Sawmill and bandmill blog: June 2004

Wednesday, June 30, 2004

Sorry forgot to post a link to the last article

Sapplings at Treecorp's nursery at Colac in western Victoria. The company may use microwave technology to enable faster processing of plantation timber.
Picture:John Woudstra
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/06/27/1088274627819.html?oneclick=true

Tuesday, June 29, 2004

NASA Scientists Get Global Fix On Food, Wood & Fiber Use

This ASTER (Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer) image shows New York City and the Island of Manhattan, bordered by the Hudson and East Rivers. The study finds that people in some urban areas with very high population densities need 300 times more plant-derived resources, or net primary production (NPP), than the local area produces. (Image credit: NASA/GSFC/METI/ERSDAC/JAROS, and U.S./Japan ASTER Science Team)

Woodmizer Opinion

I am of the opinion that the Woodmizer mill is just too fancy, Who needs all the electronic crap they come with, when something goes wrong with that garbage you need an electronics degree to fix it, they look great but sometimes I wonder if I drop a log on it will it break in half, another thing that bugs me about the WM mill is the price, you would think that the biggest Bandmill company in the world would have the cheapest mills out there.

Woodmizer is crap!

Just My opinion

OH here are some plans for a log loading trailer
Check it out over at http://www.sawmillplans.com

Monday, June 28, 2004

So you want to build a mill?

Ill bet lots of visitors coming to this blog are building or thinking of building a bandmill, well here is a tip for all of you. when building the mill you have to pull the saw thru the wood to cut it, this means your drive wheel has to be pulling the blade thru the cut not pushing it, make sense? If there are questions please post them.

Sunday, June 27, 2004

This pine beetle infestation should give the fellas in colorado a good go at sawing some of it up, out here in BC we are batteling pine beetle as well.

Saturday, June 26, 2004

"I want to know what on Earth is going on at the Forest Service,"

Friday, June 25, 2004

This fella needs a bit of help over at woodweb, has a few questions for the more experienced of us.

Just a tweac of the old harley logo!

The first sawmilling blog on the net

Ok guys this is it, the first sawmilling blog on the net, what is a blog? well A blog is a web page made up of usually short, frequently updated posts that are arranged chronologically — like a what's new page or a journal. The content and purposes of blogs varies greatly — from links and commentary about other web sites, to news about a company/person/idea, to diaries, photos, poetry, mini-essays, project updates, even fiction. Ill try to add to this blog every day and you can feel free to comment on the posts if you like happy blogging everyone.

Peter

Sawmill and bandmill blog