My buddy spent over 3K there on 2x's for a 12x16 Sugar Shack. Had to sort A LOT of board to find something workable. I spent $3750 and bought a Woodmizer LX25 and a 15 pack of blades. Guess who got better lumber with 23 Acres of mature NNY white pine and Hemlock :)
Easy! They put them inside a warm and dry building in a tight pile so that only the top layer dries very quickly and the underside of the board stays moist thus warping! They also take measures to make sure that every board in the pile warps by selling to customers who only want two or three boards at a time ! There you go!
Great video Nate! I can only image the size of the maintenance crew that it takes to keep all this specialized machinery running. Great insight into the process.
It’s prolly only 3 guys that sit in a trailer and are overweight and get mad anytime you tell them they have to work. 😂 Just my experience from maintenance slobs and millwright wannabes 😂
Incredible, the details in 4K are breathtaking! Impressive to see that huge walnut log transformed into high-quality timber with such skill. Awesome craftsmanship!
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.
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
Thx for the tour. Places like this are wonders of the industrial world. Its what allows stick framing to cost what it does, and go up as fast as they do, and not 3+ times longer/more expensive. Those forklifts that unload a whole semi in one bite are impressive too. Must feel like the king of the world operating something that powerful.
After helping to build several sawmills in Oregon, my grandfather, Dennis Allen, worked to build the "original" Douglas County mill in the mid-50's, then went to work there, eventually retiring in the late 1970's. 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... Great videos, and proud that you are from my hometown! Thank you!
I have been wiring sawmills for 40 years as a construction electrician. And i am still impressed with the whole system. The innovations just since I started have been amazing.
My wife and I moved up to Myrtle Creek in 2015. Drove by the mills MANY times and often thought how much fun it would be to get a tour. We moved back to Southern California to be closer to our kids. What happened next was taking that tour with you guys! Thanks for that. Now a tour of the plywood mill out past Riddle would make another great video, lol. BTW, we were there for the open house of the spec house. Good times.
Amazing! I love seeing the transformation from logs to lumber. The way the logs are cut with precision is impressive. Great insights into the sawmill process. Looking forward to more content like this. Please keep sharing these awesome videos!
Nate, cool tour. Towards the end, when there were guys sorting the boards, do you remember (if you asked) why they were flipping some of them over? It was amazing that they'd be able to discern anything about the boards, given how fast they were moving.
Checking for the number, and size of knots to the foot. Experience speeds your judgment skills up. I have worked in both hardwood and softwood mills and can vouch for that. In the 1980's I worked in an oak sawmill setting. I was the preliminary grader and stacker. The owner hired a college degreed lumber grader to grade after me in the evening. I was a relative newbie at 19, but he paid that guy a lot of money to pull out maybe 2 to 3 boards I had missed out of an entire semi-load of lumber stacks. The reason they did that was because the company that bought his A-grade lumber would lower to the B- grade price on an entire stack of lumber if ONE board was below the grade it was supposed to be.
Thanks Nate for another great and informative video! It would also be interesting to your viewers to see a tour of a plywood mill if there is one close by. It is good for people to know how the products in our homes and buildings are made. Thanks Again, and "Keep Up Your Good Work!"
Excellent! This video taught me so much about sawmilling. The way you handle those massive logs is impressive. The video quality is top-notch. I'm eagerly anticipating more content from you. Continue sharing these fantastic videos!
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.
This video brought back memories. In the early 70s, I worked the stud mill at Gustina Brothers lumber in Eugene, OR; 5, ten hour days. I pulled and stacked studs and occasionally graded them. 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. In the winter I also pull Dry Chain, veneer that came out of the dryer.
Such a phenomenal video. Would love to see other areas within the field of construction materials that are being produced in such a sustainable way. Thanks for the great content.
You did a great job with this Nate, your enthusiasm is infectious, your sense of when to speak and when to observe is very appreciated. Your “good work” is showing, keep it up. Thanks.
My Father as a young child worked in a mill loading the slabs into the boiler. This mill cut, dried, milled, graded, and used everything they produced. The owner built windows, doors, trim, and specialty radius mouldings and trim. When the owners son took over he took out the boiler and installed 2 500 hp diesel motors to replace the boiler. The cost of the fuel bankrupted the business shortly after installed.
Fantastic video. Seen sawmills in the hills above my town for years and now I understand what the "WigWam" burner was that we'd see on our way to the snow. Nice to see what they do today.
Great video! I worked at a Lumber Yard out of High School and unloaded so many of these lumber packs from Railcars. It was a good job for a young guy. Most of our Lumber was Canadian if I recall correctly.
I live in the Yellowwood forest area in southern Indiana. We have very little softwoods like you have. Ours is all hardwoods. Interesting to see how much is the same and what’s different.
Thanks Nate. "wigwam burners" brought a rush of nostalgia for me.....I was instantly hoping to see one in action as part of the video. (sigh) everyone should search out a look at one, just to see a bit of history. nice intro into your house framing videos coming up. well done. Darrell
That's very cool to visit the actual mill that provides the lumber for your house. Not shown in the video was the twister machine - the machine that prepares the lumber for my local big box store (joking).
Simon Bentson built a sawmill in San Diego to cut logs into lumber for the Southern California building boom. It was less expensive to build up rafts of logs, tow them to SD, and cut them than pay the freight on the cut lumber from Oregon.
I get your point regarding the efficiencies from burning bark, it’s cool. Like why not ? but smart folks started making steam for operations years ago. The wigwams buddy’s talking about, for sure existed because building co-generation systems aren’t sawing lumber / peeling veneer.
I would guess probably not. The equipment is so precise they'd cut it to no more than they need, and there's no way they need a half inch for shrinkage and planing. Shrikage on douglas fir for example is only about 2.5 %. Around here the mills selling rough lumber always cut true 2" x 4" but I saw a youtube sawyer cutting his wood 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 and calling it a 2 x 4. Sooner or later they'll all be doing it.
@joelfred1216...If you go to any of the big box stores such as Home Depot, Lowes, and other stores like those and measure a 2 x 4, it will be 1 1/2"x 3 1/2". It is the same with 2x6, 2x8, etc...always 1/2" shorter on both measurements. What I found interesting was when I needed some 5"x5" square treated posts and they were actually 5"x5". The 4"x4" treated were 3 1/2"x3 1/2", like the other dimensional lumber. Of course if you were to go to a mill then you could most likely still get a true 2"x2" or other dimensional lumber the full size. Here in North Central Arkansas, hardwood & softwood lumber mills used to be all around here and you could go there and get some great lumber, but over the years as the economy and inflation took its toll, very few mills remain and most of them do not sell to the public. There is a Cedar mill near here and they sell only to China.
Mesmerizing! I thought "how interesting could this be?" but it was fascinating. I kept repeating the part where they were sorting the boards by pulling them out and I was wondering how that worked.Turns out by pulling the board over it reaches a point where it tips off the line. So dang cool.
Being a framer when we bust open a package off lumber a lot of times it's still warm from the kiln and gets warmer as we get to the center. Plywood can be so hot it burns your arms carrying it. You'll have a burn rash after you carry a few pieces!
Would love to see the process Home Depot uses to put the bowing and cupping in before sale. 😂
You made me chuckle
It's proprietary, but I've heard they only hire the best bowers and cuppers in the business.
Lol iv had some flat stock door jambs my wife returned home with they had a twist like a propeller lol 😂
My buddy spent over 3K there on 2x's for a 12x16 Sugar Shack. Had to sort A LOT of board to find something workable.
I spent $3750 and bought a Woodmizer LX25 and a 15 pack of blades. Guess who got better lumber with 23 Acres of mature NNY white pine and Hemlock :)
Easy! They put them inside a warm and dry building in a tight pile so that only the top layer dries very quickly and the underside of the board stays moist thus warping! They also take measures to make sure that every board in the pile warps by selling to customers who only want two or three boards at a time ! There you go!
Great video Nate! I can only image the size of the maintenance crew that it takes to keep all this specialized machinery running. Great insight into the process.
It’s prolly only 3 guys that sit in a trailer and are overweight and get mad anytime you tell them they have to work. 😂
Just my experience from maintenance slobs and millwright wannabes 😂
Incredible, the details in 4K are breathtaking! Impressive to see that huge walnut log transformed into high-quality timber with such skill. Awesome craftsmanship!
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.
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
Thx for the tour. Places like this are wonders of the industrial world. Its what allows stick framing to cost what it does, and go up as fast as they do, and not 3+ times longer/more expensive.
Those forklifts that unload a whole semi in one bite are impressive too. Must feel like the king of the world operating something that powerful.
Have you seen that video where during unloading somebody's log truck gets flipped?
After helping to build several sawmills in Oregon, my grandfather, Dennis Allen, worked to build the "original" Douglas County mill in the mid-50's, then went to work there, eventually retiring in the late 1970's.
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...
Great videos, and proud that you are from my hometown! Thank you!
I have been wiring sawmills for 40 years as a construction electrician.
And i am still impressed with the whole system.
The innovations just since I started have been amazing.
My wife and I moved up to Myrtle Creek in 2015. Drove by the mills MANY times and often thought how much fun it would be to get a tour. We moved back to Southern California to be closer to our kids. What happened next was taking that tour with you guys! Thanks for that. Now a tour of the plywood mill out past Riddle would make another great video, lol. BTW, we were there for the open house of the spec house. Good times.
Amazing! I love seeing the transformation from logs to lumber. The way the logs are cut with precision is impressive. Great insights into the sawmill process. Looking forward to more content like this. Please keep sharing these awesome videos!
Nate, cool tour. Towards the end, when there were guys sorting the boards, do you remember (if you asked) why they were flipping some of them over? It was amazing that they'd be able to discern anything about the boards, given how fast they were moving.
Checking for the number, and size of knots to the foot. Experience speeds your judgment skills up. I have worked in both hardwood and softwood mills and can vouch for that. In the 1980's I worked in an oak sawmill setting. I was the preliminary grader and stacker. The owner hired a college degreed lumber grader to grade after me in the evening. I was a relative newbie at 19, but he paid that guy a lot of money to pull out maybe 2 to 3 boards I had missed out of an entire semi-load of lumber stacks. The reason they did that was because the company that bought his A-grade lumber would lower to the B- grade price on an entire stack of lumber if ONE board was below the grade it was supposed to be.
Thanks Nate for another great and informative video! It would also be interesting to your viewers to see a tour of a plywood mill if there is one close by. It is good for people to know how the products in our homes and buildings are made. Thanks Again, and "Keep Up Your Good Work!"
My grandfather was a millwright at a plywood mill for a couple decades. He took me on a tour a couple times.
Excellent! This video taught me so much about sawmilling. The way you handle those massive logs is impressive. The video quality is top-notch. I'm eagerly anticipating more content from you. Continue sharing these fantastic videos!
The machinery used to do all this is just amazing! Thanks for sharing this tour with us!
Now this is quality entertainment!
This is a really high quality description among lots of superficial content, thanks!
Awesome video. Living near sawmills for the last 30 years, I thought I knew more! Good stuff.
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.
This video brought back memories. In the early 70s, I worked the stud mill at Gustina Brothers lumber in Eugene, OR; 5, ten hour days. I pulled and stacked studs and occasionally graded them. 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. In the winter I also pull Dry Chain, veneer that came out of the dryer.
Such a phenomenal video. Would love to see other areas within the field of construction materials that are being produced in such a sustainable way. Thanks for the great content.
I've lived right next to a lumber mill for 25 years. Love them guys and gals.
Whole new appreciation for the old 2X4's. Wow
You did a great job with this Nate, your enthusiasm is infectious, your sense of when to speak and when to observe is very appreciated. Your “good work” is showing, keep it up. Thanks.
My dad worked in a plywood mill for about 20 years. Thanks for this video.
Best sawmill tour ever. Ever! And I've seen them all.
THAT was informative and interesting. Well done.
Excellent, it really opens one's eyes to how lumber gets made......pretty impressive.... Thanks
The best place I've ever worked !! You don't know what you have until it's gone.
I liked the double band saw set up.
A renewable resource that provides the energy used to process it. Total green!
My Grandpa worked his whole life at a sawmill in Heber, AZ. What a cool video.
My Father as a young child worked in a mill loading the slabs into the boiler. This mill cut, dried, milled, graded, and used everything they produced. The owner built windows, doors, trim, and specialty radius mouldings and trim. When the owners son took over he took out the boiler and installed 2 500 hp diesel motors to replace the boiler. The cost of the fuel bankrupted the business shortly after installed.
Amazing. I can't get my head around how they use wet steam to "dry" lumber, but the whole process is so self-contained! It's cool beans.
Will need every board for the next hurricane.
Absolutely super video!
I drove log trk an dumped lots at DCFP a user friendly mill!! Love the mill employees Great video
Top 5 videos you've ever made. Well done Nate.
Very nice presentation
That was really cool to see how that operation works and how they use the bark and sawdust.
Amazing video thank you so much!
Fantastic video. Seen sawmills in the hills above my town for years and now I understand what the "WigWam" burner was that we'd see on our way to the snow. Nice to see what they do today.
Great video! I worked at a Lumber Yard out of High School and unloaded so many of these lumber packs from Railcars. It was a good job for a young guy. Most of our Lumber was Canadian if I recall correctly.
That was really cool! So neat that those boards were created so close to where you live!
This brings me back, I went on a field trip to Weyerhaeuser in Washington state when I was a Cub Scout
It amazes me that anyone would choose to have their home built using wooden studs.
Does anyone remember 3 little pigs?
Great job on the production. Humans are amazing. Would have been cool to touch on maintenance and also the economic ups and downs.
wow, this was an awesome vid, thx for sharing the process
Keep up the good work
This is the best tour of a saw mill I have seen. Amazing. Going to share with my students
I've always loved your channel. But as a saw filer, this one is especially awesome. Thanks for sharing!!
Lots of improvements since I worked there 20 years ago. Good video
Amazing, bring schoolkids to see this facility
I live in the Yellowwood forest area in southern Indiana. We have very little softwoods like you have. Ours is all hardwoods. Interesting to see how much is the same and what’s different.
Great to see thank you for the video.
Great vid. Thanks
Thanks Nate. "wigwam burners" brought a rush of nostalgia for me.....I was instantly hoping to see one in action as part of the video. (sigh) everyone should search out a look at one, just to see a bit of history. nice intro into your house framing videos coming up. well done. Darrell
Super interesting! Great video
WOW!!!!! THANK YOU!!!! BRILLIANT!!!!
Very interesting thank you
Love hearing more from you nate.
great video!
the sawmill process is amazing to see it run on a scale this large.
Damn bruh the beat at the beginning is insane 🔥🔥
Very nice, informative, and enjoyable video! Thank You! -Bob...
this is way better than some show in discovery about a saw mill
This is so amazing! I am in awe.
Love your work 👍
Great video. Great fiddle music. Old time. Love it
Very cool to see that operation!
Great show, love seeing lumber mills.
That's very cool to visit the actual mill that provides the lumber for your house.
Not shown in the video was the twister machine - the machine that prepares the lumber for my local big box store (joking).
9:40 that is absolutely amazing.
Much appreciation for a really great video!
Gets me in the mood to go watch Logger Wade at his mill now.
Super fascinating. Thanks Nate!! 🤙
I was going to agree with you, Nate. Your new house looks small. Then at the end of this video I was reminded that it will be a two-story home!
Thank you for the memory. Sam Ball is my grandfather. I am Lonnie L. Ball.
Good episode.
I remember when California had sawmills starting in Santa Rosa and going all the way up to the Oregon border. They're long gone.
Simon Bentson built a sawmill in San Diego to cut logs into lumber for the Southern California building boom. It was less expensive to build up rafts of logs, tow them to SD, and cut them than pay the freight on the cut lumber from Oregon.
This one mill could be a little series. That was great.
That was the best sawmill video.
Such a wonderful thing to see!
Having been raised in a logging/milling family (between Valasetz and Willamina), it still amazes me!
Great video. I worked in a walnut lumber saw mill as a temp over 30 years ago. Looks very familiar minus all the laser technology being used now.
Excellent video! One of the best I've seen on the milling process. Great work, guys!
KEEP UP THE GOOD WORK
I get your point regarding the efficiencies from burning bark, it’s cool. Like why not ? but smart folks started making steam for operations years ago.
The wigwams buddy’s talking about, for sure existed because building co-generation systems aren’t sawing lumber / peeling veneer.
I really love this I worked in a re manufacturing mill & I loved it. I would love for you to do a more in depth video on the mill!
This was like watching "Mr. Roger's Neighborhood"
So cool! Thanks for the inside look.
Was hoping you would measure the rough 2x4 to see if they are in fact actually 2x4.
I would guess probably not. The equipment is so precise they'd cut it to no more than they need, and there's no way they need a half inch for shrinkage and planing. Shrikage on douglas fir for example is only about 2.5 %. Around here the mills selling rough lumber always cut true 2" x 4" but I saw a youtube sawyer cutting his wood 1 1/2 x 3 1/2 and calling it a 2 x 4. Sooner or later they'll all be doing it.
@joelfred1216...If you go to any of the big box stores such as Home Depot, Lowes, and other stores like those and measure a 2 x 4, it will be 1 1/2"x 3 1/2". It is the same with 2x6, 2x8, etc...always 1/2" shorter on both measurements. What I found interesting was when I needed some 5"x5" square treated posts and they were actually 5"x5". The 4"x4" treated were 3 1/2"x3 1/2", like the other dimensional lumber.
Of course if you were to go to a mill then you could most likely still get a true 2"x2" or other dimensional lumber the full size.
Here in North Central Arkansas, hardwood & softwood lumber mills used to be all around here and you could go there and get some great lumber, but over the years as the economy and inflation took its toll, very few mills remain and most of them do not sell to the public. There is a Cedar mill near here and they sell only to China.
Look into nominal sizing vs dimensional sizing. No one is trying to pull a fast one
Mesmerizing! I thought "how interesting could this be?" but it was fascinating. I kept repeating the part where they were sorting the boards by pulling them out and I was wondering how that worked.Turns out by pulling the board over it reaches a point where it tips off the line. So dang cool.
In Canada we call Wigwam burners Beehives. A relic of my youth. When my family drove out to the BC interior for camping we saw a lot of these.
This is an incredible and educational video! Thank you!
Enjoyable video! Thanks
Amazing
Grandpa Sam must have been a heck of a guy, he has surely left behind a legacy.
Thanks
This video is making me want some 2x4's. LOL
Great video, Never really saw how logs are turned into lumber , I've only seen it in books. Very cool!
Very cool ! Thanks for the tour
Being a framer when we bust open a package off lumber a lot of times it's still warm from the kiln and gets warmer as we get to the center. Plywood can be so hot it burns your arms carrying it. You'll have a burn rash after you carry a few pieces!
Thanks Nate, I really like the tour, and keep up the good work!