Yeah .... as much as your underwear and socks can hold ....... trust me 25 years and counting in a sawmill as a mill right

They have it easy compared to older saw mills run off 671 Detroits. Checkout Reel Mckoy and Mark Gailic channels, some old school country mills with just one saw operator milling full nasty logs to beautiful lumber and the hardest working off bearers.

You have no idea what you are talking about. This guy now has three sawmills, very successful.

Its no longer about how fast you produce. Its who you cut for , how you cut it, and what market. Been that way for the last 20 years.

F.a.s (first and second)cut. The best wood is between the bark and center portion of the log.

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A circular saw would cut just fine, but, a bandsaw has a thinner kerf (part of wood removed to make the cut) and gives more boards out of a log than a circular blade.

Then why not have a bandsaw at the first station? This is SUCH a bizzare set-up. Square the logs with a circilar saw, then move them to a bandsaw to cut again. Isn't one machine cheaper than two?

@@Maloy7800 Throughput is more important than elegance. Cutting is more productive than setting up. Best to set up other machines than to have an artisan carve up one log on one station. Yes, one saw can do all the cuts. But manipulation of the log takes time in between cuts. Parallel operations using multiple always make more product than one machine per product because each machine can be optimized for the most efficient way to perform that one specific process.

Mark Calvert I liked it. 😁

very expensive wood

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Mr coz personally for me is cheap in price and I really like this wood

Nothing overhead to fall and hit you in head there Safety Sam.

kyle warmerdam They need to turn the cant to get the most high grade boards as possible

kyle warmerdam s. It’s grade hardwood lumber, not dimensional lumber.

Because once you take the grade off you can sell the cants at right dimensions to pallet producers and fetch a higher price then waste boards

Paul S They are not Amish.

BUT they are not cutting boards with the circular saw. They are stripping to the cant. That material is routed to a scavenging operation to extract usable lumber from the waste. The bandsaw does the board cutting process, and yes one at a time to remove the need to reposition the sawblade after the cut - just begin on the next cant immediately. THAT is the little secret to the efficiency of this operation.

I just love it.

This is sawmill bro not a spa

I enjoyed this work too !

In a Sawmill gotta be a badass or not work in one i love it started at 19 now almost 21 and couldn't find anything better fast pace always somthing to do and makes the days go by nice and fast

Hello Chuck Stairs This setup is in outer space where there is no gravity. That's why they have to have an extra man on the payroll, just pulling every slab & flitch as it comes off the log & placing it on the belt.

Nothin' to it, shouldn't be any harder than working yourself across a minefield with a bayonet for a probe, simple.

I've been making sawdust for 35 years , still got all my fingers and toes

@@cabbyhubby im 19 working at a mill always learned to keep one eye out for danger and learn to listen to the machine it will tell you when somthing is wrong

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DAN HUNIK LOL I hope the next video shows the steam engine

This mill costs only a fraction of the cost of your 600,000 board ft mill.

This mill requires very few people to operate. Many of our customers are very profitable.

@@HurdleMachineWorks I guess it does boil down to capital costs. The super mills cut 2X4 2X6 and 2X8 only. There would be a lot more money in custom cut sizes.

I guess if you give me that much money I can make you a mill that produces 600,000 bf too

That's green poplar

probably lots more maintenance with a gang saw, but certainly much faster I'd say

Circle to break down the log, Brewco B 1600 resaw, n a edger,love the lay out,would like to buy a mill like that for Guyana

With Band Saw you can make more out of each log, prolly more bf

You might have missed where they said they were sawing for grade. Circular mill removes sap wood and slabs. Resaw makes cants into lumber.

Slower yes but the trouble with band mills and grade is they reveal a lot more defects than a circular saw does.

Somebody who obviously has 100 times more experience at running a sawmill then you do. Moron.

Yes, that's the best reply to a very good question. I, too, don't understand why this last board can't be sawn off at the headrig? Am I a moron, too? Or are you just an arrogant jerk?

They're feeding a resaw. The headrig is just breaking down the logs to a cant so that the resaw can get the boards out of it with a thin kerf band so that less lumber is wasted and it's more efficient because the blade is always cutting whereas the headrig has to gig back (not cutting) and it takes a 9/32" kerf whereas the resaw probably has a 5/32" kerf or so.

Cutting a board from the cant at the bottom has two process advantages. The sawn board is clamped in place under the remaining cant. A single tip separates cant and board. If the board were cut from the top, it would be loose and would have to be dropped off the cant. Loose and dropped is not a good thing in industrial processes. Tip and separate. Elegant. While this one board at a time method might appear complicated, this process is actually more efficient than a one- machine process: The logs move past two saws. Multiple times to square up the cant. One time through the saw. Both saws are stationary (the heavy and complex head does not move). The sled performs the manipulation and multiple shuttles to square the cant (slow process). The belt does only one thing - run a cant in one direction past the blade (fast process). A circulating stream of cants removes the need to reposition the saw location - that is what's been removed from the equation that makes this a very fast efficient and cost-effective/production. Most likely the circular saw was in place chopping up boards and all before an expert saw the place, bought a stationary bandsaw (cheap) and some conveying equipment (cheap) and turned an inefficient working area into a 28000bf per 8 hour shift money maker. Scale is the monster. Most small guys get eaten by scale.

Because that's the way they want it

28000 MBF is roughly 56 cubic meters. With that size of logs, I don't think it's such a huge number. It's two truck loads.

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