That log must have been incredibly expensive! It’s so rare to see a White Oak tree with: that clarity, that diameter, such a large % of heartwood and such a small pith. Thanks for posting! 🙏
What a beauty ! Atleast 200 yr old white oak with majestic grains..... even the blue from the nails are so beautiful..... Wow...this tree indeed, has had an incredible journey.
After careful consideration I looked back on my life growing up here in the Southeastern US. Farmers sometimes had to use what they could afford. At first I thought 3 stranded electric wiring placed in the fork. However, it would have to been there as a slightly older sapling. Didn't make sense because it wouldn't have tall enough for electrical wiring that far back in time. But if this tree was along the perimeter of a pasture then the next logical answer was barbed wire. Didn't take much to keep a dairy cow up. They didn't challenge barbed too much but would stretch it. This makes sense as the wire strands had been placed at different heights on one side of the tree. No nails of that small diameter and length was available that many years ago. "Try driving one into a green white oak without bending it". I've seen this done many times over. No Staples or nails used, just tighly stretched Barbed wire woven in and out around the pasture line. Eventually after being stressed/stretched/rusting they break off. Then another strand is put up in place. The staining occurs in White oak from material with a lot of iron. Real bluish. Nails stain similarly but not blue due to less iron. The barbed wire, and down here in those days, there was single strand barbed wire, appeared to have been replaced a minimum of 3 times after each previous strand rusted away enough to snap. Then the tree healed around it and the damage to the grain along the vertical flow began. Unique historical lumber. You don't have to cut them out to sand them down and epoxy over it to have absolutely beautiful table tops or bar tops with a story behind them. Great video and took me back in time. This is why my grandfather would not allow me to accept any pasture or yard trees for sawing with our huge circular saw mill. Our family and friends knew better because we pastured our milk cows in this manner. Thank you so much sir. I could use a kitchen table or coffee table from those slabs. Wow
I have these trees all over my yard some with the barbed wire going strait thru the middle and they are always black stained when you cut them. I think its probably bullet lead to be that blue most likely buck shot or target practice tree but if your not there to take it out and look at it you never know.
Beautiful Board Slabs. They'd make some gorgeous table tops. Even if the very center is cut out and the two quarter-sawn parts on each side stitched together. But I think I'd leave the Blue Stain in for Character ! I'd LOVE to get my hands on one or two slabs like this.
Quarter sawn white oak is fantastic material for furniture. A great amount of that was lost in milling like this. Then again the log was most likely sent to you to be cut as it was for another purpose. Too bad so much was spoiled by nail stains. That can never be foreseen.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, wood !! And might I add excellent Sawyer work. Most people don't understand that where you start and or how you choose to cut can make a HUGE difference in the grain and figuring you end up with on your boards.
@@garywiggett2729 there are several different cuts you can get slabs like that in the USA its just that unless you are doing live edge stuff as a mill worker you are going to straight line rip saw all the live edge off any way so it still gets turned into BTUs then most of the stuff with knots will get cut around too because customers refuse the pieces with knots really its pretty clesr you dont work in this field
My dad built our house in PA 80 years ago, he said that he used 4 X 8 sheet of cider on the out side. I always thought he was exaggerating. But after seeing the size of some of these tree maybe he wasn't.
Surprised the metal detector didn't pick the metal up or maybe it did and they decided to try it anyway! We would try the metal logs when the blade was getting to the end of its life - it always takes a few dozen stelite tips out at the cost of £3 or £4 each (they are brazed on and profiled as the blade is sharpened) but you can be lucky (very rarely)
Larch fir and spruce trees in some areas around me are littered with shrapnel, granedes, bullets and stone from explosions from first and second world war. Those beautifull trees are up to 5 feet thick, but you can't saw them without wreaking havoc on the blades, so we avoid them in general.
Just got home from the local home improvement store. Was wondering why you can't buy oak over 1 inch that isn't glued together from 1 inch lumber. Still wondering. Beautiful wood. Nice video! ありがとうございます.
You can't buy lumber like this at a home improvement store. You need to go to a real hardwood dealer such as: www.highlandhardwoods.com/ or www.nwtimber.com/
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That saw would need to be ground out, benched then re swaged or re tipped (it was painful to listen to) and no just filing wouldnt keep it going the marking was so bad
I always wonder why the mills don't use modern metal detectors to pinpoint nail locations. Even the new hand held detectors can spot a nail in the center of a 36" bore. I use mine to scan logs before killing a bandsaw blade. I use a deep hole saw to core out the nail. My re-saw blade cost only $175 US. I hate to think what the blade for a large mill costs.
I just hate to watch a sawyer cutting logs filled with blade killing nails. This is obviously a serious lumber sawing operation so I'm wondering why they don't use a metal detector to scan the log before or during the milling operation, it might save hundreds if not thousands if you can locate a nail or an em-bedded bullet before your blade hits is and needs to be re-toothed - just wondering.
I'll work on making a short video. We are a high output hardwood mill. I would have fell asleep, the way this guy is sawing. Too slow. We churn about 40,000' a shift, each headrig. Times two headrigs and resaws!! Alot of boards!!
I wish there had been a mill this big near where my folks lived. They had five white oaks that were as large or bigger than this log. To give you an idea, the biggest was with in ten points of being the largest in the state. Sadly about 20 years ago it went down. I wish I'd a way to get it out of the woods and sawed into boards.
I wonder if you could use some solution (to remove the oxidation) to return the steel to its original form for removal, of stain, or the metal with magnet?
this is pretty cool next vid may i suggest running it through an audio program and maybe reducing that white noise from the saw? Don't take it all the way out just make easily watchable.
The metal didn't help the blade at all...that rhythmic thumping is the seam trying to come apart or a severely bent tooth. I have a large farm with lots of old oak, walnut, maple, etc... there's metal everywhere in these trees and that blue stain is classic.
I wonder how much white oak costs per board foot in Japan? Or, should I say per board meter, divided 3 (since a meter is about 3 feet)? I expect importation will naturally make it more expensive than it is here, where it's a domestic wood.
With that blade, those small nails really don't matter. It's like a circ saw going through brads. Now, if I hit one of those, that's a new blade on the LT35 lol.
Because Japan is paying more than top dollar for these logs. Oak, cherry, walnut, and any other top quality wood. If it was your wood you would sell it to them too for what they are paying.
Nail where? At what time stamp, those things turn the wood blue. I worked a rail road tie mill once, we got a log that had gone hollow and some farmer filled it with rocks. That put us down for the rest of the day while the sawyer replaced teeth. O.K. I see it now.
That log must have been incredibly expensive! It’s so rare to see a White Oak tree with: that clarity, that diameter, such a large % of heartwood and such a small pith. Thanks for posting! 🙏
Thats what i was woundering as well
What a beauty ! Atleast 200 yr old white oak with majestic grains..... even the blue from the nails are so beautiful..... Wow...this tree indeed, has had an incredible journey.
Amazing white oak with blue iron staining. Wonderful table tops.
After careful consideration I looked back on my life growing up here in the Southeastern US. Farmers sometimes had to use what they could afford. At first I thought 3 stranded electric wiring placed in the fork. However, it would have to been there as a slightly older sapling. Didn't make sense because it wouldn't have tall enough for electrical wiring that far back in time. But if this tree was along the perimeter of a pasture then the next logical answer was barbed wire. Didn't take much to keep a dairy cow up. They didn't challenge barbed too much but would stretch it. This makes sense as the wire strands had been placed at different heights on one side of the tree. No nails of that small diameter and length was available that many years ago. "Try driving one into a green white oak without bending it". I've seen this done many times over. No Staples or nails used, just tighly stretched Barbed wire woven in and out around the pasture line. Eventually after being stressed/stretched/rusting they break off. Then another strand is put up in place. The staining occurs in White oak from material with a lot of iron. Real bluish. Nails stain similarly but not blue due to less iron. The barbed wire, and down here in those days, there was single strand barbed wire, appeared to have been replaced a minimum of 3 times after each previous strand rusted away enough to snap. Then the tree healed around it and the damage to the grain along the vertical flow began. Unique historical lumber. You don't have to cut them out to sand them down and epoxy over it to have absolutely beautiful table tops or bar tops with a story behind them. Great video and took me back in time. This is why my grandfather would not allow me to accept any pasture or yard trees for sawing with our huge circular saw mill. Our family and friends knew better because we pastured our milk cows in this manner. Thank you so much sir. I could use a kitchen table or coffee table from those slabs. Wow
@Barry West I was wondering how far down the comment section I would have to go before someone said barbed wire. I'd bet my last dollar it was.
I have these trees all over my yard some with the barbed wire going strait thru the middle and they are always black stained when you cut them. I think its probably bullet lead to be that blue most likely buck shot or target practice tree but if your not there to take it out and look at it you never know.
Can hear and see the damage to the sawblade, the regular bumping sound and the evenly spaced scores along the face after the blade hit the nail.
Yes ouch
My saw mill would have stopped and got out metal detectors a we would have removed metal right then and there!!
Beautiful Board Slabs. They'd make some gorgeous table tops. Even if the very center is cut out and the two quarter-sawn parts on each side stitched together.
But I think I'd leave the Blue Stain in for Character !
I'd LOVE to get my hands on one or two slabs like this.
Arigato
WOW....Very nice looking White Oak...:-) sweet.... ty.
This tree definitely had an adventurous life. I would love to be able to be there so that I could look at it up close and personal.
That is some beautiful woof? the grain is amazing! I especially like the blue staining caused by the nails, is stunning.
William Mann that’s an interesting chemical reaction. I’ve never seen that before.
Might have used copper nails to get that color. Who knows?
I have white oak floors and white oak dining table in my house. Beautiful wood.
arigato
This is so satisfying to watch
Another wonderful international log on the Sasada saw mill, being made into quality lumber.
Backyard Timber always seems to have Nails in it
That tree looks like it had grown around a few cables.
D'oh!! Now we have fancy blue wood coffee tables instead.
I'm guessing real old iron nails, that's a large area and streaks of staining
90 degrees and fate would have produced so much more beautiful timber.
That tree was on a fence row and it was never cut because the loggers new it had hardware thats why it got so big.
Magnificent timber and a Beast of a Bandsaw!
Quarter sawn white oak is fantastic material for furniture. A great amount of that was lost in milling like this. Then again the log was most likely sent to you to be cut as it was for another purpose. Too bad so much was spoiled by nail stains. That can never be foreseen.
Gorgeous, gorgeous, wood !!
And might I add excellent Sawyer work.
Most people don't understand that where you start and or how you choose to cut can make a HUGE difference in the grain and figuring you end up with on your boards.
arigato
Glenn James It helps starting with a log of that quality, too!
@@CommercialForest YES !!!
That helps alottttttt !!!
Awesome white oak, a great tree. Lots of board feet from that log!
This is the best way to utilize almost the entire log and no wastages from cutting the canth way they do in USA
@@garywiggett2729 there are several different cuts you can get slabs like that in the USA its just that unless you are doing live edge stuff as a mill worker you are going to straight line rip saw all the live edge off any way so it still gets turned into BTUs then most of the stuff with knots will get cut around too because customers refuse the pieces with knots really its pretty clesr you dont work in this field
True you dont see that kind of diameter very often sad about that staining though
Beautiful grain!
Wow, how old that tree was....those nails at the center must have been placed a very very long time ago...
Probably fencing as opposed to nail because there is an awful lot of staining for just a nail or 2
I personally saw a log that had a musket grown in it boy did that raise hell with the teeth on the blade
Yoshihiro the white oak has beautiful medium brown grain I soo enjoy the video.Thanks be blessed.
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That saw is just crazy sharp with tremendous power. Looks like this log was ment for fire wood .
My dad built our house in PA 80 years ago, he said that he used 4 X 8 sheet of cider on the out side. I always thought he was exaggerating. But after seeing the size of some of these tree maybe he wasn't.
Surprised the metal detector didn't pick the metal up or maybe it did and they decided to try it anyway!
We would try the metal logs when the blade was getting to the end of its life - it always takes a few dozen stelite tips out at the cost of £3 or £4 each (they are brazed on and profiled as the blade is sharpened) but you can be lucky (very rarely)
Somebody pulled a fast one on you and sold a fence row white oak to Japan
Larch fir and spruce trees in some areas around me are littered with shrapnel, granedes, bullets and stone from explosions from first and second world war. Those beautifull trees are up to 5 feet thick, but you can't saw them without wreaking havoc on the blades, so we avoid them in general.
Que belleza tiene la madera, es realmente hermosa.
Very beautiful grain in it
Enjoyed and gave a Thumbs Up also
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Arigatou
Just got home from the local home improvement store. Was wondering why you can't buy oak over 1 inch that isn't glued together from 1 inch lumber. Still wondering. Beautiful wood.
Nice video! ありがとうございます.
You can't buy lumber like this at a home improvement store. You need to go to a real hardwood dealer such as: www.highlandhardwoods.com/ or www.nwtimber.com/
Beautiful white oak!!!
Arigato
Lots of money in that log. Nice grain pattern.
I feel like I should get paid for watching this.
Wonder how old this magnificent tree was? Absolutely gorgeous.
White Oak: Fine Wine and Whiskey Barrels, and some Rum and Sherry aged in the spent Whiskey barrels, but Red Oak: Now that's reserved for Santa Maria BBQ...
I think thats fence wire when the tree was young
Yes. Or bullets.
That saw would need to be ground out, benched then re swaged or re tipped (it was painful to listen to) and no just filing wouldnt keep it going the marking was so bad
I always wonder why the mills don't use modern metal detectors to pinpoint nail locations. Even the new hand held detectors can spot a nail in the center of a 36" bore. I use mine to scan logs before killing a bandsaw blade. I use a deep hole saw to core out the nail. My re-saw blade cost only $175 US. I hate to think what the blade for a large mill costs.
You can cut smaller boards from the stained slabs, and use the stained portions to make things like bowls and plates or woodcarvings.
Table top.
That tree might have been use as a fence post when it was a very young tree.
they might have lost some money on that log
I wonder how long a saw blade lasts cutting like this?
Those will end up as blow-your-mind-expensive table tops in corporate boardrooms.
Ain't that the truth.
A thing of beauty to watch.
I wonder how much that middle slab, with the unusual staining, was sold for? Just the asthetics alone was worth a bunch.
The only one getting a timber log out of my woodlot,would be me.
Oohh quarter saw that sucker,it will worth it's weight in gold. 12-14" quarter sawn white oak mmmm good.
Tom Smith with such a large diameter log of that quality, i’m kind of surprised it’s not being made into plywood veneer.
Excellent job sawyer!
Arigato
No, should have rotated the log, then throw away the middle.
I just hate to watch a sawyer cutting logs filled with blade killing nails. This is obviously a serious lumber sawing operation so I'm wondering why they don't use a metal detector to scan the log before or during the milling operation, it might save hundreds if not thousands if you can locate a nail or an em-bedded bullet before your blade hits is and needs to be re-toothed - just wondering.
Surprised to see it sawed through and through, like to see how it's processed for the end product.
I'll work on making a short video. We are a high output hardwood mill. I would have fell asleep, the way this guy is sawing. Too slow. We churn about 40,000' a shift, each headrig. Times two headrigs and resaws!! Alot of boards!!
Waisting a lot of clears doing it that way.
Why y'all scared of it? It won't bite. Saw that SOB! Saw, saw, saw!
That's what makes the 2x video speed option so great!
That’s gonna make some beautiful tables
Arigato
would love one large wide slab to make a naturl wood table
Nails driven in the 1800’s I’d say ...... damn settlers
Wow! Very pretty wood!!
Arigato
How old was this tree? It looks very big!
Know idea
Sorry
Arigato
I wish there had been a mill this big near where my folks lived. They had five white oaks that were as large or bigger than this log. To give you an idea, the biggest was with in ten points of being the largest in the state. Sadly about 20 years ago it went down. I wish I'd a way to get it out of the woods and sawed into boards.
Thanks for showing !!
Arigato
Boy I would love to own that wood.
Arigato
Nice wood but I like Red Oak better for look and smell!
Just curious,,,What made the blue coloring? The Nail?
I wonder if you could use some solution (to remove the oxidation) to return the steel to its original form for removal, of stain, or the metal with magnet?
Difficult
Arigato
Well, we don't have to wonder what someone's hobby is/was.😢😂😊😅😮
this is pretty cool next vid may i suggest running it through an audio program and maybe reducing that white noise from the saw? Don't take it all the way out just make easily watchable.
May I suggest that you turn down your volume?
Exciting to watch...
Will make nice coffee tables!
Ok
Arigato
I'm waiting for the snow flakes to get here,
marty the pin head
@@tboneone4005 finally a left coast liberal snowflake.
That was an older smarter living thing than Marty boy ..
@@garybrinker4522 shhhh the poor little trees will hear you..they have feelings too.
@@theeaskey I hope you and the tree are in a good home..
The metal didn't help the blade at all...that rhythmic thumping is the seam trying to come apart or a severely bent tooth. I have a large farm with lots of old oak, walnut, maple, etc... there's metal everywhere in these trees and that blue stain is classic.
usually its a tooth out of set or a slight peeled shaving on one of the teeth.
So mesmarising, could watch this all day. Beautiful wood
Arigato
Beautiful log
There’s a special place in hell for people that drive nails in trees.
ab c, the kids dad I guess, he should have taught them better lol.
Could be bullets. Remember, the U.S and C.S.A. each made a half billion musket balls.
I wonder how much white oak costs per board foot in Japan? Or, should I say per board meter, divided 3 (since a meter is about 3 feet)? I expect importation will naturally make it more expensive than it is here, where it's a domestic wood.
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damn big log! you could of made 4x8 sheets...
A decent high end metal detector would tell you there are nails there. It seems a prudent expense/investment.
With that blade, those small nails really don't matter. It's like a circ saw going through brads. Now, if I hit one of those, that's a new blade on the LT35 lol.
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How much does one of those blades cost to make? are they made on site?
Sawmills around us in West Virginia send all the good logs to japan, idk why they don’t want us to saw it first then send the lumber over?
Because Japan is paying more than top dollar for these logs. Oak, cherry, walnut, and any other top quality wood. If it was your wood you would sell it to them too for what they are paying.
I wonder the age of that tree, did anyone count rings on that monster!!!!! Iron nails have not been used in may years.
This one is very suitable for boatbuilding.
Desktop more money.
everyone thinking the blue in the log is bad... To any true creative artist that would be a great find
Yes, if you're not sawing the log
You need a movable top guide.
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Must cost a fortune to ship that monster to Japan.
White Oak is structural stuff for boat building, wasted on a table IMHO. Quarter saw some for me, please.
Oh
Ok
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kinda looks like thay got nailed on that log
Nail where? At what time stamp, those things turn the wood blue. I worked a rail road tie mill once, we got a log that had gone hollow and some farmer filled it with rocks. That put us down for the rest of the day while the sawyer replaced teeth. O.K. I see it now.
Over the years - I ran into a nail or wire fence a few times. Sure does a number on a chain..
@@stephenodell9688 i ran into a bullet at work the other day but i cought it before we ran it through the moulder save a few bucks on carbide blades
@@christophercombs7561 Did you hear about the guy that took some petrified wood and tried to put it threw a planer?.
@@stephenodell9688 yikes no but that sounds disastrous i would never its bad enough that micro pins chip the planer blsdes i could only imagine stone
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The writing on the wall looks Chinese. Do you think this log was shipped over from USA?
usa
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Uh oh!! Metal I the log!!!
What ever it was, was in the center of a 100+ possibly 200+ year old tree. I would do an age test (dendrochronology) and where did it come from.
I’m guessing it’s closer to 300 yrs old and yes that iron was put there about 200 yrs ago. White oaks grow slow
@@panzerlieb yes 300 years
We have a couple on our farm about that size !
Lots of 175s1😁
time stamp 6:30 "oh well its ruined now, firewood."
Looks pretty disappointing. Woods stained and lots of knots.
arigato
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That old Sawmills doing all that can to cut that that big American Oak
That mill cuts stuff far, far harder than that white oak. They are just really slow with their feed rate.
thank you.
Iron causes blue stain in oak,....and other species.
Thank you, did'nt know that.
I have never seen blue, only black, as the tannin reacts with iron.