How many sawmills have you seen run (personal and commercial)

[millwright]

I have seen about 50 or so, and have operated 5.

[hackberry jake]

I forgot about the lucas slabber. I saw one of those run too


 

[reride82]

Jake,

I have only seen one mill operating in person, and that is mine, which still amazes people I was able to get it going. But, that task was mainly because of the Forestry Forum, youtube, and old sawmill manuals.  :P

[harrymontana]

50 - 60 different mills in Brazil as a buyer,
10 - 15 different mills being a mill owner myself in Brazil
10 - 15 different mills being a miller myzelf in Bolivia. Mills exchange wood, personal and tolls so we have frequent contact

[hackberry jake]

Harrymontana, I thought MY slab pile was out of hand. Thanks for making me feel better about my little pile  8)

[beenthere]

Was seeing that slab pile too. Harry, what are the plans for that huge pile of slabs?

[Brucer]

Let's see ... mills actually running, in person, not including demos at shows ??? ???.

Circle mills: 2, both commercial, one of them where I worked as a teenager.
Chain saw mills: 1 (mine).
Swing blades: 0, but still looking.
Band mills: 3 personal, 9 commercial, including mine (I only counted one of mine). Those include everything from an LT40, right up through the WM catalog to an LT300. The biggest one was a vertical bandsaw that cut in both directions.

The bandmills were all in the last 9 years.

[harrymontana]

Harrymontana, I thought MY slab pile was out of hand. Thanks for making me feel better about my little pile  8)

this is pretty clean actually. It's amazing how much waste you produce milling logs

[hackberry jake]

I saw a boardwalk 40 and various woodmizers at a farm show. But they were just demos. I don't know if I should count those or not.

[pasbuild]

Too numerous to count....hundred or so

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