Milling Live Oak in the Deep South - Rebuilding Tally Ho EP19
Rebuilding a historic sailing yacht - Milling Live Oak timbers on Cross Sawmill’s massive homemade bandsaw, in the Deep South. Support; www.sampsonboat.co.uk/support-tally-ho Become a Patron; www.patreon.com/sampsonboatco
THIS episode, I am in southern Georgia , and I work with Steve Cross of Cross Sawmill to mill and grade lots of Southern Live Oak (Quercus Virginiana) for Tally Ho’s framing stock - one of the most historically important and best-regarded shipbuilding timbers in the world, which is no longer often milled commercially due to its extreme toughness.
Steve mills the timber on his amazing and enormous homemade bandsaw, which is constructed from 5 forklifts, 9 semi trailers, and “god knows what else”, according to Steve.
We also look at Live Oak trees in the area, including one that is claimed to be the largest Live Oak in the world… all the while keeping an eye out for Alligators!
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19. Milling Live Oak in the Deep South - Rebuilding Tally Ho EP19
Pubblicato il 2 anni fa
Thanks for your comments! Steve Cross has his own youtube channel here ithomes.info, and an informative website here crosssawmill.com/
Is Steve cross still around? I’m trying to get in touch with him and that link above isn’t working.
Check out pin oak. Dried you have to mill it like steel.
And if you were to abort mission, you still would've had to pay half that out of contract, I guess.
So strange to think that when the 400year old tree germinated there were 500Million humans on earth. There are now 7.6Billion.
This video randomly showed up in my feed and I was intrigued. I started watching and quickly realized I knew Steve! I grew-up in near by Donalsonville and went to school with Steve's nephews. ...Small world!!
What a huge difference in English language accents.
Killing trees to build a boat. Horrific!
any one have any pic of the gaar scott vertical husk that runs the carriage with the small tire , looking to see how the belt drive is hooked up setting up 1890s saw mill ? email spike278@aol.com
Ole Cross is smarter than you look
Hi Leo. I have now watch all your restoration videos. This episode by far is the most memorable. Adding Steve’s telling of that story was a brilliant stroke. Tally Ho!
I get the feeling that if the Apocalypse came and all the lights went out, Steve would just carry on as normal without missing a beat.
Oak trees and spanish moss, i miss home
One of my favorite in the series...classic and classy.
What keeps going through my head while watching this is the labor needed to build boats back before powered machinery.
A superb episode, I'd much rather watch this than any TV programme!
A lot of people don't know that the USS Constitution " Old Ironsides" has a lot of South Georgia Live Oak in her frame.
God damn i love this guys accent. He sounds sharp as a tack to me. 🇬🇧🇺🇲
Love how the words 'this' and 'that' are two syllable words. No doubt he'd get a kick out of my wicked Boston accent too, asking me repeatedly "What in the hell are you tryin' to say???"
Shes a bit older than 600 year old there guy lol.. and almost caught myself on being the biggest but remembered the tree in Jacksonville Florida is a southern live oak which the base is massive as well but her limbs are greater.
The treaty oak is her name
What a character
That accent sounds like it hurts.
I come back and watch this once a year... one of my favorite videos of all time.
I had a ranch with nothing but live oaks on the west coast. Some pine, fir, cedar, and a few white and tan oak, madrone, but mostly just live oak. The crazy thing about them is I'd cut them down and they'd turn into a bush, 15-20 years later I'd have a dozen trees from each base, all 8-12 inches across. Perfect for cutting and splitting into firewood.
1:47 That accent, it's like music :)
Leo - Great discussion about motor choice. I've spent most of my life in aviation. 99% of what I know about boats has come from you and from Steve on Acorn. You have both fascinated me. The hybrid diesel makes perfect sense.
Hillbilly engineering masterpiece right there
Hat's off to the southern, that guy has got skills.
omg... I live in the Ozark Mountains in southern Mo. I am a sailor and have done extensive wooden boat repair on old Chris Craft, Owens, Pacemaker, ect boats large to say 52 foot and smaller at a young age. left the city and bought a new mill and moved home to the Ozarks. I owned a new at the time of your video Band saw mill that could mill a 4 foot log wide and 50 foot long. And we trash live oaks here into railroad ties along with white oak, red oak, post oak, ect..... there not hard on a band mill like he is using... Hickory is harder on them than a live oak ... we have lots of cedar here big. I never got into selling custom wood besides Walnut logs always got saved here for $$$. and making custom log home timbers or barn timbers in a large size. I would have sold and trucked that up north for alot less....wow now the mill is setting because I am sailing. Love the video.....
watching it all back. You meet the most interesting people ever for this project.
Absolutely love this footage 😍
Come on back down! east coast of Florida would be a great stop on the tally Ho. I'm excited for you!
If live oak is so great, why were sassafrass used for the early shipbuilding?
This dude looks like Joe Walsh. Way Cool.
oh my word an alu yacht of tallyho size can be framed up with 100x75x8 tee sections for a fraction of you cost, you are brave fer sure HOWEVER at your age, I built from scratch a 43 footer, I finished broke but did do the Pacific Islands you chose do this, you are educated, smart and skilled and work hard so do not ask for monetary help that is plain wrong
Dang!! I never knew dat, wonder how dense that thar timber be, got a tree down here called Leopard tree, it don't float , no sirr
So interesting and unusual south language! Thanks for video it was very interesting :)
Did anyone check to see if he has all his fingers still. I refuse to believe he does with that gear..
What is the poem? Author?
One more amazing tree to add to this list is the Angel Oak, which can be found in Angel Oak Park, on Johns Island, South Carolina. This Southern live oak tree is considered to be one of the largest oak trees on the entire planet, with an age estimated at 400 years.
I'm in Charleston SC and this is exactly as it is here. Appreciate the video, he is very solar to my grandfather that recently passed so things gives me some comfort. Edit- We have one of the largest Oaks here in Charleston too. Angel Oak on Johns Island.
still the favorite episode
Bubba Gumps long lost brother
Just saw (no pun intended) for the second time. The location. The locals. The trees. The history. Love it. Truly amazing. And the Machine, of course.
Mosquito lagoon !!! That’s right by me
The video was insane. That mill is unbelievable!
Cool you got the saw too
“If I’m going to do it then I’ve got to do it properly”. Good Man!
The two different accents in the video reminds me of my paternal grandparents. Grandad english to his bones and my grandma a hillbilly from Virginia. Great video!
Watching this again today love this video ! Thanks for taking the time to edit it & upload this !
The holey and holy wood
Well... I don’t remember looking up anything about live oak and I don’t really know why i clicked on this... but good heavens I am pleased i did. Excellent video all around.
That sawzall/jig/ gear box contraption is uniquely amazing to me. That's pure Southern ingenuity right there.
This answered my question about your optimism when you decided to buy. Specifically, as I've bounced around watching this series completely out of numerical order, I wondered about your thoughts on how much of the boat could be kept vs. performing a nearly-complete rebuild. I reckon this $30K investment answers my question. In any case, I'm enjoying series...looking forward to seeing the finished product. You must show us the fruition of your dream...Tally Ho on the seas...you on her deck...that drink in your hand...and a beautiful girl at your side.
Move over Forest Gump!
What an amazing character wow
Omg I had to fast 4 ward thru dudes 1st grade reading in super country vernacular. Tragic....poor fucker
I live in SC, friend of mine wilmont berry, was a retired guy very smart college educated, but a country guy. He started a mill work shop, and bought a old frick sawmill powered by a 3phase 50 horse motor. I removed trees for people and we saw milled them. He always had mismatched teeth on blade, never lined up properly, one day I came over and he had huge live oak logs lined up, I said what the hell do you think you're going to do with that, he said saw it, this was a circular blade, I said you can't, he said he would, well to make a long story short after a lot of cussing, we ended up hooking up tractor to logs and pulling them in the woods lol. I can't explain to you how hard it is to split or cut. Later they about destroyed a hydraulic splitter trying to make firewood. He just would not listen. He passed away a few years ago.
I would have hauled the lumber for you for $5500.
Do u intend on keeping this boat or selling it?
This guy is highly intelligent. Don't let that slow southern drawl fool ya. I'm an hour from him.
That old boy is sharp as a razor.
I could fall asleep to this man reading story's
I worked at Duke Boats in Port Carling as a young teenager in the spring to fall and it was my greatest memories to learn off of 3 old builders of a trade almost forgotten.Now they restore any wood boat in the Muskoka Lakes like Ditchburns and Crisscraft etc. This reminded me of so much as we got most of our oak and mahogony from the Penny Saw mill in our village.TY gents this was very good
haha, not many people from outside the U.S. get to experience authentic Cajun folk.
Discovered your videos today and am amazed by so much, including your enthusiasm. Thanks for including us.
he reminds me of Shelby the swamp guy from Ax Men same accent they must be from the same area
Hello from Live oak county, Texas.
Is that tree Bigger than Angel Oak on John's island?
Amazingly we use to burn oak tree forests as they were considered a garbage invasive species.
Simply thé best video.love this Guy.
Live oak is a landmark all over South Carolina coast. I enjoy their majestic look every time I vacation at the beach.
I am guessing that Steve Cross was never enrolled in a gender studies program......learn something here snowflake
You were lucky you went well it was cold outside because if not you would have been eaten up by mosquitoes!
The man speaks with such a stereotypical "dumb" hillbilly accent, but the things he explains are very intelligent. The Lumber Whisperer.
As someone who is from Georgia and lived here my entire 39 year life. I absolutely love the state. People from the country are the best people in the world and would do anything in the world for you or put you 6ft under if you try to do something to screw them over
This documentary is epic. The narrative by Steve Cross in particular belongs in the Smithsonian for its historic relevance. The live oak stands the test of time and so will your filmmaking. Then we will have live oak in your Tally Ho re-shipbuilding! Brilliant work Leo!
As they say, it doesn't grow on trees... It's spent on them...
Way to much money for that its wood.
What a great character. Love meeting people like him
Don't judge a man by his talk. My tech teacher once told me that the smartest man he ever met couldn't read. He spoke 7 different languages that he learned by ear. He was hired throughout the world to fix engineering challenges, he worked in italy, france, japan, UK, US and Canada. He was world renouned for his ability to figure out and fix any issues.
@A Carrot the guy had a serious case of dyslexia... He could "read" but it took a lot of effort for him. He could not read fluently rather.
No way the dude fixed legitimate engineering problems all the time without reading. Even if he was some idiot savant that could “fix engineering issues” without being able to read, he’d be useless because he couldn’t function without someone reading everything for him on the job.
These guys have a bit different English language :)
22:04 There's an old trailer right behind you. Have G-dude pull parts from that old bus, the John Deere combine, and various other machinery sitting on the property, and turn it into a towable trailer for you to bring it all back yourself and save some $$$
I wish to be like this legend when I get older.
You should have called Matt Cremona ithomes.info/net/l7aOx9eumYx-dmU/video
There's a fair bit of live oak in the UK. There are some avenues in my county and the nearest tree is at the end of my road about 500m away.
That accent is pure gold! "Had a nice triep!?" LOL!
They guy who runs the mill is soo fkn interesting 😅 he's an inventor for sure. All of this is pretty much home made 😯😯😯😯 im impressed
What a great accent the dude in the hat has, or Steve should I say.... "this is a ditty' I'm English, same as the tally Ho owner. Don't know how I came across this, but very interesting.
Where did he get these trees? Would he buy them from somebody’s land and come and harvest them? Or did he own his own wood lot?
Great music choice. Amazing dude. I keep watching this one again and again.
In 2006, I visited Mystic Seaport. And the guy there had a pile of live oak next to one of the barns. He said they picked them up from what the hurricane knocked down in Louisiana a couple years earlier. Man, those guys know their wood up there.
I've made cut up some of my own slabs of live oak, and it has the absolute worst combination of nasty, twisty grain and density of any wood I've seen. It's absolutely rock hard, super heavy, and the grain is horrible to work with. The grain is never straight and it's stringy like you would expect from oak, but it's absolutely beautiful and will last for years and years.
Love the mill guy classic Georgia man right there
Awesome video! That wood (I´m a carpenter myself)! That gear! And that "miller" who is worth a hundred grand! Actually I understood only every third word that he spoke (I´m german) but that made it even more entertaining to me. Thanks for the great show!!! More!!!
@Matthias Nicolai Ja der ist wirklich ein "Original" aber definitiv ein Experte in seinem Feld und Ingenieur von schwäbischem Kaliber :-) Aber wirklich ich kann den Kanal nur empfehlen schaue schon von der ersten Folge an und immer wieder tauchen besondere Menschen auf die das Projekt begeistert.
@Martin Muehlhaeuser Der Säger ist meinem geliebten Onkel selig (Vollerwerbs-Forst- und Landwirt aus dem Hochschwarzwald) wie aus dem Gesicht und Gemüt geschnitten. Mir kamen fast die Tränen... Und auch Onkel Sigi redete einen Dialekt, der schon in Karlsruhe kaum mehr verstanden wurde. Sehr cool!
In allen anderen Episoden auf diesem Kanal sind neben handwerklichen Wissen immer auch wieder solche Perlen zu finden.
Im constantly coming back to this episode. This is a great episode in so many ways.
Awesome
Steve Cross is an American Treasure. God bless him and all of the Live Oak.
13:10 :)
god damn awesome accent.. Oh i lost it when he said "This is a'book"
Pretty sure the Angel oak Tree right here in South Carolina is the biggest living Live Oak tree in the world.
I find accents and traits associated with them fascinating. People would listen to this accent and assume very low intelligence, however it is clear from actually paying attention, that this gentleman is brilliant.
That's a marvelous milling machine. I love old mills, and I love Frankenmills the most!
This Sawyer is a genius!!!!
And to think we all used to speak like our cousins across the pond. LOL