Absolutely beautiful grain and color. We have Osage Orange here in Nebraska but the biggest log I have seen was about 8 inches in diameter but 15 feet straight! We cut it, quartered it and sealed the ends and sold the staves to a bow maker. Hard wood is right we call it Iron Wood too.
My family is from mid Missouri, my dad is a logger and cattle farmer, hedge (osage) was a big part of my upbringing. So much so that the support beams for your 14 foot ceiling living room is squared hedge beams. It is also used as door trim on the outside door as well as the doorway to our living room. Sanding was a nightmare on all that btw.
I have NEVER seen this wood before Nathan. What an intense colour it has & at first you don't realise that it has got much going for it in the way of grain until you put the water on it & then the grain really popped & showed its beauty. Outstanding. Cheers mate, Don from South Australia.
For some reason, watching Nathan's videos gives me generally the same feeling as running into the guys down at the diner and shooting the breeze over a couple cups of coffee.
His videos are calming, comforting, and satisfying. Not a ton of energy (in a 100% good way) and watching him is like watching someone open artistic mystery boxes. And. I happen to be drinking a cup of coffee now as well lol
Another name for them are Bois D' Arc, bowdark, bowwood, horse apple, and hedgeapple . Settlers used the wood to make chuck wagons, wheel hubs and wheels due it strength and resistance to cracking. Plenty of them in Texas and I have a few on my property of various sizes. The fruit/seedpod they drop is a pain and the size of grapefruit along with the thorns.
We used to have a lot of Osage Orange around here. It’s more common name in these parts is Bois D'arc and horse apple. We saw them disappear back in the 80’s and 90’s here in Arkansas. There were 4 buyers that set up shop in this area and they bought Osage Orange to make driver heads for golf clubs. Thank you for sharing this video with us and this is the first time in many years I’ve got to see this beautiful wood!
I know an old man who used osage orange to make tongue and groove hardwood flooring for his kitchen back in the '80s.Talk about beautiful! His friend who operated the sawmill that cut the logs told me he conditioned the logs by letting them soak in a pond a couple years prior to sawing them. Rayburn ( the mill operator) said by doing so,the logs cut like white oak and saved a lot of wear on the blade. A hard wood to work with but well worth it.
They'll soon be gorgeous medium brown coloured tables. The unpreventable colour change from yellow to a darker brown on exposure to light is quite drastic.
the local highway dept cut some Osage trees down about 10 yrs ago. I got some of the wood and have made different things with it. It ages beautiful with a nice rich gold color when oiled. That is some very beautiful wood. Thanks
I’m not a sawyer but here are some ideas I had when I saw your new table. For what it’s worth. First, the table should come with wheels so that you can roll it around if necessary. If you don’t move it, you can always take them off. Second, mount some kind of hard rubber matting on the table so that when you move wood across it, it takes the wear instead of the paint. Finally, since you throw water on the wood, could you somehow seal the steel parts that would get wet so that the table does not rust. I always enjoy your videos, and I’ve learned a lot from you. State safe. BTW, I live not too far from you ( about 4 hours) in Nelson County, Virginia.
You have an eye for logs that produce exquisite woods with figure, I love all your videos. Thanks for sharing the Osage Orange milling, it’s rare to see video of Osage logs being milled, what a treat for us. One thing about working alone, if you need expert advise, just talk yourself! God bless you and your family!.
Man, as soon as I saw the timber I knew it was Hedge or one of the many names it goes by across the country. Then you brought out the table and I thought " Woodmiser is finally making one?" and sure enough you sat it up. It has been 5 years now since I ran a mill and built one out of 2 x 4s and plywood. Makes off bearing easier, you are going to love it. Keep it up, friend!
You’ve probably already seen that it fairly quickly turns a beautiful toasty brown. We used a lot of hedge for fence posts on the ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle ‘No Man’s Land’ where the settlers planted them for tree rows in a largely treeless and arid land. They grew slow and hard. The drawback for use as posts is that as they cure they becomes so hard it is nearly impossible to drive in a fence steeple, resulting in a lot of cussing and bent steeples!
Yep, that’s a Bois D’arc; beautiful wood and lasts forever... my GGgrandparents markers are made from it, and the original poster are still there. We found them when we had proper stone headrests set. They left Grainger County around 1895 for Texas and Oklahoma. Thanks for the video.
Also works great for self bows, and veneers, or cores for longbows. Dense, but has fantastic elastic properties for repeated flex. That’s by far the largest one I have ever seen.
Also called 'horse apple' and 'bois de arc', or 'bodark'. Makes excellent bows for archery. 'Bois de arc' is French for bow wood. In parts of the US settled by French, think Louisiana Purchase, most now call it 'bodark'. Cut some small limbs and stick them in the ground...voila! you have a tree. Plant them close together in a line and you have an impenetrable hedge, forever. Get careless and the thorns and spikes will rip you a new one. The best bows and axe handles are started with a froe to split the wood along the grain.
This is the first time I've ever heard someone actually call it 'osage orange'. (And at the risk of sounding pedantic, it's bois d'arc. No 'e' before a vowel in french.)
In Missouri some call it hedge apple for the large green balls that grow on it. Makes great fire wood also, but just one log at a time, it get very hot.
You're a good man! Loved watching your video and listening to you. Me and my wife had a ranch holiday in Wickenburg Arizon and we had a ranch dude who had your accent... I forget where he said he was from? All the best from a UK Yorkshireman
Hey Nat I commented on the butter nut about the Osage the some fine looking wood. My great x2 and my great grand paw made a table that seated 12 out of Osage in the late 1880. It was made in Osage county in north east Kansas and traveled to Texas in 1900 by wagon and mule. The table is still alive today. 120 some years later. It a beast, when I was a kid I swore it weight a thousand pounds. If that table could talk I would love to here the story’s Here’s another one for you to put on the mizer. Catalpa it another fine looking wood may be hard to find
I have made a lot of traditional bows from this wood, the pioneers used it for wagon wheels and spokes. with age it turns a rich orangey brown I love this wood.
Osage Orange or Bois d'Arc (horse apple in Texas) is beautiful wood. It was used by Indians to make long bows. It is one of the most dense woods and is known for eating saw blades and other wood working tools, especially if not green. Nice intro with the drone shots.
Hi Nathan cats love Tractors they like nothing better than to curl up on the seat if you leave a door or window open that's where you'll find them!! Hah
We always called it hedge apple as you typically see it growing in the hedge rows between fields in Illinois. So very hard. It was like sawing through concrete with a chainsaw. My dad used to put the "apples" in the basement to keep the bugs away. Glad your back! Been missing your videos.
This was what they made natural fences with in IL. Horse High, Pig Tight, Bull Strong, The thorns make it like very mean barbed wire. Shreds tractor tires also.
Made some signs from this wood. It is beautiful. I'm glad I saw this as I could not figure out what know of wood. I had to cut it dow as it had hole in it and was leaning towards neighbors house. It was around 40 feet high and about 2 feet at base.
Great job Nathan, you and Wood-Mizer will come up with a proper off feed table, keep after it !! The Osage Orange wood looks awesome, would love to see the book look of those two on the table. You have lots of beautiful wood hidden inside that log. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Fred.👏🏻👏🏻👍👍
As I type this comment, I'm sitting next to my side table that I inherited from my Great Uncle Tom Lucas. He built the top and lower shelf from a Hercules dynamite box. The legs and cross bracing are Bois D'Arc. Half the nails are bent over because the wood is so hard. Growing up we reattached barb wire to the posts with bailing wire as nails or staples were impossible. Beautiful wood.
That wood would be great with some pine and cherry to make a nice cutting board. I made one out if just pine and cherry almost 45 years ago and I still use it today. It looks like honey when you put water on it, very nice.
I am in Kansas and my mom's neighbor has two of these trees in his yard. The smaller one is about three feet across an the larger one almost four feet. They are some amazing trees.
I grew up in Ohio and Osage Orange is also a very hot, long burning wood that was sometimes used for heating and such as well as for steam engines. It was also planted along property and boundary lines and it has this Green Fruit the size of grapefruit or oranges and that lead to the familiar name of "Hedge Apple"!! Just an interesting side note to the tree!! Oh, and when tossed at someone and it breaks, IT STINKS!! LOL.
My Grandfather decked two hay wagons with 5/4 hedge apple. It felt half loaded when pulling it empty. Last time I saw them was about 10 years ago, so after 40 years in the weather they were still solid. That was in Cannon county Tennessee... plenty of hedge apple there.
The table should be a very nice addition. They call them hedge apple trees up here. I remember as a kid my brother and I used to call their fruit “monkey brains”. If you ever smashed one you would understand. Is that cabbage with the really neat coloring above the nose? Thanks for the content as always. -Ben
Good evening Nathan, This log had beautiful wood inside. This new table will be important for you. Showing the bloopers made me laugh. I could see these boards being combined with walnut, or other dark woods.
Wow! Even the debarker was having a hard time handling that dense bark! It really bounced around as I've never seen in your videos. Yellow as mustard ! Beautiful, beautiful wood 😍! Congratulations Elliott 👏
That log is really amazing. This was a really excellent video. Hope that table works out. Seems to me that it will be a longer walk around to the back of the mill. Probably easy to get used to though. Great for longer slabs I bet. You should make a blooper reel. Just a normal video with music and all, but just bloopers that will make us appreciate how hard it really is to make a polished video like you do all the time. And maybe a good laugh or two. Not to make fun of you, but maybe a commented version with lead ups. And cats. I’m sure they’ve been stars of bloopers too!! Memory is the second thing to go, Nathan. I can’t remember the first. Be safe and I’m looking forward to the new kiln!! That should make for some really great videos!! Thanks for taking the time to include us on the new things happening around the homestead.
Here in North Texas most of the big ones were cut down in the 1800's and early 1900's and used for piers on pier and beam foundations . My old farm house was built in 1923 and I have about 50 of them about 16" diameter holding up my house . Has to be good stuff to not rot of be eaten by termites in all those years , treated wood only last a few years on the ground around here .
Thanks for the great content, I repair guitars as a hobby, and I am entertaining the idea of building a solid body electric guitar from scratch. Not only does this show detail how to mill wood, but you display and share your knowledge of wood, and its intended usages. Thank you.
OK, talk about timing! I just got back from picking up 3 Osage Orange logs for my mill! In the 10 or 12 inch diameter range and 15 feet or so. I'm planning to use a 4 degree blade to mill them, probably next weekend. Love the videos!
When I was a boy, helping my grandfather and uncles, we put in many fences using osage orange posts. Most of the osage orange hedges were planted during the 30's by the WPA for soil erosion and future fence needs. Very heavy wood! I have seen it used in custom furniture; it turns orange when the sunlight gets to it. Best wishes
I had to cut 3 osage/hedge/bodock from my tiny 1/4 acre yard! All endangered my kids or house. The youngest only had 78 growth rings and the oldest had 156. They were all super straight and I wish had saved them for a mill somewhere. Most of them went up my chimney and the rest still sit in my firewood rack. Yes I am careful and mix them with other woods to not overheat my fireplace. I made some log benches around my fire pit too but the borers got all in them.
Funny coincidence picked up a log last week 12 foot long 24 inches at the booth 20 inches at the top straight. Cleanest Osage Orange I have ever seen and had the pleasure to cut.
Your mill is looking very professional, nice job. I used BiMetal blade when I slabbed Osage Orange. Worked very well. Your timber frame building is coming along nicely.
It is similar to cherry and darken as it is exposed to light and air. I made a side table out of Osage that I milled up, I can send you some photos to get an idea of how it will shift.
Oh, and Osage is beautiful. I found one down from a storm in Round Rock, TX awhile back and have some staves that have a lot of oxidation. Beautiful orange brown color after about 10 years. Some of the hardest, blade dulling-est stuff you'll ever work. Most people making bowstaves work it with hatchets and draw knives because Osage will eat blades.
Osage sure is pretty. My dad had beams from an old amish built barn bridge that were made from the stuff. More than a century old, zero rot, and sawed up into beautiful lumber. Can't drive 16 nail into it, amazingly hard! Outfeed table is cool - maybe they should make a way for it too connect to the ramp more solidly, so it doesn't want to shift away from the main saw frame? Great content!!
My Uncle builds longbows, Osage orange is absolutely breath taking on a finished product. The colors really pop out at you! Nice work, & a very nice set up you have
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! That stuff is probably the meanest, toughest wood I've ever seen in my life. I feel sorry for your BLADES!! FYI: the sap of Osage(mainly extracted from the fruit/apples) is pure Latex. That's why it's rot resistant/bug resistant and so dense. As I replied to Ol' Dad's comment, it brought back old memories of working with this stuff when I was really young and I THANK YOU!! Keep up the great work!! And keep those videos coming!!
@@OutoftheWoods0623 You're quite welcome! I could tell you all kinds of stories about this wood. It's the most rot proof wood I know of. My Dad used a post 12" in diameter and 10' long as a mailbox post in 1978 because he was tired of replacing it all the time from it either rotting or being run over. In 1988, it was hit by a drunk driver, literally destroyed the car but not a scratch on the post. Luckily, it had been raining for 10 days straight and the ground was soft and the collision just sucked it right up out of the hole. When I reset it in the hole the next day, I packed gravel with the mud. 2 days later, the guy that hit it showed up to pay for the damages and was amazed that it wasn't even phased. In 1992, I had to remove it and reset it because ODOT wanted to widen the road and their equipment couldn't budge it without some major excavating. lol To this very day, THAT post still stands. It does have a few notches in it from test cuts from a freshly sharpened chainsaw. If Dad could cut 1/4" deep, it was sharp enough to cut clean through any other wood. lol Myself, I've actually straightened several car/truck bumpers with it, as well as bent a few from not paying attention to where I'm going. lol It burns as hot as coal and spits sparks worse than pine cones. lol Fire hazard? Maybe. But it'll give you wicked heat in a Blacksmith's Forge. 🔥😲😜
I feel your pain on the not remembering something, you gotta respect the prototype getting modified right from the start, great video, thanks for bringing us along!
Bois de Arc is a nasty tree. The branches are covered in thorns, the sap is milky and sticky and as you say it is very hard when dry. It is however a beautiful color. In 1890 my family moved to Greer County, Texas and set corner post of Osage Orange and they are still there today.
I've turned it on a metal lathe. The rough (fine grain and smooth like glass) turning set to drying 20 years ago and is likely stable now. It is burnt orange a brownish color. Quarter saw the log for diamonds in the eyes ! Interesting wood. Expect color change as it ages.
Yup, up in Ohio we've got *large* osage orange trees but they're only common south of I-70, and get more numerous as you get closer to the Ohio River (lots of 'em in Kentucky). Somebody is gonna be happy with those slabs. 😊
I believe a slotted table, one made of 1x1 to 2x2 would be better. It would be more durable than plate (or sheet) steel and would allow sawdust to go right to the floor and not stay on the table. I often wondered about having the lumber landing on the tongue and hydraulic box but figured Woodmizer had it worked out. Interested to see how it works out for you. Good video, Nathan. As usual. Thank you.
That is a real pretty gold in that log. I would think the top of the out feed table being made of rollers instead of sheet metal would make the job a whole lot easier.
Years ago I was doing some woodworking in the dead of winter and we were burning old hedge fence post that were probably 100 years old and the cracks were at least 3/4 inch deep , I was killing some time so I put a chunk on the lath and turned a mallet the next day i cracked , still drying
From the scenery to the music to the content you have one of the best you tube channels I have scene in awhile. I am definitely a subscriber that awaits all your new post even though I am not a wood worker of any kind. Keep up the great work. Wow that Osage orange is beautiful I would love to see what one of the wood turner could do with it.
That outfeed table seems like it will be a really great idea once the design is refined. What a wonderful compliment to you that Woodmizerr is having you trial it! Beautiful work on the Osage orange!
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Osage one of my favs.. right next to Purple Heart.
Love the bloopers
Angle the output table and add water drain holes.
Also, would rollers be an option for the output table?
Great content, Thank You.
osage is harder than superman’s knuckles.
Absolutely beautiful grain and color. We have Osage Orange here in Nebraska but the biggest log I have seen was about 8 inches in diameter but 15 feet straight! We cut it, quartered it and sealed the ends and sold the staves to a bow maker. Hard wood is right we call it Iron Wood too.
My family is from mid Missouri, my dad is a logger and cattle farmer, hedge (osage) was a big part of my upbringing. So much so that the support beams for your 14 foot ceiling living room is squared hedge beams. It is also used as door trim on the outside door as well as the doorway to our living room. Sanding was a nightmare on all that btw.
I have NEVER seen this wood before Nathan. What an intense colour it has & at first you don't realise that it has got much going for it in the way of grain until you put the water on it & then the grain really popped & showed its beauty. Outstanding. Cheers mate, Don from South Australia.
What an amazing piece of timber and that colour and grain is something to behold
For some reason, watching Nathan's videos gives me generally the same feeling as running into the guys down at the diner and shooting the breeze over a couple cups of coffee.
appreciate that,
I get that same feel too.
His videos are calming, comforting, and satisfying. Not a ton of energy (in a 100% good way) and watching him is like watching someone open artistic mystery boxes. And. I happen to be drinking a cup of coffee now as well lol
Great opening sequence, really artistic, and love the bloopers.
thank you,
Another name for them are Bois D' Arc, bowdark, bowwood, horse apple, and hedgeapple . Settlers used the wood to make chuck wagons, wheel hubs and wheels due it strength and resistance to cracking. Plenty of them in Texas and I have a few on my property of various sizes. The fruit/seedpod they drop is a pain and the size of grapefruit along with the thorns.
We used to have a lot of Osage Orange around here. It’s more common name in these parts is Bois D'arc and horse apple. We saw them disappear back in the 80’s and 90’s here in Arkansas. There were 4 buyers that set up shop in this area and they bought Osage Orange to make driver heads for golf clubs. Thank you for sharing this video with us and this is the first time in many years I’ve got to see this beautiful wood!
I know an old man who used osage orange to make tongue and groove hardwood flooring for his kitchen back in the '80s.Talk about beautiful! His friend who operated the sawmill that cut the logs told me he conditioned the logs by letting them soak in a pond a couple years prior to sawing them. Rayburn ( the mill operator) said by doing so,the logs cut like white oak and saved a lot of wear on the blade. A hard wood to work with but well worth it.
The colour of honey. Beautiful wood.
from 14:58 on the the rolling exit : An audio visual feast.
*Food for my soul* .
Thank You !
The color really pops !!! Make some gorgeous, unique tables with it !
They'll soon be gorgeous medium brown coloured tables. The unpreventable colour change from yellow to a darker brown on exposure to light is quite drastic.
They say Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. And to me that’s one beautiful log.
thanks for watching,
always enjoy watching and your choice of music is great....cheers from Florida
Thanks 👍👍
What I would give to be stuck in a place that beautiful during COVID. Rolling hills, kind people, open skies, and a friendly cat.
the local highway dept cut some Osage trees down about 10 yrs ago. I got some of the wood and have made different things with it. It ages beautiful with a nice rich gold color when oiled. That is some very beautiful wood. Thanks
I’m not a sawyer but here are some ideas I had when I saw your new table. For what it’s worth. First, the table should come with wheels so that you can roll it around if necessary. If you don’t move it, you can always take them off. Second, mount some kind of hard rubber matting on the table so that when you move wood across it, it takes the wear instead of the paint. Finally, since you throw water on the wood, could you somehow seal the steel parts that would get wet so that the table does not rust. I always enjoy your videos, and I’ve learned a lot from you. State safe. BTW, I live not too far from you ( about 4 hours) in Nelson County, Virginia.
OOTWs - young man, you got great taste in wood AND in your choice of music! THANK YOU... arthur (Ngai)
Gold is right, that's some nice stuff! Always a good day when you can make an upgrade to the mill.
It sure is
What beautiful and unique looking wood. Great video!
Thank you! Cheers!
Nathan that Osage looks fantastic, really great colour 👍👍👍👍
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the outtakes. Please provide more.
You have an eye for logs that produce exquisite woods with figure, I love all your videos. Thanks for sharing the Osage Orange milling, it’s rare to see video of Osage logs being milled, what a treat for us. One thing about working alone, if you need expert advise, just talk yourself! God bless you and your family!.
Man, as soon as I saw the timber I knew it was Hedge or one of the many names it goes by across the country. Then you brought out the table and I thought " Woodmiser is finally making one?" and sure enough you sat it up. It has been 5 years now since I ran a mill and built one out of 2 x 4s and plywood. Makes off bearing easier, you are going to love it. Keep it up, friend!
Just beautiful, have a great week.
You’ve probably already seen that it fairly quickly turns a beautiful toasty brown. We used a lot of hedge for fence posts on the ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle ‘No Man’s Land’ where the settlers planted them for tree rows in a largely treeless and arid land. They grew slow and hard. The drawback for use as posts is that as they cure they becomes so hard it is nearly impossible to drive in a fence steeple, resulting in a lot of cussing and bent steeples!
When you said gold you meant it. It sure pretty wood. I’ve never seen any before. That’s cool 👍👍👍❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
Yep, that’s a Bois D’arc; beautiful wood and lasts forever... my GGgrandparents markers are made from it, and the original poster are still there. We found them when we had proper stone headrests set. They left Grainger County around 1895 for Texas and Oklahoma. Thanks for the video.
Also works great for self bows, and veneers, or cores for longbows. Dense, but has fantastic elastic properties for repeated flex. That’s by far the largest one I have ever seen.
Also called 'horse apple' and 'bois de arc', or 'bodark'. Makes excellent bows for archery. 'Bois de arc' is French for bow wood. In parts of the US settled by French, think Louisiana Purchase, most now call it 'bodark'.
Cut some small limbs and stick them in the ground...voila! you have a tree. Plant them close together in a line and you have an impenetrable hedge, forever. Get careless and the thorns and spikes will rip you a new one.
The best bows and axe handles are started with a froe to split the wood along the grain.
This is the first time I've ever heard someone actually call it 'osage orange'. (And at the risk of sounding pedantic, it's bois d'arc. No 'e' before a vowel in french.)
@@marklandgraf7667 Entschuldigung...Ich habe ein Fehler gemacht... Actually you can thank "Autocorrect".
@@BuickDoc Ah! Gotcha. :)
In Missouri some call it hedge apple for the large green balls that grow on it. Makes great fire wood also, but just one log at a time, it get very hot.
You're a good man! Loved watching your video and listening to you. Me and my wife had a ranch holiday in Wickenburg Arizon and we had a ranch dude who had your accent... I forget where he said he was from? All the best from a UK Yorkshireman
Hey Nat I commented on the butter nut about the Osage the some fine looking wood. My great x2 and my great grand paw made a table that seated 12 out of Osage in the late 1880. It was made in Osage county in north east Kansas and traveled to Texas in 1900 by wagon and mule. The table is still alive today. 120 some years later. It a beast, when I was a kid I swore it weight a thousand pounds. If that table could talk I would love to here the story’s
Here’s another one for you to put on the mizer. Catalpa it another fine looking wood may be hard to find
I have made a lot of traditional bows from this wood, the pioneers used it for wagon wheels and spokes. with age it turns a rich orangey brown I love this wood.
Osage Orange or Bois d'Arc (horse apple in Texas) is beautiful wood. It was used by Indians to make long bows. It is one of the most dense woods and is known for eating saw blades and other wood working tools, especially if not green. Nice intro with the drone shots.
thanks for watching,
Hi Nathan cats love Tractors they like nothing better than to curl up on the seat if you leave a door or window open that's where you'll find them!! Hah
We always called it hedge apple as you typically see it growing in the hedge rows between fields in Illinois. So very hard. It was like sawing through concrete with a chainsaw. My dad used to put the "apples" in the basement to keep the bugs away. Glad your back! Been missing your videos.
This was what they made natural fences with in IL. Horse High, Pig Tight, Bull Strong, The thorns make it like very mean barbed wire. Shreds tractor tires also.
I grew up around osage oranges, never thought I’d see the inside of one. Sure is beautiful, thank you for that... ✌🏼☃️
Nice......Some of the best looking wood I've see come off the mill...😍
Thanks 👍
Made some signs from this wood. It is beautiful. I'm glad I saw this as I could not figure out what know of wood. I had to cut it dow as it had hole in it and was leaning towards neighbors house. It was around 40 feet high and about 2 feet at base.
Great job Nathan, you and Wood-Mizer will come up with a proper off feed table, keep after it !! The Osage Orange wood looks awesome, would love to see the book look of those two on the table. You have lots of beautiful wood hidden inside that log. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Fred.👏🏻👏🏻👍👍
As I type this comment, I'm sitting next to my side table that I inherited from my Great Uncle Tom Lucas. He built the top and lower shelf from a Hercules dynamite box. The legs and cross bracing are Bois D'Arc. Half the nails are bent over because the wood is so hard. Growing up we reattached barb wire to the posts with bailing wire as nails or staples were impossible. Beautiful wood.
awesome, thanks for the support Brock,
That is one beautiful colour. Btw. Osage orange wood dust is great for dying fibre. sheep alpaca silk etc for spinning.
That wood would be great with some pine and cherry to make a nice cutting board. I made one out if just pine and cherry almost 45 years ago and I still use it today. It looks like honey when you put water on it, very nice.
Great to see your enthusiasm again it makes me smile after a long day
Nathan, Osage Orange makes fantastic bowstaves. You should save some of that with straight grain for some lucky traditional bowyer.
Even better to rive it out with the grain.
Then thin it with a drawknife on a shaving horse.
It certainly has a lot of spring in it.
I am in Kansas and my mom's neighbor has two of these trees in his yard. The smaller one is about three feet across an the larger one almost four feet. They are some amazing trees.
I grew up in Ohio and Osage Orange is also a very hot, long burning wood that was sometimes used for heating and such as well as for steam engines. It was also planted along property and boundary lines and it has this Green Fruit the size of grapefruit or oranges and that lead to the familiar name of "Hedge Apple"!! Just an interesting side note to the tree!! Oh, and when tossed at someone and it breaks, IT STINKS!! LOL.
beautiful music, as always.
Many thanks!
It sure is relaxing watching and listening to your videos .
Thank you for your effort in making them .
My Grandfather decked two hay wagons with 5/4 hedge apple. It felt half loaded when pulling it empty. Last time I saw them was about 10 years ago, so after 40 years in the weather they were still solid.
That was in Cannon county Tennessee... plenty of hedge apple there.
Amazing how the water reveals the woods true beauty!
The table should be a very nice addition.
They call them hedge apple trees up here. I remember as a kid my brother and I used to call their fruit “monkey brains”. If you ever smashed one you would understand.
Is that cabbage with the really neat coloring above the nose?
Thanks for the content as always.
-Ben
Omg the color in this wood is absolutely beautiful.and the grain is nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
Love the wood, love the music, love your work. Thank you from Australia.
Your music choice + the Intro/Outro scenes combined, fill my Heart. Godbless.
Bow wood .... good for a trade ....worth a horse and saddle. One of the hardest woods. Makes for a very powerful bow when carved along the grain.
Never seen that wood before but boy, it is beautiful. Unbelievable colour and figure.
That outfeed table looks awesome. So does the Osage!
thanks James,
Good evening Nathan,
This log had beautiful wood inside. This new table will be important for you. Showing the bloopers made me laugh. I could see these boards being combined with walnut, or other dark woods.
Great idea!
Beautiful color and grain pattern. Thank you so much for sharing.
thanks for watching,
A Nice add-on to the Mill, Maybe a Roller at the "On" End of the Table, and Possibly a Couple More? Gary from Ga.
Wow! Even the debarker was having a hard time handling that dense bark! It really bounced around as I've never seen in your videos. Yellow as mustard !
Beautiful, beautiful wood 😍! Congratulations Elliott 👏
Love your videos!! Keep sharing your beautiful work.
Thank you! Will do!
That log is really amazing.
This was a really excellent video.
Hope that table works out. Seems to me that it will be a longer walk around to the back of the mill. Probably easy to get used to though. Great for longer slabs I bet.
You should make a blooper reel. Just a normal video with music and all, but just bloopers that will make us appreciate how hard it really is to make a polished video like you do all the time. And maybe a good laugh or two. Not to make fun of you, but maybe a commented version with lead ups. And cats. I’m sure they’ve been stars of bloopers too!!
Memory is the second thing to go, Nathan. I can’t remember the first.
Be safe and I’m looking forward to the new kiln!! That should make for some really great videos!! Thanks for taking the time to include us on the new things happening around the homestead.
Absolutely outstanding video! Great wood, great music. Thanks for taking your time to do this.
Fine adjustments! That's some fine looking wood.
Thanks 👍
Here in North Texas most of the big ones were cut down in the 1800's and early 1900's and used for piers on pier and beam foundations . My old farm house was built in 1923 and I have about 50 of them about 16" diameter holding up my house . Has to be good stuff to not rot of be eaten by termites in all those years , treated wood only last a few years on the ground around here .
Thanks for the great content, I repair guitars as a hobby, and I am entertaining the idea of building a solid body electric guitar from scratch. Not only does this show detail how to mill wood, but you display and share your knowledge of wood, and its intended usages. Thank you.
OK, talk about timing! I just got back from picking up 3 Osage Orange logs for my mill! In the 10 or 12 inch diameter range and 15 feet or so. I'm planning to use a 4 degree blade to mill them, probably next weekend. Love the videos!
Osage is also the "Gold Standard" for building primitive selfbows as well as recurves and longbows! Over time it goes from yellow to a golden brown!
When I was a boy, helping my grandfather and uncles, we put in many fences using osage orange posts. Most of the osage orange hedges were planted during the 30's by the WPA for soil erosion and future fence needs. Very heavy wood! I have seen it used in custom furniture; it turns orange when the sunlight gets to it. Best wishes
I had to cut 3 osage/hedge/bodock from my tiny 1/4 acre yard! All endangered my kids or house. The youngest only had 78 growth rings and the oldest had 156. They were all super straight and I wish had saved them for a mill somewhere. Most of them went up my chimney and the rest still sit in my firewood rack. Yes I am careful and mix them with other woods to not overheat my fireplace. I made some log benches around my fire pit too but the borers got all in them.
I've had this species on my mind since I found your channel a few weeks ago. Gorgeous.
One of the best woods for duck calls. 👍👍
Funny coincidence picked up a log last week 12 foot long 24 inches at the booth 20 inches at the top straight. Cleanest Osage Orange I have ever seen and had the pleasure to cut.
Thanks. I am a pen turner, osage orange is a wood which makes a nice pen. Always enjoy seeing your cats. Seems like a really nice group.
Your mill is looking very professional, nice job. I used BiMetal blade when I slabbed Osage Orange. Worked very well. Your timber frame building is coming along nicely.
thank you very much,
It is similar to cherry and darken as it is exposed to light and air. I made a side table out of Osage that I milled up, I can send you some photos to get an idea of how it will shift.
Please do
@@nathanelliott9013 I posted a finished photo on patreon. I'll e-mail you some of the process photos.
Oh, and Osage is beautiful. I found one down from a storm in Round Rock, TX awhile back and have some staves that have a lot of oxidation. Beautiful orange brown color after about 10 years. Some of the hardest, blade dulling-est stuff you'll ever work. Most people making bowstaves work it with hatchets and draw knives because Osage will eat blades.
12below and wind chill -26 , always like see you bundled up. You are lucky to be able to work and do things
Osage sure is pretty. My dad had beams from an old amish built barn bridge that were made from the stuff. More than a century old, zero rot, and sawed up into beautiful lumber. Can't drive 16 nail into it, amazingly hard! Outfeed table is cool - maybe they should make a way for it too connect to the ramp more solidly, so it doesn't want to shift away from the main saw frame? Great content!!
My Uncle builds longbows, Osage orange is absolutely breath taking on a finished product. The colors really pop out at you!
Nice work, & a very nice set up you have
Awesome! Thank you!
I am gobsmacked at the colour of that log! every day something new
it got me also,
Those trees were used as fencing due to the thorns and density great for fence posts and building posts for pole barns
Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!!! That stuff is probably the meanest, toughest wood I've ever seen in my life. I feel sorry for your BLADES!! FYI: the sap of Osage(mainly extracted from the fruit/apples) is pure Latex. That's why it's rot resistant/bug resistant and so dense. As I replied to Ol' Dad's comment, it brought back old memories of working with this stuff when I was really young and I THANK YOU!! Keep up the great work!! And keep those videos coming!!
Thank you very much!
@@OutoftheWoods0623 You're quite welcome! I could tell you all kinds of stories about this wood. It's the most rot proof wood I know of. My Dad used a post 12" in diameter and 10' long as a mailbox post in 1978 because he was tired of replacing it all the time from it either rotting or being run over. In 1988, it was hit by a drunk driver, literally destroyed the car but not a scratch on the post. Luckily, it had been raining for 10 days straight and the ground was soft and the collision just sucked it right up out of the hole. When I reset it in the hole the next day, I packed gravel with the mud. 2 days later, the guy that hit it showed up to pay for the damages and was amazed that it wasn't even phased. In 1992, I had to remove it and reset it because ODOT wanted to widen the road and their equipment couldn't budge it without some major excavating. lol To this very day, THAT post still stands. It does have a few notches in it from test cuts from a freshly sharpened chainsaw. If Dad could cut 1/4" deep, it was sharp enough to cut clean through any other wood. lol Myself, I've actually straightened several car/truck bumpers with it, as well as bent a few from not paying attention to where I'm going. lol It burns as hot as coal and spits sparks worse than pine cones. lol Fire hazard? Maybe. But it'll give you wicked heat in a Blacksmith's Forge. 🔥😲😜
I feel your pain on the not remembering something, you gotta respect the prototype getting modified right from the start, great video, thanks for bringing us along!
thanks for watching,
That is some beautiful live edge wood. Thank you for another great video.
Bois de Arc is a nasty tree. The branches are covered in thorns, the sap is milky and sticky and as you say it is very hard when dry. It is however a beautiful color. In 1890 my family moved to Greer County, Texas and set corner post of Osage Orange and they are still there today.
I've turned it on a metal lathe. The rough (fine grain and smooth like glass) turning set to drying 20 years ago and is likely stable now. It is burnt orange a brownish color. Quarter saw the log for diamonds in the eyes ! Interesting wood. Expect color change as it ages.
We’ve got bodarc here in texas but that was a nice blemish free log! Enjoyed your work.
Yup, up in Ohio we've got *large* osage orange trees but they're only common south of I-70, and get more numerous as you get closer to the Ohio River (lots of 'em in Kentucky). Somebody is gonna be happy with those slabs. 😊
I believe a slotted table, one made of 1x1 to 2x2 would be better. It would be more durable than plate (or sheet) steel and would allow sawdust to go right to the floor and not stay on the table. I often wondered about having the lumber landing on the tongue and hydraulic box but figured Woodmizer had it worked out. Interested to see how it works out for you. Good video, Nathan. As usual. Thank you.
That is a real pretty gold in that log. I would think the top of the out feed table being made of rollers instead of sheet metal would make the job a whole lot easier.
when the cats all help it turns out better. everyone knows that cats know everything. lol
8:19 paw prints proving cat inspection and approval.
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That wood is beautiful!
agreed
Years ago I was doing some woodworking in the dead of winter and we were burning old hedge fence post that were probably 100 years old and the cracks were at least 3/4 inch deep , I was killing some time so I put a chunk on the lath and turned a mallet the next day i cracked , still drying
From the scenery to the music to the content you have one of the best you tube channels I have scene in awhile. I am definitely a subscriber that awaits all your new post even though I am not a wood worker of any kind. Keep up the great work. Wow that Osage orange is beautiful I would love to see what one of the wood turner could do with it.
thank you, me and dad will probable make these into benches,
@@OutoftheWoods0623 Please show pics I would love to see them
That color is Amazing, and the SIZE of it is magnitudes larger than any other Osage Orange I've ever even heard of !!!
Wow!!! 😊👍
That outfeed table seems like it will be a really great idea once the design is refined. What a wonderful compliment to you that Woodmizerr is having you trial it! Beautiful work on the Osage orange!