Grew up with lumber yards around. Lived across a field from one. They had a mill shop and threw out the scraps and let us kids take what we wanted. All shapes and sizes. We used the round ones for wheels. Always loved the smell of fresh cut lumber.
This is Hull-Oakes, SW of Corvallis, OR. Been run by the same families for generations. They used to run on steam but have switched to electricity (the steam gear was too high-maintenance). I was there the day they switched over. Some things cannot be replaced by steel...for instance the masts on classic sailing ships, which they can provide. What someone called a boat hook is a peavey.
Sweet baby Jebus, how do you even transport something that long over the open road? That's a video I'd like to watch, loading, transporting, and unloading that truck full of those logs.
Industrial clears, #4 shop and better, and structural grades. I like how the sawyer can feather the carriage almost to a stop so the tail sawyer can pull the cut down.
Thanks for sharing I grew up in a town in Northern California that had two sawmills at one time now they are gone dad was the night shift supervisor for 10 years he ran the edger for 8 years before that they cut giant logs/;timber I was in that mill growing up as a kid was the best! Reading the comments bout using steal instead of cutting the trees…. What’s your house made of chump? Again thanks for sharing mr. Long live the sawmill’s
My ex-wife's first husband was killed doing this, sawed himself in half. My name is Bicycle Bob and I approved this message and this guy is going to lose his hands.
I am carpenter since 30 years...whats the usage for these gigantic oak beam podts and slaps? Special custom order for natural bridges? What is the weight of the uncut trunk?
To my way of thinking cutting a 60' log is impractical as it will probably be cut into shorter lengths at the next two station for easier handling on down the line. Most large mills are optimized to cut standard lengths and cutting the base log to the longest optimized length is more efficient.
of course it is impracticable, so most of the time they don't do that, only when they want something really long and someone is willing to pay for it. much easier to handle a 20' log or shorter.
Really slow feed rate! Nice log. We could cut 60" diameter 24 ft long. Never seen a 5 knee carriage, that is long , we had another mill that cut 36 ft long.
No leo en todos los comentarios, la falta de sentido ecológico, ese tronco era un árbol sano, y se tala para construir vigas, y seas mismas vigas se puede construir de acero, porque lo que sobra en el planetas sin rocas para fundir y hacer acero, y no se talan bosque que son los que ayudan a regular temperatura del planeta, y no se destruye el eco sistema
And to get the material to make steel we first need to clear the land of all vegetation, including trees but instead we could manage a forest and continue to harvest a renewable product off of it indefinitely. I see your point let's clear the land and use steel!
