Using Home Owner’s Mill to Cut 20’ Beams! 

Imagine, once the UK had many forests yielding such trees. That's how the Royal Navy managed to rule the seas in the days of sail. When I lived in the UK, I got talking to someone who knew quite a bit about woodworking - he claimed that the skills of picking which trees are best logged for which parts of a sailing vessel are mostly extinct.

@@vk2ig Gosh Vk2ig, you really do turn the knife in to me !!!! My teenage childood (1960 to 1971) was in rural Kent where there were still many large (but short) oak trees. In my 20's and early 30's I used to buy English oak for my work building pipe organs using a lot of quarter sawn timber - often in small sizes. My mother's listed cottage was made from recovered ships timbers, the beams often showing perfect mortices from their previous use in ships. I now live in North Wales where people argue to protect the use of the mountains of Snowdonia for sheep grazing, but these hairy maggots eat every young sapling, and effectively prevent the natural re-forrestation of our mountain sides with hardwoods - which in time would be mainly oak. It was the natural oaks of this area that were used in many famous buildings such as Westmnster Hall. I look at the backdrop of deciduous forest in many pictures of these girls in their amazing timber yard, and I would love to know more about the history of these forests. Are they planted or are they naturally propogated? I refer to the mountain between Douherty run and Wolf run, that is often seen in the videos. As it is brown in winter shots so I guess it is mainly deciduous trees. Sadly, much of our remaining oak in UK is not felled for ttimber because saw mills say that they cannot risk hitting wire and staples inside the timber. It is cut for firewood or just allowed to rot. Burried fencing staples are a great bane, but horse shoes and axeheads are also commonly found. If only there was a cheap way to identify iron before being hit by a blade? Would a metal detector safely achieve this? - if mounted ahead of the blade looking into the top 2" of the log being sawn. John N

Quite the operator! Safety first, always!

I loved this video! The team came together to really make it work.

The doggo is enjoying life at the Lumber Capital Dog Yard ...

Or maybe that's why someone should never pick a fight with Jade - that right arm would smack them into the middle of next week. :)

It is simple work only.

@ghammond3132 I could without any problem.

Wouldn't be a bad idea to wear some gloves

I think Jade was so focused down on the difficult non-standard task that she dropped into a resting scowl face.... 😆

Are you a Dentist?

@@davidquinlan8517 Or a jeweller, optician, or flour miller?