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Offline rwthom279

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Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« on: February 04, 2012, 05:54:30 pm »
Some of you may have seen this.  Some, maybe not.  Found this on YouTube and was very impressed.  Thought I would share.



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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2012, 05:57:54 pm »
 :o :o :o
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #2 on: February 04, 2012, 07:03:17 pm »
Several things would stop me from ever being this fast; my wrists, arms, shoulders, eyesight, concentration, I could go on.   :o
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #3 on: February 04, 2012, 07:30:58 pm »
Nice, a cant in 24 seconds! Boy that turner really throws the log around.  Almost makes me miss being around the circle mills.  :(
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #4 on: February 04, 2012, 07:33:19 pm »
That Jeff in that cab? Bet his shoulders ache just watching that. ;)
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #5 on: February 04, 2012, 07:35:41 pm »
Beenthere, donethat.  That's only a 2 headblock carriage. sounds like he was crowding that beech log for the camera.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #6 on: February 04, 2012, 07:52:57 pm »
Oh my. I wonder what they were doing with the cants after that? If he was that fast, why didn't he just cut them up into boards? Or maybe he was making RR ties?
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #7 on: February 04, 2012, 08:05:38 pm »
I thought I was a Hot Shot sawing 6 an hour.  I can’t even think that fast.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #8 on: February 04, 2012, 09:33:23 pm »
That's so fast that it's boring after about 30 seconds.

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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #9 on: February 04, 2012, 09:35:58 pm »
It was so fast my computer couldn't keep up with the video!  :o
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #10 on: February 04, 2012, 09:42:22 pm »
It's always impressed me as to just how fast a circle-saw can be!  :o :o
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #11 on: February 04, 2012, 09:58:56 pm »
I bet the operator station has AC.  Just think, there are crews or machines working just as fast, feeding and taking wood from this mill.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #12 on: February 04, 2012, 10:07:46 pm »
Thats why you cant ( ::)) make it as a small guy sawing ties when competing against the big boys.

In the big pine mills with the sharp chains and the curve gang saws, they can saw twelve 16' logs per minute and produce over 60,000 BF per hour.  Our best could produce 1 million BF a day of dimension pine lumber in two shifts.  No way to compete with that. 

Like Cedarman says, find the niche  :D.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #13 on: February 04, 2012, 10:26:37 pm »
I assume rr ties. That is some production from a small mill but as WDH suggests, no way anyone could meet demand and be cost effective with such a set up. It would have to be a niche market the big guys don't want to bother with.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #14 on: February 05, 2012, 08:34:34 am »
That job looks more stressfull than an air trafic controller,I'll stick with my handset thankyou. Frank C.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #15 on: February 05, 2012, 09:08:49 am »
That's the job I had for 25 years, and it is the toughest job in the mill and the hardest on the mind and body.  He's probably cutting ties as it looks like hes cutting dense northern hardwoods. He might asl be squaring up to go to a gang or resaw, but looks like ties to me. 

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If he was that fast, why didn't he just cut them up into boards?

If you can pass the cant on to a gangsaw that resaws into boards in one pass, think how much faster that is than if he was to saw it himself into boards.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #16 on: February 05, 2012, 09:16:46 am »
Jeff, why don't you put up the link to your sawing videos back in the day.  Good spot for it here.   :D
 
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #17 on: February 05, 2012, 09:24:45 am »
There's not a whole lot of footage of me sawing, and what there is, is pretty bad quality, but there are two clips I have on youtube that I've posted on the forum in the past.  The first one was taken of me sawing, but not really showing the mill. The second one shows a little more mill. This is what I did 8 to 10 hours a day, and for several years an additional 6 hours on Saturdays.



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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #18 on: February 05, 2012, 09:37:31 am »
Thats pretty typical of commercial tie mills in TN & KY. He is sawing 7x9 crossties. A two headblock Hurdle mill will cut 400 ties a day. Side lumber is often seen as a "by product" to some of the folks that run these mills.
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Re: Impressive Sawyer/Mill - Video
« Reply #19 on: February 05, 2012, 12:19:23 pm »
Put a vertical edger on there and your world starts to change. 
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