David Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 http://www.garymkatz.com/OnTheRoad/HullOaks.htm Link to comment
AviP Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Thanks for the link. I was grinning ear to ear seeing good old fashioned mill. Link to comment
1MPH Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Very interresting. Thanks for taking the time to post. Nothing as compelling as history. Great story. Link to comment
yabadabapal Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 David that is one of the greatest things I have seen. I've always been envious of guys who are "millrights" who can innovate anything at anytime to keep the operation going. I"ll go out on a "limb" and guesstimate that one squared 80 footer arriving at its destination must be around 15,000 dollars or more. The most beautiful felled tree I ever saw was a center beam, 3 stories high across an Aframe with a length of about 80 feet in a log cabin restaurant on Highway 26 going from Portland Oregon to the coast. Thanks for the great adventure! Link to comment
JohnnyJ Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 Looks dangerous. I lost the middle toe of my right foot one summer as a teenager working in a produce packaging facility. My foot got sucked into the chain and sprocket mechanism of a conveyor belt that had no guard. Since then I've had a mild phobia of open machinery. I do have a fascination for things old and industrial. Johnny J Link to comment
skinny_tom (aka boney) Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 When I was in College, one of my classes went on a tour of a local sawmill. It was computerized, and had a multiple blade mill that would measure the logs and adjust the blades to optimize the board-feet, then cut the entire length into several slabs all at once. As someone who both enjoys the old and new ways of doing things, it was fun to see. The other fun part was how the machinery tossed around the large logs like they were tooth picks. The whole place shook. Very impressive. Link to comment
Paul Mihalka Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 WOW! Some large scale machinery! - and does not seem very computerized... Link to comment
Tom R. Posted February 5, 2011 Share Posted February 5, 2011 The NEXT time I need an 85' log I'll be sure to call these guys! Link to comment
Quinn Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 I once worked with a guy who had been a music major (played the violin) and had had a Summer job in a Maine sawmill. He looked around one day and realized that he was the only person at the lunch table that had all his fingers. He found another Summer job the next year. --- Link to comment
rocks Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Thanks... That brought back some good memories. I worked in a smaller mill during two summers while in college. Couple of differences were we didn't have a log pond, the logs went straight from a staging pile to the de-barker. (Not sure I understand the advantage of the pond) The other primary difference was that our primary saw was a circuler blade roughly 6' in diameter. And of course we were powered by straight electric. Its pretty amazing what an experienced sawyer can do with a log to get the most value out of it!! My job... primarily was the last step either stacking finished product or occasionally edging. Most fun was running the loader to load the de-barker... the cab was Air Conditioned Link to comment
leikam Posted February 7, 2011 Share Posted February 7, 2011 Seems quite appropriate to me that a lumber mill be steam powered. Thanks for the link. Link to comment
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