When I worked in the production mill you never had to mess with the tailings unless the chip system plugged up and then a truck load would build up in a hurry as we were processing 1,400 blocks per shift.
The overhead end dogging Carraige would take the block thru a pair of blockchippers giving the block two square sides as it entered thru the "Quad" (a set of four vertical bandmills) 24" and under were one pass, up to 42" were two passes thru the saws.
On down stream we pulled out the pair of cant chippers (They would eat cants if fed wrong) and installed a thin kerf 5 movable saw edger that would trim the tailings, make boards and split large cants as there was a bypass, 2", 4" and 6" edgers further down stream.
The sawmill was on the third floor and the chip system was the first and second floor, office on the fourth floor with a 360 veiw of the whole mill.
Being portable tailings on smaller jobs make a tight stack, but I have ran into some tight spots to set the mill, handle logs, stack lumber and tailings and still get the mill out when done.
One of my most memerable tailing piles was on a hillside and we cut over 30,000 bft in one setting. The customer provided two helpers. Before long there were spring boards, and a break room built into the pile that the top was flat and level with the spread out sawdust pile. On the back side was about a 16' drop.
How do you guys all deal with tailings?
