- Hey everyone, my name is Matt. Welcome back for another sawmill video. I got a couple more
special guests this time. We have Chad and Colten here today. And they brought some giant logs. So why don't you guys introduce yourselves and tell us a bit about yourself. You guys can decide who gets to go first. - I'm Chad with Midwest Woodturners. This is Colten with Down
to Earth Tree Service. We partnered up on this massive removal of some dying walnut residential trees in River Falls, Wisconsin. We have two trees with four massive logs. - So it all came from two trees there. - Yep. - All this weird stuff was on- - Two trees. That one tree with the
burl had like four burls, two in the canopy, this putrid thing. And yeah, the butt logs were anywhere from 42 to 48 inches in diameter. We couldn't fit our hands around this one. - So, do you guys have a saw
yourself that's usually used or is this just too big for... Why is it here? - We inspire to be like you, Matt. and have your mill.
- Oh, great. - We just have not executed. - So this is like a recon mission for you? - Recon.
(all laughing) - So I thought today we
would cut up the butt log, which is buried down here, of course. 'Cause it's kind of the simplest, 'cause you guys gotta go like
halfway through the day today. And if you wanna come back in
the next video or something, we'll do one of the bigger ones. But this should be a fairly
simple, quick and easy. I'm gonna say easy-ish log
it to get started with. So let's get it over to the saw I guess. And do something with it, I guess. - See if there's any treasures inside? (engine rumbling) (engine rumbling continues) (saw blade whirring) (engine rumbling) - All right guys. Tradition dictates that the guests throw the first bucket of water. So that one's... We'll have the Matt-size one for you. - Perfect. - Which way do we go with this? - In towards each other? (water splashing) - It's the colliding water effect. I don't know. There's nothing in here. You just might as well just
throw it back in the pile and get outta here, I guess. - Yeah. Let it spalt. (Matt laughing) (saw blade whirring) (engine rumbling) (hammer banging) (engine rumbling) (water splashing) - That was not enough water, but it's wood. You got like a little mini
burl thing going on there. And a limb. Otherwise it's just clear walnut. - [Chad] That was weak. - [Matt] Yeah, yeah. - [Chad] That's cool though. - [Matt] So this is actually
something interesting in this. It's just here. - [Chad] it's just in very center. (saw blade whirring) (engine rumbling) - Got some weight. Oh, my god. (water splashing) Bonus splash. Oh yeah, this has got
some stuff going on in it. We got some like top crotch
from this little limb here. And we got this really cool pruning cut where the tree has completely
healed up that wound. And then there's a couple of knots. And then we're just kind of
into just big old clear walnut. Let's get some quick measurements
just to get an idea here. We've got almost 33 down
here at the very tippy top. This is cool though. We got this fun little bulge thing here. It comes out to 38. And then all the way
down here, we're at 41. So that's, I guess that's a
whole tabletop slab. Okay. Oh, and by the way, Chad
and Colten had to go, so it's just me now
left to my own devices. (water splashing) That wasn't very good. This one's got this
really cool bark inclusion coming up through here. And I think... Is this the center? This is the pith. So we got the pith line going straight up. We got quarter sawn all the way across. And we got some fun bark inclusion. And with the pith line. Some people really like this. They have all the little
original limbs from the tree as it was growing up before
all these limbs came off and didn't actually develop
into full blown branches. And you can see this nice
little pocket up here where something happened. Almost like it split into
two and then it didn't... And it healed back up
and kept going up again. That's pretty cool. Trees are amazing. Okay, let's see what's going on here. I missed a spot. I missed the most exciting part. All this situation down here with this bark inclusion has created a whole heck of a crazy
ripply thing going on here. All this crazy curl and figure along the outside of the log. The rest is just walnut. Everything else down here. Oh, I guess there's this cool
knot thing in the middle here with some fun figure stuff around it and a slightly smaller one over there. But otherwise pretty
well clear, fairly wide. Okay, here we go. Okay. Okay. Oh, this is cool, now. We're all the way through that knot there. We just have a little
bit of the figure left. And just like where
the knot would've been. And we got this crack all the way down. And we got the situation room over here as I'm gonna call it. 'Cause it's a situation of craziness. (engine rumbling) (saw blade whirring) Nice actually. Ah, maybe I caught you
off guard on that one. (Matt laughing) Very clear, with the exception of that bark inclusion crack
structural defect thing there. And then otherwise there's nothing. It's just clear walnut
the rest of the way. All right, this one again kind
of plain and clear up here, but maybe something fun down
here in this kinda zone. Yeah. We're back to this,
whatever this crazy thing is at this bark inclusion
crazy curl situation here. And looks like there's
some kind of weird curl or something like striation
through here in the middle, if we can see that. Something weird's going on there. So this was really fun. It's nice to cut stuff and
it's like a little more, I don't know, normal and
mundane and less difficult. It's a very simple log, very clean grain. And nothing too
particularly crazy going on. But the other four logs
that Chad and Colten brought should yield some more unique things, which I'm looking forward to. They'll be back with us tomorrow and we'll be cutting up, I think, the larger trunk crotch log thing. And we'll see what treasures
are inside of there. So that's gonna do it for this one. Thank you, as always, for watching. I greatly appreciate it. If you have any questions
or comments on the saw mill, anything back in the shop or whatever, please feel free to leave me a comment. As always, I'll be happy to answer any questions you might have. And until next time, happy woodworking.
