My uncle felled a Cedar Tree on his property in the early 1940's and made nearly ALL the furniture for his 3 bedroom house out of it, including a Dining Room table with dimensions 12 feet long and 4 feet 6 inches wide in a SINGLE SLAB. No saw mills or modern machinery used!!

I woked on a oilfield construction job in New Guinea in 1974. We had a small sawmill that was powered by a Volkswagen motor. Being surrounded by virgin jungle there were many excotic trees there , it was also the area of battles from WW2. Often when cutting a tree for lumber the saw blade would make a loud nosie and wable a little as the slab of lumber fell away deep in the tree woulb be a 20mm bullet that had been fired by an aircraft from the war. As the trees were cut close to our camp it was decieded to cut more trees next to a river furter away from our camp with the idea to float the logs down to the camp. Trees were cut and stacked on the bank of the river waiting for a good rain storm that finally came using a bulldozer the logs where pushed into the river were they sank to the buttom of the river and lost. Seems the trees were a species of iron wood that is so dense the wood will not foat.

I am a month shy of reaching my 94th birthday and referred to as a ' little old lady '. However, I am still handy with a rake, live alone, feed myself, take care of my water garden and enjoy [ with interest ] the video I just watched. I can well imagine the beautiful things that can and will be made out of this red wood that was saved from certain loss to Mother Nature. Good work. Dona Zack from the beautiful state of Michigan

When you are cutting cedar dont even waste the sawdust!!!! You can package that and sell to people to put in closets and cedar chests! I love the smell of cedar! And it looks great on flower beds and even flower pots!😍😍😍😍😍

I am a 67 year old grandma, and I have always loved the smell of fresh cut wood. Play it safe please so you can continue to do this.

Outragestly dramatic slabs! Can't wait to see the roots growing in the center. Resin guys would kill for it. 🇺🇸

This wood is so beautiful. I would love to have what y'all think of as scraps!!

One of the best jobs I ever had was pulling green chain at a lumber mill, the smell of the fresh cut wood, the clean Air and the pine trees everywhere, it was amazing, nothing boring about it

I just spent half an hour watching a rotten tree get sawn up and ... I loved every second of it knowing that something new would come from the old.

I know the smell of cedar well, and I would be in HEAVEN just standing around while y'all did this. Favorite scent, hands down.

You guys are living a dream. A place out in the country with a shop and equipment to do stuff like this for a living. Must feel very rewarding.

When I lived on the western slopes years past we cut cedar and I will remember that clean smell the rest of my life. Your cedar is magnficent, and I am happy you were able to cut those beautiful slabs. I had visions of so many beautiful things they'd become.

I love seeing videos of people working on wood-mizers. My grandpa's legacy. With the 1 year anniversary of his passing coming up, it was neat to see this. Keep sawing!!

I'm a old lady 63 really enjoyed you making new life in the old wood. All those small pieces some home craftsman could use to make that tree live again. I enjoy the grains of wood, it make me feel that it's never gone

Hurts my heart seeing you toss and kick them scraps. I need those! LOL 😆

I love the fact that not one piece of that can't be used for a wood project of some kind. Beautiful.

That sawdust is gold! What do y’all do with it. Geez the fragrance must be heaven

Those of us with nothing but a hand saw love and appreciate your skill, machinery and obvious artistic eye! Yay slabs and yay to you guys. 😁

I love the smell of Cedar that make a pretty table

You could literally have another KZfaq channel dedicated to scraping the sawdust off each slab. So satisfying to watch. 😂

Love the look of cedar especially when it has the off white outer and all knotty and nice red heart ! Some of the prettiest wood their is !

Q: What's worse than finding a skink in your log? A: Finding half a skink! ;D

I can smell the cedar though my IPad 🤗

What you guys are looking for is the beauty within. The soul of the tree. Respect the tree and the mill and you will be rewarded with beauty.

A few years ago. My wife and I went to an old county fair in Barbarville Florida. I portable saw mill was set up and the operator happened to be sawing up red cedar logs. I purchased a whole log. It was 40 inches in diameter and about 9 ft long. First had him saw it in half leaving the bark on. Then had him cut it down to 6 ft length. Then I had him cut one of the two ft butt pieces into 8 equal pieces for legs. I sold what was left over to someone standing there watching for more than my initial payment to the logger. I had him load my wood into the back of my Bronco . At home I carefully stripped the bark off all the pieces. Gr Cedar wood underneath had some beautuful worm tunnels and holes. I sanded all pieces down to fine grit level. I used a draw knife to shape all eight pieces into legs. 4 were used as legs for a 6 ft. Bench and the other 4 for a 2 ft stool. Then I carved a primitive style checker board 24 x 24 ". Then some other primative Artwork on the rest of the bench. I tell painted the art work and painted the checkerboard barn red and powder blue. I made Red and Blue checkers for the checker board. It became a popular coffee table and game table. And the Cedar provided a warm and cozy scent for the family room. The small stool was used for one player and the couch served to seat the other. When not using them for games. They made a perfect place for magazines and my antique chess board. Everyone loved it. Thanks for the reminder thanks to your video.

Cedar chips and etc in bags and put them in pet areas or kennels or dog houses to keep the ticks and fleas away. We have a huge cedar that takes four adults or more to go around the girth. I can only imagine the wood I could get out of it but its hundreds of years old so that won't happen. LOL Love this stuff and the smell of the cedar is amazing. I was thinking on small pieces even book ends would be pretty and a conversation piece.........love wood! Good luck on your cuttings...........an awesome job/hobby/or whatever.........nature has such wonders waiting around us. Keep up the good work.

I can only imagine what kind of aroma is coming off that old cedar. The colour is fantastic too.👍👍

Those slab would be super cool like you said with Turquoise, Reds, Blues and Green coloring in the holes! So mind blowing!

I have no clue why this was on my recommended list... but well played KZfaq, because I watched it.

Gorgeous color!! That's going to make some very pretty pieces.

All this work is so beautiful, mesmerizing, nature work, man works, it dance of life.

Would love those scraps you were kicking aside. Gorgeous for Wall Art, Clock Faces, etc

So glad I didn't have to see that poor skink get dissected! Thank you for saving it.

Thank you for such a wonderful video on carving different kinds of tree wood for someone to make their own kind of furniture!!!

I’d kill for even a scrap of that! She’s a beauty!!! I want all those small pieces !!! Lol I’m an artist and all I would love to do to honour that incredible giant !!!

Beautiful color of Cedar wood and the smell of the wood must be outstanding.

I can only imagine how fantastic it must smell there with all that fresh cut cedar! Wow!

I have a small 30 g air compressor beside my saw mill to clean the dust off of the cuts and it also helps to clean the saw after use. Found the compressor on craigslist for 20 bucks and guy didnt even know that it still ran, nice vintage compressor. Thought i would mention it, you guys do great work, keepem coming!!

That must have smelt heavenly!

This is the most enjoyable wood sawing video ever. It was a treat watching the video before bed.

We need “Smellavision” with that beautiful slab of tree 🌳

That is some beautiful Cedar‼️ It’s my favorite type of wood. I love the smell of it 👩🏻‍🏫🥰‼️ Wish I could afford a dining-room table made of that wood. But it’s probably quite expensive, isn’t it? You could probably make all kinds of things out of that wood, even with the small pieces, with the use of Epoxy. I think things are really cool made with Epoxy.

OH MAN!!! That must smell AMAZING!!!

We have pine tongue and groove on the walls in our home, but we have cedar on all the door and window frames. Offsets pine beautifully

Good job ! Maybe next time you all can do a cherry log ?

Hi, I live in southern Spain (olive country|). Super hard wood and very intricate shapes when sliced through. Some trees could be 1000 years old and more. One would need a huge saw mill to do the slicing! The sad thing is that most of the wood is cut for fire wood. also available are cork, almond, chessnut trees in certain areas. I'm sure there is money to be made especially with old olive trees. Hasta luego amigos! Blessings. No rain over here for the last 6 months...Yours George

Love the coloring of the wood it will make great tables

Iam a mom and housewife but I really enjoy seeing and learning this stuff! Thank you

Beautiful cedar! I'd love to get a hold of those, sand em' down and lacquer them. Love working with wood whenever I get the chance

I think I heard them say "I can't believe there's not something." And "Yeah like scorpions.". If that's what I heard then there's a wonderful explanation for the lack of insect activity that you'd normally expect to see in a half rotten log. Aromatic cedar is like nature's insect repellent. That's why hope chests, wardrobes, etc etc are most often made with it.... super easy yet incredibly beautiful way to keep the buggies out. Not to mention the smell is fantastic, to me. Crawly critters, not so much. This is an amazing piece you've gotten & seems well worth the all the effort. Also, you can make your own wood filler from the sawdust & some Elmer's glue (I think just the regular ol' white school glue, if I remember correctly).

That last big slab of cedar was a dream for an EPOXY workers project - could be worth a lot of money to the right woodworker.

After 83 years of life it was Joy watching this video. I became a Shop Teacher in 1961. I taught 16 yrs and gave it Up. 4yrs of the teaching I was a pre-PEACE CORP Volunteer with INTERNATIONAL VOLUNTEER SERVICES in South East Asia. I am the only American to ever set up a WOODSHOP and Teacher Woodwooeld working with a Lao Carpenter as my Partner. It can my life Drastically. It's what made the VIDEO SO ENJOYABLE. I was able to go to a Local LAO SAW MILL to by my lumber for the shop. The lumber was all Luan cut meters and centimeters. The largest slab I ever delt with was of Paduk. It was 5meters x 28inches wide x 2inches thick. It took 4 men to bring it in my Wood Shop. I was given 78 inches of it. I turned that into Japanese Dinning Table 78 x 25 by 2. I made the legs from 4x4 Luan that I stained to match the Redness of the Paduk. The table now sit in front of me in my living email here in Jacksonville, FL 32246. IT WEIGHS: 125 LBS.

"A lot of rotten parts inside the log" just makes for some really creative epoxy resin opportunities.

I bet that saw site smells amazing!

Such beautiful wood. The red really stood out. I bet that mill smelt sooo good.

The colour and grain of the wood is so beautiful. Looking forward to seeing what you make.

That's one best left as a habitat.

I have a few comments. The 1st is financial. The aromatic aspects of Cedar are legendary. As such, there are 2 things that you can do. 1st is to put a bucket at the end of your exhaust port and save the Cedar shavings because they are very valuable as an aromatic. The 2nd is to save the small trimmings as you can cut them into small strips and hang them in a closet for aromatic and moth purposes.

Amazing cedar log! Some people might look at that log that has rot throughout it, but a creative woodworker (like me) sees past that and can make some beautiful woodcrafts out of those pieces ...Including the fluorescent color of some epoxys will not only hold it together as a slab for a table top, wall art etc... ... Awesome job guys and thanks for saving the critter that was living inside, ha ha :))

I watched your video on that beautiful cedar tree...... here's a suggestion you might want to consider saving the shavings .They would be great because you can put them in satchels. people would love to have them hanging in their closet for the smell ..that's would be an extra profit for you .. might want to think about that so none of the tree is wasted it's an idea I would definitely buy a couple for my closet

I would love to see a finished bar top or counter top or coffee table, especially with the inserts and resin. I can see small lights, colorful stones, turquoise, etc.

Love the smell of fresh cedar. Looks fantastic also obviously.

Wow, I see mantels and table tops. Beautiful

Beautiful color I can smell that cedar here in Indiana

Drop dead gorgeous color and grain. 🇺🇸

Beautiful log. Red cedar is my favourite. All that garbage wood you guys chucked to the side is still very usable with some epoxy and a lathe. Bloody good stuff guys. 👍

cutting the logs from the cedar oh i can smell it from here :)

Love cedar. That's a beautiful piece of wood.

Cedar is always beautiful wood. Those chips are valuable too, perfect to be added to a garden since cedar is a natural insect repellent

As a fellow Sawyer I can safely say that you guys did a great job with what you had to work with. Also I really like your saw Barn. One of the nicest ones I've seen. As I don't have one yet for myself I might pattern mine a lot like yours, I like the openness of it

These pieces are beautiful! I love the idea of filling the holes with turquoise or resin!

I just want a bag of that pure red shake....i bet it smells wonderful

Very interesting, my sun is autistic and loves going to the wood mill back in my hometown he likes to build things and would love your video thank you and God bless keep cutting

I'm sorry that no more of that beautiful piece of cedarwood could not have been salvaged. I love cedar. And it smells soooo good!

Love it. Beautiful wood. Never saw a machine that big. Thanks for sharing. 👍🤗😉

Mmmmmmmmmm!!!! The yummy smell of fresh hewn Cedar, makes my heart skip a beat

Oh My God!!! At 29:32 at the top of this piece I see a city scape on the left, a valley in the middle and an ocean view, on the right I see a large villa with trees. Like a rough sketch drawn by an artist. If I could afford it I would buy it and bring out what nature painted/created in this piece. The foreground moving towards the bottom is like cliffs with a lake at the bottom. The most valuable piece in the lot so far.

This was in my suggested videos..and I ain't mad at all..😃 beautiful wood

Wow that’s a nice chunk of Wood!!!! My Dad was a craftsman too. I bet your shop Smells like Heaven!

Cool wood, albeit in pieces! Lovely colour! I bet it smelled really good!

Can the small bits be used for little things? Lovely cheese boards ? Ah, yes : right at the end he said that in effect. Great that most of that lovely wood was useful. Bet it looked gorgeous once varnished. 🇬🇧💕😊🌿🇬🇧

Beautiful color!

beautiful..when i was living in Kingsville Texas i was carrying some fire wood.. mesquite.. there was a bark scorpion in the bark of one of the sticks.. the guy i was working with jumped away in a big hurry.. and sure enough out came a bark scorpion...i had never seen one being from the state of Maine...

I caught a slab years ago. At a cedar mill I worked at. It has a walnut inside of it. We cut right through the the middle of the walnut. That had been inside that tree for no telling how long. I still have the slab. And the half walnut in it.

Uhhhh MORE PLEASE !!!! And a huge Hug from Texas 🤗

Makes Me weep a little it’s sooo beautiful 😻

Cedar: a prize in every log. Collect 'em, trade 'em.

A lot of woodworkers like the nooks and crannies in the wood. They make for interesting projects. Those smaller pieces are good for making segmented rings. Cool to watch you guys cut, thank you so much for sharing!😎🙃

An INSANE cedar log. And here I didn't even know logs had brains!

I bet it smelled as good as it looked!!!!!!

Red cedar is so beautiful and it makes amazing things. 👏

That tree He’s going to bring in a few thousand dollars and probably more Gotta make some fantastic coffee tables and all the rest

I’m from Australia and we were using band saws to cut a “cypress pine” logs which is actually a hardwood not a pine (a long story) we had to go back to disc saws because the band saws kept on moving around

The anticipation of each new board coming off is intense!

With a tree this old and beautiful, every thing should be used. Even the sawdust.

Cedar wood smells so good!!

Beautiful wood!! I’m lookin at your discard pile just wishing I had that to play with!!

Even them 2 or 3 top cuts after the flip have lots of potential. Coasters, and pistol grip handles come to my mind right away

I would like to see you mill some walnut logs. It is beautiful. Thanks!

I saw the orange mill and had to watch. I worked for the company that makes these for 18 years. Always fun to see the mills work..