You know I love seeing this stuff. A bunch of people make a fuss about east coast west coast. Blah blah. I’m on the east coast and the wood is hard. You’re on the west coast and it’s soft. Our trees aren’t massive trees. Your trees are huge. But from what I have seen the ppl that run the mills and log woods are exactly the same. Good ole boys gettin the job done and trying to have fun while doing it.
This brings back memories ! I can smell the fir from memory! My dad worked in a similar mill in Vancouver Canada for decades remember going to work with him as a kid. Headings like this are LOUD amazing they go from logs like this to dimensional lumber so fast .
Ich habe viele Jahre im Sägewerk gearbeitet !!!! Es war die schönste Zeit meines Lebens, auch wenn die Arbeit gefährlich und hart war !!! Wenn ich heute in meiner kleinen Werkstatt Kiefernholz bearbeite dann bin ich wieder 40 Jahre jünger und wieder im Sägewerk wo ich vor 47 Jahren meine Arbeit als Sägewerker begannn !!!! Schöne Erinnerungen an eine lange zurück liegende Zeit Aber mein Herz schlägt immer noch etwas lauter wenn ich den Menschen bei dieser Arbeit zusehen kann !!!! Vielen lieben Dank für diesen Film !!!! Aber mein Herz schlägt für die Leute die dort arbeiten und natürlich für den wunderbaren Werkstoff "Holz"!!!!!! Viele Grüße aus Deutschland ( Westerwald) !!!!👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
Amazing! Watching the whole sawmill process is fascinating. The technique used to cut the logs is top-tier. I learned something new today about sawmilling. Excited for more sawmill-related content. Keep up the great work!
Wow, that's a big headrig carriage. I was a millwright in a couple of sawmills, but they were stud mills, and 9 foot was the longest we cut. Pretty impressive.
The guy in the black shirt is the tail-sawyer. I did that job at a mill in Thompson Falls Montana in the 70s. Tough dangerous job with a double cut saw when you have a slab falling on each pass of the carriage. Even so it was a great adventure!!
Why is he trying to catch the big cut pieces? It's not like he's gonna be able to lift them or literally do anything at all. That's an accident waiting to happen. The bastard is trying to lose his fingers or break them!
Hard work. Not great pay either. Worked in a Plywood plant in Montana for about 13 years 86 to late 90s. Straight out of high school. Green chain. Physically demanding work. Over time I developed carpal tunnel add rotary cuff issues. No bullshit either. Your worked or you went down the road. Not like people now hanging out & on their phones all day.
I feel you brother! Worked at the mill in Livingston Montana, on the greenchain, resaw, skrag deck and outside cleanup. Every day is a real ball buster!
I think this log and a few other sixty footers and a couple of forty footers have been sitting on the ground for a long time. The cambium layer on the log looks old and dry and the wood fibre show drying also
I worked in a mill in Northern Calif. when I was younger , it was hard work but I enjoyed it. I would say that this mill specializes in long beams and dimension lumber like rafters.
I’m a baker in a small commercial cookie factory- we make about 5000lbs of cookies muffins brownies a day. Visitors all say the same thing “it smells amazing in here” -- sadly the smell just ends up smelling like work after a while
@@drpoopenstein9080 they say if you love what you do you will never work a day in your life. But I hear what your saying. I worked in an a rent a center in collections and for a year and a half avatar was playing on every TV in the building. I now get irate everytime the movie is mentioned.
Ja das ist wahr !!!Ich habe die längste Arbeitszeit meines Lebens im Sägewerk verbracht !!! Also kann ich sagen das es dort schon einmal wirklich toll riecht !!!😅😅😅😅😅
I worked in sawmills my whole life without earplugs efc. For the simple reason that I wanted to hear everything around me. In case a bandsaw would break, a chipper knife was loose or dull etc. being a millwright and saw filer, it was to my advantage to catch things before they happened. Saved my life over the years and could tell you many stories about workers who missed a lot of mishaps because they were wearing plugs. I’m 78 years old today and my hearing is still just fine. Thank you very much!!
Thank you so much for that video I've never seen it done like that in a large scale it's pretty interesting I watched the whole video so thank you Happy Thanksgiving
Guy next to the mill is an 'off-bearer' (in the Pacific Northwest). Dangerous job. No hard hat, maybe no ear protection, maybe no safety glasses... even though in that job... probably didn't matter ! When the band saw comes off the wheel is the most dangerous time. In the 'latter days' of that job we provided Kevlar jackets. Off bearer job was mostly eliminated by better engineering. Air 'slab droppers' in the roll-case, punch bars on the carriage (kick the bottom out), then rotary chippers at the head rig took off the unworkable outside of the log. Brings back memories.
@@YESITSWILLThis set up moves cut lumber in one direction only. If you cut in two directions, two off-loading stations would be needed. Not saying it's not doable, it's just for this mill, one direction only.
From 1992 to 2016 i worked cutting and erecting morticed and tenoned timber frames. Went through a lot of west coast fir, the biggest timber i remember working on was 10 by16 inches 35 feet long. I imagine it came out of a log like this.
The wood looks so smooth! My house has solid wood paneling instead of drywall. There are diagonal marks running across each board. Some are very rough with lots of tear out. Does anyone know why? Maybe the mill was using a circular blade?
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I had to fell many of these when i was a firefighter in the US Forest service. One was hit by lightning on Mt Graham Arizona. It took a whole tank of gas to make a face cut n do the back cut... i always wondered what wiuld become of trees like that...
That bit of inattention at about 5:17 is how you can get seriously hurt around the head rig. He should have seen that slab was going to be heavy because of the curvature at the butt of the log. Not being critical of the worker, just an observation of how doing something over and over can cause attention to slip.
I’ld hate to be pulling those timbers off the green chain! 4x12x24 was the longest I pulled in the 70’s. When they had a translucent look to them, you knew they were fkn HEAVY!😮
I had no idea anyone milled logs that long. That slab at the end must weigh 5 tons. The guy grabbing them with his hands is a for real badass. When he first started he probably weighed 100 pounds. Seriously though this is one hell of an operation. Next time I need 60 foot 5 ton slabs of douglas fir you guys are my number one and only.
Goddamn i thought i was hard for working in a veneer mill, this is a fckn whole other league. So many things to get fingers or clothes or anything stuck in, ripped off, smashed holy o'hell. The catch at 3:40 and 5:23 was 100% experience, someone less on their shit definitely comes out on the losing end of that exchange. Respect. Also 😂😂😂 dude with the pike pole has got to have the most boring effing job on the planet😂😂😂.
Come on guys. I know you enjoy a good joke. But saw dust is not healthy for your lungs. I know it's a natural product but nonetheless it's bad for your lungs.
When i worked in the mill we were actually not allowed to wear a mask unless you take some special test because they dont want you exerting yourself in a mask and passing out or something
I work at Canfor in Canada. Our head rig can do 24 footers so the carriage is much smaller. That guy standing there holding the slab is doing some seriously dangerous chit. Hes one wrong move away from death, one miss step, trip or the slab getting caught on a chain run will send him into those rolls. That company has a serious liability in the works
Nice he had a helper with the pike pole. Usually on your own. I only had 10’ diameter cedar, but the old timers told me of running the rig with trailer bunks and saw up to 100’. Became unnecessary and impractical. All high speed double cuts and quads now.
The beams you see go into the gangsaw which cuts the beam into dimensional lumber. The first two beams looked like 2x6 and 2x8 cants the last large beam looked like a 2x12 cant
What a beautiful log. Worked in a sawmill when I was younger but never had anything near this big.
That’s what she said 😂
You know I love seeing this stuff. A bunch of people make a fuss about east coast west coast. Blah blah. I’m on the east coast and the wood is hard. You’re on the west coast and it’s soft. Our trees aren’t massive trees. Your trees are huge. But from what I have seen the ppl that run the mills and log woods are exactly the same. Good ole boys gettin the job done and trying to have fun while doing it.
This brings back memories ! I can smell the fir from memory! My dad worked in a similar mill in Vancouver Canada for decades remember going to work with him as a kid. Headings like this are LOUD amazing they go from logs like this to dimensional lumber so fast .
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Ich habe viele Jahre im Sägewerk gearbeitet !!!! Es war die schönste Zeit meines Lebens, auch wenn die Arbeit gefährlich und hart war !!! Wenn ich heute in meiner kleinen Werkstatt Kiefernholz bearbeite dann bin ich wieder 40 Jahre jünger und wieder im Sägewerk wo ich vor 47 Jahren meine Arbeit als Sägewerker begannn !!!! Schöne Erinnerungen an eine lange zurück liegende Zeit Aber mein Herz schlägt immer noch etwas lauter wenn ich den Menschen bei dieser Arbeit zusehen kann !!!! Vielen lieben Dank für diesen Film !!!! Aber mein Herz schlägt für die Leute die dort arbeiten und natürlich für den wunderbaren Werkstoff "Holz"!!!!!! Viele Grüße aus Deutschland ( Westerwald) !!!!👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍
I worked at a lumber mill when I was 19 years old as a piler. Nothing like it in the world, it’s up there with the rough necks in my opinion.
Amazing! Watching the whole sawmill process is fascinating. The technique used to cut the logs is top-tier. I learned something new today about sawmilling. Excited for more sawmill-related content. Keep up the great work!
I’d love to be there and smell that fresh cut wood! What an amazing video.
That’s the biggest log (in length) I’ve ever seen, enjoyed watching your mill.
Wow, that's a big headrig carriage. I was a millwright in a couple of sawmills, but they were stud mills, and 9 foot was the longest we cut. Pretty impressive.
Just sat here and watched the whole thing.. Thumbs up.
The guy in the black shirt is the tail-sawyer. I did that job at a mill in Thompson Falls Montana in the 70s. Tough dangerous job with a double cut saw when you have a slab falling on each pass of the carriage. Even so it was a great adventure!!
I can't believe they still let humans get that close to the saw blade. Very dangerous job.
Why is he trying to catch the big cut pieces? It's not like he's gonna be able to lift them or literally do anything at all. That's an accident waiting to happen. The bastard is trying to lose his fingers or break them!
Was that a champion mill ? I had 12 year's at the Bonner Plywood plant .
Still safer than being a mother. Clownass men feeling hard about doing “dangerous jobs”
Turning down.
Hard work. Not great pay either. Worked in a Plywood plant in Montana for about 13 years 86 to late 90s. Straight out of high school. Green chain. Physically demanding work. Over time I developed carpal tunnel add rotary cuff issues. No bullshit either. Your worked or you went down the road. Not like people now hanging out & on their phones all day.
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Different world then. Hard work was normal. You either kept up or was deemed useless.
I feel you brother! Worked at the mill in Livingston Montana, on the greenchain, resaw, skrag deck and outside cleanup. Every day is a real ball buster!
No hard work detected. Standing around and pushing 3 buttons the whole day.
@@Гранит-ь4х Lol. For some. But there's also alot of worker Bee's in there who actually have to work .
I believe Hull Oakes lumber mill out at Dawson Oregon cut one's like that.
The mill I used to work at had a double sided blade on the head rig and a slabber. This video brings back memories.
Kia Ora & Good Evening from Auckland, New Zealand ...great video bro.
Absolutely beautiful piece of wood. I know that it's going to fetch a good penny😊
I think this log and a few other sixty footers and a couple of forty footers have been sitting on the ground for a long time. The cambium layer on the log looks old and dry and the wood fibre show drying also
Wish we could get some of that nice wood in Florida. What a log...
This log is giving me a woodie! So satisfying!!! 🤣
I worked in a mill in Northern Calif. when I was younger , it was hard work but I enjoyed it. I would say that this mill specializes in long beams and dimension lumber like rafters.
I see several tables made from the off cuts. That was a terrific tree. Now terrific lumber.
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Ахринет просто 😮 я не могу представить себе какая она высокая была это дерево 🌳. Я никогда не видел такое огромное дерево 🌳.
The knotting on the inside was beautiful!
Awsom in Hilt California i saw bigger diameter logs milled Thank You it brought back good memories .
The Siskiyou’s had a lot of big timber when you were at YHS.
Two places i always wanted to work a saw mill and a cookie factory. It just must smell amazing there.
I’m a baker in a small commercial cookie factory- we make about 5000lbs of cookies muffins brownies a day. Visitors all say the same thing “it smells amazing in here” -- sadly the smell just ends up smelling like work after a while
@@drpoopenstein9080 they say if you love what you do you will never work a day in your life. But I hear what your saying. I worked in an a rent a center in collections and for a year and a half avatar was playing on every TV in the building. I now get irate everytime the movie is mentioned.
Trust me my friend you don't want to work in a saw mill...
@@johnnyholland8765 explain further please, why not?
Ja das ist wahr !!!Ich habe die längste Arbeitszeit meines Lebens im Sägewerk verbracht !!! Also kann ich sagen das es dort schon einmal wirklich toll riecht !!!😅😅😅😅😅
Ive worked in a mill. I can't believe that guy isn't wearing hearing protection.
Without knowing the dB level, I would think he needs plugs AND muffs
Huh?
I worked in sawmills my whole life without earplugs efc. For the simple reason that I wanted to hear everything around me. In case a bandsaw would break, a chipper knife was loose or dull etc. being a millwright and saw filer, it was to my advantage to catch things before they happened. Saved my life over the years and could tell you many stories about workers who missed a lot of mishaps because they were wearing plugs. I’m 78 years old today and my hearing is still just fine. Thank you very much!!
I had no idea that they made lumber mills this badass... that thing is nuts. Good work, men.
There are mills and saws a lot bigger than this one although this one is pretty big.
@@johnnyholland8765 Really impressive to see a tree that size just move back and forth with apparent ease.
@@johnnyholland8765 How big do they get?
Holy shit, that big end cap on the 3rd rotation damn near killed the operator! It had to weigh 500 pounds
Maybe 300
Thank you so much for that video I've never seen it done like that in a large scale it's pretty interesting I watched the whole video so thank you Happy Thanksgiving
Muy buen video y útil espero que hagas más videos para que todos los vean!!
loved watchin where my favorite framing lumber comes from
Wow! Thats a smooth and well-working business you got there. Never seen anything like that. Impressive!👍👍👍
I swear sawmills have made many boys a man!
Ich weiß das du Recht hast !!! Aus eigener Erfahrung!!!!😂😢😅😊
WHOA AWESOME THANKS FOR SHARING. YOU KEEPING SOME RIGHT ....🤔
Guy next to the mill is an 'off-bearer' (in the Pacific Northwest). Dangerous job. No hard hat, maybe no ear protection, maybe no safety glasses... even though in that job... probably didn't matter ! When the band saw comes off the wheel is the most dangerous time. In the 'latter days' of that job we provided Kevlar jackets. Off bearer job was mostly eliminated by better engineering. Air 'slab droppers' in the roll-case, punch bars on the carriage (kick the bottom out), then rotary chippers at the head rig took off the unworkable outside of the log. Brings back memories.
Why doesnt the saw cut in both directions instead of just one?
@@YESITSWILLThis set up moves cut lumber in one direction only. If you cut in two directions, two off-loading stations would be needed.
Not saying it's not doable, it's just for this mill, one direction only.
I was thinking that it's only a matter of time before that guy gets a pinch or a nudge.
Know you do this just about every day. From an outsider....I bet that fresh cut timber smells good !
From 1992 to 2016 i worked cutting and erecting morticed and tenoned timber frames. Went through a lot of west coast fir, the biggest timber i remember working on was 10 by16 inches 35 feet long. I imagine it came out of a log like this.
Amazing Work by Hard Working Guys !!! ..
The wood looks so smooth!
My house has solid wood paneling instead of drywall. There are diagonal marks running across each board. Some are very rough with lots of tear out. Does anyone know why? Maybe the mill was using a circular blade?
They are called saw tracks and are much sought after in a lot of decorative applications.
这个企业很现代化，视频做的很好，发扬光大。❤❤❤
My dad has worked in a mill his whole life in northern Idaho
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We loved and still do the Owens, it was our top of our viewing list, watching the kids thrive.
Our love to you all, please let us know how you are doing.
Pat Les and Poppy
WOW, Amazing setup.👍
I had to fell many of these when i was a firefighter in the US Forest service. One was hit by lightning on Mt Graham Arizona. It took a whole tank of gas to make a face cut n do the back cut... i always wondered what wiuld become of trees like that...
I milled a Doug Fir wider than this with a chainsaw and an Alaskan Mill a few years back. Makes very nice beams and boards.
Forestry tech that’s powerful, precise, and eco-conscious! 🌍
9:47 ini adalah mesin yang luar biasa.
Terlihat besar, kokoh dan bertenaga badak 😮
Good job 👍
Strangely fascinating
Perhaps show some of the wood going into the edger?
That bit of inattention at about 5:17 is how you can get seriously hurt around the head rig. He should have seen that slab was going to be heavy because of the curvature at the butt of the log. Not being critical of the worker, just an observation of how doing something over and over can cause attention to slip.
Beautiful lumber but is there a market for 60’ beams? Maybe a big log cabin?
Beautiful to watch 😊
VERY MODERN FACTORY LINE. SUCH WORKERS ARE HAPPY🥰
I’m surprised some strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man isn’t doing this job ! Come on girls step up!!
Enough lumber in that log to frame a bungalow. Nice.
Is this gonna be common dimensional lumber or exposed roof beams like a church? Amazing pieces
I’ld hate to be pulling those timbers off the green chain!
4x12x24 was the longest I pulled in the 70’s. When they had a translucent look to them, you knew they were fkn HEAVY!😮
There goes the old growth forests and all the life they support
You don’t live inside a house or use wood products? Shut up lol.
I had no idea anyone milled logs that long. That slab at the end must weigh 5 tons. The guy grabbing them with his hands is a for real badass. When he first started he probably weighed 100 pounds. Seriously though this is one hell of an operation. Next time I need 60 foot 5 ton slabs of douglas fir you guys are my number one and only.
It's all technical. He guides that not lifts it
@jonmurraymurray5512 still though, guide yourself too close to that roller, and you're going to lose an arm.
@joshuapaisley7289 believe it or not I've seen that.
The planking on the Wawona, a cod fisher/lumber ship built in the PNW were boards typically 120 feet long. VG fir. Mostly clear. 4 inches thick.
@@jonmurraymurray5512 5:21 He was sweating bullets on that thick short piece.
There must be a need for such long beams for the restoration of old buildings like castles or cathedrals.
Probably enough timber there to build a couple of houses
Goddamn i thought i was hard for working in a veneer mill, this is a fckn whole other league. So many things to get fingers or clothes or anything stuck in, ripped off, smashed holy o'hell. The catch at 3:40 and 5:23 was 100% experience, someone less on their shit definitely comes out on the losing end of that exchange. Respect.
Also 😂😂😂 dude with the pike pole has got to have the most boring effing job on the planet😂😂😂.
The most incredible part is no respiratory protection
They died from covid.
Dis is sad.
Yummy wood particulates 🤤 about half of the mill workers I work with smoke too which makes it way worse
@@luka6575They filter the sawdust through their smokes. Total vet move.
When i worked in a mill softwood dust wasnt classed as a problem it
Come on guys. I know you enjoy a good joke. But saw dust is not healthy for your lungs. I know it's a natural product but nonetheless it's bad for your lungs.
And such a safe job 😂
😂😂
Lots of questions lol .
At the beginning are they smoothing some of the rough spots ?
I really would like to see the rest of the process
ur video make me say wow !!!
Hi everyone. Great work
It must have been interesting to see that come down the road to the mill.
Just...........Holy crap I had no idea.
Awesome video
That’s gotta be one expensive beam(the last piece)
Nope Gordon there to a gang of saws and made into dimensional lumber in one pass
That made a nice size cant. Must be a Canadian mill, Firs that size are pretty rare in the PNW.
Mill is in Oregon.
Jesus, that's scary as fuck. I love it, but it's still scary as fuck.
Very soothing
Dude just breathing all dust in, no mask or anything.
When i worked in the mill we were actually not allowed to wear a mask unless you take some special test because they dont want you exerting yourself in a mask and passing out or something
I work at Canfor in Canada. Our head rig can do 24 footers so the carriage is much smaller. That guy standing there holding the slab is doing some seriously dangerous chit. Hes one wrong move away from death, one miss step, trip or the slab getting caught on a chain run will send him into those rolls. That company has a serious liability in the works
In the whole building only about three semi safe places to stand.
That lumberjack is too tough for ear-pro I guess. I'm deaf from just watching this video..
I put a few of those on the truck. Oregon Forester.
looks really nice
Just hope people in the past and now are replanting these magnificent trees.
Of course they are. There are squirrels and birds dropping seeds all over the place,day and night.😉😁
Wow, that Sure would make some nice flooring....k
That final core beam about 1x1.5x50 feet they get out of it... what would that be used for and how much would it cost?
Thats a lot of toothpicks
Amazing!!
Nice he had a helper with the pike pole. Usually on your own. I only had 10’ diameter cedar, but the old timers told me of running the rig with trailer bunks and saw up to 100’. Became unnecessary and impractical. All high speed double cuts and quads now.
I would hate to be the poor soul that had to stack those things lol
No pressure there!
That's beautiful
That's the biggest band saw I've ever seen.
Dangerous job.
He could easily lose a hand or fingers getting crushed
This is what I called a REAL SAWMILL😮😮
Bigass beams😊.
The beams you see go into the gangsaw which cuts the beam into dimensional lumber. The first two beams looked like 2x6 and 2x8 cants the last large beam looked like a 2x12 cant
Verry good
Dangerous work.
so powerful and beautiful
Thumbs down for ads that interrupt my entertainment and learning experience
I bet that smells good
Amazing 👍👍👍👍
That's so great