Sawmill Type Poll

Captain · November 08, 2003, 02:43:45 PM

To get a true picture of the forum members, I wanted to try Jeff's polling tool to find out what kind of crowd we are.....irregardless of wether you saw for a living, hobby business, or pleasure.

Thanks and this should be fun. ;D

Captain

Danny_S · November 08, 2003, 03:28:05 PM

You should add chainsawmill.. There are a few of us.

Captain · November 08, 2003, 03:30:56 PM

Buck, You are absolutely correct, knew I would forget someone. Kind of hard to forget since I cut my teeth in sawmilling on a Logosol M7 :

Sorry, its there now...

Captain

Bibbyman · November 08, 2003, 04:41:10 PM

Hay! Can I vote again? I think I messed up and poked the wrong one. ;D

woodbeard · November 08, 2003, 04:55:39 PM

Early and often ;)

Captain · November 09, 2003, 03:41:31 AM

Bibbyman, I think the "remove vote" link in the lower right corner will get you another shot at the poll. Since you must be a forum member to vote, I DonT think that you can vote twice and blow the poll with extra votes for your "favorite" mill.

The early results (with 54 responses) are pretty much what I expected. Still missing a half dozen or so dimension sawyers, though. Where is DanG, Frank P, Okie......

Captain

DanG · November 09, 2003, 06:56:29 AM

Heah I is!

Tom · November 09, 2003, 07:10:09 AM

The only skew is if you have two mills. Like a circle and a band.

Captain · November 09, 2003, 02:57:46 PM

I agree, Tom. That is why I put the "2 or more of the above" right below the circle and band mills. I was thinking that those who answered that way probably had a circle and a band.

Captain

Frank_Pender · November 09, 2003, 09:49:41 PM

Well, I just voted, but I have three mills. ;D One is a big hed rig with a 52" saw and the other two are, Mobile Dimensions. 8) 8)

woodbeard · November 10, 2003, 03:24:35 AM

Maybe a good way to handle polls like this is to have a category be: "other-see below"
Then people who check that option can 'splain themselves down here.
Just a thought,
George

Jeff · November 10, 2003, 12:13:42 PM

A poll can actually be set up to allow multiple picks.

BW_Williams · November 12, 2003, 09:04:44 PM

Hey Jeff, can you make this poll stay at the top of the page for a couple weeks? There's got to be more swingers out there! BWW

Jeff · November 13, 2003, 02:17:50 AM

will do

woodbeard · November 13, 2003, 04:35:25 AM

Yeah, in a couple of weeks, I will be changing my vote from chainsaw to swingblade! 8)

SawInIt CA · November 13, 2003, 06:29:15 PM

I think I had a hanging chad on my vote :

Sawyerfortyish · November 14, 2003, 05:59:26 PM

Us circle mill guys are a small minority. Thats counts for more don't it :

;D

Frank_Pender · November 14, 2003, 07:24:25 PM

I do not know tooo much about hanging chads, but Ihave had a good number of hanging slivers from logs I have sawed. :D

As to the idea for the number of votes counted I have three mills. Do I get three votes? ;D

Jeff · November 19, 2003, 05:37:45 PM

Still getting votes everyday on this, so I will let this Poll go a while longer.

Haytrader · November 19, 2003, 06:33:35 PM

I am curious as to what the manufacturers make of the percentages.
Maybe they already knew how the different styles compared due to sales.

Jeff · November 19, 2003, 06:37:50 PM

Were staying away from dat question. I reckon those fellers already know thier market shares.

Captain · November 20, 2003, 04:30:13 AM

This is great....it really makes you understand why the forum seems to be dominated at times by certain subjects, and why other subjects recieve such low support.

Do you all feel that this survey is representative of the percentages in the real world of sawmills, not just our part of it? ???

Captain

Jeff · November 20, 2003, 05:23:22 AM

Actually, I think its a fair representation of sawmill types whos owners use the internet.

If I drew a 100 mile circle around here, I think the little circle mills would be way out front as would the big ones. I think the numbers would flip flop.

Sawyerfortyish · November 20, 2003, 09:45:10 AM

I think the numbers are about right for around me . Acording to the forest service I'm the last circle mill sawing everyday in north Jersey. There are a couple other circle mills but not sawing everyday. Right off hand I can count about 6 bandsaw mills in a 20 mi radius that I know of.

KiwiJake · November 20, 2003, 10:49:21 PM

I wreckin' the swingers were around the twin bladers mark not so long ago, that numbers gonna keep growing. It would be neat to see in maybe 6 months or so how those numbers are changing, we could match them up to get a good idea whats actually happening out there in the industry, if there is anything changing that is. Its a great poll by the way.

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