I spent a few summers and a couple of long New England winters working in a sawmill. This brought back some good memories. I would stand in an area and flip boards up to the trim saws and those teeth would buzz right by my head and shoot through the metal walls of the barn. I was told when I started, "Stand here, not here." and then they pointed to the row of holes punched through the metal siding. Many of the men I worked with are no longer around and this makes me smile thinking of them. Thanks for bringing back some good memories, "Rt" (now I need to go smell some sawdust)
This is the first time I have ever written a comment on a TH-cam video. I have watched many many Wranglerstar videos and find them informative and entertaining. But what I find most inspiring and enjoyable about them is to see how happy you seem to be, doing what you wish, living life to the fullest. Terrific lifestyle.
Cody, I've said it before and I will say it again, that Mrs. W is one awesome gal. She loves tours of sawmills! She always has a smile and is interested and excited to learn, and pretty too! You are a very lucky man.
I'm with Mrs W....... love these tours. When I was stationed in the upper peninsula of Michigan long ago at Kincheloe AFB logs were recovered in such a manner from lake Superior and lake Michigan for same high end flooring etc..... beautiful grain, very solid product.
This video brings back many happy memories. I lived in and around Grants Pass in southern Oregon in the early 1950s and saw mills and logging were the major industry in the area. The mills were not as modern as this one, of course, but I imagined that I could smell the fresh cut lumber as I watched. Interesting and well-produced video, Cody and Mrs. W. Even got to see Jack! Thanks again for sharing another family outing.
Great sawmill! What a gem of a place to have close by for amazing custom projects!!! thanks for taking us along for the tour! I always love the process of seeing a raw log milled into lumber... in fact that's what originally brought me to your channel back when you made the first Alaskan sawmill videos... Thanks again for always great video content!!!!!!!
Like many others. I really dig these field trips. You're shinning light on that mans business. Your creating a resource reference for us views. What I like most is you're showing us another mans prideful, good quality work. Love it!
Thanks for the video, I grew up in a small town (max 400 pop) where there had been 13 saw mills over the years including some within my families history. Its just great to see it all in action! I bet Mrs. W is worried you'll get new milling ideas!!
Love hearing from these folk and seeing the mark of life in their faces. Their knowledge and tales of their lives and old ways are so important to pass on.
I don't comment much but I just gotta say thank you I loved this video stuff like this is absolutely fascinating, to hear from a guy that has been in the business for so long is really interesting and there's something relaxing about watching a saw mill make boards.
I have NEVER liked so many videos from a single channel! love your channel so much. it has replaced 85% of my down time. Thank you Wranglerstar family!
That is a very cool place. It was interesting seeing those saw blades with the inserted teeth. We have Amish sawmills all over the place around here that use the circular blades powered by a big diesel truck engine. It is amazing to watch them in action. There are definitely no Safety Sallies or OSHA reps. anywhere to be found.
Very interesting video there. I am an old sawmillowner in Norway, - and this stuff is in my blood from the 1986 -2000, - and after that a long period other stuff, and now the beginning again. One time sawmillowmer, and the smell, the lumber and all that, and I am always captured.
Reminds me of the saw mill I visited when I was a small child with my parents... Oregon coastal redwoods is where it was.... cutting HUGE logs! must be one of the few mills that can as you said Mr Cody....
I just noticed this video was posted on my Birthday. Very nice! Love your channel, your outlook and approach to life is truly inspiring. It's uplifting to see a Man of your morals and beliefs with such a great number of followers. Keep up the great work and from my family to yours, may God forever smile and lay his blessings upon yall.
Awesome, as usual. A day without Wranglerstar's is like a day without sunshine. I tell my wife every night that I have to go to bed early, so I can get up early to see what Cody is doing today. Thanks for your videos.
Very interesting! I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. My hometown of Hermansville was were tongue and groove flooring was developed. So the lumber industry has always fascinated me, also Mrs. Wranglerstar!
+Wranglerstar My family owns and operates a vintage 01 Frick mill here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. It is so nice to see these old mills still working, they and the men who know how to use them are becoming rather hard to find
I'm from an area that is heavily forested, and logged extensively. As a result we have a good many log mills, and kilns. I was a Volunteer Fire Fighter for over twenty years and can remember several times that a kiln would ignite, an entire Mill would burn, or one of the numerous sawdust piles would catch on fire. What a pain in the butt. Sometimes we'd be there for days on end, pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water on the fire. Then the DEC would get in on the act, worried about the "runoff." That was always a lesson in futility, but I suppose they had to give it a try.
That is pretty amazing that each individual tooth can be removed. I,would imagine it would make it much easier to sharpen and maintain. Or at least a lot of fun to work on. Really neat, thanks.
My family runs a similar company (just bigger) and we have a hydraulic press which helps glue together planks into one 6m long beam which is similar in diameter to this big beam (we also do other diameters) (8 beams per 45min) :D People can use it later to make door/window frame or even whole windows. I was working for few years on an awesome massive barking machine which was massive enough to process huge oaks which were heavy enough to damage machine while they were transferred from loader to trolley which was moving tree left and right while bark was stripped by milling head.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area that isosceles with rivers and streams that were used to ship timber. We have an old sawmill site in town that has Thousands of logs on the bottom of a shallow bay and sometimes you run across milled wood. I have a shelf in my office made from one of those that is at least from the 1880's and probably older
Way cool!! Whilst you guys are in Albany, maybe you could sneak off on Monday and go to Hull Oakes Lumber near Monroe, asbout 30 miles from Albany, and tour their mill. It is one of the last steam powered mills that has a huge Band mill headrig, that can mill up to 120' long and 6-7 ft in dia. I love old mill stuff! Thanks for another great video!
Awesome video! You happy and smiling kids made my morning. How anyone could or would leave you negative comments or feedback just boggles my mind. Obviously they are just simply tiny little people incapable of cognitive thoughts or the basic understanding of love....
20 years ago I would ride into town with my Dad for lumber at Al's Sawmill. I must have been about four, but I remember it so vividly. A life changing experience for a young kid. Lowe's put him out of business.
great video Cody. I love learning and seeing operations of all types. that was a neat tour it is enviable life to live. You didn't mention what type of wood was being cut? Mr.Mann sounds like an interesting person to talk to. I like your wife's smile she always seems joyful.
Cody(if that is the way it's spelled) love your channel and have been watching for years but just subscribed recently. But I have to tell you Mrs.W is awesome. I know you know how lucky your are to have found and won her heart so I don't have to tell you. Hope some day I will be as lucky and find one just as awesome Great videos. Look forward to seeing them for many a year
Oliver Walkins most men do anyways! LOL-(couldn't resist the opportunity).........if someone shakes the dead fish shake, I jerk my hand back real quick.
I spent a few summers and a couple of long New England winters working in a sawmill. This brought back some good memories. I would stand in an area and flip boards up to the trim saws and those teeth would buzz right by my head and shoot through the metal walls of the barn. I was told when I started, "Stand here, not here." and then they pointed to the row of holes punched through the metal siding. Many of the men I worked with are no longer around and this makes me smile thinking of them. Thanks for bringing back some good memories, "Rt" (now I need to go smell some sawdust)
This is the first time I have ever written a comment on a TH-cam video. I have watched many many Wranglerstar videos and find them informative and entertaining. But what I find most inspiring and enjoyable about them is to see how happy you seem to be, doing what you wish, living life to the fullest. Terrific lifestyle.
+Matthew Nasci Thanks Matthew. We are blessed and do our best.
+Matthew Nasci HE HAS NO INTERNET
+amanda ryan im not even sure what the point of your comment its obvious he has internet
How do you think what your seeing was uploaded.... Magic?
+Matthew Nasci To be honest, like most Americans, he is too happy for me, but still half decent content.
Awesome!
Thanks Cody and Mrs. Wranglerstar!
God bless!
Gotta admire someone like Paul, being in in the lumber trade since the 70´s. Thats some real tough work.
Me, too, Mrs. W!!! Love to learn and get old tools too! My husband and I just got back from yard sales and came back w/treasures of vintage tools!
Mrs. W has a smile that makes the sunshine brighter. Cool video. Love the timber production.
Cody, I've said it before and I will say it again, that Mrs. W is one awesome gal. She loves tours of sawmills! She always has a smile and is interested and excited to learn, and pretty too! You are a very lucky man.
Thank you for taking the time to share. Lots of interesting history. Mills of that caliber are quickly fading away.
Hey Cody, thanks for showing us this amazing place!
I'm with Mrs W....... love these tours. When I was stationed in the upper peninsula of Michigan long ago at Kincheloe AFB logs were recovered in such a manner from lake Superior and lake Michigan for same high end flooring etc..... beautiful grain, very solid product.
I used to work in sawmills when I was younger. Thanks for sharing the tour and bringing back memories
I agree with Mrs. W, I like doing these tours. Thanks for taking us along!
To put is simply, that was cool. Plus seeing you two out there like that and having fun, learning, and sharing the experience is heart warming.
This video brings back many happy memories. I lived in and around Grants Pass in southern Oregon in the early 1950s and saw mills and logging were the major industry in the area. The mills were not as modern as this one, of course, but I imagined that I could smell the fresh cut lumber as I watched. Interesting and well-produced video, Cody and Mrs. W. Even got to see Jack! Thanks again for sharing another family outing.
So Coool...Thanks for taking us with!!!
That was great Cody! Thank you!!
This looked like such an awesome place! Thanks for sharing. I cannot wait to see the floor come together.
Jake Jones I thinks Mrs W is just as excited as you,
Absolutely PHENOMINAL video! Love stories like that.
Thank you for taking us along with all you do! Keep up the great work. God bless
Daniel Mraovich You are welcome Dan,
Very cool. That saw mill looks like a great place to work. Seriously I bet your day would fly by.
love these tours like this. saw mills have always been really cool to me.
I really enjoy watching these Sawmill videos, its neat to see a log cut into usable lumber. The floor is going to be outstanding!
Great sawmill! What a gem of a place to have close by for amazing custom projects!!! thanks for taking us along for the tour! I always love the process of seeing a raw log milled into lumber... in fact that's what originally brought me to your channel back when you made the first Alaskan sawmill videos... Thanks again for always great video content!!!!!!!
Like many others. I really dig these field trips. You're shinning light on that mans business. Your creating a resource reference for us views. What I like most is you're showing us another mans prideful, good quality work. Love it!
Thanks for the video, I grew up in a small town (max 400 pop) where there had been 13 saw mills over the years including some within my families history. Its just great to see it all in action! I bet Mrs. W is worried you'll get new milling ideas!!
I love that you've been using Lisa Hannigan's music recently. She's an absolute treasure.
Love hearing from these folk and seeing the mark of life in their faces. Their knowledge and tales of their lives and old ways are so important to pass on.
Mrs. W's smile is infectious, such a beauty.
Absolutely FASCINATING! Thanks for sharing
I don't comment much but I just gotta say thank you I loved this video stuff like this is absolutely fascinating, to hear from a guy that has been in the business for so long is really interesting and there's something relaxing about watching a saw mill make boards.
Mrs W is gonna love that floor! Thanks for the tour. I wondered about the old logs piled up in some of Oregons coastal cities. Well I wonder no more.
I have NEVER liked so many videos from a single channel! love your channel so much. it has replaced 85% of my down time. Thank you Wranglerstar family!
That is a very cool place. It was interesting seeing those saw blades with the inserted teeth. We have Amish sawmills all over the place around here that use the circular blades powered by a big diesel truck engine. It is amazing to watch them in action. There are definitely no Safety Sallies or OSHA reps. anywhere to be found.
Very interesting video there. I am an old sawmillowner in Norway, - and this stuff is in my blood from the 1986 -2000, - and after that a long period other stuff, and now the beginning again. One time sawmillowmer, and the smell, the lumber and all that, and I am always captured.
Reminds me of the saw mill I visited when I was a small child with my parents... Oregon coastal redwoods is where it was.... cutting HUGE logs! must be one of the few mills that can as you said Mr Cody....
I love these tours also! Thanks for the videos.
Absolutely fabulous video!!! Thank you so much Cody. It's comforting to know that places like this are still out there (i.e., in the US).
I just noticed this video was posted on my Birthday. Very nice! Love your channel, your outlook and approach to life is truly inspiring. It's uplifting to see a Man of your morals and beliefs with such a great number of followers. Keep up the great work and from my family to yours, may God forever smile and lay his blessings upon yall.
She is always so upbeat. Lucky guy.
Awesome, as usual. A day without Wranglerstar's is like a day without sunshine. I tell my wife every night that I have to go to bed early, so I can get up early to see what Cody is doing today. Thanks for your videos.
love these wood related visits - especially featuring those that work there and their stories - excellent keep up the good work cody.
Yatzee now even us City folk can see what a real sawmill looks like. Love it good job.
Very interesting! I grew up in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. My hometown of Hermansville was were tongue and groove flooring was developed. So the lumber industry has always fascinated me, also Mrs. Wranglerstar!
+Wranglerstar My family owns and operates a vintage 01 Frick mill here in the Blue Ridge Mountains of NC. It is so nice to see these old mills still working, they and the men who know how to use them are becoming rather hard to find
so many fun things to do in your own back yard , like going on a field trip just to get wood floor. Very cool
Thanks for sharing, I really enjoyed watching how those boards were milled.
Favorite kind of videos.
Great stuff! Lots of history there.
Thanks for the tour. Nice.
GREAT VIDEO THUMBS UP TO MRS WRANGLERSTAR SHE ALWAYS HAS SUCH A HAPPY POSITIVE ATTITUDE
one of my favorites, thank you for sharing.
That must be some exspensive flooring! Beatiful, Thanks for sharing.
Cody said $3.50 per sq ft. material cost. Not bad. He will install it himself.
I'm from an area that is heavily forested, and logged extensively. As a result we have a good many log mills, and kilns. I was a Volunteer Fire Fighter for over twenty years and can remember several times that a kiln would ignite, an entire Mill would burn, or one of the numerous sawdust piles would catch on fire. What a pain in the butt. Sometimes we'd be there for days on end, pumping tens of thousands of gallons of water on the fire. Then the DEC would get in on the act, worried about the "runoff." That was always a lesson in futility, but I suppose they had to give it a try.
Really enjoyed all the b-roll.
Absolutely fascinating! Thanks for the upload!
Now that was a proper look at a properly old trade. Loved every second of that one, thank you very much to both of you and Blair's sawmill crew :o)
Thanks for the field trip! Thumbs Up !!
Great video! I enjoyed the sawmill tour.
"This... is my BOOMSTICK!"--Army of Darkness. I never saw the movie, but the quote has become a meme.
That was brilliant, fascinating - 10 minutes well spent. Thanks!
I could happily spend all day at a place like that. ...and most likely want to go back the next!
I like doing these tours too Mrs W.
Soon, my wife will get to see where most of the lumber for our house is going to come from.
That is pretty amazing that each individual tooth can be removed. I,would imagine it would make it much easier to sharpen and maintain. Or at least a lot of fun to work on. Really neat, thanks.
My family runs a similar company (just bigger) and we have a hydraulic press which helps glue together planks into one 6m long beam which is similar in diameter to this big beam (we also do other diameters) (8 beams per 45min) :D People can use it later to make door/window frame or even whole windows. I was working for few years on an awesome massive barking machine which was massive enough to process huge oaks which were heavy enough to damage machine while they were transferred from loader to trolley which was moving tree left and right while bark was stripped by milling head.
Thank you for the intriguing look into a vanishing part of America.
It's all about the smell of fresh cut timber. Can't beat it.
I'm lucky enough to live in an area that isosceles with rivers and streams that were used to ship timber. We have an old sawmill site in town that has Thousands of logs on the bottom of a shallow bay and sometimes you run across milled wood. I have a shelf in my office made from one of those that is at least from the 1880's and probably older
Way cool!! Whilst you guys are in Albany, maybe you could sneak off on Monday and go to Hull Oakes Lumber near Monroe, asbout 30 miles from Albany, and tour their mill. It is one of the last steam powered mills that has a huge Band mill headrig, that can mill up to 120' long and 6-7 ft in dia. I love old mill stuff! Thanks for another great video!
Thank you gor the tour. beautiful
I worked at a mill for 12 years and kind of miss that place. Met and worked with a lot of good characters there. LOL
I like the tours too Mrs. W.
Great tour.
Would love to visit the place.
I love the music!!
It was nice to see inside the mill.
Awesome video! You happy and smiling kids made my morning. How anyone could or would leave you negative comments or feedback just boggles my mind. Obviously they are just simply tiny little people incapable of cognitive thoughts or the basic understanding of love....
+David Thorne thanks.
+Wranglerstar Sorry to get all personal, but do you live in Oregon? I heard Paul say Portland and Astoria.
Shes cool really upbeat and happy you should make more videos with her!!
Great tour ...I love these videos!
Loved that.. Very interesting..
Being a Scottish Sawmiller and all round timber guy, it floats my boat...;)
Would have never thought about the doors being that tall. Mrs. W sure does ask some great questions.
Hey cody, when are you gonna do an update on your "beaver" pond, im just curious on how its looking, take care
Second the beaver pond update!
How fun. Love this video.
Great video cody. some nice history I never knew
Those saqwmills have always fascinated me. That one cut coming and going. Pretty neat to watch, i bet.
Priceless.
Jeez, Mrs. W is just about the cutest durn thing I've ever seen :)
20 years ago I would ride into town with my Dad for lumber at Al's Sawmill. I must have been about four, but I remember it so vividly. A life changing experience for a young kid. Lowe's put him out of business.
Actually, what put him out of business was the locals who went to Lowes instead of buying from an old established community business.
Most people aren't as smart as us Will.
great video Cody. I love learning and seeing operations of all types. that was a neat tour it is enviable life to live. You didn't mention what type of wood was being cut? Mr.Mann sounds like an interesting person to talk to. I like your wife's smile she always seems joyful.
Great video. Love the tour.
Hi Codi, I grew up across the big river from you in HR. Love your channel, love your vids. Thanks and keep them coming
Awesome would love to tour a mill like that!!!
This is extremely cool!
great video, thank you for sharing.
Awesome video really like this sort of thing!
Fascinating!
Cody(if that is the way it's spelled) love your channel and have been watching for years but just subscribed recently.
But I have to tell you Mrs.W is awesome. I know you know how lucky your are to have found and won her heart so I don't have to tell you. Hope some day I will be as lucky and find one just as awesome Great videos. Look forward to seeing them for many a year
Absolutely beautiful people! I love all of your videos :)
Happy 1000th video Cody.
I bet Mr. Mann is one of those older gentleman that has one of those hand crushing handshakes... LOL
***** don't most people have handshakes like that?
Oliver Walkins most men do anyways! LOL-(couldn't resist the opportunity).........if someone shakes the dead fish shake, I jerk my hand back real quick.
One of my favorite videos. 🥩🎂
That was super interesting! How close is the river? I'd love to see those being pulled out.
Thank you very much.