Golden Horseshoe Tree Salvage

Live edge black walnut slabs for sale! Freshly cut and priced to move! Approximately 1400 board feet in total. Priced between $3 and $5/board foot, with sizes up to 9 ft long, 40" wide and 3" thick. Message me if you are interested in getting a sweet deal on some very valuable live-edge black walnut!

Fresh cut slabs for sale from a large wind-thrown black walnut tree located in Caledon, Ontario. You dry, you save! Sizes ranging from 12 to 34 inches wide, 1.5 to 2.5 inches thick, and 4 to 12 ft long. Call or text my client Paul at 519-278-0475 for pricing and availability

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Extremely rare and beautiful white walnut (aka butternut) slabs for sale from my clients in Hamilton, Ontario.

Butternut trees are an endangered species. Across North America they've been infected by a fungus known as Butternut Canker, which has all but erased their populations from the entire continent. The few remaining survivors tend to be young and small, yet to be infected specimens. So for one to have lived long enough to reach this incredible size (40 inches plus in diameter) is an extremely rare occurrence.

My clients loved this tree, and only reluctantly had it taken down after it started dropping large limbs, including on neighbouring homes and one even very nearly injuring their two daughters.

Like its cousin black walnut, white walnut is a stable, straight grained wood prized for building furniture. These rare slabs won't last long. Email James Kowalewski at Like its cousin black walnut, white walnut is a stable, straight grained wood prized for building furniture. These rare slabs won't last long. Contact my client James Kowalewski at [email protected] for pricing and availability!

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Slabbed up an exceptional black walnut specimen down in Brantford this week. I was able to salvage a 10 foot section of the trunk of the tree to produce about a dozen beautiful table-sized slabs. My client would like to sell the wood - ideally all to one buyer - for a very reasonable price. If you're interested, please email Rachel at [email protected] for pricing and availability.

You're looking at the remains of a 187 year old white oak, which succumbed to the gypsy moth infestation that has been plaguing Southern Ontario for the past few years. Scroll through the images to get a look at some of the incredible wood that I was able to preserve from this venerable tree.

Most of the wood from this neighborhood landmark tree in Mississauga is available for purchase. Call or text my client Eric at 416-712-6218 for pricing and availability.

Well folks, spring has finally sprung. One of my first tree salvage jobs of the 2022 season was slabbing up these two walnut trees that were taken down by my client because they were proving to be too much of a nuisance to her neighbours. She opted to salvage the wood, and is offering it all up for sale at a pretty reasonable price. PM for pricing and availability.

Having spent the winter doing carpentry in Toronto, it sure is nice to be back out in the fresh air and (occasional) sunshine!

You don't see many trees like this growing in the wild anymore. Spotted this epic elm as I was leaving my job up in Saugeen Shores yesterday. Ain't she a beauty?

Oh yeah, swipe to see more pretty pictures of wood... 🙂

My first ever serious attempt at tree milling. Slabbed up a big black cherry out in my friends' sugar maple bush 8 years ago today. It was tough going with the "little" chainsaw that I had at the time with just a 28" bar on it, but I was very satisfied with the results, and had caught the wood fever!

Thinking about the brave people that are out there doing everything humanly possible to try and prevent the unnecessary logging of old-growth forests in British Columbia. Wishing we could be out there with them. Perhaps now that travel restrictions are being lifted, a trip out to Vancouver Island is in order this summer... 🤔

For now, here's a link to a website where you can lend some support in this important fight, from the comfort and safety of home:
https://laststandforforests.com/

When I was a teenager, I earned a decent income going to people's houses and cutting up piles of hardwood logs into firewood for their fireplaces and wood stoves. Today, people pay me 10 times as much to come to their houses to cut up piles of firewood into slabs and lumber for making furniture and other crafts... 🤔

Somewhere out in rural Ontario recently... I dont't know, let's call it Letterkenny haha

We support the brave folks who are currently risking their lives and freedom to stop old-growth logging in British Colombia. Please get involved! Call your local MP, sign a petition (there are many online), make a social media post to raise awareness, or go on a damn hunger strike and chain yourself to a tree! We've been donating time and money to this cause, and we hope you will too! Take action before it's too late! Visit https://www.ancientforestalliance.org/petition/ or https://www.change.org/p/john-horgan-end-the-logging-of-british-columbia-s-old-growth-forests online to sign their petitions and find out how you can get involved!

I cut this slab from an American elm that we salvaged from a school in the Toronto a few years ago. It will make a lovely table top. Happy it's finally found a forever home!

Yesterday's shenanigans... most of these beautiful and very large ambrosia maple slabs are for sale. Contact Rick at [email protected] for pricing and availability.

Salvaged a huge and very rare butternut yesterday at a farm just outside of Elmira, Ontario. This log presented many challenges, not just because of its huge size (72" wide at its widest points), but also because there was a clothesline buried in it in one location, not to mention pockets of dirt and small pebbles. Nonetheless, we managed to salvage some big beautiful slabs from this giant log! Most of them are for sale if you are interested. Contact my client Joel at [email protected]

Had a great day slabbing this Norway maple up for some super nice folks in Toronto yesterday. I think Daniel is going to make some beautiful furniture pieces out of this wood! 👍💪

Some of you may have noticed the mystery walnut log that we posted to our storyline yesterday. Here are the slabs that we milled up from that huge monster! In case you are wondering, yes these slabs are for sale! Serious inquiries only. Contact Luke at [email protected] for pricing and other details!

Slabbed up this big white ash for a very cool customer up in Port Perry yesterday. At 16 ft long and 4 ft wide, Hunter is planning to build a very large kitchen island for the new home he is building this summer!

We're back to work! And this time we've brought even more power and expanded capabilities to the equation. With our new double-ended Alaskan chainsaw mill, we can chew through big logs faster than ever before! With Ontario's stay-at-home order lifted and world-wide lumber shortages, we're happy to offer our services once again. It's been a long, dark winter, so we're looking forward to getting back out there in the sun and slabbing up your big logs again. Call or message us today to book your milling appointment!

This photo pretty much sums up 2020 for me. Taken by a client with a good eye for photography Just another guy, socially distanced, wearing a full faced respirator, just doing what he does. Hoping for 2021 to be much less isolated!!

Spalted maple anyone?? I milled up several large logs for a client near Stratford, Ontario this past week. He's looking to sell dozens of slabs and wood cookies in the 36 to 48 inch width range, rough sawn to 2.5 inches. Most of the slabs feature significant spalted grain figure, and some of them also feature interesting cavities, bark inclusions and insect galleries for you epoxy lovers. PM me if you are interested in purchasing one of these unique spalted maple slabs!

At almost six feet in diameter, this ancient hard maple tested the limits of myself and my equipment. Having towered over the rest of the trees in its neighborhood for roughly 150 years, it was nearing the end of its natural life and becoming a danger to nearby homes when the city of Cambridge decided it had to come down. The homeowners recognized the historic value of the tree and asked the city to leave the main trunk in their driveway so they could arrange to reclaim as much of the wood as possible. We managed to cut 10 slabs from the log before the remaining wood became too p***y to salvage. My clients only want to keep a couple of the slabs for themselves, and are selling the rest. PM me if you are interested in owning and preserving one of these epic slabs for yourself!

To be continued... ..

Gun-metal striped slabs anyone? It's been a long time since I've seen such a sweeping, well defined metal stripe in a slab. When you drive a nail into a tree, the tree grows around the nail until it completely encapsulates it. As the tree grows, every year the nail becomes buried deeper. As the seasons change, the tree's sap runs up and down the trunk, dissolving some of the metal and carrying it with it as it goes. The result: voila! Slabs with stripes!

Cut up some interesting walnut wood "cookies" for my friends at Bauman Sawmill a couple weeks ago. These would make some very cool tables for the epoxy lovers out there!

Had the great pleasure to play a role in salvaging one of Toronto's oldest fallen trees over the past couple of days. Took me two days to slab up this epic, approximately 260 year old red oak for . One of the top three biggest trees I've ever been asked to mill. This log maxed out my 72-inch saw a few times! .
@ Caledon, Ontario

It's becoming an increasingly rare pleasure to mill white ash, as the emerald ash borer beetle runs its course through our province. Incredible how easily (and fully intact) the bark comes off after the beetle larvae have consumed most of the cambium layer between the bark and the sapwood, while leaving the wood in perfect condition! These slabs will make beautiful tables...
@ Newcastle, Ontario

A few weeks ago a client of mine took a gamble and had me slab up a huge sugar maple log that had been laying in someone's backyard for about two years. His gamble paid off! Beautiful spalted maple slabs, each one big enough for a harvest table! Most of them are for sale... Pm me for his contact info!
@ Cobourg, Ontario

Fortunately for my clients and I, tree removal is considered an essential service in Ontario. It's also easy to follow the social distancing rules when you work alone outdoors! So just in case any of you folks are wondering, I am still out there making sawdust (and lots of beautiful live edge wood slabs). Business is understandably pretty slow though, so now seems like a pretty good time to catch up on posting a few photos of my work. Stay safe out there folks!
@ Newcastle, Ontario

Case in point, check out the cool figure that I found in the heart of this giant. In hindsight, I guess I should have posted this on International Women's Day, ha ha!