The mill, where the MDis at, is mostly a hardwood mill, the fir thing is just an off shoot thing because of a past business contact of the mill owner. Lawyer court case thing.
The saw belongs to , "Columbia River (something)". They are trying to make things (flooring?) out of old river boom logs. It was purchased to saw the ends of the boom logs where holes were bored to chain the log together or where there is too much decay and split out to make the flooring. Most of those logs are 40 feet long with very little taper before they were cut to go through the head rig.
The sawyer is out of the Portland area and is an "artist".
Yesterday was just a trial for him to get used to the saw and see a little of what it can do. He cut a bench seat and some slabs. Lots of changes in the mill since I ran one 25 years ago.
I can't see the economics of it myself. Travel and lodging has got to be a killer. And he is relying on the mill for support equipment. I didn't even see a peevee. They can't be figuring on keeping the saw here to cut the logs they haul down. As a Beta test it makes sense to me.
So, am I going to still saw for the mill? I don't see a threat to that. Not really worried if I don't. Maybe I could get some of my own sawing done.
Me running the saw is possible (if I'm lucky?), but as far as I know that's just my thoughts. I've also thought it might be for sale in a year or so if somebody doesn't fugure out it would be better to take the saw to the logs. I'd need a trailer mount to fit my operation.
I did offer to answer any questions about sawing that I could. And the sawyer reported to the mill owner that seemed like a nice guy. I always thought so but it's nice to have confirmation.
I'll give the sawyer this web address to check out.
And no, I won't give Dennis this site address, he might find out too much of my secrets and besides he's not a webbie from talking to him.
