"Norwood Sawmills' Annual Photo and Video Challenge is our way of recognizing some of their great achievements. Whether building a business, building a home or building fine furniture, Norwood sawmill owners are incredibly industrious," says Norwood President, Ashlynne Dale. While every milling operation and application is unique, they all share one thing in common - building value. "Every moment of every day, sawyers in over 100 countries depend on their Norwood sawmills to efficiently produce high volumes of valuable lumber. Since the inaugural annual contest in 2008, Norwood has awarded nearly thirty thousand dollars worth of prizes.
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Every year, Norwood sawmill owners around the world are invited to submit photos and videos of their sawmilling operations and the unique wood projects they have built using lumber and timber milled with their portable sawmills. Meanwhile, stay safe & warm, and I’ll try to do the same.BUFFALO, NEW YORK-(Marketwired - Dec 23, 2013) - Norwood Sawmills, the global leader in portable sawmill technology, is pleased to announce the winning entries from its annual customer photo and video challenge. It will take at least two more weekends to finish up the job, and I look forward to his hospitality as much as I do the challenge of milling the rest of those logs! The best part was forging a friendship with the owner of the trees.
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As soon as I finish a project with it, I’ll post more photos. The rule of thumb is that wood has to air dry about one year for each inch of thickness, so I have a while to make my plans for it, though I expect I’ll sell most of it. Even the smaller pieces have me thinking about dulcimers, guitars, and other string instruments.īut that will have to wait. The potential is mind boggling! Round conference tables six feet diameter, with chairs, and desks all made from the same log. My next project is to figure out a way to cut the bigger logs. It certainly was satisfying to know that I had played a part in salvaging the log. Most likely was that it would have been bulldozed into a pile and burned - or simply left to rot. As I stacked the wood on the back of my old Chevy flatbed and hooked up the mill, I thought about the other possible fates for this beautiful wood. Over the weekend, we only milled four logs, but wound up with nearly 2,000 board feet of lumber. With as much lumber as I saw, it takes a pretty impressive log to get my attention, but the lumber that came off was so beautiful, I bartered my work for wood, instead of the usual payment. By the end of the first day, we were both exhausted, and I was more than glad to accept Doug’s offer to have dinner and stay over at his place. Sycamore has the best grain pattern with beautiful flecks, when quartersawn, so we did as much of that as we could, most of it with one natural edge. With careful positioning, we were able to get the maximum-size logs on the mill, and cut slabs thirty inches wide! Just imagine… a table top built from a single board. Fortunately, he had a loader that was capable of lifting the one-ton logs onto the mill. There were plenty of “small” logs to keep us going for a weekend. The mill’s 36-inch diameter log capacity is big, even, for many big production sawmills, but we had to set the biggest logs aside for a later date. Milling Oversize LogsĪ few weeks later, I towed the mill 167 miles to the Doug’s place and went to work. “Sure, I can mill those.” Truth is, I’ve never been beaten by a log, but I’ve never worked on anything this size. What I didn’t realize at the time was that “fair-sized” meant up to six feet diameter and forty feet tall! Once again, my brain kicked in without consulting my body. After introducing himself as Doug, I learned that he had some fair-sized sycamore trees on his property that had fallen, and he wondered whether I would be willing to come over and take a look to see whether I could saw them up. While demonstrating the Norwood sawmill at the Mother Earth News Fair in Lawrence, KS last fall (great show, by the way), I noticed a fellow watching as I cut one board after another from a fair-sized oak log. I have also installed a winch, which helps tremendously.
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The manual sawmill requires me to do all the lifting and log turning by hand, though I often enlist the aid of “Henry”, my 1953 8N Ford tractor. This phenomenon is especially evident when I’m running the sawmill. I can look at a job and say to myself, “yes, I remembering lifting, shoving, riding, driving, or fixing something like that, so I’m sure I can do it again.” Usually by the end of the day, my brain catches up to what my body has been trying to tell it. Problem is, my brain doesn’t always seem to get the message.
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My sixty year old body just doesn’t do things as easily as it did twenty years ago.