Quite a change from the sawmills I worked at during summers in the late 1950's to finance my college education! In this video, I kept looking for guys working on the green chain, the usual starting job back then, but--at least at the mill in this video--it's all automated. My first job was at a redwood mill, newly built and state-of-the-art at the time, near the Mendocino coast in northern California. No debarking machines in that era, just a couple of guys attacking each log with long, heavy steel bars (I can't remember, but the bars must have been either pointed or shaped and sharpened into blades at one end) before the log entered the mill. Inside the mill, there was a guy strapped to his seat on the carriage who took signs from the sawyer as to when and how much to rotate each log to get whatever they wanted out of it. Every subsequent operation, from edging to trimming to grading, required a qualified individual to make snap judgments (no laser lines back then!) on every single piece of lumber as it passed by them. Finally we grunts on the green chain had wrestle those wet, heavy boards (a fresh 2x12, 20' long, was a challenge!) off the conveyer (ie., the green chain). Fortunately, each link in the conveyer chain nearest each worker had a built-in roller which greatly facilitated our handling the lumber. We stacked the lumber, with stickers every 8 or 10 layers, onto heavy wooden blocks that were placed on the ground about 3 feet below the platform that we workers stood on. The blocks were designed for a tall, straddle-carrier to pick up and take away the pile once it reached a certain height. We sorted the lumber into different piles depending on grade and dimension, and each green chain worker was responsible for several piles.

Cool vid. Nice logs, great looking beams.

Beautiful work. :)

Good work, and video!

Great video of a major operation.

I just got this job for a new sawmill built last year near Lake Tahoe. I'll be doing this work. Kind of nervous and excited.

Cool, thanks for sharing

Very nice operation. Worked at Timber Products in Medford while in college and later at Fruit Growers in Hilt Ca. DJ

After watching videos like this, and these boards still have finish milling to be completed, it amazes me that a 2 x 4 x 8 can sell for only 2 or 3 dollars. And this doesn't even show the man hours, fuel costs, etc. required to drop the trees and get this far. Incredible !!!!!!

Very well organized. They can do with some LED lightning that will have a positive impact.

Hello, nice to watch, great work! Good luck from CZECH, wishes z : DEnda

Nice work

e muito interessante a forma que vocês trabalham ai nos EUA...aqui no Brasil, usamos muita mão de obra..parabéns

Wow that was cool!!!!

Some really nice timber/lumber at that mill. High dollar material.

This is where the big boys hang out.

That grapple hardly even grunted with the load of logs!

Love the setup. Where ya located at???????

Quite the operation!

wow nice , you must have a full time man just to keep the chains oiled LOL

Nice block stacks on the stacker, way different than the one that I operate, much shorter layer forks on your one

wow...!

I bet it smells awesome in there

What do they do with the small pieces of wood?

Amazing! I always loved sawmills in Oregon. Where in Oregon is it located? I know one in Estacada. Is that the mills location?

Holy Doug fir!

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What a chain nightmare

It’s like seeing what computers woulda looked like in the 1960s

6:28 Wood rollercoaster

goood

“Walkthrough” they said but they don’t actually walk you through the process!

They said this is erins mill. I put good upgrades in the mid 80s that took years to happen while other people then controlled it. Then it was like she wont put upgrades in, i said their arent anymore fucking trees.

Just wondering when does the lumber get dried?

Has be in the Douglas County area since that was an Elderge truck bringing in a load

Go Irish! Class of '83.

उपरोक्त फैक्ट्री कहां की है कृपया यह भी बताएं

DRJohnson ..... hmmm .... yeah, I used to work for that tight son of a bitch. That Praire City stud mill with the CoGen plant, was one sweet setup. Then, his planer burned down. We tried to drag hose over there from the sawmill, but by that time, the whole end of the building where the planer was at was on fire. I grabbed a forklift and moved units stacked in back of the building away so they wouldn't burn. By the time I was done I had to leave several as they were already on fire so much so I could get near them with the forklift. The fire dept arrived finally and firemen ran for the building carrying fat hoses. They ran in the front of the place where the sorting chain, and packaging area was, intending to head the fire off from the enclosed planer. However at about halfway in, the fine powder that had accumulated in the building ignited exploded, and so they ran back out. It was pretty spectacular from there on out what with the oxyacetaline cans exploding and a horrendous fire which leveled the place. There was never a single water hose installed at the planer shed ..... anyways, thanks for the presentation, it was excellent.

流石に米国の製材工場は凄い。オートメーション、少人数、生産性が高い。

कृपया अपनी जानकारी में संबंधित देश एवं एवं संबंधित स्थान का नाम भी ऐड करें

you would think the guy taking you around would say something other than walking in front of the camera man and not saying a dam thing

That is slooooooow_www

I’ve worked in three sawmills.

Idk how much they produce. Baillie lumber in ny has 2 headsaws and 2 resaws and makes about 9000 an hour. Used to work there and left for a different job. Regretted it ever since

Where is the Home Depot boards

they literally walk the camera though, it shakes like crazy

I do hope you are replacing the trees that are cut down. That will help to absorb the CO2 we produce.

No guards on cut off saw, no hearing protection, no eye protections, few hard hats, Does OSHA never go in there?

I see lots of wasted linear motion and rotary equipment sitting idle for long stretches. Something tells me operating efficiency is not of paramount importance at this mill.

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Very noisy place I didn’t see anyone wearing ear protectors

looks like some of thge garbage I had to dig through at home depot this morning to try and find some halfway usable 2x4's

So few human workers earning money. Who will be able to afford the wooden items soon ?

5:18 - 5:40 shit job

Slaughter house for trees.

Looks like garbage home depot lumber...lol

really old technology...typical US style

der reinste Schrott

A blind grader for home depot. Just read China plywood is shipped thru Vietnam first. Trump NAFTA 2 has it settled softwood lumber subsidies of no stoppage paid by Canadian sawmill of 19%.

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