Milling a Beautiful 15 ft Black Walnut Log into Slabs

This shows us processing a 15 ft long black walnut log on our WoodMizer LX-250 Sawmill. This is longer than what we use for our furniture company and retail sales so it was cut in half. The log had zero taper to it in the entire length. No major visible knots or defects on this log from the outside and nothing major was hiding inside.

Milled the entire log into 8/4 or two inch thick slabs. We ended up with some live edge slabs to be edged later or end up as epoxy projects! No nails or rocks in this log, which was a yard tree from Salem, Oregon which needed to be taken down due to crown death.

We will dry these slabs for a minimum of two years before we kiln dry them.