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Big white pine

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Today at 10:17:42 AM
Written by Bruno of NH
Views: 148
Billy and I spent the week sawing big white pine logs for a local customer. A log truck load of them. All 38" and 10' long. My new TYM T474H wouldn't lift them. We pulled them to the log deck and rolled them on the mill with the T474H.
They made lots of 5/4 lumber.

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Best use for cherry lumber?

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
Yesterday at 09:31:25 PM
Written by Wlmedley
Views: 441

I've pretty well got all the logs I had laying around sawed up,stacked and stickered. All I have left is three cherry logs that my neighbor brought me a few months ago. Two are 8' and one 6'. They don't look like much and I think I'd be ahead to cut them into 4' lengths being they are pretty crooked.

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Antique band resaw

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
June 27, 2025, 01:11:43 PM
Written by 802hlake
Views: 523

I have a band resaw manufactured by the F.H. Clement co in Rochester NY that I am looking to sell. This belonged to my father. Before him, it briefly belonged to Putney Basket aka Basketville, and before that to a luthier who used it to saw guitar tops. It has not been run in many years, but has been

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Weatherproof trailer brake controller?

Posted in Forestry and Logging
June 27, 2025, 12:47:25 PM
Written by John Mc
Views: 589
Has anyone seen a trailer brake controller that is weatherproof? I'd like to be able to control the electric brakes on my forwarding trailer from my open-station tractor. I've occasionally been pushed around by the trailer when coming down hill and trying to keep the speed slow and steady. Keeping my studded "Euro-style" chains on the tractor year round certainly helps, but being able to get a little assistance from the trailer brakes would be handy.Read More

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More mill closers

Posted in Sawmills and Milling
June 27, 2025, 08:40:54 AM
Written by customsawyer
Views: 787
INDUSTRY NEWS. CANFOR ANNOUNCES CLOSURE OF DARLINGTON AND ESTILL SAWMILLS. Canfor Corporation announced today [June 26, 2025] its decision to permanently close the Estill and Darlington sawmills in South Carolina, effective August 2025. These closures follow an extended period of persistently weak market...

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