yeah I learned there is a whole industry utilizing dead or dying trees when the 200 plus year old white oak on our land split down the middle (probably from a burl at the top) Burled trees to the ignorant are not typically healthy trees. We love them for what we can make out of them. But they are typically struggling with some kind of fungal infection, or other antagonist or carcinogen that causes the burling. Sometimes a burl or blister is caused simply be debris being captured in the crotch of a branch or fold of a root as it grows. the burl on our White oak was nearly 100 ft off the ground, and was I want to say about 15 gallons of debri that had been grown over in a crotch of the first major branch. Yes I'm saying the first branch on this tree was about 100 ft off the ground. It was a beast of a oak. Some places walnut can explode in growth. My new house has no trees older than 50 years but the most mature walnut is so massive you'd assume it was over 100 based on its diameter. I have some downed trees I will be milling for projects. Honestly most people that have odd feelings about wood working don't understand how much the entire industry and trade has matured far past sustainability and towards outright amazing environmental husbandry.

Angry people in the comments raging about a 2 year old video... keep up the good work guys. Love the videos.

@@jkellyid sounds like you’re a responsible harvester of trees. My concern is that any time someone sees financial value in something it opens the floodgates to unethical behavior such as the Amazon rain forest. Maybe every ethical harvester should mark and track the history of their supply to take the value out of the product that was unethically harvested.

I can tell ya that we bought a place that had 4 walnut trees on the property. We have been here 32 years and they were grafted onto black walnut root systems . They were quite old and the grafts were failing on them to various degrees. Plus we live in a very flat farm ground area with a 40 acre field that was to the south with the line of walnut trees situated in a row north to south. The far south tree was blown down in the wind. We get very strong winds out here and have lost our roof and had some of the greenhouse blow away, and on our road we once had 6 power poles in a row that snapped off at various heights from about 6’ to 10’ from the ground. The other trees ended up slowly dying over the years. The last two we have some of the main trunks and the black walnut burls. Trees can just be a hazard that people need gone. We had a bird drop a nut from a Turkish Hazelnut tree and it is a few feet from the corner of the garage. It is just small but it has to go! But some people don’t remove such trees and eventually they become a liability. Old orchards and new subdivisions often involve removal of trees. Some go to a local mill if they can, but it’s nice to know some of the trees that the mills don’t take can end up being used for a purpose in other ways rather than pushed into a pile and burned. So basically salvaged and those who think that is wrong are not using their brain to actually research what they choose to complain about. Just a lot of hot air. I love trees. Wish ours could still be standing but rather see more use out of them then let them rot or burn them up. We gave the rest of the usable wood to some who heats their place with wood. We had a horrible ice storm and lost limbs and a few trees are down, two on our field fence. Ash trees. When it dries out (super wet this year in willamette valley in Oregon) but we will try to put them to good use. So utterly silly that people have gotten angry at you for giving these failed or problem trees a good chance at a purposeful use. They should be thrilled they are not just burned up or left to rot or left to fall on a house! Also, in my opinion, Oregon and other states should be removing the burnt dead and dying forest trees so the healthy ones can thrive instead of be fuel for the next fire! BTW beautiful what you all are doing! 🌳

Back in the 70's i worked for two of the largest furniture manufacturers My Position Was The Buyer Purchasing Agent I Purchased ALL The WOOD, PAINTS, FINISHES, IN CHARGE OF THE SANDING DEPARTMENT, SPRAY BOOTHS AND EQUIPTMENT...I WAS LITERALLY IN CHARGE OF PURCHASING EVERYTHING... RIGHT DOWN TO THE CRATING PINE TOO SHIP ... I enjoyed watching the wood turn into masterpieces... beautiful piece's of furniture Some of the movie🎬 studios were are biggest clients...

Austin W They are a class act! Who is your dad? I may know him. 👍

We really appreciate all your comments!

Haha sorry about that 🤣 Thank you so much though! We appreciate hearing that!

Thank you so much!! We're super excited to work on these slabs 😁

Yes they are! Thanks for watching!

GoChaca You should definitely head over there when you get a chance. My suggestion is to call ahead and make sure someone can give you the tour. At a minimum, you will come away with a lot of ideas 💡 There is something about seeing the slabs in person that stirs the creativity! Have fun 👍

Or MDF even ;~)

Fresh Start Fitness Most of what they do over at GL is make veneer for plywood. Believe it or not, their wood slab/burl inventory (as impressive as it is) is just an offshoot of their veneer business! 😲

😂😂😂😂

Online it says they are a “plywood supplier”

It’s incredible!!!

I know what you are getting at, I am an 18 year old wood worker myself but honestly it should not matter what you are pursuing as long as you're passionate about it.

Agreed. We need more young people involved in woodworking businesses. Great video! 👍

Vincent Kaiser 👍

That's so fxxxing cool man. I just got into woodworking recently and it is so exciting man!

very generous!

@@garrettjones8017 i didn't see this until just now but good luck! It's a fun and rewarding hobby and most of the presents i gave this year were wood. Plus I made a bit extra selling some bowls, cutting boards, and jewelry boxes around Christmas so that was nice.

@@livewellwitheds6885 yeah that guy is awesome. We've picked up a bunch of logs and I am taking them out to mill them soon. Stuff i can't find at hardwood dealers too, I have a few elm, and sycamore that we're going slab them so I can make some charcuterie boards.

Buck Nasty Their showroom is awesome. Definitely check it out when you can. 👍

Learn how to kill beautiful trees.

@@totem5375 Well you're a fucking idiot.

CHACE NGUYEN agreed! 👍

It really is!

Now you know!!

Haha thank you! We were super excited, hopefully we will get to back soon and get to geek out over everything again

Black Forest Wood Co. good videos are few and far between take ur time wood is gooder than hell!! (Early Kyler)

Thanks so much!!

Great guys at that place!! We’ve dealt with them before 😁

Haha it really is 🤷‍♀️

thats what she said

We're glad you think so 😄

That's honestly fair!

Small unorganized shop with high turn over go have fun.

You sound like a bitter ex employee!@@SCJME

@@BlackForestWoodCo Nope. By the sound of your reply you have plenty bitter ex employees. Must be safe to assume that my previous comment correrrect!

I'll be sure to keep it down next time! 😄👍

@@BlackForestWoodCo what?!? just kidding. also, you went all the way there to look at their operation and DIDN'T SHOW ANY CUTTING!!! where's the big band saw? where's the actual lucas chainsaw slabbing attachment? come on. you know what i mean. it's a big omission on an otherwise great vid.

Yes, like turned off. This is not an action movie.

@@BlackForestWoodCo Leave it alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I agree. I know it's not your fault I'm going deaf but anything would help. I have "cocktail hour" hearing.

Haha us too 😍

Probably if we had to pick, the sycamore burl!! 😎

He says in another video they spent $100,000 on this trip!

I live 30 minutes from there. What's the place in Port Orchard? Are they open to the public? I'd love to see that place!

Micah Watson The longer story is all these marvelous slabs were owned by a fellow who owns all the MacDonalds on the west side of Puget Sound, something like 24. He sold them to a young man who I met who was trying to make a living selling gun blanks, live edged conference tables and some dimensional lumber. About six months after seeing the contents of the two warehouses, the business sign was removed indicating the business failed and either the original owner took it all back or someone else purchased, and moved everything. I never found out as I had no business bothering people about products I could never afford as the pricing started at $20 a board foot. Anyway the facility is on the road into the landfill transfer station across from the kitsap airport. If you are serious to take a look I could be more exacting. It all may still be there and if you go you will be as amazed as I was.

Micah Watson Was it Creation’s Natural Edge?