WickedWoodsNW

This is a bottom section of an Oregon white tree that we salvaged after the last ice storm that we had a few years ago. We had around a dozen white oak trees and dozens of others removed. The ice storm either caused main limbs, too many limbs, or just took the trees down completely. We mill this on our Woodmizer LX250 sawmill. We also run Woodmizer carbide blades exclusively while milling. This white oak got processed into 8/4 or 2 inch thick slabs. Mostly dimensional, some live edge slabs from the jacket cuts. Ran about 320 board ft of dimensional and another 130 of live edge from this short log. It was around 4 ft across and 5 ft long. A lot of quarter sawn lumber came out of this log.

This is a sister branch to our last claro walnut video. Same tree, different branch. This log was 40 inches at the small end and 52 inches at the crotch peak. Claro walnut is a variation of black walnut with beautiful chocolatey grain! Milled the entire log into 10/4 and 12/4 slabs. 2.5 inch for the majority with just a few 3 inch slabs. This stack will see a minimum of three years of air drying before it hits our kiln. Amazing grain, amazing figure. These slabs sure didn't disappoint. Our WoodMizer LX250 sawmill and Takeuchi TL8 are the workhorses in the video!

We salvage a lot of pine, redwood, and cedar locally. Most of the smaller logs get turned into siding. Our siding is milled at 4/4 or 1 inch thickness and stickered and stacked to dry. We mill the lap siding into 10 inch widths as well as 6 inch widths. They finish at 9 1/4 and 5 1/4 after we straight line rip both sides to get a consistent bottom edge on every piece. We then resaw on a diagonal to create our lap siding.