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 .
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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!
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
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?
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 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.
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...
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.
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.
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.
All this super efficient equipment and for some reason they still need a guy with a 20 foot stick and another guy to risk crushing his hand 1000 times a day.
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.
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
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
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😂😂😂.
I had a project a few years ago where we cleared 10 acres of douglas fir a little smaller than these. Nobody would take them for free so we had to mulch them at site. A terrible waste.
Huge. This is at the Hull & Oakes mill in Monroe Oregon. I've heard they sawed some hundred footers in the past, and that I presume was on the old 4 head block carriage they replaced a few years ago.
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.
That’s the biggest log (in length) I’ve ever seen, enjoyed watching your mill.
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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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.
The mill I used to work at had a double sided blade on the head rig and a slabber. This video brings back memories.
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.
I’d love to be there and smell that fresh cut wood! What an amazing video.
The knotting on the inside was beautiful!
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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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
Wow! Thats a smooth and well-working business you got there. Never seen anything like that. Impressive!👍👍👍
Wish we could get some of that nice wood in Florida. What a log...
I believe Hull Oakes lumber mill out at Dawson Oregon cut one's like that.
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
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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.
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?
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
@@KOLD504 Don't they pay attention to safety here?
Huh?
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
Ахринет просто 😮 я не могу представить себе какая она высокая была это дерево 🌳. Я никогда не видел такое огромное дерево 🌳.
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 milled a Doug Fir wider than this with a chainsaw and an Alaskan Mill a few years back. Makes very nice beams and boards.
Beautiful to watch 😊
Kia Ora & Good Evening from Auckland, New Zealand ...great video bro.
I see several tables made from the off cuts. That was a terrific tree. Now terrific lumber.
Is this gonna be common dimensional lumber or exposed roof beams like a church? Amazing pieces
That's the biggest band saw I've ever seen.
Dangerous job.
He could easily lose a hand or fingers getting crushed
VERY MODERN FACTORY LINE. SUCH WORKERS ARE HAPPY🥰
Holy shit, that big end cap on the 3rd rotation damn near killed the operator! It had to weigh 500 pounds
Maybe 300
Know you do this just about every day. From an outsider....I bet that fresh cut timber smells good !
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.
Strangely fascinating
I swear sawmills have made many boys a man!
ur video make me say wow !!!
Absolutely beautiful piece of wood. I know that it's going to fetch a good penny😊
Good job 👍
I never knew humans work at sawmills..I always thought it were beavers handling all the machinery...
Actually this particular sawmill is an exception. Usually it is all beavers overseeing operations and machinery.
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...
Amazing!!
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.
Beautiful lumber but is there a market for 60’ beams? Maybe a big log cabin?
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.
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?
looks really nice
Perhaps show some of the wood going into the edger?
What mill is this?
Where is this mill at ?
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
What is this one going to be used for, or will it be cut down for other purposes?
Toothpicks?
@@douglasstewart4066 That would be one big toothpick or an even bigger baseball bat.
That lumberjack is too tough for ear-pro I guess. I'm deaf from just watching this video..
There must be a need for such long beams for the restoration of old buildings like castles or cathedrals.
And such a safe job 😂
😂😂
Hi everyone. Great work
All this super efficient equipment and for some reason they still need a guy with a 20 foot stick and another guy to risk crushing his hand 1000 times a day.
9:47 ini adalah mesin yang luar biasa.
Terlihat besar, kokoh dan bertenaga badak 😮
Enough lumber in that log to frame a bungalow. Nice.
Absolutely amazing, the level of safety they work with in this place. No respect for human safety.
Pay attention to your job and you will be fine.
Probably enough timber there to build a couple of houses
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.
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
Amazing 👍👍👍👍
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
The guy doesn’t even have ear protection on! This factory needs to be investigated
Now how do you get a 60 beam down the highway to wherever it may be going ?
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😂😂😂.
Very soothing
It must have been interesting to see that come down the road to the mill.
What is that like $20,000 in wood? Maybe more I don't know.
I had a project a few years ago where we cleared 10 acres of douglas fir a little smaller than these. Nobody would take them for free so we had to mulch them at site. A terrible waste.
That's beautiful
Good Gosh the sawyer doesn't even have an off bearer!
sorry he is it
That's so great
❤👍
Just...........Holy crap I had no idea.
No pressure there!
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
In the whole building only about three semi safe places to stand.
Where is this sawmill?
hi there nice john
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beatiful
I wonder how old that tree was.
Jesus, that's scary as fuck. I love it, but it's still scary as fuck.
Nice ❤
What is the size of the headrig?
Huge. This is at the Hull & Oakes mill in Monroe Oregon. I've heard they sawed some hundred footers in the past, and that I presume was on the old 4 head block carriage they replaced a few years ago.
Heart's kinda goofy on this one. Heavy spiral too.
Wow, that Sure would make some nice flooring....k
I would hate to be the poor soul that had to stack those things lol
Where would boards this large be used?
Made into 6x6 posts is my guess.
What's the biggest log to come thru the mill