There’s a pen Osage Orange tree growing on a front lawn up the street from me. Why this is remarkable is that this is just outside of Toronto. It actually survives the winter here. I didn’t know what it was until I took one of the crazy brain like fruits to several people and one old guy was able to identify it. The correct pronunciation is Bwah D’ark.

I'd just like to introduce myself and say hello. My name is Harold "Cook" of Golden Leaves Tree Care. I live in Indiana, it is a real pleasure to Cyber meet you, Chris. I have subscribed and look forward to seeing more. I really enjoyed my first video with you. Hope you have a great life! GOD bless.

The Osage orange color was fantastic. It would make a wonderful bright room.

Love what you do, sir! Thank you for the peek at your own private little (or not-so little) heaven!

My father was an archery historian. His favorite Long Bow was hand made from Osage Orange! He claimed it was the best he had ever drawn!! 80 lb pull! He hunted deer with it for years! Astonishingly powerful and accurate! He had Nother made with a slight recurve that became an entry in several record bokks!!

Found downed osage orange tree on my property a couple months ago. It was about 18" in diameter and had a nice 8' straight, no knot truck. It really milled up nice. Drying it now and trying to come up with something interesting to make with it.

Absolutely Gorgeous Wood. Looking forward to turn some of it. Thanks for sharing.

Had tons of those on our property when I was a kid in OK. Bo-dark is how we pronounced it. A huge one bigger than this about 100' from our house. The trunk was quite twisted. I dulled many chainsaw blades on those things. Thanks so much for the video.

Lol grew up cutting hedge for firewood. Yes sawdust yellow

What a great cut! I live just down the hill from you....Medford. I hope to go to your facility in the near future to see all the action in real time.

Osage orange. I grew up calling the hedge trees .

Awesome wood……..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very nice job and nice saw.

The defect would make a nice table top. Fill it with acrilic-poxy

There is a traditional Bowyer in my area that would have been salivating over that Osage Orange wood. We use the cut fruits (Monkey Balls) as an insect repellent during autumn. The active ingredient, Elemol, is a sesquiterpene that acts kind of like DEET. But don't get the sap on your hands...

osage is my favorite wood to work with. it is very common in this area of southeast PA. lots of good workable waste for smaller projects can be found just by driving around where tree crews clearing overgrown roadsides have left abandoned chunks and cut-offs. nothing beats free wood ;-) do beware of breathing that yellow dust.. it is not healthy to inhale.

you can tell that you love your job. this makes watching the video so much more enjoyable than it would be anyways, nice work

The French called it bois de arc, meaning wood of the bow. Native Americans used it for primitive bows. The Latin name is maclura pomifera. Thanks for the vid. I love this wood for carving. It was planted by the millions as hedges after the dustbowl in the 1930s by our government to prevent another topsoil stripping disaster. Read up on it. It is very important and interesting.

I use this wood, Osage Orange laminated in my walking cane handles and it has been difficult to find boards wide enough ( only 4-5 inches needed ). This will change all that and much more cutting such a huge log. Very NICE ! I like how you obtain so many really rare, exotic woods from around the world. Makes for some real beautiful hardwoods in a plethora of colors.

Rare find to get a log that big. Beautiful pieces from that log. The Indians around here used the wood to make their hunting bows and arrows. The hedge apples were used to deter vermin from getting into their winter food storage.

We had one and the twp. Chopped it down I was 😠 it was 12 foot off the right of way

Very cool....you just earned a new subscriber.

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! Really nice looking wood and at least I loved the yellowgreen (mimosas) sawdust. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing. Best regards luck and health to all of you.

Glad this popped up. That size is fantastic. I made a video cutting up a smaller one here in Ohio. I also took a short log to Out Of the Woods.

Osage Orange along with Black Locust and Red Mulberry are the three somewhat similar extremely rot resistant hardwoods in North America. These are more rot resistant than Redwood or Cedar.

I’ve made some beautiful bowls and vases out of this wood.

Hola, Buen dia..maravilloso..el...video...por poder conocer..tan maravillosa máquina..de asserrar...la.madera...de Maclura..sinceramente...fantástico ...muchas.gracias ❤ 😊

Boettcher Sawmill in Missouri has been known to find and cut large hickory and oak burls 6 footers. Need to get in touch one day.

Cameraman should have shown us a close up of the quarter sawn, that’s the best part of any tree!!

Is this also what Midwesterners called Hedge?

That yellow color is spectacular, but unfortunately osage wood turns to a reddish brown in a few weeks if it is shaded, and in a few days in the sun.

Really enjoyed the video, just before you jump in the loader at 1m.55sec are those walnut burl root sections behind you? it would be interesting to see how you cut those. I was rough turning some of your myrtle burl a few days ago, beautiful wood with great colours :-)

?Few people know; the sawdust is used/can be used to stain cloth yellow. It will stain you, as well!

The problem is it won’t stay yellow, it will turn a dark brownish color especially in the sun or exposed to sunlight and as it ages

Need to cut the scraps into turning blanks

That sawdust makes an effective dye for wool.

IPE has a similar sawdust color sort of a fluorescent green!

Axe handles!!!!! I read that this was tested to be the most shock resistant wood in North Ametica... I think.

Even the short pieces either end of that occlusion are worth the trouble.

I've read that the monkey balls were the fodder for some of our megafauna such as mastodons, but that we have nothing in the America's now that can eat these (thus spreading the seeds).

“Bow-Dark”

that is ONE BIG BANDSAW,,DID YOU BUILD IT yourself? those must be 5 foot wheels

shoulda split it straight down that check, then slabbed out the bottoms and middle. Leave the corners for turning.

We have a fair amount of them around here but none that big! Awesome mill. I thought mine was big at slabbing 65".

splits and cracks real bad while curing though!

how can we see what you are pointing at when the camera is on you not it.

How old was this one

there seems to be a different species of Hedge tht is redder,not quite that bright lemon yellow,,probably some botanist knows this,at a university somewhere

It is beautiful when fresh cut. Unfortunately, it oxidises to a drab brown regardless of the finish the you put on it.

Where is that tree from. Cant believe the size. When we bought our ranch in nkrthern California in 95 we coukd hardly gwt in. Half mile of these trees where used as a fence line and were animals at that. We cut down and made firewood out of 90% of the trees. The oldest I counted was juat short of 70 years and not a one of them was hardly near 2 feet wide. More like 70 years for 18 inches.

Monkey ball tree!

75 years old?? try 175 yeras!these are super slow growing,,hedge rows planted in 1880 around here in missouri are only 36 INCHES IN diameter

The Cameraman had my anxiety up! Lol. Not trying to bash anyone. But it'd definitely benefit him and the channel, if he/she? Took a few lessons from a professional. There's quite a few times when you were pointing out defects or spots in the log as you were talking. And the camera was stuck on you entirely, so we couldn't see what you were looking at or trying to show us. There's also a few times where you were either zoomed in too much or not enough. You got to think of the camera as your eyes. If someone is talking to you, do you stare directly into their soul? Lol or do you kind of observe things as their talking. I'm definitely not a professional! But ijs, there's some area's for improvement. I may not be a pro a making KZfaq videos, but I'd consider myself a Pro at watching them! Lol I will say all in all not horrible, I liked the content. It was cool seeing the heavy machinary work. That's also something that would have been cool to see. Is to watch the operator working the controls in the cab. If u can't fit two people, maybe strap a gopro to yourself or the window etc etc. Hopefully you see these critiques as a positive and not me just trying to rip on ya! Because I like your content, ijs that there's a few things that I noticed. That your channel could greatly benefit from. Along with your viewers would benefit the most. All in all good video! Nice beautiful wood!

I wonder what they named the saw......

Myrtle wood

second only to hickory for weight in the United States

bow wood

Kind of a shame to cut it into such short lengths. Seems like a good teak substitute.

There is no way it's wood is so yellow

Camara person needs to widen out the shot when the man is explaining things with his hands. Other then that, 👍👍👍.

You need to talk to your camera person and get them to show we’re you are pointing and what you are speaking on. We already know what you look like

Skip the first 8 minutes of talking… 😂😂

You need to fire your camera person... Watched to the last 2:30 & quit.. 🤦🏻‍♂️ -0- footage of any of this beautiful wood you spoke of during the whole vid😡👎🏻

Halfway thru reapeated himself 3 times, no wood cutting, not subscribing to yet another history channel baiting show.