Sawmill
A collection of posts and information about our saw milling activities and services.
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Protect your investment
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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Exhaust fan for CBN sharpening machine
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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Lumber on board
All aboard! 🙂 This is what 1,453 board feet of spruce and hemlock lumber looks like. A whole bunch of 8ft boards, a pallet of 12ft and some 16ft for good measure.
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Rough spruce lumber
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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On This Day in Sawyer History Feb 15th
John H. Diers, of Blakeley, and Oscar Arnson, of St. Paul, Minnesota, assignors to Liberty Power Saw Company, county of Ramsey, Minnesota, a corporation of Minnesota claim to have invented certain and useful improvements on portable power saws. Appication files February 15, 1919. Serial No. 277, 237.
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Cracking open some pine
A bit cooler this January Tuesday. -11ºC with the wind chill. Just warm enough at the start of the afternoon to get out and spend the day sawmilling. With sharp blades, big logs and two people, the work seems to cruise right along.
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Slaburday
With our skidsteer still down for track repairs, we have to keep moving with deliveries.
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Initial test cut of a D&L Timber Tech 180º Swing Blade Saw Mill
Our D&L Timber Tech 180º swing blade saw mill arrived in late March. I think it was March. Anyway, its been a while. Just finding some time to get it set up and now at the stage of fine tuning the kerf cut in vertical and horizontal planes.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Apr 01
George Henning of Ithaca, New York, United States, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating saw mills, specifically, new and useful improvements on the self setting saw mill dog blocks. File claimed April 01, 1842.
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On This Day in Sawyer History Mar 9th
James E. Emerson, of Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania, United States, claims an invention as it relates to the method of operating band saw mills. File claimed March 9, 1886.
