Hey everyone so we got Gerry here right now he is actually milling up a bunch of the the Burls
and logs we have and Gerry tell them whatcha gonna do man what's this setup you got all right so I got a
husky 3120 it's the biggest saw they make 120 CCS it's a 5 foot bar on it and it can handle pretty
much everything I've thrown at it we actually had to trim this burl make it fit okay so it
has a 52-inch throat which is just incredible that this walnut burl is that big but it is
yeah and I can't wait to see what's inside yeah there's just been some gold this is probably one
it's definitely to make the highlight list of some of the cool stuff I've ever milled before
it was kind of a fluke how we even found you hey like you were just driving by I was coming back
from delivering a cat a table out to Kelowna remember that yeah and I was on my way back I
was trying to get back to Sicamous and I had a hotel booked in Sicamous to stay there
the night on the way back and coming back I went by the place that called Enderby and there's this
sawmill off the side of the road with a bunch of big logs and the odd straggler wandering around
the place like Gerry there with a wide foot chainsaw in his back pocket
and I thought I better pull in and say hi so I chatted with them and then in the end we ended
up touching base and Gerry's come to help us cut our burls up it's awesome yeah cuz we've
we had these girls for like 3 4 3 4 years 4 years yeah and they've all just been sitting up in that
container basically until now we haven't just wait we're just waiting we're waiting for a guy like Gerry
that's what he's done so far see we got a few nice walnut burl rounds we got some maple
there now and he's just about to crack into the biggest burl we have almost five feet in diameter
so let him take your weight what I'm doing here is I'm tacking the ladder back on and what I try
to do is I try to get the screws to go in off to the side so at least you're not hitting the face
of the would kind of Swiss cheese the ladder so there's holes all over the place and you wiggle
it around until they all line up on the edges and then you sink your screws down you want to
make sure that whatever you're working on is extremely stable and it's not going to move
because when this thing is actually running you don't really have too much time and you do not want
this thing to come down on your saw like this not right this everything has to stay nice and
perfect and true you want to make sure that you keep it as straight as possible and you
know having a log fall and it's not gonna help no that wouldn't be good I'm sure you put this
thing to the test, yeah I mean I've cut through a lot of interesting stuff you'd be amazed what you
find inside wood like sprinklers yeah yeah I found a sprinkler in there I missed it thankfully
but the country opened up and there's this little petrified little sprinkler in there
once Gerry's done these burls out here tomorrow the plan is all of these
how many's in there?
Wow look at this one
so you basically screw this thing down then and it's your track for the starter run along
yeah so it's uh I mean for one it's a ladder it's perfectly flat level yeah yeah it looks
rough but it's still actually pretty reasonable for straightness so yeah I use it for the main
thing is the entry and exit as you're trying to start there's no way you're gonna hold your milk
perfectly so you're gonna be ruining the first six inches or so the wood as you try and get it
to go straight all right I use it to level it first thing I put the ladder on the log
and that way even an oblong-shaped log like this you can still get a nice straight entry
and exit and it slides along the metal so well yeah it looks like it yeah okay so it works and
then has even after you cut this and once it's flat you still want to have a nice flat surface
cause otherwise you get these little ripples the compound yeah so you know if you just basically
ran the mill right along poplar and you have a little ripple well the next time you gonna get
more of a ripple than more and it just keeps on adding also it actually kind of compound
ate everything yeah I got it so if you put the ladder on there it keeps it perfectly
flat every single time it keeps your cuts as good as they can be I mean it's a chainsaw
like honestly when this one came over is like oh look at that man and like just
some of the colours like all yeah this is gonna be a cool in the next piece oh yeah
now this is not all of the burls we've cut up there's more over there Gerry still milling more
up but now that we've got them like this all of these slabs still have a really high moisture
content to them sorry about the noise I'll just talk really loud hopefully you guys can hear me
so they're all right now probably around like 30 to 40 percent moisture content and that is
just way too high to do what we need to do with them so like you can even when I put my hand on
this I can literally feel that it's damp and you can kind of see some of the sections that
are more wet so when you're drying walnut' even though it's wet right now you wouldn't want to
put it straight in the kiln just yet the best thing to do with walnut is to actually let it
air dry with stickers so my stickers I just mean like all of these little tips that are between
there you want to leave it on six like this just to air dry for probably about two to three months
what that will do it'll let a majority of the moisture get out so that when you do put it in
the kiln it won't crack as much if you were to put these flat and straight in the kiln what
would likely happen is you would get like checks like this except all the way through so instead of
this cracks only being like two inches it would likely go all the way through the slab and you
know drying things too quickly is a really easy way to kind of wreck wood so we're gonna let him
air dry for two to three months and then finish them off in the guild for probably another three
months six months from now we should have usable walnut lumber so we'll we'll be sure to update
you guys on that you know as that process kind of goes through we are really excited to start
building some furniture from me that was what like four solid days yeah force all the days
of milling it's Thursday now and yeah holy yeah look around there's a lot of milling that happened here
there's a lot Gerry just killed it on this like we had 30,000 pounds of burls it was 30,000 of burl
and Brad 30,000 pounds of burls and these two guys got it all done in four days so now we got
to dry it but it was lots of fun, hard work I bet yeah a hard work but well worth it yeah
you said the saw was kind of giving you a little bit of grief here today it's got a personality just like
anything else right sometimes it works beautifully well sometimes it doesn't today she was definitely
protesting she was done yesterday so yeah yeah so aside from a few issues with some chains and such I
mean it actually did really well yeah now that was like what 40 hours of solid milling like seriously
yeah we're stoked you know we couldn't be more grateful that Gerry was willing to come out
here but now like I said we're taking these two key to the kiln so the next
time you guys probably see me it's gonna be when they're coming out of the kiln so
stay tuned for that video probably won't be for like six months so thank you guys for
watching this week we really enjoyed showing you guys this process enjoyed spending our
week with Gerry and subscribe for next week we have videos every Friday see ya