests for my nieces with it. What a joy to use and work with. It could easily be mistaken for oak, other than its light weight.
Nice job of cutting those logs.
Mr. Galicic. Thanks for the videos. There is one thing that you could do for your audience.This video offers "American Chestnut" and that would can be particularly beautiful. I certainly would like to see the grain of that American Chestnut. Please, when you mention how good, pretty, or wonderful a particular board is, take a close-up video of it or take a photo with your phone and post it at the end of your video so we can see for our selves what you are describing.
Thanks for your talk when the mill is running; we like to know the what and why of milling.
Could you show us what you make out of the American chestnut? Please , and can you show us some items that you've made out of wood that you have sawn up
Back in the early 1800's this was the most sought after wood on the east coast as it was the best for barn building
Nice logs/lumber and great educational comments from Pete. Thanks for the video.
thank you.
One of your best videos.
thank you.
You guys are amazing 😊my husband got me in to watching your show with him and I love it ♥️ I'm addicted You, Eddy, and ZZ. Thank you for sharing♥️♥️
Hi Mark, what a beautiful timber. Thanks
thanks Patrick.
Great job Mark milling those rare logs! Thanks to Pete for bringing those in. Happy New Year to you Great fellows!
thanks John.
Very beautiful wood. So much potential. My Grandfathers barn had Chestnut beams, flooring and was built in the late 1800's, It was all pinned with pegs. Sadly the people who bought it back in the early 90's didn't take care of it and it is rotting away. Thank you for sharing and doing the right thing with this very rare wood.
What a wonderful video I love American chestnut thank you from granite City IL.
thanks Tim.
I'm glad I watched the explaination. I was about to give you a hard time on the Chectnut. Good news...they're actually finding and breeding natural blight resistant American Chestnut. Let's keep our fingers crossed. In the mean time, cut away Mark.
that would be great if they come back.
Wow, great video!! What would a clear 10' chestnut 1x8 be worth now days?? Glad to see you taking such good care of the beautiful little tree.
I have five of them up at the cottage, but I’m not to impressed with them. Planted them in 2013/14 and still no nuts for the deer. They are never going to become lumber, too bushy.
There are plantations of them and they keep cross breading to try and get blight resistant they kill off the ones that get blight so they cannot cross bread
I see where they have developed a treatment for this disease. I hope it works out.
Super 😎😎! History made!! Thanks!!!
glad you liked it!
That is my first time seeing chestnut milled and it certainly is a beautiful would kinda like black oak but not quite and thank you, Ed and Pete for giving some of us American Chestnut virgins our first look it is beautiful!
your welcome Joey , glad you liked it.
Seems like the medium to smaller logs give the best quality wood. Whereas the big logs often have rot or cracking. Awesome video thanks for the once-in-a-lifetime chestnut logs.😊😊
We inherited a house in Eastern Ontario which is 2 stories of brick over chestnut sheeting and framing, with chestnut trim from soffits right down the the stair frames and treads. I tore down a granary on the farm and recovered a quantity of 14" clear chestnut boards which had been bevelled by the carpenter to hold oats. These became baseboards for the lower floor of the renovated stone house. The stuff looks like ash, cuts like cedar, planes and sands very well, and in the words of one old timer, lasts a year longer than rock. It's interesting wood and very weather resistant.
thank you for the great comment , I can't wait to work with it.
One thing: oil based poly darkens the wood. Water based polys work fine. @@markgalicic7788
Thanks for sharing, nice being able to see the chestnut
your welcome .
Beautiful wood, will make some wonderful finishes product.
I will do some shop projects with it.
Beautiful clear chestnut lumber. Looks similar to pine but more distinct markings
thanks Richard , it does saw like pine.
I have three live standing chestnuts in the woods beside me. Covered in chestnut in fall!
You have some very good videos. I have my own mill here in western PA but enjoy watching you saw
I remember old guys in the 60s selling chestnuts in the fall from crappy hand carts with pans covered in aluminum foil. They cooked them while walking. The smell was amazing. Every once in a while my parents would buy some as a treat.
The wood looks amazing. I've never seen any raw wood cut.
thank you , I never had chestnuts to eat.
new subscriber here, from Newfoundland, Canada. Love the videos. Them bus motors were MADEEEEEEEEE for a log mill. Great set up, perfect log sawing and AWEESOME content
Twice as interesting to watch it here and then on Eddie’s channel. You get to see it twice from different perspectives. Thanks for the content.
thanks Gary.
That is very beautiful lumber! I can see why it was used for everything back in the day, did make for an awesome set of cabinets.
yes for sure.
This is amazing I just planted 2 in my back yard. Trying to do my part.
I hope they do well.
Hi Mark , Happy New Year to you and your team who crack me up with their stories and dedication to your company. Im Phil and live in the UK im in the construction industry mainly first fix i,e studwork and cut roofing .
any chance i get i watch your videos which i find very interesting , so from a 76 year old still working site chippie i wish you all the best for the future .PHIL
Getting scrap pieces to take home for projects is part of the benefits :)
Gorgeous stuff!!
I love the lighting. For some reason, it feels more natural to me as opposed to overhead lighting.
the led light is like daylight.
That is some absolutely beautiful wood! I’d love to have some chestnut some day for my projects.
yes it was some beautiful wood for sure.
Beautiful wood!
thank you.
the grain on the lumber is amazing
yes it is.
It's nice to see what American chestnut looks like. I had read about it and saw pictures of it. Nice timber for cabinetry.
Have a good new year from a cold Glasgow, Scotland. 😊
thanks James.
When I am having a panic attack I watch your videos thanks😊
I thought American Chestnut was all but extinct except for very small trees. Beautiful lumber.
As always, I enjoyed the video.
Dave
thanks Dave , yes they are very rare this was a great find.
They are working on bringing back the American chestnut trees, hopefully,
You know I had a beer and a tequila watching this and I could feel my blood pressure go down.....Thanks
Excellent job Gentlemen! I had been looking forward to the historic sawing of American Chestnut ever since you posted it. I wood love to have an "Ironing board' made from one of the pieces to go with my antique flat irons that would be so neat. That was a "Great Saw" now I'm off to watch THE Eddie video, Have a Happy New Year! John Toccoa GA
thanks John , glad you liked it.
it was estimated that pre-blight, 1 in 4 trees in the appalachian canopy was american chestnut. My dad was born in 1930 and he could still remember the grey ghosts of the dead chestnuts still standing. supposedly they stood taller than any other tree in the canopy.
Thanks guys.Great videos,Love your content.
thank you !
I do wish I could be there to smell it and feel it. Just to know what kind of wood chestnut is. Looks pretty.
That'd be nice to have a little 1x1x5 inch piece to make a pen out of since it's obviously pretty rare! Beautiful wood. Enjoyed watching the video as always. Happy New Year!
that's a great idea to make some pen blanks out of the slabwood.
should have been the Christmas video "Sawing Chestnuts Near An Open Fire" LMAO
I like it Richard!
Great sawing mark. Love the video
Thanks Andruw , hope all is well!
I saw a number of your little ironing board pieces that would make beautiful deer head mounting blocks.
Enjoyed the video as always.
thank you.
Half past eight at night been a long day clearing up storm damage with neighbours , supper was Chinese beef curry with boiled rice while watching you guys, that chestnut would make a very nice table , any way you guys have a nice day
if we had a bigger log I would have sawn some 2" for a table.
👍👌👏 2) That's mighty fine looking wood for sure.
Best regards, luck and especially health to all of you.
thank you.
That wood is beautiful, the amount of projects you could do with that is mind boggling, I wouldn't know where to start
We used a lot of Spanish chestnut instead of oak..it's very similar except no medullary rays. It has tanin, and lasts as long as oak outside... doesn't warp at all...a much underestimated timber though no.one sells it now.. nice videos ❤
I’m lucky enough to have an American Chestnut drop leaf table. You can support bringing this species back by joining the American Chestnut Foundation.
Thanks Mark, that's beautiful wood. It shouldn't take too long to season being standing dead wood.
thanks Robert , it was very wet.
Very nice looking lumber. Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year to the BMP crew.
thanks Jerry , Happy New Year.
Mark, been enjoying seeing some of your older videos from 3 to 4 years ago on the shed and saw dust bin build. Do you get credit for likes and comments from that far back? Love going back and seeing how the mill has grown.
I am old enough to know what pausing for station identification means
that's so funny not many people do.
Beautiful clear lumber. What a treat to see!
Just think, about 100 years ago, our eastern forest were dominated by Chestnut.
I feel for you it’s so cold in Alberta that you feel as though the cataracts ( mine were done 5 years ago ) are returning when you’re getting warm. Lol 😂
Beautiful wood grain, Happy new year from Australia
thank you Derek.
Chestnut makes beautiful cabinets and chests. It tends toward moderate expansion/contraction so it is particularly useful for units,,, chests, sideboards, furniture. Less good but still wonderful for flooring,, seasonal expansion contraction can leave gaps between floor boards. Sands, finishes, accepts shellac, varnish, lacquer gorgeously. Nice warm brown tone.
yes it could be used for everything.
Beautiful wood nice and clear
If you make something out of that would you should make a video on using it on your project wouldn't be neat to see it finished into some kind of furniture very beautiful looking wood
I sure will.
Glad you gave the provenance of the logs... I about had a conniption when I read it was Chestnut....
It’s great to see both of your videos and see Eddies view
glad you liked it.
Some really beautiful wood 🪵 !!
thanks clarence.
I’m respectful of your operation and explaining of the milling of the wood, to me it’s scary to see chippers that eat those logs into chips and I’ve watched it! Prayers and Love to Everyone! 👍👌
thank you , yes chippers are very dangerous.
it is a nice wood to work with has the texture of oak . but softer and has a sweet smell to it.
that sounds great to work with.
New subscriber from South Carolina! Just found your channel about a week ago and I've already watched all of your videos from the past year. I absolutely love your videos. Keep them coming. I know I'm a new fan but I'm already a really BIG fan!
thanks David , welcome to our channel!
Mark,
Wish you had cut 2 slabs with one flat edge and one live edge from the last log. This would have given you 2 book matched slabs which table makes would pay A LOT for.
we do have some that has not been edged yet.
That’s some sweet looking lumber. Is there any other eastern timber you haven’t sawed yet on your mill? Happy New Year 🎉
thanks Robert , it took me 34 years to saw chestnut nut sure what we never sawed.
Willow?@@markgalicic7788
Chestnut is pretty❤ Thanks for 3 logs😉
thanks Sharon , glad you liked it.
This was great Mark. I remember the two chestnut trees in our side yard when I was a kid. We would throw the spiky seed pods at each other and there was a pretty strong stink off those trees in the spring was they began to warm up and bloom.
I have a bunch of old chestnut lumber. Some is full of worm holes and some is not. The lumber without holes were benches from an old church in North Carolina. What a beautiful wood.
yes that would be very old.
Hey Mark that chestnut looks a lot like red elm? Very nice wood to make something special with for sure!
yes it kind of did.
Love your channel I watch it more than the others the commentary is very knowledgeable and entertaining keep up the great work fro. ALABAMA RTR
thank you William.
That is definitely some really nice wood, Mark. Did Sammy enjoy seeing it from his perspective? Don't worry, I was keeping an eye on the taper.
Bill
yes he kept a eye one me Bill , LOL!
Beautiful Chestnut. Clear and beautiful. Is it hard enough for chairs, you said it would work for cabinets. Would love to see some!
I will use some for a shop video.
hello mark & Eddies & it's is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
thanks Randy!
Love the videos and the flag with the red devils on green and white ? As your having bother with condensation try rubbing half a fresh cut potato on the glass ? It will help to stop the fog build-up 👍👍
I live in NW Arkansas where we had Ozark Chinqipin. As a kid I remember a few large remnant specimen. I can still remember how they taste. Point is, I inherited a 40 acre property that had a log house on it. The house was too far gone to salvage. But the floor was hand split Chinquapin which we salvaged and put in a new house as trim. It is beautiful. The cabin was built in the late 1800's but the floor was added later.
Love your chestnut. I have been studying the chestnut so this vid fit right in for me. The Ozark Chinquapin is a subspecies, I think.
that's a great story Terrance , there is so much history in old log houses.
I made the baseboards for our stone house reno out of chestnut recovered from a barn we took down. It looks like ash, but cuts like cedar. Water based urethane works well, but oil based darkens the wood too much.
Awesome find.
yes for sure.
My ears can feel the odd ease your blade rips through that wide ringed species. I was gifted a standing decaying shakey english walnut buttlog 5 ft high and 4 ft at th3 base. It took me a year to decide how to start cutting it. 4 years later i still have every single offcut and even saved bark.
I went back and watched some of your earlier videos. Especially enjoyed the Ragtime episode. The move was very interesting as well.
thank you Glen , my son Alex made that video "old time sawmill"
Good evening from Lincolnshire UK.
good evening Andrew.
It is said that before the blight hit the Chestnut that it was so plentiful that a squirrel go from Maine to Georgia jumping from branch to branch of only Chestnut trees.
yes that's true.
At one point it was, And practically over night it was gone. My Mother In-law has the Gun Cabinet that her German Immigrant Father made from Chestnut when he was a 13 yr old young man. The only thing thats not original on it today is the front glass that got broken some time in the early 80's. When he hit it with the barrel of his 218 Bee rifle, he used on the Egg Farm to keep the Raccoons, Fox And stray dogs out of the hen house. They had the largest Egg Farm in Portage Co. Ohio from the late 1940's till 1985 when he finally retired from farming. At this point I don't know whats worth more. That antique Chestnut 6 Gun Cabinet. Or the Winchester model 65 Lever Action in 218 Bee. We've dated the Gun Cabinet to 1911 or 1912. Her Father (my wife's grandfather) bought that rifle new in 1939. According to his explanation The Fox's got smart and stayed out of the effective distance of the 22 long Rifle he had. And the 218-Bee was the hottest thing going at that time. I've even got a few old boxes of Winchester 50 rounds of 218-Bee with the cost of $1.23 written in hand on them.
*Beautiful* figuring on those logs, Mark - and if it's anything like English Chestnut, it's naturally rot-resistent, too.
thanks Jack , I think it's rot- resistent too.