HARVESTING CEDAR FOR THE WOOD-MIZER
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This videos shows how I harvested several Eastern Red Cedar trees on a large farm in Southwest VA. I had to make my felling cuts high on the trees due to the barb wire fence that was embedded inside most of the timber. Let me know in the comments below on how you would saw up these logs for future use. Thanks for watching!
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Jason Lowe
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The country could use a little Paul Harvey wit and wisdom today. Brings back some great memories.
It’s been so long since I heard Paul Harvey, but that intro by him brought back memories… loved your video too…
I'm so incredibly pleased you left that last bit in... Give your lad a big hug he just gave a chap across the pond a damn near heart attack laughing! Bless him he was so genuine and surprised. Smashing lad! Might show my own boy that bit for quick giggle all round...
Thanks Matt, my Bruno is a special boy, I always try to get him in the footage if possible. I will share that comment with my family, thank you for saying this, made my day, thanks for watching and have a great weekend, I appreciate your time ,
That saying you had playing in the beginning of the video is so true!
Outstanding intro
When you said Rich Valley Road, I kept trying to see where this is. I grew up in a hollow off Rich Valley road. It used to be called Stout hollow but now it is called Large Hollow. Back then I used to run my 1951 Ford a hundred miles an hour down Rich Valley road. I left that area in 1961 . 20 years in the Navy I never went back home.
Git ur done bro
What ever you feel best
The voice of the great Paul Harvey at the video start.
Around this part of North America ( Eastern Ontario ) it is the eastern white cedar that grows here.
I miss Paul Harvey. Great intro ❤️
You can't beat that Red Cedar for beauty and smell. I love it. I have some experience with downing and sawing up cedar into boards. As a matter of fact I dressed my fireplace wall with red cedar boards formed in a herringbone pattern and used a big piece of solid red cedar for the mantle. Beautiful den made from a former carport, made great looking by the cedar.
Your videos just keep getting better and better.
Thank you Jeff, I put a lot of work into them, Trying to make them better as they go, thanks for the comment, made my evening!
I'm new to the channel but I'm already impressed
I miss Paul Harvey. I grew up listening to him. For a little trivia, he went to school with my mother in law at Tulsa Central High School. On cutting the cedar, do you ever just set your logs to the side and custom cut based on what the customer wants? I'm like you on the smaller logs in making posts or 2X material out of them. Especially if you already have a customer in need of them. The larger ones that are solid would make beautiful slabs for benches, tables and maybe even wall art if it has interesting grain pattern. I love it when your son gets involved. They grow up too fast. My baby just turned 38 and has 4 of his own. Now, we get to play with our grandkids.
Thanks, he is getting old fast! Turned 6 this summer. I usually just saw up the logs and sale them. I use to wait on customers to pick their size but I got stuck with a lot of logs on the ground and rotting timber, Thanks for watching, have a great weekend,
Oh boy. Love that helper 💕
best helper ever!
Awesome job as usual keep up the good work!! You sure know how to make a man jealous.all that beautiful Walnut and Cedar. My oh my you sure do inspire me!!!!🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸😎
Thanks Steve! Glad it gets you motivated, thank you for watching, I appreciate your time,
Congrats on your woodmizer win.
+guy mcelwee thanks
Great vids I am learning a lot abut American timber , We all so have some fabulous timbers in Australia that are not known about out side our borders . Thanks for the vides ,, Just wish I was there see .
Thanks for that comment, how is the timber down there?
Fine looking helper you got there! I'd like to do some closets in cedar so id probably cut it thin for paneling. Thanks for sharing.
+Matt Agee thanks. He is my future wood foreman. Thanks for watching!
Here in central Kentucky 1 inch cedar lumber is the fastest selling wood at a sawmill. Folks use it for fences, closets, furniture, etc. Hot item.
Thanks Carney,
8/4 slab with live edge on some .....and your boy dropping the brush was down right funny ..... ha ha
+BangFlop thanks. Yes it was. He is a good helper !
Some nice cedar!
yes sir, they would look great as finished boards down in Knoxville, just saying,
I have been collecting and cutting ERC for the last several months. I cut most of the 12 inch and larger ones into live edge slabs, 2 inch and thicker. Anything smaller then 12 inch I cut into 1 inch thick and leave it live edged as well until someone comes to buy it. I can always cut the edge straight later if they want it. Most of mine is sold live edged. I did sell about 120 BF today to a guy that wanted it cut into 1x8 for making chairs. So, I do what they customer wants.
Just put it in a pile until you get an order for it, then cut what they want.
Love the videos, keep them coming. I think I have watched everyone you have made.
Dieseltim
Thanks for the input and for watching my content here! It does not go unnoticed I appreciate the support!
How did you price your cedar, where do you get a starting price?? I know it depends or your area and demand but I have know idea where to start. I'm in southern Ontario.
Life is so much easier with heavy machines. Imagine using horses to pull.
I think I would saw the small logs for boards for a closet to keep the moths out of your clothing and larger logs for slabs, great videos thanks
+GPL Lossing thanks! I appreciate the feedback. Thank you for watching
That's a nice haul of cedar! I think that thinner planks would be more desirable and marketable...4/4 and 6/4 for blanket chests, closet paneling, keepsake boxes and display cases/shelves. Either way its cut up, its not going to have issues selling.
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+Phillie_B_30 thanks Phil!
Well done nathan. I'd cut it a wide as I could at 4/4 to make wide plank T&G paneling, random widths.
thanks for the input!
I like the Paul Harvey add in. I loved listening to him as a kid.
Same here. Miss that guy. Thanks for watching
4/4 and 6/4 boards for swings
great video as always,
thanks,
I love red cedar. And it tickles me to see Bruno dropping the brush, priceless. As for as how to cut the wood , it depends on how soon you want/need to sell it. I have cut it in veneer strips before for lining closets and also 4/4 and built a coffin ( as a cedar chest for quilts ) for a customer. It's hard for me to get large cedar so 8/4 is pretty uncommon.
Thanks Jody, Bruno makes every video better!. Thanks for the feedback,
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nice haul!
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if you like using a drawknife you could peel those small ones for people to use as decorative support beams in a house
good point, always enjoy using the hand-tools, thanks for watching,
I love Eastern Red for projects. Lumber? Not so much. It makes beautiful blanket chests, table tops, jewelry boxes, plaques, carved signs, cabin furniture, etc. I think there would be a better market for 4 quarter & 8 quarter cedar than lumber. IMHO, of course.
Thanks Paul, I appreciate the input, I am leaning towards slabs for the larger logs, Maybe even some mantels out of the smaller ones. I appreciate the feedback and your time.
Anybody making a cedar strip boat/ canoe?
i bet the crotches will be very unique. ive turned this wood before and it draws attention because of the color. i also like the aroma when working with it.
me too, love the smell of it on the bed of the sawmill, thanks for watching!
Inthe Pacific Northwest cedar is popular as boards to make furniature with. I don't know any woman in my family that doesn't have a cedar hope chest
I would make planks to line a closet with.
Hah, did he drop the brush in the bucket at the end of the video!?! Nice job on the Wood Mizer contest win too
yep, he sure did, lol,
That's hilarious. A small price to pay to have him outside with you doing something productive together rather than in the house playing video games!
+fartfully agreed. He hates it indoors. Much prefers to be outside
Back in the late '70s and early '80s, I had a sawyer friend who was cutting slabs on a Frick mill and I bought a number of them. There weren't many people doing that at the time so it was unique. With portable band mills all over the place now, my slab collection isn't as valuable as it once was. :)
I use Anchorseal a lot on bowl blanks. It is a fine product. I haven't looked to see if they have competition now, but it just works so I keep using it. Latex paint is too permeable to slow the drying and I had the same experience as you. I never had much problem with checking and splitting with red cedar though.
I agree when I started it was before this big rise of the interest of woodworking/sawmilling, Now it has taken over but will probably move on after some time like most things. I will still be here,
I think I'd probably saw dimensioned lumber. That stuff would be good for Paneling closets. Dimensioned stock could easily be milled into t&g paneling.
+Paul Murphy thank!👍👍
Just a couple of falling tips for you to consider for next time... I assume you cut a high stump because there's a good chance of nails and old fence grown into the trunk. Next time try a humboldt cut so the face cut comes out of the high stump, not your log. If reading about felling interests you at all I suggest How to Fell a Tree by Douglas Dent. Keep up the good work.
Yes, the bottom had several rows of barb wire through it, I see what your saying, good tip, thank you,
Thanks!
You bet!
8/4 slabs brother is the way to go.
Lumber for outdoor furniture! BTW, I think Anchorseal is emulsified wax in water.
Thanks Michael, wasn't sure what was in that stuff but it works great,
I would mill some of it into shiplap boards and do up my closets .
+John Harris ship lap is very interesting. Didn’t even cross my mind. Thanks for the input!
I vote lumber and post that's way it gives you a wider customer base for it they may wanna build chest or line a closet or small projects as well that's what I would do. Beautiful stuff though love the smell of cedar keep up the good work bud look forward to watching the dust roll on that stuff
Thanks Cody, I bet you would build a nice chest out of that stuff I got it into your hands, thanks for the input,
Out of the Woods believe it or not that's gonna be the wife's Christmas present and thank you for the compliment means a lot coming from you. I still have that huge pile of cedar my friend gave me earlier this year if you remember but I woukd take as much as I could get lol
Good deal, let me know how it works out!
Out of the Woods sure will you could cut you some post and some 4/4 planks and build a beautiful simple bed frame out of it or dry some of the bigger limbs and use them as post
Did you get some of the stumps to? great figure in them plus sectioning it for turners makes for easy extra income. leaving them as is for the turner to decide . I'v sold whole stumps to turners for nice money. john
Not yet, will be going back for them, I had the same idea,
I absolutely love "The Rest of The Story".
I think I would saw them into 3/8 inch boards and sale them for closet liner. Charge a little less than what you get for a 3/4 inch board and almost double your payday. Great video. R
Good idea, thanks for sharing!
If it were me I'd cut those beautiful logs into boards. A Cherokee friend of mine makes drums and often uses red cedar to glue up the drum circles. He is from NC originally and has lived here in Pa quite a few years. He made my drum about ten years ago out of cypress because the cedar boards we found were knotty with little width. Being a cabinetmaker it isn't easy to find good cedar for projects. But I have seen some very nice slab cedar as well. There in a lumber mill and store near me called Groff and Groff. They have woods from all over the world. They had a 54" x four quarter walnut slab there one time about 13 feet long. Had some nice crotch grain in it too. They deal in all kinds of slab wood as well as regular lumber. I'd like the boards and others the slabs. So why not do half and half? Thanks Kindly! Blessings to You and your Family! DaveyJO in Pa.
When hurricane Ivan came through, a buddy of mine with a mill made live edge cedar mantles from the downed trees and sold them on Ebay. He couldn't keep up with the demand. There's not many prettier woods than the red cedar.
Great idea, I bet he did pretty good, thanks for the input!
RodneyP BesMe I
My dad used to harvest the leaves from cedar and sold to companies. He would make a ton of money. Any one have any idea what type of work this is?
making gin moonshine. :)
what are your thoughts on using tightbond wood glue in place of anchor seal? thanks.
Not sure. Never heard of that being done before
We have red cedar in S. OKLAHOMA, was going to harvest some. How many days do they need to dry. Trimming out windows.
Actually people up here use it green. It’s has a low moisture content. Doesn’t move much they say.
Those Eastern Red Cedar trees act far more like Western Juniper than our Western Red Cedar. Limby, brittle, etc.
I have a very large Cherry tree in my back yard. I am going to have to cut 2 limbs off of it. They are log size limbs. Will Anchorseal work on the live tree to prevent insect infestation and tree damage after I cut the limbs?
Yes and No, It will prevent end checking but it does nothing for insects, but if you take the bark off and elevate it off the ground a few inches that will greatly reduce the chances of bugs/insects,
I would cut a combination of all. 4 quarter, 8 quarter and post
+James Gilliland thanks great suggestion.
both slab up the big ones and make the small ones into 1 by and 4x4s
good idea,
I would definitely slab the cedar in 8/4 brings twice the money
yes, sought after around here also, thanks,
I'd take at least one log slab it at 48/12 then sell it for bowl blanks (or turn some of my own!)
+Earl Rumble 👍
Slabs....they would make awesome table tops...
my thinking also,
Both in my book. Slabs for the bigger ones and boards for the others. If you have a son and his name is Anchorseal you mite be a woodworker....lol
lol good one Robert, thanks for watching
id make a little of both buddy id take the small ones into 4x4s
sounds good,
and there goes the shade for the cows..
he has 500 acres, plenty of shade there with hundreds of trees etc,
I wouldn't do slabs, to soft of a wood for tables. The best use is paneling.
+woodaddict1 👍
The small trees I make 4or and the bigger trees I make 1xs
Eastern red cedar is a Juniper
Siding
+Sic Boy good Choice! Good eye. Cedar makes great Siding. Very rot resistant.
Why did you leave such a tall stump ? Wasted wood.
Roof shingles.
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Montani Semper Liberi
TEACH YOUR BOY TO DO A BETTER JOB WITH THE ANCHOR SEAL !
Well Kenneth, my son has Autism and by just painting some of the ends is a victory in my eyes,
I think he does a fine job...
Talk too mach,
Thanks for watching Pete.
You talk to much
Hit the mute button
maybe you type to much Greg, move on and troll another channel, no room for your kind here, get a life,