Hands-On Sawmill Operation Training

wood miser holds a class so if you buy a meal from wood miser they'll hold a class for you and this class can last from anywhere from two hours to about three to five to seven hours as long as it takes for you to be able to be moderately proficient with the machine and to know the ins and out of safety that way you don't tear your mill up by hooking something or tearing a blade up or just tearing it apart because there's so many moving parts on here what you're seeing there is the blade cutting and the debarker you'll get a lot more detail on the youtube channel as we go on so i'm learning i'm watching observing this is the hydraulic log turner and that'll turn it up the stays that hold the log in place are also hydraulic so this mill is basically a big time saver a big labor saver and it's going to be a money maker for me here on the farm to make a little bit of side money i'm pretty excited about that so we're running one more cut here and he's showing me again how to slab this log and this is an old turd of a log but it really turned out some beautiful pine lumber this is a southern yellow pine and you see how fast it comes back that's all hydraulically driven it's hydraulically driven through the log hydraulically driven back and this is me so we're learning the computer system you can see i'm a little cautious i'm going about half as fast as he was and then a minute you'll see us looking at the log but i'm learning here uh this will be a project for sure so i'll get out here and get a little bit more proficient with it learn as we go and you guys will know what to expect when you're getting into a sawmill i had no idea what to expect it's a huge investment an lt40 is a very expensive machine but i think it's going to pay off in the long run i think we'll be able to build some cabins and some buildings here on the farm the old timey way it's gonna be great so just special thanks to wood mizer let's talk about the mill