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  • DIY hack - brush sweeps oil from sawmill blades
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    DIY hack – brush sweeps oil from sawmill blades

    June 10, 2022 /

    The Wood-mizer BMS250MU CBN sharpener has plastic cards that you re-position to scrape excess oil from the sawmill blade as the blade is passing through the sharpener. The oil is used to cool the CBN stone and to wash away the excess steel filings from the sharpening process. The cards do a fair job but for a couple reasons these brushes will improve the job.

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    June 30, 2021

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    January 19, 2021
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  • WoodchuckCanuck can saw your logs into lumber for a reasonable rate, Antigonish County, Nova Scotia.
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    Saw milling logs to lumber

    December 1, 2021 /

    We had 2-3/4 cords of softwood logs that had been sitting for a couple years. Past due really. Nothing nice about them, from the age to the dirt and limbs hanging off of them from being harvested with a processor.

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    June 2, 2020
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    November 7, 2020
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  • Saw milling large hemlock logs.
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    You should see what I saw

    October 18, 2021 /

    Hey, Jim here. The fall season is a time of the year I look forward to. Cooler weather, and things slow down a little bit allowing us to get at a few other things that have been on the back burner all year long. This past week I have been trying to get into a pile of pine and hemlock.

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  • 1903-1904 View of Harrison Mills (BC).
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    Vintage logging – log yard

    September 11, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the log yards and the men who worked them.

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    1909 Woman Standing on Diamond Rail Car with Large Log.

    Vintage logging – Women

    June 6, 2020
    Crew at loading site with donkey engine and log rigged for loading, Schafer Brothers Logging Company, probably in Grays Harbor County.

    Vintage logging – Booms, Spars and A-frames

    July 25, 2020
    Sawyers using an elevated saw pit frame.

    Vintage logging – Carpenters

    June 26, 2021
  • Timber rafts on Guyan River, Huntington, WV
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Log rafts

    September 4, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage photos takes a look at the woodsmen making log rafts to travel downstream or across the bay.

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    January 23, 2021
    1903 Logging with a donkey engine.

    Vintage logging – Steam donkeys

    July 24, 2021
    1938 Mr J.C. Sawyer at Clarksville, Arkansas

    Vintage logging – Circle saw mills

    July 17, 2021
  • Saw mill blade wooden boxes
    Sawmill

    Protect your investment

    June 30, 2021 /

    To protect your investment of saw mill blades, we now offer these sturdy wooden boxes. They are made from 1/2 inch thick pine boards right here in our workshop.

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    December 1, 2021
    Exhaust fan for BMS250S CBN sharpening machine

    Exhaust fan for CBN sharpening machine

    June 28, 2021

    Cracking open some pine

    January 19, 2021
  • Exhaust fan for BMS250S CBN sharpening machine
    Sawmill

    Exhaust fan for CBN sharpening machine

    June 28, 2021 /

    The amount of air borne oily mist that is created from the Wood-mizer BMS250S is significant. The design of the machine’s case does less than a desirable job of keeping the mist enclosed. The only way to truly tame it is to create some negative pressure within its environment.

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    June 10, 2022

    Cracking open some pine

    January 19, 2021
    Saw mill blade wooden boxes

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    June 30, 2021
  • 20210622 - Sawmilling rough lumber in Antigonish County and Guysborough County, Nova Scotia.
    Milling Lumber

    Rough spruce lumber

    June 23, 2021 /

    The term rough lumber generally refers to fully dimension lumber. Let’s use 2×4’s as an example. While this size lumber at the big box stores are measured at 1.5×3.5 inches, it’s generally called a “2×4”. Why? Well, there are historical reasons, but for now the simple answer is because when the board comes off the mill, it is 2 x 4 inches in size, after which it is planed on 4 sides and dried, thus reducing its dimensions. The lumber produced from this log is double rough, and I’ll explain why.

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    June 2, 2020
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    December 1, 2021
  • 1900 Lumpkin Saw Mill workers.
    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – Big Logs

    May 22, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This week’s review of vintage logging shows some of the big logs that fell come from the stumps.

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    May 2, 2020
    1940-1948 Train pulling a load of logs over a trestle bridge.

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    August 1, 2020

    Vintage logging – Camp

    June 19, 2021
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    Vintage Logging

    Vintage logging – articles

    May 8, 2021 /

    Each Saturday morning I review 10 vintage logging, forestry and saw milling photos. This Saturday morning almost didn’t happen due to a Photo library issue on the computer. While the up-to-date library is lost, I was able to dig around and retrieve a backup that is about a year old. So without further ado, this week’s review of vintage logging are various articles in relation to forestry and manufacturing of lumber.

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    May 22, 2021
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    February 15, 2020
    3 lumber trucks loaded, California - 1920 license plates.

    Vintage logging – logging trucks

    April 3, 2021
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