Yellow Cedar Tapersawn Shakes
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 ก.ย. 2024
- Producing yellow cedar tapersawn shakes on November 2, 2009. 400 bundles being shipped to New Zealand for new construction of a Cape Cod style B&B guesthouse. These 18" x 5/8" Tapersawn shakes to be used as exterior siding for the house. This is a quick and dirty edit of the video taken today at the mill. Beautiful wood and beautiful shakes!
That. Is. Amazing! I always felt I pay way too much for shingles. Now. I am happy to reference this video to my clients! And. No joke. I would hate to see their Insurrance mill bills.
I am a shingle sawyer myself and where I work the equipement is waaaaay safer than this. I started out with equipement something like this but it's been upgraded quite a bit. And by the way that is a looooooooot of waste there. If I would be wasting wood like that I would probably be in trouble for it.
Nice to see there still using the cut back saw I built
Squamish B.C, used to have a shake mill, 2 cedar mills, a sawmill, dozen logging operations and a pulp mill...now a teardown house is a million and we have 2 starbucks and 4 designer donut shops.....
Nice quality product.
Gonna be nice to get back to work after been sick 😷 for a week omg
I will NEVER complain about my job again!
That is quite possibly the most dangerous production line I have ever seen
I’ve run machinery like that lots of times.
That’s a typical operation.
Let’s put it this way
One pays attention
Their OSHA inspector took one look at their operation and died.
It would only take one moment of lost focus to lose some fingers.
Most impressive, would have never figured the process of producing a single wood shingle , nice to see the inventive entrepreneur crushing out by the pallet load & Made in USA @ that, nice job gents.
Love that yellow cedar smell. BC or Alaska?
has anyone ever reached back too far and stuck their arm in that big saw blade on the taper cutting machine? lol. nice set up at that mill. i can smell the fresh cut cedar from here.
Lost a part of two fingers on the big blade
boy would i like a skid of those
the blades are not well protected .. plus do they wear hearing guards?
I can smell this video
How many fingers have been lost to making shakes ?
Are these shakes or shingles? I'm looking at them being cut vs. being split then resawn.
It’s a neat video, because normally people in cities never see these types of operations.
Both it depends on the application.
I don’t see why you couldn’t shim door frames with them, except for the expensive extra steps they take in machining.
I like that they cut the blocks to length with the custom made double chain saw at the beginning of the video.
That makes every shim a consistent length.
They’re are also cutting them to width with the spring board saw. ( yes wicked dangerous operations, but common in mills )
Lots of times shims come in weird withs cause Carpenters just break them or saw them off
I’d say they’re for roofing because of the details and care they’re taking to size them
Looks like sumner machines. I sawed on those for years.
that machine looks like a dia saw machine
I don't care what the excuse is. I worked in shake/shingle mills I'm Washington state. We would have killed for this cream wood. The safety concerns are understood by those working there. Many employs are missing fingers and I know of at least one crippling. Dangerous place but smells great.😁
WOW, no danger here eh.. CRRRRRRRRAAAZZZYYYY!!!!!!
haha someone is filing saws in the background
1:40 yeah, after a couple decades of sawing I had to start wearing a mask, I should have done it a lot sooner though. Now after 4-5 years retirement my lungs are just finally getting to be decent.
I thought shingles are cut like this. Shakes are split.
You are correct. Shingles, as we know them in North America are sawn on the same machines as in this video. Tapersawn shakes were developed as a new product based on a roofing system that was similar to the NA way of applying split cedar shakes, which is basically two layers of wood, with the 3rd waterproofing layer being an interlayment of asphalt paper, aka shake felt. It allowed mills to produce a sawn shingle from wood that does not split uniformly enough to make a hand-split and resawn shake. Available in both 18” and 24” lengths, the most common thicknesses are 5/8”, 3/4” and 7/8”. When good quality wood is used, and graded fairly, this has proven to be a good roofing system. It is easier and faster to produce than shingles - which require more pieces per square foot because it depends on 3 layers of wood as a waterproof roof. It is also easier and faster to install, requiring less skilled labour. So, 16” shingles are still called 5X, 18” shingles are called Perfections and 24” shingles are called Royals. Tapersawn shakes are just thick shingles, graded slightly differently, packages differently and applied differently than “shingles.” Hope that helps explain it. Thanks for stopping by!
@@woodroofguy Hello! Would you mind if I feature it on TH-cam with a credit?
@@galyaretka Howdy! Thank you for checking in. Yes, please go ahead and use the video. Thank you for asking. Cheers.
@@woodroofguy thanks
what no safety guards
Block piler / cut back saywer
I ve done plenty of production work. Thats a hell i can now live happily without. Those that think this is unsafe just dont know barebones living. Those that have never done production work are just lucky but maybe arrogant worms as well. Sending this type of work overseas is bullshit
Guys a butcher. I saw shingles now and cutting splints and spalts like that would get my ass fired right now. Also needs to learn to tip up his jointer saw. If your going to be recorded, atleast do the best job possible.
What is it that makes you think the jointer is dull? Looks to me like they just fall right through it effortlessly.
the head saw is pretty rough but sounds sharp enough too.
still cool but
Should shut the plant down, too many risk for employees. Machinery can be made to be safe for production
I guess ghe gaps between shingles is how they increase profits while screwing the consumer.
What a waste!! Why don't you butt the piece of cedar up against something, then cut your length off? Just as precise! Your way wastes I bet a whole tree per day with those 1"&1/2" left-overs on each end!! And the guy cutting the shakes to width has his elbow 4" from that arm removal saw!!!