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"I taught myself using KZfaq videos." That really is the best of what KZfaq offers, showing you ways to do things that might not be available to you otherwise.

The best part of the video was when your little boy stepped in to help get the strap loose. There is nothing better than seeing a little boy helping his dad on a project ❤😊

Wes, You need to ask him for pictures of the mantles on the wall so we can see the finished product. You did a wonderful job cutting it.

2:20 "aww, its hooked on...... Oh, there it went." Made tgis 60 year old man smile.

"Log stretcher" cracks me up 🤣🤣🤣 Good job 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Be safe 🇨🇦

As a wood turner, my heart cried when you threw that water across the grain -- all I saw a bowls and plates.

Very few wood species look as beautiful as black walnut. That log you got came out literally perfect. It doesn’t get much better than that.

Great video... beautiful log, and you did an outstanding job with it. As a grandfather, it makes me smile to see you involving your son in this.... it's too easy to just tell them to stay out of the way, I'm working.... you are giving him memories to hold and cherish... love it.

Great job up on the mountain mr.walton with the walnut.gorgous wood.night john boy.

Whatever they're paying you to do this, you are worth every dime. It's not common to see someone take the time, thought and effort to make the most out of such a valuable resource.

Looks like you did a great job on that log. Have to give your helper a raise, see how fast he handle that tie-down problem.

"I taught myself how to mill by watching youtube videos." Me Too! I watched you, Nathan, and Mike Morgan, and now I'm having a ball on my own mill and knew a lot of what to do before I got mine. Thanks for the education.

Nice looking black walnut. Great milling, FLR. They are going to be some excellent mantel pieces. Beautiful wood. Full-watch. 👍🏽🤠 1/7/23

The wood grain in that Walnut is just gorgeous!

"And my log stretcher is still in the shop." :) Ha. Great line.

It is great to see a good woodsman at work, getting the most out of an impossible log. Thank you for sharing this video with us. Educational and informative.

Damn, Wes. That grain is as straight as a die. That quarter round is going to make an awesome mantle. All in all, this is one of your best videos, with some fantastic results. It was wonderful to see the foreman actually doing something to help by unhooking that strap so you could get the logs off the trailer.

Loved seeing your little boy helping and how awesome he was at unhooking that strap all on his own !

You did a great job on that log. I love Black Walnut. That grain pattern is just beautiful.

Beautiful work! I love watching your videos. Merry Christmas

Good job Wes! That’s a beautiful pice of Walnut! Hope he likes it, I would! Take care and stay safe! Hello to all! God bless!✝️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

Great job explaining this work. Glad the customer understood the deal.

Great job sir. The black walnut is gorgeous! It lights up my soul.

Amazing video!! Absolutely love the way it all turned out. Both mantles are exceptional. Well done !

It's great to be able to watch this. We miss you Wes but I understand that you have to follow where the spirit leads you.

Very cool project. I can’t believe the stress in that trunk on the first cut. Gorgeous piece of wood.

Well Done Boss. That mantle turned out decent.

Great video as usual. Made me remember that I have a piece of walnut that I have been carting around for over 40 years. I guess that it is cured by now. It has been kept indoors all the time. It is 95x4x11 3/4 inches.

We get a good bit of black walnut in Northeast Ohio. Everytime i have milled it there is always alot of tension in it. I have had pieces start checking and cracking while I'm milling up the rest of a log....hahah. Great job!

That grain is exquisite. No wonder it's so expensive. What a treat to be able to work with it.

Just now found your channel WES: you did a fantastic job on that black walnut!! My Grandad had a small saw mill, had to use his old tractor and a long belt to turn the blade!! I was 4 years old in 1954. The blade was 4 foot tall. Had to sharpen it alot kept hitting bullets in the logs. "Customer brought in from Arkansas & Oklahoma" HE wouldn't let us kids get close enough to watch him cut those logs!! Loved hearing the blade sing after a cut!! I hit the thumb up for ya. And subscribed!! Catch you later.

I love the smell of the black walnut. one of my favorite aromas.

Great job!! That's beautiful wood God created!! Your little boy is such a big helper!! God bless y'all! ❤️🙏❤️

You did a great job of maximizing that log from the customers request.

Your young helper reminds me of my oldest son when he was that age he was always out where i was helping or wanting to help me in whatever i was doing around tge house and today is still a great help when i need him ! Great job with that walnut log ! Great job ! By the way jus subscribed to your channel ! 👍👍

Love the way your son is sitting on your lap while you're lifting off the tree trunk :)

You made a great video and you very good on that mill When I was younger I done wood work for hobby my walnut products always sold easily

This is a beautiful slab! The black walnut has such an amazingly straight grain. Just gorgeous!

I like your channel because, like you, I have a manual mill. Seeing you solve problems is an inspiration.

My grandfather made all of the Mission style furniture in his house, tables, chairs, rockers, chests, from black walnut. Each year a supplier came through town and knew to stop by my grandfather's shop first because he would buy all of the black walnut. Those trees are so very slow growing, and messy that most people don't want to wait for the cash crop that the lumber can bring, especially if you have the land to do a staggered planting so there are trees of different ages at all times. If people want a permanent dark brown to black dye, there's nothing better than the husk of black walnuts. You got some absolutely stunning slabs and even the waste pieces will be good for small projects or inlay work on blonde wood projects.

A nice video, and those beautiful lengths of Rare Walnut, what a wonderful mantle piece it will make. I enjoyed watching this video in Australia, and your amazing young son running around helping Dad. Thank You 👍

Absolutely gorgeous piece of wood!!! I love that you truly try to meet customers expectations!! I absolutely love your setup!!!!! I would love to get something similar someday!!

Great job sir! You went above and beyond 👏

So pretty! I love watching these sawmills work. This walnut was amazing.

Its wonderful to watch a log turn into a beautiful smooth patterned piece of wood like that

As a Carpenter,,,That was a great looking mantle piece,,, I would love to have some of that

Very interesting and well done video. It would be great to see a picture of the finished mantel.

Despite your obvious skills as a sawyer, more impressive to me is your vision and commitment as a father. Your son will follow you sir, because you embody the true American entrepreneur. (Since you are too busy for golf, I would say guitar.) 🙂 P.S. Would love to see that finished mantle on your customer's wall.

Debarker you don't need no stinkin' Debarker 😂😂😂😂. As always good luck and God Bless.

I really enjoyed seeing what we used to call a portable sawmill in operation. Looking forward to the next video. Gord from British Columbia., Canada.

That walnut looks good. Great job on cutting that mantle. I love to see that "log stretcher" 😂😂😂, in action when you get it back😂.

Great Video! Beautiful wood! So thoughtful about the customer and wood - great planning leads to great successes!

That's some beautiful lumber he should be very happy with it good job cutting it!👌👍

Great sawing, Wes! Great hook man you've got there! 😉 That blade was going through there easily, it looked like from my end. Beautiful cuts! Beautiful wood! Thanks!

Some of the most gorgeous walnut I've ever seen.

Excellent job! I love learning from your channel!

It is tough to work on something that is unreplaceable. I would have tried to have the customer present while cutting so that he could see for himself. Having this video for him to watch is probably the next best choice. Thank you. Have a great holiday with your family.

That’s some beautiful black walnut. It’s great looking wood. Thanks for sharing.

Excellent job. We have lots of Black Walnut in central Kentucky. In northern PA where I grew up dad and I would burn the dead walnut leaners with the oak in the winter. Some of the walnut on our property were 3-4 ft in diameter. The hickory was 12-18”d. Ah, the good ol days.

Always enjoy your work. I’ve been watching you for quite a while now and you are one of 3 KZfaqrs that inspired me to join the sawyer fraternity. I did think you were getting pretty uppity when you bought the tractor with a grapple. That was until bought one for myself and now recognize you as a hillbilly genius. Keep up the good work

Black gold! Walnut is my favorite species and although that log was ugly as sin, you exposed the beauty and gained confidence in the process.

When you did the first cut, cut the log in half, what beautiful wood.

Excellent demonstration of a sound process to get to the desired result. Well done. Merry Christmas.

Love sawing black walnut but it can be tricky though I must say Wes you did excellent job for what you had. That will make some beautiful woodwork.

Kind of silly to hide such beautiful grain against the wall table top is so amazing..great cut sir GOD BLESS you, much love from Mandeville Louisiana

A man who loves what he does!! Great job, great technique!

Black Walnut is my favorite hardwood. This was an amazing video.

I like the sap wood dressing the outside … so beautiful

Nice milling ! Very beautiful Black Walnut wood 🪵 👌 !! Look forward to the Pine milling ......

Found this completely by accident, despite being a rapidly-increasing wood addict: really human and love how you said “bell-end” without missing a beat. And yes, I’m British. You rock mano!

Thank you for this interesting and entertaining video. I really enjoyed it.

That black walnut is beautiful, I would love to get a few logs that size, you and your helper keep up the good work ✅

Sapwood is tough with black walnut! I live in NY, where there is quite a bit of walnut. Still premium! Sometimes it's tough to explain to a customer that a big, all-heartwood piece is not going to be even close to the log diameter. You did what you could. It sounds like you had a flexible customer, which is the best kind!

Your son is so much fun for me to watch, a pure BOY.

Really enjoyed this…Thank you for sharing!

That walnut sure is nice! Nice colors. I hope to get to saw some one day. I’m same as you! Nothing but pine except for one elm tree.Enjoy videos keep them coming!

Great job -- getting a good usable product out of that absolutely beautiful wood is an art!

@2:15 Your little son is great! He exactly knew what needed to be done! Lord Jesus Christ bless and save you all ! Thank you!

Well done. Not often those of us in Georgia get the chance to do the “water on black walnut” shot! Looks great.

Thank you for sharing. I have some black walnut to mill and was looking for ideas.

What a gorgeous piece of walnut! I hope your customer doesn’t stain it, but leaves it’s true color.

I always enjoy your videos! Thanks!!

I hope the guy who ordered this watches this video, you did a great job.

that was two very beautiful pieces of wood for mantles. Great job. have a great day, and thanks for the video.

You did a great job and delivered what the customer asked for. I've got a big mouth, and not only would I have turned down the job, but I would have called the customer an idiot. What's the point of using that big beautiful log, quartered, if you are going to hide the best features of it, one side against the wall and the other side, facing up in a way that you will only ever see it if you are on a ladder looking down on it, otherwise you are looking at a round live edge that looks no more special than any other featureless non interesting species log could provide as far as looking at its live edge. What a huge waste of a beautiful log. No judgment on this KZfaq creator. I really enjoyed the video. Judgment on the customer. This is the type of person that wins the lottery, buys the Monalisa, and "improves" it by painting a mustache on it.

Thank you ladies 😊

[1] I would have turned this nice piece into a dining room table. [2] Also, I would have made a huge amount of Charcuterie Boards out of it and sold them for a mega profit! [3] It just seems too good to just use it as a mantle on a fireplace. Men just don't get the value of these kinds of woods. You just don't CHUNK UP Black Walnut! We have 15-20 of these trees [black walnut] on our farm, but they are still in nutting use. And they are HUGE. Over 125+ years that I know of. My Grandparents planted them on the farm when they first bought it,, and 5 generations have lived on this 388 acre farm. Grandparents planted all kinds of Oaks, Maple [Birdseye Maple] and other trees.

Next to the cedar you have cut I think this Black Walnut is in 2nd place. And it's fun to watch your helper grow. But it's sad because they grow up so fast. Stay Safe good video

I love the sapwood to contrast the beautiful heart

Smart milling. Cool to watch your thought process. Nice vid sir.

Beautiful wood I am so jealous! You did a beautiful job on it!

I loved seeing little man helping out

That’s a nice log! Great job! Black walnut is a scarce source in that size ❤

Great job, enjoyed your thought process.

I have never seen a Walnut log before. It's gorgeous. Especially after you poured the water on it. The grain is gorgeous. You did awesome. Congrats to you. Thank you for sharing.🙂

I don't know what else to say but the fact that this wood is majestic

We had a hay farm outside Rome GA that was covered up with black walnut. My father was a wood turner and he used it to make bowls and other decorative pieces. I have 4 of them at my house in Columbus that are about 20 years old. Our farm in Alex City AL has a few with one being "ancient". We have a giant oak that died this summer about 25 feet from the walnut. I plan to take it down this winter and hope it falls where I want it.

Beautiful! Excellent cuts. So fascinating. Nice job!🌳

Solid body electric guitars with a clear finnish , Acoustic sides and backs , braking my heart that it's just for a mantle !