How 2x4s Are Made: Sawmill Tour

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  @basic9254 · 3 years ago

  Would love to see the process Home Depot uses to put the bowing and cupping in before sale. 😂

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• MA

  @mattreynolds8741 · 3 years ago

  I drive by this mill every day on my way to and from work. I love watching action in the yard from mornings to nights. Roseburg is a great town, I could have lived any were in the US and have but I chose Roseburg over all of them. Roseburg Forest Products is great company with such a high standard. Thank you Essential Craftsman for making this video for people that are not from Rosebuurg.

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• ME

  @mechanicspecial · 3 years ago

  After helping to build several sawmills in Oregon, my grandfather, Dennis Allen, worked to build the &quot;original&quot; Douglas County mill in the mid-50&apos;s, then went to work there, eventually retiring in the late 1970&apos;s. <br>I teach wood shop at Hamlin M.S. in Springfield and will use this video to show students how lumber is produced. Now if you could do another video showing how plywood is made...<br>Great videos, and proud that you are from my hometown! Thank you!

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• SW

  @swillk1 · 3 years ago

  Great video Nate! &nbsp;I can only image the size of the maintenance crew that it takes to keep all this specialized machinery running. &nbsp;Great insight into the process.

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• BE

  @beven4852 · 2 years ago

  Called on this mill for many years. &nbsp;Met a lot of great people. &nbsp;Lee is one of the best!

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• CO

  @countrycraftsman5110 · 3 years ago

  I have been wiring sawmills for 40 years as a construction electrician.<br> And i am still impressed with the whole system.<br> The innovations just since I started have been amazing.

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• DA

  @dannysulyma6273 · 3 years ago

  Seeing the efficiencies of a large mill does make it easy to see how my one man band mill cannot compete on price. I spend more time with each board then they spend on a whole trees worth of logs.

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• MO

  @mosheshpinel3108 · 2 years ago

  This video brought back memories. &nbsp;In the early 70s, I worked the stud mill at Gustina Brothers lumber in Eugene, OR; 5, ten hour days. &nbsp; &nbsp;I pulled and stacked studs and occasionally graded them. &nbsp;When the forests were shut down in the summer, I swept the whole yard, dug out bark from under a packed debarker deck, and cleaned under the log peeler building. &nbsp;In the winter I also pull Dry Chain, veneer that came out of the dryer.

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• ST

  @stevevandermeer1958 · 3 years ago

  I was raised in Arcata, California in the 50&apos;s and 60&apos;s. I&apos;ve seen my share of logging trucks and breathed the wood ash from the &quot;tee pee&quot; burners. I was 16years old and my dad&apos;s friend who worked at a mill that produced two by fours, got me a summer job called, &quot;pulling on the green chain&quot;. After all, cutting to size and grading, we would pull the lumber off the green chain, called this because the lumber was still wet and very heavy. Four of us would pull, stack, band and the loader would take it away to the yard where it would &quot;air&quot; dry. Acres and acres of lumber stacked 20 feet tall. Real hard work. What a great learning experience, and I made a few bucks also. Watching this video and seeing how much the computer has changed the process for the better is amazing. Now, if we can just get all the tree huggers and politicians out of this industry it will be even better. By the way, my little brother hauled logs out of the Redding area to the mills on the coast, sometimes only two loads a day because of the distance. Up at 3am home at 7pm, tough job.

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  @57Jimmy · 1 year ago

  Back in the mid-end of 70’s I worked in saw and planer mills before becoming a carpenter.<br> There was nothing (almost nothing😉) more satisfying than the smell of fresh cut lumber and the sound of the milling process!<br> &nbsp;My wife still reminisces about the odour of the fresh cut lumber as I returned home…before she got wood herself!😉😉😂

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• MA

  @mackfisher4487 · 3 years ago

  Thanks Nate, excellent video it makes me think of trees as a blessing to us and with proper management will continue support and house our families.

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• JO

  @joshhannaford2382 · 3 years ago

  Appreciate the video. My dad has been a sawmiller for 37 years in the south. Brings back a lot of good memories of when I used to help him. Especially walking on the wood sawmill floor

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