We’re a 3 generation family owned and operated sawmill! We’re located in Brown County Indiana and have been in business now for 50 years. Since we live in the hardwood capital of the world, hardwoods are what we deal in. On this channel you’ll see a wide variety of videos ranging from timber cutting to sawmilling.
Awesome job with the felling, extremely enjoyable! In 1964-1965 we cut white oak timber of that size and quality for an entire year making stave bolts. No one wanted any lumber and no veneer was even heard of. Average wage for a timber worker in that era was $16-20 per day. My dad and I cut/split bolts 4 days a week and loaded/delivered a tandem truck load the 5th day making between $565-600 each week. These same quality and size of trees you cut today we paid $6-8 per tree depending on the size. We made nearly enough money that year to pay for 6 acres and a $16,000 house (average house price was $5000-9000...equal to $500,000-1,000,000 in today's inflated money. However, today's houses are about 50% more sqft and many more amenities). I'd love to live those good old days again....lol.
How much does an Fair tree go for just curious my brother bought a piece of property in Mississippi and it's full of oak and he's is having a bunch of them cut down he's built a new house and going to rent out the house that's there
Beautiful logs. Love it when the saw drags me into the wood. 😆 What happens with the tops on your jobs? I'm a whole tree operation so we cut out the sawlogs and firewood logs on the landing and chip the tops. Chips go to the power plant. Great video.
Ya I actually wanted you guys to see that especially after watching it! So that was a newer chain, and somebody may have hit the drags a tad just to make it a tad aggressive haha. But that’s just my constant hold
I expected soomeone with your experience to cut down your tops. Cuz some wood lots look like crap when you’re driving by and you see the big crowns sticking up lol. Beauty trees buddy. Nice job
@@Helmsburgsawmill That is an awesome set up you have for cutting grade lumber. Cutting parallel sided boards without using an edger saves time and man power.
You buy pizza for lunch on Fridays for the boys or is Miller time on your dime? I agree with a previous comment that everyone should do at least 8 hours on greechain duty. My first experience was at 16 years of age when me and another guy worked a two man chain piling 30,000 fbm a day for two and a half months (summer Job) in 1969. Next greenchain work was 1971 (grad year). Mill had two greenchains and an edge sorter. That mill was cutting almost 400,000 fbm a shit. This was a three line mill.
Like the mill videos, and I like your cabin project too! Just a note, uncross your arms when talking to the camera. It looks unnatural and gives the impression that you are uncomfortable.
Best sawing video due to your double blade being on top and bottom to saw two logs at one at a time that is the best type of saw because it makes two logs in one pass even if the log is two sizeses two larger than the saw size to large for the saw blade ! Two to size of the log a twenty inch thick log can be cut in one pass by a saw blade that is 18 inch in diameter ! Saves one cut down to one pass ! X just great engendering I done by one pass !!
Yes, the other comment about everybody should pull from the green chain at least eight hours a day one time that is very true. You will get a different perception and I was one of a few jobs that I just hated when I was SAWMILLING
When I was a kid I worked a couple summers at a sawmill. I don’t have any idea what the manufacturer was or how old it was but the sawyer road on the carriage. Thought he was crazy then and still think he was crazy.
I subscribed today. Interesting video. It would be calming if not for the various camera angles that seemed to put the operator precariously close to the moving parts. You get sucked into that apparatus and it would be way worse than any Russian lathe! Good work.
