Orange Wood! Watch us Sawmill it

Osage orange. I grew up calling the hedge trees .

Lol grew up cutting hedge for firewood. Yes sawdust yellow

bow wood

The Osage orange color was fantastic. It would make a wonderful bright room.

Awesome wood……..👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

Very cool....you just earned a new subscriber.

I'd just like to introduce myself and say hello. My name is Harold "Cook" of Golden Leaves Tree Care. I live in Indiana, it is a real pleasure to Cyber meet you, Chris. I have subscribed and look forward to seeing more. I really enjoyed my first video with you. Hope you have a great life! GOD bless.

The French called it bois de arc, meaning wood of the bow. Native Americans used it for primitive bows. The Latin name is maclura pomifera. Thanks for the vid. I love this wood for carving. It was planted by the millions as hedges after the dustbowl in the 1930s by our government to prevent another topsoil stripping disaster. Read up on it. It is very important and interesting.

Myrtle wood

Osage Orange along with Black Locust and Red Mulberry are the three somewhat similar extremely rot resistant hardwoods in North America.
These are more rot resistant than Redwood or Cedar.

That sawdust makes an effective dye for wool.

We had one and the twp. Chopped it down I was 😠 it was 12 foot off the right of way

There is no way it's wood is so yellow

Very nice job and nice saw.

how can we see what you are pointing at when the camera is on you not it.

IPE has a similar sawdust color sort of a fluorescent green!

Glad this popped up. That size is fantastic. I made a video cutting up a smaller one here in Ohio. I also took a short log to Out Of the Woods.

I wonder what they named the saw......

The defect would make a nice table top. Fill it with acrilic-poxy

Need to cut the scraps into turning blanks

We have a fair amount of them around here but none that big! Awesome mill. I thought mine was big at slabbing 65".

The problem is it won’t stay yellow, it will turn a dark brownish color especially in the sun or exposed to sunlight and as it ages

👍👌👏 Simply fantastic! Really nice looking wood and at least I loved the yellowgreen (mimosas) sawdust. Thanks a lot for making teaching explaining recording editing uploading and sharing.
Best regards luck and health to all of you.

My father was an archery historian. His favorite Long Bow was hand made from Osage Orange! He claimed it was the best he had ever drawn!! 80 lb pull! He hunted deer with it for years! Astonishingly powerful and accurate! He had Nother made with a slight recurve that became an entry in several record bokks!!

?Few people know; the sawdust is used/can be used to stain cloth yellow. It will stain you, as well!

“Bow-Dark”

75 years old?? try 175 yeras!these are super slow growing,,hedge rows planted in 1880 around here in missouri are only 36 INCHES IN diameter

that is ONE BIG BANDSAW,,DID YOU BUILD IT yourself? those must be 5 foot wheels

there seems to be a different species of Hedge tht is redder,not quite that bright lemon yellow,,probably some botanist knows this,at a university somewhere

splits and cracks real bad while curing though!

second only to hickory for weight in the United States

How old was this one

Camara person needs to widen out the shot when the man is explaining things with his hands. Other then that, 👍👍👍.

you can tell that you love your job. this makes watching the video so much more enjoyable than it would be anyways, nice work

Found downed osage orange tree on my property a couple months ago. It was about 18" in diameter and had a nice 8' straight, no knot truck. It really milled up nice. Drying it now and trying to come up with something interesting to make with it.

You need to talk to your camera person and get them to show we’re you are pointing and what you are speaking on. We already know what you look like

Love what you do, sir! Thank you for the peek at your own private little (or not-so little) heaven!

There’s a pen Osage Orange tree growing on a front lawn up the street from me. Why this is remarkable is that this is just outside of Toronto. It actually survives the winter here. I didn’t know what it was until I took one of the crazy brain like fruits to several people and one old guy was able to identify it. The correct pronunciation is Bwah D’ark.

Rare find to get a log that big. Beautiful pieces from that log. The Indians around here used the wood to make their hunting bows and arrows. The hedge apples were used to deter vermin from getting into their winter food storage.

Even the short pieces either end of that occlusion are worth the trouble.

Skip the first 8 minutes of talking… 😂😂

shoulda split it straight down that check, then slabbed out the bottoms and middle. Leave the corners for turning.

That yellow color is spectacular, but unfortunately osage wood turns to a reddish brown in a few weeks if it is shaded, and in a few days in the sun.

Halfway thru reapeated himself 3 times, no wood cutting, not subscribing to yet another history channel baiting show.

Kind of a shame to cut it into such short lengths. Seems like a good teak substitute.

Hola, Buen dia..maravilloso..el...video...por poder conocer..tan maravillosa máquina..de asserrar...la.madera...de Maclura..sinceramente...fantástico ...muchas.gracias ❤ 😊

It doesn't stay that color it turns brown after it oxidizes

I wish someone had counted the growth rings so we would know how old the tree was. As big as it was, it must have grown for many, many years.