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Nathan Elliott owns and operates Out of the Woods Forestry a Sawmill, Kiln and woodworking business. OTW is located in the Appalachian Mountain range of Northeast Tennessee. Nathan operates a Wood-Mizer sawmill used in conjunction with other tools to harvest timber from local woodlands and urban environments. - Jak na to + styl
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Osage one of my favs.. right next to Purple Heart.
Love the bloopers
Angle the output table and add water drain holes.
Also, would rollers be an option for the output table?
Great content, Thank You.
osage is harder than superman’s knuckles.
My family is from mid Missouri, my dad is a logger and cattle farmer, hedge (osage) was a big part of my upbringing. So much so that the support beams for your 14 foot ceiling living room is squared hedge beams. It is also used as door trim on the outside door as well as the doorway to our living room. Sanding was a nightmare on all that btw.
For some reason, watching Nathan's videos gives me generally the same feeling as running into the guys down at the diner and shooting the breeze over a couple cups of coffee.
appreciate that,
I get that same feel too.
His videos are calming, comforting, and satisfying. Not a ton of energy (in a 100% good way) and watching him is like watching someone open artistic mystery boxes. And. I happen to be drinking a cup of coffee now as well lol
Great opening sequence, really artistic, and love the bloopers.
thank you,
What I would give to be stuck in a place that beautiful during COVID. Rolling hills, kind people, open skies, and a friendly cat.
Also called 'horse apple' and 'bois de arc', or 'bodark'. Makes excellent bows for archery. 'Bois de arc' is French for bow wood. In parts of the US settled by French, think Louisiana Purchase, most now call it 'bodark'.
Cut some small limbs and stick them in the ground...voila! you have a tree. Plant them close together in a line and you have an impenetrable hedge, forever. Get careless and the thorns and spikes will rip you a new one.
The best bows and axe handles are started with a froe to split the wood along the grain.
This is the first time I've ever heard someone actually call it 'osage orange'. (And at the risk of sounding pedantic, it's bois d'arc. No 'e' before a vowel in french.)
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@@BuickDoc Ah! Gotcha. :)
In Missouri some call it hedge apple for the large green balls that grow on it. Makes great fire wood also, but just one log at a time, it get very hot.
when the cats all help it turns out better. everyone knows that cats know everything. lol
8:19 paw prints proving cat inspection and approval.
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I have NEVER seen this wood before Nathan. What an intense colour it has & at first you don't realise that it has got much going for it in the way of grain until you put the water on it & then the grain really popped & showed its beauty. Outstanding. Cheers mate, Don from South Australia.
As I type this comment, I'm sitting next to my side table that I inherited from my Great Uncle Tom Lucas. He built the top and lower shelf from a Hercules dynamite box. The legs and cross bracing are Bois D'Arc. Half the nails are bent over because the wood is so hard. Growing up we reattached barb wire to the posts with bailing wire as nails or staples were impossible. Beautiful wood.
awesome, thanks for the support Brock,
Gold is right, that's some nice stuff! Always a good day when you can make an upgrade to the mill.
It sure is
Absolutely beautiful grain and color. We have Osage Orange here in Nebraska but the biggest log I have seen was about 8 inches in diameter but 15 feet straight! We cut it, quartered it and sealed the ends and sold the staves to a bow maker. Hard wood is right we call it Iron Wood too.
It is similar to cherry and darken as it is exposed to light and air. I made a side table out of Osage that I milled up, I can send you some photos to get an idea of how it will shift.
Please do
@@nathanelliott9013 I posted a finished photo on patreon. I'll e-mail you some of the process photos.
You’ve probably already seen that it fairly quickly turns a beautiful toasty brown. We used a lot of hedge for fence posts on the ranch in the Oklahoma panhandle ‘No Man’s Land’ where the settlers planted them for tree rows in a largely treeless and arid land. They grew slow and hard. The drawback for use as posts is that as they cure they becomes so hard it is nearly impossible to drive in a fence steeple, resulting in a lot of cussing and bent steeples!
Also works great for self bows, and veneers, or cores for longbows. Dense, but has fantastic elastic properties for repeated flex. That’s by far the largest one I have ever seen.
The colour of honey. Beautiful wood.
Nathan, Osage Orange makes fantastic bowstaves. You should save some of that with straight grain for some lucky traditional bowyer.
Even better to rive it out with the grain.
Then thin it with a drawknife on a shaving horse.
It certainly has a lot of spring in it.
I grew up around osage oranges, never thought I’d see the inside of one. Sure is beautiful, thank you for that... ✌🏼☃️
That outfeed table looks awesome. So does the Osage!
thanks James,
We always called it hedge apple as you typically see it growing in the hedge rows between fields in Illinois. So very hard. It was like sawing through concrete with a chainsaw. My dad used to put the "apples" in the basement to keep the bugs away. Glad your back! Been missing your videos.
This was what they made natural fences with in IL. Horse High, Pig Tight, Bull Strong, The thorns make it like very mean barbed wire. Shreds tractor tires also.
What an amazing piece of timber and that colour and grain is something to behold
from 14:58 on the the rolling exit : An audio visual feast.
*Food for my soul* .
Thank You !
We used to have a lot of Osage Orange around here. It’s more common name in these parts is Bois D'arc and horse apple. We saw them disappear back in the 80’s and 90’s here in Arkansas. There were 4 buyers that set up shop in this area and they bought Osage Orange to make driver heads for golf clubs. Thank you for sharing this video with us and this is the first time in many years I’ve got to see this beautiful wood!
I know an old man who used osage orange to make tongue and groove hardwood flooring for his kitchen back in the '80s.Talk about beautiful! His friend who operated the sawmill that cut the logs told me he conditioned the logs by letting them soak in a pond a couple years prior to sawing them. Rayburn ( the mill operator) said by doing so,the logs cut like white oak and saved a lot of wear on the blade. A hard wood to work with but well worth it.
You need a table with rollers that pop up when you need them! I’ve seen them in several big sawmills!
It's nice until rollers break or something seizes up. Just more stuff you have to fix. He seems to have a pretty simple setup that table is probably good enough for what he is doing.
If the table had rollers and they were spaced so you could get pallet forks in there, save a bunch of work.
This is a reply that *Out Of The Woods* has made to similar comments. *"nope, the wood comes down at an angle, it would crash into the rollers causing it to jump up in the air, that has been tested before by Wood Mizer, did not work out well"*
the local highway dept cut some Osage trees down about 10 yrs ago. I got some of the wood and have made different things with it. It ages beautiful with a nice rich gold color when oiled. That is some very beautiful wood. Thanks
Absolutely outstanding video! Great wood, great music. Thanks for taking your time to do this.
Love the outtakes. Please provide more.
I’m not a sawyer but here are some ideas I had when I saw your new table. For what it’s worth. First, the table should come with wheels so that you can roll it around if necessary. If you don’t move it, you can always take them off. Second, mount some kind of hard rubber matting on the table so that when you move wood across it, it takes the wear instead of the paint. Finally, since you throw water on the wood, could you somehow seal the steel parts that would get wet so that the table does not rust. I always enjoy your videos, and I’ve learned a lot from you. State safe. BTW, I live not too far from you ( about 4 hours) in Nelson County, Virginia.
Amazing how the water reveals the woods true beauty!
Osage Orange or Bois d'Arc (horse apple in Texas) is beautiful wood. It was used by Indians to make long bows. It is one of the most dense woods and is known for eating saw blades and other wood working tools, especially if not green. Nice intro with the drone shots.
thanks for watching,
Great to see your enthusiasm again it makes me smile after a long day
My Grandfather decked two hay wagons with 5/4 hedge apple. It felt half loaded when pulling it empty. Last time I saw them was about 10 years ago, so after 40 years in the weather they were still solid.
That was in Cannon county Tennessee... plenty of hedge apple there.
Love the wood, love the music, love your work. Thank you from Australia.
Just beautiful, have a great week.
It sure is relaxing watching and listening to your videos .
Thank you for your effort in making them .
Your music choice + the Intro/Outro scenes combined, fill my Heart. Godbless.
I've had this species on my mind since I found your channel a few weeks ago. Gorgeous.
Wow! Even the debarker was having a hard time handling that dense bark! It really bounced around as I've never seen in your videos. Yellow as mustard !
Beautiful, beautiful wood 😍! Congratulations Elliott 👏
Thanks for the great content, I repair guitars as a hobby, and I am entertaining the idea of building a solid body electric guitar from scratch. Not only does this show detail how to mill wood, but you display and share your knowledge of wood, and its intended usages. Thank you.
Everyone else is talking about the characteristics of the wood or telling Nathan all the things wrong with the table or his slab.
Me? I'm wondering why the table was shipped with the legs down. It has quick pins and what looks like pivot bolts so they can fold up and ship flat.
Osage Orange. During the New Deal in FDR's era, the Conservation Corp planted Osage Orange on selected farms for a hedge-like fencing. My grandmother's farm, a neglected piece of Iowa Farm history, had a strip mine that covered about 40 acres. The northern border had an Osage Orange hedge-like fence. In the summer, Osage Orange have a sort of hedge balls about the size of softballs. These fall in later summer and will go to seed during the Spring. Thus, more Osage Orange which can become extremely unruly with twisted, thorny limbs. In 1984, I cut well over 400 nice size Osage Orange trees all by myself with only a chain saw (went through several blades). We used those for fence posts which will last hundreds of years ... supposedly. This tree has become rare in SE Iowa but the fence posts endure. It burns hot, really hot!
I am in Kansas and my mom's neighbor has two of these trees in his yard. The smaller one is about three feet across an the larger one almost four feet. They are some amazing trees.
They say Beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. And to me that’s one beautiful log.
thanks for watching,
Made some signs from this wood. It is beautiful. I'm glad I saw this as I could not figure out what know of wood. I had to cut it dow as it had hole in it and was leaning towards neighbors house. It was around 40 feet high and about 2 feet at base.
Yep, that’s a Bois D’arc; beautiful wood and lasts forever... my GGgrandparents markers are made from it, and the original poster are still there. We found them when we had proper stone headrests set. They left Grainger County around 1895 for Texas and Oklahoma. Thanks for the video.
Osage is also the "Gold Standard" for building primitive selfbows as well as recurves and longbows! Over time it goes from yellow to a golden brown!
What beautiful and unique looking wood. Great video!
Thank you! Cheers!
Beautiful color and grain pattern. Thank you so much for sharing.
thanks for watching,
The color really pops !!! Make some gorgeous, unique tables with it !
They'll soon be gorgeous medium brown coloured tables. The unpreventable colour change from yellow to a darker brown on exposure to light is quite drastic.
Got a beautiful golden tone.
That wood would be great with some pine and cherry to make a nice cutting board. I made one out if just pine and cherry almost 45 years ago and I still use it today. It looks like honey when you put water on it, very nice.
I grew up in Ohio and Osage Orange is also a very hot, long burning wood that was sometimes used for heating and such as well as for steam engines. It was also planted along property and boundary lines and it has this Green Fruit the size of grapefruit or oranges and that lead to the familiar name of "Hedge Apple"!! Just an interesting side note to the tree!! Oh, and when tossed at someone and it breaks, IT STINKS!! LOL.
Great job Nathan, you and Wood-Mizer will come up with a proper off feed table, keep after it !! The Osage Orange wood looks awesome, would love to see the book look of those two on the table. You have lots of beautiful wood hidden inside that log. Thanks so much for sharing with us. Fred.👏🏻👏🏻👍👍
Here in North Texas most of the big ones were cut down in the 1800's and early 1900's and used for piers on pier and beam foundations . My old farm house was built in 1923 and I have about 50 of them about 16" diameter holding up my house . Has to be good stuff to not rot of be eaten by termites in all those years , treated wood only last a few years on the ground around here .
I have made a lot of traditional bows from this wood, the pioneers used it for wagon wheels and spokes. with age it turns a rich orangey brown I love this wood.
The table should be a very nice addition.
They call them hedge apple trees up here. I remember as a kid my brother and I used to call their fruit “monkey brains”. If you ever smashed one you would understand.
Is that cabbage with the really neat coloring above the nose?
Thanks for the content as always.
-Ben
Thanks!!!
Nice......Some of the best looking wood I've see come off the mill...😍
Thanks 👍
Thanks. I am a pen turner, osage orange is a wood which makes a nice pen. Always enjoy seeing your cats. Seems like a really nice group.
Beautiful! Thanks for sharing.
You are so welcome!
Another name for them are Bois D' Arc, bowdark, bowwood, horse apple, and hedgeapple . Settlers used the wood to make chuck wagons, wheel hubs and wheels due it strength and resistance to cracking. Plenty of them in Texas and I have a few on my property of various sizes. The fruit/seedpod they drop is a pain and the size of grapefruit along with the thorns.
One of the best woods for duck calls. 👍👍
You have an eye for logs that produce exquisite woods with figure, I love all your videos. Thanks for sharing the Osage Orange milling, it’s rare to see video of Osage logs being milled, what a treat for us. One thing about working alone, if you need expert advise, just talk yourself! God bless you and your family!.
Nice outfeed table design 👌
That outfeed table seems like it will be a really great idea once the design is refined. What a wonderful compliment to you that Woodmizerr is having you trial it! Beautiful work on the Osage orange!
Beautiful planks!
Those trees were used as fencing due to the thorns and density great for fence posts and building posts for pole barns
The outfeed table there is certainly a good idea to aid in off loading boards from the mill. I recall seeing another youtube sawyer that used a table with steel tube rollers for the same off loading purpose.
Nice looking slabs!
That is a real pretty gold in that log. I would think the top of the out feed table being made of rollers instead of sheet metal would make the job a whole lot easier.
Beautiful!
Love your videos!! Keep sharing your beautiful work.
Thank you! Will do!
Omg the color in this wood is absolutely beautiful.and the grain is nice.
Thank you! Cheers!
That is some beautiful live edge wood. Thank you for another great video.
12below and wind chill -26 , always like see you bundled up. You are lucky to be able to work and do things
We have a few Osage Orange "hedge" trees in our pasture that are 3-5 feet in diameter. They grew next to a natural waterway.
Funny coincidence picked up a log last week 12 foot long 24 inches at the booth 20 inches at the top straight. Cleanest Osage Orange I have ever seen and had the pleasure to cut.
nice looking wood.
When I was a boy, helping my grandfather and uncles, we put in many fences using osage orange posts. Most of the osage orange hedges were planted during the 30's by the WPA for soil erosion and future fence needs. Very heavy wood! I have seen it used in custom furniture; it turns orange when the sunlight gets to it. Best wishes
Bois de Arc is a nasty tree. The branches are covered in thorns, the sap is milky and sticky and as you say it is very hard when dry. It is however a beautiful color. In 1890 my family moved to Greer County, Texas and set corner post of Osage Orange and they are still there today.
Fine adjustments! That's some fine looking wood.
Thanks 👍
Never seen that wood before but boy, it is beautiful. Unbelievable colour and figure.
Very pretty color to that wood.
I think so too!
We have "hedge rows" around the midwest. You see them along the sides of pastures, some of the trees still standing. Farmers used to plant osage orage (hedge) trees along the edge of fields, then tack wire to them once they got to be about 3 inches in diameter. Sawing through them can yield surprises sometimes, bad for your blade. This was mostly done back in the late 1700 to late 1800s. The trees that remain are typically up to 3' diameter. They would also trim off limbs and younger trees up to 3'-6' diameter that weren't growing where they wanted. Those would be placed in fence rows as posts, and still be there decades later. The wood will rot, but it takes a very long time, much longer than cedar. Drive through the countryside here in Illinois, and you can observe many remaining hedge rows bordering pastures and fields.
Years ago I was doing some woodworking in the dead of winter and we were burning old hedge fence post that were probably 100 years old and the cracks were at least 3/4 inch deep , I was killing some time so I put a chunk on the lath and turned a mallet the next day i cracked , still drying
I had to cut 3 osage/hedge/bodock from my tiny 1/4 acre yard! All endangered my kids or house. The youngest only had 78 growth rings and the oldest had 156. They were all super straight and I wish had saved them for a mill somewhere. Most of them went up my chimney and the rest still sit in my firewood rack. Yes I am careful and mix them with other woods to not overheat my fireplace. I made some log benches around my fire pit too but the borers got all in them.
You're a good man! Loved watching your video and listening to you. Me and my wife had a ranch holiday in Wickenburg Arizon and we had a ranch dude who had your accent... I forget where he said he was from? All the best from a UK Yorkshireman
That is some truly interesting wood . Thanks for showing us.
You bet
When you said gold you meant it. It sure pretty wood. I’ve never seen any before. That’s cool 👍👍👍❤️
Thank you! Cheers!
Love that color!
That is one beautiful colour. Btw. Osage orange wood dust is great for dying fibre. sheep alpaca silk etc for spinning.
OK, talk about timing! I just got back from picking up 3 Osage Orange logs for my mill! In the 10 or 12 inch diameter range and 15 feet or so. I'm planning to use a 4 degree blade to mill them, probably next weekend. Love the videos!
I am gobsmacked at the colour of that log! every day something new
it got me also,
That's some good looking wood
That would make an awesome table.
Man, as soon as I saw the timber I knew it was Hedge or one of the many names it goes by across the country. Then you brought out the table and I thought " Woodmiser is finally making one?" and sure enough you sat it up. It has been 5 years now since I ran a mill and built one out of 2 x 4s and plywood. Makes off bearing easier, you are going to love it. Keep it up, friend!
Osage orange is one of the best woods their is for making flat bows. Boyers love that wood. Makes a very strong bow.
Coveted by Native Americans for their bows!
Usually hand split for bow making to control how the grain runs.
beautiful music, as always.
Many thanks!
always enjoy watching and your choice of music is great....cheers from Florida
Thanks 👍👍
That wood is beautiful!
agreed