Downed Trees: Destruction and Creation

We had a particularly bad winter season storm this previous January. The storm began really windy and ended with ice. We lost power for 4 days and we had a tree fall on our house. Fortunately the tree that fell in our house did refrain from doing very much damage as it just tipped over and touched the side of the roofing. And luckily we had all of the branches cut off the next day which conserved us from the tree being weighed down by the ice storm and squashing our house. I had the ability to mill up the tree into bigger pieces. It is just pine but I'm sure I can discover some projects to do with it. Later, through a next-door neighbor, I discovered a large oak tree that had actually boiled down nearby. I milled up this red oak and had the ability to get a great deal of turning blanks and little pieces out of it.

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0:00 (introduction).
1:49 (red oak).
17:41 (pine).
18:50 ().
24:43 (pine slabs).
30:27 (conclusion).

Downed Trees: Destruction and Creation

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21 Comments

    1. By the time the turned pieces dry out and are ready for finishing, Frank’s back shouldn’t be sore any more.
      I’m seeing many red oak projects in Frank’s future. This is the way it goes though. Suddenly you get a literal wind fall, and have way more wood than you can use.

  1. I think you need to build a small saw mill area and get a small fork lift to lift the wood. Diesel creek guy bought a dozen last week 😉 Appreciate you weren’t at home this time.

  2. Have you ever thought about making that cup attachment for your lathe from something like delrin instead of wood? That way you wouldn’t have to true it up every time you want to use it. Thanks for the content!

  3. I really appreciate the long game you play with future projects. The fear of running out of projects is real!

  4. I love that you have the opportunity to experiment and play. It will be fun to see what unexpected things we learn as well. Love the video.

  5. I feel sorry that you had such destruction through your neighborhood, but you made the best of it with a great stockpile of future material.
    Bill

  6. A very comforting episode…the storm news was worrying, even without the home forest. You really went to town on all that bad news!

  7. Hello Frank, I have to tell you how much I enjoy watching your videos. You’re a lot like me in the way you do your projects and how you go about figuring out how to make things work. I really wish I had a shop like yours but I’ve come to the realization that getting older and tired of arguing with the wife about what kind of mess it will make I’m down sizing and selling off a lot of my equipment. Please keep up the great job. I always look forward to your videos

  8. Good video it’s a lot of work but now you have a good supply of material on hand. Thanks Frank

  9. In about two or three years you will either have some nice slabs or more firewood. I hope it’s the former because of all the work you put into the project. Thank you for sharing. Have a great day and stay safe.🙂🙂

  10. Awesome job, Frank. Former sayer here – it’s really important to have the stickers line up vertically, that will help prevent the boards from bowing. Also if you can find a strapping machine to bind them together, that helps, too.

  11. I was just thinking to myself how much I’ve been missing your videos. Thank you for them, they really are wonderful!

  12. Hey frank, love seeing a random video with the tree company I work for show up on YouTube 😂😂 very glad all was taken care of 😁 we love our job.

  13. “ a video about the work before doing a project” so would that be the prelog then ?
    Another great vid Frank, thank you from all of us aspirants.

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