Thanks for the for mentioning me. In my way of thinking, that's what social media should be all about, sharing both what you know and learn to make our world a better place.

Nice work guy! I liked story of your sentimental connection with the tree.

Thank you for taking us along for the ride.... I enjoyed it

thats the first time i seen a tree go down so slowly well done that was a good to see from Wales

My grandparents had an american sycamore in their back yard in Gladstone, Mo. It was a huge old tree and I always enjoyed the single rope swing. You could climb so high you could peer out over the tops of all the other trees in the neighborhood. Had to be well over 100yrs old as the girth was immense. But alas, after my granny passed several years ago, Dad had to have the tree removed as it was in very poor health. But my memories are still strong.

I had to have two HUGE sycs cut down last year. Gonna have to find a way to get those trunks that are close to four feet across milled for me. I have chain saw slabbed and routed smooth some of the smaller pieces and the grain is awesome. In the process of making a desk top, book case and a few other items from them.

Excellent job, thanks for not turning that into firewood! Keep up the good work!!

Wow, never knew sycamore was so beautiful!! Great videos

At last, Sycamore is such an underappreciated wood. So glad to see it getting showcased.

I like the way you mention others and give credit to them. You seem like a good guy.

Great, I worked in a sawmill as a young man buy never saw Sycamore before. Thanks

Great video as always! Keep up the great work and the lumber is beautiful I’m sure you will do great things with it!

Fall Line Ridge man thats some pretty red wood grain.Thanks bless you.

beautiful boards...and harvested it just at the right time...🙂👊👍👌🌳

That is a fine piece of work and great tips on the cutting as well...

They turned out nice!

If you are falling trees for Timber only I would be cutting them as close to the ground as possible and in some cases I would be digging around them to get lower, Chains are cheap and relatively easy to sharpen once you get the hang of it.

So glad you pointed out that sawyers cut dying or diseased trees or trees from construction sites or trees removed that may be dangerous. The public sometimes gives us a bad rap thinking we just are destroying forests. Really enjoy your videos!

Have a huge sycamore in my back yard. Over 3ft diameter trunk at the base. Love that tree. Gives the best shade in the summer.

Nice job!

Great content I’m sure you will find a great place for that.

I have TONS of sycamore trees in my back yard... I'm actually growing one from seed for the craps and giggles... I have found it fun to be honest.

I have used the same stuff to coat the ends of the logs. But I have found that just about any paint will do the same thing and mismatch paint at the paint store is very cheap. Of course some of my boards may be purple or pink on the end but it works too stop end splitting so I am happy

My first couple of trees I felled were of the same death is lurking technique ...Big trees...Didnt have you tube back then with great tutorials on how to properly cut a tree down..

Your sycamore became sicklymore! Ha! Beautiful wood though. Nice job. Thanks for sharing. I would love to see the finished product, once the wood is dried.

A suggestion, when you have a log so far from your mill, lay a rope from the mill to the log, over the log and back to the mill. Anchor the mill end with a stake and pull on the log end. If you strong enough the log will roll all the way to the mill. Just a little faster than than the Cant Hook.

Thank you ....we have a huge old sycamore that limbs are falling out of and the roots are getting into our sewer lines so it must be removed and I am so interested in getting a mill and getting wood out of all the huge old trees on our property. I was given the impression that the sycamore tree wood was too soft to be good for anything but the inside of drawers for furniture.....now I am hopeful it can be used for other things....Thank you.

Through your fine video, Sycamore has been redeemed in my eyes. Before retirement I worked for a hardwood veneer mill that ran a brief experiment with Sycamore. Under the veneer knife, it appeared to be a soft, coarse fibered wood that peeled quite rough in comparison to oaks, gums and poplars. Peeling the outer rings off in sequence does not display the beautiful cross grain you expose with your sawmill. A brief experiment with hickory showed it to be an ornery powerful wood that won every skirmish with tools as well as other woods. It was too strong to use in laminate products and every fiber from bark to core waged war on mill equipment. By comparison, Sycamore was gentle on equipment.

Well, about the wood. I use it for firewood but after seeing this I will save the trunk for slabs. Thanks Fall Line Ridge guy.

You should always quarter saw sycamore.keeps the wood more stable plus get a really nice fleck pattern.try it, you will like it much better.

beautiful lumber.

Beautiful wood

Some good looking wood

Being from Calgary I've never seen Sycamore lumber before, at least nothing but photos & definately nothing this pretty! What a beautiful stack of wood, would love to have that sitting in my shop.

Beautiful wood - I would love to see what youve made with it 😄

Great video, and camera work.

Good point about blade speed and engine speed.

Good looking slabs! Keep us informed as to how they dry and what you build out of them .

good job

Thought I was having a past acid trip slo mo session

Two years ago, my neighbor felled a large dead sycamore (26" DBH) and let me have the trunk. I had a sawyer quarter-saw the wood, after which I stacked it with stickers to dry in my shop. This year, I tried using some of this wood for a river pour, and I found out that sycamore dried to 8-10% moisture is like a sponge. Not only that, but it's also soft for a hardwood, a bit softer than yellow pine. The river pour turned into an ordeal, compared to my several pours using walnut slabs, but I managed to salvage the project. If the wood hadn't had nice flecking and spalting, I'd have trashed that pour. Quarter-sawn sycamore certainly can look nice, but in my experience, it's not very good wood to work with. I prefer walnut, maple, and cherry in the way of domestic hardwoods.

I had the exact thing happen to a big one here. Drought killed it and the tree started dropping limbs. It is a beautiful wood tree - I call it American Mahogany with the beautiful rays and sparkle in the wood. Hope yours is. Dad had a big big one on his farm - it was over 15' in circumference and was killed by the local cement company with dry cement dust on the leaves almost every day. Killed his hole side forest before the FED was called in to clean them out. Dangerous to human as well. Good luck. Good for the Anchorseal I use it on my turning stock.

"All right young ones, this is a perfect example of how not to cut down a tree."

thanks

If you ever run across another sycamore, quarter saw it. You wont believe how incredible it is....

Most sycamore I've seen (Eastern Ky) are much taller! Sycamore is a very pretty light color but you wouldn't want to try to make shingles out of it.. Glad there was no more wind blowing than there was, could has been dangerous!

Nice video,

Keep us updated on how the Sycamore drys and turns out.

Been watching your videos for a couple days now and was curious if you'd milled any sycamore. My pulpit at church is sycamore, but I've never seen it used anywhere else. It made a beautiful piece of furniture. Nice to see what the slabs look like.

I wore a hat similar but a little smaller during my last two tours in 'Nam. Wore it till it wore out

I would be very happy with just the stump to work on!!

The grain is nice like that. But quarter saw some, I think you will be surprised how it looks.

No hinge on the fell. Pretty slab for gumwood tree.

Nice wood, but I've only seen Sycamore quarter- sawn until now. I was scared for you as you were cutting the tree down in a method I had never witnessed before. Thankfully you survived.

Just an observation, not a criticism. When felling a tree for milling, most people and this includes safety experts walk away when they hear the first crack. I don't. Keep sawing until it's toppling. There's still plenty time to escape and it reduces centre splinter which can ruin the centre planks. Also, for milling. lift the thin end of the log so your first cut is parallel to the centre line. You'll learn son. Practice makes perfect. Regards.

Nice job sawing but a word of warning from experience. Sycamore lumber despite its beauty is notorious for warping and curling. To help with this you have to sticker it really well and weight it down heavy until it dries. Which takes alot longer than other woods as it hold an incredible amount of water. One other thing you noticed its softness you cant use it in a structural purpose. Its great in furniture or panels if you can dry it without the for mentioned issues. That all said that was some quite beautiful wood best of luck in processing it into something of beauty. I do love watching you video's.

Mizer has a lot of pro and con vs the lucas mill...If I had to choose I would buy the Lucas mill due to its flexibility in doing horizontal and vertical cuts without moving the log...

Sycamore trees are like elm.their grain is twisted and subject to warping.When the boards are used for roofing the boards will spit the nails.You can hardly split this wood with a good hydralic splitter.The best use for this wood is bread bowls or wagon hubs.That is the reason you see so many sycamore tyrees that have never been harvested.

Try anchoring a lumber strap on sawdust side of mill wrap around log then pull log to your mill makes allot more easy

Did I spy a couple your old BB shot in the cut lumber? thanks for sharing.

Yo man.....that's the first time I ever seen a wedge disappear in a backcut before...haha. Anyway at least yo wearing a hard hat!

At 2:47-2:50 the tree is smiling. It must remember you from when you were young. It has no idea what's coming.

Wow, It's been years since I have seen a Husqvarna L65 at work. Vintage!

Need to watch a few Buckin Billy Ray Vids it will help you fall trees for sure.

The key to that type of wood is curing it properly or else that will end up being firewood.

Sure wish I can find some quarter sawn Sycamore for a classical guitar build.

Put lots of weight on top that lumber while it drys. Sycamore is very active while drying.

how much do you think you could get from one of those slabs?

Nice

Music to my ears seeing a sycamore tree cut down I got 3 acres of ground an it must have have 40 of them nasty things the logs are so heavy its hard to pick them up by hand an takes seams like for ever to dry so you can burn up any of it an yes they will keep coming back

What’d you end up doing with the lumber?

You had a dutchman on your facecut…it closed before it could use the rest of the face cut opening…thats why it fell so slowly

nice looking planks! Wish you would have cut the butt couple inches lower, so you could have had a full 8 ft.? The grain is very colourful, I’d bet that would be real nice to finish with linseed oil, once the boards are dried and planed.....I think your mill makes nice cuts, even, smooth, very consistant with that log. How many trees can you cut like that size, with a band before needing sharpening or replacing? cheers from northern Canada

Beautiful lumber. Sycamore, btw, makes some really good syrup that's why it smells so sweet...because it is. I ran a logging crew for years and yes, you can damn sure get hurt if you don't take the time to make your back cut in the right place. Pine, for instance, is notorious for barber chairing and can shoot backwards at an incredible speed. Bore cutting or plunge cutting was developed to mitigate this danger. There are some good youtube videos on this. Love your mill btw.... pretty awesome cutting your own lumbar.

I understand that you are on your property, but were I replacing an American sycamore, I would purchase and plant a London plane tree. The London plane is a cross between the American sycamore and the European plane tree. They are growing all over NYC and other big cities simply because they hold well to foot and other sorts of traffic.

If you cut the tree lower to the ground you have more wood to mil. And cut a tree calm down don't want to vast. It's only a tip. Her in the Netherlands we learn to cut a tree low from the ground because how more wood you have how more money you can make with the logs and you don't have to cut that Little stump.

Inexperienced cutter.

Dam that tree ate your din din

As you got to where you gave her a shove,twice,I said out loud to nobody,only me.....she dont want to go guy,she just happy where she grew..........then you turn your back-and she gave up-was then that tears ran down my face.

The sycamore boards you want to really look at are the ones closer to the center of the tree. Sycamore has a very pronounced 1/4 sawn ray fleck appearance. Not quite like an oak but still very attractive wood. $$$

And I thought I was the last guy using a Husky to fell trees!

Where are you located?

This tree good is a firewood??

Wouldn't be better to take it down in the late winter to minimise water content?

Do you use your sawdust on your garden

How did the lumber look after drying? I had heard that sycamore needs to be quarter sawn or it'll warp. Was that the case with your lumber, or did it turn out pretty straight?

Come October, prune that azela bush to shape it up for a more healthy bush

Hello, friend, good morning. How are you? I'm from Brazil and I really liked the video. Answer me: Do you use this wood to make furniture? Here in Brazil we know this wood by Platano (Platanus). Thank you very much and success. Wait.

That chainsaw you used must be a Huskvana brand and I have a Stihl which isn't worth half the money I paid for it and I have not gotten an hour's worth of work out of it since owning it. The saw have been in the shop more times than all the other saws combined. I noticed that you was drop cranking it too which is not recommended by the company, but the guys at the repair shop crank their saws that way. The only saw I have which now works fine is the battery saw with the 14" bar on it. I like the mill saw you have and I assume you do that type of work regularly and know what you are doing. You got some good looking wood out of that tree and will make nice table tops.

Here it is 9 months later. What happened to that stump? If you've still got it, I suggest you check out Roger Webb's site. He does wood turnings ,and I'd bet he could turn that chunk of wood into a thing of beauty, and a joy forever.

I'm surprised that you didn't hit any BB's.

YOu should quarter saw sycamore. You'd be surprised at the difference in the look.

You got more out of that than I thought you would

How do you dry your lumber?

Best as a rule bottom cut runs parallel to ground on hillside run it up hill

how long did you wait to mill the log?

I hope you’re wearing ear protection when you’re milling. I was a machinist for 38 years. Did not wear hearing protection. I’m now 71 and completely deaf in one ear and nothing can be done. No aid will help. Take a regretful guys advice. Deaf is no fun.

Sycamore is best for figure when Quartersawn

Just a suggestion, learn what "toe boards" are, and learn to use them properly! IF you would have used toe boards, you would have gotten a couple more boards out of that log. And your second boards out of the log, most likely would have been of a higher grade of lumber. SR