"I'm a mushroom. I'm fed chit and kept in the dark." Story of my life, too. Hearing that made me an instant subscriber! Loving your videos.

Great video! I made 'stave bolts' during my teenage years (1960's).The main requirement was the 'stave bolts' had to be free of knots or the bolts were split were the knots were on the edge of the 'split' allowing the barrell saw to cut the knot out on the saw's first pass. Occasionally a 'high quality post oak' could be 'snuck' into the load. But it seems everything is done at the mill now. The bolts I made were 39" long each allowing for double end trimming.

Really appreciate breaking everything down in your videos like you do. I've always had questions but no one really explains it like you. 👍👍

Glad to see you’re feeling better

Enjoyed this video! Thanks for taking time to educate us! So glad you visited with Outdoors with Morgans!

Extremely interesting and educational stuff. Thanks for sharing sir!

Prime white oak logs are going anywhere around $1,200-$1,000 per 1,000 ft and Select white oak $800 per 1,000 ft here in Kentucky. That’s a beauty you cut there.

Nice felling job…looks like you have done this a few times…

Need a bigger saw or a sharper chain. Other than that great video. Thanks for the great explanation

What a beautiful cut.

Good informative video Nutsy. Nice thumper.

Thanks for taking the time to explain

Thanks for the explanation!👍

Great information!!! Thx

Great explanation 👍

Hey Nuts good vidja on yer stave log market. Up here in west Wisconsin, we have a pretty good market also, where the local sawmill has a stave makin operation. So we send most of the white oak logs there reguadless of the grades.

I did enjoy that

Great vid as usual

Thank's for the education

Good job reading the bark on that log

Good inf0 an explanation.

Pretty interesting, alot different that dimensional lumber.

This is so helpful....gettin ready to log 200 acer and we're gettin our ducks in a row

not only do loggers full the lumber yard they help make your liquor..

That does make sense 👌

Good explanation. What's the difference between rot and dought(sp?) After its bourbon duty is done, many barrels go to Scotland for scotch. Now that's recycling!

Nutsy do you sort out all your logs that go to the various mills or sell to a buyer and he sorts later

Where are you at ? Do Stave logs get to $1.40 bf in Minnesota ?

I don't think we have that market up here ...too bad.Where I live in the Laurentian Mountains there are very few white oaks but I cut a lot in Eastern Ontario and they only go for saw logs as far as I know.

What is the approximate value of that 9 foot veneer log and 25 foot stave log ?

lots of cat faces on that tree lol

dont know where you sale your white oak staves but here where im at the only stave they will buy is that first 9'8" cut,maybe the second one if you give the buyer a proper reach around lol

Do you do shares or contracts?

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whats a samsqinch know bout whisky barrels huh ???? lol good vid little tiny buddy !!!!

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its that the job they call nutzys desert ????

Would this market be strong due too those 2 storage building falling down over there last year, can't recall where but a lot of barrels were lost at least in the thousands.

When you get a lot of cats eyes in the the log they are not that desirable usually when you find a good log there will be a bunch of them in and area, were I live in PA. southern part of the state has better logs than the northern not to say there are none in the northern its they come in bunches, I always thought it was the soil they grow in.