Logs to Lumber - An aerial journey through the sawmill
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- čas přidán 2. 11. 2015
- This is the third installment of the Vaagen Brothers Lumber "Start to Finish" video series.
UAV footage takes you up close and personal through the complete sawmilling process that we use at our Colville mill. Hold on tight and see if you can follow along with the tour.
The logging industry has come a long way! Incredible feats of engineering and hard work! This is so cool!
Yeah, pretty soon it will be run by robots. Bet you love that, too, huh?
@@atlantic_love Yes!
@@atlantic_love It basically already is.
@@Winterascent That's sad. I miss the old days (old enough to call them that lol) when, well.....I'm old.
@@mtamech535 That's sad.
For every ten "stupid ass" drone videos, there is one like this that is absolutely amazing.
Great vid!
Takes some ballsy flying operating a drone in a big steel shed... compass gets all confused and they can get a mind of their own!... it is a great video
PArlamentni listy
It's not a drone. It's a fad quadcopter.
thani
As someone who grew up in the lumber and logging industries and worked in nearly every aspect of the forest industries, I deeply appreciate the ingenuity, design and implementation of the Vaagen Brothers mill. Congratulations to you for a world class mill and world class presentation of it.
Are the big chains on the "claw" to keep it from opening too far?
@@CowboyCarCrushing I have not gone back to see the video again, but I think I know what you're talking about. What those are there fore is to apply downward pressure on the lift of logs as the grapple closes. this makes for a tight load as they move the logs to the deck and helps straighten out any logs that get crossed up. Let me know if you think this answers the question for you. If not, give me a time into the video so I can cruise over to see it again.
@@EnGammalAmazon Thank you so much. I thought being a year out it was a shot in the dark. Super Awesome you replying. I like heavy equipment and have limited exposure. But i will ask and keep learning. Thank you 👍. The conveyor system is just freaking awesome. The way it kicks out a log. How much weight is that? Anyway, I'm a small loader operator and moving any weight around is a challenge. I like the big Iron and cables and machine and a person can get in tune with it all. It's pure dominance of us (human beings) finding a way to do things the best we can.
So the chains keep the top logs from being loose?
@@CowboyCarCrushing Yes, I believe it is. If you think this mill is interesting, you should see some of the mills in Sweden. I used to work at a job that required that I visit all the mills in northern Europe once a month to check on their lumber grading of anything that was being shipped to the US. One of my mills was the largest sawmill in Sweden and on the adjacent site was the fifth largest pulp mill in the world. To meet the people the run operations like these is pretty amazing. We could learn a lot from the Nordics on just about any topic you choose. They have really figured out how to make a society work. The Swedes are incredibly active in creating new products in just about any industry. I am of Swedish and German ancestry and love being over there. Just being there I have come to realize why I think and act the way I do. I enjoyed it so much that I just bought a small farm over there and I'm moving over this coming year. There is a lot of what I love to do in just the area where I'll be living. Probably the biggest draw for me are the amazingly interesting and generous people I've come to know there. I encourage Americans to get out of the country at least once or twice in their lives for several weeks at a time and simply take a road trip. Stop when you see something interesting and ask questions. you will be amazed.
@@EnGammalAmazon spent 8 years in army. Went to a couple of war zones but everything else i visited was Awesome. You are exactly right. Visiting other places has done nothing but enrich my life. I've always tried to learn something of the host nations language. Met some girls and tasted some awesome food. Seen new things that i didn't reject. I applied it to my life. Made me the Cowboy i am today. I'm an International Cowboy
Why would anyone dislike this,it's just a simple,informative video describing the processing of logs to lumber.
Tree huggers who are sitting in a wooden house at a wooden table in a wooden chair.
agreed. those environmentalists killed my home town in Oregon. used to be dozens of mills, hundreds of trucks goin through town each day. then, they found an owl. shut everything down. now only a couple dosen trucks and 2 mills remain, along with a dead town. i hate the EPA.
well for one, I'm not a dinosaur, two, without the logging industry your life would drastically change, three, logging is actually clean and helpful. it creates fire lines, clears brush, and help prevent disease
@Dr Moriarty You do realize that it's due to the logging companies that forest coverage has increased on the NA continent, right? You don't know what the hell you're talking about
@@steeldriver5338 : Moronriaty is one of those envirowackos who love trees than human. They don't wan to know the truth about logging increases the health of the forest or the forest in NA is greater than it was before. The rather see massive out of controlled forest fire than sound forest management.
I worked in the Ione mill from '89 until it shut down in '95. I never got the opportunity to tour the Colville plant.
Thanx for the very well done drone production. Very classy. The automation of this plant (especially versus the Ione mill) leaves many in awe.
That was interesting and I love those aerial shots. Great views one would never see from ground level. A whole different feeling. JimE
Just Wow! This is a very well done video of the process. I also must say that the working conditions look a ton safer and cleaner than the mills we had here in Florida back in the 70's and 80's that I worked at.
That was honestly, unbelievable. Nice drone work, as well.
wow the engineering that went into making this automated processing is mind blowing to me.
+cake in the night absolutely, exactly what i thought!
cake in the night u
It's needed to have automation. It's much cheaper then having people do the work plus you'll get the same perfect result in all the batches.
I was thinking the same, many years of working out the kinks I'm sure
@@LegendLength 9
beautifully done from start to finished product
This was awesome. First time watching the whole process. Amazing work. Cheers!
Well done video...multiple steps, complex process boiled down to an enjoyable view, and an appropriate sound track. Thank you.
What an amazing operation. It's hard to believe they can get any lumber at all out of some of those sticks. Which, I guess, is a real testament to the HewSaw's abilities.
That has to be one of the best videos I've seen on Lumber production.
Man i always watch this when im feelin homesick been away 4 years now and still miss seein that big ol crane on my way to the store or the constant beeping you hear from the yard and the fresh smell of cedar constantly lingering ill go back home one day
Great video! I have been trying to write a fictional piece about logging for awhile. This helped open doors to other videos and gave a better look at how sawmills actually operate.
Great descriptor of timber processing... amazing quantities. I used the video in class with a dozen 14 year olds and it kept them quiet!!!
What a marvel. Thank you for the amazing footage.
Whos watching this in 2021 when lumber prices are out of this world right now lol
Man, it's RIDICULOUS
I needed six 2x4x8's and It cost me $50!!!!!
Same. Got a few decent pallets in my garage and hoping no one lifts them, lol.
Same
No wonder it's so priced when we cut down entire forests for chairs and tables
That gantry is an awesome yard tool! Killer editing and upload too!
this was a theater of operational excellence.
The skill and workmanship that went into the design and detail of the operation shows passion.
Well done
rob from aus
Gday mate lets put another shrimp on the barbie
And a hella lot of money
This is really awesome and I will be looking for more of this type videos, Thanks y’all, great job !👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
WOW! I'm using products exactly like this now in Colorado, and kinda wondered how it got from tree to bunk to my hand.
Now I know!!
Many thanks for your enlightening video!
Thank you for NOT playing rock and roll! I could watch this all day.
Zt Weve Rock n Roll is life you uncultured swine.
The lumber ballet. Beautiful!
This video is the first video on CZcams that has made me satisfied and has made me go and do something else for awhile
LegoMaster 101 Thanks. Glad you enjoyed the video. Take care
Thanks for reminding the common folk where products come from, so few people have a grasp where things come from.
The reason so few people have a grasp of where things come from is because of operations like this... think about it.
Great job, nice flying.
The video is VERY well done! Thanks.
done saw milling all my life best spread I've ever seen kudos vaagen bros
Love the logging industry & lumber jacks & lumbar yards!
Very interesting. Something I never put too much thought into. But yet another incredible operation in the manufacturing industry, that so many people do not understand or appreciate the ever expanding technology that is being used these days. Long gone are the days of heavy manual labor of moving those logs by hand.
To me it's just mind boggling to see the machines in use these days in the factories. And then to think of how EACH machine in these factories was made in yet another factory. Technology is a never-ending, amazing thing.
Former Colville resident here. I can still hear the beep boop of the crane as it moves in the yard. Great vid!
I use to work for them in republic
Fantastic video, what a set up to get that to flow so well, an engineers marvel .
Thats what I was thinking, the complexity and precision was on a par with the Apollo space program.
@@kenrussell1093 Think your right there Ken. Regards John.
This is one hell of an operation from the start to the finish. thanks.
Wow , that's a lot of lumber , I can watch this video all day long , thanks for showing us how they turn trees into lumber ! 👍😃🌲🌲🌲🌲🌲
State of the art. Nothing goes as waste. Kudos to Vaagen Brothers!
Thanks for posting this, I will be showing it in my manufacturing class as an example of primary processing.
i have a chrome extension that tells you how many dislikes there are on videos and for some reason (at the time this comment was written) about 1.7K stupid people didn't like this, this is a really cool video and it's amazing to see behind the scenes of how the wood from trees becomes smooth wooden planks, i never knew there was such a big process.
Nice well kept place. You can see they have spent some real money investing here. I have driven by this operation in Coville WA a zillion times hauling a load out of Spokane but this is the best view I have had of it. Thanks for sharing.
Hauling in NZ .
czcams.com/video/Z22PZrF9r7c/video.html .2020 haulage. 57 tons.
czcams.com/video/JdLKtv0c_pY/video.html .. highway haulage..50T
czcams.com/video/qQ6oPqtbRqI/video.html . NZ-Timber trucks 150T
czcams.com/video/KGJTw07yRFg/video.html .. 57T chip hauler .
czcams.com/video/YIXoZzfBJK0/video.html ..200 ton off highway loggers ,
czcams.com/video/g-BnwyBK5Hk/video.html .Classic chip trucking.39T
What am amazing video explaining the process very simply and straight forward. AND the music and drone footage was spot on.. well done Vaagen Brothers and your media crew!
Very well done video, the best I have seen having worked in such a place as this in Canada.
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I have watched your videos for several years, they are great
Wow I was enthralled the whole video! Very well done video and what a operation you have going on. Very impressive! Thanks for sharing.
Top level video for technique ,conten,t and style. Vaagen makes it look easy. 4 stars
That was very interesting to watch. Neat angles and views. Thanks for sharing
great video! I've seen it from the road many times but it was cool to see this mill from an aerial view.
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That was awesome I always wondered how wood was turned into lumber. The facilities look nice too.
Sim. Ho brazil. Presiza. Plantar. 05. Veze. Ho. Eucalipto. Pra. Manter. Floresta renovavesi ok
Awesome operation, Vaagen. Good job. Nice video work, too.
Thats just amazing!! mordern technology has made the job so much easier compared to back in the day! wow! thanks for sharing
This vid really helped me with my D and T project! Thanks!
Wonderfully engineered process. Thank you for the forest products!
Thank you lumber. Now drop your prices!
Thanks for this video nice to see the whole process and what it takes to change logs into lumber.
LARGE GOLD MINING EQUIPMENT
I've seen a lot of mills but nothing like this. FANTASTIC operation. I would love to see it in real life
😢I saw this in school and watching it again pureely for the beat lmao
ABsolute amazing work....Big like from Romania👍💖👀🤝
This was the best you have done it was spectacular
That was a really good drone video. Well done. I actually watched the entire video and liked everything I saw. Good work!
This is beautiful!
Respekt den Konstrukteuren solcher Anlagen ☝️
Thank you Dennis!
+Vaagen Brothers Lumber This was awesome thank you!
absolutely AMAZING!!!!
It wasn’t till I watched this I realised how far behind the technology is at the sawmill I work at. We still stack by hand!
I use to work at a small family owned sawmill here in Deep East Texas that started back in the 1980s, and even after 40+ years we still had to stack by hand.
Very nicely done
That was a great video.
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Damn that place looks damn efficient amazing video mill I worked at sometimes handles the log up to 6 times
Fantastic operation. Thanks for sharing.
This is fantastic! I'll be calling you guys from my day job to see if you need help finding back haul trucks to move product for your customers! 😉😆👍👊
Impressionante, bellissimo!
Amazing! Great video
Great view! Thanks for sharing!
That was a great video for 5 minutes perfect.
really cool how everything works, lucky lumberman
I am watching this while woodcutting in RuneScape.
these look a lot nicer than the hockey sticks they sell at my local yard
Watching industry is always a good experience
really awesome video. thanks!
What a great operation at Vaagen Brothers there in Colville!
Good work! Great dronage and excellent facility tour.
from new Zealand where every port is full of export logs waiting for ships this is amazing. sawn timber is so expensive here.
very clear and informative prog.
Most epic saw mill music ever.
Impressive factory and video !
cool video amazing system for sorting it all out.
Cool stuff very interesting to watch
Amazing operation.
beautiful, efficient, high tech, smooth, intelligent operations.... thumb up.....
Fantastic. I can almost smell the lumber
Was this is absolutely amazing
This may sound silly, but I'd really like to thank you. I'm a writer of fanfiction and I'm trying to work on a scene that takes place in and around a logging plant, but I only had an idea of how it could work. Turns out this particular sawmill matches what I was trying to grasp at, and I already have a much better idea of how to go about the scene. Thank you for providing such valuable information!
Glad to hear it helped you out. Let me know if you have any more questions
Wow. I pull on the planer chain at a super old school mill and this is just a whole different world.
Thank you for a very interesting video! Norm from Toronto
🎙💨Worked for Home Depot lumber dept. and Terry’s lumber a local lumber yard in my neighborhood. Learned so much, terry’s was a truss yard also, I worked the Miter saw table and framed a little when one of the carpenters was absent. Good life experience. Great video thanks for the journey Ikaika Shawn.
I love Terry's in Peninsula
Great product, well presented
Very impressive operation.
wow was awesome, the machines were amazing
Awsome video! Great work
Thank you. Glad you enjoyed it
This is awesome. I'd love to work as a lumber crane operator.
with music?, like in this video? every second moron, on YT, destroys vids by music. every fucking idiot, pushes his fucked up music taste bei YT, on videos, who have nothing to do with music. Hey, fucking Vaagen Brothers.. are you sounddirectors from Hollywood or just fucking lumberjack-hillbillies? WHERE ARE THE ORIGINALSOUNDS?
my dude... chill there are other videos with sound.
I bet it smells lovely there ( a bit noisy though).
Anyone else wonder how many times that guy has accidentally grabbed the truck spine under the logs? xD
Otto Stierlitz got issues my dude
As a craftsman who uses hand tools to hew and prepare timber. The speed that these logs are processed is staggering. Very impressive to see as I had no idea the vast amount of machines used to sort and shape the timber. Not as satisfying as working by hand tho IMO
amazing!